Linger on, your pale blue eyes...

sometimes I feel so happy
sometimes I feel so sad,
sometimes I feel so happy
but mostly you just make me mad..

Warhol Factory was in the 60's something that hasn't been surpassed artistically

Edie Sedgwick is the girl in the pic..

Aslo Warhol himself, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale ..

Edie attracted Andy Warhol because of her strange sense of fashion, style and "whatever" attitude...

Anyway here the Velvet Underground..

And so she woke up...

I didn't choose this song today..

It was more than an election..

I was watching the open field in front of me..

... A resonator and the slide on my hands of a lonely wooden house in the prairie...

Running To Stand Still

And so she woke up
Woke up from where she was lyin’ still.
Said I gotta do something
About where we’re goin’.
Step on a steam train
Step out of the driving rain, maybe
Run from the darkness in the night.
Singing ah, ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth.
I see seven towers, but I only see one way out.
You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice.
You know I took the poison, from the poison stream
Then I floated out of here, singing
Ah la la la de day
Ah la la la de day.

She walks through the streets
With her eyes painted red
Under black belly of cloud in the rain.
In through a doorway
She brings me white golden pearls
Stolen from the sea.
She is ragin’
She is ragin’

And the storm blows up in her eyes.
She will suffer the needle chill
She’s running to stand still.

Valhalla, I Am Coming ...

Led Zeppelin III is known as their acoustic album..

but the first song is Immigrant Song ...

About Scandinavian mythology and warfare

Maybe the most heavy tune they ever recorded..

(from wikipedia.org)
Valhalla is a majestic, enormous hall located in Asgard, ruled over by the God Odin. Chosen by him, half of those that die in combat travel to Valhalla upon death, led by Valkyries, while the other half go to the goddess Freyja's field Fólkvangr.

This is the one where they evoke the Hammer Of The Gods..

That's the title of the infamous biography that they'd always dismiss..

The film Almost Famous is somehow based on the groupie phenomenon that happened in the first part of the 70's to Led Zeppelin back then..

Director Cameron Crowe himself wrote liner notes for Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live record, when he was just 17 years old.. He was already working for Rolling Stone since 1972.. enough said..

Who wouldn't want to be part of those days ?



Immigrant Song

A-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow

The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands
To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

Ah-ah-ahh-ah, ah-ah-ahh-ah
We come from the land of the ice and snow
from the midnight sun where the hot springs FLOW
How soft your fields, so green
can whisper tales of gore, of how we calmed the tides of war
We are your overlords

On we sweep with, with threshing oar
Our only goal will be the western shore

S-so now you better stop and rebuild all your ruins
for peace and trust can winthe day despite of all you're losin'
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ahh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

You're happy when I'm on my knees...

Oh my oh my...

Who can resist grabbing a White Les Paul Custom though a Marshall and just strum this riff..?

Yo ho yo ho ho ...

I discovered this great song from Alela Diane in the album Folk & Proud by the record label Naïve.

She's from California and tagged as part of the psych folk and New Weird America.

This song it really sounds like a pirate song.. with the low backing vocals, the hand-claps and the rare banjo arrangement ..

Her album bears the same name and was released in 2006.

Had a time with it and must say it's a good folk thing..

Come closer and see ...

Does the Cure write songs or make movies ?

This songs are full of passages and always spark my imagination...

A Forest is quite dark and obscure... it's the most goth they have ever been..

And is one of the best songs ever from the last century..

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset...

So I never knew this song existed... !!
It was on the bootleg series from Dylan... and then on the Legacy Edition of Jeff Buckley's Grace...

How come this song is not on any official release being as good as it is.. ?

this little hidden gem...

Dylan once again is undressing our feelings.. with such plain words and simple pictures.. the soul of a man trapped in the cell of love-sickness..

I really prefer Jeff Buckley's demos than his official recordings.. because it's like when he was playing in Sin-E and nobody knew who he was..

Mama, you been on my mind.

Perhaps it is the color of the sun cut flat
An' cov'rin' the crossroads I'm standing at,
Or maybe it's the weather or something like that,
But mama, you been on my mind.

I mean no trouble, please don't put me down, don’t get upset,
I am not pleading or saying that "I can't forget you."
I do not pace the floor bowed down and bent, but yet,
Mama, you been on my mind.

Even though my eyes are hazy and my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don't bother me or bring me down in sorrow.
I don't even mind who you'll be waking with tomorrow,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

I am not askin' you to say words like "yes" or "no,"
Please understand me, I have no place I’m callin’ you to go.
I'm just whispering to myself so I can't pretend that I don't know,
But mama, you're just on my mind.

When you wake up in the mornin' and look inside your mirror,
You know I won't be next to you, you know I won't be near.
I'd just be curious to know if you can see yourself as clear
As someone who has had you on his mind.

