I have to say this, and I hope my will is realized by you all.
Hoyt Axton, great song writer, penned this a long time ago./
I'm a good old rebel.
Ask me if you want........the rest of the story.

There are still some Who still feel that way//.

When one travels south of the dixie mason line, you can still get stares and scorn for being a northerner. Sad, but it is still true. This nation has never healed that wound. And with the current election strife coming, it is only going to get worse.

Meow.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Well................forgive me Hoyt Axton, for paraphrasing your song here.
But I think you shall appreciate the sentiments.


I'm a good ol' rebel, and that's just what you got.
A man of decent character, and really not a sot.

He's lived on dreams and promises so long
that all has left to give is this simple forlorn song.

Oh, I'm a good ol' rebel, you've known me well by now.
And if my choices do not suit you, might well be time to tell.

Oh, I'm a good ol' rebel, sons please hunker down and listen well.
If I didn't like you, would probably send you to hell.

For I am well and able and though I mean no harm
I can take things into my hands with my one good arm.

I wish that you could hear me in person and in voice,
for then you'd realize at times I have no certain choice.

Oh, I'm a good ol' rebel and it seem my choice is clear.
I have to stay away from certain friends and fear.

You sit and stare and piss on me from far
but it all glances off of me because I know just who you are.

Oh, i'm a good ol' rebel..and like the term requires,
I do my best to piss you off and leave you in the mires.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I ran across this today, many don't realize how talented the 'Wichita Lineman' is. He could have earned a million annually on his studio work alone.

Here's a younger version doing justice to a Rossini classic......

https://www.youtube.com/embed/GUBhE00h9U0?feature=player_detailpage

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Ever wanted to do a hit song?
Try this.
E B C#m A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
Don't Stop Believin'

Thanks, Janne, I think I'm a new fan.......

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Thanks, Janne, I think I'm a new fan.......

I think everybody have some favorite song with the chord sequence E B C#m A.
The Australian group only play about 40 songs with it.
They know about 160 more!

Funny that Eagle-Eye Cherry uses the same, E B C#m A :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxnm1-gVS4

How Journey make hit songs.
"Do not stop believin' with Journey began as a fatherly advice and ended with the song that became a worldwide hit nearly 30 years after it was released. In "Hitlåtens" story we tell about what happened when a forgotten '80s band ended up in TV series such as The Sopranos and Glee and suddenly had the most downloaded song from the entire 1900s. Furthermore, we learn how Journeys comeback began with a letter from a serial killer.
http://www.svtplay.se/video/9894274/hitlatens-historia-don-t-stop-believin/hitlatens-historia-don-t-stop-believin-don-t-stop-believin

‘Utility Muffin Research Kitchen'
https://youtu.be/LFypgAHMDug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfxnElF5RA

Great new music, at least to me. A thought I've had many times...'I wish I knew you when I was young......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUaVAueKG4

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix's favorite artist.
All Along The Watchtower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."

Thanks Jann,

always was one of my favorite cuts of a Dylan classic.

The Nobel for Literature, long long overdue. In my not so humble opinion he is the greatest American poet of the 20th Century(too early to include the 21st).

One of my all time favorite Dylan by Dylan(so hard to choose) is here....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwSZvHqf9qM

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The Nobel for Literature, long long overdue

Well, it took 40 years before Peter Higgs got his prize finding the god damn particle.
The Times They Are A Changin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7qQ6_RV4VQ

I hear you Mark. You can not play Frank Zappa's "Dinah Moe Humm" at volume at work. Or some of his other gems. Not PC at work.
There are a few other artists that if you stop and listen will not be PC. (i.e. Aerosmith and Ted Nugent)

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There are many things that give me a chuckle that would be verboten at work.\
Like the rodeo song or the I95 song. Just search on youtube.

Not on my iPod for my weekend overtime playlist...LOL.

I do intend to add my favorite Dylan song, 'Bob Dylan's Dream', in honor of his recent award, to which I do not believe he has yet responded.
But, that would be very Dylanesque, would it not?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I do intend to add my favorite Dylan song, 'Bob Dylan's Dream', in honor of his recent award, to which I do not believe he has yet responded.
But, that would be very Dylanesque, would it not?

Still no response:)

Well, even if for some reason Mr. Dylan would decline the award, the important thing is that he and his body of work has been deemed worthy of receiving it. And that fact would stand regardless.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Seems like Bob doesn't like prize ceremonies.
From last time he was here in 2000 getting the Polar Music Prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-OyjYCBMw

Blood on the Tracks was the album I absolutely FLIPPED over......some of Dylan's greatest work. And my favorite was.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGkm8y-dPlM

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My favorite Dylan song is "Like A Rolling Stone".
Then seeing Rolling Stones playing that song in a outdoor concert in Tallin, Estonia.
Mick Jagger ended the song "Thank you Bob".
Awesome.

Another of my favorite old Dylan songs is his original version of Corrina Corrina.
Covered by others, but I always liked his rendition.
And that would be off of his second album, 'The Freewheelin Bob Dylan', which I consider MY favorite Dylan album. So much good material on that one.

Here is the Wiki on Freewheelin...
Also interesting to note in this article that Bob's first album only sold 5,000 copies in the first year after it's release. I never realized that.

I happen to own one of those first 5,000 pressings.

Meow.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster