I have seen it. It's pretty funny and probably both of their best comedic releases. Gosh I sound smart.
Here's one by a band I posted before Greta Van Fleet, it's the Led Zep sounding band, and this sounds musically like something vintage off Zep's second or third album it has hints of both from that period.
I really like this band tuna! I listen to them quite often since you introduced them to this thread. Here's a band that I like a lot too. They're just doing a cover in this one.
Yeah Norbert and I used to do this Neil song together. Is that another one of your languages he sings towards the end of the song?
What the ... MY languages? Good grief man!! Who is Norbert? I used to cover this song with my band often too ... there are a lot of Young fans out here in the Canadian wilds ...
He was my best friend growing up spent a lot of time on road trips and such spending nights off jamming all night until the sun came up and then going for breakfast and coffee. This guy was an absolute riot, never a dull moment with him around. He passed away in 2007 and this Saturday will be 12 years since he's been gone. He was buried on the same day my wife passed away in 2015. There was one time him and were going to go out drinking and he says "I have to take the Christmas tree down first" and I said "Oh what the fuck come on lets gooooo!" So he unplugs the tree opens the balcony door and throws it over the 3rd floor balcony lights ornaments and all closes the door and says "okay lets go". When we went out we would sometimes use alternate names usually British ones like Trevor and Ian. I miss that SOB, but alcohol did him in. Here's one of the songs we recorded together that I made a video to and dedicated to him. The picture of him at the end of it was a typical expression because the guy could never not joke around.
I had a 'day' yesterday so I didn't get a chance to respond to your post tuna. What a friend to have. He sounds like more of a brother than a friend to be honest. And the video. That's some really good stuff right there ... did you do the editing and production of it? It's really powerful stuff tuna. I love the Recorded tunafat basement studio. The whole thing is really awesome. Really profound. I can totally get why you miss this guy. ♥
Yeah when I first got my job the first money I saved went into a deck and board. You don't realize all the things you need until you start the ball rolling. I really haven't done anything since he passed, but then last year I restrung my guitar and took it down south with me, I just never regained that spark to continue. I just can't do it. It's just not the same. The video I did some time last year using windows movie maker or whatever it's called. We had written many other songs like "Suicide Squeeze" in response to the bombing of the Marines barracks in Beirut, and then there was "On the Run" was the plight of the Native Americans and the trail of tears. Hell it turns out my wife Susan was even part Cherokee. So January is a rough month for me with him passing in 07 and her in 15, it's all good for now I've come a long way from where I was when she passed as I still have her dog, and that bitch still has her attitude and gets sassy with me from time to time, you know just like she would of. Anyway here's another song we did back in the day long before we even were even together that I dedicated to Susan that seemed to apply to this situation.
Holy. That's a hard video to watch. What a stunning woman Susan was. Absolutely gorgeous. What a loss for you tuna. Jesus. You've done this really good work with this video. The images are perfect for the lyrics. There's a real touch of Simon and Garfunkel harmony in your vocals here. It's so weird reading your post. I played in a band with my older brother from the time that I was about 14 until he/they passed in 2000. We literally started by playing in people's garages in Montreal. I played for a few years after my family died but it was tough. Mike's and my voices fit together like gloves. Some songs just take me down so fast. I can't listen to them. I stopped playing with the group a few years back although occasionally I'll get asked to join them on certain songs in a bar when they're gigging. But years ago I put my flute down, my piano has dust all over it and I won't even look at my guitar. Too many sad thoughts attached to those instruments. I still sing and listen to music everyday to celebrate what we had but ... there's that black hole.
Wow that sounds familiar, and we both know exactly where we each are. I'm sorry about your family as I didn't know, and I certainly didn't mean to open a wound, but I cherish each and every one of those memories as I'm sure you do, although they can rub your emotions raw at times they are after all like the DNA of our lives, and define whom we really are. I haven't picked up either of my saxophones either. This guy Ziggy has a bar in the neighborhood and his band plays every Saturday night and he's been trying to get me to bring my sax up there to play, and I just say we'll see. Hell I don't even think I can play anymore and I don't think my saxes could either without being re-padded. I will sing however in the karaoke places, I still enjoy singing. You know they tell you when you sing you need to sing from your lungs and diaphragm and I say bullshit, you sing from your heart and everything else will follow. I remember one night a while ago I sang this song Chasing Cars you know the Snow Patrol song, and I fucking nailed it. These two chicks came up to me like I was on a suicide watch or something lol. The one chick and I remain really really good friends to this day.
