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Tom's Bedtime CD Pick: for Sunday night is Fleetwood Mac, Live in London '68

Lest you think that Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham are involved in this album, this is the original, pre-Stevie, blues band Fleetwood Mac.

Mick Fleetwood (drums), John McVie (bass) and Peter Green (guitar) - all alumni of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, with Jeremy Spenser and Danny Kerwan also on guitar.

Eventually the guitarists dropped off one by one to join cults or get institutionalized, and Bob Welch became the guitarist (Sentimental Lady) and Christine Perfect McVie was added on keyboards. Welch left and Buckingham and Nicks formed the band that became the top 40 monster that most of us are familiar with.

But I still love the three guitarist, bluesey, Fleetwood Mac the best.

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

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Man, you need to be back on the radio, Oaks. You're got a great program!

I saw the early Fleetwood Mac out here, in San Francisco around 1970 or so when Peter Green was still with them. Seems like...I'm fuzzy on this, that a guitarist was also with them then, a Curly Cook. Got that stuck in my head. Not sure though.

They ripped. Peter's "Black Magic Woman" is great. Very soulful player and singer. They did an xxx-rated version of "Shake Your MoneyMaker" that was hilarious. They were drunk as skunks. Great band. Funny how it evolved over time in to the Big Mac. icon_smile.gif:)-->

Diggin' the songs, music! icon_cool.gif

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A la Prochaine mentioned the Taylor tune "Home by Another Way". Sweet tune, so I dug it out this weekend, from the "Never Die Young" cd. You be right, 'Chaine! Great tune, and it has a very thoughtful message inside it. Classic Taylor, snappy beat, easy feel. For all those heading home by another way, The Maestro of the Healing Soul sings, children: icon_smile.gif:)-->

"Home By Another Way"

Timothy Mayer and James Taylor

Those magic men the Magi

Some people call them wise

Or Oriental, even kings

Well anyway, those guys

They visited with Jesus

They sure enjoyed their stay

Then warned in a dream of King Herod's scheme

They went home by another way

Yes they went home by another way

Home by another way

Maybe me and you can be wise guys too

And go home by another way

We can make it another way

Safe home as they used to say

Keep a weather eye to the chart on high

And go home another way

Steer clear of royal welcomes

Avoid a big to-do

A king who would slaughter the innocents

Will not cut a deal for you

He really, really wants those presents

He'll comb your camel's fur

Until his boys announce they've found trace amounts

Of your frankincense, gold and myrrh

Time to go home by another way

Home by another way

You have to figure the Gods saying play the odds

And go home by another way

We can make it another way

Safe home as they used to say

Keep a weather eye to the chart on high

And go home another way

Home is where they want you now

You can more or less assume that you'll be welcome in the end

Mustn't let King Herod haunt you so

Or fantasize his features when you're looking at a friend

Well it pleasures me to be here

And to sing this song tonight

They tell me that life is a miracle

And I figured that they're right

But Herod's always out there

He's got our cards on file

It's a lead pipe cinch, if we give an inch

Old Herod likes to take a mile

It's best to go home by another way

Home by another way

We got this far to a lucky star

But tomorrow is another day

We can make it another way

Safe home as they used to say

Keep a weather eye to the chart on high

And go home another way

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socks:

I don't remember "Curly Cook", but music was one big incestuous family back then icon_razz.gif:P-->, so perhaps you are right.

Peter Green has been out and about playing these last few years, but I haven't heard any of his new stuff. The album Jumping at Shadows has a great version of Black Magic Woman (written by Green, not Carlos S, as you know)

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"I'm goin' down to Rosedale..."

Robert Johnson

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Ahhh the Music Thread!

Thank you Chaussettes! icon_wink.gif;)-->

Yes, that is quite a song isn't it ~ loaded with all sorts of messages. A fine Work.

Hey, I'm on my way to a concert this week ~ 'Great Big Sea'!!! They're a Celtic/Rock band with such a different sound. Lots of energy! They are from Newfoundland and do both traditional and original music.

The 'Sea of No Cares' is their latest album.

Well, A la Prochaine will surely be thinking of you all here in this music café as I'm dancing in the aisles, hopping and doing some pretty immature things for a lady of my age! icon_razz.gif:P-->

Thank you again Socks for taking the time to post those words. They are soothing to the soul...

