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Be my pillow
Take my hand
And let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep
Darkness, Darkness
Hide my yearning
For the things I cannot be
Keep my mind from constant turning
Toward the things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see
Darkness, darkness,
Long and lonesome,
Ease the day that brings me pain.
I have felt the edge of sadness,
I have known the depth of fear.
Darkness, darkness, be my blanket,
Cover me with the endless night,
Take away, take away the pain of knowing,
Fill the emptiness of right now,
Emptiness of right now, now, now
Emptiness of ri-ight now.
Darkness, darkness, be my pillow,
Take my hand, and let me sleep.
In the coolness of your shadow,
In the silence, the silence of your deep.
Darkness, darkness, be my blanket,
Cover me with the endless night,
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of right now,
Emptiness of right now now now
Emptiness of right....
Oh yeah Oh yeah
Emptiness, emptiness
Oh yeah
I still have a jar of ash from the eruption - lived in southern British Columbia at the time.
Me too! Friends traveling the area at the time of the eruption brought it back to Port Moody for me.
Hell yes, let's jam some Hippie Music! Dig that compression and reverb on the vocals; a spooky effect Nilsson used to the max on his wild "Jump Into the Fire." I remember hearing this song coming in on the breeze through the window when Susie, the super-cool teenage "hippie" gal next door was playing it late at night. I also remember smelling something burning whenever she was in the bathroom while she baby-sat my brother and I! And so...again we see...MUSIC causing BIG TROUBLE!
Cool story. Thank You for sharing it. ...You always have great stories!
Sounds fresh, like it could have been released within the last few years.
I Agree! Thanx RP!
it's that kazoo effect on the guitar mainly . . .
What is this doing in the Mellow mix?!
Chillin' jus chillin'
Sounds fresh, like it could have been released within the last few years.
Great song, still sounds good but I think the guitars have a distinct late 60's San Francisco sound.
What is this doing in the Mellow mix?!
Being mellow.
May 18, 1980, (42 years ago today), at 8:32 AM Mt St Helens finally had the BIG eruption. There had been many smaller plumes of smoke and ash in the weeks leading up to this. My family lived in Kelso, Washington which was about 30 miles away. We would sometimes go up to the bigger hilltops to watch these "eruptions". On this day my father saw the eruption on the way to church and since there was time, took a detour up the hill to watch for a bit. We noticed the plume was larger that all the others, then went to church. Between Sunday School and the main service he checked in with the local Search & Rescue, of which he was a member, and was told this was the big one. He made arrangements for the rest of the family to get home and took off to do what Search and Rescue volunteers do. Those stories are for another time.for another time.
I still have a jar of ash from the eruption - lived in southern British Columbia at the time.
Thanks Bill.
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May 18, 1980, (42 years ago today), at 8:32 AM Mt St Helens finally had the BIG eruption. There had been many smaller plumes of smoke and ash in the weeks leading up to this. My family lived in Kelso, Washington which was about 30 miles away. We would sometimes go up to the bigger hilltops to watch these "eruptions". On this day my father saw the eruption on the way to church and since there was time, took a detour up the hill to watch for a bit. We noticed the plume was larger that all the others, then went to church. Between Sunday School and the main service he checked in with the local Search & Rescue, of which he was a member, and was told this was the big one. He made arrangements for the rest of the family to get home and took off to do what Search and Rescue volunteers do. Those stories are for another time.for another time.
LLRP!!
<off topic>Wow Charlie Daniels died in July...how'd I mess that. I'm not a fan of his later, right wing Christian values reinterpretation of older songs, I do have early albums of his, Honey In The Rock and Saddle Tramp. </off topic>
LLRP!!
https://www.cpr.org/2018/09/24...
I'd love to know more about the connection because they're visually identical.
https://www.cpr.org/2018/09/24...
Wow....great memories on several counts! I saw my first concert at the Gorge (in 1995) and if you haven't been there recently it's still pretty cool if not a bit too commercialized now (such is life, eh?) though that first ever concert had to be AWESOME.....thanks for the stories....Long Live RP!!
Yes, you are right, that (brief) guitar solo is signature sixties, I stand corrected. The rest of the song though I think sounds fresh.
I'm unfortunately not a fan of the Keys' reinterpretation of that fuzz-tone guitar sound by the way. I feel they a. overuse it and b. overdo it. Just sounds like an oversized kazoo to me.
Peace.
I agree about the BKs unfortunate kazoo sound. The acoustic on this sounds good and "fresh" as you said.
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I still have my original vinyl from when it was first released, and though I have played it many times, I've managed to take good enough care of it that it still sounds great. It's in my top 5 or 10, all time. The flow of the sides is so sweet, which is a big part of why I love it so much. Even though the tracks hold up just fine on their own, the album as a whole is something else. I saw Jesse perform solo in a tiny venue (maybe 25 people) in Eugene, Oregon, in '71 or so, and he introduced Ride the Wind as his "ethereal grease song", about riding his motorcycle around where he lived (with the cover's view of Elephant Mountain, a bit east of Point Reyes Station, in Marin County, just north of San Francisco). I moved to San Francisco in '73, (moved up to Portland in 2005) and I knew the roads around there pretty well, and have seen the mountain many times, though I had no such knowledge when I saw him at the above-mentioned venue. When I did become familiar with that area, I very often contemplated (or played on CD) this album. There are numerous cues to the area, and they are spot on.
