I really don't know anything about the Flying Burrito Bros. I know that Gram Parsons was in the band, and that makes them cool. Michelle, the first girl I ever loved, wore a Flying Burrito Brothers t-shirt (baby blue with a metallic gold logo, purchased from some old train station thrift shop in Hackensack-ack-ack-ack-ack), but she was from San Francisco and talked about Haight-Ashbury and rearranged her furniture twice a week and received phone calls from Pauline Oliveros and Marian Zazeela (in her dorm room!), and I figured the t-shirt was just another one of her crazy things. It was only much later, after she had shaved her head and had her name legally changed to Maya Moksha, that I realized Michelle was way cooler (and crazier) than I'd ever understand.
Anyway, this particular Burrito Deluxe is a 2008 reissue from the outstanding 4 Men With Beards label, and comes on 180gm vinyl in an old-school tip-on jacket with the original album art, but does not include a free download coupon, which kind of bums me out. I want the free download, even if quality is compromised, so I can listen when I'm on the go or in the office. (Of course, ideally, I'd like a free lossless download.)
Burrito Deluxe was the Burrito's second album, originally released in 1970, and their sound immediately reminds me of the Rolling Stones with all the beer-soaked slide guitar and rollicking drum beats. And I'm not surprised to see that the Burritos have covered "Wild Horses," the first Stones' song I ever loved.
I found this funny video for "Older Guys," which is track 7 on the album. You can see that Gram Parsons has a sort of Mick Jagger thing going on:
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I really don't know anything about the Flying Burrito Bros. I know that Gram Parsons was in the band, and that makes them cool. Michelle, the first girl I ever loved, wore a Flying Burrito Brothers t-shirt (baby blue with a metallic gold logo, purchased from some old train station thrift shop in Hackensack-ack-ack-ack-ack), but she was from San Francisco and talked about Haight-Ashbury and rearranged her furniture twice a week and received phone calls from Pauline Oliveros and Marian Zazeela (in her dorm room!), and I figured the t-shirt was just another one of her crazy things. It was only much later, after she had shaved her head and had her name legally changed to Maya Moksha, that I realized Michelle was way cooler (and crazier) than I'd ever understand.
Anyway, this particular Burrito Deluxe is a 2008 reissue from the outstanding 4 Men With Beards label, and comes on 180gm vinyl in an old-school tip-on jacket with the original album art, but does not include a free download coupon, which kind of bums me out. I want the free download, even if quality is compromised, so I can listen when I'm on the go or in the office. (Of course, ideally, I'd like a free lossless download.)
Burrito Deluxe was the Burrito's second album, originally released in 1970, and their sound immediately reminds me of the Rolling Stones with all the beer-soaked slide guitar and rollicking drum beats. And I'm not surprised to see that the Burritos have covered "Wild Horses," the first Stones' song I ever loved.
