Well, I hope you plan on giving them back to Dan eventually! He's gonna get tired of listening to nothing but his massive collection of bootleg live Queen CDs sooner or later!
2:58 i love how he signal to the band, that this time they're gona do it 4 times, and looks concerned, and not sure if they're noticed. I love that youtube is full of these captured raw moments in the lifes of great people.
He handed me a tape on the drag back in the 80''s. I did not know who he was but I listened to that tape until up wouldn't play any more. I took a photo of his mural and it has moved with me from living room to living room over the years..Blessings to you Daniel, you are still inspiring us!!
i have a friend who claims to have an early raw cassette handed to her in the drag back then. thing is shes a huge hoarder and kinda lazy so it may take a good while to find it. she's an honest person though. I hope to someday help her find it once she decides to sort it all out. when I do, i promise to upload it if it still works.
Truly, and sang straight from the soul of a troubled man like a proper rock or blues star. He was recorded in this the day after being released from the mental health clinic of a hospital following an incident at U.T in Austin where he attacked his manager with a lead pipe while under the influence of LSD. It was said a half dozen cops were needed to restrain him.
After listening to a bunch of Daniel Johnston songs and balling my eyes out, this put such a huge smile on my face, bless your soul Daniel Johnston you made the most beautiful music ever, RIP
Just the mere(?)'Fact youve cm thru..(I @'least hope for you..&,Anyone..Whom is interested in finding out about D.Johnson..'Just keep doin'The things you wanta..i too could add..Bk in hmetown..still on Shitty 'DeathOrMoan'-("like jeez im condemed..after cming bk from Ozzy(@'N.Z)But Not to knock Daneil..But when i saw that Film/Doco..it made me see myself(a lil bit/&-So many Freinds whom had started sm great bands..(Peter Gutteridge'-'SNAPPER'-Was a good freind..worse they *Killed him.(*-Bk from N.Y.playing the Great Unwashed fest.&,He never made it home from AK..Inqirey Finds.albeit.3'-yrs later.'MAN FAILED'-R.I.P.Old mate take care..get up n out if u can.peace.:-)
I'm currently ego death kinda, it's not funny to have existencial crisis on ego death. It bothers me to know Daniel is dead and was all old when i remember him like the naive kid From the hi how are you. I just wanna live without knowing everyone gets older and dies eventually. I'm going yo cry a Lot the day my mother die dude a freakin Lot. (Sorry if this message makes you feel kinda existencial)
hugo mm I think this is why it is very important to find someone and marry them, and also to do your best to make friends and maintain those relationships. When you have people close to you, it makes the death of family members more bearable because you have someone to lean on emotionally for support. If you’re alone, it really would be a terrifying to have a parent die.
How emotionally true, and ironic, this song is: "When I knew / you didn't love me / It was the end of the hard time." What a brilliant surprise at the end. It's false hope that is "the hard time."
spoke to Daniel a week ago - said he just sat in with Kiss. The band came by the house, worked up a number, and they played a show in Austin. He wore white makeup. He was a big Kiss man in Jr. High.
Ladies and gentleman! He headed out west, his life is a mess, but he's trying his best! Ladies and gentleman, tonight, live with the The Rhythm Rats, Daniel Johnston! -- When I Saw You Standing There Was The Start of My Hard Time My Hard Time What I Thought I Felt In Your Touch Was The Start of My Hard Time My Hard Time When I Thought That It Meant So Much That Was Part of My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time I Had With You What I Thought I Saw In Your Eyes And You Said That You Were Mine But When Your Eyes Rolled Back In Your Head Talking About My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time I Had With You When I Knew That You Were Free I Was Long In My Hard Time My Hard Time When I Knew You Didn’t Love Me It Was The End of My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time My Hard Time I Had With You I Have Been So Low Crushed By My Ego Can’t You Imagine The Weight Upon Me But I’ve Been Dreaming Dreaming I Have That I’ve Been So Low Crushed By My Ego You Can’t Imagine The Weight Upon Me
He is an amazing artist, and there is nothing mediocre in his music. He writes from the heart and that is hard to find in this day and age. He reminds me of Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen rolled into one.
