Harry Nilson was a grand song writer; vivid and detailed in his prose and melody. His outstanding musical opera was an animated full length feature about a pointless headed child born into a pointed culture. HIs only friend was his dog Arrow. Hence the hit single and why this song is stuck in my Jukebox Brain. My friend Phillip commuted from L.A. to Kabul, Afganistan during the Hippie Trail years before Russian occupation. He imported Persian Rugs, Samovars, jewelery and maybe some Hash. I rented a room from him in his Temescal Canyon hillside Malibu home. The main trekking item that he packed was a cassette recorder with his personally transferred copy of “The Point” Harry Nilson’s operatic masterpiece that had many great musicians playing on the tracks. But limitations of the Seventies era tape cassette technology was the limited recording time on a cassette which left the last song on albums halfway completed on the portable cassette recording. Phillip arrived somewhere near the Kyber Pass outside of Kabul, Afganistan standing in front of a rickety opium den, with camels tied up. He entered into the group of local Mujahadeen bandits who were all smoking opium while contemplating a poster on the back of the rickety door of Disneyland showing the magic Kingdom castle. A gift from a former client. He settled in and commenced to listen to his cassette recording of “The Point” while a toothless bandit translated to the opium induced group of musket and sword carrying warriors. They were all hanging on every word of their translator until the tape ran out in the middle of the last song which was the conclusion of Nilson’s opus story. They were sorely offended that this American hippie had treked across the world to play this rude trick on all of them, They decided to kill him. Phillip managed to get out the door. He did escape and that is why I tell this story. But on his subsequent trip he was captured and swept up in the Russian Army’s advance.. I was on tour but my manager’s office received a transatlantic call asking for help but it was too late. Phillip was nowhere to be found. Harry Nilson and John Lennon got thrown out of the Troubadour for being drunk and offensive. Phillip never came home.
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Me and My Arrow
Harry Nilson was a grand song writer; vivid and detailed in his prose and melody. His outstanding musical opera was an animated full length feature about a pointless headed child born into a pointed culture. HIs only friend was his dog Arrow. Hence the hit single and why this song is stuck in my Jukebox Brain. My friend Phillip commuted from L.A. to Kabul, Afganistan during the Hippie Trail years before Russian occupation. He imported Persian Rugs, Samovars, jewelery and maybe some Hash. I rented a room from him in his Temescal Canyon hillside Malibu home. The main trekking item that he packed was a cassette recorder with his personally transferred copy of “The Point” Harry Nilson’s operatic masterpiece that had many great musicians playing on the tracks. But limitations of the Seventies era tape cassette technology was the limited recording time on a cassette which left the last song on albums halfway completed on the portable cassette recording. Phillip arrived somewhere near the Kyber Pass outside of Kabul , Afganistan standing in front of a rickety opium den, with camels tied up. He entered into the group of local Mujahadeen bandits who were all smoking opium while contemplating a poster on the back of the rickety door of Disneyland showing the magic Kingdom castle. A gift from a former client. He settled in and commenced to listen to his cassette recording of “The Point” while a toothless bandit translated to the opium induced group of musket and sword carrying warriors. They were all hanging on every word of their translator until the tape ran out in the middle of the last song which was the conclusion of Nilson’s opus story. They were sorely offended that this American hippie had treked across the world to play this rude trick on all of them, They decided to kill him. Phillip managed to get out the door. He did escape and that is why I tell this story. But on his subsequent trip he was captured and swept up in the Russian Army’s advance.. I was on tour but my manager’s office received a transatlantic call asking for help but it was too late. Phillip was nowhere to be found. Harry Nilson and John Lennon get thrown out of the Troubadour for being drunk and offensive. Phillip never came home.
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For what it’s Worth
Steven Stills was one more extremely talented musician composer from the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Genius or maybe the water. This song was recorded by Buffalo Springfield back in the mid Sixties. “Stop, Hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going round.” An anthem of the times and an echo through my JukeBox Brain.
That band spawned many great groups and songs but Steven had to get started first.
