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  1. Yah, Skipper. That was the beauty of JN - lots of people played in it over the years. Skip had a huge influence on the sound, played sax of course, flute some, accordion on "Oh the Price He Paid", maybe others can't remember, and brought organ to the arrangements as a regular instrument. The guy has some serious talent. Plus he wrote some nifty tunes. It was always a special moment to hear him wail off at the end of his song "Raise Your Head". He and his wife Nancy, whole family - salt of the earth. David G played some with JN, couple times, not sure what the arrangement was when Takit was out with Joyful Noise or who played drums with them, can't recall.

    See, it relates..."Earth, Wind and Fire"...salt of the...

    oh well...

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  2. Hope, dunno. I heard a version of "I've Just Seen a Face", my daughter had and we compared versions. I think it was Thrice doing it, punk style. It was okay, but well, different. icon_smile.gif:)--> I'm kind of glad they're picking up on the tunes I guess.

    That Brown tune is good, solid rock. Lee Sklar's bass playing is xxx-rated PG-18, he's just dead rock hard on the bottom all the way through. I've got it on a few cd's I made of tunes.

    "Well, just look at that girl

    With the light comin' up in her eyes.

    She's got be somebody's baby.

    She's so fine.

    She's probably somebody's baby, alright,

    I try to shut my eyes but I can't get her outta my sight.

    I know I'm gonna know her but I gotta get over

    my fright.

    I'm just gonna walk up to her, I'm gonna talk to her tonight.

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    It just reminds me of high school, y'know? Every-guy-with-a-gleam-in-his-eye on the make, sweatin' how to say hello to "that girl over there". It's classic. Can't picture another version somehow!

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  3. quote:
    Originally posted by Oakspear:

    Socks:

    Is that Roy B bio widely available?, I'd like to read it.

    Some of Roy B's early song and album titles lead me to believe that he was (at some point) a Christian. His third album was called _A Street Called Straight_ and he had a cut on his first album called _The Messiah Will Come Again_(a very soulful instrumental).

    Not familiar with "Blues in E".

    Oakspear icon_cool.gif

    "We...know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling"

    Henri Poincare


    Thanks, I'm looking for that tune on Kazza, no luck yet.

    Yeah! The book is titled "Roy Buchanan: An American Axe", by Phil Carson. I got mine at Amazon dot com

    It starts out from his birth in Arkansas and fills in a lot of history on him.

    I don't think I can forget his voice on 5 String Blues when he sings:

    "Oh Jesus, this is my final plea.

    Don't let the devil,

    Get the best of me".

    Then on the tune right after that on the album, side 2 he does this little exquisite acoustic piece and sings:

    "Thank you, Lord.

    Saw the sunshine today.

    Bless you, Lord.

    Got to see my children play.

    It may not be the right way to pray.

    But I want to thank you anyway.

    Thank you, Lord."

    The whole thing is so real it's haunting, in the way great blues is when it calls out from deep in the heart. Those two songs leave me wrung out, like you go to this dark place in his heart and then come out to the light of day at the end. The first time my daughter heard his "cry baby" sounds, she got a little scared and she was 17...she knew right off it wasn't a wah wah pedal. "it sounds like a baby crying. No, dad, a REAL baby". She liked it but she didn't want to listen to it again, too spooky she said.

    He may have never succeeded on a large scale because he was too real. Course then he'd do all that chicken pickin' stuff on novelty tunes like "Haunted House" and I just scratch my head. icon_smile.gif:)-->

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  4. Just doing a weather check A la and saying hi! Hi! icon_smile.gif:)--> If dogs were ducks they'd be happy as frogs today in the northern west coast of the Golden State. I've been in it twice and will again, but I'll stop complaining because -20 celcius! is way colder than it was when I got up this morning. Get out those thick, fuzzy socks! icon_biggrin.gif:D--> It's not near that cold here. I actually had to switch out of my shorts for sweatpants last night after I got in, it was THAT cold. icon_eek.gif

    On to the next system...and beyond! (work, who's idea was THAT?) icon_razz.gif:P-->

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  5. Yae Oaks! Sad they're gone. I really wish Roy had found the right niche for himself and stopped drinking, too. Reading that last autobio of his by Phil Carson shook my tree. I could understand some of the things he struggled with internally. It was hard to finish it. It seems his family background may have led him to Christ early in life, it's hard to tell. Any idea on that?

