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Brought up on RocK and Roll and Country and Western off the radio and all of a sudden there was someone singing and playing with a wonderfully warm tenor and exceptional guitar skills just as natural as you like.
far too good for the plebs and the anti-americanism prevalent in the airswaves at the time!!!!!
deep enough to suck you in but not so technical that you need a degree to understand it.
and bite size chunks specially for the layman.
and miracle on miracle there is not one mention of the weasel popper!
opened my eyes to Hannah Arendt.
wow what a brain. she nails it.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born into a German-Jewish family, she was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and lived in Paris for the next eight years, working for a number of Jewish refugee organisations. In 1941 she immigrated to the United States and soon became part of a lively intellectual circle in New York. She held a number of academic positions at various American universities until her death in 1975. She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).
her critique of modernity and the need to work to provide goods that dont last and are thrown away is so right. however we are locked in and there is no alternative.
I have found another hero.
its not easy being green...
and I dont mean the silly game they play on the radio!!!!
In the middle of Europes hottest summer and dwindling fresh water supplies the French bourgeoisie are resisting efforts to curb water usage for private swimming pools.
obviously private pools are demonstrations of consumption power and status rankings and individuals are averse to giving them up to benefit the whole.
in this particular tragedy of the commons the wealthy of FRance are cutting off their noses to spite their faces!
I have never read the likes of such a vacuous puff piece by Greg Land in Saturdays Times Age.
Lang who is standing for a second term not once mentioned ballooning rates, padded payrolls or the pokey, cramped barely fit for purpose library.
or for that matter the cheap and nasty pebble topped footpaths off the main drag. I can think of no other town in New Zealand that treats its pedestrians with such contempt.
Not good enough.
all the above issues need addressing but no he is more concerned with a whole lot of new age blah about individuals fulfilling their destiny and other rot.
The bureaucrats are running rampant and he is kowtowing to them.
he has adopted the attitude of we know everything there is to know and if we dont know it then it doesn't matter because if it did matter then we would know it and any way mind your own business.
such a pity such a waste.
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there wasn't much to amuse us all except boozing reefers and playing music.
when I first heard the string band project I wanted to do that. sing play the banjo and hoedown and wingding.
I got a banjo whcih I never mastered but I learned to play a few songs off it and the person who worked them out for me did it in different keys to the original. sly chap. eventually I learned what a key was, how to transpose and how to cop tunes off the record.
It took a while. somehow I found a copy of Dco Watson and Son and the two doubles he put out for Vanguard. The first time I heard his warm tenor and ace picking I was smitten. I do play a few Doc Watson songs these days but I dont have his instrumental facility but I do alright. after years on a chainsaw and shovel my digits were not exactly lithe and nimble.
The third mind blower was Michael Bloomfield and Al Koopers Supersession
In my opinion Bloomfield is second only to Jimi Hendrix in inventiveness and melodic fluidity. He never used any pedals and he never wrote much of any note but his playing is sublime.
amazon must have been known that I was on the case looking twice a day to see where it was!
the fact of th ematter is it is the only source of the Stones version of Poison Ivy which surprise surprise is equal to or better than any other. chew on that. hehehehe.
have a dvd somewhere where he outlines how to play turn turn turn.
full of twists and ah err umm turns. hehehe.
the dylan album is up there as one of the greatest albums ever made as the byrds chase down the voodoo and nail it to the wall.
when you and I do mean you can get the old g,c, and d chimes of freedom down then you have done something. dig?
Tuned into the wrestling channel and got distracted by a rumble....
local vintage car club having a rally and a drive through the old folks home next door
you name it:
mustangs
austine healys
jags
morrie minors
rollers
lincoln continental
corvettes
lanchesters
cobras
humbers
all the products of an industry from a long gone era especially when coachbuilders and chassis builders were sometimes completely different entities.
they gone now and the beefcake are throwing themselves about heheheheh
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