Townes would have loved the Dude. Only Townes could cover a Stones song and make it his own. RIP Townes, a Texas star that burned so bright and too short of a life.
.. back in 2010, late November my Aorta blew apart on a Saturday.. around noon. they call it a type A aortic dissection and it kills dudes at least 80% of the time, if not immediately, then during surgery.... a week later, after the open heart surgery, they were finally successful in waking me up for a couple of minutes.... My angel said that my family were all worried sick and waiting with bated breath to know how I was doing.... if I was gonna live... She asked What can I tell them. I said I love you baby. Tell them the dude abides...smiled and fell into sleep again... Thank you dude, for the smiles and good feelings. We love you man. Townes, brother, the same is true for you.
From a Rolling Stone article on how T. Bone Burnett secured the rights to this song: A tougher get was Townes Van Zandt’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” which plays over Lebowski‘s closing credits. “[Former Stones manager] Allen Klein owns the rights to it,” Burnett says. “He wanted $150,000.” Burnett begged Klein to just come down and watch an early cut of Lebowski. “It got to the part where the Dude says, ‘I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!’ Klein stands up and says, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’ That was beautiful.” For the record, Burnett agrees with the Dude (“[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then,” he says), but the line infuriated Glenn Frey. “I ran into [Frey] and he gave me some shit,” Jeff Bridges says. “I can’t remember what he said exactly, but my anus tightened a bit.”
This cover of the Stones hit, Dead Flowers, is a Townes Van Zandt masterpiece, no one else can top Townes. The Coen Brothers were wise to have this song to end The Big Lebowski or The Dude movie, as I call it, lol 😂I am a huge fan of TVZ, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steven Buschemi, Julienne Moore, everyone in that movie, especially Jesus 😅Just recently got a beautiful new persian rug that really ties the room together.❤ Watched The Big Lebowski last week, again, can never get tired of this movie, or Townes Van Zandt ❤❤❤
I love when I hear Townes in a random show or film..I've heard his stuff in at least 2 tv shows and 4 movies. Sometimes I like the fact it ain't so well known...even though he is clearly the greatest ever. Hell of Wheels used Waitin' around to Die...really cool version from his Far Cry From Dead album.
I sat up alone in my almost completely empty bedroom with just a mattress and small bedside drawer one night, spent my last money on a bottle of Kahlua, very shitty vodka ($22 AUD) and milk, and watched this drinking White Russians all night. Felt more wholesome then I have in a long night. Live your best life friends.
Watch this vid about 4 times a week. Takes me into the vibe of the movie's ending every time. Sometimes, you just have to abide. Had a conversation with a friend today who dreams about owning an orchard one day. She said "Did I tell you, I came up with a name! Abiding Orchards." I told her it was excellent. To me it meant an orchard that abides by the laws of creation. Didn't realize until I got home that she was actually thinking about the adjective form of "abiding" : (of a feeling or a memory) lasting a long time; enduring. I think the two go hand in hand. Today deepened my appreciation for the verb AND the adjective. Abide abidingly my friends.
Great edit with Townes' cover. And I speak as a three-time winner of the Best Walter trophy at LebowskiFests: LA 2005 and 2007, and NYC 2006. You done good.
Something about this song is so sad to me. I guess it's the theme of being disappointed in one's life's outcome - so much so that the person in question is ashamed to see someone from their past that they were once close with. Hits close to home for me lol and I'm sure many others
Its Sunday morning March 10th 2024...And i just wanted to start todays "service" with a song and a prayer.. I do hope you will join me. " best movie ever,BTW".......wasnt intended on blasphemous sound.... Have a great Sunday Lebowskians!
I like your style, man. Thank you for this and I must say, I do like the part where you edited the video by yourself. I think The Dude would appreciated that. This is a good edit. And a thoroughly one
The Late Great Mr. Townes Van Zany ladies and gentleman. May have also heard a little song called Poncho Y Lefty. Watch him on Heart Worn Highways with a teenage Steve Earl
Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair Talkin' to some rich folks that you know Well, I hope you don't see me in my ragged company Well, you know I could never be alone Take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground Send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the mail Send me dead flowers to my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac Making bets on Kentucky Derby Days Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon And another girl to take my pain away Take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground Send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the mail Send me dead flowers to my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave Take me down, little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground Send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the mail Say it with dead flowers in my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave...
