#Different Drum

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the phenomenal Linda Rondstadt. She built an unsurpassable career on a singular voice and a classic stage sensibility, interpreting hundreds of songs on virtually every musical platform I could name: Classical, country, New Wave rock, opera, pop, showtunes & standards, theatre, and world music. 

Linda retired from performing and recording in 2011 when she came down with a form of aggressive palsy, but she still gets around. I met her in 2013 when she came into Guitar Center to get her guitar worked on. She and I have mutual acquaintances in the music biz and, once the dazzle wore off, the vibe became easeful and low-key, like a multiple award winning artist was really just another musician hanging out in a music shop with the crew. To me it’s heartening that someone with an affliction such as hers can still go home and enjoy music-making.

Here’s a cover of her breakthrough song “Different Drum.” Mike Nesmith wrote this in 1966 and, a year later, it became a hit for Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys. The original track had a unique blend of Californianized baroque pop and country. Our cover is from a 1998 recording session I did with The Third National Band, a Mike Nesmith tribute project. The original had a strings. Since we didn’t have a string orchestra handy, I played those parts on harpsichord:

Meanwhile, HB Linda—thank you for your years of innovation and for giving us an incredible body of song!

#lindaronstadt #birthday #michaelnesmith #mikenesmith #differentdrum #johnnyjblair #sanfrancisco

[myimaginaryradio]

Different Drum - Mike Nesmith

[buttholebuttonhole]

Sam eagle is SO Mike nesmith coded if you think about it. You know

[somereallygoodmusic]

Different Drum: Stone Poneys with Linda Rondstat

[howardhawkshollywoodmusic]

33. Different Drum by The Stone Poneys debuted Nov 67 and peaked at number 13, scoring 1159 points.

The group formed in Los Angeles, and the follow up was their only other chart entry. It failed to make the top 40. Lead singer Linda Ronstadt released her first solo record, Long Long Time in 1970. It peaked at number 25.

Different Drum was written by Michael Nesmith of The Monkees.

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[rambunctioustoons]

different drum // the stone poneys 🎶

[icarusredwings]

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[starrysharks]

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[myimaginaryradio]

Different Drum - Stone Poneys

[daddy-long-legssss]

Love Is A Laserquest

"I’ve never listened to country music before, it was just something I totally didn’t get until pretty recently. I’ve always been, ‘Nah, not into that world’, but I’ve started to get something out of that now. The sort of sounds of that music I’m still not crazy about but the words are really good. Like Hank Williams, George Jones and Roger Miller and even like Johnny Cash – they’re just smart-arses, those guys, who write good country tunes, y’know. It’s really funny or really sad. And they do that thing so well. This tune is the closest to that. Not like in the sound, but in the lyrics."

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[forged-in-kaoss]

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[n3arell-art]

He can hear the sound of the drums, the never ending drums

[hauntedkeys]

Riot Maidstone is extraordinarily high school marching band drum major coded. No I will not be explaining myself further.