Monthly Archives: June 2015

Drive-by Truckers, Southern rock, The Best Songs

Great song: “The Three Great Alabama Icons” – Drive-by Truckers

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Patterson Hood is a great storyteller. I really like the way he deals with “the duality of the Southern Thing” and his many stories from & about Alabama.

The lyrics to this particular song is one of my Hood favourites. Anybody with even a remote interest in american history, and/or Alabama, should read (and listen to) this one.

 

I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970’s, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth
Speaking of course of the Three Great Alabama Icons George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant
Now Ronnie Van Zant wasn’t from Alabama, he was from Florida, He was a huge Neil Young fan
But in the tradition of Merle Haggard writin’ Okie from Muskogee to tell his dad’s point of view about the hippies in Vietnam, Ronnie felt that the other side of the story should be told.
And Neil Young always claimed that Sweet Home Alabama was one of his favorite songs.
And legend has it that he was an honorary pall bearer at Ronnie’s funeral – such is the Duality of the Southern Thing
~The Three Great Alabama Icons

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Bob Dylan, Cover versions

7 Great Like A Rolling Stone cover versions

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 Once upon a time you dressed so fine
Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People call say ‘beware doll, you’re bound to fall’
You thought they were all kidding you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hanging out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal

Here are 7 great cover versions of “Like A Rolling Stone”

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience – (winterland 1968)

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Bergenfest, Photo

Bergenfest 2015: Grace Jones Photo Special

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Grace Jones PS Bergenfest 2015-12

Bergenfest 2015: Grace Jones Photo Special

Grace Jones played at Bergenfest last Thursday, it was a fine concert and she impressed us with her visual sense and theatrical show. Not bad for a 67-year-old artist. She is sure in her craft and has a commanding presence.  It was not the best concert musically but it was the most exciting photographic event.

All pictures taken by me (Hallgeir) feel free to share, and if you use any of the pics, please post credits and a link back to alldylan.com.

Enjoy!

Grace Jones PS Bergenfest 2015-1

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Bergenfest

Alldylan reporting from Bergenfest 2015 – Day 3

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Levellers Bergenfest 2015-3

Alldylan reporting from Bergenfest 2015 – Day 3

The Levellers are an English rock band, founded in 1988 and based in Brighton, England. They infuse their punk-like music with folksy elements.

Levellers was the most fun on the third day at Bergenfest. We were recommended this concert by some friends that are devoted Levellers fans, and have seen them several times. They told us that this would be a party. We hit the booze and enjoyed a roller-coaster ride of a rock’n roll show. People sang, drank, laughed and danced (well, Mark Chadwick told us to  jump up and down). It was great fun! We got the impression that this was a good but not top show from The Levellers (from our experienced friends). But I will most certainly go and see them again if I get the chance.

Levellers Bergenfest 2015-4

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Beatles, Flaming Lips, video of the day

Video of the day: I am the walrus – The Beatles

 

Video of the day: I am the walrus – The Beatles

One of Lennons best songs and an early “music video”.

From Wikipedia:
The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines “Mis-ter cit-y police-man” to the rhythm of the siren. The second idea was a short rhyme about Lennon sitting in his garden, while the third was a nonsense lyric about sitting on a corn flake. Unable to finish the ideas as three different songs, he combined them into one.
Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, which he had attended. The writer mentioned that the English master was making his class analyse Beatles’ lyrics. (Lennon wrote an answer, dated 1 September 1967, which was auctioned by Christie’s of London in 1992). Lennon, amused that a teacher was putting so much effort into understanding the Beatles’ lyrics, wrote the most confusing lyrics he could.

Funny guy, that Lennon bloke!

Bonus video, Flaming Lips version:

– Hallgeir