Leo Kottke - Pamela Brown (live)

[@unterwant]

so ... I was very very very unhappy to miss Leo Kottke playing in my neighbour town in germany in the 80's waving to Leo and Pamela with a smile on my face !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🍀🍀🍀🎼🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵

[@ShikataGaNai100]

I've been playing since 1966...and that shit is just not possible for normal humans, which is why we have Leo Kottke.

[@dandille3101]

I've told people before that what they're hearing is just one guy on one guitar, and no multiple tracks. Some of them didn't believe me.

[@johnpod]

How do you get that much sound out of one instrument?! Leo was (is) a true 12 string playing genius. Kudos to the late Tom T Hall for writing this little gem, but Leo makes it his own. I always wished he’d sung more often on his albums, I find his baritone very pleasant and enjoyable.

[@mandolino77]

He compared his own singing voice to "greased monkey farts."

[@PROFESSOR-I.C.]

Thanks goes to Tom T. Hall for writing this great song. And to Leo Kottke for singing and playing has 12 string beautifully. One of my all time favorite songs.

[@letemroll7871]

Didn´t know T wrote it. Thanks!

[@matthiasslavik3403]

I love this song. He reminds me when I was 15 years old

[@pbrazor50]

R.I.P Tom T. Hall, the composer of "Pamela Brown."

[@josephlemko3027]

I have had the pleasure of seeing this talented man twice. First, he opened for Judy Collins at The Schaeffer Beer Concerts at Central Park NYC in 1971. I saw Kottke open for Procol Harum at The Felt Forum, NYC, 1974. Both times the man was incrediable. In fact he was asked by Procol Harum to jam with them. In my opinion, that is an honor. 😇✌️

[@DanPurdy1]

That slide on the 12 string adds so much. As if two were playing separate guitars.

[@auricgoldfinger8478]

Just saw him last weekend at Chautauqua in Boulder. 78 and still sings this song

[@tabrizkeshan]

I will never forget being there for Kottke's live performance of _Pamela Brown_ at a Tulane Univesity concert circa 1973-4. The beautiful sound of his voice and the sound of his guitar playing were far beyond anything I have ever heard before or since in any recording. It filled the auditorium.

[@Timbo777LR]

I love this song for 2 reasons, the obvious is; it’s Leo and he’s so good, I’ve seen him in concert twice in Portsmouth, NH both times, around 1987-88. I got there an hour early to get a good seat, sat about 2 rows back from him so he was about 20 feet away, as a guitar player I wanted to see all his fingers, all the time! He is hilarious between songs, and his dry sarcastic humor is so funny! The second reason I love this particular song is, I was in love with a girl named Pamela (Taylor, not Brown) and after 3 years of dating I was about to ask her to marry me. I was about to leave New Hampshire for Air Force pilot training in Del Rio, Texas. I would be gone about 18 months. Before I asked her to marry me I asked her what she was going to do while I was away. I thought she would say, “I’ll wait for you to come home.” And then I would ask her to marry me. But instead she said, “I think we should date other people.” I was stunned. Speechless really. Completely shocked. I told her she would never find anyone who loved her as much as I did, and I meant it, but she didn’t want to wait for me to get through pilot training so….we broke up, after 3 years, age 20-23. Well I went off to Del Rio and man I tore it up, women wise! Just like the guy in the song, I thank Pamela for, “…all of my good times, all my roaming’round!” 5 years later at age 28 I finally did meet my (now) wife and settled down, bought a house, raised 4 kids, etc but man, for those 5 years I was having too much fun, and I guess I owe it all to Pamela Taylor.

[@klarifoon]

Great story, thanks to Pamela.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Believe it or not, I saw Kottke in 1973 open up for both Frank Zappa and Mahavishnu Orchestra at the Providence Civic Center. A huge place with lousy acoustics, but Leo played the hell out of his 12-string. He was extremely energized and even borderline manic at times while he was improvising. I give him a lot of credit for making do in a challenging setting. The crowd, as I recall, seemed to like him.

[@klarifoon]

Quite easy to believe....

[@leeron3]

The first time I saw Leo live the first thing he said was " I got my shirt tucked in so far under my ass I'm choking myself to death" He is an awesome guitar player and funny as hell.

[@9UaYXxB]

Monster guitar performance, beautiful , kept me rapt

[@garethleitner9547]

Thanks Pamela!

[@Scotseasy]

Ace guitarist, Leo Kottke, with such a pleasant singing voice too.