You bet! When he was alive, he was a drunken, pain-in-the-ass junkie. The minute he died he became a Hero. But the sumbitch sure was a maginficent wordsmith.....
Большой Лебовский, одна из главных работ братьев Коэнов. Комедия, детектив, драма, если хотите, можете и боевик с триллером сюда добавить. Кто-то просто посмеется, причем до слез, кто-то задумается, и для того и для другого причин будет более чем достаточно. Фарс, театр абсурда, стеб над целыми киножанрами, сильная драма о месте личности в современном мире, все это о нем, о Лебовском. Для сыгравшего его Джеффа Бриджеса, эта роль стала настоящим звездным часом. Пофигист в расцвете сил, получился из него замечательный. Он не такой как все, его не очень-то интересуют окружающие его люди. Он чужд любого тщеславия, ему все равно кто и что о нем подумает, он не гонится за призраками: благосостоянием, положением в обществе, престижной работой и прочим. Потому что лентяй, спросите Вы. Да вот не все так просто. Было время, когда молодой Джеффри был активистом, имел четкую гражданскую позицию, пытался сделать этот мир лучше, но решил, что все это бесполезно и не имеет ровно никакого смысла. Так Джеффри стал просто Чуваком, который живет на пособие по безработице, играет в боулинг, не любит когда его называют по имени и плевать хотел на весь остальной мир. Но судьба веселая штука, и не хочет оставлять Чувака в покое. Два злодея врываются в его дом, и заставляют на некоторое время оказаться поближе к другой жизни, которую Коэны населили довольно колоритными персонажами. Давно известно, что у братьев, актеры второго плана, практически всегда на высоте. Не стал исключением и Большой Лебовский. Отличный дуэт Джеффу Бриджесу составил Джон Гудман, сыгравший ветерана Вьетнама, трогателен третий друг, в исполнении Стива Бушеми, отличный монолог от Сэма Эллиота, яркая роль будущего оскароносца Ф. С. Хоффмана, даже Тара Рейд, видимо в первый и последний раз в своей карьере, смотрелась вполне достойно, наверное потому что играла саму себя. Чем заканчивается фильм? Да по большому счету ничем. Чувак пожил несколько дней насыщенной жизнью, побывал у копов и парочки миллионеров, помог странной дамочке стать матерью, развеял по ветру прах друга, забрал новый ковер, повстречался с целой кучей порномагнатов, нигилистов детективов и прочих уродов, разочаровался во всем этом, и снова пошел играть в боулинг. Нравится ли Коэнам их герой? Безусловно. Как ни странно он оказывается единственным нормальным персонажем во всей истории. Советуют ли они нам жить так же как он? Не обязательно, но подумать о том, сколько в нашей жизни всего ненужного, а что на самом деле важно, это пожайлуста. Жизнь довольно мерзкая штука, главное прожить ее достойно, не изменяя себе, а мы, к сожалению, очень редко это понимаем. Ergus
The Dude abides. I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin he’s out there, takin ‘er easy for all us sinners. Well, that about does it, wraps it all up. And It was a pretty good story. Don't you think? It made me laugh to beat the band. Parts, anyway. I didn't like seein' Donny go. But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we - ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again...
This movie really ties my life together.
too funny , ilove it
I suggest you do what your parents did, GET A JOB SIR!
damn i wish i did have a job,been trying for 18 months
I am the Walrus?
I have not had a job since June 2009. Just in my basement room with a baggie, rolling papers, and a roach-clip. Never been happier.
Townes would have loved the Dude. Only Townes could cover a Stones song and make it his own. RIP Townes, a Texas star that burned so bright and too short of a life.
