I am so happy others are remembering Steve Goodman even though he died 36 years ago now. For those new to Steve, the song that still makes me cry is "My Old Man."
I was a 20 yr old kid. Sitting with Gamble Rogers behind The Flick in Coconut Grove, FL. A guy pulled up in his van, got out and asked Gamble to listen to his song. As I understand now, Gamble was a mentor to Steve. Gamble, ever the laid back gentleman that he was, said: Steve, I think you really have something here. Even though I was young, I somehow knew that my hero wanted success for Steve,. Listening to Steve, with Gamble, that night is still one of my favorite memories. 💝
Saw Steve and Gamble a lot at the Earl Of Old Town in Chicago. That place was Stevie's home, and he made sure that Earl brought Gamble to the Earl. I was privileged, several times, to contribute bass accompaniment for Steve on many occasions. Was there when City of New Orleans was first played in public. Loved Steve like a brother!
Its been so long.......when I was a kid in the sixties I used to listen to Pete Fornatelle on WNEW FM.............when FM played albums with all the heroes of my youth. Wonderful that he had Steve Goodman singin City of new Orleans.........beautiful song and a beauiful soul...
I was standing in the kitchen with my second husband, still a wonderful friend, when I heard the news of Steve's death. I just started crying, there in that kitchen. I am blessed to have seen him at the Moore Theater in Seattle, while I was still having chemo for bone cancer. I had no idea in 1975 (or early '76) that Steve had leukemia. No idea. He performed solo for three hours, making us laugh and cry, and spreading his special kind of joy.
I was at Bumbershoot in 1984 at Jim Post's concert. He talked about visiting his buddy Steve Goodman at the UW Hospital. He said he knew that Steve would beat the cancer. So sad that he was wrong.
I remember my husband and I were in our car just off of Ridge Avenue when we heard that Stevie had died. One of those "I will never forget where I was when I heard" moments.
I found Steve Goodman through John Prine. He clearly had a huge impact on Mr. Prine as a friend and as a songwriter. His love for him showed when he spoke about him. All the way up until he passed, he was telling people about Stevie Goodman. I hope they are together again.
One of the most delightful human beings and singer/musicians who ever strode this planet ...truly a most exceptional and self deprecating man....watch him play guitar on 'Souvenirs' with John Prine and watch him play 'It's a sin to tell a lie'....what an exceptional person....and Johnny said 'The best damn train song that's ever been written' (paraphrased)
Right on , my friend. Steve Goodman was a treasure. I was fortunate to see him and John Prine together in the early 80's. Beautiful human being...the world today, needs this man's intelliigence and compassion....
John Prine joined him in heaven a couple of days ago. Miss you guys! My heart is still so hurt by the loss of JP 💔 New Orleans is suffering bad right now.
Sometime around 1980 I saw Steve Goodman perform at an inimate venue - a university pub. What a revelation that was. I had heard some of his studio recordings which really didn't appeal to me. But live with just his acoustic guitar, Steve was pure magic. A wonderful raconteur and a peerless musician. I became an instant fan. I still comb TH-cam for those grainy live clips when I need a little extra joy in my life.
