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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307 Location: Tennessee | Why, thank you all for the kind words. And the nice thoughts and wishes while we're going through this thing they call life. Thanks from all of us. By the way ... the secret to overcoming shyness is sunglasses. No question about it. Just like in Big Daddy. I'm an expert in this. Mark, there's one of mine up by the top of the page ... linked inside Iffy's post. One that's not on your disc. Thanks Johnny for the special thoughts; that was a fun song to do and the inside scoop about how it all came together is over in a blog here: Off The Wall . It turns out my girl liked it after all. The music survives. Late this afternoon I rotated out some old vinyl to where I play my turntable and nice speakers (there is so much more music inside the grooves of that licorice pizza than we've come to accept with digital music ... but that's a whole other story) and one I brought down was Honky Chateau by Elton John. That was a pretty momentous album ... it's when Dee and Davey and Nigel all went from just being the road band to being the studio band too. And Ray Cooper was there of course. Elton started rocking more and it's when he started to learn it was OK to be outrageous. He was a little shy at first about going there. I contend it was the sunglasses ... even if those were a little more out there for my tastes. I'm a ray-ban man. So I played side one ... five tight songs starting with Honky Cat and ending with Rocket Man. Which sounds really great because that's the way they made records back then. And it turns out my new son-in-law, who has stopped in with clk-g, is an Elton John freak. Who'd figure a boy who grew up in Tennessee and Alabama, who was a decade removed from being born when this album was released, would know this stuff? So it was. He was stoked. This was from the day when Elton was the man. The beginning at least. Fast forward an hour or so. kimby-d is going through a box of old pics . She's recently joined the facebook generation and so she's looking for a photo or two of her with old girlfriends she can share. I call it gawk and shawk. At least it is to your kids and their friends. Inside this box she's got on the kitchen table, she finds a treasure trove of bobbolore, including this ticket from a concert I remember very well:  Mr. clk-g is now over the moon. Yes, I really did see Elton John at Dodger Stadium. Live. In the heyday. It was an event to end all events. Cal Worthington was the official MC ... he and his dog Spot. He had three of them that day and each was a handful in front of those 50,000+ hollering maniacs. Emmy Lou Harris opened the show. I remember that well. I'd never seen her before nor knew who she was. I have never forgotten her since. Joe Walsh was up next and he rocked the house ... Barnstormed the place so to speak. But it was Elton that ran the table that night. What a show. It went on for close to FOUR HOURS ... and it was outfit after outfit, and song after song. Elton had a Dodger uniform he wore ... and it was made out of all sequins. Lady GaGa can only wish she had the style and sashay of Elton. But then I remember some soccer balls and beach balls making it up onto the stage set up in center field ... and Elton showing off some spectacular athletic skills dribbling the soccer balls before launching them back into the crowd with a strong right foot. I remember Billie-Jean King came up on stage for a while. Kiki Dee was there and sang some with Elton. The girls were all strutting their stuff. And then Bernie Taupin came out too. As the evening draws to a close here, I start to turn off the stereo system and I take Honky Chateau off the turntable ... hmmm ... maybe I'll listen to side 2. I turn it over, give it a quick sweep with the discwasher, drop the needle and listen. There's no hits on this side. You probably don't know any of the songs. Even to me, they are only vaguely familiar ... until I get to track 4. Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters. Supposedly written by Bernie Taupin in New York after he heard gunshots in the night. A great song. In the singer/songwriter style that had made Elton and Bernie so successful up to this point. And this version on the record is nice, very nice in fact, but I hear it differently. Because I heard this before on the first OFC Member's Night Out disc. It's the version of the song I remember. And it's good, very good in fact. So here I am ... in front of this bit collection and distribution device ready to turn you on to a classic song in a version that can be the standard for you too. This one is especially good in headphones. Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters - Slipkid and BrianT Well done fellas. And this was before you got good ... at least in your own mind. Clearly, you've always had it. Thanks for a great way to end a long week. Until the next time, stay cool and make the world a better place if you can. And wear your sunglasses. | ||
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