Robert Plant did a great cover of this also
I'm fond of the version by the band Solas which appeared in 2002 - one of the first songs I heard on this new-fangled Radio Paradise.
Yes, you are right, that (brief) guitar solo is signature sixties, I stand corrected. The rest of the song though I think sounds fresh.
I'm unfortunately not a fan of the Keys' reinterpretation of that fuzz-tone guitar sound by the way. I feel they a. overuse it and b. overdo it. Just sounds like an oversized kazoo to me.
Peace.
I know what you mean about the song; it's a traditional folk progression - which makes it kind of eternal, and there are still plenty of artists playing similar things today. I agree about the "kazoo-like" quality of some of The Black Keys stuff too - that's a good description of it.
Looks to me like a pile of guts.
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Yes, you are right, that (brief) guitar solo is signature sixties, I stand corrected. The rest of the song though I think sounds fresh.
I'm unfortunately not a fan of the Keys' reinterpretation of that fuzz-tone guitar sound by the way. I feel they a. overuse it and b. overdo it. Just sounds like an oversized kazoo to me.
Peace.
To me, that fuzz tone screams 1960's. Love it:)
Robert Plant did a great cover of this also
Agreed. Plant's version is haunting.
Well, maybe if The Black Keys had released it. Otherwise, it sounds over forty years old to me, still sounds good though.
What an amazing set:
The Barr Brothers, Jeff Talmadge, Chris Smither and wonderful Jesse Colin Young and the Youngbloods with his classic Darkness, Darkness. Having a great Friday here, thank you!
Agreed ! i would never have guess it is from the late 60's. Wow !
this one still sounds good
Outstanding.
Saw a lot of good concerts there including Pink Floyd.
Robert Plant did a great cover of this also
Now, what had been just a pleasant cerebral concept pulls you in and down into the vortex, and becomes The occupying force of both body and soul... All you can do is just go with the flow. Pure rock. Pure genius!
How could it not be a solid ten?
Agreed on that. Those three guys really hit it out of the park with Elephant Mountain. Every song is solid.
Agreed on that. Those three guys really hit it out of the park with Elephant Mountain. Every song is solid.
Weller - great, then Strawbs - very groovy, now Youngbloods - excellent! Thank you!
Same great trio today! Love Weller, and both the Strawbs and Youngbloods were a new discovery for me.
Thanks Bill!
gee-tahr stuff)..
i would like to see any of today's bands music still being played 42 years later and still sound excellent.
If some people were posting negative comments about this tune, one could assume that those folks don't believe this song sounds "excellent", regardless of when it was recorded. You'd have to wait 42 years to find out about today's artists.
Barnet Heir = hair
Barnet Fair, surely.
I've spent thirty years thinking the Mott version was the original. The shame.
Weller - great, then Strawbs - very groovy, now Youngbloods - excellent! Thank you!
Barnet Heir = hair
That's the inestimable Lowell Levinger. See post bumped below.
Picked this off Richard and Mimi Farina's web site. I have no idea how old the information is.
Banana is most famous as the guitarist of The Youngbloods, an eclectic folk-rock band of the late sixties to early seventies. He also had his own band, Banana and the Bunch, both before and after the Youngbloods. He was in charge of the record company, Racoon, which produced the Youngbloods' later albums and albums by Michael Hurley, High Country, and Kenny Gill. The Banana and the Bunch album, Mid-Mountain-Ranch (Racoon #13, 1972), is an overlooked classic that is worth hunting for, and features Banana on guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, piano, and vocals. A close cousin to that album is Joe Bauer's all-instrumental Moonset (Racoon #3).
Today Banana plays with several different bands— The Michael Barclay Blues Band, The Barry Melton Band, and Joe New and the Walking Wonders. He also sells vintage musical instruments at vintageinstruments.com
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Barnet Heir = hair
I was looking for this to post. I had it on original vinyl. You beat me to it! Too bad its so hard to find, like the single "Ridgetop"
I hunted for a LONG time to find some early JCY - I have it on CD, but I just got a new computer, so I have to regain all my programs. Once I do, I'll try to upload "Ridgetop" and maybe one or two of JCY's other things... No promises here, but it would really be nice to hear some of Jesse's solo work...
We'll disagree on whether this one ages well. IMHO, it has aged marvelously. And that's not the original album art. This is:
I was looking for this to post. I had it on original vinyl. You beat me to it! Too bad its so hard to find, like the single "Ridgetop"
Agreed.
i would like to see any of today's bands music still being played 42 years later and still sound excellent.
You know, that's an interesting thought. I quickly put together a top 5 that might fit the bill( and granted this isn't what i think everybody would agree upon, just musing a bit) here goes: Paul Weller (especially Wake Up The Nation) et al. , Charlie Musselwhite, The Eels, Built to Spill, and The Tragically Hip.
i would like to see any of today's bands music still being played 42 years later and still sound excellent.
Strawbs - Witchwood
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
What a cool set! Only on Radio Paradise.
...AND ... You are too young to appreciate it also.
You are too young to appreciate them.
Nice segue from Calexico's "Two Silver Trees"...which features similar melodic structures, etc.
Haven't heard the Youngbloods in years. Nice to see them here.
Cheers,
Tim
Bringing this up. I'd upload some of JCY's work if I could make it fit...
and a new CD:
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/grandpabanana
Me, too, but I was 17 when it first came out in 1969!
We'll disagree on whether this one ages well. IMHO, it has aged marvelously. And that's not the original album art. This is: