Ferry Cross the Mersey Just Once In My Life A Walk In The Black Forest Down In the Boondocks Under the Boardwalk Suspicion Dead Man's Curve House of the Rising Sun Leader of the Pack Cherish Monday, Monday 96 Tears Last Train To Clarksville Summer In The City
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
Didn't think you were into that kind of musik you've never said much about it before.Guess we all had tunes of the times..mine that hits home is CCR's Bad Moon a Rising.My first night on the base we got hammered by mortars,lost several people and this was playing on Armed Forces Radio.Still sends a shiver when I hear it.
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
Thread's still up. Had to click and listen again. Good old song, I hadn't heard it in years, too.
Originally Posted by kamo_gari
I can't listen to the vast majority of the metal stuff I used to dig, but there are some that I can sit back and smile, and get lost in time. Here's one.
Same here. Another Dio fan here.... that song especially! Thanks!
The wife don't like it though, it's jamming right now anyway.
I saw Dio but it was during his stint with Sabbath. Another band I had all their albums. Master of Reality being my favorite.
Let me guess.... you're also a fan of BOC, I bet.
BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG! PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!" ---- 4 yr old Archerhuntress
Ferry Cross the Mersey Just Once In My Life A Walk In The Black Forest Down In the Boondocks Under the Boardwalk Suspicion Dead Man's Curve House of the Rising Sun Leader of the Pack Cherish Monday, Monday 96 Tears Last Train To Clarksville Summer In The City
Sheesh. Reads like a list of my own childhood favorites. You forgot a couple, though. Wendy. The night chicago died.
BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG! PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!" ---- 4 yr old Archerhuntress
Ferry Cross the Mersey Just Once In My Life A Walk In The Black Forest Down In the Boondocks Under the Boardwalk Suspicion Dead Man's Curve House of the Rising Sun Leader of the Pack Cherish Monday, Monday 96 Tears Last Train To Clarksville Summer In The City
Damn Terry you is a bit older than me!! Was in school and had a part time job at a pharmacy when "a bunch of those were popular!
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
Jim...Woody showed me the 7.62 case you had engraved for him...very cool beans Sir...glad to still have you both amongst us...listening to old tunes....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
Jim...Woody showed me the 7.62 case you had engraved for him...very cool beans Sir...glad to still have you both amongst us...listening to old tunes....
From an "altered" song we sang,"The flash of the Redleg and the roar of the Gatlings made the cherries shake with fright,we cut loose with our 60's and then with the 16's and we proved our schit wuz tight" From "The Gook Named Charlie" done to the tune of the guy who was lost on the MTA Did he ever return,no he never returned and his fate is still unlearned, he will hump forever in his silent terror, he's the gook who never returned!
Be afraid,be VERY VERY afraid ad triarios redisse My Buddy eh76 speaks authentic Frontier Gibberish!
Some of the Tommy Bolin era stuff wasn't bad either... 1975 wasn't THAT long ago, was it??
A buddy of mine in high school was a HUGE Bolin fan. I heard it all, a lot.
I really don't know many who actually ever heard of Tommy- he was so immensely talented but died so young. I too listened to a lot of his work when I was younger, and the only speaker I ever blew (a woofer out of a Klipschorn, repaired by Klipsch under warranty and I still have) was listening to some Bolin at a party we threw at the U of I. 'Bustin Out for Rosie' I believe....
I firmly believe one of the reasons that new music can't hold a candle to the older stuff we grew up with is the simple fact that it's all been done before. Music, like the movies, is all a poor attempt at a redo. Jim
I was a kid in England at the time so heard 'em at the source Only thing that used to puzzle me was a line from another hit of theirs "Silhouettes on the Shade".
The line sounded like "Let me in or else I'll wee... (English for "pee") ...down your door."
Anyhoo, music and memories....
Early eighties in Africa of course was all Bob Marley, the most popular entertainer on the planet at that time (tho' not so much in the USA).
My memory tho concerns Motown, specifically Smokey Robinson.
Ghana was was an exceedingly rough proving ground of vehicles, and Toyotas generally passed. The little Corolla (or some such) of that era was frequently employed as a Taxi, not only in the towns and cities but also off the beaten path in the dry season when the dirt roads became somewhat passable.
These battered little sedans would be driven way-overloaded from the start, as many as four adults crammed into the back seat, one or two up front, luggage tied to the roof. Thumping and bottoming out down the dirt roads in a cloud of dust, weaving to avoid the washouts and deeper gullies.
I was walkng back to my village one hot, dusty day when one of these comes up from behind and stops, offering to carry me the last few miles. I accepted.
"Obruni (White Man) priviledge" was of course granted by these hospitable folks. In recognition that you were a visitor, enduring hardship on their behalf no less, you would almost invariably be sat up front, next to the driver. Dont bother trying to refuse, takes too much time to explain (EXCEPT on the main highways, where riding up front could get you killed in a collision).
Folks rearranged themselves I get in, and the taxi resumes its slow, weaving and bumpy course. The usual driver decorations installed; fancy trim hanging from the headliner, maybe a photo of family, girlfried, Bob Marley, or Jesus. Maybe a plastic Jesus on the dash, a crown or flag. And maybe a sign or saying like "Onyame ye me Boafo" ("God is my helper").
What was different here was that this guy had a brand-new, very good sound system installed, maybe sent by a relative working overseas.
Better yet he was playing a Motown cassette, best of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. So unexpected it blew me away Ya gotta understand, I hadn't heard ANY music on a system like that in MONTHS, let alone Motown.
This was the first song I heard on that tape, never will be the same for me again...
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
iHeart Radio is your best friend for tunes like these. Even Sirius XM does not dig deep enough on deep tracks. But much better than one will find on broadcast.
Reminds me of so many late nights.. so many great scenes , many miles back!
"wanna hear God laugh? Tell Him you have complete control now!"
Jim...Woody showed me the 7.62 case you had engraved for him...very cool beans Sir...glad to still have you both amongst us...listening to old tunes....
From an "altered" song we sang,"The flash of the Redleg and the roar of the Gatlings made the cherries shake with fright,we cut loose with our 60's and then with the 16's and we proved our schit wuz tight" From "The Gook Named Charlie" done to the tune of the guy who was lost on the MTA Did he ever return,no he never returned and his fate is still unlearned, he will hump forever in his silent terror, he's the gook who never returned!
Love it ET!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me