All Things Must Pass & Xmas Time......
The old geezer
"Good Ol' Days" of 1970 & Xmas Time. Can't believe it's been *39*
Years since this album was released. My buddy's older brother had an
apartment within walking/short drive from our neighbourhood back in
1970 & he had a good job with Eastman Kodak (probably made $6.50/hour)
with a MONSTER Stereo system in the apartment. I wuz on Xmas break
from college so we'd always go over there & hang around, drink Genesee
beer & smoke weed & Camels. ATMP was played constantly (along with
Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh"). Well, there wuz a party
there every night during the Holidaze of 1970 -1971, the radio was
always playing "My Sweet Lord" & "Isn't It A Pity" constantly...so
"All Things Must Pass" wuz BURNT into my brain as a part of my life
circa Xmas Time 1970.
It wuzn't until last year I finally purchased the remastered CD & when
I played it a FLOOD of memories came rushing back to me.
Oh, to be young again! The ol' man used to always exclaim, "Youth is
wasted on the young"...now I know what he meant! Just to go back & re-
live one of those crazy nights again. I'd probably be most thoroughly
embarassed at the "childish" antics going on.
One of the BIG "kneeslappers" was to pour beer into the ashtrays in my
friend's brother's apartment...the only illumination being blacklights
& color organs & then when some poor soul would put their cigarette
into the ashtray........psssst! Haww...haww...haw...Always good for
a laugh! I won't even go into about putting Saran Wrap over the
toilet bowl!
The other music I always associate with Xmas time is the Moody Blues.
Probably because every Xmas Eve the local BIG FM station (WCMF)
starting at 7PM on Xmas Eve would play all 7 Moody Blues albums in
order until done. I remember driving through snowstorms on Xmas Eve
over to relatives houses for parties with the MB playing on the car
radio. WCMF kept this practice up until about 1982 when they found
out that playing the Moody Blues on Xmas Eve interrupted their nonstop
Arrowsmith/Boston playlist so they discontinued it. Xmas Eve has
never been the same.
Anyway...back to "All Things Must Pass"...a perfect album by George.
Not a BAD tune on the album. Not too many artists can claim that.
Too bad everything he did after that really stunk. It wuz a tuff act
to follow.
Anyway again...enuff ramblings by the drunken OLD GEEZER!
TOG
ND: Ezra Brooks kentucky Sour Mash Bourbon & Becks Dark
NP: All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Yesterdays Wafflez
JY...@aol.com (The old geezer)
...Anyway again...enuff ramblings by the drunken OLD GEEZER!
TOG
Awesome Post Geez!
I always play side 2 of Todd Rundgren's Initiation this time of year.
Maybe just all the "shimmery" sequencers going but actually more....The
year it came out, Minnesota full blown winter, and KQRS playing that
during a wonderland snowfall. Towards the end on 'Cosmic Fire' during
the darker passages the snow plows would pass my front windows, it was a
story in itself. The 70's KQRS was great...also Chicago 7 (?) the one
instrumental side was always played and every winter KQ would play
Return to Forever's 'Song to/of the Pharaoh King'.
The second I hear these tunes I'm totally there in 17below
winterwonderment.
Ahhhh, warm music memories.
thanz,
Y.W. (who now freezes in CA 50º weather)!
The old geezer
wrote:
>
> I always play side 2 of Todd Rundgren's Initiation this time of year.
> Maybe just all the "shimmery" sequencers going but actually more....The
> year it came out, Minnesota full blown winter, and KQRS playing that
> during a wonderland snowfall. �Towards the end on 'Cosmic Fire' during
> the darker passages the snow plows would pass my front windows, it was a
> story in itself. �The 70's KQRS was great...also Chicago 7 (?) the one
> instrumental side was always played and every winter KQ would play
> Return to Forever's �'Song to/of the Pharaoh King'. �
> The second I hear these tunes I'm totally there in 17below
> winterwonderment.
>
> Ahhhh, warm music memories.
TR's "Initiation" is great! '" Was Born To Synthesize"!!!!
Chicago 7...with "Song of The Evergreen"??? The only Chicago CD I
own!!! Fantastic!!
TOG
Strictly Commercial
> TR's "Initiation" is great! '" Was Born To Synthesize"!!!!
That's because he was born under a bad sine.
Rollo
Hoodoo
GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time), spoke thusly:
> The old geezer wrote:
>> TR's "Initiation" is great! '" Was Born To Synthesize"!!!!
> That's because he was born under a bad sine.
That's an amusing response!
--
"Think with your dipstick, Jimmy."
Frunobulax_also
80's and early 90's when I was a loathsome, little, night-shift
security guard, I owned a number of them.
One cold, winter night, around Christmas, I was on mobile duty, which
amounted to driving around all night, listening to music at high
volumes, smoking cigarettes, drinking bad coffee, and occasionally
completing my appointed rounds.
The parking lot of the sprawling complex I "guarded" was tricked out
in these huge, tall lamps that bathed everything around them in a
surreal and unearthly pinkish orange.
On this particular night - or morning, actually - huge, fluffy,
Colorado snowflakes were appearing from the looming pitch of the sky
and spiraling with an unnatural slowness through these patchwork
islands of alien light.
I had "In Search of the Lost Chord" jammed into the old cassette deck
and it blared out "Om" as I tooled through the bizarre and haunting
landscape. The otherwise goofy and self-important faux mysticism of
the song somehow complimented the sense of other world beauty that
danced mesmerically all around me and I found myself transported and
even moved.
Ensconced as I was in that warm, little truck's cab, my tires
crunching through the fresh topcoat of downy crystals in the otherwise
deserted parking lot, I felt a palpable joy and wonder; a sense of
being the only man alive on a strange and beautiful planet.
And no, I was quite sober.
To this day I sometimes want to play that song again to see if it can
take me back to even a small degree ... but then I recall a little
more of the song and I get over it reeeal fast.
I've never heard "All Things Must Pass" beyond the one or two "big
hits" that were pounded without mercy into my tender skull.
Sorry TOG. - and Happy Whatever, everybody.
Les Cargill
Why apologize? Snow is a miracle... until you have to get rid of it.
We're expecting just under a foot here starting tomorrow.
Nice essay.
--
Les Cargill
The old geezer
> And no, I was quite sober......
I can recall a few incidences like you had. I can recall once an Autumn Day long ago when I used to jog (before my old bones gave out). It was a Saturday..got all my morning chores done...then decided to go for a 4 mile jog. It was a perfect warm/cool autumnal day....leaves on the trees all a-color....the scents of fall...dried, dead leaves...etc.etc. Then came home ....did a bowl..opened up a stout...put on the Beach Boys "Sunflower" album.....turned on the Notre Dame Football game (with the sound down). Heaven!!!
The OLD Geezer
NP: Apple Scruffs - George Harrison
ND: Guinness
sevr...@gmail.com
Ah-ahhh-ooommm!