Yeah, few can pull it off. Glad to see a few are still listening
I went years thinking it was townes's song only recently did i find out it was a cover. RIP townes
@@bigg53er for what it’s worth I found that out only today by reading this comment haha
Absolutely his version is what I feel it was supposed to be it's so much more powerful and honestly one of my favorites of all time
Melanie did it
.. back in 2010, late November my Aorta blew apart on a Saturday.. around noon. they call it a type A aortic dissection and it kills dudes at least 80% of the time, if not immediately, then during surgery.... a week later, after the open heart surgery, they were finally successful in waking me up for a couple of minutes.... My angel said that my family were all worried sick and waiting with bated breath to know how I was doing.... if I was gonna live... She asked What can I tell them. I said I love you baby. Tell them the dude abides...smiled and fell into sleep again... Thank you dude, for the smiles and good feelings. We love you man. Townes, brother, the same is true for you.
one of the best films ever
Yeah, that's just like ahh your OPINION, man :-)
This is the absolute best movie ever made.
Agreed
From a Rolling Stone article on how T. Bone Burnett secured the rights to this song:
A tougher get was Townes Van Zandt’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” which plays over Lebowski‘s closing credits. “[Former Stones manager] Allen Klein owns the rights to it,” Burnett says. “He wanted $150,000.” Burnett begged Klein to just come down and watch an early cut of Lebowski. “It got to the part where the Dude says, ‘I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!’ Klein stands up and says, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’ That was beautiful.” For the record, Burnett agrees with the Dude (“[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then,” he says), but the line infuriated Glenn Frey. “I ran into [Frey] and he gave me some shit,” Jeff Bridges says. “I can’t remember what he said exactly, but my anus tightened a bit.”
this is my favorite version of this song
I heard this song my whole life played it in bands 1000 different times never liked it until I heard this version
This movie is a legend.
That rug really tied the room together.
This cover of the Stones hit, Dead Flowers, is a Townes Van Zandt masterpiece, no one else can top Townes. The Coen Brothers were wise to have this song to end The Big Lebowski or The Dude movie, as I call it, lol 😂I am a huge fan of TVZ, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steven Buschemi, Julienne Moore, everyone in that movie, especially Jesus 😅Just recently got a beautiful new persian rug that really ties the room together.❤ Watched The Big Lebowski last week, again, can never get tired of this movie, or Townes Van Zandt ❤❤❤
I love when I hear Townes in a random show or film..I've heard his stuff in at least 2 tv shows and 4 movies. Sometimes I like the fact it ain't so well known...even though he is clearly the greatest ever. Hell of Wheels used Waitin' around to Die...really cool version from his Far Cry From Dead album.
The greatest greek tale ever told, a few thousands years late.
Wdym
I sat up alone in my almost completely empty bedroom with just a mattress and small bedside drawer one night, spent my last money on a bottle of Kahlua, very shitty vodka ($22 AUD) and milk, and watched this drinking White Russians all night. Felt more wholesome then I have in a long night. Live your best life friends.
Sounds like an absolute dream
I must live under a rock. I have only just discovered this song.
Where I have I been all its life.
IKR! That guitar work is amazing.
In your wisdom Lord you took Donnie from us as you took so many flowering young men at Khe Sahn, Lan Doc, and Hill 364!
These young men gave their lives, and so did Donnie... Donnie who loved bowling
Hill 364!
Watch this vid about 4 times a week. Takes me into the vibe of the movie's ending every time. Sometimes, you just have to abide.
Had a conversation with a friend today who dreams about owning an orchard one day. She said "Did I tell you, I came up with a name! Abiding Orchards." I told her it was excellent. To me it meant an orchard that abides by the laws of creation. Didn't realize until I got home that she was actually thinking about the adjective form of "abiding" : (of a feeling or a memory) lasting a long time; enduring.
I think the two go hand in hand. Today deepened my appreciation for the verb AND the adjective.
Abide abidingly my friends.
That's the key to abiding. Sometimes you have to be okay with the curve balls life throws you, and sometimes okay is okay.
Nicely done. Still one of those films you can never get enough of.
Great version and a top choice for this movie. This great movie.
Great job putting a song by the greatest singer on Earth in the greatest movie on Earth
Coen brothers are good at that. Between BL and No country for old men you are talking about the two best made films in history.
Used to play this version at open mic, defined my life at the time.
Awesome
Townes was the bomb and of course there's The Dude. He abides.
Great edit with Townes' cover. And I speak as a three-time winner of the Best Walter trophy at LebowskiFests: LA 2005 and 2007, and NYC 2006. You done good.
u won 3 awards huh?
😎
@@willisp2500 Check my avatar. From LA 2005. LebowskiFest, my first.
