1968 Photo By Jack Robinson
We honor the incomparable Joni Mitchell today as she celebrates her birthday. Here’s three things for you to consider on her special day.
1. Listen to her music. N’uff said.
2. Revisit Cameron’s July, 1979 Rolling Stone cover story
3. Check out the liner notes for 2004’s Dreamland
Rolling Stone has just released a Led Zeppelin special collector’s edition issue. In addition to Cameron’s 1975 cover story on the band, it includes the following list of impressive features:
This special issue is available at newsstands or Barnes & Noble online.
Alice Cooper Circa 1972 by Jim Marshall
In honor of Halloween, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at a 1972 San Diego Door interview with “Mr. Scary”, Alice Cooper. It’s a rare, joint article written alongside fellow Door writer, Art Grupe. Happy Halloween!
Hip-O Select.com/Motown will release a brand new edition of Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man to celebrate its 40th anniversary on November 19th. The new 2 CD exapanded edition will feature not only the remastered original soundtrack album, but also include 29 unreleased performances including alternate takes, rare vocals and the full score for the film.
The set will also include a 28 page booklet with essays by Cameron, Dr. Andrew Flory, George Tillman, Jr., Lenny Kravitz, Joni Mitchell and Christian McBride. It’s a limited edition of only 5,000 copies and you can order yours directly from the Hip-O website now.
You don’t want to miss Cameron’s 1973 interview with the Grateful Dead’s one and only Bob Weir. He talks about his career with the Dead, their Europe ’72 live album, his solo album Ace and even a ghost story… We hope you enjoy this new Journalism interview from Rock magazine.
While we continue to wait (impatiently) for Vanilla Sky to be released on Blu-ray, you can get your HD fix as Netflix is currently streaming the 2001 film in high definition. In a related note, Pearl Jam Twenty is also streaming in HD.
John Cusack and Cameron attended a couple of stops on Peter Gabriel’s So 25th Anniversary concert this past week and they each had the unique privilege to present Mr. Gabriel with a boombox just as “In Your Eyes” was starting (John at the Hollywood Bowl and Cameron at Santa Barbara). Pretty cool, huh? Pictures above are courtesy of Peter’s bassist Tony Levin. Check out his wonderful tour diary and web site. Check out a video from the Hollywood Bowl show and the crowd’s reaction below.
Flying Burrito Brothers – Last Of The Red Hot Burritos (A&M SP 4343)
Besides being packaged in the best jacket to be seen around, this live LP serves as the last glimpse of the sadly, unheralded Flying Burrito Brothers. Hence, Last Of The Red Hot Burritos. To be taken literally.
The Burritos seemed to be, in their existence, somewhat of a halfway band collecting various refugees from California folk-rock bands.
In this LP, Chris Hillman and Al Perkins, now with Steve Stills’ Manassas band, combine with fiddler Byron Berline and banjoman Kenny Wertz to unleash a tremendously versatile array of material.
From the earthy bluegrass of “Orange Blossom Special” to the rockin’ standard “Six Days on the Road,” the album remains as one of the best efforts of this year despite the tinny recording job, the amazing shortness, and the suspiciously over-enthusiastic audience.
Courtesy of the Door (aka San Diego Door) – Cameron Crowe – July 28, 1972 – August 17, 1972
