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funny how that is... jb

well that's true but in the case of the stones they were capable of much better. at one time. that particular song was an outtake they weren't going to use. but then bobby keys started blowing some sax after the song had run out of steam and they decided they like it and after a little more development, put it out on sticky fingers LP. jb

"Y'all got cocaine eyes. Yeah, you got speed-freak jive"... cant you hear me knocking. stones some of their worst lyrics ever. sorry. whatever happened to have you seen your mother baby, standing in the shadows? jb

heres a fun sunday drive for your Samurai up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Gi_aCVtUw and down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ7Auk1ZT4s I have ridden over the lions back but never driven it. no way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbkTncjEOs jb

I think you might be a little premature with that thought, Dale. you have probably waited way longer than you wanted to, but most indications are the orders ARE filled, just way past the drop dead date the customer might have in mind. personally I would not forget either, but might get surprised when my order shows up in my mailbox one fine day. sometimes people who are shall we say on the edge of legitimacy don't really like answering inquiries. that's not good but in a way its understandable: hopefully they are using the time it takes to communicate to produce their stuff and get it out. jb

this one was a bit of a trick question: >kill the white people >but buy my record first tyrone greene: kill the white people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zON0o_d51E I apologize for the faintly racist, overtly anti-Obama propaganda on the beginning of the clip, skip to about 28 seconds for the fun to begin jb

surprised no zappa fans got this one driving mi carucha cheby 39 going to el monte legion stadium pick up on my wisa she is so divine helps me stealing hubcaps wasted all the time. fuzzy dice, bongos in the back my ship of love ready to attack... dog breath, mothers of invention original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMSQ1vCxZJU live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsDQxh9_e50 jb

that is more than that seems to go for regularly, but it is one of the most desirable of the parts pack as far as actual uses goes. but just to compare, about 3 months ago I won a set of the dragster speed equipment, even more desirable/useful than the roadster sprue, without the box but wrapped in saran wrap for upteen years, for about 25$, I forget exactly how much. so it just goes to show...that's the way ebay works sometimes. jb

yeah let me tell you about four years driving in Papua New Guinea and two in Jamaica sometime. but for now you want a scary drive? drive the skyline blvd road above and between santa cruz and san jose California, sometime. the road isn't bad, its very scenic fun drive actually, running along the ridge top of the santa cruz mountains but whats crazy, especially on the weekends, are the nutso motorcycle riders who split lanes (two lane road that means they are driving on the double yellow line) with massive amounts of traffic coming, them at near 100 mph amongst cars busses suvs etc going 40 max. and doing it in packs, two inches from each other. and veering into the oncoming traffic whenever it suits them. and I am talking HUNDREDS of motorcycles not just a couple, going both directions, lying completely knees on the ground down in the corners (wet mossy gravelly you get the picture). now normally that might not bother me so much as I figure hey if you want to end your life go ahead just don't inconvenience me by having to call an ambulance, but these guys (and girls) are SO out there that its a constant case of having to watch for potential flying wreckage. miraculous not many seem to get hurt but the couple times ive been stupid enough to subject myself to that road on a weekend I have seen two or three bikes either crash, skid out or go over an embankment or a combination of the three. including one time a guy on a hardly worthison trike (what a dumb ass) go straight off the road and into a tree, ejecting himself and that little non-DOT approved brain bucket square into the tree. that was one I stopped for and the guy was dead as a doornail, kind of the way Darwinism ought to work but is so stifled by our need to be "safe" these days. anyway I avoid that road like a plague now a days, was a fun drive back in the seventies. jb

local walnut grove ca (aka Mayberry) still uses a RHD jeep like that for deliveries...and they also converted the long time mailmum's Saturn wagon to RHD (believe it or not...I didn't believe it at first either). jb

no takers on this one either: >with a blood curdling "tallyho" she charged into the ranks >and blessed all those grandmas >who with their dying breath scream "THANKS" here are the lyrics that precede it and kind of set the context: well theres twenty thousand grandmas wave their hankies in the air burning up their pensions and shouting 'its not fair!' theres a regiment of soldiers standing, looking on and the queen is bravely shouting 'What the hell is going on?" it is a relatively little known (I guess) song from one of the classic LPs of all times, in my book anyway jb

>But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina afraid I don't know the song but its gotta be by a british outfit. jb

>Bongo Fury correcto, though I thought it was a song called bongo fury, only after reading your remark did I go back and listen and he says "I wish I had some bongos" and then frank tones in with "bongo fury"...in the sam with showing scalp flat top. which is in itself a so kool title. and yep on the sex pistols too, so now we are getting down to some I thought would be pretty easy... musical fak: after the dissolution of the sex pistols by their manufacturer/Svengali/manager Malcolm Mclaren (sp?) (see movie the great rock and roll swindle), Virgin Records owner Richard Branson (both the company and the man's name should be familiar, I believe they have branched out into space travel these days after a long career in pretty much everything doable) signed John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten to be the A&R man for his just-being-established reggae label "Front Line". he sent Lydon down to Jamaica to sign up all the non-internationally signed talent (that would essentially mean anyone not signed by Chris Blackwells Island records, and a few that were already signed elsewhere) on the island, which he proceeded to do. he signed the heaviest of the heavy yard musicians and they produced a number of LPs for virgin, probably near a hundred, which remain in the virgin/frontline catalogue to this day. kind of funny that this very epitome of "punk" would have such a rapport with country grown Jamaicans but such is the power of a bag of money as Prince Fari once put it in his song "Virgin" which was not exactly an homage to Branson. jb

