Name That Tune....

[Crazy Ed]

pick up your belongins boy

they all scattered about

we got a off schedule train

comin two miles out...

jb

Let it Rock, by Chuck Berry n frequently covered by the Greatful Dead at Concerts

[Snake45]

If a man ever needed dying, he did

No one had a right to say, what he said about you

And it's so cold and lonely here without you

Out there, the law is coming, I've been so tired of running

Indiana Wants Me, don't remember the singer--one-hit wonder?

"This is the police. You are surrounded. Give yourself up...."

Edited March 28, 2015 by Snake45

[Crazy Ed]

I have not. Apparently, the original bus (which was named "Further") is completely rotted-out behind the barn where it can't be seen from the road. Several years ago, Kesey bought another old bus and painted it up and tried to pass it off as the original to the Smithsonian.

One of the Car Shows on TV showed whats left of the Bus years ago while interviewing Wavey Gravy. I'd guess Kesey didn't want to donate the Bus in fear of what restorers would find in it!

[Guest]

And if I had the sun and moon, and they were shining

[Snake45]

And if I had the sun and moon, and they were shining

BadCo, Feel Like Makin Love.

[Guest]

Yep

[StevenGuthmiller]

"They rode the sunset, horse was made of steel,

chased a gringo last night through a field."

Steve

[jbwelda]

>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

Edited March 28, 2015 by jbwelda

[StevenGuthmiller]

"He was born on a summer day, 1951,

and with the slap of a hand he landed as an only son."

Steve

[StevenGuthmiller]

"And if it's bad,

don't let it get you down,

you can take it.

And if it hurts,

don't let them see you cry,

you can take it."

Steve

[jbwelda]

alright some clean up...no takers on these?

I wish I had some bongos

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kill the white people

but buy my record first

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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

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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

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bag of reds (often replaced with the words "barbeque ribs")

from your neighborhood dealer

and you passed out in the back of your car

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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

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I wanna destroy

a passer-by

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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

[Snake45]

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

next time you see me man you better run

we'll just put some bleachers out in the sun

and have it out on...

Highway 61, R. Zimmerman.

[Mike_G]

John Fogerty- The old man is Down the Road

Correct. .

My sister is married to a radio DJ in Las Vegas so she gets to meet a lot of rock stars:

[jbwelda]

correct despite me flubbing some of the lyrics. too easy

jb

[Mike_G]

alright some clean up...no takers on these?

I wish I had some bongos

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

jb

I thought I'd already answered that one but I guess not- it's Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat-top from the Bongo Fury album by Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers

My tar room absorbed every echo

the music was... thudlike

Don Van Vliet was quite the character

[Psychographic]

"You gave me fortune,

you gave me fame.

You gave me power in your God's name"...

Living Colour, Cult of Personality?

[lysleder]

I wanna destroy

a passer-by

Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK

A masterpiece, covered countless times. This is one of the best ones;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EmxbbAoDq4

[lysleder]

Mary, Mary Magdalene, how 'bout a date?
You've been wasting your time staying up so late
Your boyfriend's dead, the word is you're a whore
Just about then I heard a knock on the door

[lysleder]

But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
Fill her up, Jacko!

[slusher]

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

YES

[slusher]

Correct. .

My sister is married to a radio DJ in Las Vegas so she gets to meet a lot of rock stars:

Fogerty 1.jpg

That would be so cool to meet rock stars and get pictures and Autographs....

[slusher]

Indiana Wants Me, don't remember the singer--one-hit wonder?

"This is the police. You are surrounded. Give yourself up...."

R Dean Taylor. He had another hit but did not do as good as good. i had the 45 of Indiana wants me...

[slusher]

"They rode the sunset, horse was made of steel,

chased a gringo last night through a field."

Steve

War- Cisco Kid

[Mike_G]

"He was born on a summer day, 1951,

and with the slap of a hand he landed as an only son."

Steve

The song is Lonely Boy, but I can't remember the artist

[jbwelda]

>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