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Subject: Thank God for Buddy Holly

Posted by: sadwings
Date: May 14 17

This is about everything rock and roll from the 50's to the present, but that's only the beginning. Any poets out there? I have a couple of poems to share before too long. Misunderstood song lyrics are always a lot of fun. Favorite album cover art? Any wild or interesting concert experiences? Prefer Motown to rock? Jazz? Blues? You can share all of these things and much more here. Come one come all to the midnight ball! Let's do this!

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sadwings

Yeah, not only that, but it isn't accepting my info on that, but it's the exact same username and password that I log in with.

It's doing the exact same thing to me on another one of these threads, I can't remember exactly where now, but it's one where they are having these private tournaments and you have to log in to play. I kind of stumbled onto it and thought it might be fun but it wouldn't let me log in. Like I said, I'm using the exact info that allows me into FT, so I don't know what the deal is.

Reply #1. May 14 17, 6:29 AM

sadwings

Anyway, shall we begin the first lesson of Rock and Roll 101? Class? Settle down now.

I thought I would begin by us taking a look at one simple word - the word "yeah". It may very well be the most common word in rock and roll lyrics. I think it would be safe to say that the Beatles are likely not the ones who started it, but they certainly did get the ball rolling very nicely. Especially with songs like She Loves You. Yeah, yeah, yeah indeed, my Liverpool brothers!

"Yeah" is a pretty versatile word, and it can pop up pretty much anywhere it wants to in a song. A lot of times it will be the last word of a line, but it can also be the first word or it could pop up any where in between.

But get this.....have any of you seen the word "yeah" literally take up an entire line all by itself? Now be fair about this. When the Beatles say "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" you can't say that's three lines of "yeah" right there, just because it looks good to you to write it that way. No, in this particular case, that would only be one line of three yeahs.

I can honestly think of only one lone example where one single yeah is boldly elongated enough to actually take up one line by itself. I know there has to be other examples out there, and I was hoping you guys could help remind me of some of them.

In the meantime, the very rocky and quite rolly example that I am thinking of comes from the musical ensemble Black Sabbath in a piece entitled Fairies Wear Boots. In fact, it happens to be the last line in the last verse of the song. Let's examine that last verse together for a moment....

I know there are lots of exceptions here and there, but as a general rule of thumb, most song lyrics will usually be written in verses of four lines. All the other verses in this song are four lines, so why should the last one be different? Well, it isn't. Let's take a look at it. It goes like this.........

So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me
He said son, son, you've gone too far
'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do
Yyeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!

Now that is one long "yeah" right there! It takes up an entire line as you can clearly see. Can any of you think of any other examples to share with the class?

Tommy, put that out, please!

Well, class is about over but I want all of you to be thinking of some examples to share for next time..........

Reply #2. May 14 17, 7:19 AM

sadwings

Another fun little tidbit about that particular verse is to try to imagine a doctor actually saying that to his or her patient, I mean with the "yeah" just like Ozzy sings it and everything.

It's even more fun to think about that as you are actually listening to it. If any of you would like to do that, just click on the link below. If you just want to hear the verse and not the whole song just take it up to 5 minutes right to the second and you'll be right there. Let's have some fun! :-)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mpy_L-p398

Reply #3. May 14 17, 9:42 AM

varnish

Alright Brother, I have a good one for you.....a song called "Spiderbaby (yeah, yeah, yeah)" by White Zombie! The song is peppered with "Yeahs". In fact, Rob Zombie loves the word Yeah. "Thunder kiss '65" has quite a few, and as far as a Yeah taking up a full line, they come pretty close with the song "I am Legend". In fact, I bet if you counted every "Yeah" sung by Rob in the album "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1" (hey, don't get mad at me, I didn't write it!) it could quite possibly have more "Yeahs" than any other album!

Reply #4. May 14 17, 11:03 AM

postcards2go

Kev... back to the private tournaments that you mentioned...

You need to register in each one separately. If you use the same name, password and email for each one, you will then be able to use them seamlessly, but you need to register individually, first. Pain in the --.

Music...

I'm a Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond kinda person. I like to sin along, and believe that I can really sing :-D

Reply #5. May 14 17, 12:14 PM

Jazmee27

Love music, but prefer instrumental (don't get that confused with classical). But, really, I'm a "variety girl." O, and I play piano too. Also write poetry (and music). No I cannot let you hear my music; I don't have equipment for that. Anyways, sometimes write stories also.

