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lemonade kid
Old Love
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 Posted - 27/09/2013 : 15:41:27
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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.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 27/09/2013 16:36:32 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 27/09/2013 : 16:18:26
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 27/09/2013 : 16:38:53
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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.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 27/09/2013 16:39:29 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 28/09/2013 : 16:28:26
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| 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! |
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The sweet disorder
Fourth Love
United Kingdom
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 30/09/2013 : 14:52:22
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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 |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 30/09/2013 15:09:07 |
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captain america and billy
Old Love
907 Posts |
Posted - 01/10/2013 : 16:01:17
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| 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. |
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underture
Fifth Love
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Posted - 01/10/2013 : 16:53:24
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"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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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 01/10/2013 : 17:36:37
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"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 |
Edited by - lemonade kid on 01/10/2013 17:39:48 |
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Literary References in song-your faves
