Music/Song

[motogrady]

We sail through endless skies
Stars shine like eyes
The black night sighs

The moon in silver trees
Falls down in tears
Light of the night

The earth, a purple blaze
Of sapphire haze
In orbit always

While down below the trees
Bathed in cool breeze
Silver starlight
Breaks down from night

And so we pass on by
The crimson eye
Of great god Mars
As we travel the universe

https://youtu.be/SvrOzYtnLMA

[Fatfatboy]

I’d forgotten about that one. Deep track.

My favorite Sabbath tune.

https://youtu.be/XMawlzqJHg8?si=l-shTvfBUrwqzddY

Generals gathered in masses.
Just like witches at black masses

Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death′s construction

In the fields, the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh, Lord, yeah

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor

Wait 'til their judgement day comes,

[Fatfatboy]

Switching gears. A new one on me.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carrera_Panamericana

[grado]

Originally by Bob Dylan.
Name of one of his earliest albums.
The road was called a few things.
The Blues Highway.
The Great River Road.
The Freedom Road.
Or simply, Hiway 61.

Many a black blues musician, or just plain people looking
to escape the Deep South, could get on a bus, or catch a ride in Mississippi and be in Chicago in a few days or so.
How many stories, trials and tribulations, occurred on that road over the years, one can only imagine.

Plus, it ended pretty much in Bob Dylan’s home town.

I’ll put up the one I consider the better version by Dave Alvin.

Highway 61.

https://youtu.be/0uFLQFyIYLg

Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe say, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No", Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe
But the next time you see me comin', you better run"

Well, Abe said, "Where you want this killin' done?"
God said, "Out on Highway 61"

Well, Georgia Sam, he had a bloody nose
Welfare Department, they wouldn't give him no clothes
He asked poor Howard, "Where can I go?"
Howard said, "There's only one place I know"
Sam said, "Tell me quick, man, I got to run"

Old Howard just pointed with his gun
And said, "That way, down on Highway 61"

Well, Mack the Finger said to Louie the King
"I got forty red white and blue shoe strings
And a thousand telephones that don't ring
Do you know where I can get rid of these things?"
And Louie the King said, "Let me think for a minute, son"

And he said, "Yes, I think it can be easily done
Just take everything down to Highway 61"

Now, the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren't right
"My complexion", she says, "Is much too white"
He said, "Come here and step into the light"
He says, "Hmm, you're right"
"Let me tell the second mother, this has been done"

But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61

Now, the rovin' gambler, he was very bored
Tryin' to create a next world war
He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
He said, "I never engaged in this kind of thing before
But yes, I think it can be very easily done"

"We'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
And have it on Highway 61"

[Fatfatboy]

I always thought the Alvin version is the best version.
That blues beat has a great cruisin’ vibe to it.

[motogrady]

Fatfatboy wrote

I always thought the Alvin version is the best version.
That blues beat has a great cruisin’ vibe to it.

I never heard of the guy till about a year ago.
Tripped over him on utube.

Kinda sounds like a Stevie Ray Vaughn

[hacksaw]

Fatfatboy wrote

I always thought the Alvin version is the best version.
That blues beat has a great cruisin’ vibe to it.

The chipmunk?

[Fatfatboy]

I can’t stand them dang chipmunks. Those high pitched voices grate on my nerves.

[hacksaw]

How about Lou Christy
The 4 seasons
Beach boys?
I agree Alvin and the chipmunks suck!

[Fatfatboy]

I’m not a big fan of neither of them either.
I used to hate The Beach Boys now I can tolerate them.
Never really cared for surf tunes.

[hacksaw]

Well before your time I guess.
Beach boys , and especially the four seasons , are the 2 big groups that kept the Beatles from completely owning every spot on the top ten .
Now every has their own taste in music . But mid 60’s music , including the Beatles of that time , was still lighthearted fun stuff.
You guys are posting all this philosophical prose which is fine but took the fun out of squealing ones back tires and squealing young women.
Maybe the end of rock and roll was when Dylan went electric ?  Rock n roll, not Rock.
Not putting anything down . I loved AOR as much as anyone. But there was a short time  before Vietnam where music was Fun Fun Fun before it got corrupted with messaging . Srgnt pepper and even The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album and dozens of others moved the needle .
I mean we still had the Stones. But the world got complicated .
It’s nice to be able to bop along with Sam the Sham and AM radio without all the heavy brain stretching of later times.