Reply #6. May 14 17, 1:02 PM

strozy

Kev I'm so glad I found this Virtual Blog. Never been in this area before.
Carol

Reply #7. May 14 17, 1:12 PM

sadwings

Right on, Varnish! looks like I've got a little homework of my own to do, but hey, that's cool with me. I might even count those yeahs you were talking about!

So, Postie, what you are saying is that I have to use some other username and password other than what I use to log in to FT? I don't really get that at all. It sounds to me like a good way to get myself into trouble, you know, the thing with using more accounts than one at the same time. I want to make sure I'm understanding you correctly before I try anything like that, and even then, someone is going to have to explain to me how I can do something like that and not get myself into trouble.

In the meantime thanks for the tip.

Hey, here's one for you, Postie. I don't really consider myself much of a singer, but a few years ago I sang a Judas Priest song at my cozy little bar across the street from me during karaoke night, and I got the biggest applause of the night from it! I know, I know, me and my Judas Priest stories and comments! ;-) Well, it happened to be one of those Priest tunes where Rob isn't unleashing those sky high notes into the stratosphere, or I would have been in very serious trouble and I would have ended up embarrassing the hell out of myself pretty good. That guy is just absolutely phenomenal with his voice, but thanks to the way he did that one particular song - Hell Bent For Leather - I was able to pull it off and actually do a pretty good job of it. As long as those notes don't get very much higher than my voice is when I am talking, I can actually do pretty well with that, depending on the song. I don't do that stuff very often at all, but I like to have a little fun with it every now and then.

Reply #8. May 14 17, 1:16 PM

strozy

I wont be able to join in cause I don't know anything about Black Sabbath.

Reply #9. May 14 17, 1:21 PM

postcards2go

Kev, you can use the same user name and password... I do. It's just that you have to physically go through the registration process for each private tournament that you want to join.

Never done karaoke alone, but I'm willing with others on stage with me.

Reply #10. May 14 17, 2:02 PM

sadwings

Hey, Carol, thanks for stopping by my Sad Wings of Destiny thread. Well, my Buddy Holly thread, too. He doesn't exactly stand alone as far as being the "Father of rock and roll" so to speak, because there were just too many people who had an equal hand in that glorious birth, but he is certainly one of those people. Anyway, don't be a stranger!

Jazmee, my poetry girl! You are going to have to share some of your poetry with us, I mean, if you want to, of course. I will go first if you like, that's totally up to you. I only have a couple that I feel are worth sharing, but I can slap one of them down a little later today as long as nothing unexpected pops up.

Hey, as long as you love music, whatever kind it happens to be is perfectly fine here, Jazmee. I have always been partial to rock and roll, well, except for the first few years that my love and fascination with music began when I was five or six years old. It was that groovy Motown sound that got it all started for me. Stuff like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Isley Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, you know, stuff like that. I love all that stuff to this day and I always will.

Well, then I discovered Three Dog Night when I was about 10 or 11, and it turned me into a bona fide rock and roller for life. It was a few years after that when I discovered that loud, obnoxious Judas Priest outfit, and that changed me from a foot-tapping rocker to a straight up rock n roll outlaw and ruined my good taste in music forever! :-(

Anyway, I'm all about friendship and sharing the world and laughter and good times with all takers, and I feel like if I'm going to shun someone just because they don't happen to like the same stuff I do, then I'm just not much of a worthwhile friend at all, and that's just not the way I roll.

I have to take care of a few things and then I'll be slapping one of my silly little poems down for any who might be interested in reading it.......

Reply #11. May 14 17, 2:16 PM

sadwings

Carol, you don't have to know anything about the Sabbsters to play over at my house. I just used those outlaws to get things started. I was only using them to make a lighthearted observation. This thread will be full of lighthearted observations featuring all kinds of renegade outlaws all the way through it. You are just as welcome here as anyone. Stick around, the fun around here is just barely getting started.

P

Reply #12. May 14 17, 2:27 PM

sadwings

Woops. Postie, I'll get back with you in a bit......

Reply #13. May 14 17, 2:28 PM

sadwings

Okay all you rock n roll rebels and outlaws, got a goofy poem here that I wrote one time when I was bored at work on a slow night. It's called "Metal Is" and I say the scary word "metal" in it a bunch of times. I thought about changing the word "metal" to "music" to make it much more reader-friendly, but it really takes away a lot of the true meaning behind it all. So for those of you who can't stand metal, maybe you could just pretend it says "music" instead. Anyway it goes like this here. A-one and a-two.......

