you got to move...

ya got to move.

and when the lord says get ready.

ya got to move.

yeahhhhhh.

you got to move.

Paul Butterfield

Georgia Sea Island Singers

The gods must be crazy.
Found "Festival" yesrterday in the Family Store. Just sitting there waiting for me.
It opens with Peter Paul and Mary singing If I Had A Hammer.
Powerful stuff with more ergs than the record. hehehehehe.
A wonderful celebration of the Newport Folk Festival and home made music.
Mary was so beautiful.
She really was.
and nice.
I met her once at Auckland University way back in the 1960's.
She talked to me.
Yes indeedy.
Back on the job, the list of performers on the DVD was phenomenal and a really neato interview with Mike Bloomfield. "I'm Jewish. I've been Jewish for years".
Larfs.
Mike was OK kiddies and he did his own thing.
Dont listen to the critics or the commentators. They know nuthin.
As they say he did his own thing but that isn't good enough for some people.
according to friends Mike was his own manager and had his own world wide circuit and kept busy.
He just wasn't the kind of person to make a big noise about it.
After you played sideman on the greatest rock and roll record of all time then how do you top that?
Search his stuff out.
and for the tyros and the novices.
Go to Homespun Tapes & Records.
You can get tab books and DVD's to teach yourself.
Its not that hard.
sing about the world and not yourself and you will have it covered.
thats a guarantee.
to hell with solipsism.
Mel?
Mel Lyman was a naughty boy.
angry and contrarian.
he thought he knew what was best for other people.
He locked them in a room and force fed them LDS.
norty mel.
One of his acolytes, Mark Frechette, star of Zabriskie Point,  did a bank job to keep the Battle Hill, Boston, commune in funds and got murdered in jail.
thats very norty mel.
I dont think you are going to heaven.
Anyway, the rest is history as they say.
Its all gone now and its up to us folksingers to carry the mesage.
Back then you could afford to be a little non-conformist and get away with it.
Now 'they' have all the goods on ya from birth and if you piss 'them' off them your life is fucked up for goood.
dammm.
The productive apparatus will brook no interference and the myrmidons will use any excuse to fuck round with ya just for fun.
They get their jollies!