[@karlbender2292]

it is life,so i think that none of the singers of today could ever be as good as him, best guitar and best voice ever

[@johnhoman6908]

Truly miss him Playing at the Woodstock Opera House in Woodstock, IL. Classic old venue in the home of "Groundhog Day"

[@adanacman666]

playing slide, open tuning, on a 12 string,i get dizzy just thinking about it,

[@lightninrodpbn]

WOW .... AWESOME !!!! ....

[@marymcgivney9041]

Iove this song bring back to the 80s❤💋❤

[@klarifoon]

Agree, those were the dsys of music.

[@marymcgivney9041]

@@klarifoon have heard this song sence the 80s Pamela brown great one the way it goes ❤

[@phantomblott1]

Bought the album :Ice Water, in the early 70's just for the, Pamala Brown song. Unusual to see the 12 string played with the slide.

[@gened9787]

WONDERFUL!

[@Spitfireseven]

Yea thanks for posting this great video. It's just great.

[@davidcurtis7547]

Saw Leo last year here in Grand Rapids . Good stuff , still some shine . Of course the 12 string is a thing of the past . Fun for an old guy like us

[@randyminnick5031]

Amazing talent! Thanks for sharing!

[@klarifoon]

My pleasure!

[@ellen672]

What a treat finding this, thank you! One of my favorite Kottke performances.

[@aglindh]

Greatest Gee-tar player nobody ever heard of. Thanks for uploading this, great audio track. Great song too.

[@richardjones1975]

Tom T. Hall wrote a great song. I play this on a 12 string with slide!! Thanks Mr. Leo Kottke

[@livewellandfree]

Thank you for sharing. I was privileged to see him play this two days ago at the Grand Theatre in Frankfort Kentucky. I have been listening to him since 1978, and saw him once before about ten years ago.

[@klarifoon]

Glad you like it. A fantastisch guitarplayer and performer who made me want to learn hoe to play guitar. Unfortunately he seems not to perform in Europe anymore.. Still hope he’ll reconsider

[@livewellandfree]

I hope we both get to see him again, although his is now 73 years old, and although he played strong, he is more frail than when I saw he before.

[@notsure64]

Leo is awesome still!

[@chucku.farleyii3181]

A national treasure!

[@janhoggart]

An international treasure!

[@pipo2022]

Geweldige versie, doet me weer denken aan de 70's optredens in de stadsschouwburg en de Doelen in Rotterdam, gewoon hartje Rotterdam de ene week Rory Gallagher, dan Ry Cooder, en niet te vergeten Neerlands Hoop, helaas komt dit nooit meer terug. Bedankt

[@klarifoon]

Tja, daar noem je inderdaad namen en tijden van weleer. Toch mooi om op terug te kunnen kijken!

[@paulatkinson4439]

EXACTLY !

[@MrJojogun]

Leo plays like he's riding the back of that junebug in flight...simply magnificent!!!!!!

[@canaan_perry]

Leo is the man -- awesome tune.

[@filamfamtravel]

Leo is a beast!!!!

[@DirkjeA]

heard this guy so many years ago for the first time, still rocks me of my feet

[@artplaut7208]

A raw youth Great player

[@MrJojogun]

1974...Last year of a 4 year Hitch...Jerry Kinsey's brother Toad Hall of Krazy Dog Krazy Boy fm Phoenix fame wakes me up every morning to Leo Kottke's song cover Buckaroo...so I can go protect the world....USAF 607th TAC Trained Killer...RIP TOAD and thanks for the memories klarifoon.!!! Sure wish there was Buckaroo live.

[@BobKovacs]

Channel 4 in Washington, DC (WRC, the NBC station) has a beautiful blonde reporter named Pamela Brown, and I always think of this song when I see her. Great song and a nice video, and it's wonderful to find this on KZbin. Thanks!

[@monesqe]

great performance and song

[@JoeTillGuitars]

I remember every word of Leo's story about Božo Podunavac and how he would include the cost of his hospital stays from working with abalone. Royce Hall, UCLA, 1979. That led to me learning more about Božo which led to me becoming a guitar builder, myself. Of course, I'm no Bozo.

[@klarifoon]

Bozo's aren't nice to look at, way to overdone, but strong and big sound.

[@TomRaw-sd6xd]

One of his tunes is called : "The Driving of the Year Nail"

[@Supadupa54]

Ice water is a record that changed my life, great performance here

[@darrenjray]

Thanks so much for posting. Saw Leo in about '99. Front row, middle seat! Interesting that he's doing it here in E when his own original version (yep, a great cover) on Ice Water is in C.

