![]() There’s something I’ve done with the sounds that come out of my guitar. It’s not just a guy with an acoustic guitar and vocal. So in the concerts, what I do is this: Don’t think it’s just a folk sound that you’re gonna hear. Mickie Most knew how to do it, and I learned. Can you imagine “Hurdy Gurdy Man” with a personal vocal and a personal guitar sound? It’s not easy to do. He knew instinctively, and really, it’s very important. When I made the Sutras album with Rick Rubin in ’96, he knew that he had to make the personal Donovan sound. My sound is very personal and it’s very difficult to make a personal sound in the studio, but Mickie Most and I created it and I continued it.ĭid you approach your later albums the same way you did when you were with Mickie? If you want to sit at home and have a joint or a glass of wine, or just a cup of tea, and listen to the Donovan sounds that I made, and continue to make-my website is full of extraordinary new things-then you can. My fans have got the records they’re all available. He’s just a monster-he doesn’t mind rehearsing for 20 weeks, and getting it right. When I’ve been to Paul McCartney’s recent shows, it’s important that you hear all those sounds. When I thought of the 50th I realized if I’m going to take on the road enough musicians to play every sound I made in the studio, it’s going to be difficult-I would need a 10-piece band. So you might say acoustic guitar is everything, really. Buddy Holly was sitting in a Greenwich Village apartment just before he died-with an acoustic guitar. All my songs are created solo or in duo, and then they’re arranged and rehearsed and then they’re recorded in the studio and produced. There’s something magic about playing live. Something happens every night, something that didn’t happen the night before and certainly won’t happen again. Watch the young Donovan singing “Mellow Yellow” What I love about my 50th anniversary is playing live. But Elvis Presley’s first single was acoustic guitar and bass. You might say “Catch the Wind” and “Colours” and “Universal Soldier” were folk. ![]() Maybe he’d do a few sketches beforehand but after he made that statement, he was not really interested anymore in that. When you heard a Donovan single, you said, “Who the hell’s that?” Especially “Barabajagal.” “Mellow Yellow” was off the wall for a lot of people but a lot of painters in the modern world don’t repeat themselves. “Mellow Yellow” is a color, of course, and the whole idea of not doing the same single again and again, to me, was that when you heard a Beatles single you would know that’s the Beatles. Why were they all so different? I displayed more of the painterly, the artist mode, although George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts all could paint. Foo Fighters Introduce New Drummer as Busy 2023 Begins.Doobie Brothers’ 50th Anniversary Tour to Continue Without Tom Johnston.Elliott Landy on His Famed Bob Dylan ‘Infrared’ Photo.Nick Lowe’s ‘Labour of Lust’: The Basher Blossoms. ![]() Radio Hits of May 1966: ‘Monday, Monday’.Jeff Beck Tribute Concert Led By Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart.Waddy Wachtel on Touring With Stevie Nicks.Paul Simon Confronts Mortality on ‘Seven Psalms’: Review.Remembering ‘The Midnight Special’: Rock Edition.Tina Turner Is Mourned By Fellow Music Legends.Pete Townshend’s ‘Empty Glass’: The Who Album That Wasn’t.11 Classic Rock Driving Songs: Reader Favorites.Tina Turner on Phil Spector, ‘Tommy,’ Touring With the Stones and Being a Sex Goddess.Desmond Dekker’s ‘Israelites’-Admit It, You Don’t Know the Lyrics.The ‘Lucky 13’ #1 Albums of 1968: Bookended by The Beatles. ![]()
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