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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
Jimmy Webb's interview
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“There wasn’t a smidgen of teamwork in me,” he continued as he recalled his embattled relationship with his early mentor, the country-pop singer and songwriter Johnny Rivers, to whom he was under contract. “I would go through the motions of cooperation, but in actual fact I wasn’t cooperating with anybody. I was very unkind. Many times since then, I’ve wondered, would I do it the same way? I probably would, because I would be 20 years old and I would be selfish.”
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“At some point I realized that although I didn’t have this unilateral popularity and acceptance, I was this marvelously invisible man. Watch me walk through this wall and go into this room, and here I am watching the Beatles record the White Album,” he said. “I was at the Monterey Pop festival in Johnny Rivers’ band. I was living in Laurel Canyon when Joni Mitchell was there. I’m sitting in the back of the Village Vanguard eating a hamburger watching Bill Evans play sets. The person who played me the Who’s ‘Tommy’ for the first time was Terence Stamp.”
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Al Jardine and Johnny Rivers Thinking Green
"This is terrible. We got to write something about this" (Johnny Rivers)
Al Jardine and Johnny Rivers are planning to write a charity song in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil disaster. The Beach Boys co-founder first approached his long-time pal about recording an additional verse for his own song “Don’t Fight the Sea” when Rivers proposed creating an entirely new work to spotlight the environmental tragedy.
Johnny, who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was especially outraged and told Al, “This is terrible. We got to write something about this.”
Jardine says while the spill has brought the risk of off-shore drilling into the headlines, he’s long advocated conserving oil and cutting the use of plastics in his household. He avoids buying plastic products, especially drinking water in disposable plastic bottles. And he and his wife now use reusable cloth bags for their groceries. As opposed to using the plastic ones, these “don’t wind up in the ocean [where they can] choke the whales.”
Listen as Al Jardine and Johnny Rivers talk about their plans to write a charity song in the wake of the Gulf Coast oil disaster.
At: http://wcbsfm.radio.com/2010/07/12/al-jardine-thinking-green/
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