Congrats
@@willisp2500 ye.. awards.. Meaning.
The power of film will always be part of the culture! Great work putting this together. Love Townes version...gone too soon 💔🎸🎶
Nice job on the editing and capturing the narrative of the movie in the lyrics. Its the perfect song to conclude that movie.
I like your style, Dude.
best movie of all time ever will be always wind at our backs sun on our faces
By far one of the best fan made Vids put together. Thank ya!
This is the most wonderful thing I've seen in quite some time
Just a man trying to live his life. Totally upended by things beyond his control. Feels very real circa 2024.
Careful man, there's a beverage here!!
this AMV makes me nostalgic for that great feeling of watching this film. it's amazingly impactful. great job
My all-time favorite movie. The Dude abides
RIP PSH. Rest easy man. Jim Carrey: "For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much. Bless your heart."
PSH seriously underrated.
Something about this song is so sad to me. I guess it's the theme of being disappointed in one's life's outcome - so much so that the person in question is ashamed to see someone from their past that they were once close with. Hits close to home for me lol and I'm sure many others
4 people have never bid goodbye to a sweet prince
baked chillin to dis song, magic.
if i'm on my death bed in the hospital and i got some choice to watch any movie while half awake this is what i want to see
I didn't see the initial "if" and I was already worried for you man
The dude abides
Best movie ever
A bit of Lebowski taiji with the coffee mug, love it.
You’re officially legend for making this
I tell ya … that rug really ties that room together
Yeah, it just disappeared at the end did you see 👀 it? It was just gone.
Its Sunday morning March 10th 2024...And i just wanted to start todays "service" with a song and a prayer.. I do hope you will join me. " best movie ever,BTW".......wasnt intended on blasphemous sound.... Have a great Sunday Lebowskians!
Love Townes, love the flick. The Dude abides :)
2024 ! great song greater movie!!! live on .... THE DUDE ABIDES!
I like your style, man. Thank you for this and I must say, I do like the part where you edited the video by yourself. I think The Dude would appreciated that. This is a good edit. And a thoroughly one
Tonci Stanic
The dude abide' s
the dude abides
the dude abides man
Fantastic video for the song and movie! Great job!
Ha great edit
The Dude abides
Very nicely put together, thanks :)
609 Venezia Ave, Venice LA, the dudes apartment. I also looked up the bowling alley, it was torn down in 2002 to build an elementary school
such a great movie
This was really well done, thank you!
The Late Great Mr. Townes Van Zany ladies and gentleman. May have also heard a little song called Poncho Y Lefty. Watch him on Heart Worn Highways with a teenage Steve Earl
Townes was very talented man. Gone too soon
Great edit. may the dude be with you
Wow, I never realized how much The Dude gets thrown around and startled before.
best movie EVER!!!
epic movie and song !
Very nicely put together video. Thanks!! :)
seems like you made my weekend, this was just the video needed, thanks Nikolas!
and yes, the dude abides!
This video makes me feel very at peace.
Best sound track for sure
Big up for the montage dude,
Thats, a fan act.
From belgije🇧🇪🖤
Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair
Talkin' to some rich folks that you know
Well, I hope you don't see me in my ragged company
Well, you know I could never be alone
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Days
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Take me down, little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
Send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Say it with dead flowers in my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave...
This is good sad music for someone passing away
“F*ck it, Dude. Let’s go bowling.”
Say friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?
+jin soo I see your waiting for the summer of 2016 also.
Sioux city sasparilla?
wildazcat25 that’s a good one
I never noticed that Donny was rocking an orange Slice at the bar. lol
Soooo good
This just stoned me to my soul.
Outstanding video!!! Thanks!!!!!!
The greatest comedy ever
Love this
Breautiful job
Better than the original and it's hard to top the Stones.
This is original TOWNES VAN ZANDT wrote this song.
@@fcktheonlythingmissingisu3792Bullshit, this song is fucking written by Jagger and Richards. Look it up, dude.