[Fatfatboy]

[Fatfatboy]

Cool new video of an old song about an old man and his memories after 50 years.

[Fatfatboy]

Have a sit.
Connect your phone to YouTube.
Turn up the volume
Click the link

https://youtu.be/GoqcIQ37amo?si=R52NFZzZLhrK1Ql-

Your welcome.

[Fatfatboy]

This video put a lump in my throat.
DAMN!!! I miss touring with a friend or two.

[hacksaw]

A friend or 2!  
Idk. Looks like maybe 20.
The lump in my throat would be from desert dust.
Very boring scenery.
I would like to try it for a few hours. Wide open spaces and all that. I think one day would be about enuff. lol

[Fatfatboy]

To each there own brother.

My buddy, Mitch, and I used to take a week or so off work and head off to a destination finding our way as we went. Most of the times we would be at a gas station talking to other riders and get, "Well if you going there you gotta check this route" (while poking at my map).

One week we picked Winslow Arizona to stand on a corner. There was a corner with bronze Glen Frye statue standing on a corner looking at flatbed Ford with a blond manikin seating behind the wheel.
We ended up going through the Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, riding through beautiful Utah and going to Zion National Park to see the red cliffs and rock formations, followed the Colorado river on an amazing road from Moab, Utah with cliffs of red on both sides and the river switching from right to left sides as we crossed low bridges to Colorado where we jumped on The Million Dollar high way. Great memorable ride.







Unfortunately Mitch had a wreck on our last trip to Main to get a lobster. He finished the ride with a broken collarbone and some ribs but that was his last ride. Sold the bike and bought a boat.

[hacksaw]

Well I understand that  and I have read your storey before.
But the video you posted was a bunch of riders that just didn’t seem to me were really riding for days together across the desert.

When I set out to sturgis on my own back in 1980 I ran into a guy in Niagara Falls whom had a camp set up . I rode with him into Canada in the worst fog ever , and  in the rain to come out a huge tunnel in Detroit . Where he went on to do some wrenching for an hd dealer .
I later ran into a guy on a panhead at a rest stop in Illinois and rode with him to rapid city msybe?
Then I went on to my brother in Omaha.
Years later I was with good lifelong riding  friends .
Maybe 6 of us heading to sturgis 100 anniversary . I think it was . No , 50th? But I only went far as somewhere in Pa. Since I had a cast up to mid hip . I rode back home to ct.
my point is I understand the general idea of being on the road . And even back before today’s llounge chair electronic  gizmo Samsonite  barges.
We all have these historic rides that conjure up those old memories.
That  video I thought was kinda phoney. No wistfulness there for me.
Hell I respect your moto life. I wasn’t critical purposely of you. I was annoyed with the video I thought may have been fake news. Bikes were way to clean  
Sorry for venting.

[motogrady]

I dunno.

There’s this clip, seen it a hundred times.
The opening scene of Then Came Bronson.

Yeah, I know it’s scripted dialogue, that came out of some guys head that probably didn’t ride.  

And Parks really wanted to be on a Mach 3.

And they probably shot that scene 10 times.  

But, be it as it may, it still, for a moment, takes my mind to a pretty cool place.

https://youtu.be/bYsztoaU9Ls

[hacksaw]

If I may offer up an excuse for my earlier response,
Does anyone remember the Yamaha tv ad when they first set off Star Motorcycles as a stand alone brand.
That ad infuriated me. If anyone recollects , it had a bunch of leather clad riders on Star cruisers ( I hate tgstveird cruisers, another rant in time) pull into some dusty tavern
Out west . Leather vests , doo rags etc. all the dress up that Yamaha squids made fun of back then .
Ok that sucked identity stealing , right?
Thst wasn’t the worst . They had ghosted 1920’s era INDIAN riders and their bikes up in the clouds like ghost riders in the sky . Making the pitch that fukking Yammie Star dudes were descendants of these old American moto pioneers ! Are you fukking kidding me?
As a once proud owner of a “47 chief bobber whom paid my dues in the 70’s before the Damned collectors and the internet ruined that scene, any video that doesn’t hit me as genuine brings back not a lump
In my throat , but a lump in my soul.

Well you guys no me well enuff and I appreciate you putting up with me . But , well I ams what I ams.