Come on folks! We've got an absolute golden opportunity here to repeat everything that's been posted before with virtual impunity. OK - so you might contradict yourself now and then, if your memory isn't as good as your imagination, but I'm sure that will be decently overlooked.
Bob must be feeling really, really pissed off and depressed about what happened to his forum; the least we can do it get it looking like one again.
I'll start. I liked Bob's live CD - but did anybody not like it? Admittedly, I can't see that reaction from anybody on here, but - and I speak from experience - there's always one.
Wearing You and How The Nights Can Fly were exceptional; never having had the opportunity to see him play, I'd totally underestimated his guitar playing abilty. Impressive.
Bob's music isn't going to lure me away from heavy/thrash/death metal, but I reckon he could share a stage with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen and not feel outclassed.
And just in case that bit of sycophancy results in Bob not being able to find a hat that fits . . . . . .
Who forgot the words to Mr Zero?
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MG --
It's not a bad thing to repeat ourselves, as most of us are suffering from CRS or just have senior moments. I'll certainly admit to that. Bob's new CD is magnificent. If I have to pick just one, Theme From A Music Box has got to be my favorite from the CD. It's the way he plays his guitar that gets me. I tend to replay that song more than the rest. I like his commentary with the audience. He is a true showman and people person, period.
Sorry folks, if I'm repeating myself one more time. I do it at work all the time and I just apologize to my boss and say, "another senior moment brought to you by Elizabeth".
Okay everyone, get off your butts and lets get movin'! We got lots of ground to cover, just in case Grant can't get our stuff back.
Libby
It's not a bad thing to repeat ourselves, as most of us are suffering from CRS or just have senior moments. I'll certainly admit to that. Bob's new CD is magnificent. If I have to pick just one, Theme From A Music Box has got to be my favorite from the CD. It's the way he plays his guitar that gets me. I tend to replay that song more than the rest. I like his commentary with the audience. He is a true showman and people person, period.
Sorry folks, if I'm repeating myself one more time. I do it at work all the time and I just apologize to my boss and say, "another senior moment brought to you by Elizabeth".
Okay everyone, get off your butts and lets get movin'! We got lots of ground to cover, just in case Grant can't get our stuff back.
Libby
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Reconstructing the old posts
Some old stuff to re-read
Bob Lind's Message Board Forum Index -> A Song or Two
Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: Bob's new
music
Hi Bob,
Have just answered my own question re some of your new music,
found the page and downloaded China - haven't listened to it
yet - but would still like to buy a CD. Which one of your
songs did Hugh Masekela cover?
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:30 am Post subject:
Hey Liz,
Hugh M. covered "Elusive Butterly," some time ago. I
understand the album has been released on CD.
As far as my new things are concerned, the songs posted are
just demo quality. I'm playing all the instruments and
recorded them on my little home recorderd.
I'd feel a little too guilty selling them as they are.
But I'm in the process of recording them and some other
unreleased songs with a couple of brilliant young producers
who know what they're doing.
So hang on. It won't be long.
Thanks for your interest. Keep coming back to the board.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: new music
Hi Liz. Actually, you can hear all the new demos at the
playlist page. And read all the new lyrics. Hopefully, older
lyrics will be posted eventually. What's your opinion of
China? I think it's outstanding. Great to hear, Bob, that
you're recording in the studio. If the demos are this good,
the final versions should be great. Any projected release date
month?
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rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:29 am Post subject: cd
Hey Bob, Have you been in the studio with the new songs and a
producer? Looking forward to the finished product. Any
updates?
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:
Hey Rob, you're asking on the perfect day. Last night I got a
copy of four new rough tracks that reflect the creativity and
brilliance of the new guys.
We're going slow but so far I'm knocked out by what they're
doing. No egos, no shopping-while-hungry production overkill.
They love my work and apply their considerable talents to it
with welcome sensitivity.
If you're interested, you might want to Google Chris Moll
(don't know his Website right off the bat) and try to find the
work he did with a group called SEE VENUS. Beautiful
arrangements.
The other fellow, Jon Wilkins, is more mysterious. He keeps a
very low profile, cyber-wise. (He posts here as Since There
Were Circles.)
He's a rare find: A drummer who also has a broad understanding
of music.
I call them Heaven and Earth: Chris writes these chilling
string, horn and synthesizer arrangements; Jon keeps it all
grounded with earthy rhythm-track ideas.
We're not rushing, but we're all dedicated toward creating
something memorable for people like you who have been so
faithful, patient and interested in the new stuff.
Stay close to the Website Rob, always good to hear from you.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:17 am Post subject: studio
Great! Chilling and moody and slightly offbeat is always the
way to go. You certainly don't want to make a "normal"
easy-listening record. You're much too deep for that. Sounds
cool, very promising.
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Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:
Hi There Bob,
After listening over and over again I have to say that I love,
love, love the new music. Even though I am a lyrics person, I
love Waterfall and BocaMar. The sax is super.
Home in Time for Twilight is so, so lovely. I suppose it is
like good art - each finds his/her own message, but Twilight
is speaking to me on so many levels. "A precious piece of sun
left in the sky", "When love come late it comes to stay" and
"The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there" - brings
tears to my eyes and so much emotion.
Initially I thought that I preferred China, but then suddenly
Twilight hit me like a ton of bricks!
Have a Lovely Yesterday - is gorgeous and so clever!!
I have only one problem and that is with the sentiment in
Valentine .. The story is not consistent enough for me and
also why the problem with commitment. But then again who am I
and what do I know? Your music has stood the test of time for
so many of us.
Bob do you like Jim Croce, Don McLean, Mike Batt, Leonard
Cohen? They and you all have that special something, a nuance
that one can't put one's finger on - if you don't like their
work I will be surprised. What about Janis Ian and the lyrics
(only) of Kris Kristofferson? Who are your favourites? Sorry,
you're probably starting to get stressed out about all these
questions, but hey! that's the price of fame and genius!
Seriously though, nice that you are so human (are you?) and
not just a stuffed shirt (I said SHIRT). OK stopping now.
Liz.
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:
Hey Liz,
Thanks for your kind words about TWILIGHT. It's a song I
certainly couldn't have written in the 60s. It's always a joy
to hear people speaking glowingly about the new stuff.
As to your question:
I'm not aware of Mike Batt. So leaving him out of the
equation, you're putting me in some good company there,
particularly with Cohen.
I think he's brilliant. He has unfailing trust in his images
and doesn't censor his inner messenger. He was the guy who
taught me, (through a song called "Dress Rehearsal Rag") that
you can be funny and heartbreaking at the same time -- or more
correctly, that you can express images in which those labels
have no meaning.
A new song of mine called "LOOKING FOR YOU" (not on the
playlist yet) uses that tension, and I learned to trust it
from listening to Leonard Cohen.
My respect for Croce has deepened in the years since his
death. I didn't realize how great he was until just recently
when I stumbled onto a biography on him and really listened
full out.
I like his love songs better than his "story" songs -- but
that's a personal preference. "Time in a Bottle," "Operator"
and "I Love You in a Song" -- so touching.
And his give and take with that lead guitar player of his was
phenomenal.
What a loss, the two of them.
Kristofferson has always been a little too cerebral for me. I
always feel that brilliant, intellect calculating in his
songs. That's not meant as an insult, just a subjective
preference. I like emotion and instinct more than cleverness
and I sense him sometimes working his lyrics too hard for my
tastes.
He's a Rhodes Scholar and somehow, I can never forget that
listening to his down home, just-plain-folks songs.
I think he's an excellent actor. His work in STAR IS BORN is
wonderful.
Janis Ian and I once worked together for a week at an L.A.
club called the TROUBADOUR. She was young and so was I. I
don't think either of us were very well developed, musically,
at that point in our careers.
But we were attracting a similar crowd.
I haven't heard her new things.
I leave Don McLean for last because I'm trying to avoid saying
anything unkind. I'll say this: Vincent" is a passionate,
heart-wrenching song. And before I met him, his music could
make me cry.
But I can't be objective about it now. My brief meeting with
him colors my view of the songs. It may well have been as much
me as him -- I was certainly no picnic to be around in those
days -- but I was profoundly dissappointed in him as a human
being. I admired him so much and was stunned by what I
perceived as his rudeness and condescension to me.
Other friends who play music report similar experiences with
him.
Having that view of him robs me of the joy of his art. Too
bad, but that's how it is.
To paraphrase Emerson: What he is speaks so loudly I can't
hear what he sings.
Songwriters I like:
Of the newer breed, Jon Mayer and Jason Mraz stand out.
Contemporaries and near contemporaries (age wise)
Don Henley, Joni Mtchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dan
Fogelberg and Fagen & Becker (Steely Dan).
There's also a woman named Basia who is mysterious and rarely
plays anymore. She puts me on the floor.
And of course, Dylan is in a class all by himself.
So is Stephen Sondheim.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 18
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:
Bob,
I remember once reading that Don McLean was quoted as saying
that he sang "Crying" better than it's auther ...Roy Orbinson.
While that likely says more about him than his music, I never
found either to be particulary interesting.
Were or are you interested in the "urban or protest" singers
like Phil Ochs & Eric Anderson. Phil took me to a whole new
level in my appreciation of folk music which later evolved
into "Folk Rock" ....how could it get any better than that,
the intelligence of lyrics with a beat !!
Bill
since_there_were_circles
Joined: 21 Aug 2004
Posts: 12
Location: FLA
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:51 am Post subject:
Bob... what about Jason Falkner?!
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you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: ol' folkies
Phil Ochs was great. Personally, I prefer the Pleasures of the
Harbor (and after) period. Also Tim Hardin was amazing. Both
troubled souls, as all the greats seem to be. Bob, any stories
or opinions on these two
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:11 am Post subject:
Hey Rob, Unfortunately I knew both these men at a time when
their demons had almost entirely consumed them. Neither was a
pleasure to be around. Both deeply unhappy.
Phil hung around a club called the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
He was very manic. He had this alter-ego, dressed in gold lame
and did a kind of Elvis thing -- onstage and off. If it had
some kind of deeper meaning, or if it was funny in some way,
no one got it. Everyone was just embarrassed for him.
When I knew him he was way out of his prime. Onstage, he was
always getting into argments with people in the audience,
calling them "stupid" that kind of thing.
He didn't seem morose, the way Tim did. But he wasn't at home
in this world. Always ill at ease. Even when he was unpleasant
(and don't misunderstand, he was never anything but polite to
me) no one took offense. Everyone just found him pathetic, not
dangerous or threatening.
Too bad. Because I feel, had he begun to transcend the bind
his style was starting to put him in, he would be writing
great stuff today.
Tim Hardin was a different story. He too was alienating his
friends toward the end of his life. But he was hostile and
almost biker-like. Spikes up all around him. Barbed wire and
an invisible sign that said "Don't get to Close Because I
Might Explode and Kill Both of Us."
I first met him in late '66, I think, in my managers' office.
He was still vital then. Clear-eyed and alive and vibrant.
I had just released "San Francisco Woman" and had come into
the office to see how it was doing. Hardin was there visiting
on some kind of business.
From the moment we were introduced he started getting sullen
and terse. It was as if he had taken an instant dislike to me.
It didn't make any sense. You know those deals where you
examine your behavior and ask yourself what you could've done
to offend someone?
I couldn't come up with anything so I just dismissed it.
Later I ran into a woman who knew him and I told her about our
meeting. "Something about me must have bugged him," I told
her.
And she said, "Jesus, don't you know why he was that way?"
I said I didn't.
She told me he was getting flack from everyone about the
bridge to "If I Was a Carpenter."
I looked at her with these dull-fish eyes. "Huh?"
Turns out people were accusing him of ripping off the melody
on "I Just Let It Take Me."
I certainly never picked up on it. I truly don't think he
stole from me (I'd actually be amazed if he'd ever heard my
song, it went directly into the toilet on the B side of "Truly
Julie's Blues.")
When I heard "Carpenter" next time, I could sort of see how
people felt that way, (the tune on the "save my love through
loneliness, save my love through sorrow" part) but I'm
convinced it was just a coincidence. That stuff happens a lot
with melodic fragments.
Anyway the next time I saw him was years later, just weeks
before he died. I went to see John Sebastian at the Troubadour
and Hardin came. They were old firends. Tim was drunk and
maudlin and looked awful. He was balding on top, shaggy-haired
on the sides and badly bloated. He kept talking to John,
repeating himself over and over.