More than one Road Warrior touring troubadour has said what my own early fave Loudon Wainwright III said about Steve Goodman (while Steve was very much alive and many times since Steve's "transition" to the Big Green Room in the sky): "One guy, one guitar nobody better in any room in this country..." or words to that effect from a guy like LW III who had made many a room of indifferent curiosity seekers into life-long fans and many tens and even hundreds of LW III room gigs under me belt (never once disappointed in live or any performance recording I've heard!) Since my own Mom, Z"L is like Steve "transitioned" I need to note that while she was never one to visit music clubs to hear her own faves, when she was out visiting me during my Bay Area extended adolescence and I was still reviewing shows for one or the other local Bay Area alt weekly paper or a 'zine Dirty Linen, I snagged a couple of passes to review Steve Goodman, solo headliner with an opening act of a stand-up I used to go see in my Improv Stand-Up visiting yoot as an outer borough New Yawka (Mom taught me the subway system at a very young age for to encourage my own yootful explorations). It was at San Francisco's Great American Music (or as I prefer "Muses") Hall and we got there early so were seated with another friend I dragged along for the opening act. A not very well-known (nationally or outside of the better comedy clubs then forming a solid circuit across our coast to coast to coast and Canadian bordered land....) gangly guy taking the stage with a corn-cob pipe, hat with some character and a jaw this side of Dudley Do-Right. That opening act mind-bending stand-up was soon to be "the next Johnny Carson" for those like my Mom hooked on The Tonight Show before she hit the sack for the next day's early rising day job life. Jay Leno could really go places in rooms like the ones Stevie Goodman commanded with a guitar and a witty take on humanity, the rooms that allowed full blossoming rarely if ever seen on corporate-captured U.S. broadcasting. I was glad Mom got to see some of that, what folkie Fred Neil from Coconut Grove and some winters up in Greenwich Village when he was still making records made a song out of, "That's The Other Side to This Life (We've been living....)" Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, SongPsalm Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Hearing Steve perform City of New Orleans makes me happy beyond what I can describe. What a pure talent, we lost way too soon....... Tears of happy and sad..... but both work.
This is what radio stations like New York's WNEW-FM did. The late Pete Fornatale was one of the truly best disc jockeys. Great voice, and personality. Always a natural conversationalist -- it never sounded like an interview. It was more like we were listening in to a private conversation. There is no radio station in existence today that features artists such as Steve Goodman who was just a great songwriter and wonderful person but never really was a chart-topper. But he got the attention at WNEW-FM. So did Harry Chapin when he started his telethons for hunger (he was one of the first). Goodman was friends with John Prine and he wrote some incredible songs that are still played today. Arlo Guthrie had the legendary hit with "The City of New Orleans," -- which was a train -- but it was always Steve Goodman's magical tale. They don't know how lucky they were that they managed to get Steve at this time for this interview -- considering that he passed away not much later. Steve sounds so relaxed and was obviously a great interview. There are some good reviews of Steve Goodman's recently re-released & enhanced 2 original albums with bonus tracks, and some previously unreleased live songs on the Americana Highways website.
I really appreciate everybody who's shared their experiences and memories of Steve Goodman. Reading them while listening really enhances the experience for me
Don't recall when I first discovered Steve Goodman...ended up seeing him 3 times in Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theater over the years...a wonderful human being who make you laugh, make you shed several tears from one song to the next. On a late night edition of Austin City Limits in late 1984, he was on...at the end, a freeze frame announced he had died a few months before...I never wanted my past back more than I wanted it that night...
Thanks Jim for preserving this and making it available to folks like me. Steve accompanied through my adolescence. Being able to play recordings of him starting in 1968-1969 to 1980 or so he gave me beauty and stability, and of course a huge repertoire to learned to sing and play for myself My life was settled and very good by the time he died. I was fortunate to be able to attend the memorial concert at the Arie Crown in Chicago which was very cathartic for me.
Among my favorite double slices of vinyl is that Memorial to Stevie show in the town he mythologized and I hardly got to know first hand in my travel-starved life. I was lucky to have met friends when I moved to No Cal who were cultural (and political as well as institutional corruption) connoisseurs who could be up all night mythologizing particular Chicago neighborhoods, characters and REALIST-like encounters.... So keep adding from your own well-provisioned memory spaces those moments from the Arie Crown show with all those artists who loved and often recorded Steve's legacy in song and story. Whether Cubbie fans or not! Health and balance Keep on doing! Tio Mitchito Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Thanks for sharing. Seems clear why he & Prine were natural friends. Kind talented unassuming souls. What a picker this guy was (the brilliant writing aside).