No he didn’t. Jagger and Richards
Merica didn't give one dusty fuck about him when he was alive now there's a picture of him in every bar in texas
You bet! When he was alive, he was a drunken, pain-in-the-ass junkie. The minute he died he became a Hero. But the sumbitch sure was a maginficent wordsmith.....
who would have thought this Stones song had so much juice without them singing it?
love it
this is very well done
Einfach geil gecovert.
j'adore
***** Cervezas pour moi, s'il vous plait, Mika ; )`
well done
Большой Лебовский, одна из главных работ братьев Коэнов. Комедия, детектив, драма, если хотите, можете и боевик с триллером сюда добавить. Кто-то просто посмеется, причем до слез, кто-то задумается, и для того и для другого причин будет более чем достаточно. Фарс, театр абсурда, стеб над целыми киножанрами, сильная драма о месте личности в современном мире, все это о нем, о Лебовском.
Для сыгравшего его Джеффа Бриджеса, эта роль стала настоящим звездным часом. Пофигист в расцвете сил, получился из него замечательный. Он не такой как все, его не очень-то интересуют окружающие его люди. Он чужд любого тщеславия, ему все равно кто и что о нем подумает, он не гонится за призраками: благосостоянием, положением в обществе, престижной работой и прочим. Потому что лентяй, спросите Вы. Да вот не все так просто.
Было время, когда молодой Джеффри был активистом, имел четкую гражданскую позицию, пытался сделать этот мир лучше, но решил, что все это бесполезно и не имеет ровно никакого смысла. Так Джеффри стал просто Чуваком, который живет на пособие по безработице, играет в боулинг, не любит когда его называют по имени и плевать хотел на весь остальной мир. Но судьба веселая штука, и не хочет оставлять Чувака в покое. Два злодея врываются в его дом, и заставляют на некоторое время оказаться поближе к другой жизни, которую Коэны населили довольно колоритными персонажами.
Давно известно, что у братьев, актеры второго плана, практически всегда на высоте. Не стал исключением и Большой Лебовский. Отличный дуэт Джеффу Бриджесу составил Джон Гудман, сыгравший ветерана Вьетнама, трогателен третий друг, в исполнении Стива Бушеми, отличный монолог от Сэма Эллиота, яркая роль будущего оскароносца Ф. С. Хоффмана, даже Тара Рейд, видимо в первый и последний раз в своей карьере, смотрелась вполне достойно, наверное потому что играла саму себя.
Чем заканчивается фильм? Да по большому счету ничем. Чувак пожил несколько дней насыщенной жизнью, побывал у копов и парочки миллионеров, помог странной дамочке стать матерью, развеял по ветру прах друга, забрал новый ковер, повстречался с целой кучей порномагнатов, нигилистов детективов и прочих уродов, разочаровался во всем этом, и снова пошел играть в боулинг.
Нравится ли Коэнам их герой? Безусловно. Как ни странно он оказывается единственным нормальным персонажем во всей истории. Советуют ли они нам жить так же как он? Не обязательно, но подумать о том, сколько в нашей жизни всего ненужного, а что на самом деле важно, это пожайлуста. Жизнь довольно мерзкая штука, главное прожить ее достойно, не изменяя себе, а мы, к сожалению, очень редко это понимаем. Ergus
The dude abides. I take comfort in that
My favorite movie ever made.
✌💀👍
Great vid. top notch song fits right into movie. except for Kentucky Derby part I guess
If you are too young to remember this movie you are too young to remember to life
Makes me think of the rich folks in my family.
There hell to pay if ...we don't get to see some little Lebowkis
That's because it's not meant to be understood it's meant to be enjoyed
Townes and Jimmie Gray..singin' at Springwater
The Dude got in early on bitcoin and has been taking it easy for all us sinners ever since.
Thanks man
How Bridges and Goodman didn't earn academy awards is beyond me.
Love this better than the stones ❤❤❤❤
The Dude! Enough said.
Yeah well, you know, that's like your opinion, man
Reminds me of a guy I knew once.
The Dude abides. I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowin he’s out there, takin ‘er easy for all us sinners.
Well, that about does it, wraps it all up.
And It was a pretty good story. Don't you think? It made me laugh to beat the band. Parts, anyway. I didn't like seein' Donny go. But, then I happen to know that there's a little Lebowski on the way. I guess that's the way the whole durned human comedy keeps perpetuatin' itself down through the generations. Westward the wagons, across the sands of time until we - ah, look at me. I'm ramblin' again...
Nice Marmot
Fuckin' perfect, dude.