I was watching/listening from a short distance away and what I
remember most was the kindness in Sebastian's eyes. He was so
patient and non-judgemental. Just let the poor guy gush and
slur and slobber.
Believe it or not, I have never really met John, I just
introduced myself that night and, although he was an idol of
mine (I think "Younger Generation" is brilliant), he had
apparently no idea who I was.
But I'll always remember that patience and kindness in his
eyes as he spoke -- or more correctly listened -- to Tim
Hardin.
Abut a month later, Tim died and there was a memorial for him
at the Troub.
I went, not out of reverence, but because the booze was free.
Everyone got drunk and acted like idiots.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: wild men
Wow, another case of "be careful what you ask for". No,
actually I'm not surprised. I knew both were pretty troubled.
I just read an interview with Tim Hardin, done a couple months
before he died. He sounded pretty bad. But strangely enough,
his Homecoming Concert cd (also just before he died) is
totally beautiful. Kinda like how the Let's Get Lost
soundtrack (Chet Baker) is some of Chet's most emotional
singing, not long before he died. Well thankfully, the sad
stories fade away, but the music lives on loud and clear.
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Guest
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:
Welcome to the board, Frank. Good to have you with us.
Sorry, I don't think I've ever even seen that single, much
less owned it.
Good luck finding it. Maybe one of the Lind enthusiasts on
this forum will respond. A lot of them keep surprising me with
music of mine that I had either forgotten or never knew about.
I'm far more interested in where I'm going than where I've
been, but I'm grateful for you people with the long memories
and the dedicated interest in my career.
Stay with us.
Guest
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:
The "guest" is me, BTW, Lind.
Guest
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:30 am Post subject:
no new music in three decades-kind of hard to talk about new
stuff. all those old songs were once "where you were going".
you need to embrace them rather than consider them wicked
stepchildren. they're all you're represented by as far as the
general public goes. four albums and a couple assorted singles
in four decades. some people run-some people crawl-time oh
time-where did you go?
fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: New songs
!!
Bob, the long bridges of time can be easily be shortened with
new music from you...fans "cling" to the old, but wait
enthusiasticly for MORE!!!! What, if any, contact have you had
or still have, with John Gummoe? He also has a website that,
like yours, keeps fan up-to-date on activities...and since
you're in FLA do you ever encounter Bobby Goldsboro?
~ Frank
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 108
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:50 am Post subject:
To Frank and the Guest who posted above him:
Thanks, both of you. I can always tell when I'm hearing the
truth. My jaw clenches, my chest gets tight and I think of all
kinds of arguments to show the person talking to me how
stupidly wrong he is.
The higher my body temperature goes, the greater the odds he's
onto something.
To Guest: You're absolutely right about no product. I can see
how empty it sounds listening to a guy disowning the past when
he's not showing you anything in the present.
Of course I have scads of new songs -- as you may know from
reading other posts on this board from people who have heard
me perform this year. And the new songs are so much better
than the old ones that when I listen to the WORLD PACIFIC
stuff . . . well... I don't know how old you are, but maybe
you can relate to looking at your picture in your high school
yearbook. Maybe you had some wise-ass haircut, wearing some
hopelessly outdated shirt you thought was tres cool at the
time, smiling like you're God's Gift To.... And from your
present vantage point all you can do is cringe.
It's not that you weren't your absolute best at the time, it's
just that you've reached a point at which your best at that
time looks a little silly, a little embarrassing.
That's how I feel about the old stuff.
But, that said, you certainly deserve something in the way of
new recorded material.
The difficulties of finding the right producer, the right
situation, the right musicians sound like lame excuses, (Other
guys manage.) but they're the best I can offer at this point.
I've just gotten back into performing this year.
All I can say -- to both of you; Guest AND Frank -- is that I
promise to have something out there next year.
Don't give up on me.
I'm rollin.
Meanwhile, I hope you'll listen to the songs on the Playlist.
Get past the recording quality if you can.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:31 am Post subject: criticism
Frank, There's a reason for everything. Everyone's lives
aren't ruled by their careers. What's that old saying?
Something like "life gets in the way when you're trying to
have a career." I'm sure there was a period of time when Bob
just wasn't in the right state-of-mind to put out new music.
He did continue to write, and I know for a fact that music is
his greatest love. You can just see it when he performs....
...and personally, I'll take quality over quantity anytime.
Keep Rockin' Bob
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fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:
There was always quality in everything Bob has done...and I
can "wish" for both because I won't have to choose one over
the other...quantity of Bob Lind's work = quality times
10...there is no moderation needed when I listen to
BL...Timeless and Great!...and I want MORE! Period....when Bob
is good and ready!
~ Frank.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 21
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:
"Artists" deliver when they are ready!! They provide us ...and
themselves (the two not being mutually exclusive)...with art
not product. I am just happy to know Bob is doing well and so
willing to share his thoughts, observations and music with us
still. For years and right up to this day, when I am uncertain
as to what to listen to, I still turn to Bob. I have listened
to his tunes thousands of times and will listen to them a
thousand times again. We the "listeners" always want more. I
wished for 20 years and was rewarded with "The Best Of"
.....wow stereo with bonus tracks to boot. I waited 25 years
and actually purchased "Since There Were Circles." I will wish
for more but am content with what I have.
Bill
Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 16
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:
Based purely on Bob's already existing recordings, that's
enough to sell me on the idea that new Bob music will be well
worth the wait. I think it's great how Bob has even posted
demos of new songs as a sneak peak for what's to come. For
whatever the reason may be, artists make their comebacks when
they are good and ready. Look at Brian Wilson as an
example...locked in his room for years, shying away from
touring and his role as leader of the Beach Boys/musical
genius. Now he's doing extensive touring in back of an album,
"Smile," which was to be his masterwork when he was 24 years
old. Strange things happen in the wonderful world of music,
but it's great to be a fan when they do.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 21
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:
"Sail on Sail on Sailor" .....Bill
Rodger Thompson
Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 6
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:
Hey Bob! Did you say scads of new songs? Wonderful news,
wonderful news indeed. I love the old stuff, love the new
stuff...Heck! If it's Lind's stuff, I'm as happy as a mosquito
in a nudist colony. I connect so completely with all your
music. I think we share a cosmic connection. After all, we
both were born the same month, in the same year, in the same
city...I didn't live there long either. So glad you're finally
back...a true Christmas present received early.
Rodger Thompson (Big-Time fan in NC)
Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: 'Wicked
Stepchildren"
Bob,
Your new music is not “better” than the old – it is just
different. The old music was right for the times – it was
right for you and it was right for us – the fans. Don’t forget
we got on board with you DECADES ago on the strength of the
“wicked stepchildren”. We will never disown them and we are
still here on the other end of a long dry journey!! Just as
that haircut (or whatever) may look funny to you now, your
present haircut would not have turned me on then! You have no
way of knowing what precious memories and emotions those songs
evoke in us. Saying that they are bad could just cast
aspersions on our taste and musical intelligence. Where you
(and we) have been is what shaped us, and what is shaping the
new stuff you are creating now. Your job, today, is to bring
us along with you as your music develops and changes.
Hopefully (and so far it appears to be so) we are all still on
the same musical and lyrical track. Listen to your fans Bob -
we're saying it like it is! I'm still on board!
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off your lies, they don't match with your eyes".
Rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:19 am Post subject: roads of
anger?
The name of this thread turned out to be quite appropriate,
after all .....Liz, Bob never used the words "wicked
stepchildren", someone else did. But I remember when I read
the song-by-song liner notes in the Best Of CD. Bob's
extremely critical comments on his old songs almost ruined the
music for me. I wondered why he wasn't at a point where he
could at least just view them as charming relics of his youth.
After all, 30+ years later, of course we would assume that
he's made alot of musical progression since the 60's. When I
just put it down to "a person is usually their own worst
critic", and "no-one ever sees themselves the way other people
do", I was able to enjoy the music again. Don't let anyone's
comments affect your gut reactions to the old music. Those
emotions are yours alone, and are true and sacred.
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Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 16
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:27 am Post subject:
In my experiences, it can usually turn out to be a good thing
when an artist doesn't like his own work (from the past). Bob
seems like a very selfless musician and is willing to
continually leave room for improvement. Just like Bob said,
not that he wasn't the absolute best he could be in the
1960's, he's come a long way since. It's the proverbial
"artist's challenge" that sometimes results in his best work.
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 108
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: Long-Time
Woman
I've had so many e-mails from people asking me about the song
newly posted in video format on the TOURS PAGE, I decided the
easiest thing to do is to post a thread about it here.
"Long-Time Woman" is an old song, late 1966. This video was
done in the early 90s, when I went up to Massachusetts to
visit Jackie and Arlo Guthrie on their farm in the Berkshires.
Jackie turned the camera on and said, "Why don't you sing a
few songs?" I started playing and she taped me for about three
days straight. I sang up every song I knew, to paraphrase
Kristofferson.
At some point, Jackie asked me to play "L-TW." I hadn't played
it in about 10 years. I'm amazed I even remembered it.
I never expected the clip would end up on my website. (No one
knew there even WERE such things as websites then.)
But Jackie and grant have conspired behind my back and put it
up. Now I'm stuck with it.
First the words, then the story.
I've heard from others that the lyrics don't come through
completely clear on the MP3.
LONG-TIME WOMAN
Sorrow is a long-time woman
Resting on a nowdays mind.
When her vision haunts your mornings,
Tears will not be far behind.
In the time that grows between you,
You may try a thousand times.
But you will not erase her image
With your one-night valentines.
One sad question never leaves your mind:
"Could we have made it if we'd tried
Just one more time?"
Love may come again
To find you younger than you thought you were.
But never will your long-time woman
Leave the place you've made for her.
Like a lot of my songs, this one's prophetic. It was written
before the event that inspired it.
I was with a God's-Gift, once-in-a-lifetime woman then and I
didn't know how to handle the good fortune the fates had
handed me. I knew I was pushing her away, but I didn't know
how to stop. I was a drunken speed-freak without a clue about
how to carry on a relationship with a woman who possessed a
genuine capacity for love.
I stayed up all night writing this song and in the morning I
played it for my woman and a friend who was staying with us.
We were all crying and I thought, "Whoa! What's this all
about?"
About six months later, I figured it out. I was -- deservedly
-- alone, and the song had acquired....shall we say, "special
meaning" for me.
Of tangential interest: I never in a million years would have
suspected that anyone would cover this song. It seemed too
intensely jagged and personal.
And I certainly never thought a woman would want to sing it.
But Nancy Sinatra completely blew me away. I never
particularly respected her. But to my utter amazement, she cut
the song on her NANCY album and, of the 200-plus covers of my
songs, it endures as one of my favorites.
She renders it with such no-bullshit sensitivity -- a total
lack of showiness. Just straight ahead honesty. Man!
Lately, I've begun doing the song in person again. Sometimes,
I sing an extra verse:
"After all the one-more-chances
Drift away on tides of change,
Love is gone, but still you tremble
When somebody speaks her name."
Overkill, I realize. But if I'm feeling particularly maudlin
and cry-in-your-beer, I sing it.
NOTE: The adjective "cry-in-your-beer" is figuratve. Many of
you know that this July (2005) I'll celebrate 28 years clean
and sober.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:02 am Post subject:
Wow, amazing post! Congrats on the long sobriety....good for
you. OK, I'm on my way over with a case of non-alcoholic beer.
Long Time Woman is a great song...I know it was never
released, but was it recorded for World Pacific back in the
day? Haven't heard Nancy's version, and I'm not really a fan
of hers, but sometimes she does have a knack for being really
centered and no-frills with some songs....she probably learned
that from Lee.
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Elizabeth
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
Posts: 10
Location: Houston, TX
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:06 am Post subject:
The song is beautiful. I've played it about 50 times now.
Thank you for posting about it and thank you for your awesome
talent.
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Guest
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: Branch of
dead leaves and other haunting songs and gratitude
Bob: Thank you for your wonderful haunting songs, all the
times at the Ice House I didnt miss, all the times at the
Troubador and thanks for doing the LA Free Clinic benefit with
Hoyt Axton at USC I really loved both your spirits. You had so
many songs on demo records I listened to in your house in LA.