The Latin Casino in Cherry Hill NJ. Late 70's. I took my little sister, in high school, at the time to see Steve Martin. Steve Goodman was the opening act. Wow
Thank you so very much Thomas for this precious memory! I was there too, though focused on my first high school date & plaid leisure suite to remember much before the "Wild & Crazy" S. Martin. RIP Latin Casino, & its Garden State Racetrack neighbor.
Was thinking of Steve's "Show" every Easter morning on WNEW-FM, when this started playing in the autoplay. He was always something to look forward to. Strange a quarter of a century is gone since he's gone. No one has replaced him. Have the Cubs won a World Series yet?
the High Kings, a band of Irish guys (one is a son of a Clancy brother) do a killer version of the Dutchman which I was lucky to hear this year in Buffalo...also a clear favorite of mine
@@SSchus87 Whom Steve often plugged from the stage when he covered one of his songs. Smith was like 25 when he wrote this, Goodman could never understand how he captured Holland and Altzheimers so closely having never experienced them.
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Let's not forget that before Willie Nelson would be the third western gem on some terrific tours, there was Hoyt Axton! Check out the PBS Live from Chicago SoundStage with Goodman, Arlo Guthrie and their mutual friend and club-crawler tall-tale teller Hoyt Axton! th-cam.com/video/IT443tAKBU8/w-d-xo.html Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman and Hoyt Axton on "Soundstage" "619,685 views Apr 11, 2018 "This is a "Soundstage" from 11/11/74, produced at WTTW in Chicago. It was called "Arlo and Friends." The friends of Arlo Guthrie were Steve Goodman and Hoyt Axton. I love this show. Not just because I was with them all day during rehearsals and sat in the audience during the taping, but because it's a really good show. Fun fact: During the rehearsals, someone asked Stevie what he was going to play. What was he planning on playing hours from now? Are you kidding? Who knew? Stevie certainly didn't, as he was way too spontaneous for that. So he said the names of three songs, but he (and I) knew full well that would most likely change at show time. (Not that anyone else but me would care, but I show up in the audience several times. I had long black hair and was wearing a red t-shirt.)" Health and balance Keep on doing! Tio Mitchito Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Sorry, Chris, I do not know anything other than the Feb. 1984 radio interview done by Pete Fornatale. Btw, Steve Goodman wrote "Go Cubs Go" for the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Wish he could have seen them WIN the 2016 World Series!
Steve was a SPECIAL human he brought joy and yes sadness to so many when he performed. He is the epitome of how important music is to our species. I will ALWAYS love is music. He made a DIFFERENCE in my life and in MANY others I know.
Saw him a couple dozen times in Chicago clubs (left my second ever Grateful Dead show early because he and Bonnie Koloc were appearing somewhere, I'm sure they would approve) early-mid 70s and once in Fort Collins 1981. Only time I ever left work sick when I heard on the radio that someone died.
I saw Steve a number of times in my life. One that I sorely miss was no fault of mine, but a friend did tape it as it was in my old end hall lounge of my dorm a year after I graduated the university (I often made the trip back to campus when I was aware of who may be playing, though not in Steve's return). Thankfully, that friend did share his recording of that wonderful show a few years back. A few years later, I happen to catch him at the Bottom Line with some friends from the university. An interesting night as I watched Steve's performance from the bar. To the right of me a few bodies away? Loudon Wainwright III. The other way? Tom Waits who I ran into out on the street earlier. Great memories of times past.
such a lucky guy... Steve is (can't say "was") such a delightful guy. I've watched lots of videos of him and an always amazed at how "physical" he is... full of energy, life and light. And what an entertainer... it is just in his bones, from his delightful voice, funny words, spontaneous gestures and "fill ins". I miss him and I've never met him.
So listening to this not long after John Prine died due to the incompetence of our President. I saw them together once as well as Steve alone a few times.
It's a damn shame that you are that naive to believe such stupidity.....I suppose you actually have a crystal Ball that works, to make such a ridiculous assessment....then, why didn't YOU save us all from this INVISIBLE enemy? Couldn't possibly been due to the corrupt communist Chinese keeping it a secret, huh? Really, now???
