Dayum. This is awesome. I saw Townes once at the hole in the wall. Stopped in for a Coke after playing Galaga at the place next door before my class at UT Film School. He was there, sitting at the bar. Completely lovable and totally desolate. An aura of greatness and sadness gave me pause. Loneliest most beautiful man ere I’ve seen.
Cindy was as beautiful a woman as I’ve ever seen-just stunning in person and nice as could be. She and Townes stayed at my place overnight on their way to Crested Butte. They were driving a copper-colored Plymouth Satellite with the vinyl roof peeling off, trunk held shut by a piece of coat hanger. Townes just did not care about material things at all.
Townes is so charming and young here. He never really grew up but I can’t imagine him living a normal life. He loved the party lifestyle and was proud of his crazy antics.
He wrote "Waiting Around to Die" when he was 20. He suffered from depression his whole life and he was reckless because he wasn't scared of death, he was looking forward to it
Strange how many people who are very depressive, are totally different in front of other people. To the simple viewer of this video and similar once, he looks like a fun and cheery guy with lots of cool stories. Then again, Robin Williams did too...
Yes, he was probably bipolar. But this (or something else in his life, I am no specialist) did lead him to very deep depressions. As you may know, one time he was asked in an interview why his songs are so sad and he said "I dont write sad songs, I write hopeless songs". I think this can pretty much show you the state he was in at many periods of his life.
Except Williams accidentally hunt himself during auto-erotic asphyxiation, which is my theory anyways, same way David Carradine went out. I wouldn't put Williams and Townes in the same sentence.
Well, it may be your theory but the facts are different. He was depressed for a big part of his life, same as Townes. David Carradine was never that funny anyways...though he was one cool kung-fu dudue!
Konstantin Georgiev No, he didn’t say that. What he said was “I don’t think their all that sad. I’ve got a few that aren’t sad, their hopeless. Just totally hopeless situations. But the rest aren’t sad their just kind of the way it goes”. Or something close to that, I’m reciting from memory....Basically if you look at a song like “Nothin’”, that is an utterly hopeless song. The entirety of the thing when boiled down to its core is about hopelessness. But if you look at a song like “Only Him Or Me”, which most people would consider very sad, it’s not saying anything about life that isn’t just “the way it goes”. In other words the way life goes. Townes has a lot more songs like that than the few truly hopeless ones. So if the majority of his songs are “sad”, it’s because life is sad, and he’s just writing about real life. That’s what he was getting at in that interview your referring to. With all that said, Townes was most definitely a sad, depressive human being- if not outright crazy or possessed with demons- if that’s even a real thing. He was definitely an enormously fucked up person with a heart so big it hurt him more than helped him. But God did he have a knack for writing beautiful songs. And in particular highlighting in his songs Human Love as the only thing that matters in the fleeting passage of time.
Damn, I've never seen this before. When I was 18 or 19 years old in the late 90's, I used to go to the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston, Tx to the open mic. Wrecks Bell was there playing every night. There were some amazing artists there drinking and playing nightly, guys that went on to have great careers (Hayes Carll, for example) even or guys that had already had great careers. Wrecks told me once, and I don't know if it was really true or if he was being nice, that I was his favorite harmonica player that frequented his place. I've never forgotten that or him and his place. It holds a special place in my heart and in my history. Awesome to see Wrecks here again after all of these years.
We need a biopic of Townes Van Zandt! What an Iconic Musician with a very troubled soul! I would love to see somebody explore his life and career in the film.
I've said that before. And I still find it to be true. It fills my whole body with a serene kind of an awe. I'll hopefully get to go to Texas one day, and sing it by whatever hometown townes was
I'm so glad some of you don't know anything about bipolar disorder or clinical depression. While they are different, bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depression, involves incredible highs and into the abyss lows. Of course every case is different in the level of severity. If you don't know, thank God and pray that you'll NEVER know.
His genius was his ability to say fuck you to all of the fakes phonies, and superficial imitators with his entire being, stay above it by flying lower than they were brave enough to, and create masterpieces that they couldn't touch with all of the force power and money that Nashville could muster.
read a biography. he had genius iq. everything is playing w logic. his melodies, lyrics and the story as irony. and he weaved beauty inside that. amazing talent.
He reminds me of Elliott Smith. Like on the nose. Would also have good days on stage but then rlly awful ones. Genius songwriter as well but he just couldn’t get out of his own way. Both definitely def suffered from M.D.D.
