1777. John Stewart encore

[@JoeMarkleymusic]

Thank you so much for remembering John Stewart. He's never received the credit he deserves, in my opinion.

[@johnnierotten5161]

John Stewart a great American . Superstar in my eyes. I was so enamored with his song Bolinas that I had to go there. Loaded up the family and flew out to see it for myself was not disappointed. Wild horse road,Bloodlines, the list go on and on.Thanks Lee ❤

[@hatzicsteve]

Thank you for sharing!!

[@splashesin8]

Love John Stewart! A lot of favorites. ❤😊Also love Buffy❣️

[@artemisXsidecross]

☮

[@kke644]

I’m so impressed that you read so well without glasses! So jealous 😂

[@ChefJamesRusk]

Hi 😂! Great history of John Stewart….and lovely songs I’ve never heard…. Always delivering the goods Leland!!! Love to all 🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷🎶🙏🖕🖕🖕🖕👍

[@stephenspencer4672]

It is truly amazing how someone like John Stewart can be a highly successful and influential artist, composer and songwriter with a long and productive career and yet not be a "so called" a list celebrity. I guess genuine talent and ability is what matters in the long run. John Stewart will definitely be remembered. As he deserves to be.😊❤

[@jstnxprsn]

What you said.

[@RockandRollWoman]

Most people don't realize how many musicians make a living without anyone ever recognizing them on the street.

[@jstnxprsn]

@@RockandRollWoman In Lee's videos he's often interacting with people who have no idea who he is. Meanwhile, I'm yelling at the screen, "Hey stupid, that Leland freakin' Sklar you are talking to." LOLOL

[@RockandRollWoman]

@@jstnxprsn yah. But ... there are people I wouldn't recognize.

[@jeffsnedden3843]

I discovered John via Phoenix FM radio in the early 70's. His 2nd album California Bloodlines made me a fan. He was a Phoenix favorite, a quote from John: "It was just this little island of fame that I had"

[@steven_scattergood]

Watching this over breakfast this morning was awesome. Gold is one of my most favourite songs ever and hearing your connection with the history of early John Stewart is brilliant Lee. Though at times it may feel like life can be a world of swirl good music always seems to settle the mind and soothes the soul. Thank you for sharing John Stewart once again Lee and helping time travel to easier times.🇦🇺🙏

[@artemisXsidecross]

I have been a music junkie since my ears took a notice 😎

[@susanmann5286]

I always feel better when you visit with us! Thank you!

[@ronfreeman5857]

Is true!!

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Your hair and beard lookin great, Leland

[@sallysharp3845]

Thank you Leland, watching you is like watching the Grand Wizard of Music.❤

[@jerrywilliams5042]

As a singer/songwriter, I discovered The Phoenix Concerts when I was in my first year at Berklee. John set me back on my heels. That voice gave me, and still gives me, shivers. In 1978, a club my band played in regularly booked John, with my band as an opening act. It led to opening for John a number of times, including one night at the Stumble Inn in Colorado Springs, CO., when John showed up with laryngitis, and, because I knew all the songs, got me to sing with his band while he played guitar. The highpoint. Of. My. Musical. Life.

[@m1nn1s]

Wonderful recollection ,Jerry,thank you 🙏 ☮️ ✝️ ☯️ 🌲 🎶

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Thanks for sharing. Good stories

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Were the Phoenix Concerts recorded in Phx Az? I remember he played in Phx often in the 70s

[@jeffsnedden3843]

@@KittyCarlile-490 yes, Phoenix Concerts were recorded at the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, John's home base when he appeared in Phoenix. He was a Phoenix favorite.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

​​​@@jeffsnedden3843 I saw him a couple of times at the Celebrity Theatre back when Danny Zeiisko was getting at start and Bill Compton was a DJ at KDKB.Compton played the best music of any radio station I've heard anywhere. Tragic ending and short life

[@artemisXsidecross]

Thank you Leland, that was quite a memory ride, I was 13 or 14 years old when the Kingston Trio recordings were available, and our home had Harry Belafonte along with the Kingston Trio albums to listen. The record store I visited had an owner-operator who helped me learn to listen to music by his suggestions of the Weavers, Josh White, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. I spent the summer of ’61 and ’62 in NYC on West 82nd near Amsterdam and would visit the Folklore Center run under Izzy Young and visited the folk clubs and thought Bob Dylan a copy of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Dave Van Ronk ; so much for my view of talent. Each of us have a story to tell away from the homogenized telling found from the usual suspects. Thank you for reminding us that we each have a memory to tell. ☮

[@RockandRollWoman]

What a time to live in New York City! And you are spot on about the stories we each have to tell.