I wish I had them all now. I loved Branch of Dead Leaves , one
of your best. I wish I had a copy of that . It still rings in
my mind "obligation scares you your hung up on stringless
living. Why can't you see your only free to walk around your
prison dragging your branch of dead leaves....: Love It!!!
You inspired my life and career hurdles with your songs. I
have all your albums. I loved Since there were circles and
want to convert that record to a CD. Many many Songs so great
so many unrecorded or published. What a shame. Too bad you
dont put all those master records together and sell them on
line. I would gladly buy them as I am sure would others. Thank
you for inspiring me the many lonely nights I spent in Mexico
going to Medical School. You always saw things in a fresher
light yet no one noticed your brilliance. You lighted my
career. Thanks Ed Hackie MD
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 138
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject:
Hi Ed. Strange what one remembers and what one forgets. I do
indeed recall that Free Clinic Benefit with Hoyt. But can't
exactly place you.
You stun me, however, with what YOU remember. Man! "Branch of
Dead Leaves." I don't think I've thought of that song in 30
years. And the fact that you not only remember it but can
quote from it.... Well, it means you took considerably fewer
drugs than I did during that turbulent decade.
I appreciate your words about the Troub and Ice House shows.
And I hope I get to your neck of the woods because I feel I'm
performing, writing and singing far better now than I did
Circa 1966-1971.
If you haven't done so yet, please checkout the demos on the
Playlist section of this board.
Keep posting here. Always glad to hear from a 60s survivor --
and bonus points that you made it through med school. My fan,
the doctah. My mother will be so proud.
All the best, Bob
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: Some lyrics
Branch of Dead Leaves
Though I have sung what I remember of this song to myself for
30 years I dont remember it all or if I have it correctly. I
wish I did. Here is what I remember. By the way my friend Ken
and I came over to your house in LA and spent time on the
Trampoline in your yard. ED
Branch of Dead leaves:
Child of the Afternoon , where will you be tomorrow? You've
got so much love inside yourself but too much pride to
borrow... Why can't you see your'e only free to walk around
your prison . Your not crippled... with life inside you.
Dragging your branch of dead leaves....
The ones who turn their backs on you are easily forgiven.
Obligation scares you , You're hung up on stringless living.
Why can't you see your ownly free to walk around your prison?
you with love inside you. Dragging your branch of deadleaves.
Dragging your branch of dead leaves.
I wish I remembered the rest.
Dale
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 18
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: trampoline
Hey, Ed....I remember that trampoline too. I almost killed
myself on it. Of course, a bottle of rye whiskey played a big
part in my lack of coordination. Thank goodness I've matured
since then. Yeah, right......
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 95
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: Dead Leaves
and the Dirty Ground, wait, that's White Stripes
WOW! Now that's a demo that would GLADLY have me reaching for
my wallet..........Bob, do you seriously have tons of older
demos still intact? Cuz' you might consider putting them
babies to CD and selling them to the willing and eager among
us......of which there are many! Just do it! Life is short!
Time's-a-tickin'......someone really needs to check into these
clocks.....they're all running way too fast.
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Guest
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:53 am Post subject: We need an
Anthology
Bob : There was another song about Blue, salty Blue or
something. Many wonderful demos I listened to in 1968. This
wonderful music should not be lost in the dust somewhere.
Interestingly enough I was looking up Hoyt Axton's music
yesterday and found
this:http://www.hoytsmusic.com/treasure.htm Worth the read.
The process can work an Anthology of your wonderful music too
so it is not lost. Thanks, Ed
Seeker2be
Guest
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: Another
simple request
Bob: Think about Ferris mastering where they turn records into
CD's with remastering clean up.
http://www.ferrismastering.com/ I would be overjoyed to donate
a couple of hundred dollars to this worthwhile project to get
your wonderful Demo record and other concert music of the 70's
onto CDs. You dont have the time to do the work yourself while
creating and evolving more music. I think all of us fans are
clamoring for the Lost Lind music . I was reading a Hoyt Axton
site: http://www.hoytsmusic.com/treasure.htm. The efforts to
preserve his music chronicled there were extra ordinary and
worth the sobering read. One of the CD's even has a cut that
even talks about you, Bob Lind. So music like the days and
nights and heartbeats of all of us are intertwined if you look
for the genealogy. There is an errie message there from the
Grave... Save the beauty and your music for posterity or it
might be lost. We love your music, your talent, your creative
genius. Please dont let the past wonderful demo music be lost
in a dusty closet! I knew what a treasure it was when I
listened to all those Demo disks in LA in 1968. An
appreciative fan, Ed
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 138
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject:
Hey Ed, Thanks for your enthusiasm and the offer of financial
help. But save your money for Christmas when (knock wood) the
new CD will be out and available. Then you can plunk down
those C notes for gift albums for all your many friends and
patients.
Again, I urge you to listen to the new music in the playlist
section.
I loved Hoyt and I'm glad his old stuff has been reissued.
But there's a major difference between Hoyt and me:
I'm still alive.
I don't plan on dying in the next few minutes and the
songwriting machinery still churns boys (Rob, I'm including
you in this).
Meanwhile:
SALTY BLUE
Four o'clock the doors are locked
And all my friends are gone
My silver strings will spin and ring,
Long into the dawn.
I can't stop now.
Salty Blue. I'm blaming you.
Everyone was tired or they had someplace to be
No one seemed to want to keep the party going but me
So here I am
Shining through Salty Blue.
There are a couple more verses but they're gone. Jackie, Dale
or one of the other 60s vets may remember. But I'm in forward
gear.
Seeker2be@aol.com
Guest
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: Salty Blue
Wow!!! After listening to your Demo disk 30 years ago I at
least remembered the name Salty Blue. Thanks for completing
and helping me relive that memory. Loved that song too. Ed
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject: Cd purchase
Hi Bob,
can you tell me where I can order at one reasonable price
(not on amazon...) one of your "best of Cd" ?
Unfortunately I can't find any source over here.
Thanks & have a great day!
Greetings from Germany
Carlo
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 186
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:15 am Post subject:
Hey Carlo, welcome to the message board. It's good to have you
with us. Thanks for helping to make this forum International.
We have some other people from Germany here as well as members
from England, South Africa, Australia and Brazil.
It's great to feel like I'm reaching into the wider world.
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print. That's
going to change very very soon. But for now, let me suggest
that you keep coming back to this thread. People here are
extremely generous with Bob Lind music and I wouldn't be
surprised if you heard from someone who will sell you a disc
at a very reasonable price. Some people here have even been
known to burn Lind CDs and give them away.
Thanks again for joining us Carlo. Stay close.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 135
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:47 am Post subject:
Lind wrote:
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print.
That's going to change very very soon.
Ahem ........someone has some beans to spill........hope we
don't have to wait much longer for this info.
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bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 55
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:
Agreed !!!! Tick Tick Tick ....Bill
Seeker2be
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: Best of Bob
Lind
I have 2 original copies and would be happy to burn you one .
Let me know. Seeker2be@aol.com
oldcapellon
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Germany
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Best of
Bob Lind
Seeker2be wrote:
I have 2 original copies and would be happy to burn you
one . Let me know. Seeker2be@aol.com
! You made my Day !
I'll send you an e-mail...
Thanks !
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oldcapellon
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Germany
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:
Lind wrote:
Hey Carlo, welcome to the message board. It's good to
have you with us. Thanks for helping to make this forum
International. We have some other people from Germany
here as well as members from England, South Africa,
Australia and Brazil.
It's great to feel like I'm reaching into the wider
world.
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print.
That's going to change very very soon. But for now, let
me suggest that you keep coming back to this thread.
People here are extremely generous with Bob Lind music
and I wouldn't be surprised if you heard from someone
who will sell you a disc at a very reasonable price.
Some people here have even been known to burn Lind CDs
and give them away.
Thanks again for joining us Carlo. Stay close.
Thanks Bob !
I'll stay on the loop..
Ciao
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rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: new demos
The.......3........new demos sound great! Never Even There
isn't working yet.......great music, Bob!
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rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: never even
there
....working now, thanks!
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ChuckB
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Ohio
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject: Greetings
from Ohio...
Bob,
I cannot tell you how pleased I am to hear your voice again,
and that it is as clear and true as ever. I produce several
Internet radio shows, partnered with my two best friends. One
of them, Frank Kramer, purchased your new CD, and I just
visited him yesterday and we listened to your CD. You might
remember Frank as "the 45's man". I am the "charts man", as I
have every song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 since 1955.
Between the two of us, we have a tremendous amount of music
and take great delight in sharing as many as possible with our
worldwide audience.
I do a lot of "theme" shows, and last week, my show was called
"songs about walking" which was a theme suggested by a local
listener. All the songs had the word "walk" in the title, and
you were represented just before the end of my first hour with
"I Can't Walk The Roads Of Anger" which I remember fondly from
your World Pacific days.
I was in the Air Force when your albums came out, and while I
loved "Elusive Butterfly" my two favorites were "Remember The
Rain" and "Counting". I was stationed at Clark AFB in the
Phillipines and damn near wore out your albums.
You have a link for John Claude Gummoe's website, and I was
fortunate enough to interview John (a native Clevelander) on a
"spotlight" show I did quite a few years back. If you're
interested, we'd love to do a spotlight show on you also. All
I need is a phone interview, since I'm the producer, host, PD,
and clean-up guy all rolled up into one.
We are broadcasting via a friends station for now, but we hope
to launch our own 24/7 station in September. As our name
implies, Songs You Should Have Heard, we don't shy away from
unknown artists. If it's a great song, we play it. Plus, we
play songs that hit the charts that haven't been on radio for
over 40 years. It's great fun, and I've made a bunch of great
new friends from the experience.
Keep singing Bob, you are a true poet and wordsmith, and if
there's one thing we need in our society right now is a lot
more romanticisn. We have enough cynicism, arrogance and
hatred to last forever, we need more innocence, truth and
love. More songs and lyrics from you should fill the bill.
I heard you comment that you stopped writing protest songs,
but our country needs you. We need a hero... a knight in
shining armor with three words on his crest... common sense,
creativity, and courage, to fight the dragon of Corporatism.
This struggle is a song waiting to be written. If we lose this
battle, we'll become another France... and all the cheese and
wine in the world isn't worth that! Help us Bob, write a song
to preserve Democracy.
Sorry for the display of passion, I realize that's not
politically correct or acceptable either...
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JohnB
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Posts: 3
Location: Meridian MS
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:
Hey Chuck, thanks for expressing some things I've had on my
own mind lately, namely the evils of the Mega-Corporations. We
are in trouble in this country, and we are lied to and shafted
at every turn. We DO need a torchbearer whose message will
reach the people who want to make a difference.
Now a question: how and where can I tune in to your broadcast
in Mississippi? Thanks, and keep it up!
ChuckB
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Ohio
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:
John,
Thanks for your comments. Politicians, no matter the party are
NOT going to help us. Corporations, through lobbyists has
bought and paid for the power they wield over us. We are being
poisoned by chemicals by the food industry and the
pharmaceutical industry comes to the rescue with pills to
counterbalance the damage that the government should'nt have
allowed in the first place.
I am the father of four, grandfather of four. Three are
college graduates and one is about 2/3 of the way towards a
degree. When they get them, unless they are "professionals" or
get a doctorate, it just means their resume gets bumped up to
the top at Wal-Mart. The greed, outsourcing and destruction of
the US economy just sickens me, and yet we elected the
politicians that let it happen. This is NOT a liberal,
conservative, Democrat or Republican problem, it is an
AMERICAN problem.
In 1966, when I was enjoying Bob's songs so much, I was
serving in Air Force Intelligence. When I got out, I not only
had jobs to pursue, I actually had career paths to pursue. I
chose the computer industry, and did just fine until my age
caught up with me. At FORTY-FIVE, I was cast aside...making
too much, and over qualified. When I turned 50, I turned to my
love of music and created a radio show. I then became
acquainted with the power and politics of the radio industry
and after four years found myself on the outside looking in
once again.
I have bee
Bob Lind's Message Board Forum Index -> A Song or Two
Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: Bob's new
music
Hi Bob,
Have just answered my own question re some of your new music,
found the page and downloaded China - haven't listened to it
yet - but would still like to buy a CD. Which one of your
songs did Hugh Masekela cover?
