Playlist of the Week(music)

piercethevale

piercethevale

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This fellow used to play in Folsom at the Sutter Street Saloon a, couple, few times every year or so.
Northern California resident musician and Vietnam vet that is limited to how often he can perform because of the restrictions the V.A. places on the amount of work one is able to do and still collect Veterans benefits for the disabled.
He can sing and play the Blues 'bout like no other White boy I know of.
Lord knows He paid his dues.

This is his way of giving charity...

Ron Hacker ------ "Welfare Store"-------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxWnRtFdtHE&feature=share


Ron Hacker -------- "House Rent Blues"--------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dMrYqQwt5E

...and this is sweeet....

Ron Hacker ------- "My Bad Boy"-------
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPvWi4z_1cg
 
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piercethevale

piercethevale

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Flapjacks said:
Yeah, technically you can call them old, being over 10 years... that I thought something that is 20 years old is still "new" is what made me say that. Time goes by way too fast! I was talking to someone today about how different the clothes are now from what we wore from the late 90s/early 2000s. It's been long enough that I can see a clear difference, and that's a weird feeling!

There was nothing wrong with your English, actually the statement could be taken both ways, that it's "old" as in from your past, or "old" as in many years old, to me. :)
Click to expand...

Oh great... :andy:

...I'm still wearing the same sort of duds I did in the 80's. :lol:
 
piercethevale

piercethevale

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I had never heard or heard of this song until this morning. It was written by Judde Sill, whom I barely remember as for the tragic way that she lived and died...and she died in an apt. about a little more than a mile from where I was staying with my brother at the time working a construction job in L.A. and he lived a little more than a couple of blocks from where I grew up until I was 10 and my folks owned the house until just a little more than a couple of years before her death. It was in the papers and on the news.

Here it is performed by the Hollies and the release was in the Fall of 1971, just a few months after I had graduated from high school.
It is very Beach Boyish in style and composition. Beautiful tune.

THE HOLLIES ~ "Jesus Was A Crossmaker"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56c5h88H4L0&feature=share
 
piercethevale

piercethevale

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It truly doesn't get any better than this.

Stephen Stills: "Word Game"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vj9Y87eepY

..and the live album version...my fav.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgf9Uk8jeJI

I've been listening to this song from Stephen Stills Live Album album almost 40 years now, and I've not grown tired of it but, rather, quite to the contrary. The first tine is a nice, and comparatively, mellow version of the song.
I'm 61 years old now and maybe a bit jaded and looking a bit tired at times from all the bumps and, at times, pretty rough gravel on the road I traveled. I may have flown my Freak Flag at half-mast a couple ...few... times along the way but I've always flown it and most of the time as high as I could and long did it wave and waves still.
But when I play this album I am 22 again and a virile, true, believer... "I was told that life is change..;And yet history remains
Does it always stay the same
Do we shrug it off and I say..."
'Hell no,' ...and I say it loud
so that assuredly,
God knows.
It is not too late to make it change into the better. As long as you are breathing and have a voice, you are a voice that adds to the collective amplitude
and when we get enough and tune it to the right pitch,
the right key, then we can turn it up loud
and the "walls" will come tumbling down.
Don' t "miss out on High Mass at the Evening Rock & Roll Show."
Power to the People.
Power to the 98%.
Peace.
 
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piercethevale

piercethevale

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More from the same danm fine Stephen Stills Live album
Recorded, March 8, 1974 - March 9, 1974 at the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois ...

I like to do things in reverse at times. I start at the back of the book. or play an album from last to first.

Just going to start with "Side 2", here, the acoustic side:

1. "Change Partners" (Stills) – 2:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-1ay8eCV20

2. "Crossroads/You Can't Catch Me" (Robert Johnson/Chuck Berry) – 4:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgu8f6NwyQo

3. "Everybody's Talkin' at Me" (Fred Neil) – 2:42

4. "4 + 20" (Stills) – 2:27

5."Word Game" (Stills) – 4:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgf9Uk8jeJI

"Word Game"

"Would you knock a man down
If you don't like the cut of his clothes
Could you put a man away
If you don't want to hear what he knows
Well, it's happening right here
People dying of fear by the droves

And I know most of you
Either don't believe it's true
Or else you don't know what to do
Or maybe I'm singing about you
Who knows

It's incredibly sick, you can feel it
As across the land it flows
Prejudice is slick when it's a word game
It festers and grows
Move along quick, it furthers one
To have somewhere to go

You can feel it as it's rumblin'
Let emotions keep a tumblin'
Then as cities start to crumblin'
Mostly empty bellies grumblin'
Here we go

People see somebody different
Fear is the first reaction shown
Then they think they've got him licked
The barbaric hunt begins and they move in slow
A human spirit is devoured
The remains left to carrion crow

I was told that life is change
And yet history remains
Does it always stay the same
Do we shrug it off and say
Only God knows

By and by somebody usually goes
Down to the ghetto try and help
But they don't know why folks treat them cold
And the rich keep getting richer
And the rest of us just keep getting old

You see one must have a mission
In order to be a good Christian
If you don't you will be missing
High Mass or the evening show

And the well fed masters reap the harvests
Of the polluted seeds they've sown
Smug and self-righteous they bytch about people they owe
And you can't prove them wrong
They're so God danm sure they know

I have seen these things with my very own eyes
And defended my battered soul
It must be too tough to die
American propaganda, South African lies
Will not force me to take up arms, that's my enemies' pride

And I won't fight by his rules that's foolishness besides
His ignorance is gonna do him in and nobody's gonna cry
Because his children they are growing up
With bigots and their silver cups they're fed up
They might throw up on you

Alright, ooh"
 
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piercethevale

piercethevale

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The Electric Side of Stephen Stills Live.:joyful::love:

Side one: Electric side

1. "Wooden Ships" (David Crosby, Stills, Paul Kantner) – 6:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJplnsRrp0

...and, one from the heart...
2. "Four Days Gone" (Stills) – 3:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llTwTWYmFJQ


...and, one to melt your face...
3. "Jet Set (Sigh) /Rocky Mountain Way/Jet Set (Sigh)" (Stills/ Rocke Grace, Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Kenny Passarelli/Stills) – 5:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExES9VkWE7w

...and one sent "Special Care"...:love::smile::joyful:
4. "Special Care" (Stills) – 3:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ElqxTr7AU4
 
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piercethevale

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I'm sitting here with a very bemused grin on my face. I cued a number of tunes on the "watch later" feature of youtube yesterday and a couple of hours ago I had listened to three of them and then stopped to watch the movie "Transcendence" which we had just bought on DVD earlier today...
...and the video, which I had cued next on the list, is Jorma Kaukonen [Hot Tuna] playing this song, which he wrote over 40 years ago, live in 2012 at his Fur Peace Ranch... and which I hadn't listened to since the '90's and cued to follow by the 1974 recording, sung and played by Jorma, which is throughout the movie and played in entirety during the closing credits...
...most would call it just a random coincidence... I know better.

...one of the loveliest songs ever written, imho...

Jorma Kaukonen "Genesis" (1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chNamvS4HoU&index=5&list=WL
 
serafin5

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Here is a really beautiful song that didn't get much air play but it's just so amazing. It's called " Don't Let It Bring You Down" by Annie Lennox, and without cheating can anyone remember what movie soundtrack this is from? It's been awhile but Love Love Loved this movie!

Serafin 5:smile:
 
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