rdiakun

CDs? Hmm…. sitting next to the computer right now are:

Nick Lowe: “Basher: The Best Of Nick Lowe”
The Stranglers: “Men In Black”
Chicago: “Chicago V” (their best album, IMHO)

There’s also an enormous collection of MP3 on my computer, all set to random play… for an idea of how odd the assortment is, here are the last 20 songs that came up:

Santana: “Jin-Go-Lo-Ba”
Loudon Waiwright III: “The Good Ship Venus”
Cachao: “Otan Efo”
Michael Andrews: “Mad World”
Johnny ‘Big Moose’ Walker: “Cry, Cry Darling”
Garbage: ‘Special”
Jonatha Brooke: “Eye In The Sky”
The Tornados: “Telstar”
The Jam: “It’s Too Bad”
Frank Zappa: “Rat Tomago”
Argent: “Liar”
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose: “Too Late To Turn Back Now”
Olabelle: “Soul Of A Man”
Barry White: “Never, Never Gonna Give You Up”
Blood Sweat & Tears: “Ride Captain Ride”
The Tee Set: “A Sunny Day In Greece”
The O’Jays: “Ship Ahoy”
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra: “King Porter Stomp”
Dr. Hook: “Roland The Roadie and Gertrud The Groupie”
Nickelback: “Rockstar”

Every day at work is a musical adventure!!!

– Rich

David Day wrote:

We’ve discussed this many times before! I’ll defer to Rich! He’s on top of it! 😆 Rich, we gosta know! 😆

It’s one of those elusive songs whose deeper and truer meaning shifts with the sands of time. It seems as though my earlier analysis of this song, while doggone entertaining and almost kinda sorta plausible, may have been slightly off the mark. It is within the realm of possibility that “Candy Mountain Run” is not actually the intended theme song for a XX-rated film about adult actress, Candi Mountains, and her intentions for an all-female track team that only wears g-strings (with the handy little fanny pack so store the excess $1 bills that adoring fans along the route offer forth). That movie was actually made, under the title “Chariots of <censored – small children, animals who only say ‘sausages!‘, or other endangered species may be reading this>” and its’ true theme song, “Theme from ‘Chariots Of <still censored – -same sentence, duh!>'” was released on Decca Dent Records and Tapes and rose to #904 in the Billboard Top 200 charts. It has recently been brought to my attention that a “candy mountain run” is a CIA code phrase for chasing a particular individual who has been targeted (for national security purposes, of course) for termination with extreme prejudice, assuming that the following criteria are met… the target has been located in a mountain hideaway, and, well, that’s pretty much it.

Personally, I like to think of the lyrics of this song as being very literal, somewhat of an homage to those classic McCartney compositions, “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” and “Hi, Hi, Hi”. Bruce is singing about how he kicked his twins’ butts in a game of “Candyland” and wrote the song as a way of continually running smack on them. It’s so obvious! I can’t believe I missed it the first time around.

– Rich

“Let the bells ring, let the birds sing, let’s all give my substitute a big cheer!
Let the bells ring, let the birds sin, for the man after him waits here.” – P. Tetteroo & H. Van Eijck

Kudos on the new site design, Si! You’ve put a ton of work into it, and it is greatly appreciated.

Rich

“I’m singing this note ‘cuz it fits in well with the way I’m feeling” – P. Townshend

Yup, that’s the same one. Stern kept trying to get Buce to let loose with some swear words because he was on satellite radio and didn’t have to care about FCC rules. Very funny interview.

– Rich

“Oh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world.” – C. Stevens

They’ll probably wait to induct Rush until 2112.

– Rich

“Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control. We have assumed control.” – G. Lee

I’ve found that my participation in the past 2 cover version projects that Si has been so cool as to mastermind (Shadow Hands and Caesar Salad) have been major experiences in listening to songs with “new ears.” The versions of the various songs that people have done were interesting because of the different interpretations and styles that people have offered up. I’m still utterly blown away by the acoustic slide-guitar version of The Way It Is that Cruize Henderson contributed to the Shadow Hands project. I’ve also found that the work I did on Passing Through (from Shadow Hands), Line In The Dust (from Caesar Salad), and now The Chill (from whatever the new one coming up is gonna be called), have been educational experiences not only in the craft of recording a track but in hearing the songs and discovering things about the songs that are easily missed at first hearing. I’m looking forward to Daily Dose Day this year, so that I can hear what other people have found in the music. Good tunes, good people, good cause…. good stuff!

Rich

“We’ve got to get together sooner or later, because the revolutions here.” – “Speedy” Keen

I guess you;d have to consider him somewhat of a “pop star”, since he had hits on the “pop charts”. The problem with him, and a lot of artists, is that they cross so many boundaries. Even though he’s done both bluegrass and jazz albums in thepast year and has mventured into those realms many times, he’s not a jazz star or a bluegass star. For want of a better phrase or term, I guess rock star is general and mainstream enough to work.

Now that we know he’s a rock star, it’s time that we start figuring out who to lobby and then pursuing the course to make sure he gets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when eligible on the 25th anniversary of “The Way It Is.”

Rich

freshskippedstone wrote:

Bruce is one of my favorite artist so I was psyched when this date was announced. I got 2 tickets and then found out less than a week later that my borhter in law was getting married on the same day

That is so sad. Let me guess… did your future sister-in-law cop one of those “I’ve been dreaming of this day since I was a little girl” trips on everyone as a reason for not changing the date? How insensitive. Well, you’re going to have to learn all about blaming her for stuff anyhow, so you might as well hold a really good one against her. Good luck. Get really plowed at the reception and tell her how you wish you were at the Brice & Ricky show!!!

Rich

“My friends from college they’re all married now; They have their houses and their lawns.
They have their silent noons, tearful nights, angry dawns. – C. Simon

si_twining wrote:

Bruuuce.com will open its doors for business again later today!

Yaaaaaaaay, Si!!! We missed you, but we did our best to keep the forum going strong. I was starting to worry, though, that I’d have to engage in one of those filibusters that the US Senate is famous for…. and I don’t think David would’ve liked me reading the phone book unless he found some long lost relatives in the listings. I was debating between either that or a recitation of some of the less dramatic parts of Le Morte d’Arthur in original 15th-century English that Caxton published it in. Whew! You got back just in time to save them all. While you were gone, though, we took it upon ourselves to design concert fashions that made liberal use of your site name. I must admit, though, the idea wasn’t wholly original – I kinda nicked it from this old concert poster from 1996 (see attached pictures). I was running out of strange music lyric quotes, too, so I had to take a few days to recharge the batteries and get the polarization all out of whack

Rich

“Then a voice called from out of the darkness saying ‘Tear the system down! Tear it down! Down to the ground!’” – P. Cetera

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For more info on the Bay Days gig, check out:

http://www.baydays.com/

and

http://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/dp-tkt_hornsbybaydays_0215feb15,0,4706273.story

I am soooo looking forward to this!

Rich

PS It’s time to place your bets… given that Bay Days is (or at least originally was) about Chesapeake Bay conservation and such, do you think he’ll play Look Out Any Window?