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Location: CA | *10 Degrees and gettin' colder — G. Lightfoot
"Now he's traded off his Martin, but he never was that famous..."
* Hooked on the Music — Mac Davis
"So I bought myself a guitar and I learned me a little song
Change the name to suit my latest flame and that sucker never came out wrong..."
* Stories We Could Tell — Jimmy Buffett
"Stared at that guitar in that museum in Tennessee
Name plate on the glass brought back twenty melodies
Scars upon the face told about all the times he fell
Singin' all the stories he could tell" |
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Location: enid, ok | Oddball, that was great, and elegantly displayed. My 2 cents worth:
"Six String" by Adrian Belew from "Op Zop Too Wah", 1996
"Two Guitar Lovers" by Dave Mason from "Split Coconut", 1975
I may think of more... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | "Got my first real six string
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it till my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69.."
Bryan Adams
BTW.....we have $2 shops down here...is that what a five and dime is? |
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Location: Jet City | I'm ashamed to say it. I had this record. I was 10 maybe. Hmm, maybe subconsciously I was drawn to playing the guitar by...
Shawn Cassidy
That's Rock and Roll
Well I was sixteen and sick of school
I didn't know what I wanted to do
I bought a guitar
I got the fever
That's rock'n' roll
I played at parties
played in bars
I spent my money buyin' new guitars
I screamed my heart out but how I loved it
That's rock'n' roll |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | "Well I got this guitar
And I learned how to make it talk
And my cars out back
If youre ready to take that long walk
From your front porch to my front seat
The doors open but the ride it aint free
And I know youre lonely
For words that I aint spoken
But tonight well be free
All the promisesll be broken
There were ghosts in the eyes
Of all the boys you sent away
They haunt this dusty beach road
In the skeleton frames of burned out chevrolets
Bruce - Thunder Road |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I almost forgot the ULTIMATE guitar song..
157 Riverside Avenue !!! REO Speedwagon
"I say if ya wanna communicate, you got to speak the same language." |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Not guitar related but.... the name came up earlier in the thread. This is who Canadians think of when you mention David Wilcox. |
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Location: Jet City | Nice, catchy, do the bearcat |
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Location: GA USA | Beal, since you'll be playing it for us tomorrow, g8r can record you. |
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Location: indianapolis | Damon 67, I'm even more ashamed to say I have the Eric Carmen recording of that.
Not exactly easy to perform but Guitar & Pen by the Who |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Couple of random thoughts...
"All the way from Memphis" by Mott the Hoople:-
'Forgot my six-string razor, when I hit the sky.
Was halfway to Memphis before I realised.
Some dude said "You rock n rollers... you're all the same.
Forgot your instrument?!" I felt so ashamed...'
"59" by Brian Setzer:-
'Everything I love is from '59
My first guitar, and that girl of mine'.
I'm sure I'll end up thinking of thousands as soon as I hit "Add reply"...
JB |
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Location: Eaton Rapids Michigan | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Not guitar related but.... the name came up earlier in the thread. This is who Canadians think of when you mention David Wilcox.
I love that song ten degrees and gettin' colder. I think it was on that Acoustic Edge cd a few years back. Its also how I got turned onto David Wilcox.
one more song...Dinah Mo Humm...isn't that about a guitar? :eek: :D |
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Location: chicago | Al DiMeola....Kiss My Axe! |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by NostrAdamas:
Al DiMeola....Kiss My Axe! One of my favorite albums. Saw him on that tour! |
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Location: enid, ok | Noone mentioned "Guitarzan"? |
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Location: closely held secret | I did. Way back on page one. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Originally posted by cholloway:
Does this qualify???
(ignore the sexy lady and hear the lyrics)...Yeah, right!
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Location: Jet City | Dead Or Alive
I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Bob Dylan - Eternal Circle
'I glanced at my guitar
And played it pretendin'...'
'As the tune finally folded
I laid down the guitar
Then looked for the girl
Who'd stayed for so long...
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
'Well my daddy left home when I was three
He didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this olg guitar and an empty bottle of booze...' |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I am surprised that I know a modern song (it shocked my daughter anyway). Try "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White Ts. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | John Hiatt, Riding with the King:
Well I stepped out of a mirror at ten years old
With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart of gold
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
I'm gonna play that thing until the day I die
John Hiatt, Perfectly Good Guitar:
There out to be a law with no bail
Smash a guitar and you go to jail
With no chance for early parole
You don't get out 'til you get some soul
Neil Young, This Old Guitar |
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Location: CA | Ooooh. I thought of one more that really speaks to this subject: Tim McGraw's "The Ride"
I was thumbin' my way from Montgomery
had my guitar on my back
When a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique Cadillac.
Well, he was dressed like 1950, half drunk and hollow eyed
Said: 'It's a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride, son'.
Well, I climbed up in the front seat, and he turned on the radio
and them sad old songs comin' outta them speakers was solid country gold.
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale when he asked me for a light.
And knew there was somethin' strange about this ride.
[Chorus:]
He said: Drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sang.
Have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues
Can you bend them guitar strangs.
He said: Boy, can you make folks feel what you feel inside,
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you its a long hard ride.
Well, he cried just south of Nashville, and he turned that car around.
he said: [spoken] this is where you get off, boy
cause I'm going back to Alabam'.
Well, I climbed out of that Cadillac and I said Mister, many thanks.
he said you don't have to call me mister, Mister.
The whole world calls me Hank. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by sycamore:
Bob Dylan - Eternal Circle
'I glanced at my guitar
And played it pretendin'...'
'As the tune finally folded
I laid down the guitar
Then looked for the girl
Who'd stayed for so long...
Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue
'Well my daddy left home when I was three
He didn't leave much to ma and me
Just this olg guitar and an empty bottle of booze...' Actually, search for 'guitar' in Lyrics section of Bobdylan.com also gives:
BILLY
Guitars will play your grand finale
MONEY BLUES
I'm glad I hid my old guitar
PERCY'S SONG
And I played my guitar
My guitar could play
CALL LETTER BLUES
Well, it can't be no guitar player
RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35
They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.
TALKING NEW YORK
I swung on to my old guitar,
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Though her skirt it swayed as a guitar played,
ROMANCE IN DURANGO
Sold my guitar to the baker's son
STANDING IN THE DOORWAY
I'm strumming on my gay guitar
UP TO ME
How my lone guitar played sweet for you that old-time melody.
LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE
On this guitar I'm playing, on this banjo I'm frailin' |
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Location: Colorado | Van Halen, Little Guitars.
Oddball, Alan Jackson did that song 10+ years ago under the title of "Midnight in Montgomery". Good song. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Maybe someone knows for sure...
But I was thinking that Sammy Hagar's "Three Lock Box" was about guitar. 3 lock box = guitar case.
Sometimes I read too much into things but I really can't figure out what else it could be. Any thoughts?? |
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