{"id":3609,"date":"2010-10-19T23:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2010-10-19T23:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T03:48:27","slug":"rock-n-roll-holy-grail-the-flying-burrito-brothers-play-pinky-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-holy-grail-the-flying-burrito-brothers-play-pinky-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Holy Grail: The Flying Burrito Brothers Play Pinky Rock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6bmcT4qieI4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Hey man, you can take your country rock and leave the best parts of <strong>The Flying Burrito Brothers<\/strong> to me! I love the band&#8217;s first album, <em>The Gilded Palace of Sin<\/em>, for its heavy bass, fuzz guitars, and reedy vocals. No offense, but I could give a damn about the whole &#8220;country&#8221; thing. My favorite country music usually sounds like rock &#8216;n roll anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I love the band&#8217;s debut, it&#8217;s all a little hokey and dated, the way many &#8220;psychedelic&#8221; albums are bound to be. Better yet is the band&#8217;s 1970 follow-up album\u2014and the last one with <strong>St. Graham Parsons<\/strong>\u2014<em>Burrito Deluxe<\/em>. It&#8217;s actually way more country rock, with future Eagles member <strong>Bernie Leadon<\/strong> joining the band on lead guitar and vocals. As much as I hate Eagles (not <em>The<\/em> Eagles, as we recently learned), <em>Burrito Deluxe<\/em> explains why anybody else may have cared to make such music. (Thank god some of the pub rockers, like <strong>Brinsley Schwarz<\/strong>, actually had the spirit and\u00a0playfulness to nail this approach!) Maybe some fans like the more traditionally country songs, but for me the album centers around a few pinky-rock classics: &#8220;Lazy Days,&#8221; a breakneck cover of Dylan&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;If You Gotta Go, Go Now,&#8221; and the song with this super-hokey video that I just found, &#8220;Older Days.&#8221; (The album also featurs a nice version of &#8220;Wild Horses,&#8221; but I&#8217;m afraid to tell you that for fear that your mind will run to a series of glorified Stones cliches.)<\/p>\n<p>There are few musical styles that more readily hit my soul than chooglin&#8217; pinky rock.\u00a0When done by\u00a0The Flying Burrito Brothers on <em>Burrito Deluxe<\/em>\u00a0I get the perfect mix of the best parts of the intersection of\u00a0<strong>The Grateful Dead&#8217;<\/strong>s occasional pinky-rock workouts and <strong>The Velvet Underground<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Loaded<\/em>. And that Bernie Leadon was something else! I remember seeing an old Eagles performance of one of the few songs\u00a0by them\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t make me throw up, and Leadon was on fire. How&#8217;d that guy get lost in the rock &#8216;n roll\u00a0shuffle?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long sought videos of the band from this period with no luck. Tonight, after a pretty trying day that, unfortunately, looks to be headed for an equally trying tomorrow, I hit paydirt! Here&#8217;s\u00a0an actual live clip of &#8220;Lazy Days,&#8221;\u00a0from the time shortly after Parsons left the band.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1WgfJQfQk0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey man, you can take your country rock and leave the best parts of The Flying Burrito Brothers to me! I love the band&#8217;s first album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, for its heavy bass, fuzz guitars, and reedy vocals. No offense, but I could give a damn about the whole &#8220;country&#8221; thing. 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