    I ran across a live version of a tune called "Blues in E" online, but the only download I found was a partial. It opens with one of the band saying "Blues in E...look out!" Ever heard of it or any idea where I could get it? It sounded like it was really going to be good.

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  6. Got a minute, take an hour! icon_smile.gif:)--> Hey, A la, it's rainin' like the dickens here, whatever that is. Just let up a bit ago. How's the no'thern country?

    Here's a cool lyric from Keb Mo. This guy sounds like he's "been there/done that". Neat tune for the GS lunch rush... icon_smile.gif:)-->

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    I'm Telling You Now

    So much has went unspoken

    Along the way

    Hearts have healed

    And hearts have broken

    In the pain of yesterday

    Gone are the shadows

    They vanished in the Light

    Let your heart surrender

    Let your soul take flight

    (Chorus)

    And let bygones be bygones

    And troubles be long gone

    And if I never told you

    How I feel about you

    I'm telling you now

    We gather here together

    With all of our friends

    In a room full of love and laughter

    The healing begins

    And if this was my last moment

    My last breath

    I'd wanna be surrounded

    With joy and happiness

    (Chorus)

    And let bygones be bygones

    And troubles be long gone

    And if I never told you

    How I feel about you

    I'm telling you now

    And if I never told you

    How I feel about you

    I'm telling you now

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  7. Oaks, I hope ya know I'm a major Roy B fan. Do you like "The Messiah Will Come Again" with that organ intro?...killer tune. That Peter Gunn version is great. My favs of his vary but I really like "5 String Blues" with the crying sound he gets at the end (gives me goose bumps even still) and "Johns Blues". I read in an autobio that he broke a string in the studio at the end of "5 String" (thus the title) and never stopped playing, and you can't hear it happen. I've listened to where it sounds like it COULD have happened, but man, he was in another WORLD at the end of that tune so I guess it didn't matter to him anyway. icon_smile.gif:)-->

    Say Tele, and you've said ROY!

    I won't start a debate, (or maybe I will!) but Danny Gatton, who's been compared to him often, was never quite up to par. He was also billed as..."The Worlds Best Unknown Guitarist" on occasion.

    Roy had that funky 4-flat-tires-on-a-muddy-road blues sound that was so natural it just flowed.

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  8. Hey Oaks! John Mc is a great guitarist. That's cool, and he has done some incredible music. I remember his "Johnnie McLaughlin-electric guitarist" he did that had some incredible playing on it.

    There's a group I haven't heard come up yet, maybe so, not sure. "King's X"...Ty Tabor is the guitarist, great rock player. The bassist uses an 8 string bass, each string doubled and it makes an awesome sound. Rattles your teeth! icon_smile.gif:)--> Has a piano like sound on some stuff.

    Been taping some albums lately and found my old Jimmy Reed Anthology album, on Vee Jay. They put all his hits on it through the 50's and early 60's, and each song has an interviewer asking him about the song and Reed tells the story behind it. Awesome album. Reed lived his last years in Oakland, California my home town. Great blues songwriter and player. Wrote a lot of his stuff with his wife, Mary ("Mama") Reed.

    Another piece I picked up on recently is Michael Hedges "If I Needed Someone", his instrumental version of the Beatles song. MAN! That song is deep the way he does it. It just floats along almost timeless. It's really beautiful.

    well....to bed...catch you all later!

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  9. This is for you A la (quack) icon_razz.gif:P--> and Kathy and all those who love great literature when it's combined with great melody. Here for your reading enjoyment and pleasure are the lyrics to what has to be one of the greatest songs ever written:

    Hello Mother, Hello Father

    Hello mother, hello father,

    Here I am at Camp Grenada.

    Camp is very entertaining,

    And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining!

    I went hiking with Joyce Fivey,

    He developed poison ivy.

    You remember Lennard Skynard,

    He got tomain poisoning last night after dinner!

    All the counselors hate the waiters,

    And the lake has alligators!

    And the head coach wants no sissies,

    So he reads to us from something called 'Ulysses'.

    No, I don't want (this should scare ya),

    But my bunkmate has malaria!

    You remember Geoffrey Hardy,

    They're about to organize a searching party!

    Take me home, oh mother, father.

    Take me home, I hate Grenada.

    Don't leave me out in the forest,

    Where I might get eaten by a bear!

    Take me home, I promise that I will not make noise,

    Or mess the house with other boys.

