'God Damn'

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” - Thoreau

crooner beltin'

applause and accolades peltin'

ivories ticklin'

stoppin' folks dead in their tracks and cripplin'

catgut strummin'

pelts and skins drummin'

boots and shitkickers hummin'

ten gallons toppin'

just no stoppin'

lightnin' cracklin' from flyin' fingers

thank heaven for a melody that dilly-dallies and lingers

wham, bam, thank 'ya mam

what else can i say

they're workin' for mca

'scuse me for sayin' but guitarist ed king is 'the man'

especially in such a phenomenal, musical jam

forgive me lord but sometimes there just aren't any other words that describe something better than,

'god damn'

Author's Note

“What is there in music that it should so stir our deeps? We are all ordinarily in a state of desperation; such is our life; ofttimes it drives us to suicide. To how many, perhaps to most, life is barely tolerable, and if it were not for the fear of death or of dying, what a multitude would immediately commit suicide! But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves.” - Thoreau

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

I wonder what Mr. T would have thought of Joe Cocker.

[Pete]

he probably would have liked him for his music and not being afraid to go his own way against the grain.