All I Really Want

I like all kinds of music. OK, some more than others, but pretty-much all music at least. As I discussed in an earlier post, I awake to music every day. I've still had Joni Mitchell running around my brain for the past 10 days or so, but the last couple of mornings it was Crosby, Stills & Nash. If you haven't heard their music for a while, well, you should. Dark Star was on an album that they put out in the early 80's, along with another song, Shadow Captain. They have stuck with me for a long time. I received a Best Buy gift certificate for Christmas so instead of buying something sensible, I "invested" in a Crosby, Stills & Nash CD, titled Carry On. It had a ton of their early work on it, including my favorite song while I was in high school, Suite, Judy Blue Eyes. (Yes, it WAS a long time ago!) I've always loved their harmonies. Thanks to Sher for getting me started on groups singing harmonies back in the Dark Ages. I remember Frankie Valle and the Four Seasons and their goofy harmonies. But CS&N was better. It was Rock with harmonies, not some lame, east coast crap sung by guys in suits and thin ties. These guys were at Woodstock!



Neil Young was the fourth member and he sang on many of their songs, too (Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young). However, Neil always had his own band, too. Crazy Horse was putting out music in the late sixties at the same time that CS&N was making music. Young and Crazy Horse was more in-your-face guitars and jam-band music and CS&N continued their style of harmonies, peace and love music. In fact, the song "Woodstock" was a hit by CS&N, but it was actually written by Joni Mitchell. Funny how that works, huh. Anyway, my morning music for the past several days has been Shadow Captain and Dark Star. It's kinda Caribbean Island, Jimmy Buffet style "boat music". If you heard it you would like it, I think. And if you don't, hey!, it's my blog!



So, another song that has been going around my head is a Bob Dylan song, Meet Me In The Morning from his Blood on the Tracks CD. Gotta be one of his best albums ever. Ask Scott Myers, another Dylan admirer. Scott actually invited me to a Dylan concert a couple of years back, then he chickened out. What a wussy-boy! OK, he did invite me again to go to KC and see Dylan and I couldn't make that one, so I guess we are even. I love Dylan. He is one of my heroes. I don't have many heroes. I take my heroes very seriously. More on that later.



Anyway, the first few lines: Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha, Honey we could be in Kansas, by the time the snow begins to thaw.



You know it's gotta be good. Hey! It's Dylan!



I like lots of music. Jerry Jeff Walker did a great song that reflects a vision of life that many of us think about but few of us can put into words. Have you ever thought that maybe you weren't making the kind of progress in your little walk of life that you wished you would? Or have you, like me, thought maybe your efforts were maybe in vain? Jerry Jeff penned a song that addresses that line of stinkin' thinkin', called "Pissin' In the Wind". Jerry Jeff is a country boy who sings country music like it should be sung: Behind a chicken wire attached to the front of the stage! (Example: Pissin' in the wind. Bettin' on a losin' hand. Makin' the same mistakes we swear we'll never make again. ... We're gonna sit and grin and tell our grand children.) I have a friend who told me that this was one of her favorite songs. I never would have guessed it, but was pleasantly surprised that there at least was someone out there with a sense of humor, warped as it is, that's running on the same tracks as mine. I'll get that one down for you sooner or later.



Right now I wanted to share another one with you. Alanis Morissette sang a song on her album, Jagged Little Pill. It was full of interesting questions and comments. I like the music. I like the words, too. Maybe it will make you think about what you really want.



All I Really Want

Alanis Morissette



Do I stress you out

My sweater is on backwards and inside out

And you say how appropriate

I don't want to dissect everything today

I don't mean to pick you apart you see

But I cant help it

There I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off

Slap me with a splintered ruler

And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn't there already

If only I could hunt the hunter



And all I really want is some patience

A way to calm the angry voice

And all I really want is deliverance



Do I wear you out

You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary

I'm like Estella

I like to reel it in and spit it out

I'm frustrated by your apathy

And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land

If only I could meet the maker

And I'm fascinated by the spiritual man

I am humbled by his humble nature



What I wouldn't give to find a soulmate

Someone else to catch this drift

And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred



Enough about me, lets talk about you for a minute

Enough about you, lets talk about life for a while

The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses

Falling all around... all around



Why are you so petrified of silence

Here can you handle this?

Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines

Or when you think you're gonna die

Or did you long for the next distraction

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse

A soul to dig the hole much deeper

And I have no concept of time other than it is flying

If only I could kill the killer



All I really want is some peace man

A place to find a common ground

And all I really want is a wavelength



All I really want is some comfort

A way to get my hands untied

And all I really want is some justice






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OK, as I mentioned on an earlier on the blogspot, don't forget that you can go to http://www.seeqpod.com/ and you should be able to find any one of these songs for a quick listen. NO, it's not that hard to do!

Thanks for listening!

Peace. Out.