[@MrJohnnydownunder]

Would you know what he's tuned to in this incredible rendition, been unsuccessfully trying this for ages.

[@thomasramsey6942]

I suppose it's the depth of the guitar sound and the slide was so perfect. And with a Tom T. Hall song. I never even tried to play like him but the influence is in a lot of good music.

[@Staylogical]

Great players always seem attracted to great writers.Never cover the flavor of the day,or even the decade.[Except for Richard Thompson doing Britney Spears,tongue in cheek.] Kottke does this Tom T Hall song proud.

[@Horseservant]

Ha ha! I always felt this song summed up my life!

[@monicacubberly-early1901]

Can't you play that guitar any faster Leo? Just kidding, love Leo and his singing and his playing God bless you Leo from Patrick

[@ibreakwind2]

I like my old vinyl Leo Kottke albums and I have been a fan for about 40 years.I think these videos of live performance by Kottke (and others of folk/blues genre) are better. Too often studio producers take the work of an artist like Kottke and over-produce until what is good about the musician is lost in track upon track of unnecessary enhancement Damn modern recordings ability to combine an unlimited number of tracks. Imagine Alan Lomax with a good video recorder!

[@gatorclaw]

I'm the guy that married Pamela Brown and she's a real pain in the arse. I really was the best part of Leo's luck.

[@WilliaminOz]

Yeah but do you still have the truck?

[@robertmott-smith433]

First time I heard him, he opened Loggins and Messina and after I felt he should have been the Headliner.

[@mikehowell7666]

i was lucky to sit front row center at the great south east music hall in atlanta, what a show.

[@klarifoon]

lucky devil!

[@duinnerfs]

Geese pharts on a muggy day, you wouldn't have a Kottke performance of From the Cradle to the Grave by chance? Thanks for posting. . .

[@larryghan2318]

An yes Leo before the ‘gray set in’!

[@brendanman30]

I just found out about Leo Kottke today from talking to Ewan Dobson. Never thought I'd discover a great musician by talking to another great musician. lol

[@daf827]

Ha! We're all getting old! Speaking of farts, I remember seeing Leo at McCarter Theater at Princeton back in the '70s (if bad memory serves) and he asked the audience, 'Does anyone know if fish fart?" If anyone did, he asked that they reply in care of his record label (Capitol at the time). His sense of humor is as good as his picking. The album with the ice cubes was called "Ice Water." I still own the vinyl (as well as 6&12 String Guitar" and several other LK gems.

[@joecburke]

This was done for an audience in Germany, so I'm pretty sure they did not "get" this song, so the applause is respectful, but not fully cognizant of what the song was about or how good this guitar playing is.

[@klarifoon]

Agreed on this statement.

[@volkerke5315]

Greetings from Germany!

[@thegolem797]

Looks like a tough crowd - but wonderfully played anyway.

[@roundmidnightsuttree]

That is the Gibson 12 string that was stolen in Portland, OR when Kottke stopped at a convenience store and left it in an unlocked car for 5 minutes. Good sounding instrument but the Taylors are also just killer and not sure what he is playing now.

[@donaldmatson4453]

All of my good times, all of my runnin' around. Uh huh

[@hermanjustice7338]

Who was the inspiration For this. Pamela from cnn. Maybe, could be.

[@sanclementekid]

The sweetest girl I knew married a guy from Fresno, because he drove a pick up truck....many Pamela Browns.

[@havcg1]

HA HA HA GREAT old memory HA HA HA HA HA

[@uneedtherapy42]

Leo is the ultimate groove master... stated by Michael Hedges

[@lindseywalker6925]

He's so good a guitar out of tune sounds good.

[@Scottie1152]

@feristelli Leo normally plays this tune on a cutaway guitar and in this clip he isn't, looks like he's playin a Gibson standard. Anyhoo, that segment above the 12th fret almost looks like he started to play it, then thought better of it, then decided to do it anyway. Harder to get in there around 15-16-17-18 without the cutaway body. On the other hand Leo can do any damn thing on any guitar ever made and then some! Lol

[@drmattdenver]

he is still touring (2010) Unbelievable in concert.

[@tuguybear]

I bet there are alot of guys and girls too that are pleased about one that got away.

