If I Could Interview Drummer Jim Gordon: Unspoken Question Into Insanity

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  • @sunshinecoolwater9528
    @sunshinecoolwater9528 22 дні тому +3

    I see him as I do Phil Spector. Both were extremely talented at what they did. I try to seperate what horrible things each did in their personal lives, and appreciate the music they left behind.

  • @meekoloco
    @meekoloco 21 день тому +1

    Gordon’s work with Gordon Lightfoot is crazy great!

  • @CiscoDuck
    @CiscoDuck 21 день тому +1

    Having been around socially and involved musically in a number of mentally unstable musicians in different band situations and configurations for many years, I can tell you firsthand that you do not want to try to question them about anything without first earning their trust after showing them that you as an interviewer can actually be their impartial non-judgmental friend. To do otherwise is a roll of the dice and a spin of a fully loaded chamber in a gamble that they will not see thru typical journalist BS. And I can speak to that very thing as a published free-lance writer who interviewed a lot of music artists over the last 50 years. Most musicians hate interviews, and they utterly despise writers. Bob Dylan comes to mind. Now consider for a moment the way he conducts himself in interviews and then factor in the "what if" he was perhaps mentally unstable. I said WHAT IF not inferring that he is unstable. Can you imagine how he would react to the simplest of questions? Think Charle Manson! I knew some famous music artists who had decided they were going to visit Jim Gordon and try to talk to him. He refused all efforts. You do not want to approach some guy who is 5150 and ask them a line of questions! It is actually dangerous. They can see thru an agenda in a heartbeat.

  • @derekroberts6654
    @derekroberts6654 22 дні тому

    Everytime UA-cam talks about Jim Gordon, they keep showing with Cass (Mama) Elliott… This was just on a show right?

    • @bjr4567
      @bjr4567 19 днів тому

      He backed her on her 1969 TV special not long after completing session work for her '68 album 'Dream A Little Dream.' That project prominently features Jim on the kit as well as James Burton on guitar (though neither played on the hit title track itself to my knowledge). They're both to be seen on that TV special to boot.

  • @DavidNelsonO
    @DavidNelsonO 22 дні тому

    Too bad he had to mention the "Groupie" (Superstar) story. Bobby Whitlock, the only person there at the time when it was written who had no skin in the game, tells a completely different story in his biography. And one only has to listen to the chords in Superstar to know it was Leon who wrote the music.
    The idea was spawned by a dream that Rita recounted to the others, and Rita and Bonnie did work together on something at the same time Leon and Delaney were working on what ultimately became Groupie (Superstar), but that wasn't the girls' song.

    • @bjr4567
      @bjr4567 19 днів тому

      I'm sure Bobby means well but he's recalling events that happened many, many years earlier. And a lot of really hazy, crazy time had since transpired! Case in point. His firm recollection was that Rita wrote that Layla coda. Yet Rita would later state in her own book that Jim indeed composed it, she only added to it!

  • @ArrowMaster_
    @ArrowMaster_ 22 дні тому +2

    Walk The Wire with Joseph Williams is so fricking good.
    Edit: Oh damn my bad I did not know he was a murderer💀...
    edit 2: false alarm I thought it said *Jay Graydon* 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 Then I have no idea who this guy is
    My point still stands tho😂

    • @RockHistoryMusic
      @RockHistoryMusic  22 дні тому +4

      The video has a bio of the guy in the first five minutes.

    • @gilldavidmour4199
      @gilldavidmour4199 22 дні тому

      Please check out 'Bongo Rock', 'Dreck and the Dominos',
      Steely Dan ('Here in the Western World') and a whole lot more too.

    • @bjr4567
      @bjr4567 19 днів тому

      If you know virtually nothing about one of the greatest stick men in rock and roll history, you have some serious catching up to do AM.

  • @latexsolarbeef4990
    @latexsolarbeef4990 22 дні тому

    ...ffs... just leave Jim alone...the guy had problems.........

    • @bjr4567
      @bjr4567 19 днів тому

      Did it ever dawn on you that John and Joel are actually honoring Jim's life and memory more than anything else? His story isn't just some fading, dirty secret. It's a tragic story a man who reached the very apex of his craft only to spend the second half of his life behind bars. His tale screams for a thorough explanation.