Love the stories from ya'll. here's another one. Saw Steve do a show at Northern Illinois University in the mid '70s. After the show a bunch of us went to the local bar for a few. Steve came in for one for the road back to Chicago. The bartender asked him to do a song but he said he didn't have his guitar. Well, the bartender produced an old Kay Silvertone from behind the bar. You know that kind of axe, about 50 bucks at Sears! He finger picked that sucker for about half an hour and did several tunes. He made that old junk guitar sing. I still love his music and get teary on certain songs.
i remember hearing this when it first aired. i would give my right arm to have some of the fornatale interviews from back then. do you know if they're available anywhere?
oneinamillonion man Maine East High School is all I could find. But Hillary said “Steve used his talents to really make people happy, make them laugh” and that “you were always glad to see Steve coming down the hall “. That I believe!😁
oneinamillonion man And when she ran for class president, Steve played music for her rival and the rival won haha... read that in an article. Apparently Hillary still adored Steve
@@Jonni1027Maine East guess that doesn't nesasarally mean the state of. Thought both were Chicago people but Thanks that's interesting now his buddy John Prine it's sad
I am so happy others are remembering Steve Goodman even though he died 36 years ago now. For those new to Steve, the song that still makes me cry is "My Old Man."
Same here. Anyone who had a loving father HAS to be moved to tears by that Ode To Pop.
Glad to have found this interview, sadly it's following John Prines passing. RIP Steve and John..
Same here...
love this song, for my mother and grandfather, both worked in the offices Illinois Central Railroad in Paducah, Kentucky during my youth
awesome
So sad listening to Steve but on the other hand such a pleasure that we can listen to his voice talking about life, 👏
Steve Goodman always lightens my soul and I am sure I am not the only one who has been affected in this way. One of a kind.
Amen brother.
I was a 20 yr old kid. Sitting with Gamble Rogers behind The Flick in Coconut Grove, FL. A guy pulled up in his van, got out and asked Gamble to listen to his song. As I understand now, Gamble was a mentor to Steve.
Gamble, ever the laid back gentleman that he was, said: Steve, I think you really have something here. Even though I was young, I somehow knew that my hero wanted success for Steve,.
Listening to Steve, with Gamble, that night is still one of my favorite memories.
💝
Saw Steve and Gamble a lot at the Earl Of Old Town in Chicago. That place was Stevie's home, and he made sure that Earl brought Gamble to the Earl. I was privileged, several times, to contribute bass accompaniment for Steve on many occasions. Was there when City of New Orleans was first played in public. Loved Steve like a brother!
I never saw Steve but Gamble was a special friend. When I was with him, I just wanted to soak him in.
Its been so long.......when I was a kid in the sixties I used to listen to Pete Fornatelle on WNEW FM.............when FM played albums with all the heroes of my youth. Wonderful that he had Steve Goodman singin City of new Orleans.........beautiful song and a beauiful soul...
Along with Scott Muney and Allison Steele ( the Night Bird). LSD Hotline letting people know what was out there, good and bad
I was standing in the kitchen with my second husband, still a wonderful friend, when I heard the news of Steve's death. I just started crying, there in that kitchen. I am blessed to have seen him at the Moore Theater in Seattle, while I was still having chemo for bone cancer. I had no idea in 1975 (or early '76) that Steve had leukemia. No idea. He performed solo for three hours, making us laugh and cry, and spreading his special kind of joy.
I was at Bumbershoot in 1984 at Jim Post's concert. He talked about visiting his buddy Steve Goodman at the UW Hospital. He said he knew that Steve would beat the cancer. So sad that he was wrong.
What a gift.
Bon courage à toi.
That's French saying I hope you have good courage. It works better in French, but please accept the wishes behind it.
