I'm finding it very hard to blog these days. I'm so busy doing stupid things that not only have I not stopped to smell the roses, the damn things died waiting for me. I had a rehearsal tonight with Jim Wurster for our May 18th gig which will probably be a disaster. Especially if i'm involved in it. The Zombies are reuniting in London next year to perform "Odessey and Oracle" (one of my favorite LPs)live and I wanna be there. I was thinking of some more guilty pleasure songs today and most of them were by Fleetwood Mac. I tend to prefer the blues band era with Peter Green but I still love the 70's-coked-out version too. They really liked the key of F which is one of my faves. "Gypsy","Go Your Own Way","Sara"...all in F. "Crazy Arms", "Day After Day"(badfinger), "Just Like A Woman", "Mr. Tambourine Man", "Give Me Love", "Hot Burrito #1"....all in F. Just a good key all the way around. I was also listening to James Taylor's first album (on Apple) and wondered why it bombed. It's got some really cool stuff on it and Paul McCartney plays bass on "Carolina On My Mind". Isn't that enough? Tomorrow I go to a funeral of someone I barely knew. The service is supposed to be quite religious and it's making me nervous. I might have to duck out early. I'm so tired that i'm starting to believe the voices in my head.
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What I said a moment ago was not very important, so I deleted it. Anyway, the Zombies are doing that again? I was lucky enough to catch them in New York in 2004 doing O&O, and...Arthur Lee with his revamped version of Love opened up. Jimmy Echols was also on lead guitar for that. Can you imagine? It was my only time seeing Arthur Lee, and they did most of the Forever Changes album. Then the Zombies came out and did O&O with other obvious favorites like She's Not There. But the real icing on the cake was that Colin Blunstone did a few songs from his wonderful solo album One Year. He brought out a string quartet and sang Misty Roses and Say You Don't Mind. Oh, that life could be that good all the time...
Your cd was in the Scion today so I got to listen to some O&O. That is such a brilliant piece of music.
And that photo of you and Jojo is one of my favorites. Wanna talk brilliant--who was the photographer? :P
Remember how she fell off the bed like 5 minutes after that picture was taken and we thought she was fatally injured and called everyone we knew who had kids to make sure it was ok and if anyone was hesitant we were ready to go to the ER? God we were overprotective. Oh wait. We still are.
You got that right. Pete, fuck you.
In keeping with the theme, you shoulda told Pete to go "f" himself.
Oh, and the voices in your head always lie. It's the one in your heart that's worth listening to.
That's a sweet thing to say. Thanks.
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