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:30 am Post subject:
Hey Liz,
Hugh M. covered "Elusive Butterly," some time ago. I
understand the album has been released on CD.
As far as my new things are concerned, the songs posted are
just demo quality. I'm playing all the instruments and
recorded them on my little home recorderd.
I'd feel a little too guilty selling them as they are.
But I'm in the process of recording them and some other
unreleased songs with a couple of brilliant young producers
who know what they're doing.
So hang on. It won't be long.
Thanks for your interest. Keep coming back to the board.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:06 am Post subject: new music
Hi Liz. Actually, you can hear all the new demos at the
playlist page. And read all the new lyrics. Hopefully, older
lyrics will be posted eventually. What's your opinion of
China? I think it's outstanding. Great to hear, Bob, that
you're recording in the studio. If the demos are this good,
the final versions should be great. Any projected release date
month?
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rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:29 am Post subject: cd
Hey Bob, Have you been in the studio with the new songs and a
producer? Looking forward to the finished product. Any
updates?
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:
Hey Rob, you're asking on the perfect day. Last night I got a
copy of four new rough tracks that reflect the creativity and
brilliance of the new guys.
We're going slow but so far I'm knocked out by what they're
doing. No egos, no shopping-while-hungry production overkill.
They love my work and apply their considerable talents to it
with welcome sensitivity.
If you're interested, you might want to Google Chris Moll
(don't know his Website right off the bat) and try to find the
work he did with a group called SEE VENUS. Beautiful
arrangements.
The other fellow, Jon Wilkins, is more mysterious. He keeps a
very low profile, cyber-wise. (He posts here as Since There
Were Circles.)
He's a rare find: A drummer who also has a broad understanding
of music.
I call them Heaven and Earth: Chris writes these chilling
string, horn and synthesizer arrangements; Jon keeps it all
grounded with earthy rhythm-track ideas.
We're not rushing, but we're all dedicated toward creating
something memorable for people like you who have been so
faithful, patient and interested in the new stuff.
Stay close to the Website Rob, always good to hear from you.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:17 am Post subject: studio
Great! Chilling and moody and slightly offbeat is always the
way to go. You certainly don't want to make a "normal"
easy-listening record. You're much too deep for that. Sounds
cool, very promising.
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Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:
Hi There Bob,
After listening over and over again I have to say that I love,
love, love the new music. Even though I am a lyrics person, I
love Waterfall and BocaMar. The sax is super.
Home in Time for Twilight is so, so lovely. I suppose it is
like good art - each finds his/her own message, but Twilight
is speaking to me on so many levels. "A precious piece of sun
left in the sky", "When love come late it comes to stay" and
"The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there" - brings
tears to my eyes and so much emotion.
Initially I thought that I preferred China, but then suddenly
Twilight hit me like a ton of bricks!
Have a Lovely Yesterday - is gorgeous and so clever!!
I have only one problem and that is with the sentiment in
Valentine .. The story is not consistent enough for me and
also why the problem with commitment. But then again who am I
and what do I know? Your music has stood the test of time for
so many of us.
Bob do you like Jim Croce, Don McLean, Mike Batt, Leonard
Cohen? They and you all have that special something, a nuance
that one can't put one's finger on - if you don't like their
work I will be surprised. What about Janis Ian and the lyrics
(only) of Kris Kristofferson? Who are your favourites? Sorry,
you're probably starting to get stressed out about all these
questions, but hey! that's the price of fame and genius!
Seriously though, nice that you are so human (are you?) and
not just a stuffed shirt (I said SHIRT). OK stopping now.
Liz.
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:
Hey Liz,
Thanks for your kind words about TWILIGHT. It's a song I
certainly couldn't have written in the 60s. It's always a joy
to hear people speaking glowingly about the new stuff.
As to your question:
I'm not aware of Mike Batt. So leaving him out of the
equation, you're putting me in some good company there,
particularly with Cohen.
I think he's brilliant. He has unfailing trust in his images
and doesn't censor his inner messenger. He was the guy who
taught me, (through a song called "Dress Rehearsal Rag") that
you can be funny and heartbreaking at the same time -- or more
correctly, that you can express images in which those labels
have no meaning.
A new song of mine called "LOOKING FOR YOU" (not on the
playlist yet) uses that tension, and I learned to trust it
from listening to Leonard Cohen.
My respect for Croce has deepened in the years since his
death. I didn't realize how great he was until just recently
when I stumbled onto a biography on him and really listened
full out.
I like his love songs better than his "story" songs -- but
that's a personal preference. "Time in a Bottle," "Operator"
and "I Love You in a Song" -- so touching.
And his give and take with that lead guitar player of his was
phenomenal.
What a loss, the two of them.
Kristofferson has always been a little too cerebral for me. I
always feel that brilliant, intellect calculating in his
songs. That's not meant as an insult, just a subjective
preference. I like emotion and instinct more than cleverness
and I sense him sometimes working his lyrics too hard for my
tastes.
He's a Rhodes Scholar and somehow, I can never forget that
listening to his down home, just-plain-folks songs.
I think he's an excellent actor. His work in STAR IS BORN is
wonderful.
Janis Ian and I once worked together for a week at an L.A.
club called the TROUBADOUR. She was young and so was I. I
don't think either of us were very well developed, musically,
at that point in our careers.
But we were attracting a similar crowd.
I haven't heard her new things.
I leave Don McLean for last because I'm trying to avoid saying
anything unkind. I'll say this: Vincent" is a passionate,
heart-wrenching song. And before I met him, his music could
make me cry.
But I can't be objective about it now. My brief meeting with
him colors my view of the songs. It may well have been as much
me as him -- I was certainly no picnic to be around in those
days -- but I was profoundly dissappointed in him as a human
being. I admired him so much and was stunned by what I
perceived as his rudeness and condescension to me.
Other friends who play music report similar experiences with
him.
Having that view of him robs me of the joy of his art. Too
bad, but that's how it is.
To paraphrase Emerson: What he is speaks so loudly I can't
hear what he sings.
Songwriters I like:
Of the newer breed, Jon Mayer and Jason Mraz stand out.
Contemporaries and near contemporaries (age wise)
Don Henley, Joni Mtchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dan
Fogelberg and Fagen & Becker (Steely Dan).
There's also a woman named Basia who is mysterious and rarely
plays anymore. She puts me on the floor.
And of course, Dylan is in a class all by himself.
So is Stephen Sondheim.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 18
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:25 pm Post subject:
Bob,
I remember once reading that Don McLean was quoted as saying
that he sang "Crying" better than it's auther ...Roy Orbinson.
While that likely says more about him than his music, I never
found either to be particulary interesting.
Were or are you interested in the "urban or protest" singers
like Phil Ochs & Eric Anderson. Phil took me to a whole new
level in my appreciation of folk music which later evolved
into "Folk Rock" ....how could it get any better than that,
the intelligence of lyrics with a beat !!
Bill
since_there_were_circles
Joined: 21 Aug 2004
Posts: 12
Location: FLA
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:51 am Post subject:
Bob... what about Jason Falkner?!
_________________
Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about
her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt
her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but
you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:52 am Post subject: ol' folkies
Phil Ochs was great. Personally, I prefer the Pleasures of the
Harbor (and after) period. Also Tim Hardin was amazing. Both
troubled souls, as all the greats seem to be. Bob, any stories
or opinions on these two
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the skies....
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 99
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:11 am Post subject:
Hey Rob, Unfortunately I knew both these men at a time when
their demons had almost entirely consumed them. Neither was a
pleasure to be around. Both deeply unhappy.
Phil hung around a club called the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
He was very manic. He had this alter-ego, dressed in gold lame
and did a kind of Elvis thing -- onstage and off. If it had
some kind of deeper meaning, or if it was funny in some way,
no one got it. Everyone was just embarrassed for him.
When I knew him he was way out of his prime. Onstage, he was
always getting into argments with people in the audience,
calling them "stupid" that kind of thing.
He didn't seem morose, the way Tim did. But he wasn't at home
in this world. Always ill at ease. Even when he was unpleasant
(and don't misunderstand, he was never anything but polite to
me) no one took offense. Everyone just found him pathetic, not
dangerous or threatening.
Too bad. Because I feel, had he begun to transcend the bind
his style was starting to put him in, he would be writing
great stuff today.
Tim Hardin was a different story. He too was alienating his
friends toward the end of his life. But he was hostile and
almost biker-like. Spikes up all around him. Barbed wire and
an invisible sign that said "Don't get to Close Because I
Might Explode and Kill Both of Us."
I first met him in late '66, I think, in my managers' office.
He was still vital then. Clear-eyed and alive and vibrant.
I had just released "San Francisco Woman" and had come into
the office to see how it was doing. Hardin was there visiting
on some kind of business.
From the moment we were introduced he started getting sullen
and terse. It was as if he had taken an instant dislike to me.
It didn't make any sense. You know those deals where you
examine your behavior and ask yourself what you could've done
to offend someone?
I couldn't come up with anything so I just dismissed it.
Later I ran into a woman who knew him and I told her about our
meeting. "Something about me must have bugged him," I told
her.
And she said, "Jesus, don't you know why he was that way?"
I said I didn't.
She told me he was getting flack from everyone about the
bridge to "If I Was a Carpenter."
I looked at her with these dull-fish eyes. "Huh?"
Turns out people were accusing him of ripping off the melody
on "I Just Let It Take Me."
I certainly never picked up on it. I truly don't think he
stole from me (I'd actually be amazed if he'd ever heard my
song, it went directly into the toilet on the B side of "Truly
Julie's Blues.")
When I heard "Carpenter" next time, I could sort of see how
people felt that way, (the tune on the "save my love through
loneliness, save my love through sorrow" part) but I'm
convinced it was just a coincidence. That stuff happens a lot
with melodic fragments.
Anyway the next time I saw him was years later, just weeks
before he died. I went to see John Sebastian at the Troubadour
and Hardin came. They were old firends. Tim was drunk and
maudlin and looked awful. He was balding on top, shaggy-haired
on the sides and badly bloated. He kept talking to John,
repeating himself over and over.
I was watching/listening from a short distance away and what I
remember most was the kindness in Sebastian's eyes. He was so
patient and non-judgemental. Just let the poor guy gush and
slur and slobber.
Believe it or not, I have never really met John, I just
introduced myself that night and, although he was an idol of
mine (I think "Younger Generation" is brilliant), he had
apparently no idea who I was.
But I'll always remember that patience and kindness in his
eyes as he spoke -- or more correctly listened -- to Tim
Hardin.
Abut a month later, Tim died and there was a memorial for him
at the Troub.
I went, not out of reverence, but because the booze was free.
Everyone got drunk and acted like idiots.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: wild men
Wow, another case of "be careful what you ask for". No,
actually I'm not surprised. I knew both were pretty troubled.
I just read an interview with Tim Hardin, done a couple months
before he died. He sounded pretty bad. But strangely enough,
his Homecoming Concert cd (also just before he died) is
totally beautiful. Kinda like how the Let's Get Lost
soundtrack (Chet Baker) is some of Chet's most emotional
singing, not long before he died. Well thankfully, the sad
stories fade away, but the music lives on loud and clear.
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....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
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Guest
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject:
Welcome to the board, Frank. Good to have you with us.
Sorry, I don't think I've ever even seen that single, much
less owned it.
Good luck finding it. Maybe one of the Lind enthusiasts on
this forum will respond. A lot of them keep surprising me with
music of mine that I had either forgotten or never knew about.
I'm far more interested in where I'm going than where I've
been, but I'm grateful for you people with the long memories
and the dedicated interest in my career.
Stay with us.
Guest
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject:
The "guest" is me, BTW, Lind.
Guest
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:30 am Post subject:
no new music in three decades-kind of hard to talk about new
stuff. all those old songs were once "where you were going".
you need to embrace them rather than consider them wicked
stepchildren. they're all you're represented by as far as the
general public goes. four albums and a couple assorted singles
in four decades. some people run-some people crawl-time oh
time-where did you go?
fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:39 am Post subject: New songs
!!
Bob, the long bridges of time can be easily be shortened with
new music from you...fans "cling" to the old, but wait
enthusiasticly for MORE!!!! What, if any, contact have you had
or still have, with John Gummoe? He also has a website that,
like yours, keeps fan up-to-date on activities...and since
you're in FLA do you ever encounter Bobby Goldsboro?
