Good beat.
Good Cityscape visual. Serious impromptu metro dancing.
Can't quite figure out if the music fuses rock with subtle reggae or more genres are fused into its mosaic. All part of the musical kaleidoscope, methinks.
'Can't quite figure out if the music fuses rock with subtle reggae or more genres are fused into its mosaic. All part of the musical kaleidoscope, methinks.'
i don't know. beyond my pay grade. i do know that it's fun, and u can dance to it.
a while back, i asked pops aboot the dead thing.
'i don't get it, i never hear them in contemporary surroundings, except mebbe if those clove smokin girls are around, and fish is something that i eat, not listen to. what was it aboot?'
(paraphrasing) 'well, you had to be there (
he always sez that).
'i wasn't, that's why i'm asking you, so break loose with the juice bruce.'
(his name ain't bruce).
'well, back in school daze at Central, you had plenty of white kids, who may be heading out to vietnam, or had family there, listening hard to ccr, doors, stones, and such, and other parts of that group were strictly pop like chicago, elton john, and some disco starting to kick in. country was always there too, even in the city. the jackson 5 were a force, especially for the girls in middle school. a lot of the black kids, who also may be headed off to war or had family there, were tuned into motown and such, yet both 'groups' had a large crossection enjoying it all. our parties were a blast. things like dead, joplin, and such were far off the common spectrum, and you didn't feel that stuff like csny or bob dylan until, if you were lucky enough, you headed off to college, where you now saw the nighttime life for all ur daytime pals from staples, barlow, and such. lotsa angst for that crowd, and it showed in a lot of their music. that 'scene' was a bit boring for me, seemed always the same, too much hard drugs, and becuz of how i grew up, with that smorgesbord of humanity around me. that group, and the tv, kept telling me that this is how it be, but i never bought that, and watched nixon win an absolute blowout, contrary to what that college vibe was (he didn't like nixon, either). they even shut down uni's, leaving many wondering 'what aboot us?' we like a good bowl, bud, babes, and a blowout, but could you stop telling everybody what to do? we got to pay for school, and lots of us want to go places after this.'
iirc, i was like ' sooo, that cranky crowd went on to get hitched, then divorced, with many helicoptering over their one kid, swigging prescripts by the handful, still trying to tell everyone how it be, and that's how we got here?'
'
something like that, boy, something like that...'
next up - was dave mathews only enjoyed by girls at private New England colleges? seemed like it to me. lol.
and now, from New Haven, Connecticut,
it's only rock and roll, and i like it.