I remember my husband and I were in our car just off of Ridge Avenue when we heard that Stevie had died. One of those "I will never forget where I was when I heard" moments.
Gail, I was there too. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
22 and just discovered this legend I wish he were still around 😢
I found Steve Goodman through John Prine. He clearly had a huge impact on Mr. Prine as a friend and as a songwriter. His love for him showed when he spoke about him. All the way up until he passed, he was telling people about Stevie Goodman. I hope they are together again.
One of the most delightful human beings and singer/musicians who ever strode this planet ...truly a most exceptional and self deprecating man....watch him play guitar on 'Souvenirs' with John Prine and watch him play 'It's a sin to tell a lie'....what an exceptional person....and Johnny said 'The best damn train song that's ever been written' (paraphrased)
Right on , my friend. Steve Goodman was a treasure. I was fortunate to see him and John Prine together in the early 80's. Beautiful human being...the world today, needs this man's intelliigence and compassion....
Yep, he touched many, that's for sure! His peers glow when asked about him...
John Prine joined him in heaven a couple of days ago. Miss you guys! My heart is still so hurt by the loss of JP 💔 New Orleans is suffering bad right now.
He does Souvenirs on Part 2 of this interview and it's amazing! I love his and John's duet version as well.
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Sometime around 1980 I saw Steve Goodman perform at an inimate venue - a university pub. What a revelation that was. I had heard some of his studio recordings which really didn't appeal to me. But live with just his acoustic guitar, Steve was pure magic. A wonderful raconteur and a peerless musician. I became an instant fan. I still comb TH-cam for those grainy live clips when I need a little extra joy in my life.
More than one Road Warrior touring troubadour has said what my own early fave Loudon Wainwright III said about Steve Goodman (while Steve was very much alive and many times since Steve's "transition" to the Big Green Room in the sky):
"One guy, one guitar nobody better in any room in this country..." or words to that effect from a guy like LW III who had made many a room of indifferent curiosity seekers into life-long fans and many tens and even hundreds of LW III room gigs under me belt (never once disappointed in live or any performance recording I've heard!)
Since my own Mom, Z"L is like Steve "transitioned" I need to note that while she was never one to visit music clubs to hear her own faves, when she was out visiting me during my Bay Area extended adolescence and I was still reviewing shows for one or the other local Bay Area alt weekly paper or a 'zine Dirty Linen, I snagged a couple of passes to review Steve Goodman, solo headliner with an opening act of a stand-up I used to go see in my Improv Stand-Up visiting yoot as an outer borough New Yawka (Mom taught me the subway system at a very young age for to encourage my own yootful explorations). It was at San Francisco's Great American Music (or as I prefer "Muses") Hall and we got there early so were seated with another friend I dragged along for the opening act.
A not very well-known (nationally or outside of the better comedy clubs then forming a solid circuit across our coast to coast to coast and Canadian bordered land....) gangly guy taking the stage with a corn-cob pipe, hat with some character and a jaw this side of Dudley Do-Right. That opening act mind-bending stand-up was soon to be "the next Johnny Carson" for those like my Mom hooked on The Tonight Show before she hit the sack for the next day's early rising day job life.
Jay Leno could really go places in rooms like the ones Stevie Goodman commanded with a guitar and a witty take on humanity, the rooms that allowed full blossoming rarely if ever seen on corporate-captured U.S. broadcasting. I was glad Mom got to see some of that, what folkie Fred Neil from Coconut Grove and some winters up in Greenwich Village when he was still making records made a song out of,
"That's The Other Side to This Life (We've been living....)"
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Such a gentle fragile soul, so missed.
Hearing Steve perform City of New Orleans makes me happy beyond what I can describe. What a pure talent, we lost way too soon....... Tears of happy and sad..... but both work.
What a wonderful talent. Thank you Steve!! 🙏🏻
This is what radio stations like New York's WNEW-FM did. The late Pete Fornatale was one of the truly best disc jockeys. Great voice, and personality. Always a natural conversationalist -- it never sounded like an interview. It was more like we were listening in to a private conversation.
