1809. Rick Roberts revisit

[@seasidemusicmgmt]

I had the pleasure and honor of working with Rick Robert's in a band called Boulder County. I absolutely love all his work and collaborations. Of course your contributions to all is invaluable. You're the best! Thank you for all you do, Lee. Your Mom is with you always...I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my sweet momma at 14 and I miss her every day as well...

[@randyschiffer3265]

Love Rick Roberts music and voice. He is one of my favorites. Thanks Leland.

[@KittyCarlile-490]

I remember sometime ago you saying how much you love Rick Roberts and Firefall. So do I but had not listened to them in years so I went on a RR Firefall binge. It's time to do that again. If I recall one of your favorite songs is Mexico

[@randyschiffer3265]

@@KittyCarlile-490 You have a great memory. I love that song.

[@artemisXsidecross]

@@KittyCarlile-490 👋

[@artemisXsidecross]

@@randyschiffer3265 She does ☮

[@artemisXsidecross]

A good choice.

[@cohalensadventures5331]

In a Dream was the song you started with! (Great song as well) I saw Firefall many times and later saw him in Capitola, ca in the Roberts-Meisner Band . In 2011 I had lunch with him and Mary in a restaurant south of Longmont. My first hearing of him was in a Christmas party at my record store manager’s house. The store employees were handing out as he played some demo albums and Windmills was one of them. I was so taken by the music that my manager gifted me the demo album. One of the songs that hit me deeply was (and still is) Jenny’s Blues. Just you and Rick - perfection.

[@artemisXsidecross]

I spent my first 50 years hanging out in small record stores, before the 'Big Box' ones and they were enclaves of exploring music.

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

Good story! Looked it up. Video #326 ("Jenny's Blues"). Hope you had a good 🎄! 👋👋

[@splashesin8]

Wow, just up the road from where I used to live several years ago Was that maybe a restaurant that used to be called Double Tree? Probably newer places by that time though. I don't always think about the actual numbers of years between coming and going thousands of miles back and forth all over the place. Every place I ever went stays mapped in my head like it's all part of a same town or region when it's a swath of around 35 states give or take a few, haven't tried to count them since I was much younger. Remember the roads and different paths though from long time long distance driving all the possible different ways, to get to the same places and have small details that stick with me too. Just went every where the the first half my life, and have aerial based maps in my head as well with several revisions of changes as a layered montage of same area maps over time. I just realize way more significant building and other business development could have been there between my last visuals and kinesthetic on ground experiences of Longmont, landmarking familiarities. Years ago, there was a mall in Longmont called Twin Peaks, 🤣 This was existing before the TVminiseries. ...but slight after that while visiting my parents I got my mom to take a lampoon like picture of me holding a log in front of the Twin Peaks mall sign getting the mountains in the background doing my best Log Lady stance, because I knew my friends would get a kick out of it, back here. I just put the log in the car trunk from out of the back yard, on the chance we would go to that mall, after circling through Boulder or Lafayette. It was shocking then how much more houses and high rise apartments were covering what had always just been largely fields with horses running around in them like taking 7 going up I 25 that way to or from Longmont. Anyway it's just an interesting thing to know you were around that area to Cohalen.

[@splashesin8]

Hee! I hear the boys arooong in the background at the end of this.

[@douglasdegraff8335]

Windmills and Westwind. Part of my last 2 yrs. in high school. Amazing music from Rick and the guys!!!!! Love his voice. Doug

[@suecorrigan]

