Million Dollar Bash

Bob Dylan

Million
Dollar
Bash





well i’m hitting it too hard
my stones won’t take
i get up in the morning
but it’s too early to wake
first it’s hello, goodbye
then push and then crash
but we’re all gonna make it
at that million dollar bash

Redneck Friend

Jackson Browne
Redneck Friend
Santa Cruz, Ca. 2/23/11

well they've got
a little list
of all those things
with which they
don't approve
they've got to keep
their eyes on you
or you might
make your move

There But For Fortune

Joan Baez: There But For Fortune





Joan Baez


There But For Fortune




show me the prison, show me the jail
show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale
and i'll show you, young man
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune go you or i

show me the alley, show me the train
show me the hobo who sleeps out in the rain
and i'll show you, young man
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune go you or i

show me the whiskey stains on the floor
show me the drunkard as he stumbles out the door
and i'll show you, young man
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune go you or i

show me the country where the bombs had to fall
show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
and i'll show you, young land
with so many reasons why
there but for fortune go you and i

--phil ochs

Fairport Convention: "Reno Nevada"

Fairport Convention
Reno Nevada
French TV
1968



it's a long, long way down to Reno, Nevada
and a long, long way to your home
but the change in your pocket is beginning to grumble
and you reap just about what you've sown
you can walk down the street, pass your face in the window
you can stop fooling around
you can work day and night, take a chance on promotion
you can fall through a hole in the ground

now there ain't no game like the one you been playing
when you got a little something to lose
and there ain't no time like the the time you been wasting
and you waste just about what you choose
there's a man at the table and you know he's been able
to return all the odds that you lay
but you can't feed your hunger and you ain't getting younger
and your tongue ain't got nothing to say

it's a long, long way down to Reno, Nevada
and a long, long way to your home
but the ground underneath you is beginning to tremble
and the sky up above you has grown
there's a time to be moving and a time to be grooving
and a time just for climbing the wall
but the odds have been doubled, and it ain't worth the trouble
and you're never going nowhere at all

--richard farina

Bob Marley In Germany 1980

Bob Marley
Dortmund, Germany
1980

Bob Marley In Santa Barbara 1979

Bob Marley
Santa Barbara, Ca.
1979

On This Day In History

Grateful Dead: Berkeley, Ca. 8/19/89


Set 1:
Good Times
Jack Straw
We Can Run
Tennessee Jed
It's All Over Now
Loser
Memphis Blues Again
Box Of Rain

Set 2:
China Cat Sunflower ->
I Know You Rider
Playing In The Band ->
Uncle John's Band ->
Drums ->
Space ->
The Other One ->
Wharf Rat ->
Not Fade Away

Encore: Foolish Heart

Yonder Mountain String Band

Yonder Mountain string Band: Strawberry Music Festival 9/2/00
Alas, said the mouse, the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into. You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up. --Franz Kafka

Farewell Angelina

Wake The Dead
Farewell Angelina
Colorado Irish Festival,
Littleton, CO.
7/12/09

She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

Jerry Lee Lewis
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

Dino Valente: "Tomorrow"

Dino Valente: Tomorrow



and baby were just passing
we're only passing through
and it's lasting
as long as i can love you
but then you say
wait 'til tomorrow
i wonder just when
that could be
while here on this
magic morning
you are sharing
eternity with me

--Dino Valente
Tomorrow

To Ramona

Bob Dylan: To Ramona

i’d forever talk to you
but soon my words
they would turn
into a meaningless ring
for deep in my heart
i know there is
no help i can bring
everything passes
everything changes
just do what you
think you should do
and someday maybe
who knows, baby
i’ll come and be crying to you
--bob dylan
to ramona

Trouble Every Day

In context with the complicit support of the government, the banks looted the nation’s wealth while destroying countless small businesses and brought the whole economy to its knees in a covert, clean manner, rather like organized crime.
Our reaction was to march and wave banners and then bail them out. These kids would have to riot and steal every night for a year to run up a bill equivalent to the value of non-paid tax big business has ‘avoided’ out of the economy this year alone.
They may not articulate their grievances like the politicians that condemn them but this is absolutely political. As for the ‘mindless violence’… is there anything more mindless than the British taxpayer quietly paying back the debts of others while contributing bullets to conflicts that we have absolutely no understanding of?
It’s mad, sad and scary when we have to take to the streets to defend our homes and businesses from angry thieving kids, but where are the police and what justice is ever done when the mob is dressed in pinstripes?
--Massive Attack's Facebook page

you know we got to
sit around at home
and watch this thing begin
but i'll bet there won't
be many alive
to see it really end
beause the fire in the street
ain't like the fire in the heart
and in the eyes
of all these people
don't you know that
this could start
on any street in any town
in any state if any clown
decides that now's
the time to fight
for some ideal he thinks is right
and if a million more agree
there ain't no Great Society
as it applies
to you and me
our country isn't free
and the law
refuses to see
if all that you
can ever be
is just a lousy janitor
unless your uncle owns a store
you know that
five in every four
just won't amount
to nothin' more
gonna watch the rats go across the floor
and make up songs about being poor
blow your harmonica, son!

--Mothers of Invention
from Trouble Every Day

Please Mister Custer

please mister custer
i don't wanna go
hey mister custer
please don't make me go
i had a dream last night
about the coming fight
somebody yelled "attack!"
and there i stood
with an arrow in my back

--charlie drake
please, mister custer

Patches

Dickey Lee
Patches
1962

Lucinda Williams: "Bonny Portmore"

all the birds in the forest
they bitterly weep
saying, "where
shall we shelter,
and where
shall we sleep?"
for the oak and the ash
they are all cut down,
and the walls
of bonny Portmore
are down to the ground

--Lucinda Williams
Bonny Portmore

Guns Of Brixton

the Clash
Guns of Brixton

El Condor Pasa

Simon and Garfunkel: El Condor Pasa


i'd rather be
a sparrow
than a snail
yes i would
if i could
i surely would
i'd rather be
a hammer
than a nail
yes i would
if i only could
i surely would

away, i'd rather
sail away
like a swan
that's here
and gone
a man gets
tied to the ground
he gives the world
its saddest sound
its saddest sound

i'd rather be
a forest
than a street
yes i would
if i could
i surely would
i'd rather feel
the earth
beneath my feet
yes i would
if i only could
i surely would