Avenue Of Broken Dreams

[Perd Hapley]

Come on.  Who doesn't love The Cat's in the Cradle?  It's one of those pithy things that everyone has heard a million times, but for some reason, people insist on reciting it in speeches and lectures as if it's something new and relevatory.  Sort of like those stupid e-mails that go around.

[Guest]

"Cat in the cradle"  - I will be polite, I do not like it at all. Real Personal reasons.

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Here is one artist I miss, this song get down into my inner core...Dobie Gray:

http://dobie-gray.lyrics-songs.com/lyrics/661465/
 

Dobie Gray

"Drift away"

by desconhecido

Day after day I'm more confused
Yet I look for the light through the pouring rain
You know that's a game that I hate to lose
And I'm feelin' the strain, ain't it a shame

Oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Beginning to think that I'm wastin' time
I don't understand the things I do
The world outside looks so unkind
And I'm countin' on you, to carry me through

Oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Yeah, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

And when my mind is free
You know a melody can move me
And when I'm feelin' blue
The guitar's comin' through to soothe me
Thanks for the joy that you've given me
I want you to know I believe in your song
Rhythm and rhyme and harmony
You've helped me along, you're makin' me strong

Oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Oh, oh, oh, give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away
Give me the beat boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

Nah nah nah, won't you, won't ya take me, oh take me

[Perd Hapley]

I hate that one, too.  Maybe it's because I've always thought he was saying "Give me the Beach Boys."  I have no use for the Beach Boys, either.  Again, probably a matter of being from a different generation.

[Monkeyleg]

Oh, no, Fistful. You didn't have to be from my generation to hate the Beach Boys.

Hell, I started hating them before their records even hit the charts.

[Guest]

Be nice to Dobie Gray,  

Beach Boys I do not like either .
Bee Gees I hate "worser".

Put it this way, it was a custom to shoot any thing Bee Gee, albums, album covers, posters...you name it.
That 'purple dino" that sings...yeah, well, that Purple Dino and Bee Gee stuff were used for BG targets...folks always made better hits when we used them for targets..

[Monkeyleg]

Steve, the worst insult I was ever delivered was back when I was at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Some supposed friends of mine were remarking upon my manner of dress and hair.

One of them said that I looked like one of the members of the BG's (the one with the big teeth).

It's okay, though. I'm sure I can find those folks.

And I have several guns. And lots of ammunition.

Payback's a bitch.

[Perd Hapley]

The Bee Gee's are alright in moderation.

[Monkeyleg]

"The Bee Gee's are alright in moderation"

Yeah, that's what some guys told me years back about drugs laced with arsenic.

[Guest]

Preface: I have never said I was smart.

Against the advice of my shooting buddy, who was also my General M.D. - I married his red-headed daughter, who was 8 years younger than myself.

I was in the 3rd grade when JFK was shot in Dallas. She had another week to go inside her momma.
I graduated HS in '73, I did not attend HS graduation with ~1500 graduates, I did graduate with great tunes, and I had never attended a HS re-union. I am not even in any of the yearbooks.

She, graduated in '81. Of course she attended graduation, she had this 3.99999 GPA, she had been to every re-union of her graduation class, and guess who was going to attend his very first HS re-union...even though it was not his HS, instead the one he will not confirm or deny any knowledge of a statue missing during a rival game, or the panty raid, or the...Put it this way- some stuff HSs did was normal and acceptable. My HS has the distinction of the gals running the first jock strap raid...

I thought I had walked into the GlitterDome. No wonder she made good grades - the music was not worth a flip to party to!  Stupid me, marries a girl that does not have to study and...FIL tried to warn me- did I listen? NO!

Now I had quit drinking by this time, still I knew how to party, and being a HS graduate of the '70s, I spiked the punch bowl, it needed spiking. It needed spiking a more , one more time ought to do it...
Rival School colors were orange and while and this punch is PINK.  I figure if I could get this pink more orange, or at least see if I could get cheerleaders all silly - we might have  party afterall.  

Next I ask this DJ, if he was aware that Rock&Roll was actually made, played and performed in '81. "I am afraid I am not familar with that genre""   Nobody  talks like that...and this was supposed to be the hip, slick, radical heathen of the class...
 It was going to be a l-o-n-g night.

"Honey, why are you staring at the GlitterBalls?"
"Huh, oh nothing dear, just thinking is all".

I got a J frame concealed and what I was thinking how that Ithaca 37 Police gun in the trunk and them Glitterballs would be fun and liven up this high dollar hotel meeting place.

"Dance with me dear"
"I gotta go pee first" I replied.
Which I did, just I also made an exit to my car and got a tape or two. I cannot dance, but if I am going to do my Snuggle&Shuffle bit, I ain't gonna do it to that ...that...noise coming from speakers.

Seems the punch  was a real hit, I suggested the DJ go get another cup or two and ...well, me being alone with the tape deck...a tape of Rock&Roll accidently fell into the cassette player.

Okay now I can do this Snuggle&Shuffle bit and not go totally bonkers.

This bunch?  Yeah totally baffeled about the music, did not remember it from HS days, some liked it and others went to the hall to start wrting thank you notes...

Get home and even the dogs after sniffing me - whined.  Wife went to bed and I stayed in the front room with the dogs, we snuggled , listened old tunes...shared popcorn..."Its okay daddy, we are here, we will get you all well and better, pass the popcorn ..."

The dawgs hated that kind of music too...

If a dawg won't eat it - or listen to it, it is b-a-d!

[280plus]

The Bee Gees wre actually good rock and rollers until they went (shudder) disco... :barf:

I learned to hate the Beach Boys in San Diego in the 70s. The downstairs neighbors were surfers and they played that crap 24/7 ad nauseum...

[Monkeyleg]

sm, if you spiked a punchbowl today, you'd be arrested.

Good point, 280plus. The problem is that their disco music has now overshadowed everything they did before.

I saw an interview with one of them, and he said that their disco music ruined their careers.

Seems like fair punishment enough to me.

[doczinn]

Charlie Pride
Freddy Fender

[280plus]

Muddy Waters

Interesting ML, did they put out anymore disco or any other stuff after SNF or was that the end?

Answered my own question. They did quite a bit but apparently all crap? I notice several "Best of" compilations and even a "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club" but its also a compilation of stuff from different Beatles albums not just Sgt Pepper's.

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, they lost Andy and Maurice.

Here's another one for you: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. He just died recently. Last couple years maybe. Not all that well known but a multi talented person none the less. I think he started life as a Cajun fiddler. Correction... drummer

http://www.gatemouth.com/