Good evening, Lee! From Cape Cod! ❤🥰 Such beautiful sentiments about your beautiful, beloved mom, Trudy! 🙏❤️😇 Thank God for her, for she gave us you, with a little help from your dad, of course 😉🥰 I will honor her today and always. I know how hard it must be to not be able to call her. That's the hardest thing! 😢❤ I can feel your deep love for her. ❤ Please know I'm thinking of her today and always. I would have loved to have given her the biggest hug. ❤🙏😇 Giving you a BIG hug!! I'm so sorry to hear about Linda Rondatdt's brother passing. 😢❤🙏 Rick Roberts, great tunes, Lee! Thank you so much. 🎸🎶🥰 Today was a chilly and very windy day on the Cape. That arctic wind is coming in, alright. Brrrrr. But, we're New Englanders, and we're used to it. A beautiful, sunny day today over Martha's Vineyard Sound. 🌊 🌊 🌊 ⛵️ So excited for Clubhouse on Wednesday! See you then, Lee! I ❤ you!!! 🎶🥰

[@richardkluender844]

I feel your pain with your loss My Dad passed 4 years ago on Jan 27 miss him a lot. He loved Neil Young and a lot of the music you're on.

[@slipperynoodle20]

When the music is very well done, age doesn't matter. These tunes prove that. Thinking of the Ronstadt family. Linda spoke to her profoundly deep attachment to family and the Sonoran desert in her book Feels Like Home. Love and Thanks ❤👍❤👍

[@TheCappedCruiser]

Thanks you so much for reprising Sail Away. I bought Windmills when it came out ... I was living (as I still do) in the wild hills of mid-Wales, in a dilapidated cottage miles from anywhere at that time, and obsessed about that song. It returns me to those simpler times, when hope was still a valid commodity ... And Marc Benno's input to this album is absolutely in the pocket! Such a lovely record.

[@lavatar3562]

Rick Roberts has a beautiful voice. You’re certainly playing busy Bass lines on these tracks. Another hot and overcast day here in South Australia. It saddens me to watch these heavily laden clouds pass by while we’re officially in drought!

[@artemisXsidecross]

Tea and Sympathy. Southern California has not had rain and is concerned with Santa Ana winds due in a few days. Nationalism is vanity when there is only one Earth. ☮

[@lavatar3562]

@ fair point 🌏

[@randyschiffer3265]

My brother and I back in the 70's used to put bands together in our conversations. So and so would be good together etc.. I remember we thought Rick Roberts, Ritchie Furay, Randy Misner, and Rusty Young would be interesting. About a month later my brother walks through the door with the first Souther Hillman Furay album.

[@artemisXsidecross]

A great story ☮

[@randyschiffer3265]

@@artemisXsidecross Thanks Art

[@artemisXsidecross]

Thank you Leland for another visit and music credits with muses of that time. I can appreciate your mention of your mother. She has escaped annihilation by showing her grace in your mind. My mother died suddenly in my teens and her teachings and kindness grace me everyday. Thoughts can connect what the body can no longer accomplish.

[@carolcorrigan3130]

Leland, I understand . When my parents passed , it broke my heart . Sorry to hear about Linda's brother . Love you, Maureen and the pups .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@garrygamez3231]

Condolences on anniversary of your mom's passing. Lost my dad this pass June.Thanks for featuring Rick again. Always liked his 4 days of Rain which John Cowan does a nice version.

[@jstnxprsn]

Huge Firefall fan here, Lee. But I didn't know anything about Rick's troubles so this was special. I lost my folks several years ago now, but I don't miss them too much, because I still hear their voices guiding me through my life. Sorry you are feeling the loss so badly at this time. Peace brother. - Jstn

[@tuneman45]

I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Roberts when The Miesner-Roberts band played a gig here in little Newport Oregon. We did the interview live in the studio and played some of their hits on the air. He was a great guest and we all got some autographs.

[@williamdavis8161]

My parents have both passed also. I find myself thinking that i need to talk to them about some part of life before reality sets in. Wow, Rick Roberts! I loveed Firefall. I'll spend the evening searching my old LP's now.

[@FreedomRock44]

It is amazing how losing a Parent that the FAMILY dynamic just CHANGES SO MUCH!!!! It can never be replaced or refilled. You Just never get that back.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

My mom passed away over 50 years ago. She was very young when she passed away. I miss my mom too. May your mom rest in peace. I wish Maureen all the best. Cheers, Leland! 🙏✌️

[@artemisXsidecross]

There is a certain potency about losing a loved one in your teens and a lone parent. It was a fierce transition that forged a blade of understanding to cut through bullshit that can and did arise. She had taught me well.

