Linda Ronstadt: Parkinson's Took My Singing Voice

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 8/23/2013 | Sophie Schillaci

[antceecee]

My sweet baby and I use to go to the Golden Bear and see her with the Stone Ponies.... She was not the America hater then that she became... Sad.

[SeminoleCounty]

Why does Linda Rondstadt always sing at the same speed?
She has a governor on her.

Old joke. (I’m showing my age)

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LOL...still funny

[newfreep]

Incredible voice/singer.

Many moons ago I was involved with a woman who was the spittin’ image of LR during her younger years.

Now LR looks literally like a fat pig who just needs an apple stuck in her mouth. A nasty marxist hypocrite who whines America took a part of mehico - definitely one of the LA Raza crowd.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Jerry Brown (CA Governor) might want to seek consultation with a neurologist as well...

[dennisw]

was very good in her day!!!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Who's that guy Parkinson who took her voice?

Was he in the Alan Parkinsons Project?

The Seventies. Man how time flies. Jimmy Carter II in the White House and Governor Moonbean in Caliphony.

[a fool in paradise]

Linda Ronstadt: Parkinson's Took My Singing Voice

She's got her explanation lined up. What's Bob Dylan's excuse?

[rktman]

Better when she was with the Stone Pony’s. She obviously toked and snorted a little to much with moonbeam brown back when they were an item. Liberalism and poor judgement made her a didiot.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I just sampled “What’s New” on iTunes...magnificent, indeed. Wasn’t my cup of tea when I was 32. I really only knew Ronstadt from her Stone Poneys days and Canciones de mi Padre work. She has an amazing range.

[yarddog]

Thank you. That makes it easier to explain why she was lip synching so perfectly.

She was actually singing.

[AtlasStalled]

I’m so sorry to hear this about Linda R.

When I heard her version of Heat Wave for the first time over the radio it was love upon first listen!

[AtlasStalled]

I really only knew Ronstadt from her Stone Poneys days

I forgot about that! Thanks for the reminder.

[saleman]

She and Lowell George were great friends and collaborators as well as Emmy Lou Harris. Many of the artists of the late 60’s and 70’s were very supportive of each other. A hell’uva time in music. Won’t ever see those days again. Love’em or hate’em.

But she was a beauty back in the day. Ya’ll give her a break! She is 68 years old. And sick....

[krunkygirl]

ahhh, max, you prove
my point-—you pulled off
the Stephen Harper thing,
right? lol

anyway, i’ll be watching.
never say n——!

kf/nancy

[newfreep]

She sang back-up on quite a few tracks for others...

Heart of Gold - Neil Young
African Skies - Paul Simon
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon (with Jennifer Warnes)

just to name a few...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I had no idea...thanks.

[ChildOfThe60s]

she’s one of the biggest brain-dead GOP and Bush haters around. During the Iraq war, this twat bitched about conservatives and the Iraq war like we were the plague.

I can't disagree with that. The level of hate she has expressed over the year for conservatives is extremely sickening.

But...not that God would mete out horrible diseases to people on my say so anyway, but....I don't think that way. What I want for hateful people like her is for the people and ideas she supports to be her undoing, to be the instrument of her punishment. Hey, if the left went after her for one of their nutty reasons and destroyed her career to the point where she was living on the street, I'd be fine with that. She enabled them, she'd be fine with them doing it to me. Fits the crime.

Martha Stewart wasn't guilty of squat. But she would have stood by silently while her liberal compatriots destroyed a conservative for the same non crime. So, do I give a damn about how she was done wrong? Nope.

But I won't gloat over someone getting a horrible disease. Exception of course would be Bill Clinton getting AIDS from some woman he sexually assaulted. Punishment appropriate and related to the crime. That works for me.

[max americana]

and watch the Conjuring’, I have “something” to do with it ;)

[gov_bean_ counter]

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's a year ago. I basically was forced my Mrs. GBC to see a neurologist at UAB. Turns out he is currently conducting a study funded by the Michael J Fox Foundation for early Parkinson's patients not being medicated. I have multiple symptoms, but don't have the reduced dopamine levels yet. Saw the neurologist last week and he (and I) fully expect the next DAT Scan to show changes.

I know you already know this but don't ignore the little things. Dragging you foot every now and then. Maybe moving a little slower. If you exercise, maybe the muscle recovery time is a little longer. Mild almost indistinguishable tremor. Maybe you drop things a little more often. Maybe your arms don't swing as much as they used to. Depend on you spouse, significant other or family members observations.

It is too easy for a GP to pass it off to aging. Denial is what gets most people in trouble.

[wku man]

And you can go on and on from there.

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, but not Kansas? Public Enemy, but not Kiss? Jimmy Cliff, but not Journey? The Beastie Boys, but not Stevie Ray Vaughan? Run DMC, but not Cheap Trick? Give me a break!!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!