I came across an old favorite song on Spotify recently - "Part Of The Plan" by Dan Fogelberg. So I remember that one as a real good time. as far as not just being the kid anymore, but being one of the guys. So I got to work with a lot of my heroes on that record. And Walsh just called him and he came down, and here I had him and Al Perkins from Manassas and Graham Nash came in. And I was just drooling to work with this guy. I always looked up to Russell immensely from his James Taylor and Carole King work. The thing that I'm most proud of with that record is that it opened the door to the people I wanted to work with. They were all over that record, we were buddies and we were touring. What does your second album, Souvenirs, represent to you?Ī. rock treasure.ĭan Fogelberg Interview by Lydia Hutchinson Many of you may be familiar with all this, but it was news to me. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner (The Eagles), Gerry Beckley (America), and one of the engineers - Bill Szymczyk (Hotel California).
I was gobsmacked to find Joe Walsh on 12 string guitar, Kenny Passarelli on bass (Elton John, Joe Walsh, Stephen Stills, etc.), Russ Kunkel on drums (Joni Mitchell, Carole King, James Taylor, etc.), and none other than Graham Nash on supporting vocals - just on that one track alone.Īnd then I saw the rest of the band members on the album. So I started with the song's background and production team. But didn't know much about Dan, other than the typical easy listening FM hits. There was also a Friday Music reissue in 2016. It's on "Souvenirs," which is relatively inexpensive on the secondary market. So of course, I started looking for it on vinyl. Great tune, and always reminds me of skateboarding those big hills in Northern California in middle school. With all of this said, I'm still looking forward to hearing this box set, partially out of curiosity, and partially, because I know that even without Dan, America could still pull off some beautiful harmony vocals.I came across an old favorite song on Sirius XM recently - "Part Of The Plan" by Dan Fogelberg. but I do get that after his Christian conversion, he was moving in a different direction, in many ways, than his bandmates, and vice versa. It's too bad that they weren't able to come to an agreement where he could have stayed in the band. Joe, I do agree with you, in your second reply to me, that at least from the little that I've heard of the post-Dan Peek America, the band did seem to lose a crucial ingredient in their songwriting when he left. If you don't even like the Capitol years of America at all, then why would you even spend any time at all answering, in the negative, a sincere question on a thread about that era, regarding your favorite album from that era? It's truly perplexing to me why anyone would take the time to do that, but then, there are many things that I don't understand in this world! To everyone else who has replied to my question thus far, this thread is explicitly about the Capitol years of America (it's literally in the subject title, lol!), so that's why I was asking for peoples' favorite album from that era. What is your favorite album from these years? I've never heard most of this material and can't wait to do so!Ĭlick to expand.Joe, thank you for your helpful answers to my question, where were exactly what I was looking for when I asked!
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However, knowing that they lost much of their "mass audience" after Dan Peek left the band, I never thought I would ever see the day when a full box of their Capitol albums (on CD) would be released, but I am so happy to have been proven wrong!
box set, two years ago, for me to fully understand and appreciate just how great this band is! I still can't stop playing those albums. Wonderful memories of "Tin Man" and so many other great songs! As a teenager in the late '80s, I bought History on CD and loved it and played it to death, which was interesting, given that at that time, I was deeply into very heavy, serious metal (such as the first few Slayer albums) and hardcore punk (Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and more)! I did not talk to my metal and punk friends about liking the band, America, because they likely would not have understood at all! (We are all much older and wiser now.)Īnyway, it took buying the Warner Bros. albums when they were originally released, but even as a small child, I loved the hit singles from the radio. I was much too young to be able to buy and explore the Warner Bros.
I'm not very familiar at all with the Capitol years of this band, beyond "You Can Do Magic," and recently, hearing a tiny bit of Silent Letter, which I liked quite a bit, so I can't wait to hear more!
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Yesterday, I ordered this box for $33, brand-new, from Bull Moose ( great music and movie site which could really use peoples' support right now!) and am really looking forward to hearing it.
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