Daniel Johnston "Life in Vain"

You have to see this.....never underestimate what you see.
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Daniel Dale Johnston (born January 22, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas.Johnston has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. One critic writes that Johnston's recordings range from "spotty to brilliant. Johnston's musical work gained some notoriety when he moved to Austin, Texas. Johnston began to attract the attention of the local press and gain a following augmented in numbers by his habit of handing out tapes to people he met. Live performances were well-attended and hotly anticipated. His local standing led to him being featured in a 1985 episode of the MTV program The Cutting Edge featuring performers from Austin's "New Sincerity" music scene. Subsequently he performed at the 1985 Woodshock music festival in Austin, where he was featured in a short documentary of the festival, Woodshock.
Interest in Johnston increased when Kurt Cobain was regularly photographed wearing a t-shirt featuring the cover image of Johnston's Hi, How Are You album. In spite of Johnston being resident in a mental hospital at the time, a bidding war to sign him ensued. Atlantic Records won and released Fun, produced by Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers in 1994.[7]
Also in the mid-1990s, Johnston contributed two songs to the soundtrack for Larry Clark's controversial film Kids, produced by Folk Implosion and Sebadoh's frontman, Lou Barlow. Johnston later covered Schoolhouse Rock!'s "Unpack Your Adjectives" for a compilation of the popular education songs called Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996.In 2004, he released The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered, a two-disc compilation. The first disc featured Jad Fair, Eels, Bright Eyes, Calvin Johnson, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparklehorse, The Flaming Lips and Tom Waits covering songs written by Johnston. The second disc featured Johnston's original recordings of the songs.
In 2005, Texas-based theater company Infernal Bridegroom Productions received a Multi-Arts Production/MAP Fund grant to work with Johnston to create a rock opera based on his music, titled Speeding Motorcycle.
A 2005, Dutch documentary about Johnston for the TV series R.A.M. was followed in 2006 by The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary, four years in the making, collated some of the vast amount of recorded material Johnston (and in some case, others) had produced over the years to portray his life and music. The film won high praise, receiving the Director's Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The film also inspired more interest in Johnston's work and his pull as a touring artist.
Through the next few years Johnston toured extensively across the world, and continued to attract press attention. In 2008, Dick Johnston, Daniel's brother and manager, revealed that "a movie deal based on the artist's life and music had been finalized with a tentative 2011 release." He also said that a deal had been struck with the Converse company for a "signature series" Daniel Johnston shoe. Later, it was revealed by Daniel's brother Dick Johnston that Converse had dropped the plan. In late 2008, Adjustable Productions released Johnston's first concert DVD, The Angel and Daniel Johnston - Live at the Union Chapel, featuring a 2007 appearance in Islington, London.
On January 31, 2009, Daniel Johnston joined the band The Swell Season on a broadcast of Austin City Limits (previously recorded on September 28, 2008) to perform the song "Life in Vain"

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[NelsonArthiby]

This sounds EXACTLY like Neil Young. (In a good way).

[newmusicbliss11]

great stuff daniel is truely talented. 

[sirslice]

One of his best!!! I had this on my PVR.... until it packed it in. Thanks for posting.

[shordElo]

FREAKING UNBELIEVABLE!

[misledprops]

@poisonedleaves seriously!

[jasonlitherland]

he deserves that kind of stage show

[PizzaCave]

@sarae747 a genious hm?

[zenmeister451]

Magnificent! Such a lovely song. Great ending.

[im1dermike]

I prefer heart warming stories that are softer on my ears.

[poisonedleaves]

I JUST GOT THE FUCKING CHILLS!!!!!!!!