[@slipperynoodle20]

What a history! Wonderful songs and so well done. And, Diltz on harmonica. His photos are an amazing documentation of music history. Finally, RIP Alice Brock, the inspiration for a song for the ages. Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍

[@slipperynoodle20]

You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant, except Alice.😊

[@splashesin8]

@@slipperynoodle20❤

[@slipperynoodle20]

@splashesin8 ❤️ back to you.

[@slipperynoodle20]

When I think about "social media," I don't know of any better place to be than right here. I still find it amazing that Lee is so generous with his time. I love that so many followers are in tune with what Lee is all about.

[@splashesin8]

@ Tom, 🙂

[@deaf19830]

Leland, I was first amazed by your style with Phil Collins in 1985. I was in the lounge of our school’s dormitory where we had a huge tv and it was always playing MTV. The song was Susudio. These guys in the lounge that were being loud, stopped their horseplay and was also amazed by you bass playing, they were raving over your style as well, which added to my excitement

[@jstnxprsn]

As I have mentioned before John Stewart was my muse. I met him a few times and he was as nice and down to Earth as can be. I have all his albums through the early 80s including Signals Through The Glass (his rare 1st solo album) I could talk about him for hours, but I'll jst settle for saying he is greatly underappreciated so I am extremely grateful for your covering him, Lee. Hope you Maureen and the boys had a nice Turkey Day.

[@BOOMNERD51]

@@jstnxprsn Did you see the link in my comment to Lee? It's to a song from John Hartford TV documentary show featuring John Stewart, John Hartford, and Terry Paul, bass player(a Hofner) with Kris Kristofferson band. The song is "Every Woman, Child, and a Man."

[@barrywaples8150]

Evening Lee and all Greetings from Epping UK Cheers Barry 🎸

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Greetings, Barry, from Alberta, Canada! 🖐✌️

[@barrywaples8150]

@dwaynewladyka577 Dwayne 🍻

[@steven_scattergood]

@@barrywaples8150 G’day Barry from down under.🖐

[@m1nn1s]

Evening Barry, Epping 🌳 🏍️ 🇬🇧 Andy ⛵ 🛥️ Whitstable 🧙🏼‍♂️ 🇬🇧 ☮️

[@barrywaples8150]

@steven_scattergood morning Steven 👋

[@m1nn1s]

Evening Leland 🧙🏼‍♂️ 💖 ☮️ 🌟 ... Born in '60,so I just missed some of this.. ..Thanks for this ..🎶☮️ Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ,yourself and the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼‍♂️ 💖☮️☯️✝️🧙🏼‍♂️

[@enidsnarb]

Those are some lush recordings ! And yes Pomona / Claremont eighteen miles east of Pass the Donuts and I miss Chris Darrow a lot who went at the beginning of covid and did some subtle mentoring as a musician with me and I made him several very unique instruments as a luthier . He would always talk about these early days with great fondness to be sure . Thank You As Always !

[@seamushalpin1535]

Hi Lee, I just got the last available ticket to Lyle's show in Dublin on 20th January next. Best Christmas present ever!! See ya then.

[@gustavoviveros8394]

Thank you Lee 👍🏻

[@ericmarshall963]

Thanks for that Leland. I loved John’s music and saw him perform several times when he visited Scotland. A very underrated musician and writer.

[@jeffbangkok]

Sunday morn in Bangkok. Heading back to the mango farm. Driving in Thailand is crazy anytime. A visit with Leland helps sooth it a bit. Remembering 1971. I was 16 and sold my dairy cow to buy a 1970 Mustang from a guy that was drafted and sent to Vietnam. Got an 8 track player from another kid at school. Those were the days.

[@MissingMars]

thanks Le -one thing I remember John Stewart saying about having Lindsey Buckingham producing his Bombs Away Dream Babies album. He said Lindsey paid more attention to detail than anyone he's ever worked with . His talents in the studio were unparalleled!