Back at Plant High school he was as desperate as the rest to get going with something meaningful yet cool. He put a band together. But the politics and the culture prevented anything that was out of the mainstream. He needed a McGuffin; a gimmick. Hair was an important part of self identity. Young men letting their hair grow out was a political statement. It meant a rejection of status quo and became a personal confrontation to conservative agenda. It was resistance to the Viet Nam War. It was a lot of things. It was a symbol of the future. Especially in The Deep South where it could get you killed. High school administration forbade long hair in the schools upon penalty of suspension or worse. There was one former alumni who was of a like mind as Steven. He could not play a note on any instrument but he had hair. Long beautiful flowing hair. The band wasn’t that good but they hung a bass guitar on their new compatriot and placed him at the front of the stage so that all the girls could see him. To play it safe they didn’t even plug his bass into an amplifier. It didn’t matter. The girls liked them. They were a hit. A few years later Steven was in California sitting on the grass in Mama Cass’s Laurel Canyon front yard overlooking Hollywood far down below and he played his songs for the people; David Crosby, Graham Nash, and few others soon to create the first super group. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. For What it’s Worth was still worth quite a bit.
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Light My Fire
Enough has been written about The Doors already. But the history of Jim Morrison is always fodder for rock scribes. We both got our starts in a dinky mildewed coffee house in Pinellas Park Florida; a suburb of St. Petersburg on the gulf coast of Tampa Bay. The Beaux Arts Coffee House was run by a veteran dancer from Balanchin’e troupe in New York. Tommy’s mother would sit at the front screen door of the antibellum Tenne…
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The Allman Brothers will always have a place of honor in my JukeBox Brain. My band Bethlehem Asylum was fortunate enough to open for the original Allmans on numerous occasions in the South when we were all getting started. The cemetary in Macon, Georgia was hallowed ground. Elizabeth Reed’s headstone marked a spiritual commitment to the music. The shimmering guitar duets accompanied by Gregg’s masterful vo…
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It is midnight and I can’t sleep because WIlson Pickett is running my Jukebox Brain all on his own. How many times I have played this song is impossible to count. I recall smokey blue light bar rooms and giant stages with hundreds of adoring people all moving and groovin’ to this tune. If there was a fight breaking out on the dance floor Midnight Hour was the tune that de-escalated the confrontation. It is a love…
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Route 66 Soundtrack
Middle of the night I wake up to my internal Jukebox brain soundtrack just humming along playing the early Sixties theme song to the TV show, Route 66. None of you will remember this but I enjoyed it. Nelson Riddle composed it. Nothing better than to sit and watch these two guys cruise around America in a cool convertible Corvette. It was a time like no other in the history of the world. Gas was real cheap. Mainte…
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I still hear 77 Sunset Strip in my head:-)
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Born to Be Wild
John Kay and his band Steppenwolf growling out lyrics about motorcycles. This song was an anthem in its time. It played on the sound track for Easy Rider, and functioned as a wet dream for every kid who could not afford a Harley Davidson pan head hog with an extended front end. Damn hard to steer those things. The outlaw hero as outlaw was the character in the movie made by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. It had a big …
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“We’ll sing in the sunshine, We’ll laugh every day. We’ll sing in the sunshine, then I’ll be one my way.”
I know this song by Gale Garnett may not be a great piece of art but it won a grammy in 1964 and was on the charts for a long time. Covered by a lot of singers.The thing that hit me once it started to loop uninvited through my Jukebox Brain was that it defined our culture. It gave permission to the kids to wander freely, not cut …
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Wah…. my cd got broken. I know I can listen on Spotify but I like my cds. Somehow in a move I lost Let The Goddess Dance cd. I’d be gappy to buy each,if you have any.
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Find Someone to Love
Yesterday I woke up with Grace Slick wailing in my head, in front of an on-fire band. Jorma, Jack, Paul, Marty and Spencer on drums. This song is relentlessly confrontational and personally addresses the condition of emotional dishonesty. A beginning time when women of power were speaking their minds. Jefferson Airplane signaled the end of an era; bands in uniforms were no longer viable. This is akin to a psychi…
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Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
This is proof I have no control over playback. All night long and into this morning, my JukeBox Brain looped through the tune written by Fred Ahlert/Joe Young, Immortalized by Fats Waller and included in the Broadway musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’, also Frank Sinatra and an infinite list of covers by anyone who sings. The lot in life for a drummer is that the frontman or woman calls the next tune …
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Things We Do For Love
10CC was a a big act back in the Seventies. “Like walkin in the rain and the snow and there’s no where to go. Feels like a part of you is dying”. The ultimate polished production from England. Seems like the British bands had more classical music education than the Americans. This loop is cycling through my Jukebox brain and I don’t even like the song. Such is the curse of pop music. Hooks that won’t leave us al…
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Wanna Take You Higher
Sly and the Family Stone was without a doubt the most thrilling band alive. My band Bethlehem Asylum opened for them on numerous occasions in Miami. When this song kicks in the whole world gets up to dance. This morning it is pulsing through my JukeBox Brain like a psychedelic gospel freight train. Pity the folks who never got the chance to witness them in person. Their signature song after Woodstock put them on…
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Me and My Arrow
