Friday, May 09, 2008

Thanks buddy..

Back in the late 70's and early 80's,It was more or less routine for me to get together with my good friend Mark on the weekends,and pick guitars.
Along with family and friends,we'd gather in the back yard,drink great quantities of Jack Daniels,snort cocaine till it dripped out of our noses,and toss chords and pickin' runs about as if we knew exactly what we were doing.
In truth,we weren't half bad.
Over time,he and I put together a nice little repertoire of acoustics.
The Doobie brothers.
Cat Stevens.
The Beatles...You know,all that mellow C,D,and G stuff that spoke to most twenty-somethings at the time.
Eventually,we could anticipate each other's next change,and elaborate with our own interpretation..It was indescribably satisfying!

By an amazing coincidence,it sounded absolutely nothing like this...



'Teach your children'

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At 6:40 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

And now we are all in bi-focals, dancing & wiggling with our high-fiber bowls of cereal in hand, hoping not to dislocate anything, whilst we skip along to our merry little jobs, proving there is more to life than our 20's and 30's.
Right? It's amazing how we survived it all.

 
At 6:44 AM , Blogger Doralong said...

I love that song so much! And wow, our weekends were a lot alike in the 70s and 80s.. dang!

 
At 7:03 AM , Blogger billy pilgrim said...

one of the best songs ever but i don't think i'd give dave my liver or have him father my children.

allison krauss and friends do an excellent cover on it.

 
At 10:29 AM , Blogger yellowdoggranny said...

ahh, sweety..no one sound like them...even them any more...

 
At 10:40 AM , Blogger sageweb said...

That was nice. I have yet to get pregnant by any of them.

 
At 9:48 PM , Blogger Sling said...

CS- We are,the Geritol generation!

doralong- It was a much simpler time.
We knew that Richard Nixon was the anti-christ,and coke was $25.00 a gram...good times!

billy P.- Oh I'd give Dave my liver.
I mean I hava 2 right?..wait..that's kidneys..
Nevermind.

Yellowdog G.- ..but a few shots of Jack,and we can all sound just like them. ;)

Sage- There's still time doll,don't give up trying.

 
At 8:59 PM , Blogger Lorraine said...

Ahhhh....one of my all time favorites EVER.

 
At 12:55 AM , Blogger Middle Child said...

I love this song...in 1972 I worte a story for a magazine called "Go Set" in Australia and won 9 LPS... Arlo Guthrie, 2 James taylor, Crosby, Stills Nash and Young, JOan Collins and a another one...it eludes me... Not this song... so why am I telling this...they were something else...still love them.

 
At 5:14 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahhh, this was always the inevitable 'round the campfire sing along my hippy friends and I would break into. Good times...
and that was only six or seven years ago. Timeless classic tunage, that. (tunage as in tunes. Not tuna. Although, you know that too)

 

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