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lemonade kid |
Posted - 27/09/2013 : 15:41:27 So many references to our literary heroes and their writings in favorite folk, rock and pop songs... let's share some...
Shawn Mullins is a favorite Americana storyteller, here referencing a favorite 60's iconclastic poet and storyteller in song...Brautigan was the hippie's hippie of the 1960's (though Brautigan himself had a great distaste for "hippies" and what he felt they stood for, at least in his mind). I guess that's what made Brautigan special...he was a natural hippie and he embodied what it means to be a "long haired hippie freak" in the truest and most honest sense...he didn't have to try. Not an inch of phoniness anywhere in his bones.
Shawn Mullins-Twin Rocks, Oregon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrtvsSAd3c
I met him on the cliffs Of twin rocks, Oregon He was sittin' on his bedroll Lookin' just like Richard Brautigan I thought he was an old man He wasn't but thirty seven
He said he'd been ridin' trains For fifteen years Drawin' portraits To keep his belly full of the beer And looked to me like he'd died And missed the plane to Heaven
But he was a nice old guy For a younger man He had a bottle of Mad Dog He held in his hand Waved around a lot To make his point
And I listened as he told his tales Wine and women and county jails We finished off that bottle And smoked a half a joint
He said "I came here to watch the sun Disappear into the ocean It's been years Since I smelled this salty sea"
He turned his bottle up and down I saw him lost and I saw him found He said "I don't know what I've been Lookin' for, maybe me"
Well, I told him I too had been Travelin' around Livin' out of my van from town to town Playin' for tips and whatever records I could move
I said "I don't reckon I'll be makin it big You know it's hard to get rich Off a tout of coffee house gigs And he said "Yeah, but ain't it a blessin' To do what you wanna do"
And I told him "Yeah, I pulled off here" To watch the sun disappear into the ocean 'Cause it's been years Since I smelled this salty sea"
He turned his bottle up and down He saw me lost and he saw me found He said "I don't know what I've Been lookin' for, maybe me"
I said "It's kinda late Better be headin' down the interstate Can I give you a lift To San Francisco bay?"
He said "Nope, I think I'm just Going to sit here and rest And maybe wait on the Tokyo Montana express
I might just lay here And dream my life away I'm gonna to sit right here I'm gonna to watch the sun Disappear into the ocean 'Cause it's been years, it's been years
I'm gonna turn my bottle up and down You can see me lost And you can see me found
Well I met him on the cliffs Of twin rocks, Oregon He was sitting on his bedroll looking Just like Richard Brautigan Just like him
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on. -lk |
8 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
lemonade kid |
Posted - 01/10/2013 : 17:36:37 "A Man For All Seasons" Al Stewart
"1984" & "Big Brother" David Bowie
"The Cask Of Amontillado" by Alan Parsons Project
"The Ghost Of Tom Joad" (Grapes Of Wrath_ Bruce Springsteen)
"Hedda Gabler" (Ibsen's play) John Cale
"The Highwayman" Phil Ochs, and decades later Loreena McKennett
"Home At Last" Steely Dan (Ulysses' encounter with the sirens from the Odyssey)
"Hallelujah" Leonard Cohen, based on the Bible story of David & Bathsheba, and elements of Samson & Delilah
"House At Pooh Corner" Loggins & Messina
"I AM The Walrus" Beatles-lines from King Lear are heard
"The Ballad Of You Me and Poohneil" Jefferson Airplane, House at Pooh Corner
"rejoyce" Jefferson Airplane, homage to James Joyce's Ulysses. ...my favorite from After Bathing At Baxters
have a listen...so good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lscRNsyEzs4
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on. -lk |
underture |
Posted - 01/10/2013 : 16:53:24 "Ballad of a Thin Man" which is something of an anthem for the 60's includes Dylan's reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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captain america and billy |
Posted - 01/10/2013 : 16:01:17 In some sort of more conceptual manner,there is literary reference in many of Jim Morrison's poetic musings in that his artisan and personal perspectives were apparently greatly influenced by the great beat writers of the late 1950's and early 1960's.Figures such as Kerouc and Allen Ginsberg.While much of the world will never assume Morrison to have been no more than some sort of "spaced out 60's weirdo",he actually was a very bright,well read and obviously extremely well motivated man whose IQ is said to have been in the genius range. |
lemonade kid |
Posted - 30/09/2013 : 14:52:22 quote: Originally posted by The sweet disorder
Hey LK
How about this little beauty from one of the greatest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyJJMYhjB8
A great, obscure (to most) almost classical piece from Syd. Cool, SD!
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on. -lk |
The sweet disorder |
Posted - 29/09/2013 : 22:33:01 Hey LK
How about this little beauty from one of the greatest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyJJMYhjB8 |
captain america and billy |
Posted - 28/09/2013 : 16:28:26 Or how bout on Simon and Garfunkel's "Simple Dulsutory Philipic" the say something like "when you say Dylan,they think you're talking about Dylan Thomas".On the same album's "Dangling Conversation",they make reference to both Emily Dickinson AND Robert Frost.Cool! |
lemonade kid |
Posted - 27/09/2013 : 16:38:53 Good one, captn.
"And in the darkest steps of Mordor. Gollum, the evil one..." Zep. (who referenced Tolkien maybe more than any other artists)
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Old hippies never die, they just ramble on. -lk |
captain america and billy |
Posted - 27/09/2013 : 16:18:26 "Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe..." |