Metal is pure
Metal is free
Metal is the lifeblood
For you and for me

Metal is happening
Metal is real
Metal is the essence
Of the sound we all feel

Metal is heard
Metal is good
Metal is accepted
And universally understood

Metal is quite lethal
Metal never dies
Metal is the ring of truth
In the face of all the lies

Metal is a cannon
Metal is a sword
Metal is a symphony
With each and every chord

Metal is forever
Metal is the truth
Metal is the spirit
That keeps us in our youth

Metal is the ultimate
Metal is the most
Metal comes across the seas
And rocks us coast to coast

Metal is eternal
Metal is today
Metal is the fuel for life
In all we do and say

Reply #14. May 14 17, 7:35 PM

Blackdresss

Hey Kev, and anyone else --

Do you think the Goo Goo Dolls used to be "more metal" and then "sold out?" Because I really do want opinions, I'm not even going to try to explain what I'm asking. How's that for vague?

"When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive"

Reply #15. May 15 17, 3:43 AM

sadwings

Life in London is bittersweet
Spray can slogans along the streets
Some kind of revolution in the town
Aw, razor blades and safety pins, you look like a clown

What's going down?
It's just the same old sound
You know that energy
Has always been the drug for me, yeah.......

Wow, Elle, that's the first time I've ever heard "Goo Goo Dolls" and "heavy metal" in the same sentence before. Well, from what I have heard from very reliable sources, the Goo Goo Dolls one time swept the floor with Metallica, did a cartwheel, and then mopped the floor with Anthrax, and that was AFTER they had drunk more Jack Daniels and Cuervo than Van Halen ever thought about drinking, and smoked more weed than Snoop Dog had ever even seen before.

Not only that, but I read in Get Out of Town Now magazine that the Dolls had been banned from 374 countries because of the savage brutality of their satanic heavy metal. No, I'm just clowning around. Seriously, I don't have any idea about that, I don't do Goo Goo and never have.

You know what I think would be pretty cool, though? If the Goo Goo Dolls went on tour with Lady Ga Ga. Then they could call it the Goo Goo/Ga Ga tour!

Another dream goes up in smoke, UH!
And so I fire me up another toke
Yeah, I'm comin' on.......

Reply #16. May 15 17, 6:06 AM

sadwings

Sorry, Postie, I never did get back with you. I'm just going to forget about doing that tournament thing. It won't let me log on with the username and password that I already have and I'm not going to use anything different, so I'm just not going to waste any more of my time with it. I just want to have fun and not concern myself with system glitches or whatever.

I had a dream
Oh, yeah
Crazy dream
Anything I wanted to know
Any place I needed to go

Hear my song
Yeah, people won't you listen now?
Sing along
You don't know what your missing, now

Any little song that you know
Everything that's small has to grow
And it always grows.........

Reply #17. May 15 17, 6:50 AM

varnish

Hey Elle, from what I know off hand of them, I wouldn't have ever called them heavy metal. Hard rock, maybe, when they first started, but whenever I see or hear them I think light grunge. But after a little research, the Goo Goo Dolls started out with a heavy edge to them, enough to get signed by Metal Blade records, who had deals with Metallica and Anthrax, (I don't know about mopping and sweeping though!) but at one point they were quoted as saying they're a college rock band.....but I'm just rambling now!

(And Kev, I did some quick research on WZ, and there are 34, yeah, 34 "Yeahs" on the first 3 songs of Vol.1!!)

Reply #18. May 15 17, 9:18 AM

Jazmee27

Kev…

Postee is trying explain to you: it’s the same user information. However, you have to register. Every time you do different tournament. FT doesn’t spell this out., so you’re not the only one confused. You can’t just log in. You have to “create account” or whatever link says, but it’s exact same user info. It’s something to do with technically being another site… so you’’re logged into this side, but not “that side.”

Lot of my poetry is real dark. It’s not silly at all… most isn’t anyway. Perhaps I’ll post some stuff on my blog; I haven’t decided yet. I loved your ppoem. It’s so carefree.

Reply #19. May 15 17, 12:20 PM

Jazmee27

I found a poem :)

"Animals are precious"

Maybe we buy them,

But we do not own them

Pets are independent,
Unique,
Can teach us much about life,
Help us focus

On something other

Than our problems.

EPets

Share our lives

For short time

They want be with us,
Love us,
Get love in return.

“Teach me,
and I teach you

treat me wrong,
and I despise you

love me,
and it is returned fourfold

spend time with me,
and I am tame for you.”

pets

are wild animals

we sought

to make companions

they need,
deserve

respect

for they let us

live alongside them.

Animals

Can show us

Many things

If only we

Attune ourselves

To what

They are ttrying

To say.

Reply #20. May 15 17, 1:16 PM

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