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moose eater
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Alejandro Escovedo has played with an incredible list of performers and bands, yet many have little clue who he is. Got turned onto him years ago. His music ranges from classical to emo, to punk, to his own street funk, and even classic Hispanic/Mexican Indian stuff.
I think I first saw him on Austin City Limits.
He's played with or been a member of bands from the Sex Pistols, Ian Hunter, the Nuns, and others, including Springsteen. And he was still walking and talking, and making music without succumbing to the vices and issues that many he played with have ended their careers by.
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I think I first saw him on Austin City Limits.
He's played with or been a member of bands from the Sex Pistols, Ian Hunter, the Nuns, and others, including Springsteen. And he was still walking and talking, and making music without succumbing to the vices and issues that many he played with have ended their careers by.
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When I first heard him on ACL years ago, I was taken aback significantly by the tune 'Down in the Bowery.'
"I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff they taught you."
Which Springsteen, on the CD, takes a crack at it, with bending vocals, halfway turns it into, "I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff that I taught you."
Powerful stuff.
On the Lp/CD ('Street Songs of Love'), Springsteen helps out with a verse and a chorus or 2, but not on the live show on ACL that I'd first seen/heard.
It struck me heavily enough that I got ahold of 'his people', wanting to know more about the backstory on it. Not too dissimilar from the obviousness in the tune itself; it was written for his son at a time that his son (one of his sons) was going his own way, depressed, wouldn't talk, etc. The parallels were pretty stout. 'Nuff said.
"I'd buy you a smile in a minute, but would you wear it? If you had one moment to spare, would you come down and share it?"
2 dads who lived on the wild side, trying to impart wisdom after the fact, and finding some uphill shit to overcome..
He jokes that one of the few things (especially musically) his kids and he agree on, is that the Clash was a great band.
I wanted to post some of the more raunchy, heavy rocker tunes from a couple CD's here, but was surprised that even when searching for them by CD title or song title, they aren't found on YouTube. Was both a bit surprised and disappointed by that.
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Straight to hell from the clash is a pretty cool tune, I saw them and Eddie Money on the Who farewell tour at the Pontiac Silverdome,they had concession stands in the parking lot with vendors selling weed,hash,oil,acid,opium and helium balloons. Back then you could cross the border without a urine test or giving up your first born.When I first heard him on ACL years ago, I was taken aback significantly by the tune 'Down in the Bowery.'
"I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff they taught you."
Which Springsteen, on the CD, takes a crack at it, with bending vocals, halfway turns it into, "I hope you live long enough to forget half the stuff that I taught you."
Powerful stuff.
On the Lp/CD ('Street Songs of Love'), Springsteen helps out with a verse and a chorus or 2, but not on the live show on ACL that I'd first seen/heard.
It struck me heavily enough that I got ahold of 'his people', wanting to know more about the backstory on it. Not too dissimilar from the obviousness in the tune itself; it was written for his son at a time that his son (one of his sons) was going his own way, depressed, wouldn't talk, etc. The parallels were pretty stout. 'Nuff said.
"I'd buy you a smile in a minute, but would you wear it? If you had one moment to spare, would you come down and share it?"
2 dads who lived on the wild side, trying to impart wisdom after the fact, and finding some uphill shit to overcome..
He jokes that one of the few things (especially musically) his kids and he agree on, is that the Clash was a great band.
I wanted to post some of the more raunchy, heavy rocker tunes from a couple CD's here, but was surprised that even when searching for them by CD title or song title, they aren't found on YouTube. Was both a bit surprised and disappointed by that.
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moose eater
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For us, Canada has kyboshed the ArriveCan requirements that went on for most of COVID's more intense lock-downs, and which had to be done/completed online before crossing.. Makes my trips to the Yukon Territory, etc. much more convenient now.
