Songs About Photography, Marty Perez & RIP David Crosby

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jim and Greg talk with longtime music photographer Marty Perez about his new career-spanning book, "Kill A Punk For Rock & Roll." They also share their favorite songs about photography and pay tribute to David Crosby.

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Featured Songs

The Kinks, "People Take Pictures of Each Other," The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Pye, 1968

The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Capitol, 1967

Crosby, Stills and Nash, "Long Time Gone," Crosby, Stills and Nash, Atlantic, 1969

David Crosby, "Cowboy Movie," If I Could Only Remember My Name, Atlantic, 1971

Spoon, "I Turn My Camera On," Gimme Fiction, Matador, 2005

Yes, "Into the Lens," Drama, Atlantic, 1980

Pink, "Family Portrait," Missundaztood, Arista, 2001

Ringo Starr, "Photograph," Ringo, Apple, 1973

Kevin Morby, "This Is A Photograph," This Is A Photograph, Dead Oceans, 2022

Patti Smith, "Gloria," Horses, Arista, 1975

The Kinks, "Picture Book," The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Pye, 1968

Duran Duran, "Girls On Film," Duran Duran, EMI, 1981

Ice Cube, "Who Got the Camera," The Predator, Priority, 1992

Outkast, "Hey Ya!," Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Arista, 2003

Mission of Burma, "This Is Not a Photograph," Signals, Calls and Marches, Ace of Hearts, 1980

The Cure, "Pictures of You," Disintegration, Fiction, 1989

Labradford, "S," Mi Media Naranja, Kranky, 1998

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Sound Opinions and this week we're sharing some of our favorite
0:10.5	songs about photography and talking with Ace Photographer Marty Perez.
0:15.8	I'm Jim D. We're guys.
0:17.1	And I'm Greg Kott, but first we have to pay tribute to David Crossman.
0:20.5	I can lay the peace to be and love home.
0:25.5	A peace to be and love home.
0:29.5	A peace to be and love home.
0:34.5	Time is a long, long, long, long, long time before the dawn.
0:42.5	That is a little bit of a long time gone from the Crosby Stills and Nash Self-Titled
0:48.5	1969 debut album, one of the biggest selling albums of the 60s.
0:54.5	One David Crossby singing Harmony Vocals on that and wrote that particular song.
0:59.5	David, as many of you already know, died January 19th at age 81, a massive figure in popular music.
1:08.5	Really helped self create that sort of Laurel Canyon, California scene first with the birds and then with
1:16.5	Crosby Stills and Nash and then Crosby Stills and Nash and Young.
1:19.5	What a run.
1:20.5	Most people could say that and end their career after those three bands.
1:24.5	Well, if all he had on his CV is that he wrote eight miles high for the birds, I mean, what a song.
1:31.5	Well, not only that, I mean, McGuin gets a lot of props Roger McGuin, his partner in the birds,
1:38.5	gets a lot of credit for the solo and the jazzy, you know, 12 string guitar drone.
1:45.5	But you look at what Crosby's doing on rhythm guitar against what McGuin is playing.
1:52.5	It really makes the song in many ways.
1:55.5	Well, and Crosby Greg, you know, I dug deep into his history.
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