~ Frank
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 108
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:50 am Post subject:
To Frank and the Guest who posted above him:
Thanks, both of you. I can always tell when I'm hearing the
truth. My jaw clenches, my chest gets tight and I think of all
kinds of arguments to show the person talking to me how
stupidly wrong he is.
The higher my body temperature goes, the greater the odds he's
onto something.
To Guest: You're absolutely right about no product. I can see
how empty it sounds listening to a guy disowning the past when
he's not showing you anything in the present.
Of course I have scads of new songs -- as you may know from
reading other posts on this board from people who have heard
me perform this year. And the new songs are so much better
than the old ones that when I listen to the WORLD PACIFIC
stuff . . . well... I don't know how old you are, but maybe
you can relate to looking at your picture in your high school
yearbook. Maybe you had some wise-ass haircut, wearing some
hopelessly outdated shirt you thought was tres cool at the
time, smiling like you're God's Gift To.... And from your
present vantage point all you can do is cringe.
It's not that you weren't your absolute best at the time, it's
just that you've reached a point at which your best at that
time looks a little silly, a little embarrassing.
That's how I feel about the old stuff.
But, that said, you certainly deserve something in the way of
new recorded material.
The difficulties of finding the right producer, the right
situation, the right musicians sound like lame excuses, (Other
guys manage.) but they're the best I can offer at this point.
I've just gotten back into performing this year.
All I can say -- to both of you; Guest AND Frank -- is that I
promise to have something out there next year.
Don't give up on me.
I'm rollin.
Meanwhile, I hope you'll listen to the songs on the Playlist.
Get past the recording quality if you can.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 5:31 am Post subject: criticism
Frank, There's a reason for everything. Everyone's lives
aren't ruled by their careers. What's that old saying?
Something like "life gets in the way when you're trying to
have a career." I'm sure there was a period of time when Bob
just wasn't in the right state-of-mind to put out new music.
He did continue to write, and I know for a fact that music is
his greatest love. You can just see it when he performs....
...and personally, I'll take quality over quantity anytime.
Keep Rockin' Bob
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....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:
There was always quality in everything Bob has done...and I
can "wish" for both because I won't have to choose one over
the other...quantity of Bob Lind's work = quality times
10...there is no moderation needed when I listen to
BL...Timeless and Great!...and I want MORE! Period....when Bob
is good and ready!
~ Frank.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 21
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject:
"Artists" deliver when they are ready!! They provide us ...and
themselves (the two not being mutually exclusive)...with art
not product. I am just happy to know Bob is doing well and so
willing to share his thoughts, observations and music with us
still. For years and right up to this day, when I am uncertain
as to what to listen to, I still turn to Bob. I have listened
to his tunes thousands of times and will listen to them a
thousand times again. We the "listeners" always want more. I
wished for 20 years and was rewarded with "The Best Of"
.....wow stereo with bonus tracks to boot. I waited 25 years
and actually purchased "Since There Were Circles." I will wish
for more but am content with what I have.
Bill
Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 16
Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject:
Based purely on Bob's already existing recordings, that's
enough to sell me on the idea that new Bob music will be well
worth the wait. I think it's great how Bob has even posted
demos of new songs as a sneak peak for what's to come. For
whatever the reason may be, artists make their comebacks when
they are good and ready. Look at Brian Wilson as an
example...locked in his room for years, shying away from
touring and his role as leader of the Beach Boys/musical
genius. Now he's doing extensive touring in back of an album,
"Smile," which was to be his masterwork when he was 24 years
old. Strange things happen in the wonderful world of music,
but it's great to be a fan when they do.
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 21
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:
"Sail on Sail on Sailor" .....Bill
Rodger Thompson
Joined: 30 Sep 2004
Posts: 6
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 1:49 am Post subject:
Hey Bob! Did you say scads of new songs? Wonderful news,
wonderful news indeed. I love the old stuff, love the new
stuff...Heck! If it's Lind's stuff, I'm as happy as a mosquito
in a nudist colony. I connect so completely with all your
music. I think we share a cosmic connection. After all, we
both were born the same month, in the same year, in the same
city...I didn't live there long either. So glad you're finally
back...a true Christmas present received early.
Rodger Thompson (Big-Time fan in NC)
Liz
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 14
Location: GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: 'Wicked
Stepchildren"
Bob,
Your new music is not “better” than the old – it is just
different. The old music was right for the times – it was
right for you and it was right for us – the fans. Don’t forget
we got on board with you DECADES ago on the strength of the
“wicked stepchildren”. We will never disown them and we are
still here on the other end of a long dry journey!! Just as
that haircut (or whatever) may look funny to you now, your
present haircut would not have turned me on then! You have no
way of knowing what precious memories and emotions those songs
evoke in us. Saying that they are bad could just cast
aspersions on our taste and musical intelligence. Where you
(and we) have been is what shaped us, and what is shaping the
new stuff you are creating now. Your job, today, is to bring
us along with you as your music develops and changes.
Hopefully (and so far it appears to be so) we are all still on
the same musical and lyrical track. Listen to your fans Bob -
we're saying it like it is! I'm still on board!
_________________
"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time" so "Take
off your lies, they don't match with your eyes".
Rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:19 am Post subject: roads of
anger?
The name of this thread turned out to be quite appropriate,
after all .....Liz, Bob never used the words "wicked
stepchildren", someone else did. But I remember when I read
the song-by-song liner notes in the Best Of CD. Bob's
extremely critical comments on his old songs almost ruined the
music for me. I wondered why he wasn't at a point where he
could at least just view them as charming relics of his youth.
After all, 30+ years later, of course we would assume that
he's made alot of musical progression since the 60's. When I
just put it down to "a person is usually their own worst
critic", and "no-one ever sees themselves the way other people
do", I was able to enjoy the music again. Don't let anyone's
comments affect your gut reactions to the old music. Those
emotions are yours alone, and are true and sacred.
_________________
....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 16
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 5:27 am Post subject:
In my experiences, it can usually turn out to be a good thing
when an artist doesn't like his own work (from the past). Bob
seems like a very selfless musician and is willing to
continually leave room for improvement. Just like Bob said,
not that he wasn't the absolute best he could be in the
1960's, he's come a long way since. It's the proverbial
"artist's challenge" that sometimes results in his best work.
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Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 108
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:36 am Post subject: Long-Time
Woman
I've had so many e-mails from people asking me about the song
newly posted in video format on the TOURS PAGE, I decided the
easiest thing to do is to post a thread about it here.
"Long-Time Woman" is an old song, late 1966. This video was
done in the early 90s, when I went up to Massachusetts to
visit Jackie and Arlo Guthrie on their farm in the Berkshires.
Jackie turned the camera on and said, "Why don't you sing a
few songs?" I started playing and she taped me for about three
days straight. I sang up every song I knew, to paraphrase
Kristofferson.
At some point, Jackie asked me to play "L-TW." I hadn't played
it in about 10 years. I'm amazed I even remembered it.
I never expected the clip would end up on my website. (No one
knew there even WERE such things as websites then.)
But Jackie and grant have conspired behind my back and put it
up. Now I'm stuck with it.
First the words, then the story.
I've heard from others that the lyrics don't come through
completely clear on the MP3.
LONG-TIME WOMAN
Sorrow is a long-time woman
Resting on a nowdays mind.
When her vision haunts your mornings,
Tears will not be far behind.
In the time that grows between you,
You may try a thousand times.
But you will not erase her image
With your one-night valentines.
One sad question never leaves your mind:
"Could we have made it if we'd tried
Just one more time?"
Love may come again
To find you younger than you thought you were.
But never will your long-time woman
Leave the place you've made for her.
Like a lot of my songs, this one's prophetic. It was written
before the event that inspired it.
I was with a God's-Gift, once-in-a-lifetime woman then and I
didn't know how to handle the good fortune the fates had
handed me. I knew I was pushing her away, but I didn't know
how to stop. I was a drunken speed-freak without a clue about
how to carry on a relationship with a woman who possessed a
genuine capacity for love.
I stayed up all night writing this song and in the morning I
played it for my woman and a friend who was staying with us.
We were all crying and I thought, "Whoa! What's this all
about?"
About six months later, I figured it out. I was -- deservedly
-- alone, and the song had acquired....shall we say, "special
meaning" for me.
Of tangential interest: I never in a million years would have
suspected that anyone would cover this song. It seemed too
intensely jagged and personal.
And I certainly never thought a woman would want to sing it.
But Nancy Sinatra completely blew me away. I never
particularly respected her. But to my utter amazement, she cut
the song on her NANCY album and, of the 200-plus covers of my
songs, it endures as one of my favorites.
She renders it with such no-bullshit sensitivity -- a total
lack of showiness. Just straight ahead honesty. Man!
Lately, I've begun doing the song in person again. Sometimes,
I sing an extra verse:
"After all the one-more-chances
Drift away on tides of change,
Love is gone, but still you tremble
When somebody speaks her name."
Overkill, I realize. But if I'm feeling particularly maudlin
and cry-in-your-beer, I sing it.
NOTE: The adjective "cry-in-your-beer" is figuratve. Many of
you know that this July (2005) I'll celebrate 28 years clean
and sober.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 80
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:02 am Post subject:
Wow, amazing post! Congrats on the long sobriety....good for
you. OK, I'm on my way over with a case of non-alcoholic beer.
Long Time Woman is a great song...I know it was never
released, but was it recorded for World Pacific back in the
day? Haven't heard Nancy's version, and I'm not really a fan
of hers, but sometimes she does have a knack for being really
centered and no-frills with some songs....she probably learned
that from Lee.
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....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
Elizabeth
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
Posts: 10
Location: Houston, TX
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:06 am Post subject:
The song is beautiful. I've played it about 50 times now.
Thank you for posting about it and thank you for your awesome
talent.
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Seeker2be@aol.com
Guest
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: Branch of
dead leaves and other haunting songs and gratitude
Bob: Thank you for your wonderful haunting songs, all the
times at the Ice House I didnt miss, all the times at the
Troubador and thanks for doing the LA Free Clinic benefit with
Hoyt Axton at USC I really loved both your spirits. You had so
many songs on demo records I listened to in your house in LA.
I wish I had them all now. I loved Branch of Dead Leaves , one
of your best. I wish I had a copy of that . It still rings in
my mind "obligation scares you your hung up on stringless
living. Why can't you see your only free to walk around your
prison dragging your branch of dead leaves....: Love It!!!
You inspired my life and career hurdles with your songs. I
have all your albums. I loved Since there were circles and
want to convert that record to a CD. Many many Songs so great
so many unrecorded or published. What a shame. Too bad you
dont put all those master records together and sell them on
line. I would gladly buy them as I am sure would others. Thank
you for inspiring me the many lonely nights I spent in Mexico
going to Medical School. You always saw things in a fresher
light yet no one noticed your brilliance. You lighted my
career. Thanks Ed Hackie MD
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 138
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject:
Hi Ed. Strange what one remembers and what one forgets. I do
indeed recall that Free Clinic Benefit with Hoyt. But can't
exactly place you.
You stun me, however, with what YOU remember. Man! "Branch of
Dead Leaves." I don't think I've thought of that song in 30
years. And the fact that you not only remember it but can
quote from it.... Well, it means you took considerably fewer
drugs than I did during that turbulent decade.
I appreciate your words about the Troub and Ice House shows.
And I hope I get to your neck of the woods because I feel I'm
performing, writing and singing far better now than I did
Circa 1966-1971.
If you haven't done so yet, please checkout the demos on the
Playlist section of this board.
Keep posting here. Always glad to hear from a 60s survivor --
and bonus points that you made it through med school. My fan,
the doctah. My mother will be so proud.
All the best, Bob
Seeker2be@aol.com
Guest
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject: Some lyrics
Branch of Dead Leaves
Though I have sung what I remember of this song to myself for
30 years I dont remember it all or if I have it correctly. I
wish I did. Here is what I remember. By the way my friend Ken
and I came over to your house in LA and spent time on the
Trampoline in your yard. ED
Branch of Dead leaves:
Child of the Afternoon , where will you be tomorrow? You've
got so much love inside yourself but too much pride to
borrow... Why can't you see your'e only free to walk around
your prison . Your not crippled... with life inside you.
Dragging your branch of dead leaves....
The ones who turn their backs on you are easily forgiven.