[@daf827]

"geese farts on a muggy day" - I believe he made that crack on "My Feet Are Smiling", a live album recorded in the '70s in Minneapolis.

[@darrenjray]

ozarkcacti, I think it's still a 12-string. It's just that he has one black bridge pin.

[@maxwellbowden9961]

It helps If your right thumb knuckle bends at 90 degrees

[@kenmackie]

Still amazing

[@bluesanni2422]

ken Mackie So it is!!! Thank you ❤️

[@kenmackie]

check out tom t hall he wrote it..but you know that already

[@tomorr7371]

Tom T Hall

[@jerrymcgrath3662]

I wish Leo n duane could have played together

[@daf827]

Pamela Brown appeared originally on "Ice Water"

[@BasementEngineer]

A ~year-old post from 'nigol' on RCCanada.com brought me here. Man can this guy ever play axe!

[@limeplasterer2766]

I love how some of the audience seem a little disinterested - its amazing when someone is literally 'walking on water' and some smuck in a polyester shirt, drinking third rate white wine - is looking at his wife and thinking 'probably be too tired tonight'...

[@klarifoon]

🤣

[@spk8489]

What the fuck is wrong with the audience? I'd be swaying around and smiling ear to ear

[@grtflmark]

They're European.....

[@richardhill445]

grtflmark worse, they're German.

[@BasementEngineer]

+Richard Hill Oh God, not Germans!!! Heheheh rock on eh!

[@vilstef6988]

At least they aren't like too many American audiences: talking their fool heads off so the people who want to hear the performance get a truly degraded experience.

[@diddymuck]

zis is Churmany! Ve do not svay here!

[@nickandmikec]

I have for years thought Leo Kottke wrote this song. Tom T. Hall wrote it. I prefer Kottke's version.

[@gwynnielsen5081]

Leo reminds me a little bit of Johnny Cash.

[@jonjohnson4804]

Great version of Tom T. Hall song

[@DirkjeA]

@backlizard , he passed away I think? Dón't know exactly when, but I do know he is no longer among the living, and a sad miss for us all

[@FredPinkertonIII]

13 years after your speculation, I'm glad to report that a 77 year old Leo K. is currently touring!

[@drmattdenver]

Thanks to Magnolia for dumping me in 2010. Set me free to see the world.

[@josephhazell3012]

The shaking of his hand and return to picking; was this during the time he was having tendon problems?

[@klarifoon]

Could be. I once read an interview (around 1981) in which he mentioned to swear off the fingerpicks, and had trouble getting used playing without thumbick. Problably indicators of his tendonitis.

[@josephhazell3012]

ty

[@jean-paulraillat3293]

en saintongeais : olé ine boune music o zou fait virouner mon thieur

[@DrSamba1]

@gatorclaw Do you drive a pickup truck?

[@RobertSainRockStar]

There is a God!

[@timothyfish1641]

I read through the comments and it seems like a lotta folks ain’t quite gettin’ it. This song is incredibly sad and sarcastic.

[@MrJojogun]

@gatorclaw Everyone's got to play their part gator...just keep on keepin on my brother of another mother.

[@daf827]

Actually, I don't. What did Mr. Fields say?

[@Maverick2]

I knew a pretty gal named Pamela Erickson that almost married my friend Paul Brown and this song would have been perfect if that happened - I dated her before he did

[@jsipflatpickd28]

Haha, leo explained how he got on this tv show at the Fermi Lab concert... He said his tour guide / translator told him if we wants go out and talk to the host, the funny thing was, it's a cooking show. He spoke about how he wishes some of these memories weren't on youtube.... yes he does watch us!!! yikes.

[@johnnycoyo]

except he's not heartbroken ...he's grateful :))))

[@aprilglaspieable]

Reminds me of Buffy playing big 'lectric guitar.

[@nolanyoung4480]

What open tuning is he using?

[@klarifoon]

Open G, few steps lower tuned..analogue DGDGBD.

[@Scottie1152]

@ronaldsneakfreek You want to do whaa-aat??? wow man.... strange reaction to greatness...

[@duinnerfs]

Pamela brown, was she a re head?

[@dlanoresni]

I´d agree. the best Kottke is himself alive, without any disturbing drums bass and something. So I like "Greenhouse" and "Live in Europe". Everybody from Germany remembered that "ROCKPALAST", Leo playing "Eight miles high", with his sonor timbre, without "funny music" drums. If someone got it put on youtube....

[@rogerdahl2764]

Tom T. Hall song