friday music

[mnaz]

friday night, grab some discs
the old marantz does what it can
warm circuit against digital evil
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sly stone, the asphalt jungle
freddie's opening solo gets you
replay, and again, the stark, rich blue
range bums broke, lovesick, and driftin'
hank the third, whiskey bottle in his hand
gin bottle camera in the other, to his eye
'64 caddy behind, long tail fin, white hat
decline of the west, the album cover

and tex ritter is on the radio
love as big as the texas plains
and ernest tubbs, lone star bragging
roots rock and the mighty sky

and prince jazzbo toasts over an old
max romeo hymn in the cold april rain
not that old when he made poetry of it
you never know what will stick, reggae
or versions blown open by the bass line
crucial antagonism of a steady meter
the tingle-tension of art, arrested
jazzbo smooth, yet the rain

[revolutionrabbit]

my parents had friends
down the block that liked ernest tubbs
but they also liked the twist
and chubby checker was on the box
they came from alabama
i laughed at the hick music
and i tried to hula hoop and do the twist
i liked long hair music, classical
i was slow to like rock and roll
i remember when the first stereo
came out, there was a demo
that allowed you to hear the sound
travel from one speaker to the other
i thought that was so way out cool
then i liked mack the knife
bobby darin, was cool, but purple
people eater and the witch doctor song
were way out, man
i liked rock around the clock, and i recall
great balls of fire, but i never got that hang
of elvis, don't know why, my dad was kinda square
but he liked ray charles, and some piano jazz
one of my favorite songs before the beatles
was tall cool one by the wailers
i think it was that snazzy sax
made me feel beatnik like
a night club musician my folks knew
because they went to the club he played at
he played honky tonk pretty swell
told me once that the guy that sang, king of the road
was a junkie, i never forgot that, imagine that, a junkie

[saw]

sounds good mnaz, ...nuthin' wrong with some friday night vinyl worship....

a little Hank 3 all lovesick and broke, granddaddy would understand......daddy too

a little jazzbo reggae to pull it all together, it's good to spend friday night with old friends

sly stone is supposedly working on some new stuff with the great bootsy collins, and there is a a pretty hip documentary out on sly which I would like to get my hands on

good stuff, mnazzy

[Arcadia]

sweet poem, mnaz!! I almost can imagine you! but... who are they ??

[mnaz]

man of means by no means... drank beer one time with my parents and sang along to this one at lake havasu, arizona. my parents hated beer..



hank and his bottle telescope. and the '64 caddy..
"decline of the west"..

more dubbed out dub today.. sometimes i can really get into those sessions... that one augustus pablo sonic-scape was killer, and bim sherman's big sky "golden dub," like being on a naked desert slope watching the echo float out..

steve... wow, sly, back, and with bootsy? gawd.

odd, the sly fly-bys, last 5 years. shows up for half a set, leaves in the middle of a tune. serves us right.

yeh, love it when the reverb goes from one speaker to the other and back... pure modern jet age magic..

so, what's the next revolution? the industrial revolution gave us soot and washing machines, heavy metal and corporate vampires. wonder what's next...

[the mingo]

it's not the bottle in hand but the finger on the trigger that counts - that photo is way else mark, thx.