Obligation scares you , You're hung up on stringless living.
Why can't you see your ownly free to walk around your prison?
you with love inside you. Dragging your branch of deadleaves.
Dragging your branch of dead leaves.
I wish I remembered the rest.
Dale
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 18
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: trampoline
Hey, Ed....I remember that trampoline too. I almost killed
myself on it. Of course, a bottle of rye whiskey played a big
part in my lack of coordination. Thank goodness I've matured
since then. Yeah, right......
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 95
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: Dead Leaves
and the Dirty Ground, wait, that's White Stripes
WOW! Now that's a demo that would GLADLY have me reaching for
my wallet..........Bob, do you seriously have tons of older
demos still intact? Cuz' you might consider putting them
babies to CD and selling them to the willing and eager among
us......of which there are many! Just do it! Life is short!
Time's-a-tickin'......someone really needs to check into these
clocks.....they're all running way too fast.
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....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
Seeker2be@aol.com
Guest
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:53 am Post subject: We need an
Anthology
Bob : There was another song about Blue, salty Blue or
something. Many wonderful demos I listened to in 1968. This
wonderful music should not be lost in the dust somewhere.
Interestingly enough I was looking up Hoyt Axton's music
yesterday and found
this:http://www.hoytsmusic.com/treasure.htm Worth the read.
The process can work an Anthology of your wonderful music too
so it is not lost. Thanks, Ed
Seeker2be
Guest
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: Another
simple request
Bob: Think about Ferris mastering where they turn records into
CD's with remastering clean up.
http://www.ferrismastering.com/ I would be overjoyed to donate
a couple of hundred dollars to this worthwhile project to get
your wonderful Demo record and other concert music of the 70's
onto CDs. You dont have the time to do the work yourself while
creating and evolving more music. I think all of us fans are
clamoring for the Lost Lind music . I was reading a Hoyt Axton
site: http://www.hoytsmusic.com/treasure.htm. The efforts to
preserve his music chronicled there were extra ordinary and
worth the sobering read. One of the CD's even has a cut that
even talks about you, Bob Lind. So music like the days and
nights and heartbeats of all of us are intertwined if you look
for the genealogy. There is an errie message there from the
Grave... Save the beauty and your music for posterity or it
might be lost. We love your music, your talent, your creative
genius. Please dont let the past wonderful demo music be lost
in a dusty closet! I knew what a treasure it was when I
listened to all those Demo disks in LA in 1968. An
appreciative fan, Ed
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 138
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:53 pm Post subject:
Hey Ed, Thanks for your enthusiasm and the offer of financial
help. But save your money for Christmas when (knock wood) the
new CD will be out and available. Then you can plunk down
those C notes for gift albums for all your many friends and
patients.
Again, I urge you to listen to the new music in the playlist
section.
I loved Hoyt and I'm glad his old stuff has been reissued.
But there's a major difference between Hoyt and me:
I'm still alive.
I don't plan on dying in the next few minutes and the
songwriting machinery still churns boys (Rob, I'm including
you in this).
Meanwhile:
SALTY BLUE
Four o'clock the doors are locked
And all my friends are gone
My silver strings will spin and ring,
Long into the dawn.
I can't stop now.
Salty Blue. I'm blaming you.
Everyone was tired or they had someplace to be
No one seemed to want to keep the party going but me
So here I am
Shining through Salty Blue.
There are a couple more verses but they're gone. Jackie, Dale
or one of the other 60s vets may remember. But I'm in forward
gear.
Seeker2be@aol.com
Guest
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: Salty Blue
Wow!!! After listening to your Demo disk 30 years ago I at
least remembered the name Salty Blue. Thanks for completing
and helping me relive that memory. Loved that song too. Ed
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject: Cd purchase
Hi Bob,
can you tell me where I can order at one reasonable price
(not on amazon...) one of your "best of Cd" ?
Unfortunately I can't find any source over here.
Thanks & have a great day!
Greetings from Germany
Carlo
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 186
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:15 am Post subject:
Hey Carlo, welcome to the message board. It's good to have you
with us. Thanks for helping to make this forum International.
We have some other people from Germany here as well as members
from England, South Africa, Australia and Brazil.
It's great to feel like I'm reaching into the wider world.
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print. That's
going to change very very soon. But for now, let me suggest
that you keep coming back to this thread. People here are
extremely generous with Bob Lind music and I wouldn't be
surprised if you heard from someone who will sell you a disc
at a very reasonable price. Some people here have even been
known to burn Lind CDs and give them away.
Thanks again for joining us Carlo. Stay close.
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 135
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:47 am Post subject:
Lind wrote:
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print.
That's going to change very very soon.
Ahem ........someone has some beans to spill........hope we
don't have to wait much longer for this info.
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...what has become of me? My eyes refuse to see....oh babe,
take my hand, lead me back where the road be
bill
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 55
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:
Agreed !!!! Tick Tick Tick ....Bill
Seeker2be
Guest
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: Best of Bob
Lind
I have 2 original copies and would be happy to burn you one .
Let me know. Seeker2be@aol.com
oldcapellon
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Germany
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: Re: Best of
Bob Lind
Seeker2be wrote:
I have 2 original copies and would be happy to burn you
one . Let me know. Seeker2be@aol.com
! You made my Day !
I'll send you an e-mail...
Thanks !
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....and the beat goes on!
oldcapellon
Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Germany
Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:
Lind wrote:
Hey Carlo, welcome to the message board. It's good to
have you with us. Thanks for helping to make this forum
International. We have some other people from Germany
here as well as members from England, South Africa,
Australia and Brazil.
It's great to feel like I'm reaching into the wider
world.
Sorry to say all my CDs are currently out of print.
That's going to change very very soon. But for now, let
me suggest that you keep coming back to this thread.
People here are extremely generous with Bob Lind music
and I wouldn't be surprised if you heard from someone
who will sell you a disc at a very reasonable price.
Some people here have even been known to burn Lind CDs
and give them away.
Thanks again for joining us Carlo. Stay close.
Thanks Bob !
I'll stay on the loop..
Ciao
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....and the beat goes on!
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:42 pm Post subject: new demos
The.......3........new demos sound great! Never Even There
isn't working yet.......great music, Bob!
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the skies....
rob68
Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 73
Location: Michigan USA
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: never even
there
....working now, thanks!
_________________
....Man moving out of the darkness, minds reaching free for
the skies....
ChuckB
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Ohio
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:44 pm Post subject: Greetings
from Ohio...
Bob,
I cannot tell you how pleased I am to hear your voice again,
and that it is as clear and true as ever. I produce several
Internet radio shows, partnered with my two best friends. One
of them, Frank Kramer, purchased your new CD, and I just
visited him yesterday and we listened to your CD. You might
remember Frank as "the 45's man". I am the "charts man", as I
have every song to hit the Billboard Hot 100 since 1955.
Between the two of us, we have a tremendous amount of music
and take great delight in sharing as many as possible with our
worldwide audience.
I do a lot of "theme" shows, and last week, my show was called
"songs about walking" which was a theme suggested by a local
listener. All the songs had the word "walk" in the title, and
you were represented just before the end of my first hour with
"I Can't Walk The Roads Of Anger" which I remember fondly from
your World Pacific days.
I was in the Air Force when your albums came out, and while I
loved "Elusive Butterfly" my two favorites were "Remember The
Rain" and "Counting". I was stationed at Clark AFB in the
Phillipines and damn near wore out your albums.
You have a link for John Claude Gummoe's website, and I was
fortunate enough to interview John (a native Clevelander) on a
"spotlight" show I did quite a few years back. If you're
interested, we'd love to do a spotlight show on you also. All
I need is a phone interview, since I'm the producer, host, PD,
and clean-up guy all rolled up into one.
We are broadcasting via a friends station for now, but we hope
to launch our own 24/7 station in September. As our name
implies, Songs You Should Have Heard, we don't shy away from
unknown artists. If it's a great song, we play it. Plus, we
play songs that hit the charts that haven't been on radio for
over 40 years. It's great fun, and I've made a bunch of great
new friends from the experience.
Keep singing Bob, you are a true poet and wordsmith, and if
there's one thing we need in our society right now is a lot
more romanticisn. We have enough cynicism, arrogance and
hatred to last forever, we need more innocence, truth and
love. More songs and lyrics from you should fill the bill.
I heard you comment that you stopped writing protest songs,
but our country needs you. We need a hero... a knight in
shining armor with three words on his crest... common sense,
creativity, and courage, to fight the dragon of Corporatism.
This struggle is a song waiting to be written. If we lose this
battle, we'll become another France... and all the cheese and
wine in the world isn't worth that! Help us Bob, write a song
to preserve Democracy.
Sorry for the display of passion, I realize that's not
politically correct or acceptable either...
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Songs You Should Have Heard
LegatoCafe.net
JohnB
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Posts: 3
Location: Meridian MS
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:
Hey Chuck, thanks for expressing some things I've had on my
own mind lately, namely the evils of the Mega-Corporations. We
are in trouble in this country, and we are lied to and shafted
at every turn. We DO need a torchbearer whose message will
reach the people who want to make a difference.
Now a question: how and where can I tune in to your broadcast
in Mississippi? Thanks, and keep it up!
ChuckB
Joined: 23 Mar 2006
Posts: 2
Location: Ohio
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:50 pm Post subject:
John,
Thanks for your comments. Politicians, no matter the party are
NOT going to help us. Corporations, through lobbyists has
bought and paid for the power they wield over us. We are being
poisoned by chemicals by the food industry and the
pharmaceutical industry comes to the rescue with pills to
counterbalance the damage that the government should'nt have
allowed in the first place.
I am the father of four, grandfather of four. Three are
college graduates and one is about 2/3 of the way towards a
degree. When they get them, unless they are "professionals" or
get a doctorate, it just means their resume gets bumped up to
the top at Wal-Mart. The greed, outsourcing and destruction of
the US economy just sickens me, and yet we elected the
politicians that let it happen. This is NOT a liberal,
conservative, Democrat or Republican problem, it is an
AMERICAN problem.
In 1966, when I was enjoying Bob's songs so much, I was
serving in Air Force Intelligence. When I got out, I not only
had jobs to pursue, I actually had career paths to pursue. I
chose the computer industry, and did just fine until my age
caught up with me. At FORTY-FIVE, I was cast aside...making
too much, and over qualified. When I turned 50, I turned to my
love of music and created a radio show. I then became
acquainted with the power and politics of the radio industry
and after four years found myself on the outside looking in
once again.
I have bee
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
Hey Liz, Look at you go! Thanks for storing all this stuff and hauling it out for us.
I'm not even going to ask how you backed it all up like that. I'd never be able to follow it anyway.
I'm just glad you did.
As I've said elsewhere, in a few weeks we'll see if we can retrieve the old board. Call it wishful thinking, but there are some people who believe it's possible. We just need grant back tanned, rested and ready to webmonkey it into action.
Meanwhile, your backup is certainly the next best thing.
Luv,
Bob
I'm not even going to ask how you backed it all up like that. I'd never be able to follow it anyway.
I'm just glad you did.
As I've said elsewhere, in a few weeks we'll see if we can retrieve the old board. Call it wishful thinking, but there are some people who believe it's possible. We just need grant back tanned, rested and ready to webmonkey it into action.
Meanwhile, your backup is certainly the next best thing.
Luv,
Bob
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Here's some more.
Hi Bob, you and I seem to be on the board at the same time - thanks for the CD's and the nice words. As usual what I am hearing is sheer poetry!
Here is some more stuff, unfortunately I don;t know the dates, but for the most part, the authors are there.
Lots of love, L
Here is some more stuff, unfortunately I don;t know the dates, but for the most part, the authors are there.
Lots of love, L
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
A bit more ....
Bob Lind's Message Board :: View topic - Lind songs not recorded by Bob...Bob
Lind's Message Board
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:
Hey Matt and Bill,
Bill, you never have to apologize for asking questions here.
Surely you must know that by now. Sometimes people e-mail me
asking about this stuff and I just don't have time to answer
them one to one.
That's why this forum is so great. I'm sure other people have
the same questions.
To answer you. I very rarely write with a specific artist in
mind. Almost never. Cher was an exception. When I first got to
L.A., I signed with Metric Music -- the publishing arm of
Liberty Records. They advanced me a staggering $50 a month.