There is no radio station in existence today that features artists such as Steve Goodman who was just a great songwriter and wonderful person but never really was a chart-topper. But he got the attention at WNEW-FM. So did Harry Chapin when he started his telethons for hunger (he was one of the first).
Goodman was friends with John Prine and he wrote some incredible songs that are still played today.
Arlo Guthrie had the legendary hit with "The City of New Orleans," -- which was a train -- but it was always Steve Goodman's magical tale. They don't know how lucky they were that they managed to get Steve at this time for this interview -- considering that he passed away not much later.
Steve sounds so relaxed and was obviously a great interview. There are some good reviews of Steve Goodman's recently re-released & enhanced 2 original albums with bonus tracks, and some previously unreleased live songs on the Americana Highways website.
I really appreciate everybody who's shared their experiences and memories of Steve Goodman. Reading them while listening really enhances the experience for me
I love his singing and his song writing. The best!
Don't recall when I first discovered Steve Goodman...ended up seeing him 3 times in Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theater over the years...a wonderful human being who make you laugh, make you shed several tears from one song to the next. On a late night edition of Austin City Limits in late 1984, he was on...at the end, a freeze frame announced he had died a few months before...I never wanted my past back more than I wanted it that night...
Thanks Jim for preserving this and making it available to folks like me. Steve accompanied through my adolescence. Being able to play recordings of him starting in 1968-1969 to 1980 or so he gave me beauty and stability, and of course a huge repertoire to learned to sing and play for myself My life was settled and very good by the time he died. I was fortunate to be able to attend the memorial concert at the Arie Crown in Chicago which was very cathartic for me.
Among my favorite double slices of vinyl is that Memorial to Stevie show in the town he mythologized and I hardly got to know first hand in my travel-starved life. I was lucky to have met friends when I moved to No Cal who were cultural (and political as well as institutional corruption) connoisseurs who could be up all night mythologizing particular Chicago neighborhoods, characters and REALIST-like encounters....
So keep adding from your own well-provisioned memory spaces those moments from the Arie Crown show with all those artists who loved and often recorded Steve's legacy in song and story. Whether Cubbie fans or not!
Health and balance
Keep on doing!
Tio Mitchito
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Thanks for sharing. Seems clear why he & Prine were natural friends. Kind talented unassuming souls. What a picker this guy was (the brilliant writing aside).
The Latin Casino in Cherry Hill NJ. Late 70's. I took my little sister, in high school, at the time to see Steve Martin. Steve Goodman was the opening act. Wow
Thank you so very much Thomas for this precious memory! I was there too, though focused on my first high school date & plaid leisure suite to remember much before the "Wild & Crazy" S. Martin. RIP Latin Casino, & its Garden State Racetrack neighbor.
Somehow I'm thinking Steve Goodman was as hard an act to follow
for comedians as he was for other singer/songwriters
I saw Steve Goodman in Chicago in 1982 with my friend Pete. Both of them would be gone too young within 5 years. May God bless them both.
Was thinking of Steve's "Show" every Easter morning on WNEW-FM, when this started playing in the autoplay. He was always something to look forward to. Strange a quarter of a century is gone since he's gone. No one has replaced him. Have the Cubs won a World Series yet?
So glad to have come across this! Very connecting.....
He filled us with light and hope!
Time won't forget this talented soul. If it does, time is stupid.
I agree with your sentiment, but the REAL party to be blamed for that crime would be the generation that let itself forget Steve.
@@demef758 True that.
You can hear in his voice he didn't have long! So sad we lost him so soon. One of the true greats!
Saw him at Sangamon Auditorium in Springfield IL loved the concert it was special!
Steve had a super sense of humour, and a delightful way of putting it to use.
What a nice guy, just only really getting to know your songs and I love it, good night Steve ❤️
How incredible, thanks.
