Bob Lind's Message Board

...and (yes, me again...)...remember John Phillips's "John's Music Box" (The Mamas And The Papas)


...there's some similarity in the feeling that these two writers/performers are trying to get across, I believe...

...the more I listen to this song, the more I like it...

...I like that l'il "Norwegian Wood" tag - as I do Neil Young & Crazy Horse's on "Cinnamon Girl", from their "Weld" set...

...I guess that our hearts choose who we love... ...love's wardrobe (except for Grant's "sack" !) selects it own sartorial splendour... ...pink socks, footy boots, bare-foot, sandals... ...it doesn't matter, when it all comes down... ..."Bring It All Down..." (?) ..what I do know...

..."dream along the edges of a love that missed it's time..." ...how many of us have been here?... and how these wistful lyrics hit home, eh ? ...a measure of an artist is their gift to relate, in different circumstances, to the feelings of so many - who may struggle otherwise to express t...

Car poked it's way through the Mallee dust storm, pushing south of Ouyen...visibility reduced to 10 metres in some places... ...dashboard console lights an eerie purple-green under the red dust blanket... ..in a remote Victorian locality, in wide-open spaces, with tumble-weeds gleefully bouncing acr...

Verve album..?...what Verve album?javascriptemoticon(':shock:')
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..."Basil!"...I mean - "Bob 32 etc. !"

...yes...a few of us guessed that it was you...!!javascriptemoticon(':)')
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...& these words keep running through my brain over and over again...

"...the shrinking sky has poisened all my birds
...strangers killing children with their guns and bombs and planes -
...lovers killing love with careless words...

"China".

...Black Night & Gold Mine Blues for mine...(shh! - don't let Bob know we're talking about this - I believe that he's a BIG Mr. Zero when it comes to that pressing...!)

We could all go on for ages with our suggestions- and rightfully so ... ...in Bob Lind, I identify the best of Paxton, Rush, Hardin,...even Dylan... ...lyrics = intelligent. melody = sweet! wit ? oh, yeah...! poetry ? in spades... ..enjoy, comrades - we are bloody lucky to be able to savour the arti...

...keep posting, Allan... ...there are quite a few of us who feel the same way about Bob's work... ...it's enlightening to see how this bloke's music can affect people the world wide - despite cultures, backgrounds, influences... ...like you, I was resigned to the fact that I had been carried away '...

yeah...my late (& much loved ) brother Tony would say - "If you were good in '66 - you were GOOD !"

..I think even the usual suspects (Beatles, Stones, Elvis - whoever!) - when you remember their catalogues - around '66, they put out their best work...

yeah...different in style, but both excellent story tellers, with the gift of being able to explain "the human condition" in ways which are not mawkish or trite - but not TOO cool (cold ?), either...

whata great concert line-up...!

...cruising into Mildura, about 4pm, Wed. 5 March...car tells me that its 41 degrees out there...as I cross the bridge, a free spirit comes towards me , blowing on his harmonica, waving one arm in defiance at the sun...Lind's singing "China"...yep, I think - this bloke's sailing away, alri...