    Oh please don't make me stay;

    I've been here one whole day!

    Dearest father, darling mother,

    How's my precious little brother?

    Let me come home if you miss me;

    I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me!

    Wait a minute; it stopped hailing.

    Guys are swimming, guys are sailing.

    Playing baseball; gee that's better.

    Mother, father, kindly disregard this letter!

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  10. Hope, you make me think yeah, what would the Beatles be like if they'd stayed and "kept it real" in Hamburg and The Cavern, playing for beer and chips? icon_smile.gif:)--> No, they had to clean up and bring us those collarless suits! And some pretty decent music icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

    Read an interview with Todd Rundgren years ago, where he said he figured, not to be egotistical, but he pretty much had the "pop song" genre down and could pump out tunes in that format with relative ease. (I'd agree wholeheartedly!)

    He went on to say that he wondered if all the possible combinations of music had already been written and that looking for that "lost chord" for a song was less likely to produce more music as looking to simply create and using whatever forms we knew. It was an interesting observation. Probably represents what most writers do in reality.

    Hearing that Avril cd reminded me of that, because the music is nothing new. Lyrically, it seems there's a lot of ground we can open up to when we speak from the heart with our own perspectives.

    And still and whatever...there's always those few songs that come out every year that just seem to put it all together in a new and interesting way!

    I was never a Ramone's fan, but could see the attraction. They were cool in their own way. I was sad at Joey Ramone's death last year.

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  11. another lyric...

    Out of the mouths of babes...

    Just got the Avril Lavigne cd. Saw her on SNL last night and went "that's my daughter!" She looks so young. Kids! This song lyric caught my ear:

    "Complicated"

    Uh huh, life's like this

    Uh huh, uh huh, that's the way it is

    Cause life's like this

    Uh huh, uh huh that's the way it is

    Chill out whatcha yelling' for?

    Lay back it's all been done before

    And if you could only let it be

    you will see

    I like you the way you are

    When we're drivin' in your car

    and you're talking to me one on one but you've become

    Somebody else round everyone else

    You're watching your back like you can't relax

    You're tryin' to be cool you look like a fool to me

    Tell me

    Why you have to go and make things so complicated?

    I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else gets me frustrated

    Life's like this you

    You fall and you crawl and you break

    and you take what you get and you turn it into honesty

    and promise me I'm never gonna find you fake it

    no no no

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    quack

  12. Ha! icon_biggrin.gif:D--> A la. Well, God forbid I should ever throw away a piece of music. I'm looking at the photocopy of the "Poems, Prayers and Promises", by John Denver, with the lyric sheet. Looks like it was in D with a dropped D tuning. I seem to remember Ted pulling this one outta the hat. I have it scratched out "pass the pipe" and sang "share the Word around".

    Denver uses the phrase "my old lady", which really dates this tune. icon_eek.gificon_smile.gif:)-->

    Back in to the drawer ye go!

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  13. A La, one of the tunes we used to do in JN back in our first year was Denver's "Poems, Prayer's and Promises". I sang it, it was a nice tune.

    Back when we went out WOW in '72/73, "Country Roads" was getting played everywhere it seemed. When I hear that tune I can still recall the place we had at the time and hearing it. Funny.

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  14. White Album, such good memories, thanks for posting that A la. Dance With Me is just like that for me, just pops out and comes right back! Really love that tune.

    Love Dear Prudence, Julia, such a soft brooding song, like a dream. "I Will", Blackbird. Cry Baby Cry. I love the way that song sort of wheezes along, like an old organ.

    Ob-La-Di, such a nice tune, Peruser I agree! That's so funny you mention remembering that, I can still picture my daughter sort of skating across the kitchen floor one day I had that album on couple years ago, dancing along. Fun stuff.

    "Happiness is a warm gun, momma"

    (bang bang shoooot shoot!)

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    Quack!

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  15. the 70's. One of my favorite bands was Orleans. John Hall and Lance Hoppen were the guitarists doing nice harmony stuff. John Hall had worked with Seals and Crofts, Bonnie Raitt, lots of people and then bam! Orleans. He wrote a lot of their songs with his then wife Johanna. Here's the lyrics to a song they charted with from their September 73 release, Orleans ll. An all time socks family favorite and an open invitation...

    Dance With Me

    Dance with me, I want to be your partner.

    Can't you see the music is just starting?

    Night is falling, and I am falling.

    Dance with me.

