Gary Clark Jr. plays with Eric Clapton on Crossroads tour...................................Anyway heres a 2018? video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7WdKULtIOD4.html Gotta play new stuff too!! Turn these old heads on.......................heres one with Clapton from 2017 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kzIum-HY5yY.html and from Grammys with your boy Joe Walsh and Dave Grohl ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FpKqX7UyP8E.html
“Caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender... I’m gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.” What a great songwriter!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl Who can show me what laughter means And we'll fill in the missing colors In each other's paint-by-number dreams" - loved the lyrics in this song,
If you like Jackson's meaningful lyrics and musicianship, I highly recommend VAN MORRISON. Into the Mystic, She gives me Love, Tupelo Honey...and Brown Eyed Girl.
This song is about how everyone is "the pretender". People start out young and strong in life, thinking they will conquer the world, only to get beat down by life and work.
Totally. His work is always full of metaphors and allusions. This is a song that asks the lister to reflect on what’s important in their life. It’s a very special song to a lot of people for the self-reflection it inspires.
In a 1997 interview with Mojo magazine, Browne said of this song: "I'm a big fan of ambiguity and its bountiful rewards, and 'The Pretender' is two things at once. It's that person in all of us that has a higher ideal, and the part that has settled for compromise - like Truffaut says, there's the movie you set out to make, and there's the one you settle for. But in a more serious way, 'The Pretender' is about '60s idealism, the idea of life being about love and brotherhood, justice, social change and enlightenment, those concepts we were flooded with as our generation hit its stride; and how, later, we settled for something quite different. So when I say 'Say a prayer for The Pretender,' I'm talking about those people who are trying to convince themselves that there really was nothing to that idealism."
I'm gonna find myself a girl, who can show me what laughter means. And we'll fill in the missing colors, of each other's paint by number dreams. Great line. Great writer.
When I was 13 years old, my uncle -- the cool one -- said that I should listen to Jackson Browne. He specifically mentioned "The Pretender". It took me forever to figure out what Browne was saying in this song. But at 55, I now know exactly. And I know exactly why my uncle said what he did. It's about life.
@@ingridstrickland8768 I think Jamel would love the funky gospel-like chorus and lyrics are so important. Yes....The Pretender has just been released so he did loads of those songs. Can still see him and his piano in the spotlight. That was in Toronto.
This is the last album of the trilogy of his best works. He's more world weary than he was in the previous two, less optimistic and also less fearful in a way; more accepting of his lot. After Late For The Sky, he suffered a major personal tragedy, ditched all the songs he was intending to write for this album and the result was this. So, For Everyman, Late For The Sky and The Pretender describe an arc of sorts. When I was 17, I believed that Jackson's songs would provide me with the answer to all life's questions. I had no idea what those questions might be but I was sure that Jackson could answer them for me, whatever they were. It wasn't until I was much older that I came to the realization that he was as lost in the world as the rest of us.
"Say a prayer for the Pretender, Who started out so young and strong only to surrender." Dayum. Is Jackson Browne getting more profound or am I just getting older?
Late 70’s early 80’s music was about pure emotion, much of it was about appealing to the better side of ourselves. Feel good kinda music, relatable and inspiring real life stories. And it brings me back to my own childhood 🥰❤️😘
The imagery of these lyrics... Caught between the longing for love And the struggle for the legal tender Where the sirens sing and the church bells ring And the junk man pounds his fender Where the veterans dream of the fight Fast asleep at the traffic light And the children solemnly wait For the ice cream vendor Out into the cool of the evening Strolls the Pretender He knows that all his hopes and dreams Begin and end there
Every time I hear a song like this it amazes me. The story it tells, the music is so appealing that you almost, or maybe actually, stop what you're doing and just listen to it. That is truly a talented musician who can do that.
Amazing album. His wife died of a drug overdose during the recording and the mood seems somewhat reflective of the event. Here Comes Those Tears Again is a great cut written by Browne and his late wife’s mom.
I was SO fortunate to be a teen in the era of great.music! This grandma.is trying to teach her grandchildren the best music ever. Hopefully when they hear this music they'll remember me after.I am gone!
Such great lyrics, Glenn Frey and Don Henley were renting an apartment above Jackson and learned how to write lyrics. He even helped them with "Take It Easy"
legend has it, Glenn Frey's only lyrical contribution was "it's a girl my lord, in a flatbed Ford slowing down to take a look at me", the rest is all JB
On one of the Eagles documentaries I've seen, Frey talks about he and Don Henley living above Jackson Browne in an apartment in the Valley somewhere, and JB practicing incessantly on the Piano to get his song presentation right. JD Souther was there too. I would have liked to show up with a 12 pack and share tunes with all of them!
Ah, the memories this brings of the days of my youth. Today's music seems to lack the poetry you hear here.(see what I did there). If it does I'm unable to hear it. My dear departed one and I spent hours listening together to Jackson and the like. Thank you Jamel.