I guess I'm doing fine...

What kind of answer is that ...

Well lately I feel like saying that when they ask me how am I ...

Funny How Time Slips Away (by Willie Nelson)

Well hello there my it's been a long long time
How am I doin'  oh I guess that I'm doin' fine
It's been so long now but it seems now it was only yesterday
Gee ain't it funny how time   slips away
 
How's your new love  I hope that he's doing fine
Heard you told him that you'd love him till the end of time
Now that's the same thing that you told me seems like just the other day
Gee ain't it funny how time  slips  away
 
I gotta go now I guess I'll see you around
Don't know when though never know when I'll be back in town
But remember what I tell you that in time you're gonna pay
And it's surprising how time  slips  away

...then you’d know why I feel blue

back to the 50's !! with Buddy Holly, what a legend ..

..the look he had with that glasses, the suit and the Stratocaster...

A guitar that was released in 1954 just three years before this song ...

Don McLean sang in America Pie that the day he died at 22.. the music died as well...

This last weekend we went to the mountain's country house of my mate...

We had a the best time..

Then after lunch we took the guitars out and played some tunes...

We were playing some early Beatles songs.. and I remembered Peggy Sue and asked Marc to play that repetitive drum rhythm...

And so.. with the 12 bar blues structure.. we played Peggy Sue ...

and it was magic..

Peggy Sue

If you knew Peggy Sue - then you’d know why I feel blue
without Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue
pretty pretty pretty pretty Peggy Sue
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
oh well, I love you gal and I need you Peggy Sue

I love you Peggy Sue - with a love so rare and true
oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue
well I love you gal - I want you Peggy Sue

oh well, I love you gal and I want you Peggy Sue

Please don't give up on me ...

Solomon Burke died this weekend..

Learned about it from some newspaper...

This morning listening to Radio 3 ("hoy empieza todo") they paid a little tribute by playing this song..

While I was getting dressed I was absorbed by his voice.. that feeling he's putting in here..

Don't give up on me

If I fall short
If I don't make the grade
If you're expectations aren't met in me today
There's always tomorrow, or tomorrow night
Hang in there, baby
Sooner or later I know I'll get it right
Please don't give up on me
Oh please don't give up on me
I know It's late, late in the game
But my feelings, my true feelings haven't changed
Here in my heart I know, I know I was wrong, wrong, wrong
I'd like to make amends for the love that I've never ever, ever, ever shown
Just don't give up on me, every word is true
I'll give you my everything, all of my love,
All of my love, all of my love, love, love to you
Just don't give up on me,
oh please, please, please don't give up on me
I don't want you to
I know It's late, but wait please, please, please, please don't give up on me
Promise, will you promise me, will you promise me
Please don't give up on me
We can make it if we try
I'm going to hold on, hold on with me
And don't give up on me
Oh baby don't give up on me
Whatever you do we'll make it though
Don't you give up on me,
Please, please, please promise me,
Don't give up on me

scanning the scene in the city tonight..

..must be the only metal band who is respected by all generations and still make people feel good...

After reading that James Hetfield participated on an auction for Little Kids Rock organization-- I wanted to see which was the item.. and was quite surprised watching the guitar he decorated..

It carries sentences like..

Can't you do anything right..
It's not good enough..
Get outta Here..
Are you really that stupid..

Focusing on the reality of a childhood some people go through...

luckily some of the times this can be reverted through art, music or passion for any discipline...

The rest of the decorated guitars are just esthetically OK.. (Specially the one by Stan Lee)

But this one.. really made me think twice about not pretending bad times are just gone.. I guess one must have them present to never allow them to happen again

It doesn't really matter what chords I play ...

What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song ..

I still remember when my mother bought us the film Yellow Submarine..

I was around 10 years old..

That exposure to such artistic film, with all that psychedelic meanings, the colors and the naivety...

I think that made me understand the world in a particular way..

Where only art is worth enough any effort..





Only a Northern Song

If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not, we just wrote them like that

When you're listening late at night
You mayo thing the band are not quite right
But they are, they just play it like that

It doesn't really matter what chords I play
What words I say or time of day it is
As it's only a Northern song

It doesn't really matter what clothes I wear
Or how I fare or if my hair is brown
When it's only a Northern song

If you think the harmony
Is a little dark and out of key
You're correct, there's nobody there
And I told you there's no one there

you'll never wait so long .... so long ... so long

Lou Reed was waiting for his man back in 69 with 26 dollars in his hand up to Lexington 125 ..

So lucky !!! the Pixies announce his man was finally coming in 1989...

Probably, both songs have no connection at all..

but they do have one for me..

"Here Comes Your Man"

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man












big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man