[@Babrooker]

Leyland Sklar and Carol Kaye, 2 of my most favourite Bass players of all time. Thank you So much for the joy you have brought into my life through the years.

[@SoItGoesCAL34]

Thanks for featuring John Stewart today. He's one of my husband's favorites. He saw him in LA, San Francisco, and twice at the Phoenix concert.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

I saw him a couple of times on new years eve at the Celebrity Theatre in Phx early 70s

[@kcjepsen4335]

Someone may have already posted this but, John Ritter was Tex's son, not nephew. Thanks for all the years of music and all these stories!

[@patrickjames1080]

Love it - Henry Diltz brining it on the harmonica. Thanks Le

[@sjengineeringservices8282]

Good evening Leland Fro Wrexham North Wales

[@m1nn1s]

@@sjengineeringservices8282 Croesu, Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@suecorrigan]

Good morning, Lee! ❤🥰 Great compilation of John Stewart! 🎶🎸Ann Murray is one of my favorite singers, and I love that song so much! Thank you for these beautiful tunes! I'll see you at Clubhouse on Wednesday!! 🥰🎶🎸 I ❤ you!! 🤗

[@Bass.Player]

I have always like Ann Murry, such a smooth voice...

[@CameraLaw]

Fell I love with John Stewart first after seeing him with Buffy on Playboy After Dark. Ran out to find their album Signals Through the Glass. Around the same time, I got a Kingston Trio album on Tetragrammaton where John was the jokester-in-chief. John and Buffy were supporters of RFK’s campaign and were on the plane with him when they looked out of the window and saw a rainbow over Omaha. This became the basis of a wonderful tribute song, Omaha Rainbow, on his California Bloodlines album. It perfectly captures the spirit of that time of rising hope. Brings on a tear or two with every hearing. Highly recommended.

[@deadandburied7626]

I remember John Stewart from his Kingston Trio days! Have his album "The Last Campaign" (which has Linda Ronstadt harmonising on a track).

[@williamdaly1005]

Thanks again, Leland, for turning me on to music I might never have heard.

[@TheNCGardener]

I would love to see the recording setup for the last two songs and see the mix process. Those strings were awesome! SO perfect!

[@johngibson8676]

Thank you. His work was always moving and heart felt. Great choice

[@kateconway-hickman5945]

Happy Saturday! 😊

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Happy Saturday, Kate 😊

[@Auraa10]

Oh my daddy loves John Stewart and you should see all the albums he has

[@jstnxprsn]

You should see my Stewart collection. LOL

[@RockandRollWoman]

​@@jstnxprsnWhoever is getting your album collection is a mighty lucky person! I just hope they don't get it for much longer than you expect.

[@jstnxprsn]

@@RockandRollWoman You have no idea. I have several irreplaceable bootlegs in the collection too. Thanks for the good wishes. Unfortunately, my health isn't the best and I haven't even thought about who might want my record collection. My daughter finally let me know she wants my large guitar collection. Thanks again for the kind words.

[@barbiemckofka8700]

Hi😊 thank you for the good music 🎶💙 I go to Loma Linda Tuesday, I'm free Wednesday 🎉 for clubhouse 😊 Talk soon Be safe 💙🎶

[@melissaward6311]

Hey Mr Sklar. Hope your tday was good. Am trying to make my weekend decent. Trying anyway. Have a a great holiday and upcoming week.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Hope you have a good weekend

[@melissaward6311]

@@KittyCarlile-490 thank you.

[@loranelson67]

Thank you! ❤️ For everything ❤️ Happy Holiday Season 💕

[@jstnxprsn]

After listening to the rest after commenting earlier, I was stunned with delight that you played one of my favorite of his songs, Crazy. That was a song I would perform for people when I wanted to make them cry. LOLOL It's hard to decide on which songs were my favs, as there were so many. But the emotional draw of Crazy makes it one of them. I would have to add Roll Away The Stone from The Phoenix Concerts (live) album to the top of that list. Speaking of that live album, Shoot All the Brave Horses fully came into it's own as part of the Trilogy from The Phoenix Concerts. This was so great. It made my day. Thanks Lee. Adding meeting you one day to my bucket list. (I have cancer, so that needs to happen soon).

