I just read a comment on another song (Part of the Plan ) that said " his voice is like finding an old love letter in a box of memories ". I thought that was awesome...
Wow, now this is the kind of artist I love and respect for his values, his beautiful spirit, and the quality of music he produced. What a FABULOUS Artist. His music was soulful and reached the innermost part of so many people. Sadly, you don't see this kind of character and integrity anymore in the entertainment world. We miss you and the beauty you brought into this world through your music...
Dan Fogelberg had such depth and character and dimension, he made it safe for men to love women and allow themselves to be vulnerable....music today promotes hatred and negativity and trashing women, it permeates throughout our culture... You are so loved and so missed Dan, thank you for your wonderful music and making life better for so many....
What a great guy and such valid points. He has a following that understands his music and philosophy. Those are his true fans. Thanks for impacting my life is a very positive way. The world needs more people like Dan Fogelberg.
Thank you for sharing this. What a beauty he was, inside and out. His lyrics and his voice are burned in my memory. I've been listening and adoring since 1972 and Souveniers
Awe it's good to see him smile, with a twinkle in his eye. (0:46) she caught him a bit off-guard I think. RIP dear friend, you gave us so many blessings!
Remembering today 16-12-11.... Dan Fond memories Of the Guitarist Everyone Loved; Balladeer Extraordanaire. Regretfully Gone..................but not forgotten
I really feel in many repects Dan Fogelberg was an Epic Human Being!!! He's so genuinely Inspirational on so many levels in such Beautiful Ways!!! Beautiful of Mind, Body and Spirit!!!
I wanted to 'thumbs up' all these great comments but I guess they're too old! What the...?!? Anyway - I was fortunate to see Dan once in concert. Thank you for uploading this brief interview. It adds to my scrapbook, if you will!
I can't believe he is gone. He was a great musician. Equally talented on the guitar and the piano. I saw him doing at a solo concert and he was fantastic.
I loved this entire very short interview ! Your right, as Dan did so well, he made himself the observer within many of his songs and not always the participant, even though most of his songs were autobiographical.
Thank you hardly seems enough to say, and yet that is what wells to my heart. It was such a joy to see this video/interview with Dan. It reinforces why DanFans are exactly that. Hugs and Merry Christmas to you.
I remember hearing a radio interview of Dan in 1984. Funny I was just thinking about what he said about the imagination in your head. I still remember the first time in a parking lot of a condo in Rockville. And that sadness of having your heart broken. If the song were video, you would be an observer and not a participant, which is why his songs tugs at your heart so much--it's not about Dan--it's about you.
love this interview, shows some of the beautiful old fashion values Dan has. It was very interesting what he said about music videos, I never really thought of it that way, but what he says makes perfect sense, a song's imagery should be left to the listener's imagination. Thank you for sharing this interview.
I believe Dan Fogelberg is my great influence, because he and I share the same things in common: a gifted talent on the piano and living my life in Colorado!
Great to see this interview, but the forgotten chick with the super-shellacked hair was as dumb as a box of her own discarded clippings. Dan was never “out of step.” Not even in the early part of the 1980s. His place in the industry shifted, for sure, but he continued making superb, well-received music on his *own* terms. No major label artist expects to spend their entire lifetime in the very thick of the game. If an artist has five productive years in their genre, it’s rare-then and now. Dan had 25+ years with a well-cultivated and deserved fanbase, strong record sales way past his “prime” and, even better, a sterling reputation as a live, touring performer that other acts would beg to have. With his packed catalogue of beloved hits and his excellent “live performance” ethic, he sold-out arenas from 1975-2005. People who disparage Dan Fogelberg or who categorically dismiss him as “light rock” are not only missing the point, they are missing substance in their own souls. It’s one thing to say, “His music wasn’t the style I preferred” but quite another to say “He was so corny.” Those are the words of snide, pretentious fakes who pose at parties with cigarettes, jaundiced alkie-skin, and 23 competing neuroses bubbling under their single, hateful exterior personalities. People who roll their eyes and dismiss Dan have no genuine knowledge of his immense body of work, much less of objective musical quality at any parameter. He was a rare poet and a balladeer who earned his supper singing. How many people do you meet at an average party who can do that? Thought so.