Great to see this raw footage... great band, song, words and sentiment. We all get days like Dan had. Rest in peace man. Thanks you for being you. Respect.
Long story short, I met my first love after 14 years of being apart, what I thought would be my best times was the start of my hard times. I was chasing a dream that no longer existed. This song, this song is my current life, I to found him through the apple commercial and I'm not ashamed, the important part is I'm here and a song exist that is helping me release my stress.
I had a dream with Daniel in it last night. He had a letter made of pinata paper for me. Inside was a girl made of orange tissue paper. I realize now that your story triggered it.
Kathy McCarty thinks it was her, and the timing is right, but I never asked him. At the time he was spending a lot of time with two other women, so he wasn't missing anyone, believe me.
Oh my. I went to a garage sale and the woman said that she sold all of her punk albums and 45s but she still had some cassettes. There were three or four cassettes that she had bought off the street from Daniel Johnston I think in Austin. Each cassette had a hand drawn cover on the wraparound cardboard. They were all popular images that ended up being on his record covers. I ended up selling them all but one that I kept. It’s the one with that little guy with a hat . Yip Some thing. Anyways I realize that these covers are works of art and I’m glad I said this last one. It’s beautiful but I don’t play the tape I’m afraid I will stretch it or where it out. I’ll just listen to it online
I've lived around mental illness and mental disability my whole life. Daniel is, like most know, a genuine artist. He is so courage to me. He is aware of his condition and plows though it devotion to is artistic abilities. Duane allman was a brilliant man and artist. In his wisdom he would say that albums are an artist gift to the world. Thanks Daniel for your gifts.
When I saw you standing there Was the start of my hard time My hard time What I thought I felt in your touch Was the start of my hard time My hard time When I thought that it meant so much That was part of my hard time My hard time My hard time My hard time I had with you What I thought I saw in your eyes And you said that you were mine But when your eyes rolled back in your head Talking about my hard time My hard time My hard time My hard time I had with you When I knew that you were free I was long in my hard time My hard time When I knew you didn't love me It was the end of my hard time My hard time My hard time My hard time My hard time I had with you I have been so low Crushed by my ego Can't you imagine The weight upon me But I've been dreaming Dreaming I have That I've been so low Crushed by my ego Can't you imagine The weight upon me
So... If you EVER want to hear the great (trust me!) DECEMBER BLUES album, 1/2 recorded in 1986 & 1/2in 1999, [Tracks: December Blues/ Big Big World/ Hard Times/ I Stand Horrified/ Good Look/ Stinker/ Was/ Worried Shoes/ Suspicious Minds/ Broken Dreams/ Wicked Will/ What I've Seen/ Speeding Motorcycle] plus the live 1997 comeback show I arranged with Brent Grulke (R.I.P.) of SXSW: [Rejected/ I'm A Believer/ Favorite Darling Girl/ Speeding Motorcycle], put yr $ where yr ears are!!! -- not dan
Filed as exhibit 154 in the proposition 'Daniel Johnston is the world's greatest living songwriter'. Case long closed on the proposition: 'Daniel Johnston is an effing genius'. The future knows best.
If you think about it long enough no one really dies because as long as we feel their presence within us they live on forever Daniel is never truly dead he simply lives on within us all
I had a magical introduction to Daniel back in the 80's (I lived in Houston). I had read about him from an article in SPIN magazine. Likely one of the first mentions of him in a national publication. This story fascinated me. Bypassing the traditional music merry-go-round by just handing out cassettes to any and everyone. This was the most brilliant thing I had ever heard and made me rethink my own (visual) art and exposure. - - Anyhoos, about a year later I am living in San Diego and popped into a Tower Records store, and as usual I dug through the cut-out bin for interesting $1 cassettes. There I found one of Daniels' home-grown, hand-decorated cassettes, "More Songs of Pain". I nabbed it and thus began my adventures into manic magic. A few years even later, I found myself living in Houston again when I discovered that he lived less than 20 miles (down the highway in Waller TX) from where I lived. After a little more spelunking I found his address and drove out there one day. I wasn't going to knock on his door or anything but if I saw him outside, I would stop and say hello. He wasn't so I didnt but that was ok. he's been in my soul ever since I first touched that Cassette. Which I still have BTW.