@Wesley Hunter, if check TVZ's wikipedia page, it says that footage was shot at his trailer home in Austin, and there is an 1100 Charlotte in Austin. But it does look like the slip says Houston.
Townes man you are missed .. wish you could've laughed a lot more..that story about the kid reporter is as funny as they until the last line.. we've all fought them demons.. damn it
Heartworn Highways. It's a documentary on outlaw country and folk music that was directed in the 70's, featuring Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, and a few others. I highly recommend watching it if you can, it's amazing.
Dayum. This is awesome. I saw Townes once at the hole in the wall. Stopped in for a Coke after playing Galaga at the place next door before my class at UT Film School. He was there, sitting at the bar. Completely lovable and totally desolate. An aura of greatness and sadness gave me pause. Loneliest most beautiful man ere I’ve seen.
"I made 9 cents outta Austria" hahaha
Cindy was as beautiful a woman as I’ve ever seen-just stunning in person and nice as could be. She and Townes stayed at my place overnight on their way to Crested Butte. They were driving a copper-colored Plymouth Satellite with the vinyl roof peeling off, trunk held shut by a piece of coat hanger. Townes just did not care about material things at all.
Townes is so charming and young here. He never really grew up but I can’t imagine him living a normal life. He loved the party lifestyle and was proud of his crazy antics.
He wrote "Waiting Around to Die" when he was 20. He suffered from depression his whole life and he was reckless because he wasn't scared of death, he was looking forward to it
@@omairsh8 I’m sure the treatments he suffered through, that wiped out his memory didn’t help either.
@@omairsh8 he said in an old interview the only reason he didn't kill his self is all the people that said he could be sum special
@@omairsh8 Sort of different. But Marty Robbins said he wasn't afraid of death because of all the close calls he incurred. Two geniuses.
Strange how many people who are very depressive, are totally different in front of other people. To the simple viewer of this video and similar once, he looks like a fun and cheery guy with lots of cool stories. Then again, Robin Williams did too...
I think he was bipolar not depressed.
Yes, he was probably bipolar. But this (or something else in his life, I am no specialist) did lead him to very deep depressions. As you may know, one time he was asked in an interview why his songs are so sad and he said "I dont write sad songs, I write hopeless songs". I think this can pretty much show you the state he was in at many periods of his life.
Except Williams accidentally hunt himself during auto-erotic asphyxiation, which is my theory anyways, same way David Carradine went out. I wouldn't put Williams and Townes in the same sentence.
Well, it may be your theory but the facts are different. He was depressed for a big part of his life, same as Townes. David Carradine was never that funny anyways...though he was one cool kung-fu dudue!
Konstantin Georgiev No, he didn’t say that. What he said was “I don’t think their all that sad. I’ve got a few that aren’t sad, their hopeless. Just totally hopeless situations. But the rest aren’t sad their just kind of the way it goes”. Or something close to that, I’m reciting from memory....Basically if you look at a song like “Nothin’”, that is an utterly hopeless song. The entirety of the thing when boiled down to its core is about hopelessness. But if you look at a song like “Only Him Or Me”, which most people would consider very sad, it’s not saying anything about life that isn’t just “the way it goes”. In other words the way life goes. Townes has a lot more songs like that than the few truly hopeless ones. So if the majority of his songs are “sad”, it’s because life is sad, and he’s just writing about real life. That’s what he was getting at in that interview your referring to. With all that said, Townes was most definitely a sad, depressive human being- if not outright crazy or possessed with demons- if that’s even a real thing. He was definitely an enormously fucked up person with a heart so big it hurt him more than helped him. But God did he have a knack for writing beautiful songs. And in particular highlighting in his songs Human Love as the only thing that matters in the fleeting passage of time.
Damn, I've never seen this before. When I was 18 or 19 years old in the late 90's, I used to go to the Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe in Galveston, Tx to the open mic. Wrecks Bell was there playing every night. There were some amazing artists there drinking and playing nightly, guys that went on to have great careers (Hayes Carll, for example) even or guys that had already had great careers. Wrecks told me once, and I don't know if it was really true or if he was being nice, that I was his favorite harmonica player that frequented his place. I've never forgotten that or him and his place. It holds a special place in my heart and in my history. Awesome to see Wrecks here again after all of these years.