Dear...zannadyke...Can this REALLY be the only thing you have to "wonder" about this brilliant man? A short simple answer for you..he fell in love! I don't know how old you are but for those of us that grew up with Dan, a true romantic, we know things don't always work out, but go for it anyway! Thank God, before he died, Dan did meet AND marry the love of his life...we should ALL be so lucky!
Dan was brilliant....not many performers could carry a whole show with just themself and a guitar and keep the audience mesmerized.. Nowadays, seems artists need to have a gimmick or at least a dance troup accompaniment to keep the audience interested. Dan had a way about him that drew you in and made you think he was singing your song--to you. Love the tone and quality of his voice--lots of emotion. Just one heck of a talented guy--sad he was passed so young.
I might take Dan's attitude toward videos even a step farther, and add that at times, even words nullify many of the feelings that a given piece of music alone might conjure. Many of my favorite pieces of his are the instrumentals from his and Tim Weisberg's effort.
Waaay late to this conversation.....spot on about music videos, and also about instrumental works. I absolutely love instrumental music. It communicates ideas in precise ways that words never can. Not that words aren’t important in music. DF was a better song lyricist than most. I would put DF and al stewart in the same class. Who knows what further masterpieces Dan would have created. That alone is reason enough to mourn his untimely passing. Incidentally, the only DF music video i watch is “go down easy.”
He really nailed it with his take on music videos. Not that they are all bad but they can limit the imagination.Then again there some videos and songs are so interconnected you can't separate them eg. BEAT IT. But when artist are forced into doing videos that have no talent , or no impulse to do them .It really fails
Thanks for posting a video with his beard and at the top of his career. I always felt Dan's beard was like Samson's hair. Once it was gone, I could not get into anything he ever produced thereafter.
I felt the same way the first time I saw a music video. I did not want the music interpreted for me. Let me interpret the music for myself. Its like watching tv shows that have prerecorded laughter to tell you what's funny and when to laugh. Turn off the laugh track and most of what is said is not funny. So I don't watch shows like that.
Hilarious ...”his songs may be out of step for the times” ...Now, 2021 and still hear them everywhere. His music is timeless
I just read a comment on another song (Part of the Plan ) that said " his voice is like finding an old love letter in a box of memories ". I thought that was awesome...
@@kirbharp2157 yes !!!!! That’s great ..exactly how I feel about his music. An old, warm memory.
@@tlynn7043 ❤️
Absolutely
@@kirbharp2157 His music is like the best orgasm you've ever had!
Wow, now this is the kind of artist I love and respect for his values, his beautiful spirit, and the quality of music he produced. What a FABULOUS Artist. His music was soulful and reached the innermost part of so many people. Sadly, you don't see this kind of character and integrity anymore in the entertainment world. We miss you and the beauty you brought into this world through your music...
Dan Fogelberg had such depth and character and dimension, he made it safe for men to love women and allow themselves to be vulnerable....music today promotes hatred and negativity and trashing women, it permeates throughout our culture...
You are so loved and so missed Dan, thank you for your wonderful music and making life better for so many....
I totally agree. That's why I love his music because that's the way I love women in my life. He s amazing!
So true!
Lovingly said
Beautiful Sentiments!
What a great guy and such valid points. He has a following that understands his music and philosophy. Those are his true fans. Thanks for impacting my life is a very positive way. The world needs more people like Dan Fogelberg.
"when someone we love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a *treasure*.....so many treasures this man left to the world...k.
Oh, this is wonderful to see! Dan does look young and beautiful! Thank you for this posting! And thank you, River for sharing!
He was so handsome! Loved him!
"I don't think a good love song is ever out of fashion." So, very true!
I could not go on loving music if it weren't for Dan! I love him ever since I was 12 years old and ever since the year he died!
I was 12, as well. Scarecrows dream caught my heart.
Incredibly talented, interesting person, valuable qualities & majorly handsome!! Wow!!
Still listening to his music. Timeless.
Just love this man and his music--forever!!
Thank you thank you. Boy was he ever handsome and great!!
To be able to learn a little bit more about Dan is a true treasure. Thanks for posting!
Thank you for sharing this. What a beauty he was, inside and out. His lyrics and his voice are burned in my memory. I've been listening and adoring since 1972 and Souveniers
Have loved him since the beginning.
Awe it's good to see him smile, with a twinkle in his eye. (0:46) she caught him a bit off-guard I think. RIP dear friend, you gave us so many blessings!
Remembering today 16-12-11....
