I love this 1966 LP by David Blue. It was just so perfect when it came out, but nobody seemed to care, and I'm not sure if that's changed much over the years. I think this LP was blown off as just another Dylan wannabe like Donovan, who is another artist I really like.
This music and the lyrics don't make sense, and do make sense at the same time.
Think of Lou Reed fronting The Band instead of Bob Dylan, or Dylan playing with The Velvet Underground.
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Lou Reed was a big fan of Bob Dylan, and if you listen closely to some of Lou's early music, it's pretty obvious.
In the 1983 best fictional music film of all time, "Get Crazy," Lou Reed plays a very Dylanesque character named Auden who misses the concert because he's spacing out in the back of a cab on the way to the show he's supposed to be headlining, or was it David Blue?
There's so many songs I like on this David Blue LP that it's hard to choose just one, in fact, it's impossible, but here's a real good one.
I saw him live in Berlin (I think in the late 1990s). One of the acts who started his concerts punctually like schedulded.
ReplyDeleteWow, David Blue and a concert that started on time? I'd of loved to have been there.
ReplyDeleteIt was a summer concert and he played the Tempodrom which was a big circus tent (back then). He had Bassist Fernando Saunders with him. Outside the tent you could buy beer and usually the acts never started punctually but at least 15 minutes later. So half of the audience was still outside the tent and had to rush into the tent when Lou Reed started to play. Maybe he wanted to show the Berlin audience that he's the boss :-)
ReplyDeleteI saw Lou Reed live not David Blue btw Infact I never heard of David Blue before.
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