[FWIW] Okay, I’ll toss some kindling on the fire, E, u ol’ softy u…
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Pink Floyd, Animals; Aerosmith Rocks; KISS Destroyer; ACDC, High Voltage; Black
Sabbath, Master of Reality; ELO, A New World Record; Eagles, Hotel Cal.; Queen,
News of the World; Monkeys; Journey; Rush; Styx; Doors; Zeppelin; Meat Loaf………
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A kid sharing a room with his bro back when 8-track was an option; all these being 8-
track tapes on rotation when my ol’man wasn’t home sleeping, storming or watching TV
You Wreck Me • Tom Petty
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Reminds me of my favorite flower, my alabaster rose, my best gal, soul mate n bride.
& half-sleeping in our white mustang hatchback in the Venice Beach public parking lot
at 4 in the morning; chilly, waiting for sunrise and the restaurant to open for breakfast….
Van Dieman’s Land • (U2 Rendition)
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Reminds me of times I’ve tried to accept, birth to death arbitrarily abides by sustenance.
No, just riffing: Reminds me of the halfwit battles going on within my spirit for decades.
Ring of Fire • Johnny Cash
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Brings to mind adolescent passion; carried forward into adulthood. And the human stain.
Wildflowers • Petty
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An anthem to Matriarchal blessings: Thnx 4 being around, girls, like u always have been.
Thanx 4 th luv. & youthful kisses, n calm reflective moments in afterglow, n your smile.
Also reminds me of miles upon miles of wooded walks beside moving water & hemlock,
beech, maple, every kind o pine, buckeye, sycamore, elm, ash, redbud, birch, nut & oak.
Tracks 8-9-10 of TRIAGE • …That Ol’Lonesome Dove, Dave
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Blossoms to mind our favorite southern facing window scenes. I’d go nto prticulars, nah.
Or a fireside conversation: ...tracks looping on a good used American pickup truck stereo.
Or…pouring through Cat’s Cradle and bottles of lager with her; she’d listen while I read.
That’s Alright Mama • Arthur Crudup (Elvis’s Interpretation)
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Reminds me of growing up in my mom’s house, & sends up a puff bout bad relationships
past, & more avoidable, present, with eyes wide open & th connectiv tissue: family value.
Again, just noodling there, …but meaningful nonetheless: The song iz a landmark to me.
Last Kiss • Wayne Cochran (The Pearl Jam Interpretation as much as the Cavaliers')
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Reminds me of summertime nights @ the drive-in; mono window speakers, metal slides.
I Am Mine • Ed Vedder
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An inalienable birthright; expressed in a troubadour vent bent on exactitudes of latitude.
From Hank to Hendrix • Neil Young (Our ol’Uncle Neil)
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Picnic basket & a Canon on a blanket with a blonde & a rugrat beside Apollo Park pond.
Fishing gear stowed away in the back of the bus from our roundtrip up ‘round Yosemite.
Stand By Me • Ben E. King (John Lennon arrangement)
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Evokes th place (we used to go to get away in the evenings) we called the Burning Bush.
Abscond quarter mile off the backroad up to about a thousand feet or so above sea level.
Together, or with friends, or just the guys and a cooler full o lager and pretzels and CDs.
Time to Move On • Tom Petty
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All thoz road trips for extended stays in other places; saying goodbye & keeping in touch.
Those to whom we said goodbye &, for one reason or another, did not keep well in touch.
.Pigs On The Wing (one & two) • Roger Waters
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The times in & around Green Valley, the big fire, Casa Gutierrez, & up @ White Thorn.
The Green Valley fires, hikes up to Whitaker Peak, WalterDog leaping after a tennis ball.
These Midwestern lake, pond & riversides since teenage ides, so much & how time flies.
There’s still that one chord in the second chorus that I’m iffy about vocally…but so be it.
Love like a Rocket; I Cry Too; Truly, True Blue; The Beat of the Night • Bob Geldof
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Vivid images of the ins & outs of one x- Ma Bell building artStudio & life-lesson guild; &
the day B, one mighty inventive toddler, slipped-out through the back window and into a
ditch beside Nan’s outbuilding/house while we sat in conversation, one car to the other.
In Bloom • Nirvana
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J (going to daycare) in the back seat singing this song w/verve (until we figurd out how to
pull him from that gawdawful institution o mass destruction to spend the days with him.)
Wake Me Up When September Ends • Green Day
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Had dad not died when he did, we likely wouldn’t ave become acquainted n matrimonial.
&, friends, dat woulda been a perfect tragedy instead of a long strange worthwile journey.
Let Me Be • Xavier Rudd
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Namaste…the scent of Satya Sai Baba Nag Champa. An earnest handshake for a son. 5
weeks o light/sound/voiceover bridge for Love, Sex & the IRS; be4, during, n after show.
An email from a new acquaintance said, “Ay, mate, le’me send u a music care package.”
Eclipse; Towers of Faith; The Gunner’s Dream; Two Suns in the Sunset • Roger Waters
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Life in these United States o this world since the mid sixties; history made, in the making.
Also reminds me of my big 5’x 8’x 4’ locking box-cabinet storage for barracks life audio:
Th one with all the adages & anecdotes of a post-teenaged poet non-laureate dufuss kido.
Scar Tissue; Yertle the Turtle; Under the Bridge; The Zephyr Song • R. H. Chili Peppers
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Weekend hotel outings in one of several of our favorite urban cultural meccas: open road.
War Pigs; Planet Caravan; Sweet Leaf; Children of the Grave • Black Sabbath
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So much o my knockaround downtrodden & up-trending youth aggregate back alley dayz
No One Would Riot For Less • Bright Eyes
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Reminds me of listening to Leonard Cohen on the deck of the mountain house w/ new
friends, and hanging with m’son around the family PC, trading eights on guitar and U2b.
Electioneering, Exit Music (For a Film), & Paranoid Android • Radiohead
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……………..aw, shit! …forget about it…………………………
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