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| Poco – A Good Feelin' To Know Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Was into the country rock bands then...poco, burrito brothers, creedence....later the eagles....you could always pick up a chick with a poco tune....and maybe throw in some james taylor.....i thought I was richie furay even for a while there. |
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| Stephen Stills – Singin Call Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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some people buy themselves a doll?.....a reference to magick, voodoo?? interesting lyric, there was certainly alot of that going around in those days! |
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| Steppenwolf – Sookie Sookie Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[spearsg:45050] yep, we sang the suck me lyrics, around 1972.....especially in the biker bars here in ct.....there were no censors in those dirt,greasy dives. |
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| Steppenwolf – Sookie Sookie Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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You kids are all off your arses.....listen to the old blues/race records!!! learn some of the older "jive".......not rap!! then you will understand the lyrics....bottle of turpentine, banana peel, baltimore jig- all black expressions from the 1940's |
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| Grateful Dead – That's It For The Other One Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[danielmoraes:40189] When i was a child i thought like a child, when i became a man i put that behind me.....1st corinthians chapter 13.....those who say psychedelic art is just the drug effects are the children, they have not become adults yet (they dont understand, they have minds that are not aware)....by the way, Weir and Neil were roomates for awhile in the early days. |
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| Grateful Dead – That's It For The Other One Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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This tune is about....me!!....as a 60\'s kid, i was reviled for being a brain and sensitive...most of the other brats wanted me to go.....I had to die!!! .I was on asthma drugs like phenobarb, which caused me to have psychedelic effects.....my room would grow huge, then small(typical effect on l.s.d. or l.s.a).....the leaves would turn to me.....later in about 1972, I got on the bus, and after vietnam, the hippie movement died a sad death, especially when reagan took office in 1980- their closed constipated minds were left "unbended"....Later in 1983, I met God while in jail, and the song took on a new meaning...i died to myself, and the flesh, and was reborn spiritually |
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| Grateful Dead – Saint Stephen Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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This is about the stoning of saint stephen in the hew testament. Acts chapter......Hunter adds alot onto the story of stephen, but it stills bears witness to the christian doctrine: "All he lost he shall regain"...that is a christian idea definitely....the last line is \'what would be the answer to the ACTS OF MAN"....\nthat refers to the Book of acts.....and the facts that the idiots who stoned him dead were men. |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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Its about a massive case of diarhea......that simple: bathroom is on the right, and thats a good thing, \'cuz if ate like band did back then, mostly at cheap mexican taquerias, you had better know where that darn bathroom was....earthquakes and lighning? bad times today!....its obvious. |
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| Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[crazychef:39793] your probably right, but then i didn\'t grow up where Lowell did, i am from new england....i remember in the \'60\'s alot of older black folk would refer to a "coochie" even up here in connecticut...never heard of "the fat man" mean clitorus....that\'s pretty far out, man! |
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| Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[PaulCarlaw:39792] Chaquita is a hip way to say "a sexy girl"....comes from the chaquita banana sticker, they still have on chiquita bananas........lowell grew up in 1950\'s, thats when that sticker started appearing on bananas. |
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| Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[dogmanstar:39791] well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n |
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| Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[dogmanstar:39790] well, i remember the expression "muff-diving" was very popular in my teen years, the 1970\'s...muff-diving means performing oral on a girl (diving down into her muff, get it?).....but in this context, its him, the singer, who is male, so the expression still works, \'cuz he wants her to dive (go down on him) for a dime- or dime-bag.....prolly coke, not weed....because then he says to "throw me a line, throw me a line"\r\n |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rover Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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excellent...i do believe your right!!! its got to be about the rover, wonder if plant or page heard about it in grade school, that guitar riff scares me ! |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rover Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Always thought plant got that saying from dylan: "aint no use turnin on your light babe, I'm on the dark side of the road"....dylan stole it in turn from the old blues cats: "turn on your lovelight" was a blues song from way back |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Rover Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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aint no use in turnin on our lovelight babe, im on the darkside of the road.....that goes back to the 1930's and back...black southern expression, I'd hear shit like this from an old boy who owned a store up north here in the 60's- he'd say stuff like that and Plant loved riffin on that jive..she "be makin a change" |
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| The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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excellent use of a diminished chord (and I don't need a friend)...he uses the same chord in "set me free"....many other kool chord combos- like a stained slass window this piece |
