Steve Earle & The Dukes - The Other Kind

Music video by Steve Earle & The Dukes performing The Other Kind. (C) 1990 Geffen Records

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[meeshgohns]

I remember 20 years ago Steve Earle's roadie letting me and my brother into the show for free, cause all the tickets were sold out...

We were just walking by and seen the sign and decided to stop to pay in, and the ticket guy turned us away, and a roadie let us in a side door and said "just stay in the back, enjoy the show and don't make a ruckus"...Damn Good Tunes, and Damn Good People...

Thx Bro

Fan for life

Meesh.

[mrwoodrow]

VEVO SUCKS

[darlincommitme]

@fancifulfilly

Yeah - it was when he first went to N'ville. He tells the story to Letterman in a video here - look up Lettermen and Copperhead Road.

I agree "Think it Over" sounds a lot like Holly, and anyone doing rockabilly has to have him as an influence.

[fancifulfilly]

@darlincommitme Wow! I had no idea about that! SE must have been only what, 21 or so when Elvis died. I thought "Poor Boy" sounded like Elvis's style, but don't know ir that was the one. BTW, do you think in that song "Think it Over" SE sounds quite a lot like Buddy Holly, and if that was intentional-- the Beatles idolized Buddy, (and Elvis), other rockers did too. Just wondering. BTW i don't know why all these negative remarks about the video-- I like the symbolism of the bronc riders etc.

[darlincommitme]

@fancifulfilly

There is also the story of Elvis planning to record Steve's song "Mustang Wine," but not showing up for the session and never recording again.

[darlincommitme]

@fancifulfilly I don't know if I am expert, but I have wasted far to much of my time reading interviews with him and do have a good memory for some things. I don't actually own the books but checked out the library copies.

Not sure about your question. Generally, Steve was doing rockabilly f in the early 1980s, so a few songs sound a bit like Elvis. He did an EP called Pink and Black a and then a LP that was not released until after Guitar Town. It is called "Early Tracks."

[fancifulfilly]

@darlincommitme Oh! and P.S. I forgot to say thanks for all the info. I am afraid if I post too much it'll look like I am trying to monopolize these comment pgs. and i will really piss someone off! Have a nice evening d.c.m.!

[fancifulfilly]

@darlincommitme I hope you saw my other replies, I wasn't ignoring your comments, I just forgot to direct them to you. Since you seem to be something of an expert on Steve info, maybe you could answer a Q that has been nagging at my consciousness. I read somewhere that one producer was more interested in one of Steve's songs on one of the "earl"iest albums, ha ha! that sounded--intentionally--more like Elvis's style, than any of the songs that sounded like Steve. D'ya know what song they meant?

[fancifulfilly]

@darlincommitme whoops that reply just before this was intended for you, but I forgot to direct it to you. Anyway I am impressed by your ability to recollect even the smallest details of what you read. I have what passes for a bio of Tom Petty and I read that well before my illness in '07 so I reckon that is why it is more imprinted upon my memory! Ask me something from that!! and I can likely tell you something correct.

[fancifulfilly]

Well, I did read the bio "Hard Core Troubadour", and "Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet" is kicking around this indescribable landfill my other half calls a house somewhere too, but I read them both about 5 years ago before I got ill. Thus it really remarkable I retained anything at all, my memory was so severely sabotaged by the treatment. For a while it was all I could do to remember my own salient info, much less that of a songwriter whose work I love.

[darlincommitme]

@fancifulfilly

Steve is the oldest of his siblings, but I think there are elements of himself mixed into his character songs. It is just hard at times to sort out what is him. I assume you know about the biographies. Well worth a read, though I think there are always inaccuracies. There is also a great archive of interviews on "the unofficial Steve Earle" fan site - google and it is easy to find. 

[fancifulfilly]

@darlincommitme Well, good to know... I thought the brother who went to college,etc., was his older brother.