Coming from scuffling nickel-dime coffee house gigs, living
hand to mouth in the San Francisco Market Street area, it felt
like a fortune. I couldn't believe someone would pay me real
money to write songs (which was what I was doing free,
anyway).
So I treated it like a job.
When Lenny Waronker told me Cher was looking for a new song, I
conscientiously got all her records and listened to her voice
and the way she liked to sing.
I wrote "Come To Your Window" for her and she recorded it.
Years later, I wrote "Bring It All Down" with her in mind.
Judging by some of her newer songs, I thought she was ready to
make a stretch from bubble-gum lyrics to something deeper.
I was signed with Greene and Stone at that time, the personal
managers who once handled Sonny and Cher. There was some bad
blood between S & C and G & S. So I'm not sure if it was a
personal thing, or if she just didn't like the tune.
Another factor, Sonny held Svengali-like sway over Cher's
musical decisions and he was pretty much into simple
predigested teeny-bopper lyrics at that time (See "Bang Bang"
and "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves")
But for whatever reason, she passed on it.
Months later, when Jack was cutting the Satisfactions, he
remembered the song and recorded it with them.
Mostly the way these thing happen is that I'll write a song
for me to sing, then look at it later and say, "Wow, so-and-so
could do this." That's what happened with "How the Nights Can
Fly." I knew Richie Havens would be perfect for the song.
I think I posted that story elsewhere on this forum.
Or what happens more often, an artist I would never dream of
comes a long and records one of my tunes. That happened when
Keith Relf and Eric Clapton recorded Mr. Zero. It's such a
subjective, personal song I couldn't imagine that anyone would
cover it. But they did.
Good artists take songs they like and make them work in their
style. Some writers don't like that. But I love it when
someone takes one of my songs and makes it her/his own.
Matt, Pat Ford never seriously pursued a music career. To my
knowledge he never cut the song. It just stands out in my mind
because he was the first "other" person to sing a Lind song.
Simon
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
Posts: 29
Location: UK
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:
Hi Bob. You know my views about Mr Zero; it wasn't bettered by
much in the 60's. But unless you know something I don't, I
can't see Eric Clapton being the guitarist on Mr Zero. There's
too much against the idea - not least the fact that Clapton
wasn't anywhere near to being a competent session guitarist.
Also, Eric Clapton had left the Yardbirds over a year prior to
the release of Keith Relf's version of Mr Zero, and been
replaced by Jeff Beck - a superior guitarist. The likeliest
candidate would have been the superb session guitarist Jimmy
Page, who worked on countless 60's records, and actually
joined The Yardbirds shortly after Keith Relf's solo release
of Mr Zero.
Eric Clapton was the 2nd most over-rated guitarist I saw in
the 60's, and I didn't miss much in the UK in middle years of
the decade.
Sadly, Keith Relf's Mr Zero scores in the "dubious honour"
department. It entered in the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles as
one of the least successful chart hits, aong with nine others
between 1960 and 1978. A travesty of justice.
_________________
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
bob_32_116
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Posts: 20
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: Covers,
guitarists etc.
Interesting thread, and an interesting post from Simon.
Occasionally I hear a cover version that I think sounds better
than the original. Dylan is the most obvious example of this -
he has written some fine songs but he is not the greatest
singer around. I have not heard Relf & Clapton's version of Mr
Zero so I cannot compare it to Mr Lind's, but I am trying to
imagine how it would sound... something like Hendrix doing All
Along the Watchtower?
Without wanting to enter the argument about Eric Clapton vs
Jeff Beck, I believe Clapton deserves immortality solely for
the opening riff of Layla, even if he had never done anything
else. I remember seeing Clapton & Beck perform together at
Live Aid, so it appears there was no bad blood between them,
or if there was, they had patched things up by then.
I am always intrigued when an artist covers a song that I
like, changing the style completely, and comes up with
something that sounds totally different yet equally good. i am
thinking of Crosby, Stills etc.'s cover of Joni Mitchell's
Woodstock, and of Judy Collins doing Donovan's Sunny Goodge
Street.
I hesitate to ask, Simon, I hope this does not open up angst
on the board, but - who was your FIRST most over-rated
guitarist of the period?
Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 23
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:
Thanks for the response Bob...I thought I'd chime in again
with Keith Relf's version of "Mr.Zero"...which is far inferior
to the original. Aside from me being a much bigger fan of
Bob's voice than Relf's, I hated how he cut out one of the
verses in his version. It really scraps the story and the
imagery of the song. I also prefer how Bob's version begins
with the acoustic guitar followed by the harpsichord, as
opposed to Relf's opening of electric bass and chimes. Didn't
really think "Mr. Zero" was done any justice on that one.
Lind's Message Board
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject:
Hey Matt and Bill,
Bill, you never have to apologize for asking questions here.
Surely you must know that by now. Sometimes people e-mail me
asking about this stuff and I just don't have time to answer
them one to one.
That's why this forum is so great. I'm sure other people have
the same questions.
To answer you. I very rarely write with a specific artist in
mind. Almost never. Cher was an exception. When I first got to
L.A., I signed with Metric Music -- the publishing arm of
Liberty Records. They advanced me a staggering $50 a month.
Coming from scuffling nickel-dime coffee house gigs, living
hand to mouth in the San Francisco Market Street area, it felt
like a fortune. I couldn't believe someone would pay me real
money to write songs (which was what I was doing free,
anyway).
So I treated it like a job.
When Lenny Waronker told me Cher was looking for a new song, I
conscientiously got all her records and listened to her voice
and the way she liked to sing.
I wrote "Come To Your Window" for her and she recorded it.
Years later, I wrote "Bring It All Down" with her in mind.
Judging by some of her newer songs, I thought she was ready to
make a stretch from bubble-gum lyrics to something deeper.
I was signed with Greene and Stone at that time, the personal
managers who once handled Sonny and Cher. There was some bad
blood between S & C and G & S. So I'm not sure if it was a
personal thing, or if she just didn't like the tune.
Another factor, Sonny held Svengali-like sway over Cher's
musical decisions and he was pretty much into simple
predigested teeny-bopper lyrics at that time (See "Bang Bang"
and "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves")
But for whatever reason, she passed on it.
Months later, when Jack was cutting the Satisfactions, he
remembered the song and recorded it with them.
Mostly the way these thing happen is that I'll write a song
for me to sing, then look at it later and say, "Wow, so-and-so
could do this." That's what happened with "How the Nights Can
Fly." I knew Richie Havens would be perfect for the song.
I think I posted that story elsewhere on this forum.
Or what happens more often, an artist I would never dream of
comes a long and records one of my tunes. That happened when
Keith Relf and Eric Clapton recorded Mr. Zero. It's such a
subjective, personal song I couldn't imagine that anyone would
cover it. But they did.
Good artists take songs they like and make them work in their
style. Some writers don't like that. But I love it when
someone takes one of my songs and makes it her/his own.
Matt, Pat Ford never seriously pursued a music career. To my
knowledge he never cut the song. It just stands out in my mind
because he was the first "other" person to sing a Lind song.
Simon
Joined: 07 Jun 2005
Posts: 29
Location: UK
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject:
Hi Bob. You know my views about Mr Zero; it wasn't bettered by
much in the 60's. But unless you know something I don't, I
can't see Eric Clapton being the guitarist on Mr Zero. There's
too much against the idea - not least the fact that Clapton
wasn't anywhere near to being a competent session guitarist.
Also, Eric Clapton had left the Yardbirds over a year prior to
the release of Keith Relf's version of Mr Zero, and been
replaced by Jeff Beck - a superior guitarist. The likeliest
candidate would have been the superb session guitarist Jimmy
Page, who worked on countless 60's records, and actually
joined The Yardbirds shortly after Keith Relf's solo release
of Mr Zero.
Eric Clapton was the 2nd most over-rated guitarist I saw in
the 60's, and I didn't miss much in the UK in middle years of
the decade.
Sadly, Keith Relf's Mr Zero scores in the "dubious honour"
department. It entered in the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles as
one of the least successful chart hits, aong with nine others
between 1960 and 1978. A travesty of justice.
_________________
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
bob_32_116
Joined: 07 Aug 2005
Posts: 20
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:49 am Post subject: Covers,
guitarists etc.
Interesting thread, and an interesting post from Simon.
Occasionally I hear a cover version that I think sounds better
than the original. Dylan is the most obvious example of this -
he has written some fine songs but he is not the greatest
singer around. I have not heard Relf & Clapton's version of Mr
Zero so I cannot compare it to Mr Lind's, but I am trying to
imagine how it would sound... something like Hendrix doing All
Along the Watchtower?
Without wanting to enter the argument about Eric Clapton vs
Jeff Beck, I believe Clapton deserves immortality solely for
the opening riff of Layla, even if he had never done anything
else. I remember seeing Clapton & Beck perform together at
Live Aid, so it appears there was no bad blood between them,
or if there was, they had patched things up by then.
I am always intrigued when an artist covers a song that I
like, changing the style completely, and comes up with
something that sounds totally different yet equally good. i am
thinking of Crosby, Stills etc.'s cover of Joni Mitchell's
Woodstock, and of Judy Collins doing Donovan's Sunny Goodge
Street.
I hesitate to ask, Simon, I hope this does not open up angst
on the board, but - who was your FIRST most over-rated
guitarist of the period?
Matt
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
Posts: 23
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:
Thanks for the response Bob...I thought I'd chime in again
with Keith Relf's version of "Mr.Zero"...which is far inferior
to the original. Aside from me being a much bigger fan of
Bob's voice than Relf's, I hated how he cut out one of the
verses in his version. It really scraps the story and the
imagery of the song. I also prefer how Bob's version begins
with the acoustic guitar followed by the harpsichord, as
opposed to Relf's opening of electric bass and chimes. Didn't
really think "Mr. Zero" was done any justice on that one.
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
More...
I retrieved a few of the "Top Ten" polls, but can't assign names to all of them.
MUSICERA
1. Eleanor
2. Goodbye Neon Lies
3. How The Nights Can Fly
4. English Afternoon
5. Cheryl’s Goin’ Home
6. City Scenes
7. We’ve Never Spoken
8. Spilling Over
9. A Nameless Request
10. We May Have Touched
Jaimie
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Spilling Over
3. Cheryl's Goin' Home
4. City Scenes
5. Wearing You
6. Sophia's Lullaby
7. West Virgina Summer Child
8. Dale Anne
9. Mr. Zero
10. Theme From the Music Box
6,8 makes your eyes sting
Elizabeth
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Elusive Butterfly
3. Elusive Butterfly
4. Long Time Woman
5. Theme From A Music Box
6. She Can Get Along
7. I Love To Sing
8. Sweet Harriet
9. Cheryl's Going Home
10. Sophia's Lullabye
DaleAnne
1. It's Just My Love
2. Theme From The Music Box
3. China
4. How The Nights Can Fly
5. Laughing Song
6. Roll The Windows Down
7. Anymore
8. Wearing You
9. Elusive Butterfly
10. Elinor
Susanne Gilmore
1. Theme From Music Box
2. Drifter's Sunrise
3. Blossom
4. She Can Get Along
5. West Virginia Summer Child
6. Elusive Butterfly
7. Spilling Over
8. Shine Your Light
9. Go Ask Your Man
10. Not That I Would Want Her Back
Matt
1. Unlock The Door
2. Sweet Harriet
3. Mister Zero
4. San Francisco Woman
5. City Scenes
6. Spilling Over / Drifter's Sunrise (tie)
7. We've Never Spoken
8. Love Came Riding
9. Anymore
10 A Nameless Request
Liz
1. Roads of Anger
2. It's Just My Love
3. Mr. Zero
4. I Just Let it Take Me
5. Home in time for twilight
6. China
7. We've Never Spoken
8. Unlock the Door
9. Remember the Rain
10.Drifter's Sunrise
11.Roll The Windows Down
12.A Nameless Request
Daniel H
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Remember The Rain
3. Never Even There
4. Roll the Windows Down
5. Dale Anne
6. You Should Have Seen It
7. China
8. Cool Summer
9. Home in Time For Twilight
10. Mister Zero
Can anybody recognize these lists???????