I have listened to this song at least 100 times in my life, but this is the 1st time I have truly heard and understood the lyrics. And to be honest I shed a tear. As my middle years come to a close I can't help but think of the young me, and all of my hopes and dreams. I don't know when I gave up and "settled for the legal tender" life just has a way of beating you down.
Brother I found your Chanel by mistake wow I'm a subscriber now I thought I was the only brother that's likes all music it was foreigner I’ve been waiting
Quite simply the BEST singer/songwriter of our times. I have seen him twice in concert and I also love the rapport he has with the audience. I have every one of his albums/discs. He grew up in LA. Another thing that shows how good he is....member of the Velvet Underground at 16! Musical genius and storyteller.
My dad and I struggled to find common ground when I was a snot-nosed teenage punk in the late 70s. The biggest common ground we found was music. This song/album/artist helped our relationship. We parted as friends in 1998. Love you to this day, Dad. Thanks for posting.
Marc Cohn considered Jackson Browne to be influencial on Cohn's development as a Grammy Award winner( New Artist) in the early 90s. React to WALKING IN MEMPHIS...please. Give Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' (SECRET WORLD LIVE) featuring late great Papa Wemba. It's from Gabriel's 'Secret World Live' concert film...the best way to experience that song,💃🕺🤗🤣
He started writing in the mid 60's (1966) for other artists and a part of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He went solo in 1970s, and co-wrote "Take It Easy", which is on his second album "For Everyman".
@@denystull355 Thank you I wasn't sure when he started. But I knew he wasn't a 80's artist even though his career went into the 80's. His oldest fans are from the 60's and 70's I'm positive about this statement
This generation was sure THEY were going to truly change the world. End war, end poverty, end social injustice. Only to find the realities of everyday living brings an end to such lofty goals. This song speaks to the capitulation of one man as he accepts this fact.
Jackson talked to the audience last night about your reaction video to this song last night during his show at the Santa Barbara Bowl. He was pleasantly amused -- tickled even -- by your comment about "the funk."
I remember a folk concert on the radio as a kid that I taped some of because the guy had such a great voice. I caught the full live version of the Pretender and it became a favourite without me knowing who it was until the internet arrived and I could google the lyrics. Happy to say I got to see him in concert years later. I was probably the youngest person there and actually had tears in my eyes when he played this in the encore. Magical lyrics.
This song reminds me that when you are young, you look at your parents and say, I will never have a gut, I will never wear, slip on loafers like my Dad, or own a small Yippy dog. Then you wake up one day and find your doing just that, because you have bills to pay and commitments. So, you settle, and the cycle goes on. I have.
Youuuuuu are correct Jamal. That era of music Spanish and English Was unique very unique. Hey no sadness Brother....you are there, here, now, and then, because what you feel now... I , we felt back then.... And we all of us are here. You see us you see you feel the music and we feel you...the love of real music, inspired music. 👍👍🏁✔💯🌍🌎🌏🙏☝😁😉
jamal at the end of the song..... you were literally living the theme of the song... appreciate the passion you bring to this, while like most people now, you still have to get out there & do the 40 hour week to bring home the legal tender.
I'm also from Los Angeles, the greatest radio station ever was KMET LA like great singer songwriters it's a thing of the past that where I first heard all these great artists, they are just as great now. Nice job.
KMET! I was an avid listener then. B. Mitchel Read was my favorite DJ. The Mighty MET played whole albums when they came out. Who's Next was played contiuously all day when it came out. Those were the days when radio stations played a variety of Music rather than one genre. I'm not a radio listener much anymore just because it seems that variety has left the Airways. Thanks for the reminder of FM radio and those days. I like a lot of today's music but the radio stations haven't kept up at all and are a disappointment. Keep on listening!
@@wardkrause9022 The Burner Mary Turner And Jim Ladd were my favorite DJs on the mighty met, you are right it's not the same on fm radio anymore. The programs they had like King biscuit flower hour, Dr Dementia, and many others. Great memories my friend.
I graduated from high school in 1977 and I remember feeling like 'our music was very special. It is nice to see that it actually was and has stood the test of time.
The songwriting of Jackson Browne is an American treasure. Then he takes what he writes and puts into these amazing arrangements, and “The Pretender” has all these different stylings within it. There’s the folksy country electric guitar leads, with a funk/Mowtown backbeat interplay between the drums & bass, also with orchestral strings sprinkled in and his piano & soulful voice soaring over all of it. It’s truly a masterpiece of recorded music. And I love watching people react to it for the first time, because his music is timeless
Jackson's wife was Phyllis Major. Together, they had one child, Ethan Zane Browne, born November 2, 1973. In December 1975, they were married. Four months later, on March 25, 1976, she was found dead in their Hollywood Hills home. She had overdosed on pills. Browne channeled his loss and depression into the production of his fourth album, "The Pretender." Now...listen to the song again.
