What are "Silkies"?

[Jimmie Jay]

In the Eat the Document outtake with John Lennon and Dylan riding in the cab,
they talk about a drug called silkies. Dylan says "I took a few miligrams of
silkies once and it did not treat me so kind!" Anyone have a clue what it is?

Honk if you demand satisfaction.

[MittensOnFire]

http://www.silkies.com/Offer/W029/home.html

>Subject: What are "Silkies"?
>From: ploo...@aol.comSpamME (Jimmie Jay)
>Date: 9/2/2002 5:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <20020902171144...@mb-mu.aol.com>

[Jimmie Jay]

>http://www.silkies.com/Offer/W029/home.html

Man that is so hot.

[Jörgen Lindström]

A British band called The Silkie did a cover of Lennon's "You've got to hide
your love away" and I think that's what they're joking about. They also did
loads of Dylan covers.

Jörgen

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[Jörgen Lindström]

Here's more.
http://shopping.yahoo.com/shop?d=product&id=1921041148&subpage=main&clink=dm
mu.artist

Jörgen

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[Tricia J]

Lennon and Dylan are just riffing. "The Silkie" were a British
folk-rock group (managed by Epstein?) of the mid-60s. They may have
covered a Dylan tune or two I think. Do a google !!

On 02 Sep 2002 21:11:44 GMT, ploo...@aol.comSpamME (Jimmie Jay)
wrote:

[Chris Lee]

>A British band called The Silkie did a cover of Lennon's "You've got to hide
>your love away" and I think that's what they're joking about. They also did
>loads of Dylan covers.

Their version of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" was produced by Lennon and
McCartney.

Christopher L.
http://ezclee4050.tripod.com

No thanks in advance

[dave p]

Before their "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" album, The Silkie
released an all-Dylan album in the UK, "The Silkie Sing The Songs of
Bob Dylan." 8 of the 12 Dylan covers were included on YGTHYLA.
Scan and tracklist on my website at:
http://dylancoveralbums.com/vocals3.htm#silkievoc

[Nate Smith]

silkies are mythical creatures who live in the ocean, but can be
encountered along the shorelines of great britain. joan baez
sang a nice pretty song about a silkie on her vanguard vol.2.
here's an excerpt from the notes for the song Silkie (Child 113):

A mysterious and ancient ballad which sings of a Great Silkie
of Sule Skerry, a superhuman "denizen of a region below the
depths of the ocean," who begets a child of an earthly woman,
returns to claim his Silkie son, and foretells of his and his son's
death by human hands.

indeed, a couple of micrograms would be a bad trip.

- nate

[KasualKenny]

>Subject: Re: What are "Silkies"?
>From: Nate Smith grey...@NET1Plus.com
>Date: 9/3/2002 12:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: <3D74E467...@NET1Plus.com>

>
> silkies are mythical creatures who live in the ocean, but can be
> encountered along the shorelines of great britain. joan baez
> sang a nice pretty song about a silkie on her vanguard vol.2.
> here's an excerpt from the notes for the song Silkie (Child 113):
>
> A mysterious and ancient ballad which sings of a Great Silkie
> of Sule Skerry, a superhuman "denizen of a region below the
> depths of the ocean," who begets a child of an earthly woman,
> returns to claim his Silkie son, and foretells of his and his son's
> death by human hands.

Also the basis for John Sayles' 1994 film "The Secret of Roan Inish," in turn
based on Rosalie Fry's 1957 novella "The Secret of Ron Mor Skerry."

[sha...@lclark.edu]

Those are selkies.