Sorry folks, feel free to run me out of town on a rail, I am stupid from the heat . . . was just remembering a friend in high school Bowman Kelley from NC going off on a hilarious rant , paraphrased of course:
"Lies lies, music is all lies! Jimi Hendrix can't chop down a mountain with the edge of his hand! He's full of it! Dickey Betts wasn't born on a Greyhound bus! Jon Anderson isn't a roundabout, what the hell does that even MEAN? I could kick Daltrey's @ss at pinball! He isn't a Pinball Wizard! What about Sugar Magnolia, she can't wade in a drop of dew! Yet another lie!"
Yes, the tragic disintegration of the rock and roll mind . . .
But I do feel like i've been tied to the whipping post; you really can't take it with you; it just AINT easy; But.....I haven't had a happy birthday in a long time; I know a girl named Melissa and she is not sweet....So some lies, some truths which leads me to believe that music was created by politicians and car salesmen.....
I never thought of lyrics in that way. Some lyrics are just fictional making up words and lines in order to fit the rhyme.
Hey Brer, I mentioned in another post I think we were both at that very loud Hot Tuna show at The Academy of Music. I remember Jacks bass solo - loud but WOW!
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Haha , never mind, probably the funniest thing was how Bowman was dead serious. I tried to explain the concept of poetic imagery but it didn't really get thru.
Good lord - Hot Tuna at tve Academy. Feels like running across someone who was in your same trench at The Battle of the Somme. Can't recall that Jack solo, from other Jack solos . . . I do remember Jormas Jeffplane American Flag vest. Unfortunately one of my most vivid memories is the little hexagonal white tiles on the Academy bathroom floor.
edit: ok ok, it is coming back to me : but the Phosphorescent Rat show and the America's Choice show are kind of fused together. I think the performance of "Easy Now" at the Phospho Rat show was maybe the exactly most intense hard rock I ever hear live in my entire life.
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Wow. I have those two HT albums and I haven't played them in centuries.
I never thought that lyrics were in the same category as non-fiction literature. I think of them as an artistic statement which may make linear common sense or not...doesn't really matter as long as it moves me in some way.
