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Location: Germany | Recently a new DVD came out with (Ovation) footage from Glen's Goodtime Hour shows, here's a promotional film on youtube:
Good time again
Seems the DVD is on the market now but unfortunately not in Europe (US DVDs don't play-back on our players over here :mad: )
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Charlie Ramon:
(US DVDs don't play-back on our players over here :mad: )
Karl It's pretty easy to convert just about any DVD player to all-region, by entering a code via the remote control. To get the code for your machine go to this website
all-region DVD hacks
Enter the make and model of your player and follow the instructions. If you machine isn't listed do a google search on "dvd hacks" as there are lots of other similar sites. I found a hack for Cliff's machine so he could play Brit DVDs in the US. Now he just sits around all day watching "Leauge Of Gentlemen" "Green Wing" and "The Mighty Boosh" |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I watched his show when I was 9 or so and my favorite parts were when he would jam with John Hartford. I would have sold my soul to play 5 string like that. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Glen w/ slothead Adamas
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Location: East Tennessee | I loved that show. I think I will show this to my wife so she can do some early Christmas shopping. :cool: |
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Location: Germany | Thanks Paul for your help. Checked it, however it seems to be quite complicated with my japanese player model. But another fellow OFCer offered me to convert the DVD from region code 1 to 0. I just ordered the DVD ($20). Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.
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Location: NJ | The "hack" that Paul refers to is quite simple.
Just download the .zip file to your desktop.
Unzip it, and burn the un-compressed file to a CD.
Pop the CD into your DVD player.
A menu will come up on your TV to "unlock" various regions. |
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Location: Scotland | That was actually one of the more complicated hacks. Usually it just involves punching in a 4 or 5 digit code from the handset. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Glen w/ slothead Adamas
HERE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o57SI9nK7bQ |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Glen Campbell
Goodtime hour
thats where I saw the red tornado as a child
not on
The Partridge Family played by David Cassidy
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| I remember the Thunderhead on the back of the "Try a little Kindness" album.. ( i think..) |
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Location: Tennessee | That's a 1537. |
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Location: Germany | Just got the DVD and it miraculously plays on my player (well, seems not to have a region code). Great footage of Glen playing early Ovations (Storms, Balladeers, classical). 17 tracks and Glen introduces each song. But these days he seems to be a shadow of his former self.
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Location: ms | Hes old man give the guy a break. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | From what I've heard around here, he can still play circles around most folks you know. |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by Charlie Ramon:
But these days he seems to be a shadow of his former self. That is, until he picks up a guitar. Even at 71, he can still play the hell out of one! His pipes may not be what they used to be (whose are at that age), but he's still got his chops. |
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| I am of the personal opinion that 'mr. campbell' can still do whatever he decides he wants to do...he just don't want to do it anymore.
I remember him saying in one of his concerts recently..
"I can still jump as high, I just can't stay up there as long.." and then he laughs about it all and sings a classic just like he always has..
(I always wanted to see him play 'Yakity Axe' like he did in the "Live at New Jersey" album...I guess that will never happen..) |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
Hes old man give the guy a break. Never know by this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87f6QjLjGs |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | The ole pipes are sounding pretty good in this recent clip.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=E80727OUUDI |
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Location: Central Florida | Wayne,
I assume you posted that in response to what I said, so allow me to make myself a little more clear. I agree that he sounds good in that clip, but I personally think he sounds better in the clip from 1968, performing the same song on the Smothers Brothers Show (see YouTube link below).
When I said his pipes aren't what they used to be, I didn't mean he could no longer sing. I meant that the quality and timbre of his voice has changed, or become more "seasoned with age," over the last 30-40 years. He still has a pleasing voice, but IMHO he's lost most of his upper register, and the timbre of his voice has mellowed to that of a more baritone-like quality, as opposed to the strong tenor he exhibited back in his prime.
The point of my post was not to "dis" GC as a singer, but rather to build him up as a picker. My point was that while his voice may or may not be what it was back in 1968, his playing is still just as hot as it's ever been. I don't think he's lost a single step in that regard.
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| Jeff,
I understand that completely. Interesting that Glen Campbell began his singing career as a Baritone. I had an original release of him singing a gospel tune entitled "Faith". You wouldn't recognize the voice as Glen Campbell. Thick, heavey baritone timbre in his voice. I understand there was also a time in his career where he sang so much he abused his vocal chords and had surgery to remove the nodes (callouses). So, that definitely changed his pitch and intonation. Singing in the upper register is an art in itself for a natural baritone, involving much more than just the use of the vocal chords. Age takes it toll on the body's natural diaphram and the muscle's ability for breath support. I would say he could possible sing any song he ever recorded but it would be extremely tiring.
(His concerts don't last that long anyway...and these days I think he would rather play golf) |
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Location: SoCal | Never heard that Campbell had surgery or was a baritone. As far as I've known, he's always been a tenor, but with a huge range. If you listen to his early stuff, you'd hear how high he was singing from the early 60's on. |
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Location: Central Florida | I'm with Paul. I never heard about him having surgery or that he was ever considered a baritone. But at any rate, I am familiar with the song "Faith." It's on his "Burning Bridges" album, and I agree, it's not what you'd normally expect from him vocally. He's definitely singing in his lower register with an almost Elvis-like quality to his voice.
The thing I've noticed about most of his hits (which is predominantly what he performs these days in concerts) is that they're mostly all in mid-rangey keys, which is why he's able to still do most of them in their original keys. However, there are other hits like Try a Little Kindness, True Grit, Where's the Playground Susie and a few others that he now does at least a half step lower than he used to.
Again, this is not to say he doesn't still sound good, but I do hear a difference in the quality of his voice, and I just happen to prefer the sound of the "younger Glen." |
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Location: SoCal | See, I like the sound of the "middle years", the albums from the 80's. He sounds more mature and less like he's trying to go hit the high notes. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | There was no smoother,vocally perfect voice on this planet than the "young" Glen Campbell ('60's - '70's) |
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Location: Texas | Agree with TRboy.
Smooth voice and what a picker! |
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Location: Tennessee | Nice looking Viper ... Glen has been a faithful Ovation player for a long time. Kudos.
Moody, did you notice Glen has a capo clamped to the headstock? ;) |
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Location: Portland, OR | For the older folk like me, Crosby was the same. If you listen to his early work it was 2 or 3 steps up. Same with Elvis. Crosby may have smoked, but I don't think Elvis did. Crosby's last album was almost all low baritone. Us older folks can identify. Still good. Elvis fell off but I don't think it was age. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I did hear about the vocal cord operation from someone I got one of the guitars from...either Goober or Roger Wynfield. I remember being quite surprised because I had never heard or read an inkling of that anywhere else.
Jeff; No, I totally agree with you, I just posted because it was such a great sounding later clip. He always sounded pretty much flawless in any of the early stuff. |
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| I remember the album "Bloodline", that was one of those 'middle years' albums that demonstrated the mature voice, and the vocal range was there as well. I guess you don't hear that song much in his concerts unless he's got a good banjo player with him. I wonder what ever happened to Carl Jackson?... |
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Glen Cambell "Good times again"