{"id":242,"date":"2005-11-29T17:21:55","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T00:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/11\/29\/podcast-12\/"},"modified":"2005-11-29T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T00:22:44","slug":"podcast-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/29\/podcast-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the widget, it’s 63 in Santa Monica right now.\u00c2\u00a0 (In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, in Tiger, the latest Mac operating system, there are little programs called Widgets, you click in the Dock and they launch.\u00c2\u00a0 Four come preinstalled.\u00c2\u00a0 One is the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 So, it’s like that little temperature gauge all cars seem to come with nowadays.\u00c2\u00a0 You didn’t THINK you needed to know the exact temperature constantly, but now you find yourself checking INCESSANTLY!)\u00c2\u00a0 Qualifies as springtime in most of the country.\u00c2\u00a0 But, in Southern California, we’re finally experiencing winter.<\/p>\n

Oh, the weather changed over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 You don’t really feel it during the day.\u00c2\u00a0 But at night, it slips into the forties, and you start shivering in the bed, since the houses are so poorly insulated and you can’t get the heat right, it’s either 80 everywhere or just right by the heater and freezing cold everywhere else.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it’s not quite like the east coast.\u00c2\u00a0 There comes a time on the east coast when you realize you’re heading into winter.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn’t happen until November.\u00c2\u00a0 Suddenly, you’d rather stay inside than go out.\u00c2\u00a0 The leaves have all fallen off the trees.\u00c2\u00a0 The wind is bitter.\u00c2\u00a0 You know it’s never going to be warm again till spring.<\/p>\n

And that’s what "Urge For Going" sounds like.<\/p>\n

Funny, musicians know this song, but very few listeners do.\u00c2\u00a0 Comb your P2P service.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find takes by everyone from Luka Bloom to Mary Black.\u00c2\u00a0 Of the latter-day artists, Travis’ version is best.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, none quite have the resonance of the original.\u00c2\u00a0 By Tom Rush.<\/p>\n

Growing up in the northeast you must be hardy, able to endure the elements.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine yourself with a ruddy face, walking on a college campus from building to building.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what Tom Rush’s version of "Urge For Going" sounds like.<\/p>\n

Tom didn’t write the song.\u00c2\u00a0 Joni Mitchell did.\u00c2\u00a0 Her take is haunting.\u00c2\u00a0 It sounds like someone alone out on the Great Plains of Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, Tom’s take is the classic.<\/p>\n

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This is the one about the girl
The girl who came to stay<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m sure even fewer people have heard the Cretones’ "Justine".\u00c2\u00a0 Just like with "Urge For Going", their take, the one written by their lead singer Mark Goldenberg, came out AFTER the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 But, in this case, the writer’s version triumphs.<\/p>\n

You might know "Justine".\u00c2\u00a0 It was on Linda Ronstadt’s "Mad Love".\u00c2\u00a0 Along with two other Goldenberg compositions.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s got the same riff.\u00c2\u00a0 Linda belts out the lyrics.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s power, but when you hear the Cretones, you know it’s got no soul.\u00c2\u00a0 Linda is singing a song.\u00c2\u00a0 Mark Goldenberg is singing his life.<\/p>\n

3<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’ve got a great live version of "Look Out For My Love" that I couldn’t play on the podcast.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s from a live Linda Ronstadt concert on 8\/24\/80.\u00c2\u00a0 Some dude on my list put it up on the Web so I could download it.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen to it and you’ll know why Linda Ronstadt was a star.\u00c2\u00a0 You can hear the attitude.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is usually lacking in her studio recordings.\u00c2\u00a0 Two Sundays ago we were watching a DVD of Felice’s father’s TV show back in ’73 and after being shocked by the youngness of David Clayton Thomas Linda appeared on screen.\u00c2\u00a0 This was BEFORE "You’re No Good".\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, you should have seen her sing.\u00c2\u00a0 She was putting everything she HAD in that performance.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, she’d dieted herself down to TV-thinness.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, she’s a beautiful woman.\u00c2\u00a0 But here she was a SINGER!\u00c2\u00a0 A rock and roller.\u00c2\u00a0 Who NEEDED IT!\u00c2\u00a0 And that’s what success takes.\u00c2\u00a0 Talent is secondary to raw desire.\u00c2\u00a0 Her initial hits were years behind her.\u00c2\u00a0 She was stumbling in the marketplace.\u00c2\u00a0 This TV appearance wasn’t just another date on the calendar, it was a chance to MAKE IT!\u00c2\u00a0 To avoid being sent home to Arizona and living the life she was born to.<\/p>\n

Linda makes "Look Out For My Love" come alive.\u00c2\u00a0 She makes this Neil Young song SING!\u00c2\u00a0 It hadn’t registered when I heard it on "Comes A Time", but then I went back to the original, it suddenly jumped out, I LOVED IT!\u00c2\u00a0 Still, the keeper is Neil’s rendition on his "Unplugged" album.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s got the rhythm of Linda’s take, it’s got road-weariness.<\/p>\n

4<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a lot to learn for wasting time.<\/p>\n

And that’s where we got into these records.\u00c2\u00a0 While we were wasting time.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what listening was.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t a multitasking adventure.\u00c2\u00a0 Just putting the record on the turntable and listening was enough.\u00c2\u00a0 And even though our parents told us it was wasting time, for us it was life itself.<\/p>\n

And that’s what I did in college.\u00c2\u00a0 Listen to records.\u00c2\u00a0 When I wasn’t skiing.<\/p>\n

I had a radio show on WRMC freshman year, but then the regime changed.\u00c2\u00a0 Those of a younger vintage than the upperclassmen who’d taken a shine to me took power and I was marginalized.\u00c2\u00a0 Went from being on six times a month to two to being a sub.\u00c2\u00a0 Who cared at that point.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave up.<\/p>\n

Isn’t it funny that thirty-odd years later, via new technology, I’m broadcasting again.<\/p>\n

And it’s easier to do that old kind of show.\u00c2\u00a0 Where you filled the spaces between records.\u00c2\u00a0 You let your mind drift as Clapton played.\u00c2\u00a0 Thought of the little tidbit you wanted to add.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, under the law, the music is marginalized and the tidbits expand.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m still trying to figure it out, find my way in the podcast world.\u00c2\u00a0 Spalding Gray rehearsed his monologues, I like to do them off the cuff, lay down the zeal of sudden inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I can get mic fright.<\/p>\n

The musings of the day seemed good at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 But, not being on live radio, but encapsulated forever in the podcast bubble, I’m not sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, there’s some absolutely fabulous music on this podcast (and I don’t mean that in the English TV show ironic way).<\/p>\n

I used to do this back on Radio Middlebury College.\u00c2\u00a0 Play the original and the cover.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re a true fan, it’s exciting.\u00c2\u00a0 To the degree I had time on this podcast, I replicated the process.<\/p>\n

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You can listen or download the podcast from Rhino’s site<\/a><\/p>\n

Or you can subscribe in the iTunes Music Store.\u00c2\u00a0 Just search for Rhino, click on "Podcasts" and it will come up.<\/p>\n

OR, click on the link below, and if you’ve got a podcast-ready version of iTunes installed on your computer the program will launch and you can subscribe on the page that results (hang on a second for the process to complete).<\/p>\n

Apple<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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