I wasn’t going to post this picture because I thought it looked fake, but antlady encouraged me yesterday. Helen shouted to me “Tom, it’s really yellow outside” and sure enough it was. The picture is an accurate representation of what it really looked like and is completely untouched and uncropped. Even after 8 months here, the different colours still startle me on occasion.
And on the subject of Mellow Yellow, here is the studio version of Donavon singing that song accompanied by some pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DgszzXOo0
But here is a simply marvellous clip of him playing live for 9 minutes, with Mellow Yellow being the last song. This just has to be the ultimate hippy clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jSf8GguV88&feature=related
It’s rather curious to look back now and remember that the great DJ John Peel said when Donovan came out that he was “a more important artist than Bob Dylan”. I wonder if he ever regretted saying that?
John Paul Jones (later of Led Zeppelin) plays the bass on the studio version of this song.
So, a question: What do you think the song is about?
Cheers, Tom.