[@svenlindemann5084]

Mahalo Lee, for widening my musical horizon . I think, where all with you, I lost my mom during covid and was not able to say goodbye , “luckily”, I was able to hold my dads hand when he took his last breath a few years before my moms passing , sending Aloha and Love from Hawai’i

[@melissaward6311]

I lost my dad on 1 16 09. Its hard every day but this month is always worse. I hope you and yours are getting along well. Many thanks to you for your great content.

[@michael-weiss-cct]

Wow, that's quite a story about Rick Roberts. He certainly has been on quite a journey over the years.

[@eddiethek]

A Ben Casey reference! Would have loved to have heard an interview between you and your and GrandDeb's folks!

[@barrywaples8150]

Evening Lee and all Greetings from Epping Uk Cheers Barry 🎸

[@m1nn1s]

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

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@barrywaples8150 Greetings, Barry from Alberta, Canada! 🖐✌️

[@barrywaples8150]

@@dwaynewladyka577 Evening Dwayne 🍻

[@omi_god]

My mother passed 25 years ago, and I still ache at how much I miss her. My older brother passed last year, and I had almost a panic attack feeling like someone should let mother know her boy had gone - she ought to be told...and then of course realizing that there's no need.

[@SacredSecret]

My mom passed around the summer solstice and my dad the day after Xmas. So, I am also yearly reminded. ✌️

[@doloresvelez3243]

Love the name Trudy. Sorry for your loss. Thank you for your time.❤❤🙏

[@scottcoleman9710]

Thanks for the Rick Roberts show. Big fan of his. The album he did with the Burrito's is my favorite. I prefer it to the two Gram Parsons albums. Firefall was a really good group also. Enjoyed the tunes from Windmills and will take a deep dive into that work. Great show.

[@patriciahubbard5832]

Rick Roberts has written a book describing his courageous rehabilitation and recovery called "Lame Brain: My Journey Back to Real Life." In a follow up book called "Song Stories and Other Left Hand Recollections" Rick talks about some of the most memorable events in his rock and roll life. Some of them are absolutely hilarious.

[@freewaycarstrucks]

Hi Leland, love you. Happy holidays. Hope you had a good one.❤

[@marvinmatthews4266]

Peace and love to you and your family, Leland. As well as to all those who knew Peter R.

[@L.G1994]

❤🙏💐

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

🙏🙏💐💐 Remembering your Mom. They are still with us every day, always.

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

👍👍 Always liked the early songs you mentioned, even when there was no Sirius and we didn't know whose they were. We still hear them regularly. We also saw Firefall in one of its incarnations. Lesson for the kiddies though: we missed their lead in (Poco) because we failed to get our parking 🦆🦆🦆in a row in a timely fashion....

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

And I've always thought so highly of rugs and kitchen islands.... 🤔. Inspiring that he was able to claw his way back.

[@rocketpost1]

Loved a track he did with Firefall called Cinderella which had some amazing slide guitar from Jock Bartley.

[@Joesfosterdogs]

My dad passed almost 6 years ago...condolences. Lyle and His Large Band on Austin City Limits tonight. KZbin needs a search for older videos. Firefall was a great band.

[@thomasbenson523]

Thank you. We’re lucky to still have Rick with us. I hate the term “soft rock”. To me it implies “less than”. I like Americana. It may be a little “one size fits all” but I’m sticking with it until someone comes up with a better term. Leland, you’re the best. I would love to been a fly in your bass case at your sessions. I know you appreciate the recordings you played on.

[@davidmarais1048]

Sending love on this sad day, Lee. I’m sure your mom is looking down and you with great love and pride.

[@RenatoPastorello13]

Leland, Happy New Year! 🇧🇷

[@larrypaul8688]

I got to meet Rick on that notorious Byrds reunion tour (a great show with A list players). He was such a nice guy and took the time to address everyone who approached him. My favorite RR tune, Four Days of Rain.