Rex' blues is a great song
We need a biopic of Townes Van Zandt! What an Iconic Musician with a very troubled soul! I would love to see somebody explore his life and career in the film.
Townes was some kind of genius.
Rex's blues is one of the greatest written songs of all time. Townes Wrote it
agreed
Ride the blue wind high and free
I've said that before. And I still find it to be true. It fills my whole body with a serene kind of an awe.
I'll hopefully get to go to Texas one day, and sing it by whatever hometown townes was
"Hey, I made a dollar and seven in Benelux". Damn, this one solid piece of history right here. I am stunned by this find.
Benelux! I thought the EEC existed by this point
I honestly felt that I ended up selling a game on steam and it’s hilarious to make a dollar in some place like Brazil or Hong Kong
The "royalty" check might possibly be the funniest thing I've ever seen! RIP, Townes.
p.s. It'd be fab if you'd decide to come back one day.
"Every time something fun happens to me, I sleep through it." Ha!
That's what made me laugh
I'm so glad some of you don't know anything about bipolar disorder or clinical depression. While they are different, bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depression, involves incredible highs and into the abyss lows. Of course every case is different in the level of severity. If you don't know, thank God and pray that you'll NEVER know.
I've been bipolar for 20 years. Mine is more depressed than manic, but I love the manic episodes. They feel great.
Which god should I pray to?
My daddy and older brother are both named Rex. Great name. And a great song that Townes wrote.
"I have OD'd sniffing airplane glue"
Legend
That story about airplane glue is wild man, love Townes
His genius was his ability to say fuck you to all of the fakes phonies, and superficial imitators with his entire being, stay above it by flying lower than they were brave enough to, and create masterpieces that they couldn't touch with all of the force power and money that Nashville could muster.
"Filmin' my mail?????"
I think Rex might still be alive, he played bass for lightnin' hopkins, townes, lucinda williams, not a bad resume
read a biography. he had genius iq. everything is playing w logic. his melodies, lyrics and the story as irony. and he weaved beauty inside that. amazing talent.
Sure he had a high IQ but you don’t see Elon Musk writing songs like that. Townes was above that
He reminds me of Elliott Smith. Like on the nose. Would also have good days on stage but then rlly awful ones. Genius songwriter as well but he just couldn’t get out of his own way. Both definitely def suffered from M.D.D.
Passed out Sniffing airplane glue, ha
Are you hooked on airplane glue? Nah I'm stuck.
Anyone get the botany and aviation joke?
The address on the slip, was 1100 Charlotte, Houston, Texas. I Google Mapped that address, and nothing came up. Any info on where that location is?
@Wesley Hunter, if check TVZ's wikipedia page, it says that footage was shot at his trailer home in Austin, and there is an 1100 Charlotte in Austin. But it does look like the slip says Houston.
What kind of coat is Townes wearing? I really want one like it
Sherpa jacket
@@roomofidiots Thank you brother
Letting off shots while eating a bacon sandwich...as you do!
The color system oh yeah
Townes man you are missed .. wish you could've laughed a lot more..that story about the kid reporter is as funny as they until the last line.. we've all fought them demons.. damn it
Is there a link to that one? I don't believe I've heard it
@@nickbagelboyyou've literally just watched it
What a man
They misspelled "Wrecks".
filmin my mail? yer fixin to get a whoopin
3:00 Dat nail paint
Could you please tell me what this is from?
Heartworn Highways.
It's a documentary on outlaw country and folk music that was directed in the 70's, featuring Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, and a few others. I highly recommend watching it if you can, it's amazing.
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Yeah I don't remember that part but yeah that's him in the video I saw of heartworn
It’s bonus footage
Somebody please explain to me about the nails. Is it if you don't know scales that helps you? If so, how does it work?
idk i think they might say take your green finger and play chord g or sum idk i dont play bass
Can you learn guitar by the color system
I believe he’s useing colors to know which fingure to use idk though i play bass and guitar and that dosent make a lick of sense to me lol
It says overpayment.
NIce man , ;)
nothing sounds as american as a red rider
Except a ar15
@@michaelprice9377 and glasspacks
booze and drugs can ruin the best of them
It's alright with me that you ain't good with names cuz. We know who they are. Funny jokes there, anywho. I like the one 'bout glue. You?
it's not personal
😂
The thirsty christmas rarely remove because comma family recognise above a slimy stranger. verdant, imported song
Awful sad.
It's not personal.... lmao the greatest
Rex b spun