Word: bonoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karla spent her early years "being into clothes and stuff." At 16, however, she started lining up on Mondays outside the Troubadour in L.A. to audition material for hoot night and catch early performances by James Taylor and Jackson Browne. "The music scene was first attractive for social life," Bonoff recalls now. "I was bored with the other kids in high school and be coming kind of a hippie...
After the group disbanded in 1971, Bonoff began writing-a mostly arduous process. "My more emotional side comes out when I write," she says. "All these songs, a lot of them sad songs, were real-not real stories, but about real emotions I didn't even know I was feeling until I wrote the songs." Someone to Lay Down Beside Me was written after watching the afternoon soaps. The lyric took 20 minutes, but usually it all comes a lot harder than that. Says Bonoff: "I'll play the melody over and over, and words will just come...
Just now, Bonoff is winding down from all those concert gigs, puttering around her Woodland Hills house, watering plants and trying not to fret...
Just now, she is worrying over material for a new album. Touring has put a crimp infer her writing and, along with the highs of audience enthusiasm, Bonoff also experienced some of the rigors of road life. "All this," she comments, "was a lot more fun before it became a career." In Miami, hotel maids made off with her jewelry, and Bonoff, in unusual dudgeon, sought reprisal in classic rock-'n'-roll style: trashing the hotel room. "I started throwing stuff all around," she recalls, "but nothing broke. It was all made of plastic. I just gave...
Sarcastic, funny and sexy, Trouble Again is just the kind of song Karla Bonoff says she wants right now: "more humorous, less dreamy-eyed." Linda won't get this one, and Karla will not need to give it up or even loan it out. It's all hers...