[@ronfreeman5857]

Well said Lee, lost my parents long time ago now, but just seems they are close, like just around the corner..😎✌❤ Peace and Love to all..

[@GaryBook]

The Beatles also use “Beat” in Beatles as a reference to Allen Ginsburg and the Beat poets, so it was spelled with an “A.”

[@artemisXsidecross]

👍

[@enidsnarb]

Like a combination between Aaron Neville and John Fogerty vocally ! Thank You As Always!

[@emschiller4479]

Our hardest loss is the loss of our mother! I lost my mom over 30 years ago! The holidays are always the toughest - She decorated every corner of the house - I do the same every year! ❤️🎄❤️ My condolences to Linda and her family! ❤️💔❤️

[@SoundsFair--M-and-J]

Was just thinking about Don Henley (and Bruce Hornsby) today. "The End of the Innocence" definitely needs a revisit by somebody.

[@stephenspencer4672]

My mom passed in 1999. I still think about her alot. Sorry you lost your mom. The anniversary of her passing is always a cause for remembrance. 😢❤ sorry to hear of the passing of Linda Ronstadt's brother.

[@gustavoviveros8394]

Thank you Lee 👋🏻

[@noelbowerman1562]

I feel for your loss ,so many good folk ,departing ,far too young ,a friend, (very pro vaccination) Had his 6th booster ,a bit over a week ago ,was found dead the next day ,his funeral is on Thursday, as a keen biker ,an essential, part of our club ,we will do a ride out for ,his send off.

[@davediamond9436]

i understand your sadness over your mother ..my mother's birthday was January first ..she passed in 1973 at the age of 54 ..and i still grieve. on Rick , even though i liked gram parsons, rick is a better vocalist and he fit well with the flying burrito brothers ..

[@cbfall]

My sincere condolences,Lee.

[@Funkybassplayer]

Hey lee. It’s touch losing your mother. I know all about that. Deep down all men are mamas boys. When we were younger and we got hurt, physically or mentally. We all were running to our moms. To get comfort. No matter what our moms would always be there for us. If you want to revisit other artists you have featured already. I can give you some suggestions. Bret McKenzie, patrick Simmons, Jeff Pryor or Daniel Lima. All are phenomenal singers (still listening to them) and are worth revisiting. Very soothing tunes lee. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 greeting sir.

[@soulhealer20]

It's a good thing to remember or Moms. Blessings to them.

[@TheGigmiester101]

Your mom sounded absolutely awesome…we never ever forget them!! 🥲🥲

[@patriceodom2553]

Hi Leland! I am watching you with Lyle at Austn City Limits. "On the tv" ❤🎉 Have e to finish this video after

[@cohalensadventures5331]

Marc Benno was the other half of Asylum Choir with Leon Russell

[@artemisXsidecross]

👍

[@ditchgator1]

😎👍👍 😎✌👍❤🖖 Love Brother

[@splashesin8]

Hugs for the missing of your mom💗

[@buzzsmith8146]

Thanks, Lee.

[@BasicDrumming]

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

[@m1nn1s]

Evening Leland 🧙🏼‍♂️ 💖 ☮️ Warm thoughts for your mom,Leland 🧙🏼‍♂️ 💖 ☮️ 💢 🙏 ☮️✝️ ☯️ Prayers for Linda's brother ,Peter.🙏✝️☮️☯️... Thanks for Rick Roberts 🎶 🎸 🎸 🥁 🎤 🎹 .. Special Healing energy ⚡ to Maureen ,yourself and the boys 🐾 🐾 🐾 🧙🏼‍♂️ ☮️ 💖

[@carolcorrigan3130]

Hi, Andy . From Mama Trafford Corrigan .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@m1nn1s]

@carolcorrigan3130 Hi, Mama Carol Trafford Corrigan 🇮🇪 🍀 🇺🇸 ☮️ 🧙🏼‍♂️ 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 💞 Good to hear from you 🙏 ☮️ ✝️ ☯️ 💕

[@FreedomRock44]

Ohhhh man I have not heard anyone say it is 2025 since New Years Eve.......SO weird to hear!!!!!

