19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT

[mshray]

Thanks Susan! (the Foghead who turned 50 today)

Today is also my Dad's 71'st.  Happy B-day, Dad!

[RGMike]

Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.

[Gazoo]

Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.

"Gavel" still makes perfect contextual sense to me.

[Gazoo]

Hayy B-Day, DadShray!

"Youth and truth are making love, dig it for a starter /
Dying young is hard to take, selling out is harder."

That line was awkward to hear when I saw them live in December.

[Gazoo]

Dave Edmunds was at #4 with this on this weekend's Kasem Kountdown.

[ggould]

ahh, Dave Edmunds'  "I Hear You Knockin'"

[RGMike]

Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.

"Gavel" still makes perfect contextual sense to me.

Oh, absolutely -- I thought it was that for years, I thought the song was about a guy standing before a judge, narrating his life story.

uh-oh, a GazWOS: VHM DaveEdmunds, paying tribute to '50s rock -- that nostalgia train was just getting ready to leave the station in '71 and it would chug along for most of the '70s.

[ggould]

Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version

[RGMike]

OK, I really only need to hear "American Pie" one a year, tops.

[Lightnin' Rod]

-- that nostalgia train was just getting ready to leave the station in '71 and it would chug along for most of the '70s.

"American Pie" confirms that opinion.

[ggould]

Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version

I remember getting my literary criticism class all atwitter discussing this current song during my abortive attempt at college re-entry at Berkeley back then!

[Wayback]

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died...

[mshray]

Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version

Welcome back Geoff!

I'll always remember driving back to St. Louis from spending New Year's in Chicago circa 1987 with my brother Chris, in our old 1968 Chevy Biscayne with a broken radio, him and me singing this song for probably an hour before we figured we had remembered all the lyrics.

[RGMike]

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died...

A remarkably detailed (if sometimes literal-minded) illustration/exegesis of "American Pie" (orig posted in the "You Tube" thread a few weeks ago):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4

[Wayback]

Ah yes, Do It AGAIN!