Harry Nilson was a grand song writer; vivid and detailed in his prose and melody. His outstanding musical opera was an animated full length feature about a pointless headed child born into a pointed culture. HIs only friend was his dog Arrow. Hence the hit single and why this song is stuck in my Jukebox Brain. My friend Phillip commuted from L.A. to Kabul, Afganistan during the Hippie Trail years before Russian occupation. He imported Persian Rugs, Samovars, jewelery and maybe some Hash. I rented a room from him in his Temescal Canyon hillside Malibu home. The main trekking item that he packed was a cassette recorder with his personally transferred copy of “The Point” Harry Nilson’s operatic masterpiece that had many great musicians playing on the tracks. But limitations of the Seventies era tape cassette technology was the limited recording time on a cassette which left the last song on albums halfway completed on the portable cassette recording. Phillip arrived somewhere near the Kyber Pass outside of Kabul , Afganistan standing in front of a rickety opium den, with camels tied up. He entered into the group of local Mujahadeen bandits who were all smoking opium while contemplating a poster on the back of the rickety door of Disneyland showing the magic Kingdom castle. A gift from a former client. He settled in and commenced to listen to his cassette recording of “The Point” while a toothless bandit translated to the opium induced group of musket and sword carrying warriors. They were all hanging on every word of their translator until the tape ran out in the middle of the last song which was the conclusion of Nilson’s opus story. They were sorely offended that this American hippie had treked across the world to play this rude trick on all of them, They decided to kill him. Phillip managed to get out the door. He did escape and that is why I tell this story. But on his subsequent trip he was captured and swept up in the Russian Army’s advance.. I was on tour but my manager’s office received a transatlantic call asking for help but it was too late. Phillip was nowhere to be found. Harry Nilson and John Lennon get thrown out of the Troubadour for being drunk and offensive. Phillip never came home.
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For what it’s Worth
Steven Stills was one more extremely talented musician composer from the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Genius or maybe the water. This song was recorded by Buffalo Springfield back in the mid Sixties. “Stop, Hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going round.” An anthem of the times and an echo through my JukeBox Brain.
That band spawned many great groups and songs but Steven had to get started first.
Back at Plant High school he was as desperate as the rest to get going with something meaningful yet cool. He put a band together. But the politics and the culture prevented anything that was out of the mainstream. He needed a McGuffin; a gimmick. Hair was an important part of self identity. Young men letting their hair grow out was a political statement. It meant a rejection of status quo and became a personal confrontation to conservative agenda. It was resistance to the Viet Nam War. It was a lot of things. It was a symbol of the future. Especially in The Deep South where it could get you killed. High school administration forbade long hair in the schools upon penalty of suspension or worse. There was one former alumni who was of a like mind as Steven. He could not play a note on any instrument but he had hair. Long beautiful flowing hair. The band wasn’t that good but they hung a bass guitar on their new compatriot and placed him at the front of the stage so that all the girls could see him. To play it safe they didn’t even plug his bass into an amplifier. It didn’t matter. The girls liked them. They were a hit. A few years later Steven was in California sitting on the grass in Mama Cass’s Laurel Canyon front yard overlooking Hollywood far down below and he played his songs for the people; David Crosby, Graham Nash, and few others soon to create the first super group. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. For What it’s Worth was still worth quite a bit.
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Light My Fire
Enough has been written about The Doors already. But the history of Jim Morrison is always fodder for rock scribes. We both got our starts in a dinky mildewed coffee house in Pinellas Park Florida; a suburb of St. Petersburg on the gulf coast of Tampa Bay. The Beaux Arts Coffee House was run by a veteran dancer from Balanchin’e troupe in New York. Tommy’s mother would sit at the front screen door of the antibellum Tenne…
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In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
The Allman Brothers will always have a place of honor in my JukeBox Brain. My band Bethlehem Asylum was fortunate enough to open for the original Allmans on numerous occasions in the South when we were all getting started. The cemetary in Macon, Georgia was hallowed ground. Elizabeth Reed’s headstone marked a spiritual commitment to the music. The shimmering guitar duets accompanied by Gregg’s masterful vo…
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In the Midnight Hour
It is midnight and I can’t sleep because WIlson Pickett is running my Jukebox Brain all on his own. How many times I have played this song is impossible to count. I recall smokey blue light bar rooms and giant stages with hundreds of adoring people all moving and groovin’ to this tune. If there was a fight breaking out on the dance floor Midnight Hour was the tune that de-escalated the confrontation. It is a love…
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Middle of the night I wake up to my internal Jukebox brain soundtrack just humming along playing the early Sixties theme song to the TV show, Route 66. None of you will remember this but I enjoyed it. Nelson Riddle composed it. Nothing better than to sit and watch these two guys cruise around America in a cool convertible Corvette. It was a time like no other in the history of the world. Gas was real cheap. Mainte…
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I still hear 77 Sunset Strip in my head:-)
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Born to Be Wild
John Kay and his band Steppenwolf growling out lyrics about motorcycles. This song was an anthem in its time. It played on the sound track for Easy Rider, and functioned as a wet dream for every kid who could not afford a Harley Davidson pan head hog with an extended front end. Damn hard to steer those things. The outlaw hero as outlaw was the character in the movie made by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. It had a big …
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“We’ll sing in the sunshine, We’ll laugh every day. We’ll sing in the sunshine, then I’ll be one my way.”
