Donovan - late sixties

[Canis lupus]

He's had massive help in all of these albums from other artists and arrangers.

...but not his "producer", so I've heard / read.

[Canis lupus]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breezes-Patchouli-Studio-Recordings-1966-1969/dp/B00BF0LHLA

BTW: £14 for 6 x remastered albums (plus loads of singles and non-LP tracks): bit of a bargain. Like a massive pick n mix / lucky bag, but when he's good (and he was, right thru from 66-69), he was tremendous.

As if the Fabs (at their very zenith) would loiter about with deadbeats?!

[Muskrat]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Breezes-Patchouli-Studio-Recordings-1966-1969/dp/B00BF0LHLA

BTW: £14 for 6 x remastered albums (plus loads of singles and non-LP tracks): bit of a bargain. Like a massive pick n mix / lucky bag, but when he's good (and he was, right thru from 66-69), he was tremendous.

As if the Fabs (at their very zenith) would loiter about with deadbeats?!

That's the oneI was referring to, above. Thanks for the linkage.

[sloopjohnc]

Donovan is a very silly man. I know he has written more great songs than I ever will, but there is always something phony about him. Or no?

Dylan seemed to think so.

Cat Stevens seems to have more creative and artistic integrity, it almost seems. And I bring him up because he mines the same vein of pop music ore.

[Muskrat]

Donovan is a very silly man. I know he has written more great songs than I ever will, but there is always something phony about him. Or no?

Dylan seemed to think so.

To be fair, that was in Donovan's acoustic period; one might say both he and Dylan were imitating inspired by Woody Guthrie, Jack Elliott, etc.

[sloopjohnc]

Donovan is a very silly man. I know he has written more great songs than I ever will, but there is always something phony about him. Or no?

Dylan seemed to think so.

To be fair, that was in Donovan's acoustic period; one might say both he and Dylan were imitating inspired by Woody Guthrie, Jack Elliott, etc.

Do you think Dylan's opinion would have changed? Or did he not even care by that point?

[Charlie O.]

Dylan seemed to think so.

To be fair, that was in Donovan's acoustic period; one might say both he and Dylan were imitating inspired by Woody Guthrie, Jack Elliott, etc.

Do you think Dylan's opinion would have changed? Or did he not even care by that point?

I think it was rare back then for Dylan to be particularly impressed by any of his peers.

[Bent Fabric]

I've generally got limited time to discuss the great folk off of Don't Look Back, but - suffice to say - Donovan really had not yet "become Donovan", in my view.

[Quaco]

And Dylan always seems threatened by people.

[zoomboogity]

I'm still waiting for the legendary "lost footage" of Don't Look Back to surface. You know, the part where Dylan calls him Don. Last time he ever did THAT!

[Bent Fabric]

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[Bent Fabric]

And Dylan always seems threatened by people.

That Lennon footage is by no definition pleasant.

[zoomboogity]

Dylan: "Ready for another joint?"

Donovan: "Forget marijuana. Bananas are where it's at."

Lennon: "You're bananas, Don."

the fucking fury: unleashed

[Bent Fabric]

The not-inconsiderable credibility of the proposition that Donovan smoked bananas illustrates something rather fundamental about the man, how (royal) we respond to him, and perhaps some of the root causes of his own defensive tendencies

[Charlie O.]

The "Donovan vs. Simon & Garfunkel" thread is GONE. How did that happen?? Did someone say something libelous?

EDIT: never mind, I just stumbled acrost it. (I tried many different ways of searching for it before - including several Google searches, and trying the search function here for all threads contributed to by di Maio! Don't know why those didn't work.)

[Six String]

What album has Poor Man's Sunshine? That's the shit. Sam included it on a Jolly Up Comp ten years ago and it's my favorite Dono track.

[Charlie O.]

What album has Poor Man's Sunshine? That's the shit. Sam included it on a Jolly Up Comp ten years ago and it's my favorite Dono track.

While the song dates from the late '60s, I would bet that Sambient used the version from the 2004 album Beat Cafe.

[Nikki Gradual]

The problem with Donovan was that absolutely everyone could see, smell and hear his utter desperation to be a pop star, and as if that wasn't difficult enough for someone of his talent, to be cool at the same time. Hurdy Gurdy Man is just cringeingly awful. I am sure someone clever has isolated his rubbish from the backing tracks desperately trying to mask it, but I never want to hear it. I guess he was really Al Stewart level – he did write a few decent tunes but they are not the ones he is known for – but even Stewart has more credibility.

[naughty boy]

I tried with Mellow Yellow a couple of nights ago. It's rubbish.

[Charlie O.]

I tried with [fill in the blank] a couple of nights ago. It's rubbish.