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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Jul 23, 2014 - 10:56pm PT
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James Cotton/Blues In My Sleep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBeuco0PgJs

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee/Key To the Highway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xnOhXIpHg

Junior Wells and Buddy Guy/Help Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z_IUe-IB4A

Big Mama Thornton/Ball and Chain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0eooafCqFU

Koko Taylor/I'd Rather Go Blind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgtNy2AVdas
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 4, 2014 - 02:11pm PT
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That was a quote from a guy I know, F.U.C. King, no relation to Eddie, Albert, or BB.

HA! Just me f-ing around! Like that fake blues, sometimes. The kind that don't mean nothin'.

Nawmean?
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 4, 2014 - 02:31pm PT
Sam Lay/How Long?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v010R8Jdt5s

Bonnie Lee/Got the Blues About My Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aie1gkFF4DY

Tampa Red/Let Me Play With Your Poodle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKi_yWxLy4

Tampa Red and Georgia Tom/You Can't Get That Stuff No More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-YCwjqXb0

Dirtbag Red/My Babe Dyed In a Wine Vat & Did Macrame & She Was So Crewel To Me, I Kid U Knot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccX4rYCxwuU
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 4, 2014 - 03:23pm PT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippoglossus
[Click to View YouTube Video][Click to View YouTube Video]The blues is losing a bunch of nice guys to climbing accidents all in a few days, or ever, even, really.
http://www.elcapreport.com/content/elcap-report-52014-remembering-two-our-finest-friends
I never met Sean. But this weekend I thought it would have been fun to have run into Richie so HE could have schooled my n00b friend, Young Dan, who said, "Move on. The sun will come up in the morning."

Peace. Out.

Yep, there's a peace-out at my place today. Tommy's had a rough week, and he just now had that old bike he bought for a dollar (!) from the guy who needed bus fare (!) and sh!t (!) stolen and the cable cut (!) while he was on a run to the Cigar Monkey for to get me some tobacco and then go to another place to get weed (!) except the guy went there first and then to the tobacco shop and so in a slightly different time frame he might not have had the bike stolen and sh!t.


Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Aug 4, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
Mississippi Fred McDowell knew what the blues was...

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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 4, 2014 - 04:11pm PT
Mean Talking Blues
Words and Music Adapted by Woody Guthrie

I'm the meanest man that ever had a brain,
All I scatter is aches and pains.
I'm carbolic acid, and a poison face,
And I stand flat-footed in favor of crime and disgrace.
If I ever done a good deed -- I'm sorry of it.

I'm mean in the East, mean in the West,
Mean to the people that I like the best.
I go around a-causin' lot of accidents,
And I push folks down, and I cause train wrecks.
I'm a big disaster -- just goin' somewhere's to happen.
I'm an organized famine -- studyin' now I can be a little bit meaner.
I'm still a whole lot too good to suit myself -- just mean...

I ride around on the subway trains,
Laughin' at the tight shoes dealin' you pain.
And I laugh when the car shakes from side to side,
I laugh my loudest when other people cry.
Can't help it -- I was born good, I guess,
Just like you or anybody else

But then I... just turned off mean..

I hate ev'rybody don't think like me,
And I'd rather see you dead than I'd ever see you free.
Rather see you starved to death
Than see you at work --
And I'm readin' all the books I can
To learn how to hurt --
Daily Misery -- spread diseases,
Keep you without no vote,
Keep you without no union.

Well, I hurt when I see you gettin' 'long so well,
I'd ten times rather see you in the fires of hell.
I can't stand to fixed... see you there all fixed up in that house so nice,
I'd rather keep you in that rotten hole, with the bugs and the lice,
And the roaches, and the termites,
And the sand fleas, and the tater bugs,
And the grub worms, and the stingarees,
And the tarantulas, and the spiders, childs of the earth,
The ticks and the blow-flies --
These is all of my little angels
That go 'round helpin' me do the best parts of my meanness.
And mosquiters...

Well, I used to be a pretty fair organized feller,
Till I turned a scab and then I turned off yeller,
Fought ev'ry union with teeth and toenail,
And I sprouted a six-inch stinger right in the middle of the tail,
And I growed horns...
And then I cut 'em off, I wanted to fool you.
I hated union ever'where,
'Cause God likes unions
And I hate God!

Well, if I can get the fat to hatin' the lean
That'd tickle me more than anything I've seen,
Then get the colors to fightin' one another,
And friend against friend, and brother... and sister against brother,
That'll be just it.
Everybody's brains a-boilin' in turpentine,
And their teeth fallin' out all up and down the streets,
That'll just suit me fine.
'Cause I hate ever'thing that's union,
And I hate ever'thing that's organized,
And I hate ever'thing that's planned,
And I love to hate and I hate to love!
I'm mean, I'm just mean...

© Copyright 1965 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc
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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 6, 2014 - 09:07pm PT
Thanks to all who keep this wonderful thread alive.
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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 7, 2014 - 09:50am PT
Roscoe Holcomb says George Carlin can go f*#k himself.
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 10, 2014 - 01:00pm PT
Yer entirely welcome, afficionado.

Bring on GARY!! Take a bow, dude.

Black, white, blue suede, it's just a color scheme, buncha interior decorators.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I got the "Sllly Dilly-Tante Blues."
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Missin' you three. And Bobbye.

Today is August 10 and it would be my parents' sixty-eighth wedding anniversary.
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Aug 10, 2014 - 01:39pm PT

Bad, badder, baddest blues...
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 10, 2014 - 02:08pm PT
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mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 10, 2014 - 02:27pm PT
"ooooo-ooh!"

marloooooh! ur such a badazz! so scandalnavian!
[Click to View YouTube Video]only u have that magic norwegian wood.

sway me,
take me,
send me,
please me.

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i may be talking to the wrong dude, here. wtf/lol.

i musta had a blues hangover.
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in norwegian.

English Trance.

Lord, I wonder what done happened
Ain't nobody here but me
All these empty bottles on the table here
I know I didn't drink all this by myself
I must have a blues hangover
What's this?
My check!?!
And I don't have change for a grasshopper and that's two crookies

Uh oh, here come Pro
Sent in for this doggie
But he ain't got no money
Look like he done lost everything he ever just had
Ain't that's a come-off
Dear me
I done gave my baby twenty dollars for a Christmas present
All I got was a slice of jelly cake
And Sam and Nedetta
Now that's a wolf-jenny

Now I'll believe I'll go on back on the stem now
With James, Rudolph and Tom Cat
Get my head bad again
Don't seem like nothin' goin' right for me today
All Right, here I go
Same old thing again
Look out now!

that means u gotta sit down
think about makin' another mistake again
my friend
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 10, 2014 - 03:23pm PT
Suggested by Tommy T.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I promise, to the very end.

Can't let go![Click to View YouTube Video]No matter...
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 12, 2014 - 07:14pm PT
Slim Harpo. Now that is the Blues. "All I got was a slice of jellycake."
Flip Flop

Trad climber
Truckee, CA
Aug 12, 2014 - 07:20pm PT
The Blues is....
No rack, no rope, no chance of hope. -BK
k-man

Gym climber
SCruz
Aug 12, 2014 - 08:39pm PT
1-4-5, with a quick turn around on the 2 chord.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2014 - 07:46am PT
"Show me a woman ain't got a backdoor man."
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cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Aug 13, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2014 - 12:43pm PT
All of these depression threads gots me feeling the Blues.
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dave729

Trad climber
Western America
Aug 13, 2014 - 01:05pm PT

Rule #1: Don't ask questions you don't know the answer to.


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