Don't This Way - Best guitar work period. |
jakester
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Don't This Way - Best guitar work period. |
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Speaking of the song, "Don't This Way" from the Sticks & Stones album. All I have to say is, "WOW". I've been a fan since 1988.
First song I ever heard was, "Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba". Graduated from college and happily bought Sticks & Stones in 1990. The whole album is amazing. Don't This Way has a special place in me. Always equated it to loss of a girlfriend but upon closer examination recently, it appears to discuss death.
Still touching. Just lost my dad this year - I tried my best to have a relationship with him... but still alot was left unsaid. As Mike put it, "Don't leave this way, so many words unsaid".
Great guitar work, Mike. Love a lesson some time. Thanks for your honesty.
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steveruff
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That was my introduction to The 77's also, I love Sticks & Stones. I still think it's crazy that (from what I've been told) that album was a collection of demos, etc. that were put together. I've always thought that Don't This Way was one of the strongest tracks on there also. I am a sucker for the sad songs and if I remember correctly, the liner notes from Doc Love called that song one of the saddest songs ever written.
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dennis
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I was not new to the 77s when I bought Sticks & Stones, but I thought it was one the band's strongets efforts, and still feel that way.
I remember after having bought it, driving around in my car listening to those songs over and over again.
Such haunting beautiful and sad music.
...and a little funky as well!
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08-02-2009 12:51 |
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Ping Pong Over the Abyss
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RE: Don't This Way - Best guitar work period. |
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Originally posted by jakester
Speaking of the song, "Don't This Way" from the Sticks & Stones album. All I have to say is, "WOW". I've been a fan since 1988.
First song I ever heard was, "Ba, Ba, Ba, Ba". Graduated from college and happily bought Sticks & Stones in 1990. The whole album is amazing. Don't This Way has a special place in me. Always equated it to loss of a girlfriend but upon closer examination recently, it appears to discuss death.
Still touching. Just lost my dad this year - I tried my best to have a relationship with him... but still alot was left unsaid. As Mike put it, "Don't leave this way, so many words unsaid".
Great guitar work, Mike. Love a lesson some time. Thanks for your honesty. |
"Don't This Way" never grows old. Those guitars make my heart soar!!!!!!!
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08-03-2009 00:54 |
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Doctor Love
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08-03-2009 11:19 |
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dennis
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RE: Don't This Way - Best guitar work period. |
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Originally posted by Doctor Love
Mark Tootle wrote him a lovely song there. He loved his wife and his wife hated him -- this was one of many tunes he wrote to try and deal with that. |
That sounds like my first marriage.
My wife who loves me back and I saw you perform in Joe's Garage on Friday.
She was the lady who requested "A Quiet Little Place." It's one of her favorite songs if all time.
She still enjoyed the concert... as did I.
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08-03-2009 17:03 |
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jakester
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Another wow! Michael Roe reads and responds to these posts in person!
A rare privilege to hear from one of my favs. Thanks for making my day, Mike. I'm gonna show my wife and kids.
PS : admired your thoughts from the 1997 interview on the Phantom Tollbooth. Link. Especially the reference to being empty as a christian & others perceptions with that. I relate.
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08-03-2009 20:45 |
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dennis
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Kit
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Hey waddya know, another Austinite.
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jakester
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Just doing my part to keep the place weird as the bumper sticker suggests.
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Sam e. Ching
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I think the guitar work from "I cannot wait till Jesu comes" is pretty strong . . . that's a song that has comforted me a lot in some times of personal grief and loss . . .
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08-31-2009 18:37 |
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77 bc
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Here's Dr Love and Mark, playing "Don't This Way" in Springfield, Mo. (Video footage by Jonathan Dix and Seacock. Video production Seacock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jZwteYWFU
The guitar work on this song is some of my all time Dr Love playing, but then again, I am a sucker for that "surf guitar" sound. Whether Doc intended it to be a "surf guitar" sound or not, it's always kinda fit in that niche in my head.
Prime example of a perfect match of "words and music" (obscure reference to some dialog in the movie "Eddie and the Cruisers)
__________________ "tell me, what's worth more
what you'll lie for or
what you'll die for
i follow my heart
and it lies and it lies
and i don't understand it"
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juan ahmal
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09-01-2009 10:12 |
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Ping Pong Over the Abyss
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My condolences, Juan.
__________________ "Sunshine on my shoulder makes me sweaty...!" Dr. Love
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Ping Pong Over the Abyss
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Originally posted by 77 bc
Here's Dr Love and Mark, playing "Don't This Way" in Springfield, Mo. (Video footage by Jonathan Dix and Seacock. Video production Seacock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jZwteYWFU
The guitar work on this song is some of my all time Dr Love playing, but then again, I am a sucker for that "surf guitar" sound. Whether Doc intended it to be a "surf guitar" sound or not, it's always kinda fit in that niche in my head.
Prime example of a perfect match of "words and music" (obscure reference to some dialog in the movie "Eddie and the Cruisers) |
Thankee for the linkee. LOL--what's up with the Derri Daugherty bashing?
__________________ "Sunshine on my shoulder makes me sweaty...!" Dr. Love
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09-01-2009 13:26 |
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77 bc
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Originally posted by 77 bc
Here's Dr Love and Mark, playing "Don't This Way" in Springfield, Mo. (Video footage by Jonathan Dix and Seacock. Video production Seacock)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3jZwteYWFU
The guitar work on this song is some of my all time FAVORITE Dr Love playing, but then again, I am a sucker for that "surf guitar" sound. Whether Doc intended it to be a "surf guitar" sound or not, it's always kinda fit in that niche in my head.
Prime example of a perfect match of "words and music" (obscure reference to some dialog in the movie "Eddie and the Cruisers) |
Duh Huh...I missed a word the first time around when I posted this.
__________________ "tell me, what's worth more
what you'll lie for or
what you'll die for
i follow my heart
and it lies and it lies
and i don't understand it"
~ Roe/Harmon ~ "Woody"
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mypetsounds
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RE: sticks and stones broke my bones |
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Juan - I love the Chesterton quote but I have not read anything by him. Is there a particular book by him that you would recommend?
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09-04-2009 06:42 |
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MefLiszto
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RE: sticks and stones broke my bones |
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Originally posted by mypetsounds
Juan - I love the Chesterton quote but I have not read anything by him. Is there a particular book by him that you would recommend? |
You should absolutely read "Orthodoxy".
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09-04-2009 08:36 |
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MarkyMark77
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You should absolutely read "Orthodoxy". |
And it's sequel (or equal time?), "Heretics".
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juan ahmal
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