[@johngolden4468]

Hi Leland, Your bluegrass friend John, from Tennessee here. I have been trying to keep up with the fires in your area. Not sure if you're under evacuation orders in Pasadena or not. I did see where there are some fires in your area. I pray that you and yours are safe as well as your home. Not sure if you'll have a chance to give us an update by video or not. Please keep us posted if you can. Your friend, John

[@kjbunnyboiler]

Evening Leland👍👍

[@m1nn1s]

Evening KJ - BB 🧙🏼‍♂️ 💖 ☮️

[@kjbunnyboiler]

@ 👍👍

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@kjbunnyboiler Hello! 🖐✌️

[@kjbunnyboiler]

@ evening 👍👍

[@lelandsklar6363]

Happy New Year

[@Ajgreetings]

I miss your mom so much

[@tressinar]

I feel the same way Leland. I feel so lonely.

[@jstnxprsn]

You're not alone, my friend. We're here with you. Hang in there. It'll get better.

[@tressinar]

@jstnxprsn i really really appreciate it. Last year we lost our 22 year old daughter...epilepsy. Seizure

[@jstnxprsn]

@@tressinar I am so sorry, my friend. Parents should never outlive their children. I lost both my parents at this point, but they live on in my heart and I can still hear their advice in my head, when I'm screwing up in some way. I hope you have that comfort with your daughter's memory. Sending virtual hug.

[@tressinar]

@jstnxprsn those kind words are everything to me.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Hello Leland and everyone! 🖐✌️

[@m1nn1s]

Hello Dwayne, Alberta 🍁 🇨🇦 💖 Andy ⛵ 🛥️ Whitstable 🧙🏼‍♂️ 🇬🇧

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@m1nn1s Hello Andy! 🖐✌️

[@FreedomRock44]

Thanks for RIck!

[@9Ridgeroad]

I hear bellowing hounds.

[@marygiuranna6817]

Good Saturday afternoon Lee. Have things quieted down since the Rose bowl parade is over?

[@FreedomRock44]

Telepathic Flowers sent in honor of TRUDY(sp?). Picture your Mom's favorite FLowers in a vase!!! A Mom's Prayer: She was a pillar, a gift of love, a treasure to my soul. Always caring, ever kind, and giving, even as she grew old. To me, she was a lovely mum, to you a beloved child. I could only know her a little, you knew her spirit deep inside. Whilst waves of grief break over me, crushing like a storm, You've greeted her with a warm embrace, and gently called her home. It's silent and so empty here, since she passed away, and yet she will hear celebration, called forever into grace. My memories are treasures now, I'll value, keep and sow, I know she's taken all her riches, left the chaff, and worn the gold! As time passes, I'll forget the hurt and pain she bore, For now, she's free, restored, and peaceful, in your arms forevermore. I'll let each bulb, each bud, each bloom, sing to me of your love. For you reign in eternity, and I'll wait for your kingdom to come. Thank you for my special mum, I trust her to your care, we rest in your arms secure and safe, we are both children there.

[@RalphOnofrio]

Great music,as usual.Loved Firefall....Have you had any copyright issues?I've had friends videos that were taken down.And their own band!!...

[@cohalensadventures5331]

2pm pacific standard time!

[@gotham61]

I think I can empathize with your thoughts about your mom. I lost my dad 16 years ago. And while my mom is still alive, in reality we lost her to Alzheimer's nearly eight years ago. I saw her last week, but she hasn't recognized me for years.

[@douglasdegraff8335]

Geez, how negligent of me. She is a Song was the 2nd album of his. My brain fart. Stay safe Leland and Family.

[@andreashaw4395]

So sorry Lee about your Mom Trudy

[@FreedomRock44]

Rick has a Neil Young sound to him a little.