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Location: NJ | Well I am sitting here one week away wondering what it will be like next Friday.
If anyone has any suggestions for songs to play I guess we should make the list and figure out what we are going to do. |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | My father always request I play "Far Far Away"
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Kashmir, Crazy on You, Round-a-bout, Dee and any tune by Ages Of Fortune, or for that matter anything by the band formerly known as The Stalk Forrest Group. Also I request an unplugged version of "I Don't Want To Go To Your Parties (I Hate All Your Friends)." |
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Location: Central Oregon | I always get a good response to "Stars & Stripes Forever", especially lately.
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Location: NJ | Here's some of the stuff that've been playing just about every weekend as of late and I'm somewhat familiar with (some of it I need my ever-present "fake book"):
www.twomangroup.net/songlist.pdf |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | FREEBIRD !!!!!!!!
sorry, someone had to go there...... :) |
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Location: NJ | Jeeez, you just HAD t'go there didn't ya'?? :)
My usual response when somebody shouts that one out is:
"I got'cher "free bird" for ya', . . . . . . . right HERE!"
I hate that song!!
It was bad enough last Saturday night that we had to play "Sweet Home Ala-fuckin'-bama TWICE over the course of the night (another song I loathe!). If it didn't generate such a good crowd response (and there's always at least one drunk per night that asks to hear it), we'd just refuse to do it. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I could have said "Stairway to Heaven" but I controlled myself... :) |
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Location: SoCal | If you're going to hit the cliches, the Blackbird has got to be on the list.
See if you can get Templeman to do Memphis Til Monday for you. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Do "Memphis in the meantime" and the "Memphis Blues Again" and wind it up with "Sending me angles" |
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Location: Back in the Valley of the Sun Mesa Az. | Want a show stopper for up here in Minnesota? "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "Sweet Home Ala-fuckin'-bama...
Ah yes, "SHA", one of the songs that in 20+ years of weekend playing still needs to be thrashed out at every gig...along with "Old Time R&R" and Clapton's "Cocaine".
I am however, eternally thankful that "Achey Breaky Heart" went from three times a night to nothing very quickly...all two chords of it.
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Location: Houston, TX | Southern Cross - CSN
"got out o' town, on a boat, going southern islands..." |
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Location: Houston, TX | Actually, now that I'm thinking of Stephen Stills, Treetop Flyer is a lot of fun. |
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Location: NJ | Buffett does a nice cover of that song on the tail-end of one of his albums - kind of a "hidden track" that's not listed. Nice rendition. Also did a cover of "Southern Cross" on his last live album. |
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Location: NJ | JUST SAY NO TO PARROTHEADS |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Strange that nobody said "Long Haired Country Boy". |
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| Al,
You can’t go wrong with a little James Taylor medley but if any of the boys from Bloomfield are there I’d take the opportunity to send them a message with a good sag way to a simple old song.
In 1964, as JFK was sending 5,000 US troops to Vietnam, a skinny young man with bad hair and even worse voice walked into a recording studio with nothing but a guitar and a harmonica. The song he was about to record was not a musical masterpiece but the words he put to vinyl that day would prove to be prophetic.
That song has crossed my mind since 911 and the stock market crash and now the Iraqi war.
Half sung, half spoken from a straining voice almost 40 years ago it serve to remind us of a universal truth that is shaping all our destinies even as we gather here today.
“Theirs a time to play songs people wont to hear and theirs a time to play songs people need to hear.” Bob Dylan
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
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Location: NJ | ". . . JUST SAY NO TO PARROTHEADS . . ."
OOOOOHH!! - must've struck a nerve!
Sorry, Al.
If it'll make you feel better, I'll leave my foam rubber "shark fin" home this weekend.
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Location: NJ | Sorry but the man made a career on 2 songs and bad hawaiian shirts. When I met an old high school friend who esplained to me he was a parrothead and they "partied with a purpose" I wanted to puke.
seems like just an excuse for yuppies to get together get drunk and high and act stupid then go back to their normal day gig and be "respectable". Well I guess one adjective you can never use in describing me is respectable. |
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Location: NJ | No need to apologize, Al. Everyone's entitled to an opinion.
Mine is that Steely Dan has always been nothing but a couple of no talent humps that did nothing but base a far too long career on the backs of brilliant session musicians who worked for scale (e.g.: Elliot Randall).
But what'do I know? I just spend my days with my face fused to a 21" monitor and my weekends singing.
It's all just ice cream. |
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Location: SoCal | " seems like just an excuse for yuppies to get together get drunk and high and act stupid then go back to their normal day gig and be "respectable".
Al, I lived in Texas from high school thru college. People from Texas never need an excuse to do what you described. To them it's called "The Weekend". |
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Location: NJ | Paul
that is exactly my point! |
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Location: NJ | Actually, in all honesty I LIKE Steely Dan.
I just knew that Al was a big "Dan of Steel" fan, and I just wanted to push some of his buttons ;) .
". . . an excuse for yuppies to get together get drunk and high and act stupid then go back to their normal day gig and be "respectable". . . ."
It's called "escape-ism", Al.
Isn't it what we all play guitar for anyway???
. . . . I mean, BESIDES getting laid :D |
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Location: NJ | I do it all for the nookie. |
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Location: SoCal | We're supposed to get laid when we play????? |
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Location: NJ | you need to have a long talk with the wife. |
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Location: SoCal | Obviously. |
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Location: Los Angeles | ". . . an excuse for yuppies to get together get drunk and high and act stupid then go back to their normal day gig and be "respectable". . . ." I hope that does'nt describe some of you this weekend in Bloomfield!! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually there will be a meeting with the group at 9:30 pm and another prayer meeting at breakfast. The guest speaker at both is an expert in his field and will be addressing GASoholics. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Aww Shit
Ah thought it was a good excuse for some good ole boys to get drunk on a weekend and kick hippie ass and get up on Monday and go to work at the Gas station with a SEG. That's Long Haired Country Boy to you yuppies. |
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Tunes to play next Friday night