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| David Crosby – Laughing Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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yes...years later this rings true: "the worst criminal does have some genuine excuses"........all those folk I resented for years (neighborhood thugs, prep school snobs, shrinks) become understandable to me as I think back...I like the comment about the mirror also |
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| Grateful Dead – Wharf Rat Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Robert Hunter and Jerry lived homeless for a short while( very early) in an old 50's junker Caddy somewhere around san fran....possibly the tenderloin fisherman's wharf, where they undoubtably encountered many August West characters...in fact, Jerry's mother ran a saloon there......Jerry always had a thing for the bums, and always gave a handout or a hug to one he met on the street ....the "Purley Baker" was a fancy whiskey in the depression (Bakers whiskey is still around)...it was called "Purley" because the drunks were poking fun at the Rev. Purley Baker ( who hated booze and drinking). Kind of like calling a five - dollar bill a "stinkin lincoln".....Hunter, who wrote the words, grew up in this era: the post depression...he knew of the slang and habits of the drunk culture and portrays it so well in this tune. |
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| Grateful Dead – Here Comes Sunshine Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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starts off with a reference to the great gold- rush of 1849 - "get out your pans"....when this was written, there was a big old- west fad goin' on....I recall bands like the charlatans, the James gang, the new riders, then later, stuff like the eagle's album desperado.....Hunter loved the whole old- west vibe, and here he combines that ilk with the then- hippie- ethic of being a lazy stoner: " don't stand there dreamin'' and "when you find the floor"....it was (and still is ) a great joke to prank on your your stoner buds, and Hunter loved that prank too. |
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| Grateful Dead – Foolish Heart Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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"my foolish heart" was a song and movie from the 1940's...it was very popular and Robert Hunter surely would have known that song..... since both he and Jerry were 1940's kids, many of their tunes reference pop culture of that era....one of the things that make the dead so innovative is their updating of tired old classics mixed with biblical and literary references, as well as nursery rhymes- Jerry adds a nice melodic guitar riff between the verses. |
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| Grateful Dead – Boys In The Barroom Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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What a great tune! Hunter , as usual, mixes up old sea chantey's, english folk, and barroom jigs here.....and the age old question: was Jesus a wine- drinker and partier or a sober, straight mystic?? As for the jacks, kings, aces, Hunter is an avid fan of the old- western idiom, having grown up all along the west coast. Many of his songs are about card games, and fate. |
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| Grateful Dead – (Walk Me Out in the ) Morning Dew Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This was written in about 1960 by Bonnie Dobson, who was a greenwich village folkie in New York....the song is about nuclear holocaust ("where have all the people gone")......Jerry, always the hipster, took it and gave it the grateful dead lilt! |
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| Grateful Dead – And We Bid You Goodnight Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Jerry was seekin' the saviour towards the end there....well, hell, all along they had a little gospel pitter patter goin on ( brokedown palace, row Jimmy, catfish John, promised land, greatest story, samson, etc.).....the beast is the devil at the end of revelations ( not the " wood" but , the world) |
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| Grateful Dead – Althea Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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thanks for your simple explanation....I was never much of an english Lit. student in school, but have loved this tune since buying the album new...Hunter is a wizard!!! |
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| Grateful Dead – Althea Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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'cuz the village idiot is always fun for a time....I remember recently, 50 cent bought a Mcmansion near me in ct......within a year it was trashed, and he moved out after he couldn't hack the ct. winter.....its sad photos are on flikr, and my favorite one is the couch in the pool...how derivative, and 50 cent is/ was no Brian Jones...just a low- life drug dealer that got lucky somewhere along the way |
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| Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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interesting angle, but "vag" was not a slang word back then!! Not that I recall, and I spent alot of time in n.y.c back then......but your meaning is awesome!!! I like your version much better!! |
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| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around The Bend Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Excellent comment...never considered the fleeing to canada, draft dodging angle(big red tree).....makes alot of sense, being that Fogerty was politically hip.....thanks, and my appreciation for the tune increased ten- fold.!! |
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| The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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sweet Jane?? Always assumed it was about "baby Jane" Holzer......since Jane Holzer was a Warhol superstar, and a 'society' girl in the 60's.....the lyrics fit, with some minor changes...I'm sure Lou knew her fairly well, as he was a factory character too, at that time....also she's mentioned in the grateful dead tune "truckin" : "whatever happened to sweet jane??" I believe the lyric goes |
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