It is great that some people can choose to watch or listen to this whether they like it or not. I suspect that Kim Jong Un rocks out to this in secret.
A little Daniel Johnston in the morning. Flying with Casper now. The first time I heard Daniel Johnston music was in the late 80's or early '90's. I was working at The Joyce Theatre in Chelsea, NYC and working follow-spot up in the catwalk for one the dance company's that came in and had choreographed a Dance to "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances". The music was and still is captivating and a "new genre" of music.
He’s such a genius man - he’s directing saying “when you make a joke make it serious that’s what I mean by a joke” he understands comedy as well as rock and roll. What a legend man
He was a big Jerry Lewis fan. He saw him at Astroworld - hosting the big telethon - and was disappointed to discover he was a fat, mean man, yelling at people from his golf cart.
Often singers will pitch slightly higher during a melody for certain effects and emphasis. You see this a lot in opera because the live orchestra is naturally ever entirely in tune with itself at any give time. But Daniel Johnston is the ONLY signer who I have ever hear use singing FLAT as part of melodic technique. Here, it's right the opening line: "WHEN I saw you staring there // WAS the start of my hard times." The effect this, thus, that he's being "dragged down" in those "hard times." // One of his most amazing usage of flat sining is in his song "I'm a Loner." I write this commentary in 2024 where this upload has received 750 thousand views in 11 years. That's pretty low for 11 years, and I can think of other bands today (Beach House, Wise Blood) who's exceptionally raw, original music only exists on the cusp of the media's eye. Yet, they don't care. They know that is the cult that will survive! What else WOULD be The Spirit? I am a music synesthete who see's a color shape for each note, and I have begun to finally document my work after many years of running away from myself and extreme child abuse by a Narcissistic mother and enabling father. I am happy to use extra-authentic artists like Daniel Johnston for many of my examples of what I call Pitch Psychology, and why composers choose specific keys. My greatest fear is that I would not have documented enough and that my discoveries would be lost. I think of my hard life, and then I think Daniel's life having been so difficult, so scattered and unpredictable. And often self-destructive. We are lucky to have this footage of he and his band. I am inspired BY Daniel not just because of the startlingly original songwriting any lyrics, but because he was able to persevere, even despite time, fate, and his own inner-demons. He always remained true to his vision, and treated and presented his work lovingly. God bess the fans! And God Bless you, Mr. Daniel Johnston! - _The Acoustic Rabbit Hole_
It is an interesting theory, and I've been pondering over it off and on for several days. Since then, I've heard 2 examples of professional singers doing something like that: Mark Lindsay on "Cherokee People" and Stevie Wonder on "Superstition."That said, it might be of interest that this version was the 3rd take. Take 2 was sung almost entirely in that flat, wimpy nasal whine. Personally, I don't think it was intentional. I think he was still warming up; it was still early afternoon, and DJ was a nocturnal animal. After I left they went on to record "Worried Shoes". These songs were intended as demos, not final versions, but his story would soon take a different turn.
I love to see young Daniel, before the meds ruined his body. Psychotropic drugs are a hell of a ride, you might need them in order to function but they will ruin you, and they will do it way too quickly! I've seen people in their 30s dying or falling into a coma from too many drugs for too long.
This guy has more un believable stories, they made a movie called The Devil in in Mr Johnston. Is a star and lives in Texas. I like this and brings a lot of joy..
