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The Day He Played John Denvers Guitar Singer Songwriter John Ford Coley · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, John, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. Have things down shut?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, we're fired up. I want to see you
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  Speaker 1: live again. I mean it would really really make the
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  Speaker 1: circle complete because the first time that I saw you
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  Speaker 1: was on March twenty ninth, nineteen seventy eight, at the
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  Speaker 1: Metra in Billings, Montana.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, oh I remember that was with Eddie Rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: Yes it was?
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  Speaker 2: Are I correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes? Yes? Oh my god, you do.
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  Speaker 2: That photographic memory? Come in good.
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  Speaker 1: So so you're the new chat GPT just of the
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  Speaker 1: music world, then, right, I gotta tell you something, John,
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  Speaker 1: I really love this video. I can't stop watching it
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  Speaker 1: because you're giving me something that really rocks my world,
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  Speaker 1: not only as an adult, but you get you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're really touching that side of me. When I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid and I was just discovering music and you
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  Speaker 1: and Dan were there. You you were my people that
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  Speaker 1: that I knew that I could escape John Denver because
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  Speaker 1: I had you, Like John Denver, I did because I
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  Speaker 1: was from Montana. I was I was Montana and it
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  Speaker 1: was it was like and my mom and dad wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: let me listen to rock music. They said, I can
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  Speaker 1: only listen to country. And I felt like that if
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  Speaker 1: I put your records on, I wouldn't get in that
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  Speaker 1: much trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's funny, That is funny. I played John Denver's guitar,
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  Speaker 2: oh No, a couple of years ago. Wow, it was great.
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  Speaker 2: The girl that had the guitar, her dad had been
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  Speaker 2: in his attorney, so she ended up doing stuff with
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Bishop, marrying him as a matter of fact. But
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  Speaker 2: she brought one of Jones guitars out and I played
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  Speaker 2: that thing, and it was like, Wow, what what a thrill,
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  Speaker 2: What a thrill to know that he had played this guitar.
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  Speaker 1: See. I've always believed that musical instruments, as well as
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  Speaker 1: writing instruments or a pen, they all carry the personality
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  Speaker 1: of those that held it. That's why I like going
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  Speaker 1: into a junk store and picking up a pen from
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty because I know somebody else's fingerprints are on it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I am the same way. I love old antique stores,
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  Speaker 2: but it's got to be old. I mean old stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want consignments stuff. But you like fountain pins.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny because I collects those rascals.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And dude, I'm still a dipper. I
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  Speaker 1: have an ink. Well, I will sit there and dip it,
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  Speaker 1: go over to the page, dip it go because I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to ruin the bladder on the inside because
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  Speaker 1: it's it's like eighty years old.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I've got my dad and my mom's pen. They
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  Speaker 2: have a shape for pen. Dad carried that thing all
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  Speaker 2: through World War two, would write letters back and it
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  Speaker 2: was like, damn, that's that's just something you can't buy.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with john Ford Coley coming
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  Speaker 1: up next England, Dan and john Ford Coley. I'd really
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  Speaker 1: love to see you tonight celebrating fifty years. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: back to john Ford Coley. You know my freakiest thing
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  Speaker 1: is though right now, and this is such a great
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  Speaker 1: music piece. Maybe is that I buried my writing instruments
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  Speaker 1: now and I'm hoping that other people will find them
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  Speaker 1: and go, oh my god, a brand new pin. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna take it home and write with it. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: burying pins so that people will find them somewhere at
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  Speaker 1: the campsite.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh. Well, I'm meddled at tech too, so it might
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  Speaker 2: be me. I thought it would come to.
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  Speaker 1: See that would be the greatest cannet that is, like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I put it in the ground. Well I took it
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  Speaker 1: out of the ground. Let's write a song about this?
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  Speaker 2: Got so?
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  Speaker 1: Now, why is it I never heard Casey Kasem talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. You guys almost did not write or release
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  Speaker 1: if I'd really love to see you tonight, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that song has been such a staple in my life
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  Speaker 1: it never gets old.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because I'll tell you why. It was because Dan
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't like the song because we thought it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of a female song. And the real reason
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  Speaker 2: was because we fect we thought of ourselves as like
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  Speaker 2: a stamen and garfunk, so we wanted to be singer
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  Speaker 2: songwriters and known for our own writing songs as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to other people's and it just didn't work out that way.
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  Speaker 2: So when we finally released it, it was such a
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  Speaker 2: surprise to.
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  Speaker 1: Us when when it comes to you as a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't that the reason why we jump right back
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  Speaker 1: into music writing anyway? It's like, Okay, well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to emulate that song, but I want to have
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  Speaker 1: the same success because I mean, you guys are still
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  Speaker 1: on my Alexa all the dang time, because because I
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  Speaker 1: have to have the sound.
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  Speaker 2: Well, for me, it's the fact that I can't write
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  Speaker 2: two songs that sound alike. I was raised so eclectically.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I've got a brand new
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  Speaker 2: CD called Eclectic. It's about four years old now, but
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  Speaker 2: twenty six songs and not one of them sound like
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  Speaker 2: the other. I don't sit down and go, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like writing a country song today. It just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work that way. What comes out is what comes out,
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  Speaker 2: and it probably will sound more like Beethoven than it
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  Speaker 2: was a country song.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you do when you go into the
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  Speaker 1: studio and the engineer is in his room and he
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  Speaker 1: wants to offer a little bit of, you know, his imagination.
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  Speaker 1: I struggle with that because it's like you weren't with
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  Speaker 1: me when I was writing it, or do you have
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  Speaker 1: that relationship where it's like it's got to be but
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  Speaker 1: on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to be open on most I want to
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  Speaker 2: hear what she got to say, because I remember Shane
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  Speaker 2: Keister and I used to play with Shane and he
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  Speaker 2: was a keyboard player in Nashville, played with Elvis and
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  Speaker 2: everybody and us and I used to play with him
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  Speaker 2: in a band because sheelthlefob when he came in with
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  Speaker 2: another guy and played the keyboards.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well we had him play in when we played in Nashville,
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  Speaker 2: and I remember watching him and I played a thing
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  Speaker 2: on long way home and he said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: why don't she try instead of hitting this note in
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  Speaker 2: this walk up, hit this note? And I did, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like, holy cal thinks Shane, that's magical. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm really open to listening to what other people have
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  Speaker 2: to say, because again, you can't cover it all.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future, or if you come to Charlotte. We
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  Speaker 1: got to sit down and have a face to face
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  Speaker 1: with each other man, because we got to catch up
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  Speaker 1: to those nineteen seventy eight years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd love to do it. Sounds good, excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sir, okay, thank you very much, and thanks so
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  Speaker 2: much for playing our songs all these years. That's meant
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  Speaker 2: so much to us.