correct despite me flubbing some of the lyrics. too easy jb

alright some clean up...no takers on these? I wish I had some bongos xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx kill the white people but buy my record first XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX then he messed up his life went and beat up his wife now the floozies gone and found another sucker shes going to turn him on to drink then lead him to the brink and when his moneys gone she'll leave him in the gutter its such a shame XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX stole a car and drove to Omaha doing my best to stay away from the law when the sheriff caught me he said look here son youre going to jail for having too much fun XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX bag of reds (often replaced with the words "barbeque ribs") from your neighborhood dealer and you passed out in the back of your car XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under. hint: its sort of the birth of rap before it turned to total ©rap XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I wanna destroy a passer-by XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX driving mi carucha cheby 39 going to el monte legion stadium pick up on my wisa she is so divine helps me stealing hubcaps wasted all the time. fuzzy dice, bongos in the back my ship of love ready to attack... jb

>Let it Rock, by Chuck Berry n frequently covered by the Greatful Dead at Concerts don't know about the GD covering it but the stones did the definitive version for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWEW8h3FNSg ever see the movie hail hail rock and roll, wherein keith Richards assembles a real band for chuck berry to play with? the dvd includes a bonus feature called the reluctant star, that is better than the movie itself. more lyrics, easy ones: this is the way a lot of people felt back then: We are all outlaws in the eyes of America then there was my guitar hero mike bloomfield backing a certain well known musical poet: God said to Abraham kill me a son abe said man you must be putting me on God said no Abe said what? God said you can do what you want to but the next time you see me coming man you better run we'll just put some bleachers out in the sun and have it out on... about the grateful dead, I always much preferred a different SF band, the Jefferson Airplane. they had a power onstage, they had excellent musicianship, they were typically rehearsed and they had tight together songs, all things the Dead generally lacked. and you could hear the airplane pretty much any Saturday somewhere in the city, out playing for free in a park. the dead got the publicity for that but it was the airplane (and specifically Chet Helms) who saw to it that the music was free for the listening. more reminiscences of the past glory days, after my family moved to sacramento, I used to take my friends back to marin to places I knew, one of them a private beach owned by hipsters and entertainment people called Muir Beach. we would go there random weekends. one sunday we went there, my GF and my best friends john and tom, and their chicks, all packed into johns moms Volvo 122. when we got there there was a massive crowd, something not usual for the normally quiet place. turned out kesey was having an impromptu acid test there so we paid our beach fee and joined the crowd. fun day. there was a band playing that we recognized from the teen dances and high school dances in sacto, the Gollywogs. only they had changed their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival and the next week or so Fantasy label in berzerkly released their first LP. back to the dead, one thing I will always appreciate about them is/was their commitment to good sound or at least attempts at it. the rolling stones played their second or third date of the 69 tour in Oakland in november, first real tour of the modern rock age where they were not using house PAs. well their pa broke down during the first of two shows and the GD sent their sound man and a truck load of equipment over for sound reinforcement and the show went on, otherwise both shows would have been cancelled. as it was the "early " show didn't end until at least midnite, and the second show scheduled to begin at 10pm didn't start until 2 or so and didn't get out until day break at which point I realized I had lost my ride home and had to hitchhike back to Bolinas at 5 in the morning. of course the good the GD did that night was pretty much erased by the debacle of Altamont (actually not near as bad as the legend has it) the next month. that whole mess post golden gate park plans were orchestrated by the GD organization who by all rights should have known better...but sense was never one of their strong points. edited to correct flubbed lyrics jb

pick up your belongins boy they all scattered about we got a off schedule train comin two miles out... jb

It's got a band new chimney put on top And it's a made out of human skull Come on take a little walk with me baby bo diddley who do you love covered a lot too jb

in the ghetto elvis the pelvis jb

I lived by Olompali on the outskirts of Novato during most of that time, before it became a park and before the Dead decamped from SF and moved there. i remember my dad getting all bent about all the hippies moving into the area and all the nudity going on over there but i also noticed him paying attention to the young teenyboppers. then my parents sold the house and we moved to relatively sedate Sacramento. i moved back to the area after i graduated from high school and lived near Mill Valley and Bolinas while i went to school. I also lived in Stinson Beach some years later when J Garcia moved there and the place kinda went nuts for awhile. jb

Neal Cassidy ("Cowboy Neal") was the central character of On the Road, wasn't he? wiki: Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He was prominently featured as himself in the original "scroll" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. He also served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of the novel. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray jb

yes it would be a reference to Keseys Merry Pranksters and to Jack Kerouac's On the Road. I have lived in the bay area on and off since i was about 15, a good portion of it in Marin county just north of San Francisco, and was just sort of coming of age in 65 when all fun was starting, the real fun not the manufactured "fun" of the media stories. though they were one of my favorite bands earlier on, I have not been a fan of the Dead since about the mid 70s but I do have to admit their lyricist Robert hunter was a great song writer at times. not sure he wrote those lyrics but pretty certain. jb

yep, yep and yep. jb

lets change it up a little here, what famous musician once said: "Drug problem? I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem." pretty obvious really jb

Grateful Dead and what literary classic are the lyrics referencing? jb