Topic: Jahn's JukeBox

[Jahn]

Shel Silverstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inm8fb_NIIM

Ko-we-ha Gemini Jim taw Scorpio SaloTaw sejno-nej-o-to-kono o-ha-na-shi-te-saw
There was Gemini Jim and Scorpio Sal
they was livin' by the Golden Gate
Freezin' their nose and wearin' leather clothes and dealin' every way but straight
They had a Leo dog and a Capricorn cat and everything was goin' fine
Until into their life on a moonless night come the man that got no sign

He roared right in like some evil wind and he rolled himself a righteous smoke
As the thunder crashed and the lightenin' flashed he took a toke and a spoke
Said he was born in an astrological warp where the stars refused to shine
On the cusp of Nowhere and Nevermore he's the man that got no sign

Then he told a story of an endless search to find his missin' part
And Scorpio Sal she smiles at him tries to do his chart
But then Pisces Ben who was Jim's best friend said man you must be blind
You better grab your knife and take the life of the man who'd got no sign

And so it happened and his blood run soaked the ground

The arrest was made by Sheriff Slade and Aquarius thru and thru
But  the jailer was a Sagittarius so he beat Jim black and blue
And then they dragged him up to the courthouse stairs they said Jim how do you plea
He said man the moon's in Virgo so, the blame don't fall on me
Well the jury all was the Libras so you know they was more than fair
But his lawyer was an Aries and an Aries just don't care
The judge he was a Cancer and Cancers have no friends
But the hungman was a Taurus, and that's where the circle ends.

Album Freakin' at the Freakers Ball,
released 1969

[Jahn]

The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash - Live On Copacabana Beach  February 2006


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lJ071MeKA

Why is this that good in the eyes of the Lord?

[Michael]

Shel Silverstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inm8fb_NIIM

that was different 

[Jahn]

that was different 

Ok, I might get it.

[Jahn]

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGt_muCRs8

Album release, 1980.

[Jahn]

The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash - Live On Copacabana Beach  February 2006


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6lJ071MeKA

Why is this that good in the eyes of the Lord?

Soon enough, I will tell ...

[Jahn]

Annie Lennox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw9xUeJkUeU


Album Medusa

[Jahn]

The Original
Neil Young


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7letrMf_nE

[Michael]

Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frGt_muCRs8

Album release, 1980.

Thanks for that Jahn. You know, I never did know about White Rabbit, except from hearsay, and little about Jefferson Airplane/Starship, except from constant references, and nothing about Grace Slick. I feel I missed something back there. I wonder what she is doing now.

Alas, it makes me sad, this song you featured. It is so easy to follow the myth when young, but as we grow older, those who professed allegiance become secretly suck away beneath us.

"When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG4ndbhOkpI

[Jahn]

Thanks for that Jahn. You know, I never did know about White Rabbit, except from hearsay, and little about Jefferson Airplane/Starship, except from constant references, and nothing about Grace Slick. I feel I missed something back there. I wonder what she is doing now.

Dear Grace Slick is an artist and have done many interesting paintings.
One theme of her is portraits of Rock'n Roll profiles as Pete Townshend, Lennon, Jerry Garcia (Jefferson) and perhaps more people from the Rock Scene.

Another theme she has in her painting is Alice in Wonderland.

Well, here is a link to her artworks at sale:

http://www.peabodyfineart.com/slick/index.htm

[Jahn]

"When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.

An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG4ndbhOkpI

The lyrics that you posted is from Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

The following is the lyrics of El Diablo by Grace Slick:

El Diablo I can feel your power in my soul
 Dancing like your puppet though I try to break your hold
 Half succeeding still I find I’m healing quickly
 You’ll not trick me one more time

El Diablo you are like a fountain blowing dust
 Peddler of delusion, dire confusion and disgust
 As you hook your mark with joyous heart you up the price
 Take your pleasure elsewhere cast your gaze not on my life

El Diablo I can feel your power in my soul
 Dancing like your puppet though I try to break your hold
 Half succeeding still I find I’m healing quickly
 You’ll not trick me one more time

El Diablo I can hear you calling in the night
 Pass me by in silence I’ll not follow you tonight
 Beat your breast like thunder vent your anger with a howl
 You’ll not pull me under I’ll not tremble at your growl

[Michael]

The lyrics that you posted is from Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

Actually I don't think LC wrote that - it's an old 'unknown' poem if I recall correctly. I think it known by the French under another name.

[Michael]

BTW, I wasn't suggesting any similarity between The Partisan and El Diablo; rather, I was following a sequence of thought, about how such themes as in El Diablo were so acknowledged by so many back in those days of youth, and how almost everyone moved on into society and materiality as life passed.

The Partisan, for me, has always typified that mood of feeling abandoned on a mystical path by one's erstwhile passionate companions. Everyone 'steps down' their youthful imagination and conviction, into something tame. El Diablo typifies that imaginative quest of the mystical youth for something that lies beyond the carefully and cleverly devised frameworks of our society. But those frameworks are precisely designed to surreptitiously retrieve wayward souls from the foolishness of El Diablo, and settle them neatly back within the mental fold of humanity.

We can't live completely outside those frameworks, nor can we, whose spirits yearn for eternity, live comfortably within them. There is always a battle, as the framework design is not benign - we dabble in them at the risk of much suffering for our soul.

[Jahn]

R.E.M.
Album "Up", release 1998


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBLTOaaA4Cg

I was hell
Sarcastic silver swell
That day it rained
Tough spun. Hard won. No
Ocean flower aquarium
Badlands. Give a hand
Honey dipt. Flim flam
Hey hey. Hey hey
That cat can walk like a big bad man

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus

Storefront window, I reflect
Just last week I was merely heck
Tip the scale. I was hell
Picked me up, then I fell
Who's this stranger? Crowbar spine
Dot dot dot and I feel fine
Let it rain, rain, rain (rain)
Bring my happy back again

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus

Let it rain, rain, rain (rain)
Save me from myself again
Wash away my ugly sins
Opposing thumb, dorsal fin
That monkey died for my grin
Bring my happy back again
Let it rain (rain), rain, rain (rain)
Bring my happy back again

So happy to show us
I ate the lotus
Say haven't you noticed?
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus
I ate the lotus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_(song)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu2jN3d2zzU

[Jahn]

Paul Young
Album release 1983


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeeJhEpeUfc