Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

I want to re-post this to honor him.

This one talk revolutionize my understanding of Genesis..

Boo you should maybe watch this with your good wife.



"Only sacrifice of the higher in favor of the lower has the power to help this world."
I-Ching

Yeah, that is one of my very favorite John Hiatt songs. I just don't like the sound in that video. Check out the studio version here:

And a much better recording of a live performance here:


Notice how the lead guitar sound is much more forward than Daniel's version? Personally I prefer it in the ones I posted.

On that topic, this song is from the same album, and it's a classic. I know, I know, I've posted this John Hiatt stuff before in our thread, but he is one of our national treasures. Words and music, a fantastic song, Buffalo River Home:

"There's only two things in life, but I forget what they are."
A perfect lyric.
Here's the studio version, listen to it, too:

It is amazing what YouTube has done to archive the music of our generation. I was surfing along after posting about John Hiatt, and that led me to Joe Ely [pronounced 'ELLIE'], who's another Texan and friend of both John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett [I discovered Joe Ely 27 years ago when he appeared with Bruce Springsteen at a concert I attended in New Jersey. I'd never heard of him before then.] Here's the song I found, and I know it well, because it's the same song he sang with Bruce:


But that's not the end of my story this evening. A little while later, I found this, which is a hand-held video of Joe and Bruce, singing the song in East Rutherford, at the exact same show I was at! [I could even tell you who I was with at the show. She was REALLY cute ] June of 1993:

I've been thinking on how the lives of actors and singers Seem to stretch and compress like an accordian in time.

One can hear Nearly all of Mic Jaggers life at twenty and at 70. in 5 minutes, no waiting.
One can savor his entire career at any point, at any time of his evolving.

One can weigh the fullness as it never empties in our age of pre and re recordings of near endless copies and covers. yet it only just now occrred to me that only old men and women can do this!

Your son, may the good lord bless him, just hasn't been around long enough to have seen our parade.
Yet he is no doubt alread begun to march in his own and in his time march right on by ours.":O}

Will his son know more than 5 song from what is altready being call "The Golden age of Rock and roll?"

He can if he wants, for good or ill Elvis will live as long as we can maintain a civilization.

Or untill a new much better but incompadable medium begins to narrow down to what is seen as worthwile to transfer into a medium people care enough about to buy.

and If they can't be transfered into such, what then...crikets.":O}

I apologize for being contrary, but...

I have made sure that my son has seen at least SOME of what I have seen. And because the sound isn't really enough, YouTube has made this possible, showing videos from the past. He plays the guitar, as I did. Perhaps he will even be better at it than I was. And at 15 he surely knows who the musicians of our generation are/were. They are not always his choice of everyday listening...but often they are, and that makes me happy. It means that he will carry that knowledge on, and I am sure that after I'm gone, he will still hold an interest in the musical heroes that I had.

An interesting example: Daniel was the one that informed me that Peter Green died last month. He knew that because we had recently listened to Fleetwood Mac, and I introduced him to the writer of Black Magic Woman, which is a song he knows because of Santana. Amazingly [at least to me] he remembered that video session, and associated it with Peter Green.

I cherish the evenings by the computer with Daniel, showing him exactly what we spend time discussing here.

You're right, he didn't witness the extraordinary music of the 60-70-80s in real time, but I think, if you ever met him, you'd have a good old chat about why Eric Clapton worshiped Muddy Waters, and how Muddy's guitarist was Buddy Guy.

Believe me, my son's extraordinary

Not exactly sure how your angst for Donald Trump [who incidentally is a New Yorker (but you knew that)] relates to the music of John Hiatt, Lyle Lovett, and Joe Ely except for the fact that they are all Texans; but OK, it's all good

I really doubt that the average music lover would say that John, Joe, or Lyle have a 'redneck attitude'

Agreed! But there was never a better straight man than dear Alice.

I disagree with nothing and am pleased by all you have said.

A very old proverb"

A virgin can no more understand a mother,
than a mother can return to being a virgin.

We are born of and trapped in time.
Time separates and unites us.

A father should share as much of the world that precedes his son as possible.
It broadens the sons view and causes the father to reflect and distill his personal excrescences.

Yet there is a gap. and it is vast even when our hearts are one.

Your son was not shaped by your time.as his mother was. As I was.

As his birth began shaping your time
The time you share binds you,
The time you do not share insures that the generations are differentiated
In this way what a father creates his son may refine. or abandon as seems right to the son.

Your son will pick and choose from what you have given him and make the best of it his own.

We did not pick our time, we picked what was best of our time to pass on.

But all the rest of our time is forever out of reach of our children.as our mothers first date is to us.

In short:
You had to be there to properly gasp the time you were in.

For my money the time you and Daniel share is only to be envied
You two have hit a sweet spot in time, in the human life span and experience and should take the fullest advantage of your time together.
All time passes or we could bear no children.
One should be not sad but like the mid-day sun spreading light and love as it arises.

To teach the young is a holy task.

To seek out ones teachers is the obligation of the young. They must take upon themselves the labor of advancing in knowledge. But all of this happens of itself when love regulates the relations within the family..

Here's a line I often ponder. it concerns the head of the family, uh, that would be you TR>":O}.

"He does nothing to make himself feared and so all come to rely upon him.

We must first welcome the contrary before we can unite.
Only after full expression is given to two conflicting ides can we properly bring them together without losing anything of value.
Do give my best to Daniel his sybs and mom. ":O}

Oh my yes!