He was a great singer, I’ll give him that. However, saw him live once at the Indiana Fairgrounds and the sound system was acting up. He was a total, arrogant asshole about the situation, and by all reports, that was his natural attitude.
nkit
August 8, 2017 7:40 pm
card802
August 8, 2017 8:01 pm
Video from Glenn and his struggle with Alzheimer’s. I fucking tear up.
Ammo
August 8, 2017 8:23 pm
His music was classic, unfortunately the wheels fell off somewhere in the middle and his personal life went ape-shit; but to his credit he responded to his last wife and his children’s’ effort to rally around him and brought him back to accomplishing musical greatness in the end. However, there may not be peace in rest…all one can do is speculate, which I refuse to do.
Miles – he was way better than pretty good. One of the greats. Saw him a few years ago, and he was struggling with his illness. He could still play the guitar masterfully, but would forget to come out of his solos, stuff like that.
Campbell was a member of The “Wrecking Crew.”
If he had been a rock guitarist instead of doing pop and country music he would be considered one of the greatest players of all time.
BB
August 8, 2017 8:50 pm
I got his greatest hits tape in my commercial truck.I enjoy listening to it late at night going down the highway. Brings back alot memories.
Llpoh
August 8, 2017 9:16 pm
Here is a beautiful song. Glen has a two minute solo starting around 4:30. He was 66 years old and could play like that! Great, great guitarist.
Overthecliff
August 8, 2017 9:47 pm
He was a big talent. We don’t know much more than that. We do know that Alzheimer’s is a cruel way for anyone to go. Most people don’t know that he subbed for the Beach Boys in the mid 60’s when Brian Wilson went into his bedroom for a few years. Farewell Glen, farewell.
WIP
August 8, 2017 11:24 pm
I wish I could agree with you guys concerning his guitar skills but it sounds like chicken scratch crap. Sorry.
But, yes, great songs and talent otherwise. RIP.
Iska Waran
August 9, 2017 12:12 am
My fave. I was 6 when it came out.
Zarathustra
August 9, 2017 12:18 am
I really liked his early stuff. Wichita Lineman, by the time I get to Phoenix probably my favorites.
IndenturedServant
August 9, 2017 12:53 am
I grew up on this and all that old classic country from the seventies. Never appreciated it until much later in life.
Alzheimer’s runs in my family but thankfully my father never experienced it. My mom suffers from self induced dementia. It’s funny…….she doesn’t seem as arrogant about it now that it has set in.
For Glen……..may he escape this prison planet:
Lucia W.
August 9, 2017 5:20 am
We have lost another great musician. Before he gained fame as a solo act, Glen Campbell was a member of the “Wrecking Crew”, a group of studio musicians who did the recorded versions of the music of many groups. Many of your records from the sixties were not performed by the groups on the label, but by the Wrecking Crew, who were the best of the best. Leon Russell was another member, and he was also the producer of Glen’s Gentle on My Mind album.
He was a great singer, I’ll give him that. However, saw him live once at the Indiana Fairgrounds and the sound system was acting up. He was a total, arrogant asshole about the situation, and by all reports, that was his natural attitude.
Video from Glenn and his struggle with Alzheimer’s. I fucking tear up.
His music was classic, unfortunately the wheels fell off somewhere in the middle and his personal life went ape-shit; but to his credit he responded to his last wife and his children’s’ effort to rally around him and brought him back to accomplishing musical greatness in the end. However, there may not be peace in rest…all one can do is speculate, which I refuse to do.
ammo,
from what i understand he became a christian and had his act together for the last 25/30 years–
You wouldn’t know from his hits, but he was a pretty good guitarist at one point in his career. A collection of solos…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrtWZiguvuY
Miles – he was way better than pretty good. One of the greats. Saw him a few years ago, and he was struggling with his illness. He could still play the guitar masterfully, but would forget to come out of his solos, stuff like that.
Campbell was a member of The “Wrecking Crew.”
If he had been a rock guitarist instead of doing pop and country music he would be considered one of the greatest players of all time.
I got his greatest hits tape in my commercial truck.I enjoy listening to it late at night going down the highway. Brings back alot memories.
Here is a beautiful song. Glen has a two minute solo starting around 4:30. He was 66 years old and could play like that! Great, great guitarist.
He was a big talent. We don’t know much more than that. We do know that Alzheimer’s is a cruel way for anyone to go. Most people don’t know that he subbed for the Beach Boys in the mid 60’s when Brian Wilson went into his bedroom for a few years. Farewell Glen, farewell.
I wish I could agree with you guys concerning his guitar skills but it sounds like chicken scratch crap. Sorry.
But, yes, great songs and talent otherwise. RIP.
My fave. I was 6 when it came out.
I really liked his early stuff. Wichita Lineman, by the time I get to Phoenix probably my favorites.
I grew up on this and all that old classic country from the seventies. Never appreciated it until much later in life.
Alzheimer’s runs in my family but thankfully my father never experienced it. My mom suffers from self induced dementia. It’s funny…….she doesn’t seem as arrogant about it now that it has set in.
For Glen……..may he escape this prison planet:
We have lost another great musician. Before he gained fame as a solo act, Glen Campbell was a member of the “Wrecking Crew”, a group of studio musicians who did the recorded versions of the music of many groups. Many of your records from the sixties were not performed by the groups on the label, but by the Wrecking Crew, who were the best of the best. Leon Russell was another member, and he was also the producer of Glen’s Gentle on My Mind album.