    Fantasy could never be so giving.

    I feel free, I hope that you are willing.

    Pick your feet up, and kick your feet up.

    Dance with me.

    Let it lift you off the ground.

    Starry eyes, and love is all around us.

    I can take you if you want to go.

    Dance with me, I want to be your partner.

    Can't you see the music is just starting?

    Night is falling, and I am falling.

    Dance with me.

  16. Yeah, Hope. Reagan and that Born in the USA thing...Reagan would have been embarrassed I'm sure, if he could have remembered what he said about it later....

    This all reeks of the "genuine suspicion" thing that came not too much later, doesn't it?

    In Noebel's book, the only way a person for sure isn't a communist is if they've got it stamped on their forehead "Me No Commie" and they've got their Good Citizen card stamped. If a person looks to any kind of alternative solution, approach or philosophy that isn't straight up the flag pole saluting to God and country and apple pie, then they're SUSPECT!

    I'm sure some of the people he comments on appreciated the publicity. "Finally, someone sees we're here!"

    And again, Pete Seeger. Everyone knows banjos are dangerous tools of the takeover.

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    Perhaps the greatest conspiracy song of all time...

    Louie Louie!

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  17. Hey Buck! I don't know whether Dylan's conversion was a scam. If it was, what did he gain? He lost some fans who figured uh oh. I don't think so, personally. He has had a way of jumping around over the years from one thing to another. I read some reviews of concerts too, where he was preachin' from the stage. There was a church here in California he was attending at one time, can't remember the name. On face value I'd say he was legit, but face value is a hard thing to determine with Dylan as you say. People grow and change, and he's entitled. Although (IMO) he's very talented, he was also sort of a hack the way he glommed on to the folk scene and invented himself in to a figure of the times, but hey. He saw a hole and he filled it. If he hadn't had something enduring to offer, he'd be next to the Easybeats in the music bins. icon_smile.gif:)-->

    That tune "Man Gave Names" is a cool song! For me, it was a nice surprise, an indication of Dylan's song writing chops. That rhyme thing he uses gives it an internal rhythm that makes you go, "yeah, well sure. That animal's a Bear!" It's slick. Who the H ever came up with a song like that before, y'know? icon_smile.gif:)-->

    Then after he's got ya ready to fill in every name because of the rhyme scheme, he tosses in the word "lake" and you know what's coming...and it's so cool because it made me think, Damm! I can guess the name, but ol' Adam and Eve never saw him coming... icon_wink.gif;)-->

    "Serve Somebody" was another one. Classic statement, "it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody". He doesn't say what that means, or how you'll do that or say you're going to heaven or hell for doing either one . He limits the song to one idea and he just works away at it. On one level a person can think, yeah, no matter who you are you're still answerable for your actions. On another, there's a spiritual ring to it. It's a cool tune.

    Some songs take an idea and try to express every single angle of it..."God saved me, I'm blessed, angels rejoice, the sadness is gone, His mercy made me whole", etc. and you get the whole range of what's on the person's heart all at once. One thing Dylan does very well is take one thing, one idea or sentence and then explores it, makes a big diamond out of a little piece of coal. He's good.

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    [This message was edited by socks on January 06, 2003 at 14:42.]

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  18. hey a la, no prob. icon_smile.gif:)-->

    Yeah, Taylor's a commie. He and John Hall did that whole anti-nuclear thing years ago and boy, if being against nuclear power plants don't make ya commie, what does??? icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

    Just kidding. I like electricity, too. Voltage rocks!!!

    The rush to judgment without any real substantive information is typical of Way-Borg "mentality", and I use that word loosely.

    If Taylor's a commie, pass the armbands.

    I love that song Home by Another Way. Nice tune.

    I don't exactly look to entertainers for factual information (rather the way it's processed and expressed), but J.T.'s thoughtful approach to his music and wide range of observation makes me interested in what he would think as well as why he would think that way. No, I've never heard anything in his music close to him suggesting anything more radical than how difficult it can be at times to sort through what goes on in this life.

    I've seen him a few times and it's like watching your brother play, the one who's been gone away for a long time and now's come home with stories to tell and gifts to give and you can't wait to just sit down and hear all about it because now the family's all together again and we can celebrate our love together. His is a very unique voice. He brings calm to an audience by simply being who he is. It's very interesting. He's a keeper.

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    [This message was edited by socks on January 06, 2003 at 14:46.]

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