Posted by Jim Moran
on 10/24/2009, 2:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Eagles Member Takes Flight With Solo Album - KT & Nick Reynolds Mentioned "
Thanks Curt - I just incorporated this as a source or reference in the KT on Wiki - my only previous source for Scmitt being influenced by the Trio was the newspaper High Plains Leader - a fine publication, but not the NYT/Reuters.
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: Here is an excerpt from Dean Goodman's myspace blog with a more extensive quote from
: Timothy B. Schmit about the Trio and Nick Reynolds.
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: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=21957627&blogId=513967236
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: AND YOU TALK ABOUT THE KINGSTON TRIO IN "WHITE BOY FROM SACRAMENTO"
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: The first singing group I was in, we were such fans of the Kingston Trio that we
: dressed exactly like them and sang their songs. In fact I just found a really great
: picture. We're rehearsing for our first gig and I'm 14 years old. I'm looking at it
: right now because I've gotta put it on my Web site. And I'm playing a tenor guitar
: just like Nick Reynolds of the Kingston Trio did. About 6 months before Nick
: Reynolds died (in October 2008), I finally got to meet him. I became friends with he
: and his wife. He was pretty ill and somewhat incapacitated, but he was the sweetest
: guy. I have his tenor guitar right in my studio here, sort of on indefinite loan for
: me to keep. It's the same guitar that played on "Tom Dooley," some of
: those old hits. Don't get me started! They were definitely a big influence on me.
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: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/10/13/arts/entertainment-us-eagles.html
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: October 13, 2009
: Eagles Member Takes Flight With Solo Album
: By REUTERS
: Filed at 3:14 p.m. ET
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: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He's the Eagle who isn't Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe
: Walsh.
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: That would be Timothy B. Schmit, the bass player who joined the mega-selling rock
: band in time to record one album before it broke up in 1980, a split that left him
: "pretty shocked."
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: To make matters worse, he was undergoing a divorce at the time, and he struggled to
: stay afloat in the ensuing decade as he rebuilt his life with a new family.
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: No job was too small for his ageless tenor vocal and multi-instrumental prowess.
: Japanese albums. Records for Twisted Sister and Poison. Tours with Toto and Jimmy
: Buffett.
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: He released three solo albums before the Eagles reunited in 1994. A fourth followed
: in 2001, and his fifth one comes out next Tuesday through Lost Highway Records,
: making him the only Eagle to release any solo discs this millennium.
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: Schmit, 61, recorded "Expando" on his own dime at his home studio in Los
: Angeles during breaks from the Eagles, who have been on the road on and off since
: May last year.
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: He recruited some high-profile friends for select tracks, including Graham Nash,
: Dwight Yoakam and Kid Rock on background vocals; blues guitarists Kenny Wayne
: Shepherd and Keb' Mo'; Van Dyke Parks on accordion; Gary Burton on vibes; and
: keyboardists Garth Hudson of the Band and Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers.
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: "ORGANIC" RECORDING
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: Unlike the 2007 Eagles album "Long Road Out Of Eden," for which Schmit
: co-wrote the title track, the recording was not done through the exchange of email
: files.
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: "As corny as it sounds, I wanted to keep it as organic as possible,"
: Schmit told Reuters in a recent interview. "Everybody who did appear on the
: record came through my studio doors here."
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: That includes the Blind Boys of Alabama, who showed up in their van -- someone else
: was driving -- singing along to a Schmit demo that was blasting from their CD
: player.
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: Schmit deliberately did not involve his fellow Eagles on the project, in part
: because he viewed it as a modest hobby with "zero pressure." Also, his
: bandmates scatter to the four winds when they're off the clock.
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: Even though Schmit cut his teeth in the country rock genre, first with the Buffalo
: Springfield offshoot Poco and then in a watered-down hugely commercial fashion with
: the Eagles, "Expando" showcases his first love: folk music. As the
: comically funky autobiographical track "White Boy From Sacramento" goes,
: "I think the Kingston Trio is so gear."
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: "The first singing group I was in, we were such fans of the Kingston Trio that
: we dressed exactly like them and sang their songs," he recalled, pulling out a
: photo of his 14-year-old self rehearsing for his group's first gig. "Don't get
: me started! They were definitely a big influence on me."
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: Schmit befriended Kingston Trio co-founder Nick Reynolds in the six months before he
: died last October, and is the proud guardian of the tenor guitar that Reynolds
: played on such hits as "Tom Dooley."
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: Schmit veers toward the introspective on such tunes as "Compassion,"
: "Melancholy" and "Downtime." And he croons sweet nothings to his
: wife of 25 years in "Ella Jean," not that it gets him out of doing the
: dishes.
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: "She's not particularly impressed, in general," he said. "The first
: night I met her, I asked her if she wanted to hear some music. She said, 'Sure.' She
: thought I was going to play her some tapes or something. Well, I picked up the
: guitar and started singing. She was so unimpressed, which completely attracted
: me."
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: He makes it a family affair on "White Boy From Sacramento," which features
: lead guitar from his youngest son Ben, a 19-year-old student at the Berklee College
: of Music in Boston.
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: With the Eagles off the road until "some time next year," Schmit will hit
: the road with a small band to play a selection of club shows, beginning Wednesday in
: Los Angeles.
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: "I don't have a big solo record of hits," he said. "I'm going to hit
: this album a lot, and hopefully have a good time doing it."
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: (Editing by Jill Serjeant)
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