Dan Peek on Phil Hartman
John - I'm sure some of the stuff you had was never released on CD and what about America demo stuff?
Dan - Let me tell you I had a great tape of Phil Hartman from Saturday Night Live Fame who was also a very talented graphic artist and painter in addition to being a great writer, actor and comedian. Anyway, Phil was John Hartman's brother who managed us for a number of years and one night Phil came over and we did this amazing recording of him singing "Lonely People." He did it as Johnny Cash and he gave this funny story at the beginning that actually happened to him while he was in west Texas. The story was about him driving down the highway in a middle of a blizzard (laughing) it was funny and it was priceless.
John - He was such a talented man.
Dan - Yeah, he was.
John - Other than sitting in on a live TV taping of John Bradshaw, the only other live taping I've ever been to was an episode of News Radio with Phil. He had the audience in stitches between takes.
Dan - You know his brother John had hired him to do graphics for us before Saturday Night Live and I think he did covers for the "History" and "Harbor" album. He did a painting for the "Harbor" album of a mermaid on a rock. It's hard to find I think it's in the "Harbor" songbook and maybe on some promotional material or the first pressing of "Harbor". Before I had ever met him he left me a message on my answering machine of Jimmy Carter and it was so spot on I was totally losing it thinking it's actually the president. (laughing) He was spooky he could imitate so many people.
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Dan - Let me tell you I had a great tape of Phil Hartman from Saturday Night Live Fame who was also a very talented graphic artist and painter in addition to being a great writer, actor and comedian. Anyway, Phil was John Hartman's brother who managed us for a number of years and one night Phil came over and we did this amazing recording of him singing "Lonely People." He did it as Johnny Cash and he gave this funny story at the beginning that actually happened to him while he was in west Texas. The story was about him driving down the highway in a middle of a blizzard (laughing) it was funny and it was priceless.
John - He was such a talented man.
Dan - Yeah, he was.
John - Other than sitting in on a live TV taping of John Bradshaw, the only other live taping I've ever been to was an episode of News Radio with Phil. He had the audience in stitches between takes.
Dan - You know his brother John had hired him to do graphics for us before Saturday Night Live and I think he did covers for the "History" and "Harbor" album. He did a painting for the "Harbor" album of a mermaid on a rock. It's hard to find I think it's in the "Harbor" songbook and maybe on some promotional material or the first pressing of "Harbor". Before I had ever met him he left me a message on my answering machine of Jimmy Carter and it was so spot on I was totally losing it thinking it's actually the president. (laughing) He was spooky he could imitate so many people.
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