Thanks tuna. You didn't open any wound, no worries. It's just what life is now. You make the best of what you have and try not to forget yourself in the process. I think you should play your sax. That's rich coming from me but if you put your heart right into it I'll bet you'll feel glorious again. That's funny about you doing 'Chasing Cars' and meeting those two chicks. They obviously have good hearts if they made the effort to check in with you. There sure as hell isn't enough of that going on in the world these days. When my son was in hospital from an attempted suicide I used to hear this song on the radio both going to and leaving the hospital. It was weird. I liked Snow Patrol but didn't love them. It just made so much sense to me at the time. He passed after 2 months but that song gave me some solace. Run Snow Patrol I'll sing it one last time for you Then we really have to go You've been the only thing that's right In all I've done. And I can barely look at you But every single time I do I know we'll make it anywhere Away from here Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder, louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you can't raise your voice to say To think I might not see those eyes It makes it so hard not to cry And as we say our long goodbyes I nearly do. Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear Louder, louder And we'll run for our lives I can hardly speak I understand Why you… Slower, slower We don't have time for that All I want is to find an easier way To get out of our little heads Have heart my dear We're bound to be afraid Even if it's just for a few days Making up for all this mess. Light up, light up As if you have a choice Even if you cannot hear my voice I'll be right beside you dear
Wow! just WOW! a powerful message to you at the time no doubt, I felt it too. I can't even begin to relate to losing a child, and I hope I don't ever have to, but like the song indicates and I believe it that they are still right beside us. I can remember that last trip from the hospital and the last time I ever drove her anywhere for that matter, and although I remained strong during the entire process for her that realization hit me like a ton of bricks on that very drive home. It was a Friday afternoon rush hour and a major snow storm was passing through and it took us forever in traffic, hell then she said she was hungry and wanted to stop at the Burger King and we never eat at Burger King but we did that day. We parked in the parking lot and we watched all the cars slowly creep by as the snow continues to build up and then she tells me she was scared. This woman has remained the strongest through the entire process and never complained after treatments and now she tells me that, and I didn't have an answer other than I was scared too. Then Cigarette Daydream plays by cage the elephant.
Christ that's wrenching tuna. Thanks for sharing this with me/us. I kind of forgot we were doing this on one of our threads but honestly I don't really care. I don't talk about the deaths very often. It drags me down too far. My Dad and Mom picked up my 2 sisters and 2 brothers for a family meet (aka drinking party) at my place. They were all killed by a drunk driver on the way. That was 2000. Justin died in 2007. I have one daughter left and my husband. I guess what I'm trying to say is you just have to keep trying to come up for air. I had to hit replay. This is hard as fuck to listen to but totally amazing at the same time.
Nor do I, but it is after all music related and how music helps one cope and try to understand the shit life throws at them and how it helps them deal with it. I wanted to ask you about your family but I figured maybe it's better to just let it be. That had to be crushing as anything I can imagine. I'm far from perfect when it comes to drinking and driving, and Susan would not allow that under any circumstances, and for a long time after she passed I would just get shitfaced at home. I go out maybe once a week have a few beers, and if they start going down too easy I take a break and just drink water for a while and just alternate. I don't want to be that person. I'm so sorry I had no idea and have no idea of what you when through when it was so sudden like that. You see many musicians never tell you what the intent was behind the lyrics and let people perceive as they see fit, but I remember as we were chilling on the couch watching TV and she would just tremble and I would reach out and grab her hands and hold them, because I just wanted it to all go away even if just for a moment. When I heard this song which was being played on the radio at the time I nearly lost it.
Drinking and driving is something that I've done but not when I have been really drunk. I'll drive after a couple of beers but that's about it. Plus I can hardly drink more than 2 anyway (I'm such a failure of a Bears fan LOL). A lot of what happened stays in a place that I don't visit much. I can't. That last couple of sentences of yours are really tough to read. I'm so sorry that you had to go through all of that with your wife. Poor beautiful girl ...
I would of traded places with her in a heartbeat, hell I would trade places with her dog right now if it came to it, because that will be equally as crushing and I don't think I'm strong enough to survive that because I feel that BeeBee is part of her too. When I told her daughter who still lived with me at the time about how I felt about that, she says I don't think "Mah" (What she and all her friends called Susan) is coming back as a dog. We laughed, but I'm not so sure because I know that look, I've seen it all too often before. You know that look when she fries up a pound of bacon and then dumps it in the trash after I piss her off yeah that look.
Oh my God that made me laugh tuna! Laugh and not laugh... Hey did I ever tell you that I have a friend who plays his guitar while he's sitting on the roof of his house so that the whole town can hear him play?