Thanks for the music Steve, GOD bless!
Never realized al the songs that are my favorites
he wrote - -
This Man...National Treasure
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"The Dutchman": remains one of my favorite songs.
For sure...
That was written by Michael Peter Smith, also from Chicago.
the High Kings, a band of Irish guys (one is a son of a Clancy brother) do a killer version of the Dutchman which I was lucky to hear this year in Buffalo...also a clear favorite of mine
@@SSchus87 Whom Steve often plugged from the stage when he covered one of his songs. Smith was like 25 when he wrote this, Goodman could never understand how he captured Holland and Altzheimers so closely having never experienced them.
Thank you for sharing this.
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This guy was fantastic. The good die young.
Steve Goodman, Arlo G, Willie N. Great trio.,
Let's not forget that before Willie Nelson would be the third western gem on some terrific tours, there was Hoyt Axton! Check out the PBS Live from Chicago SoundStage with Goodman, Arlo Guthrie and their mutual friend and club-crawler
tall-tale teller Hoyt Axton!
th-cam.com/video/IT443tAKBU8/w-d-xo.html
Arlo Guthrie, Steve Goodman and Hoyt Axton on "Soundstage"
"619,685 views Apr 11, 2018
"This is a "Soundstage" from 11/11/74, produced at WTTW in Chicago. It was called "Arlo and Friends." The friends of Arlo Guthrie were Steve Goodman and Hoyt Axton. I love this show. Not just because I was with them all day during rehearsals and sat in the audience during the taping, but because it's a really good show. Fun fact: During the rehearsals, someone asked Stevie what he was going to play. What was he planning on playing hours from now? Are you kidding? Who knew? Stevie certainly didn't, as he was way too spontaneous for that. So he said the names of three songs, but he (and I) knew full well that would most likely change at show time. (Not that anyone else but me would care, but I show up in the audience several times. I had long black hair and was wearing a red t-shirt.)"
Health and balance
Keep on doing!
Tio Mitchito
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Thank you
Thank you, Jim.
Just one thing, this was recorded on February 2, 1984, airing Feb. 26, 1984. The same year in which Steve passed away... not in 1982
Patricia Valentine ?
Patricia Valentine do you have any idea where a video interview with Steve might be? it's old will probably be not that long before he died.
Sorry, Chris, I do not know anything other than the Feb. 1984 radio interview done by Pete Fornatale. Btw, Steve Goodman wrote "Go Cubs Go" for the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Wish he could have seen them WIN the 2016 World Series!
Thanks Patricia. I have searched the web and no luck. Yes, he was a big Cubs fan.
He did!
Wonderful!!! A great talent whose career was, very sadly cut short....
Steve was a SPECIAL human he brought joy and yes sadness to so many when he performed. He is the epitome of how important music is to our species. I will ALWAYS love is music. He made a DIFFERENCE in my life and in MANY others I know.
Saw him a couple dozen times in Chicago clubs (left my second ever Grateful Dead show early because he and Bonnie Koloc were appearing somewhere, I'm sure they would approve) early-mid 70s and once in Fort Collins 1981. Only time I ever left work sick when I heard on the radio that someone died.
Fantastic songwriter way up there in the top!! WITH ICONIC others.
Thank You . . . 1 Eye . . . .
Leonardprovost a great talented artist never got appreciated while alive.
Nah I saw him a few times and believe me he felt the love! Incredible performer. Won over every audience every time.
Bigger than the Beatles in Chicago in the 70s.
Awesomeness!!
Love that T.V. song buying what's on the t.v
I saw Steve a number of times in my life. One that I sorely miss was no fault of mine, but a friend did tape it as it was in my old end hall lounge of my dorm a year after I graduated the university (I often made the trip back to campus when I was aware of who may be playing, though not in Steve's return). Thankfully, that friend did share his recording of that wonderful show a few years back.
