first there is a mountain...

What a day yesterday.

Found a copy of dont look back in the Warehouse.

$9.99

and

The Rolling Stones 17 clips

and Down the Tracks

and

Battle Hymn (the movie)

all cheap as.

Thank YOu The Warehouse.

Back to town and there in Hedleys was the latest issue of Mojo Magazine with a feature on the Small Faces.

Could not resist that.

And inside were items on personal reminiscences of the Everly Brothers and a review of Al Koopers Michael Bloomfield Compilation of 3cd's and a dvd.

Died and went to heaven kiddies.

Later I Watched the Late Show where Strypes performed their song.

I had to compare them to the Rolling Stones at similar ages. Strypes were not syncopated and the guitarist seemed to have a limited ability.

However I wish them well. They were doing it but they need to learn all the Chuck Berry riffs they can immediately.

Watched the Stones at the T.A.M.I. show and they had the gurls in the palm of their hands with dynamism and energy.

You could feel the sparks flying.

Otherwise Strypes you will just be a flash in the pan when you could go all the way.

Back to Down the Tracks.

I put it on this morning and had to forgo Kimmy.

(Nick Agar gives me a pain anyway. overgrown juvenile with no experience.)

Down the tracks was a great journey through an America that is rapidly disappearing. We look back on the good old days and hope they might come again but they gone allrighty and they never coming back.

The necessary and sufficient conditions for the efflorescence of music in the 60's is gone too.

Its all museum stuff now. 

Ya get that.

In the meantime I use what spare money I have collecting artefacts from the 60's and reliving the past and plunking away on my guitar and wishing I was Woody Guthrie but I Ain't and thats that but there is a wonderful sense of achievement getting a Carter Family  of Jimmie Rodgers or Hank Williams song under the belt.

There is nothing better.

and

"I dont like transcending and progressing...

I like Sitting and smoking".

Jack Gallo.

Thats nuthin. Just something I learned over in England.