Dan
Fond memories
Of the
Guitarist
Everyone
Loved;
Balladeer
Extraordanaire.
Regretfully
Gone..................but not forgotten
He was so right about imagery. Our great son of Peoria IL
Had never seen him interviewed. Now I know why I like his music.
Oh I wish Dan wasn't gone. Amazing artist, gorgeous man & beautiful human being💓😥
I really feel in many repects Dan Fogelberg was an Epic Human Being!!! He's so genuinely Inspirational on so many levels in such Beautiful Ways!!! Beautiful of Mind, Body and Spirit!!!
What a great outlook on life this very talented man had! Not surprised that he was such an amazing entertainer.
I wanted to 'thumbs up' all these great comments but I guess they're too old! What the...?!? Anyway - I was fortunate to see Dan once in concert. Thank you for uploading this brief interview. It adds to my scrapbook, if you will!
The comments aren't old, Beth. They were just posted from Google and not here on YT.
I can't believe he is gone. He was a great musician. Equally talented on the guitar and the piano. I saw him doing at a solo concert and he was fantastic.
Amazing man and incredible musician. May he RIP.
0:30 He describes exactly what's wrong with music videos!
The only videos I enjoy are watching the singer sing the song.
Pretty cool how you picked up on that. Never heard it that way before. Thanks...
A really nice snippet of Dan's wonderful perspective. Thank you so, so much for posting this!!!
i grew up listening to his music, he's missed by many but his music still lives on.
Insanely talented musician
Thanks for this video, wish there was more singing. Love him and his beautiful songs.
One of the best!
So cool to see this...rare find, great interview..thanks alot!
Blessings, from a life long Dan Fan 1973
River...
I loved this entire very short interview ! Your right, as Dan did so well, he made himself the observer within many of his songs and not always the participant, even though most of his songs were autobiographical.
Thanks for sending this our way! It's a gem and a keeper !!
A wise and thoughtful man indeed, may he rest in peace knowing he brought so much joy to so many.........
What a gem he was
All of his music..A growing time with you
love you dan always you were the best my heart breaks xxxx
Thank you hardly seems enough to say, and yet that is what wells to my heart. It was such a joy to see this video/interview with Dan. It reinforces why DanFans are exactly that. Hugs and Merry Christmas to you.
I remember hearing a radio interview of Dan in 1984. Funny I was just thinking about what he said about the imagination in your head. I still remember the first time in a parking lot of a condo in Rockville. And that sadness of having your heart broken. If the song were video, you would be an observer and not a participant, which is why his songs tugs at your heart so much--it's not about Dan--it's about you.
He is soo missed RIP Dan
Miss you! My friend. 💔
love this interview, shows some of the beautiful old fashion values Dan has. It was very interesting what he said about music videos, I never really thought of it that way, but what he says makes perfect sense, a song's imagery should be left to the listener's imagination. Thank you for sharing this interview.
Beautiful man. Inside and out.
What a beautiful soul taken from us too soon.
Magic pure and simple
Sometimes a well done video can highlight a songs beauty
I believe Dan Fogelberg is my great influence, because he and I share the same things in common: a gifted talent on the piano and living my life in Colorado!
BJ DJ never heard of you....
I _love_ this man's music!
Great to see this interview, but the forgotten chick with the super-shellacked hair was as dumb as a box of her own discarded clippings.
Dan was never “out of step.” Not even in the early part of the 1980s. His place in the industry shifted, for sure, but he continued making superb, well-received music on his *own* terms.
No major label artist expects to spend their entire lifetime in the very thick of the game. If an artist has five productive years in their genre, it’s rare-then and now.
Dan had 25+ years with a well-cultivated and deserved fanbase, strong record sales way past his “prime” and, even better, a sterling reputation as a live, touring performer that other acts would beg to have.
With his packed catalogue of beloved hits and his excellent “live performance” ethic, he sold-out arenas from 1975-2005.
People who disparage Dan Fogelberg or who categorically dismiss him as “light rock” are not only missing the point, they are missing substance in their own souls.
It’s one thing to say, “His music wasn’t the style I preferred” but quite another to say “He was so corny.” Those are the words of snide, pretentious fakes who pose at parties with cigarettes, jaundiced alkie-skin, and 23 competing neuroses bubbling under their single, hateful exterior personalities.