A few years later, I happen to catch him at the Bottom Line with some friends from the university. An interesting night as I watched Steve's performance from the bar. To the right of me a few bodies away? Loudon Wainwright III. The other way? Tom Waits who I ran into out on the street earlier.
Great memories of times past.
such a lucky guy... Steve is (can't say "was") such a delightful guy. I've watched lots of videos of him and an always amazed at how "physical" he is... full of energy, life and light. And what an entertainer... it is just in his bones, from his delightful voice, funny words, spontaneous gestures and "fill ins". I miss him and I've never met him.
So listening to this not long after John Prine died due to the incompetence of our President. I saw them together once as well as Steve alone a few times.
the president didn't kill John
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@@birdfever the hell he didnt. He didnt do his job, it's that simple. Many more will die because of his incompetence.
greenhometony If someone gets this virus, they were the incompetent one. Stay safe. Don't be incompetent.
It's a damn shame that you are that naive to believe such stupidity.....I suppose you actually have a crystal Ball that works, to make such a ridiculous assessment....then, why didn't YOU save us all from this INVISIBLE enemy? Couldn't possibly been due to the corrupt communist Chinese keeping it a secret, huh? Really, now???
It’s from Feb 1984, not 1982. OTT, thanks for posting.
alls I can say is "thanks,-a Hell of a lot"-tbc
Such a legend
Love the stories from ya'll. here's another one. Saw Steve do a show at Northern Illinois University in the mid '70s.
After the show a bunch of us went to the local bar for a few. Steve came in for one for the road back to Chicago. The bartender asked him to do a song but he said he didn't have his guitar. Well, the bartender produced an old Kay Silvertone from behind the bar. You know that kind of axe, about 50 bucks at Sears! He finger picked that sucker for about half an hour and did several tunes. He made that old junk guitar sing. I still love his music and get teary on certain songs.
wow lucky you, i think i'm in love w/ this guy, i just wish so much he was still here, as if wishing would make it so.
why don´t you put the correct year (1984) into the vid titel? it´s mentioned right at the beginning of this take by the interviewer.
Steve was a tremendous talent, some stars burn out early
More proof that the thumbs down is way too close to the thumbs up , people hit it in their hurry to hit like !
Did they ever succeed in freeing Pete Fornatale's interviews and shows for re-listen now? This was an issue.
i remember hearing this when it first aired. i would give my right arm to have some of the fornatale interviews from back then. do you know if they're available anywhere?
Steve wrote " City of New Orleans"... not Arlo Guthrie.
he definately should be on a postage stamp
Listen...just listen..
Where can I find a copy of this photo?
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1984
The announcer says this was 1984
Six Flags over Burbank! LOL
What a line....🙂
I have another recording where he sang it Six Flags over Jesus 😊
time warp...aired two years before it was recorded...
adam glover He spun the Earth backwards
1984 NOT 1982. important since Steve dies in 84.
You can hear in his voice that Steve was a bit less "up" than usual here, and for good reason. Sigh ....
Saw Steve about 5 times and each time was epic. Bill Clinton is still a big fan of Steve Goodman (and trivia: Steve went to high school with Hillary)
High school with Hillary, Wow! Bet they knew of each other even if they never met.What school?
oneinamillonion man Maine East High School is all I could find. But Hillary said “Steve used his talents to really make people happy, make them laugh” and that “you were always glad to see Steve coming down the hall “. That I believe!😁
oneinamillonion man And when she ran for class president, Steve played music for her rival and the rival won haha... read that in an article. Apparently Hillary still adored Steve
@@Jonni1027Maine East guess that doesn't nesasarally mean the state of. Thought both were Chicago people but Thanks that's interesting now his buddy John Prine it's sad
@@Jonni1027 He knew she was evil back then! I knew her drivers ed teacher and he said she was a bitch at 15
What a gift to humanity, and we be needings our gifts since them Democrats ain't giving them to us.
And the MAGA dicks will ? Grow up.
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RIP ✡️✡️