I know this song by Gale Garnett may not be a great piece of art but it won a grammy in 1964 and was on the charts for a long time. Covered by a lot of singers.The thing that hit me once it started to loop uninvited through my Jukebox Brain was that it defined our culture. It gave permission to the kids to wander freely, not cut …
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Wah…. my cd got broken. I know I can listen on Spotify but I like my cds. Somehow in a move I lost Let The Goddess Dance cd. I’d be gappy to buy each,if you have any.
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Find Someone to Love
Yesterday I woke up with Grace Slick wailing in my head, in front of an on-fire band. Jorma, Jack, Paul, Marty and Spencer on drums. This song is relentlessly confrontational and personally addresses the condition of emotional dishonesty. A beginning time when women of power were speaking their minds. Jefferson Airplane signaled the end of an era; bands in uniforms were no longer viable. This is akin to a psychi…
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This is proof I have no control over playback. All night long and into this morning, my JukeBox Brain looped through the tune written by Fred Ahlert/Joe Young, Immortalized by Fats Waller and included in the Broadway musical, Ain’t Misbehavin’, also Frank Sinatra and an infinite list of covers by anyone who sings. The lot in life for a drummer is that the frontman or woman calls the next tune …
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Things We Do For Love
10CC was a a big act back in the Seventies. “Like walkin in the rain and the snow and there’s no where to go. Feels like a part of you is dying”. The ultimate polished production from England. Seems like the British bands had more classical music education than the Americans. This loop is cycling through my Jukebox brain and I don’t even like the song. Such is the curse of pop music. Hooks that won’t leave us al…
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Wanna Take You Higher
Sly and the Family Stone was without a doubt the most thrilling band alive. My band Bethlehem Asylum opened for them on numerous occasions in Miami. When this song kicks in the whole world gets up to dance. This morning it is pulsing through my JukeBox Brain like a psychedelic gospel freight train. Pity the folks who never got the chance to witness them in person. Their signature song after Woodstock put them on…
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For What It’s Worth
For what it’s WorthSteven Stills was one more extremely talented musician composer from the Tampa Bay area of Florida. Genius or maybe the water. This song was recorded by Buffalo Springfield back in the mid Sixties. “Stop, Hey what’s that sound, everybody look what’s going round.” An anthem…
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Light My Fire
Light My Fire Enough has been written about The Doors already. But the history of Jim Morrison is always fodder for rock scribes. We both got our starts in a dinky mildewed coffee house in Pinellas Park Florida; a suburb of St. Petersburg on the gulf coast of…
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In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed The Allman Brothers will always have a place of honor in my JukeBox Brain. My band Bethlehem Asylum was fortunate enough to open for the original Allmans on numerous occasions in the South when we were all getting started. The cemetary in Macon,…
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In the Midnight Hour
In the Midnight Hour It is midnight and I can’t sleep because WIlson Pickett is running my Jukebox Brain all on his own. How many times I have played this song is impossible to count. I recall smokey blue light bar rooms and stages with hundreds of adoring…
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Route 66 soundtrack
Route 66 Soundtrack Middle of the night I wake up to my internal Jukebox brain soundtrack just humming along playing the early Sixties theme song to the TV show, Route 66. None of you will remember this but I enjoyed it. Nelson Riddle composed it. Nothing better than…
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Wanna Take You Higher
Wanna Take You Higher Sly and the Family Stone was without a doubt the most thrilling band alive. My band Bethlehem Asylum opened for them on numerous occasions in Miami. When this song kicks in the whole world gets up to dance. This morning it is pulsing through…
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