The WELL: deadsongs.vue.90: He Was A Friend Of Mine

#20: Earl Crabb (esoft) Sun 15 May 11 08:07

Sun, 15 May 2011 08:07:00 PDT

Yeah, what's in Broadside is different from the von Schmidt song.

In 1963, Mark had tho other side of house I lived in in Cambridge. Sometime that year I played him the tape I made of Dylan in May, 1961, singing the von Schmidt song, crediting von Schmidt in his introduction. [Read entire topic]

#19: Tim Lynch (masonskids) Sun 15 May 11 01:14

Sun, 15 May 2011 01:14:00 PDT

Here is Broadside issue 49...

http://www.broadsidemagazine.com/All/49.pdf [Read entire topic]

#18: Alex Allan (alexallan) Mon 3 Mar 08 13:57

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:57:00 PST

I discovered that the Mark Spoelstra album "Five And Tweny Questions" has been issued on CD and got myself a copy. It gives a few more details. The song was written as an elegy for a young boy called David Anthony Lee, who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in the community where Spoeltra lived. Spoelstra says it was performed by Joan Baez and nearly recorded by Joan Collins for an album, so it's possible one of those was the route via which Garcia learnt it. [Read entire topic]

#17: Earl Crabb (esoft) Tue 27 Sep 05 10:13

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:13:00 PDT

cool! I'll be in the city this week, will try to get to the library! [Read entire topic]

#16: David Dodd (ddodd) Tue 27 Sep 05 09:48

Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:48:00 PDT

San Francisco Public Library has a complete run of Broadside. I could request this article, I guess, unless someone lives there and could just walk in and ask for it! [Read entire topic]

#15: Earl Crabb (esoft) Sun 25 Sep 05 13:53

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:53:00 PDT

I don't, but would love to see it if any else has. My comments in #12 were taken from email from Mark that he sent that day. It would be great to compare that to what he might have said in Broadside! I suspect it would be close. I'll ask Mark if he's got a copy. [Read entire topic]

#14: Alex Allan (alexallan) Sun 25 Sep 05 09:59

Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:59:00 PDT

The liner notes for the "Kathy and Carol" album say that "Mark Spoelstra's comments about the song can be found in Broadside, Issue No. 49" if anyone has access to that. [Read entire topic]

#13: Earl Crabb (esoft) Thu 22 Sep 05 10:41

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:41:00 PDT

er...influenced _by_, not _on_. [Read entire topic]

#12: Earl Crabb (esoft) Thu 22 Sep 05 01:53

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 01:53:00 PDT

Mark says he wrote it after he left Cambridge, when he was in Fresno doing alternative service, in 1964. It's partly influenced on the van Ronk song, but with an entirely different theme, based on a true story. [Read entire topic]

#11: Alex Allan (alexallan) Tue 20 Sep 05 14:32

Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:32:00 PDT

Not that I can discover. It only seems to be available on the 1965 LP. [Read entire topic]