Why do I like John Denver????

[aquaman]

I love his stuff, I can listen to Slayer and enjoy it, but then put in John Denver and enjoy it just as much.

[johnnie]

1. He was good

John had a very clean and classic way to look at the clear blue sky. John Denver was a great songwriter.

[aquaman]

7. I was born in the 70's

His music takes me back......I recently saw the PBS special that he made about two months before he died and once again realized what an environmentalist he was.

[alittlelark]

9. Yet another small plane crash....

[aquaman]

14. I hope that you did not mean it that way......

[Arugula Latte]

2. He fills up your senses?

:shrug:

Maybe you're a country boy (thank god!)

Maybe you're Rocky Mountain High?

Or maybe you're just friggin' nuts! ;-)

[Archae]

3. He really enjoyed performing and recording too.

He just looked and sounded like he had fun performing.

[nytemare]

4. Dude, "Take me Home, Country Roads" was a cool song

I loved his stuff. I just recently downloaded "Take me Home", and the song was as good as I remembered it. The music was pure, and he was singing from a pure place, save a couple of beers. :)

[Ladyhawk]

5. Necrophilia? :D n/t

[NightTrain]

6. Why question it? If you like the man's music, just enjoy the stuff!

Life is difficult enough without driving yourself nuts over why you like a particular musical artist. Am I right?

[aquaman]

10. Nightrain, you are a musical genius

I am listening to John Denver as loud as my stereo goes, you the man.

[NightTrain]

17. Always glad to help out a fellow musichead!

Personally, I'm not a big John Denver fan, but I do like both "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Thank God I'm A Country Boy." And I was sorry that he died in that plane crash.

[genius]

8. He won't be releasing any bad CDs this year.

I liked Denver. But I just couldn't pass up the comment.

[MADem]

11. He made good tunes, but he was a horrible kid in his youth

He used to beat up younger kids for their lunch money, made fun of them, was mean and nasty to them--a schoolyard bully. I knew a fellow who was a few years older than him, and who beat the living shit out of him with a golf club because Mr. Rocky Mountain High made the mistake of beating up on his learning-disabled younger brother and taking the kid's lunch money quarter, and from the telling of it all, it came off as more than well deserved. The guy who administered the beating was not a meanass, but he didn't take much in the way of crap from anyone.

He may have filled up your senses, but as a kid he was a bully.

And then there's the question of Annie: she got a song, but he dumped her. Asshole!

Not a saint, that fellow....yeah, he is dead, ain't that a shame, but he's not quite ripe for canonization, at least not yet.

When I think of Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., I think of a mean, cowardly bully who picked on the weak and disabled...but that is just me! Your mileage may well vary!

[aquaman]

12. So, what are you saying????

[MADem]

19. That when he was in high school

...in TX, I think, (the guy who told me the story was a Texan, former military, who worked for a large defense-related company) that he was a mean kid. I heard this story back in the 70's, at a party overseas with a large military and civilian attendance, when a John Denver tune was playing on the record player--it came up in the course of that light chit-chat that goes on at these events. I found it surprising, and as a consequence I never forgot it. Never thought about it much since, really, except when his name comes up.

The source for the story was the guy who said he wielded the golf club in defense of his little brother. The golf club swinger was a quiet, mild mannered type, high security clearance, intelligent, not agressive or hypermacho, but not the type to take any crap, either.

I found his story credible, surprising, and a bit amusing (at the time, anyway).

[Arugula Latte]

13. No way! John Denver as a schoolyard bully?!

That puts a new twist on his image!

[caledesi]

15. Bit of "trivia" perhaps?

Annie Denver was my brother's psychotherapist for about a year when he lived in Aspen.

He told me how nice she was and that one time before he died, he ventured out to the grocery store and just couldn't make it to his car and sat on the sidewalk feeling very weak and on the verge of tears (he was pretty damn sick). So along comes Annie Denver and drives him home.

Read JD's autobiography. Very good. Honest.

I miss him and he had some GREAT stories about some of the celebs in Aspen!

[LilKim]

16. 'Rocky Mountain High' was the only song of his I could stand.

[AlCzervik]

20. i liked than one too until i saw Final Destination

now it creeps me out, not his fault though.

[Bzzzz]

18. I loved John Denver's music...

and still do. I saw him at Market Square Arena in 1975...he was awesome.