Rosa's Cantina / David Cassidy, Bryan Garofalo

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The RCA albums..so wonderful and still so unknown. There are some DC fans who have no idea about them. Of course there are  reasons for it. This is also his 'fault'. So much hard work, so many hopes and in the end ..nothing.

The time after The World Tour was very difficult for David Cassidy. So later, many times  when he was asked about those years, 1974-1977, he used to say that he hadn't done anything at all..As if he didn't released those albums..

'The years from my retirement in May 1974, at the age of 24, up to about 1980 were the darkest I've ever known. (..) I couldn't sleep and there was no joy to being awake, so I tried to dull my existence one way or another. The clean-living hard-working vegetarian turned into this guy who was willing to try anything to take him outside of himself, I didn't care'. And he wrote about the RCA records : ' It was a very dark period for me, so I've tended to disconnect myself from that material.' (David Cassidy : Could It Be Forever?, 2007)

At the end of 1976 he lost his father and later Ruth Aarons who for him was much more than a manager.

There is an interview with DC from 1976 which is difficult to watch, he looked so exhausted, so changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYP3ex1dxz0&t=153s

But (I think) nothing is just black or white, and DC also enjoyed working with those wonderful musicians with whom he recorded his albums. Especially while making 'Gettin' It In The Street'. made at the famous Caribou Ranch recording studio, in the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado. They were young, attractive and famous..

'We had a lot of fun there. We went horseback riding every day and there was plenty of frivolity - lots of very pretty girls worked there..'

'Rosa's Cantina' , this amazing, fabulous song, a kind of testimony of that fun they had. Brilliant lyrics, and the music, you just want to get up and dance..and sing with DC. 

Co- wrote with Bryan David Garofalo, a very talented guitarist and bassist from Canada. A session musician. He later worked and recorded with America and..Kim Carnes. Such an outstanding, happy song, makes me think about young, beautiful David Cassidy and his friends in Colorado in 1976. And about myself and the time when I was young and..'nobody need to go home tonight..'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp97MhR8ZCU

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  1. Anonymous9/8/22, 1:38 AM

    I wouldn’t be too sure he was ever “clean living or vegetarian”.But those are RCA discs are the best!

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    1. Weronika9/8/22, 7:30 AM

      Me too..but 1. a lot of things DC said or wrote was PR, also wishful thinking, 2. I write for everybody , the message must be simple. 3. and of course a lot of things regarding DC is censored by fans themselves..sometimes I wish I could write..more, but I'm not sure I have enough courage. But yes, those albums are outstanding, and the most David's.

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