[@RockandRollWoman]

Please make it happen! ❤❤❤

[@ditchgator1]

😎👍👍 😎✌👍❤🖖 Love Brother

[@robertdablemont8131]

Loved John Stewart, every time he came through Phoenix I’d be at the Celebrity Theater to see him. First heard him in the Kingston Trio after he was chosen to replace Dave Guard. Got to be at the first day of the two day of recording when he did the live Phoenix Concerts. Went to several of his John Stewart Kingston Trio experience he use to do.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Seems he played at the Celebrity often. I saw him twice there. It's a great place for concerts

[@RockandRollWoman]

I love my old passports. One has a visa to enter China in 1982, a side trip I took alone after visiting Japan for the first time since going to college there. Another has visas to enter Vietnam, Cambodia, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. Those last three were on a trip with the Pentagon to review voting procedures for overseas troops. My passports provide a mini review of my travel. I have been so blessed with such incredible travel opportunities, few of which required me to be in physical danger. I was so disappointed when countries started just waving people through without a stamp in the passport! I also have all of my dad's passports. He worked for a company that made transfer lines for automobile companies around the world, the machines that made wing struts for jets, and other manufacturing equipment for heavy industry. He was gone frequently.

[@artemisXsidecross]

R&RW, you have a bundle of stories to tell of a world going so digital as to be more than mere years apart. Imagine explaining today’s life to our grandparents or even parents for someone my age. The revolution of the smartphone with worldwide data connection may be as revolutionary as was the horse and human connection 5,000 years ago. We are living in a maelstrom of modernity. ☘

[@KittyCarlile-490]

I recall traveling thru Europe in the 80s and just being waved thru at the borders. No one asked for or looked at my passport

[@m1nn1s]

​​Fahrenheit 451,.Ray Bradbury, (Deja Vu📙☮️) 🧙🏼‍♂️

[@artemisXsidecross]

@@KittyCarlile-490 Those were the times I traveled to Europe as well, but it is now a different world post 2001 and 9/11. When we were in Paris, however, in the mid 80's they were experiencing political unrest and bombing. I stuck out with longhair and was body searched more than once. Police were on the street armed with machine-guns in view.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

@artemisXsidecross good to hear from you this evening. That must be an uncomfortable experience to be body searched and especially bc of how you looked. I remember in the 60s any guy w long hair could be suspect for anything the cops would come up with. Times have changed in ways we couldn't imagine back then

[@9Ridgeroad]

I saw Henry Diltz in Legends of the Canyon the other night. I kept looking for you.

[@doloresvelez3243]

Thank you.❤❤🙏

[@peacefingers2]

love this version of Day Dream Believer!

[@RalphOnofrio]

Leland..Good to see you...Getting cold here in Connecticut.

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

🤓🤓. Sklar U! Sklar U!! Sklar U!!! We hear "Gold" on Sirius fairly regularly but never knew the rest of this stuff! We did know that John Ritter was Tex Ritter's son though, and one of us is able to remember Tex Ritter doing dog food commercials during "The Wonderful World of Disney."😙

[@markvalicenti8087]

Love this music. Thank you again

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@m1nn1s]

Alan 🥁 ❤️

[@Ajgreetings]

Thank you

[@NickWebber-vp4pd]

The female backup vocals singer on “just an old love song, sounds alot like “melanie”-from “look what they’ve done to my song, ma” fame. Songs from a time when life was simple…could listen to these all day long…

[@jstnxprsn]

@@NickWebber-vp4pd That was John's long time love and spouse, Buffy Ford.

[@surepaul]

My goodness Lee. Your eyes are lookin' really cloudy. Are you feelin' ok???...🙏🎼🎸👍

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Hello Leland and everyone!

[@jstnxprsn]

Hi Dwayne.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@jstnxprsn Hello! 🖐✌️

[@RockandRollWoman]

👋👋👋

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@RockandRollWoman Hello! 🖐✌️

[@m1nn1s]

Hello Dwayne, Alberta 🍁 🇨🇦.... Andy, Whitstable 🛥️ ⛵ 🇬🇧

[@RoadieGarth]

Leland: I still have this album on vinyl in mint condition and will never stop believing that John should be considered the Godfather of Americana Music!

