petsite
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Post by petsite on Jan 16, 2024 9:05:12 GMT -5
How did I miss this back in 1983?
Rolling Stone: Tell me about your tours with the Zoo in the Eighties.
Billy Burnette: We toured with the Beach Boys in 1985. One night, Mick and I were out partying, and we were not sober. We got kicked off the tour because we were dancing in some restaurant and the Beach Boys found out about it. I love the Beach Boys. They were dear friends of mine. But somebody in their organization fired us off the tour. I was really good friends with Carl [Wilson], though. I loved him. He was my favorite singer in the band.
Rolling Stone: You co-wrote “Angel Come Home” with Carl on the first Zoo record.
Billy Burnette: Yeah. Christine went out with Dennis Wilson for a while. When we cut that song, it was everyone in Fleetwood Mac besides Stevie and John McVie. Lindsey worked on that record. Christine worked on it. I remember Glen Campbell coming into the studio that night, and we stayed up all night working on it.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 16, 2024 10:41:14 GMT -5
How did I miss this back in 1983?
Rolling Stone: Tell me about your tours with the Zoo in the Eighties.
Billy Burnette: We toured with the Beach Boys in 1985. One night, Mick and I were out partying, and we were not sober. We got kicked off the tour because we were dancing in some restaurant and the Beach Boys found out about it. I love the Beach Boys. They were dear friends of mine. But somebody in their organization fired us off the tour. I was really good friends with Carl [Wilson], though. I loved him. He was my favorite singer in the band.
Rolling Stone: You co-wrote “Angel Come Home” with Carl on the first Zoo record.
Billy Burnette: Yeah. Christine went out with Dennis Wilson for a while. When we cut that song, it was everyone in Fleetwood Mac besides Stevie and John McVie. Lindsey worked on that record. Christine worked on it. I remember Glen Campbell coming into the studio that night, and we stayed up all night working on it.
I liked Billy when he toured with J.C. Fogerty in the 90's. Check out 'The Long Road Home' video.
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Post by E on Jan 16, 2024 11:25:29 GMT -5
I like it, but it lacks the sense of yearning that the original has
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Post by drbeachboy (Dirk) on Jan 16, 2024 11:29:02 GMT -5
I really like this version of the song and the video is great too. As with you Bob, I completely missed this one and the album when it was released.
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Post by lonesurf on Jan 16, 2024 11:56:59 GMT -5
I like it, but it lacks the sense of yearning that the original has Totally agree with this. Actually one of my favorite Boys songs. Just misses a little something in this remake. I do think that Billy Burnette had a great sleeper track on Fleetwood Mac’s much maligned Behind The Mask album a few years later, Hard Feelings:
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Post by lonelysummer on Jan 16, 2024 15:39:51 GMT -5
My cat erased my first attempt at a post, so I'll just say I love this version.
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Post by jk on Jan 16, 2024 15:59:13 GMT -5
My cat erased my first attempt at a post, so I'll just say I love this version. Hahaha. I like it too -- I think it's a great version of a great song. With thanks to petsite for posting it.
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Post by Mikie on Jan 16, 2024 16:25:31 GMT -5
Christine McVie selected the Beach Boys’ ‘Angel Come Home,’ from their L.A. (Light Album), for one of her "Desert Island Disc" songs. "Dennis was a mess, but he was charismatic, charming and really handsome,” she confided. “He swept me off my feet big time, and we had a very roller coaster affair for a couple of years. I just adored him.” John McVie later said of Dennis, "Half of him was like a little boy, and the other half was insane." Mick Fleetwood, who had introduced the couple to each other, wrote that "Chris almost went mad trying to keep up with Dennis, who was already like a man with twenty thyroid glands, not counting the gargantuan amounts of coke." There's quite a few Dennis/Christine photos out there, but I came across this one of John McVie and Dennis that I don't remember seeing before: And don't forget the "DW Suite" by Lindsey Buckingham:
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Post by Steve Mayo on Jan 16, 2024 17:19:43 GMT -5
There used to be a live version of zoo doing this song. I always thought it kicked ass compared to the album version. And i am not talking about that pos partial video live version on youtube by Soultwins. I have it on an external drive somewhere. If i find it I’ll post it.
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Post by Awesoman on Jan 17, 2024 8:35:10 GMT -5
Not bad although I'll still stick with the Beach Boys' version. This cover may be a tad livelier than the Beach Boys' version but Dennis's voice suites the song better. One of the better songs off of 𝐿.𝐴. (𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐴𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚) and a pretty good Carl Wilson co-composition.
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