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Gram Parsons Documentary To Be Released July 11
www.pastemagazine.com
4-3-06
A Gram Parsons documentary, Fallen Angel will be released to DVD on July 11. Produced and directed by Gandulf Henning and written by Sid Griffith, the documentary traces the life of the country-rock icon from his early musical career and rise to fame to his tragic death at age 26 from an overdose of drugs and alcohol.
The documentary features performances by Parsons and interviews with family and friends including Emmylou Harris, Parsons’ Byrds band-mate Chris Hilman, the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards and REM’s Peter Buck.
Prior to the DVD’s release, special screenings of the film will take place in seven major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Chicago, Austin, Portland and New York.
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| jb |
Thanks so much...Ijust wet my pants in anticipation..best newws I've had since being told I have a small penis. |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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jb wrote:
Thanks so much...Ijust wet my pants in anticipation..best newws I've had since being told I have a small penis.
You're welcome.  |
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| Cocaine Eyes |
Thanks a lot. |
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| glencar |
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jb wrote:
Thanks so much...Ijust wet my pants in anticipation..best newws I've had since being told I have a small penis.
There will always be playa hatuhs... |
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| Saint Sway |
Just finished a new book on Gram.
GP is in my alltime top 5- cant wait to see this. Especially the Keef interviews. Hopefully they got Emylou Harris also. She was suspiciously absent from the Gram tribute show/dvd |
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| GimmeExile |
Did anyone buy that new live album by Gram Parsons that was released by Amoeba Records (the first release of their new label)? |
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| pdog |
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jb wrote:
Thanks so much...Ijust wet my pants in anticipation..best newws I've had since being told I have a small penis.
If Peer Queer said it, it's just Postus envy! |
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| batcave |
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GimmeExile wrote:
Did anyone buy that new live album by Gram Parsons that was released by Amoeba Records (the first release of their new label)?
Hasn't been released yet. June 20th is the latest release date I've heard. |
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| GimmeExile |
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batcave wrote:
Hasn't been released yet. June 20th is the latest release date I've heard.
Okay, thanks...I thought they were going to release it at SXSW, but I guess they just previewed it there. |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
INSIDE BOOKS
PARSONS BIO GRIEVOUS-LY SHORT ON DETAILS
EDEN MUNRO / [email protected]
Gram Parsons blew onto the music scene in the late 1960s, making his mark with a mixture of country, rock and soul.
He wasn’t the first to combine musical styles, but his songs have had impressive staying power, influencing many of the alt-country artists who came after him.
As an heir to a family fortune, Parsons never had money concerns, making him something of a musical drifter. In a few short years, he moved through The International Submarine Band, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers and a pair of solo albums, just before his untimely death at 26 years old.
Parsons’s tale is a fascinating one, and Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, authored by Jessica Hundley along with Parsons’s daughter, Polly Parsons, hits on all of the major points in the man’s life.
There’s his upper-class upbringing, his father’s suicide, his mother’s alcohol-induced death, his flirtations with fame in the music industry, and, finally, his own death. What’s missing from this telling of Parsons’s story, however, is a heart.
The biography is too brief in its coverage, jumping from one event to the next. Major changes come and go between paragraphs with very little consideration for cause and effect.
A monumental change, for example, comes with the sudden announcement that “heroin was becoming more alluring by the minute.”
That’s the kind of thing that deserves some build-up, especially considering the effects it would have on his music—instead, the revelation simply drops from nowhere.
This loose overview of Parsons’s life comes across as the outline for what could eventually become the real story.
The most disappointing aspect of the book, however, is the lack of any real insight into Parsons’s music. There are simple statements that the music was “becoming infinitely more sophisticated and layered,” but there are no explanations or examples as to how this is so.
The only truly disarming and heartfelt moment in the book comes during an interview with The Rolling Stones’s Keith Richards. Thinking back on his lost friend, Richards says, “We had a lot of laughs together, Gram and I. And I always miss him. I miss him all the time.”
The authors’ love for Gram Parsons is evident. It’s just too bad Grievous Angel opts for an artificial approach, rather than tapping into emotions like Richards’s more often.
By Jessica Hundley, Polly Parsons
Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons
Thunder’s Mouth Press, $21.50
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| Break The Spell |
What will all be on his live album coming out?? Will it just be solo songs, or will it have songs he did with The Bryds & Flying Burrito Brothers too? Gram's one of those artists that went too soon and you have to wonder what might have been. |
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