[@jstnxprsn]

Amen to that, brother. Jstn - John's greatest fan

[@buzzsmith8146]

So nice.

[@ice9phil]

Mother Country

[@ndrwgrsk]

Seems interesting As I’ve been mixed up with Horse 🐎 Racing all my life Still Am.That John’s father was a Horse Trainer As Davey Jones was Also a Jockey 🇦🇺🐴🤷🏻‍♂️Daydream Believer 💜🤷🏻‍♂️I loved that Song GOLD growing up.

[@sceiron1]

2034 eh? ........ we'll all be waiting .

[@RalphOnofrio]

Tex was John Ritter's father,I believe.....John Stewart...Great songwriter.

[@slipperynoodle20]

@@RalphOnofrio That's what I thought. Do nor forsake me, oh my darlin'.

[@m1nn1s]

​@@slipperynoodle20 Hi Tom, happy Thanksgiving 🦃... Happy Hope 💖Day First day, season of Advent.. 12/01/2024

[@FreedomRock44]

John By sound...has a Gordon Lightfoot....Charlie Rich.......Kingston sound(of course). But all himself mostly.

[@carolmoline6490]

🎉💙🎉

[@loranelson67]

❤❤❤❤

[@jimbroughton]

14.00 is equal to 22.00 UTC (or GMT). However, I'll still likely forget!

[@RockandRollWoman]

I have a conversion utility because CRS.* * Can't Remember Shit

[@Larkpine]

💜👩💜

[@FreedomRock44]

John was Tex's Son. Just an FYI.

[@brettmarlar4154]

It's refreshing to hear "Daydream Believer" with the proper lyrics. Evidently Davey Jones claimed the word "funky" to be a cuss word, and refused to sing it. I don't know if it was considered to be profane in England back then or not, but I don't think it tobe considered as such this side of the pond. Unless he felt that is simply sounded too close to the f-bomb, nevertheless a dumb hill to die on.

[@Ian-Steele]

Davey Jones must have been very sensitive. Nothing wrong with “Funky” in the UK that I’ve ever known and I’ve lived here for over 70 years !

[@m1nn1s]

​@@Ian-Steele'Play that funky music'... Wild Cherry 🍒 🎶 ☮️ 'Funky' has been fine since the 1960's, at least... "Grand Funk Railroad' 🚂.. great band 🎸 🎶 🎼 🎵 💋 🧙🏼‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 ☮️

[@greatunz67]

Just a correction, @5:26 you mentioned Tex Ritter being John Ritters uncle, however Tex was John's father, and his mother was Dorothy Fay

[@lelandsklar6363]

👍🏼

[@BobWadeGuitar]

Did you play on "July, You're a Woman"?

[@KittyCarlile-490]

Good song

[@splashesin8]

@@KittyCarlile-490Yes it is. Have it in one of my swim playlists. 🧜🏻‍♀️🌊

[@BOOMNERD51]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWaqnaqtj7Ktqassi=ng3w-B6lio00T6hW I'd met your bass playing courterpart, Terry Paul John Hartford featured John Stewart, and Terry Paul on the song "Every Woman, Child and a Man." Thank you for the "'Never Goin' Back' for Lovin' Spoonful" I knew about Kingston Trio and that he'd written "Daydream Believer."

[@RockandRollWoman]

I love John Hartford. Gonna track down that tune, thanks.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

​@@RockandRollWoman I love watching John's videos on utube. Fun

[@lavatar3562]

John Stewart certainly enjoyed ending his songs with the repeating chorus.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

I noticed that for the first time tonight 😊

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

When is it time to speak out, Mr Sklar.

[@kjbunnyboiler]

Evening Leland👍👍

[@lelandsklar6363]

👍🏼

[@m1nn1s]

Evening KJ BB 🧙🏼‍♂️ ✨ 💖 ☮️ 🌟 🤗 💖

[@kjbunnyboiler]

@ 👍👍👍hi m1nn1s

[@nanciannecianci1784]

Hey Lee, Tex Ritter was John Ritter's father. There is no apparent family connection to actress Thelma Ritter.

[@lelandsklar6363]

Thanks for the info…