'til the next time...

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Tom's Bedtime CD Pick for Monday night:

Pink Floyd's Meddle.

This was the album just before their ground-breaking Dark Side of the Moon, when they were at the height of their reign as a "head" band.

Side Two is taken up with the incredible cut called Echoes. Another Favorite of mine is One of These Days, which has a very cool bass intro.

Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon are my favorite Pink Floyd albums, followed closely by Wish You Were Here. I think Roger Waters got too politically allegorical with Animals and The Wall, and the earlier albums were a little too "weird" for my taste.

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"We're just two lost souls living in a fish bowl, year after year..."

Gilmore, Mason, Waters, Wright

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moreyt,

Ted amazes me. Last night I put together a group of three verses. Sent them to him and woke this morning with an email of a completed song from it.

If we never made a dime, which I would like to do mind ya, we are having more fun than any two folks should be allowed to along the way. icon_smile.gif:)-->

I can not begin to express how things have changed of late because he noticed I was here and offered what he knew.

Kathy

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Like A Mountain

Cast to the sea

all your troubles

like a mountain of fear

Watch the fig tree

of your demons

Wither from the ground up

Calm raging seas

Walking on them

Because you love your Lord

All hurts are healed

and no sorrow

But that day's not today

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

Henri Poincare

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Tom's Bedtime CD Pick for Tuesday night:

The Al DiMeola Project Kiss My Axe.

Al was a veteran of Return To Forever, the "original" fusion band that had Chick Corea and Stanley Clark as two of it's other founding members (I'm drawing a blank on the drummer icon_rolleyes.gif:rolleyes:--> ) and has stayed busy ever since.

Kiss My Axe is a guitar oriented album, very fast paced, showcasing DiMeola's abilities on the guitar. It's mostly instrumentals, which I especially enjoy.

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

Henri Poincare

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I need a break, too - my brain hurts!

I haven't read every post on this 15 page thread so I wonder if the Eagles have been discussed yet? I think they were one of the tightest bands I've ever heard. They were as good, if not better, on-stage than they were in the recording studio. We went to their "Hell Freezes Over" tour a few years back and it was marvelous.


A few nights ago I was flipping around the old TV dial and came across "Almost Famous". Lemme tell you - I've seen it a dozen time but it is still one of my all time favorite movies. If you haven't seen it - go rent it. There's so much history in it and memories for people "our" age! (the main character, William Miller, graduated High School the same year I did).

I was never a huge Elton John fan. I always admired his talent, but not his style. But because of that movie, "Tiny Dancer" is now one of my favorite songs:

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But oh how it feels so real

Lying here with no one near

Only you and you can hear me

When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer

Count the headlights on the highway.

Lay me down on sheets of linen

You had a busy day today.

Hold me closer, Tiny Dancer

Count the headlight on the highwayyyyyy....

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun... Billy Joel size>

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Hope,

I don't think much said about the Eagles yet. I love 'Hotel California' and 'New Kid In Town', to name a few. Do you have that newer album of theirs, which ain't new now I guess. icon_rolleyes.gif:rolleyes:--> I thought I had it but can't find it now, anyway I thought that was an awesome album, after being apart for so many years. They sounded like they never split up only better I think than ever before.

Again I think age really can be an advantage for artists, they just get better.

Kathy

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Chatty and Hope, I think I mentioned the Eagles several pages back.....Anyway, they were one of the 1st concerts I ever went to. I still like them to this day.

Chatty, you have a private topic. Check it out.

Hope, will ya ask John to check the Computer thread. I asked him a question. Thanks.

The decisions we make today form our future.

