Yes, but only if you tell us how you pronounce it first.
I used to pronounce it like everyone else, Dire Maker, until a pretty British girl who played it on the recorder said "Everybody thinks Stairway is the @#$%. but D'yer Mak'er is much cooler" . And I was like Oh @$#^ that's how you pronounce it. Like a pretty British girl saying Jamaica. It all kind of fell in place.
Ok can I do another one? Nothing to do with lyrics but pretty funny. Joe you racist hillbilly...
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DMC recalls his first impressions of the Aero-duo. “Steven was very friendly and Joe Perry didn’t say one word. He’d nod at you, go over and play the guitar, finish his riff. ‘Are you ready to play?’. He’d shake his head yes. But Steve was just very friendly and inquisitive, like, ‘Wow, do the DJ thing Jay – show me how to DJ’. He was like a little kid – excited and enthused.”In the Walk This Way… autobiography, Tyler reflected on the sessions. “Run and D and Jay were huddled in a corner, really intent on something. I go, ‘Joe, what are they doing?’. ‘Probably smoking crack’, he says. Later we went over to the corner. They’d been eating lunch from McDonald’s."
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One day I was skulking around YouTube and found the “Behind the Vinyl” series. They video the artist, he or she plays their iconic song on vinyl, and they talk about the song.
Some really interesting facts, and some others where they don’t really have a lot to say.
Some interesting stuff:
Blue Rodeo wrote “Try” to try to have their own song like Spandau Ballet’s “True”.
Northern Pikes knew that they had a great song with “She Ain’t Pretty” because the first time that they played it live (in Calgary no less), the audience sang the chorus back to the band.
Gowan recording his first album at Ringo Starr’s studio and Ringo telling him that he really liked “Cosmetics“. And Gowan talking about the “Moonlight Desires” video with Jon Anderson of Yes, and being on the top of Mexican pyramids as the sun came up.
You can lose yourself in those videos so just a warning to have a spare hour when you start.
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One day I was skulking around YouTube and found the “Behind the Vinyl” series. They video the artist, he or she plays their iconic song on vinyl, and they talk about the song.
Some really interesting facts, and some others where they don’t really have a lot to say.
Some interesting stuff:
Blue Rodeo wrote “Try” to try to have their own song like Spandau Ballet’s “True”.
Northern Pikes knew that they had a great song with “She Ain’t Pretty” because the first time that they played it live (in Calgary no less), the audience sang the chorus back to the band.
Gowan recording his first album at Ringo Starr’s studio and Ringo telling him that he really liked “Cosmetics“. And Gowan talking about the “Moonlight Desires” video with Jon Anderson of Yes, and being on the top of Mexican pyramids as the sun came up.
You can lose yourself in those videos so just a warning to have a spare hour when you start.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm loving these videos.
Some great stuff from Moe Berg (Pursuit of Happiness) and the Lowest of the Low as well:
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Fagen claims it was inspired by a relative of someone he knew, who had married a Korean woman named Aja. He has described the song as being about the "tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman."
^ In the same vein, Matt Johnson of The The wrote this piece after the death of his brother. It's strange, because Johnson is highly critical of religion, yet he found solace in biblical verse that led to the title and theme of this song. This was Matt's way of processing his grief, not dissimilar to Eric Clapton's famous song.
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LoveLoveLove
LoveLoveLove
Me & my friend were walking
In the cold light of mourning.
Tears may blind the eyes but the soul is not deceived
In this world even winter ain't what it seems.
Here come the blue skies Here comes springtime.
When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.
When everything that dies.
Shall rise.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered & all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.
But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak
"How could you believe that the life within the seed
that grew arms that reached
And a heart that beat.
And lips that smiled
And eyes that cried.
Could ever die?"
Here come the blue skies Here comes springtime.
When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.
When everything that dies.
Shall rise.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
Shall rise. Shall rise.
Shall rise. Shall rise.
I've always said this is the song I want playing at my funeral.
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There are lots of stories behind Grant Hart's songs but I'll post this one. Diane is about the murder of a woman named Diane Edwards in St. Paul, MN by a serial killer. More details about her murder is included in the spoiler. The Perkins restaurant where Diane worked is still there.
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On September 26, 1980, 19-year-old Diane Edwards was abducted while walking home from her waitressing job at a Perkins Restaurant in West St. Paul. Four teen-age girls witnessed her abduction. They saw a station wagon drive west on Moreland Avenue, pull onto the sidewalk and stop by a woman walking there alone. The girls heard the woman scream and observed the driver of the station wagon force the woman into his car through the driver's door. They immediately reported the event to the police. Although they were unable to identify the driver or to precisely describe the make, model or year of the vehicle involved, they did inform the police that the abducted woman wore a Perkins uniform and was driven away in a dark-colored station wagon with wood-grain panels.
Kathy Dahn, who was sitting in her car in a laundromat parking lot on Moreland Avenue, also witnessed the abduction. She noticed a man driving an older, brown, somewhat rusty station wagon jump out of the wagon, pick a woman up over his head and throw her into the car through the driver's door. She also heard the woman screaming. She did not contact the police until she heard a news report of the missing Diane Edwards the next day.
A few minutes prior to the abduction, Tomi Willems had been forced off the road near the intersection of Thompson and Oakdale in West St. Paul by an older model, dark brown station wagon. She had stopped at a stop sign when the station wagon lightly rear-ended her car. When she turned around, the driver of the station wagon was grinning at her. The man then drove alongside her car, hopped out of the station wagon, and attempted to open the locked passenger door of Ms. Willems' car. In an attempt to avoid him, she turned left, but the man pursued her in the station wagon and forced her to stop by driving ahead of her and blocking the road. Thereupon, she began honking her automobile horn. As a car approached her from the rear, the station wagon drove away. This incident happened within minutes before, and only a few blocks away from, the abduction of Diane Edwards. Later, Ms. Willems was unable to positively identify the man but described him as being in his mid-20's, unshaven and with brown hair below ear length.
On October 9, 1980, a hunter discovered Diane Edwards' purse on a side road in rural Sherburne County. A few hours later, police discovered Ms. Edwards' naked body lying face down in a ditch close to where the purse had been found. Ms. Edwards' clothes were lying in a pile next to her. Further search uncovered Ms. Edwards' glasses, but nothing was discovered providing a possible lead to the abductor's identity.
The Ramsey County Medical Examiner concluded that Ms. Edwards had died from loss of blood resulting from stab wounds in the chest area. In his opinion the stab wounds had been caused by a single-bladed instrument, such as a buck knife, with a 6-inch long blade. He concluded she had died between 11:30 p.m. on September 26, 1980, and 1 a.m. on September 27, 1980. In addition to the stab wounds, the examiner noted four bruises on the face, one bruise on the right shoulder, and what looked like rope marks on the arms. A sexual assault examination was also conducted on the body. It revealed traces of sperm in the cervical area. Because of decomposition, blood-typing on the sperm sample was inconclusive.
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