Donovan

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Strong ithell colquhoun vibe off coco sians oils

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jenks

thread death
I remember this as the B side to Sat In Your Lap - i didn't realise it was a Donovan song for many years


good discussion of it here:


on another note, the guy who used to run the second hand record shop i used to frequent is Peter Eden who gets a few mentions in Electric Eden and was Donovan's manager for a few years - he always speaks warmly of Donovan. I think the Dylan film did him no favours in some quarters but I was always impressed with the way he stuck to his own vision,
 

the ig

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one of those artists: the semi-cool think it’s uncool to like, the fully cool know it’s waaaaay cool

that whole run from ‘sunny goodge street’ up to ‘hms donovan’ (or well, up to ‘cosmic wheels’ poss, I’ll deff pick it up now, see it in the bins all the time!)

..but then that’s just it..my slight prob with ‘sunshine superman’ is rather that it’s almost too cool. things like ‘sunny south ken’ - I see the beautiful people, the floppy biba hats, the leafy then west London homelands of boho, all too much if anything. there’re a note of in-crowd smugness about the whole thing, and it’s a bit dated for it.

but then this flushed, ardent thing:
killah!

i mean...so much good on that record, but i’ll never love it as much as, say, ‘forever changes’.

’sand and foam’ is indeed great, and one of the highlights on my fave of his ‘mellow yellow’ (a US only release if i’m not mistaken)

this is another:

love the ‘alphonse mucha gone v sketchy’ cover too
 

Leo

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Donovan’s I AM THE SHAMAN recorded in David Lynch’s LA Studio and the video directed by David Lynch. Donovan plays his acoustic guitar ‘Kelly‘ and sings . David plays his unique Modal Chord Guitar Textures and effects.

 
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