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Danny Kortchmar

Danny Kortchmar

American guitarist and session musicianWikipedia

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Oct 19, 2026

Tim AppletonHOST
6:30
At least anyone who was hanging around with Crosby and Nash at the time.
Tim AppletonHOST
6:34
So we've got guest appearances by Carole King, James Taylor, Danny Korchmar, Joni Mitchell, Leland Sklar, the bass player, Jackson Brown, Levon Helm from the band, and who else? Stan Celest.
Tim AppletonHOST
6:57
All right, that's that.
Tim AppletonHOST
6:58
Now let's get into tracks.
David DedrickHOST
28:16
Like, so many, you know, like, just to watch them grow and stuff.
David DedrickHOST
28:20
Like, you know, at one point, Danny Korchmar and I can't think of the bass player's name, Charles Larkin, who would later go on to play with Carole King, in fact.
David DedrickHOST
28:32
Sir Charles Larkin married Carole King, the bass player married Carole King.
David DedrickHOST
28:34
married carol king from but they're in the fugs before they were playing with carol king and they went i guess they went to la and they formed a band with her called the city and then then she started performing under her own name and yeah so you just see like it's a you know and um korchmar is interviewed in the in the film and so it's larky but you see there um and you can like he played guitar and um korchmar played guitar and also electric violin so there's this great song with electric violin from um uh fugs what's that album called? Tender Disjunction.
Steve SpearsHOST
16:46
[laughs]
Patti SmythSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:48
And he comes and does Letterman, or she did Letterman and then he sat in with the band or whatever, and we all went out to dinner, like Paul Schaffer and Danny Kortchmar was there again, and all these people.
Patti SmythSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
16:56
And he turned to me, he said, "Listen, you have to give me an answer now because I've gotta start making this record and you gotta tell me if you, if you, you know, wanna sing in the band or not." And I said, "No." Right off the top of my head without even thinking about it I just said no, 'cause it was just not the right time for me.
Patti SmythSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
17:13
You know, I'm, I was a New Yorker, I did not wanna move to LA, um, I was about to have a kid.
Dennis DikenGUEST
57:28
It just opened up my ears and a lot of other people's ears to, um, other possibilities.
Pete GanbargHOST
57:34
It feels like even, you know, after an hour, we're just scratching the surface, because we haven't spoken about Danny Kortchmar and The Flying Machine.
Pete GanbargHOST
57:41
We haven't spoken about Pepe Castro and The Blues Magoos.
Pete GanbargHOST
57:44
There's so much more that anyone who's listening who's interested will find out about when they read this book.
Frank SimmsGUEST
41:35
But let me tell you about, because Jack was asking, how'd you get called? The guitar player, George, who produced the album.
Frank SimmsGUEST
41:40
Who's the guy who's the guitar player? Danny Korchmar.
Frank SimmsGUEST
41:42
Danny Korchmar.
George SimmsGUEST
41:43
So- Oh, it was the gray-walled vagina.
Frank SimmsGUEST
41:47
Yeah.
Patty SmythGUEST
32:21
Paul was there.
Patty SmythGUEST
32:22
Korchmar was there.
Patty SmythGUEST
32:23
Danny Korchmar, who used to work with Henley.
Patty SmythGUEST
32:26
And he said, I got to know.
Patty SmythGUEST
32:28
You got to let me know now.

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