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Hope,

My favourite Eagles tune:

Take It Easy

Well, I'm running down the road

tryin' to loosen my load

I've got seven women on

my mind,

Four that wanna own me,

Two that wanna stone me,

One says she's a friend of mine

Take It easy, take it easy

Don't let the sound of your own wheels

drive you crazy

Lighten up while you still can

don't even try to understand

Just find a place to make your stand

and take it easy

Well, I'm a standing on a corner

in Winslow, Arizona

and such a fine sight to see

It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed

Ford slowin' down to take a look at me

Come on, baby, don't say maybe

I gotta know if your sweet love is

gonna save me

We may lose and we may win though

we will never be here again

so open up, I'm climbin' in,

so take it easy

Well I'm running down the road trying to loosen

my load, got a world of trouble on my mind

lookin' for a lover who won't blow my

cover, she's so hard to find

Take it easy, take it easy

don't let the sound of your own

wheels make you crazy

come on baby, don't say maybe

I gotta know if your sweet love is

gonna save me, oh oh oh

Oh we got it easy

We oughta take it easy

I realize this song is kinda' raw... but I still love it! icon_cool.gif

'til the next time...

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Take it Easy...written by Jackson Browne.

and I love these words

call it a loan

in the morning when I closed my eyes

you were sleeping in paradise

and while the room was growing light

I was holding still with all my might

oh-what if it's true

what my heart says

oh-what'll I do

what if this feeling becomes hard to part with

you were meant to play your part

in the design of a desperate heart

and while you gave your love to me

I was betting I was getting it free

oh-if I'd only known

what your heart cost

oh-can we call it a loan?

and a debt that I owe,

on a bet that I lost

in the evening when you see my eyes

looking back at you, no disguise

I'm not sure who you think you'll see

I'm just hoping you'll still know that it's me

oh-what if it's true

better ask the man inside

oh, oh-there seem to be two

one steals the love, and the other one hides

yeah-can we call it a loan?

'til I'm paid in full for the seeds I've sown

yeah-can we say that I've grown

in some way that we may have yet to be shown

oh-if I'd only known

what your heart cost

oh-can we call it a loan?

and a debt that I owe,

on a bet that I lost

I wept when I first heard the song, thinking how little I deserved the love of a good woman, my wife, Jean

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Has anyone noticed that if you listen to CD?s more than the radio that you lose track of what is current music? At work I am in a computer room and the reception is nearly impossible for any radio station so I listen to CD?s or cassettes. On the way to and from or out and about I listen to older country and rock n roll stations. At home it is mixed but rarely have just the radio on. Anyway I just realized I have lost contact with today?s music in lots of ways. Am I the only one who got lost like that? icon_rolleyes.gif:rolleyes:-->

act2, please check our private topic now. And thanks for the invite, it was my first. icon_smile.gif:)-->

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Hey Chatty, I notice that sometimes too. I keep a couple stations pegged on my radio and usually listen to them on the way into work. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything that's grabbed my attention..John Mayer's one, we got his cd. Avril Lavigne was another.

Yeah, it's easy for a week to go by like that. Trouble for me is a lot of music I hear sounds the same. I have to cast around to various stations, college, jazz, to find one that plays something beyond one kind of programming. Plus all the digital sound makes a lot of it sound dead. Not all of it, but some.

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And The Beat Goes On

Yeah Socks not a whole lot of tunes that catch my ears anymore outside of country but some of the pop singers I do enjoy. One thing that still holds true to country music they have no fear of doing songs that have a positive message concerning God or Jesus Christ. There is one song I really like of Garth Brooks called Wolves. This song makes you stop and listen. Kathy maybe you could find and post the words for us. I have them but too lazy to type them.

Be back soon.

Ted F.

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Garth Brooks

"Wolves"

January's always bitter

But Lord this one beats all

The wind ain't quit for weeks now

And the drifts are ten feet tall

I been all night drivin' heifers

Closer in to lower ground

Then I spent the mornin' thinkin'

'Bout the ones the wolves pulled down

Charlie Barton and his family

Stopped today to say goodbye

He said the bank was takin' over

The last few years were just too dry

And I promised that I'd visit

When they found a place in town

Then I spent a long time thinkin'

'Bout the ones the wolves pull down

Lord please shine a light of hope

On those of us who fall behind

And when we stumble in the snow

Could you help us up while there's still time

Well I don't mean to be complainin' Lord

You've always seen me through

And I know you got your reasons

For each and every thing you do

But tonight outside my window

There's a lonesome mournful sound

And I just can't keep from thinkin'

'Bout the ones the wolves pull down

Oh Lord keep me from bein'

The one the wolves pull down

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