People who roll their eyes and dismiss Dan have no genuine knowledge of his immense body of work, much less of objective musical quality at any parameter. He was a rare poet and a balladeer who earned his supper singing.
How many people do you meet at an average party who can do that?
Thought so.
Totally agree and so well said!!!Truly a Beautiful Musician in every sense of the word!!
so true Dan!!! RIP, you were a genius.. Still listening to your music in 2023
Still listening 2024 ! ❤
Great to here Dan. Thank you minstrelwinds.
Dear...zannadyke...Can this REALLY be the only thing you have to "wonder" about this brilliant man? A short simple answer for you..he fell in love! I don't know how old you are but for those of us that grew up with Dan, a true romantic, we know things don't always work out, but go for it anyway! Thank God, before he died, Dan did meet AND marry the love of his life...we should ALL be so lucky!
Dan was brilliant....not many performers could carry a whole show with just themself and a guitar and keep the audience mesmerized.. Nowadays, seems artists need to have a gimmick or at least a dance troup accompaniment to keep the audience interested. Dan had a way about him that drew you in and made you think he was singing your song--to you. Love the tone and quality of his voice--lots of emotion. Just one heck of a talented guy--sad he was passed so young.
I might take Dan's attitude toward videos even a step farther, and add that at times, even words nullify many of the feelings that a given piece of music alone might conjure. Many of my favorite pieces of his are the instrumentals from his and Tim Weisberg's effort.
Waaay late to this conversation.....spot on about music videos, and also about instrumental works. I absolutely love instrumental music. It communicates ideas in precise ways that words never can.
Not that words aren’t important in music. DF was a better song lyricist than most. I would put DF and al stewart in the same class.
Who knows what further masterpieces Dan would have created. That alone is reason enough to mourn his untimely passing.
Incidentally, the only DF music video i watch is “go down easy.”
He reminds me of another Michael Mcdonald.... had never heard of him before
Start with his Greatest Hits album and if you like those dive into his full albums. He was (is) an American treasure.
@@jonsimon5779 Totally Agree!
My first mentor.
My hair was just like that in my 1980 high school senior picture. (Not the beard though until a few years later.)
He would have been the perfect husband for me with all those "out of date values." ❤💋
Oh dear, wouldn't we all would love to have this beaituful talented man as a husband??? Sadly for everyone, that will never ever happen.
@@AlexDeChristian6323 yep, I guess you’ll have to settle for that crap guy you married
Yes he has a Distinct Beauty that has been bestowed upon him in Body and Music -very orgasmic!
Does anyone know where you can find info and images of his first wife, Maggie Slaymaker?
I could see a little flirting going on in this interview. It's kinda cute!
She is a rather attractive woman! I would have noticed her ring finger and gone from there myself. 😍
Who wouldn't flirt with Dan? Even straight men! Lol Dan was a very handsome man. 💜💙❤
Dan was very Handsome
@@AlexDeChristian6323 Yes I agree totally !!!He is truly a man bestowed with Beauty and Beautiful Talent which is an Awsome combination!
Huge sigh....
nice thanks winds
He really nailed it with his take on music videos. Not that they are all bad but they can limit the imagination.Then again there some videos and songs are so interconnected you can't separate them eg. BEAT IT. But when artist are forced into doing videos that have no talent , or no impulse to do them .It really fails
Thanks for posting a video with his beard and at the top of his career. I always felt Dan's beard was like Samson's hair. Once it was gone, I could not get into anything he ever produced thereafter.
Wow. Very sad.
He’s so beautiful.
He is sorely missed.
Genuine!
Very nice indeed...sorry for the bad click, mouse tangle...
I'm receiving via email Jean's chapters on their lives together. Great writing and getting to know the real dan too.
Jean is a lucky lady to have had such a beautiful talented man like Dan.
what a gent.
I knew him. all his feelings were in his songs. he was an empty vessel.
Good guy.
boy is he right about music videos
He was a cutie pie.
how could the road be so bad when you only have to sing two songs?
I felt the same way the first time I saw a music video. I did not want the music interpreted for me. Let me interpret the music for myself. Its like watching tv shows that have prerecorded laughter to tell you what's funny and when to laugh. Turn off the laugh track and most of what is said is not funny. So I don't watch shows like that.
He did way too coke. Blew out his voice
Much coke.
Seems like maybe you did too much coke?
Seems a little arrogant.