i'd always thought "get out your cane" was an odd line; most people who walk with a cane always have them close at hand even if they sit all day (like me). maybe it means sugar cane. I don't know but I never thought it was about cocaine. "I'll put on some silver" must mean jewelry, but that's another line which sounds awkward to me.
on the subject of joni's wanderlust, etc. there's that line in "Coyote" which--come to think of it--is yet another song written for a friend, lover (or both) one would guess is many years her senior. you know the words I mean: about the lines on the freeway. you can see how travel has "written" those lines on her, quite literally: on the cover of Hejira, in a kind of double-exposure. and on the last repetition, she gets more descriptive: "the fine white lines..." hey how many successful folks in the 70s didn't indulge, particularly in the entertainment industry?
not everyone perhaps. despite several tries, I always found it unpleasant...or at best, undetectable. people will say "then you never had good stuff." but trust me, I know how stimulants affect me, and I simply don't like the way they make me feel.
after 20 years of chronic illness I've become an amateur pharmacologist. if I'm dumb enough to forget, and...oh, let's say, drink more than one can of Mountain Dew...I get irritable & sleepless. then I'm in pain (more than usual) for the next week.
you wanna know my weakness, OK ask for "steely dan" and maybe you too can have a talk with doctor wu. he's a sneaky, unreliable bastard...don't say you weren't warned.
@foreverdrone
In the nineteen-sixties, there was a minor retro fashion trend of young men carrying walking sticks. As to the initial reason, it may have been self-defense, since long haired hippy-type guys were targets for red-necks who might want to beat them up. It was both fancy and practical.
@foreverdrone
In the nineteen-sixties, there was a minor retro fashion trend of young men carrying walking sticks. As to the initial reason, it may have been self-defense, since long haired hippy-type guys were targets for red-necks who might want to beat them up. It was both fancy and practical.
In the context of the song, with her wearing silver, she would be saying - "let's fancy up to go out on the town".
In the context of the song, with her wearing silver, she would be saying - "let's fancy up to go out on the town".
I'm a little too young to have done had one as a fashion statement, but my oldest brother was 20 in 1966, and he had...
I'm a little too young to have done had one as a fashion statement, but my oldest brother was 20 in 1966, and he had a fancy walking stick.
i'd always thought "get out your cane" was an odd line; most people who walk with a cane always have them close at hand even if they sit all day (like me). maybe it means sugar cane. I don't know but I never thought it was about cocaine. "I'll put on some silver" must mean jewelry, but that's another line which sounds awkward to me.
on the subject of joni's wanderlust, etc. there's that line in "Coyote" which--come to think of it--is yet another song written for a friend, lover (or both) one would guess is many years her senior. you know the words I mean: about the lines on the freeway. you can see how travel has "written" those lines on her, quite literally: on the cover of Hejira, in a kind of double-exposure. and on the last repetition, she gets more descriptive: "the fine white lines..." hey how many successful folks in the 70s didn't indulge, particularly in the entertainment industry?
not everyone perhaps. despite several tries, I always found it unpleasant...or at best, undetectable. people will say "then you never had good stuff." but trust me, I know how stimulants affect me, and I simply don't like the way they make me feel.
after 20 years of chronic illness I've become an amateur pharmacologist. if I'm dumb enough to forget, and...oh, let's say, drink more than one can of Mountain Dew...I get irritable & sleepless. then I'm in pain (more than usual) for the next week.
you wanna know my weakness, OK ask for "steely dan" and maybe you too can have a talk with doctor wu. he's a sneaky, unreliable bastard...don't say you weren't warned.
@foreverdrone In the nineteen-sixties, there was a minor retro fashion trend of young men carrying walking sticks. As to the initial reason, it may have been self-defense, since long haired hippy-type guys were targets for red-necks who might want to beat them up. It was both fancy and practical.
@foreverdrone In the nineteen-sixties, there was a minor retro fashion trend of young men carrying walking sticks. As to the initial reason, it may have been self-defense, since long haired hippy-type guys were targets for red-necks who might want to beat them up. It was both fancy and practical.
In the context of the song, with her wearing silver, she would be saying - "let's fancy up to go out on the town".
In the context of the song, with her wearing silver, she would be saying - "let's fancy up to go out on the town".
I'm a little too young to have done had one as a fashion statement, but my oldest brother was 20 in 1966, and he had...
I'm a little too young to have done had one as a fashion statement, but my oldest brother was 20 in 1966, and he had a fancy walking stick.