1. How The Nights Can Fly
2. Dale Anne
3. May
4. China
5. West Virginia Summer Child
6. Roll The Windows Down
7. Looking For You
8. Elusive Butterfly
9. Mr. Zero
10. Laughing Song
1.How The Nights Can Fly
2.Go Ask Your Man
3.Since There Were Circles
4.China
5.China
6.What Color Are You
7.Anymore
8.How To Get Depressed
9.Mr. Zero
10.City Scenes
1.Oh Babe Take Me Home
2.The World is Just a B Movie Roll The Windows Down.... Elinore
3.Drifters Sunrise
4.Mr Zero
5.San Francisco Woman
6.Remember The Rain
7.Cheryl's Going Home ..Remember this was the intended single !!
8.It's Just My Love
9.Truely Julie's Blues
10.Sweet Harriet
1.Spilling Over
2.Wearing You
3.Counting
4.Mr Zero (Bob's original cut)
5.Roll The Windows Down
6.Dale Anne
7.How The Nights Can Fly
8.The World Is Just A "B" Movie Meets Reno Funtown USA
9.Home In Time For Twilight
10.?
1. Branch of Dead Leaves
2. Long time Woman
3. Its Just My Love
4. You're Good for Me
5. Spilling Over
6. The Sea Will tell me who I am.
7. Counting
8. Elinor
9. Salty Blue
10. I Just let it Take Me
1. I can't walk roads of anger
2. Truly Julie's blues
3. Theme from the music box
4. West Virginia summers child
5. How the nights can fly
6. May
7. Drifters sunrise
8. Roll the windows down
9. Elusive butterfly
10. Sophia's Lullaby
MUSICERA
1. Eleanor
2. Goodbye Neon Lies
3. How The Nights Can Fly
4. English Afternoon
5. Cheryl’s Goin’ Home
6. City Scenes
7. We’ve Never Spoken
8. Spilling Over
9. A Nameless Request
10. We May Have Touched
Jaimie
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Spilling Over
3. Cheryl's Goin' Home
4. City Scenes
5. Wearing You
6. Sophia's Lullaby
7. West Virgina Summer Child
8. Dale Anne
9. Mr. Zero
10. Theme From the Music Box
6,8 makes your eyes sting
Elizabeth
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Elusive Butterfly
3. Elusive Butterfly
4. Long Time Woman
5. Theme From A Music Box
6. She Can Get Along
7. I Love To Sing
8. Sweet Harriet
9. Cheryl's Going Home
10. Sophia's Lullabye
DaleAnne
1. It's Just My Love
2. Theme From The Music Box
3. China
4. How The Nights Can Fly
5. Laughing Song
6. Roll The Windows Down
7. Anymore
8. Wearing You
9. Elusive Butterfly
10. Elinor
Susanne Gilmore
1. Theme From Music Box
2. Drifter's Sunrise
3. Blossom
4. She Can Get Along
5. West Virginia Summer Child
6. Elusive Butterfly
7. Spilling Over
8. Shine Your Light
9. Go Ask Your Man
10. Not That I Would Want Her Back
Matt
1. Unlock The Door
2. Sweet Harriet
3. Mister Zero
4. San Francisco Woman
5. City Scenes
6. Spilling Over / Drifter's Sunrise (tie)
7. We've Never Spoken
8. Love Came Riding
9. Anymore
10 A Nameless Request
Liz
1. Roads of Anger
2. It's Just My Love
3. Mr. Zero
4. I Just Let it Take Me
5. Home in time for twilight
6. China
7. We've Never Spoken
8. Unlock the Door
9. Remember the Rain
10.Drifter's Sunrise
11.Roll The Windows Down
12.A Nameless Request
Daniel H
1. Elusive Butterfly
2. Remember The Rain
3. Never Even There
4. Roll the Windows Down
5. Dale Anne
6. You Should Have Seen It
7. China
8. Cool Summer
9. Home in Time For Twilight
10. Mister Zero
Can anybody recognize these lists???????
1. How The Nights Can Fly
2. Dale Anne
3. May
4. China
5. West Virginia Summer Child
6. Roll The Windows Down
7. Looking For You
8. Elusive Butterfly
9. Mr. Zero
10. Laughing Song
1.How The Nights Can Fly
2.Go Ask Your Man
3.Since There Were Circles
4.China
5.China
6.What Color Are You
7.Anymore
8.How To Get Depressed
9.Mr. Zero
10.City Scenes
1.Oh Babe Take Me Home
2.The World is Just a B Movie Roll The Windows Down.... Elinore
3.Drifters Sunrise
4.Mr Zero
5.San Francisco Woman
6.Remember The Rain
7.Cheryl's Going Home ..Remember this was the intended single !!
8.It's Just My Love
9.Truely Julie's Blues
10.Sweet Harriet
1.Spilling Over
2.Wearing You
3.Counting
4.Mr Zero (Bob's original cut)
5.Roll The Windows Down
6.Dale Anne
7.How The Nights Can Fly
8.The World Is Just A "B" Movie Meets Reno Funtown USA
9.Home In Time For Twilight
10.?
1. Branch of Dead Leaves
2. Long time Woman
3. Its Just My Love
4. You're Good for Me
5. Spilling Over
6. The Sea Will tell me who I am.
7. Counting
8. Elinor
9. Salty Blue
10. I Just let it Take Me
1. I can't walk roads of anger
2. Truly Julie's blues
3. Theme from the music box
4. West Virginia summers child
5. How the nights can fly
6. May
7. Drifters sunrise
8. Roll the windows down
9. Elusive butterfly
10. Sophia's Lullaby
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
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Lost In The Crash
Thanks a bunch, Liz. Trust you to find the one post I was hoping might have disappeared. I feel almost obliged to answer my own post, but I think Bob's still PO'd with me after my last email on the subject of Eric Whatsisname playing on Keith Thinggummybob's record.
For security reasons I've saved thousands of posts from another site where I moderate, but I wouldn't like to find a specific one in a hurry. Trying to save posts in any coherent order - particularly when the site averages 100 posts a day - is next to impossible. Whether the hosting company allow the regular saving of the entire forum is something I don't know; few of them do. EZ doesn't, neither does PPh.
Fingers crossed they can be retrieved.
Simon
For security reasons I've saved thousands of posts from another site where I moderate, but I wouldn't like to find a specific one in a hurry. Trying to save posts in any coherent order - particularly when the site averages 100 posts a day - is next to impossible. Whether the hosting company allow the regular saving of the entire forum is something I don't know; few of them do. EZ doesn't, neither does PPh.
Fingers crossed they can be retrieved.
Simon
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Oh - yes. And that's my top 8 third from the bottom of the list. 9 & 10 were blank; I had a hard enough time choosing 8. I don't know how Spilling Over got on the list; I definitely didn't put it there. Should have been Wearing You - Home In Time For Twilight.
Simon
Simon
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Old Stuff
Hope this is not too jumbled up to understand.... E&OE
fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: Your influences and songsters you listen/listened to?
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Hi, again, Bob. I am always curious who the people whose music I love listen to now and who directly (or indirectly) influenced his/her music...can you shed some light?
~ Frank.
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 77 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:
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Hey Frank,
Thanks for your interest. check out the thread called "Influences."
There are two parts so far and more coming as I get to them.
rob68
joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 60
Location: Michigan USA Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:16 am Post subject: Neon Lies 45
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You're welcome, Rodger ..... And Bob, We May Have Touched was also produced by Mac Davis. A completely gorgeous song! So the lyrics to Goodbye Neon Lies weren't an intentional goodbye to L.A., but things turned out that way anyhow....interesting. I asked (or speculated) about this in another thread (of the same name).....anyway, glad to know the story.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 77 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:
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Hey Rob, Rodger,
Would you believe, people are already asking me about WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED. I don't remember the words.
If one of you has a spare moment, would you post the lyrics here?
I only remember part of the first verse.
Only if the mood strikes.
Thanks in advance.
Thu Dec 09 1:27 "We May Have Touched"/
"Goodbye Neon Lies" Greetings Bob
After all these years, thanks to wonderful people on your message board, I have finally heard these two songs. Some way, somehow you must make these gems available on you site. I'm sure there are many, many fans who have not heard them...it took 30 plus years for me to find them. Would love to hear comments from you about your wonderful "We May Have Touched" Brilliant, Brilliant. Thanks
Rodger Thompson
Thu Dec 09 3:30 am Thank you Rodger. I'm not sure I ever welcomed you to the board. I've seen several posts from you and I'm grateful for them all.
If I neglected to say it before, consider yourself welcomed.
I don't own a copy of that record. Haven't heard it in years.
But I do remember that NEON LIES was the bone of contention that ultimately severed me from WORLD PACIFIC RECORDS.
The song was, I believe my fourth and last single on the label. It was originally three verses long.
Mac Davis and I were friends at this time. This was long before Mac rose to stardom as a songwriter/singer. He was what was then known as a "song plugger" with my publishing company, Metric Music.
We hung out together and, being jam-packed with ambition and charm, he worked his way into the good graces of the powers that be at LIBERTY/WORLD PACIFIC and, with my blessings, was assigned to produce the record.
At this time, my career was ice cold. Jack Nitzsche and I were on the outs and I'm sure the LIBERTY people just figured they had nothing to lose.
So we did the session -- and recorded all three verses.
But when I went in to hear it in WP President Dick Bock's office, I realized a verse had been cut out of it.
"Too long for airplay."
I was furious. No picnic to be around under just about any circumstances, I was a veritable portrait of unpleasantness that afternoon. I ranted and yelled like a complete asshole. I stormed out of Dick's office like the small-minded self-centered jerk I was.
I was angry at Bock. Pissed at the fact that had this been my second single -- the follow-up to "Butterfly" -- he would never have pulled something like that. But now he felt he had the right to snip it.
Well, of course the execs DID have the right. It was their company and they were doing all they could to revive my failing career.
But most of my anger was directed at Mac, who I trusted and considered a friend. I felt betrayed because he never told me.
Time has given me a better perspective on it. I know there was nothing he could have done. But it put an irreparable gap in our friendship.
We never really patched it up, even though he later placed one of my songs "Long Time Woman" with Nancy Sinatra and made a beautiful record of it with her.
Shortly after that I asked for a release and moved to New Mexico.
My intent was to get back to nature.
Instead I fell into a three-year pit of drugs and alcohol.
When I think of the lyrics to that song, it's so ironic. It's like I knew I was going to get out of LA all along. The song itself was like a prophecy for what happened surrounding the song.
I've had that experience often with songs. I write them not knowing (consciously) what they're about. But then later my life unfolds into a situation that the song fits.
It's as though some part of me knows where my life is going. I just have to catch up.
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED is a pretty one isn't it? I don't remember who produced it and have no memory of the session. But I do recall that I thought the rcording caught the spirit of the song.
As near as I can figure, I wrote it about a woman who I won't name here. She's the same one as in "Mr. Zero," "West Virginia Summer's Child" and "We've Never Spoken."
I was terrified of fame and the Los Angeles Music scene. I always felt like a fraud. She was the woman who knew me when and despite the fact that we tore and clawed the hell out of each other's hearts, I continued to see her because I felf oddly safe with her.
She lived in San Francisco and when things got frightening in LA I'd to up to see her. We'd walk through Golden Gate Park and get to the ocean just as the sun was going down. One of those Sundays, I looked at her and realized I'd never really know that innermost part of her.
She was a maddening mystery to me. I could never fathom her. Some people, as you get to know them, their mystery diminishes. With this woman, the mystery only deepens.
I'm still in touch with her and still can't solve her. She's one of those wild creatures that will not be domesticated. You either take them on their own terms or you don't take them at all.
Enough for tonight.
Thu Dec 09 4:18 am We May Have Touched"/
"Goodbye Neon Lies" Bob
Thanks for your quick reply. I appreciate your comments...sheds a great deal of light. Hey, if you would like a copy...just let me know. Heck, I'll sell you the 45 if you've got enough money. (only kidding, only kidding). Seriously, I'd be happy to send you a copy.
Rodger Thompson
Sat Nov 27
5:15 pm BL CD Where-abouts, It's me again ... still searching for a Bob Lind Cd for my sister (remember I lost her Lind album and owe her BIG TIME!!!) I keep searching the internet and Ebay to no avail! Can anyone help so I can be good Santa to her AND make amends?! Thanks! -Amy[/b]
Mon Nov 29 3:38 pm grant Well, we're working on getting CDs for sale directly from the site, but as everything in life, it's slow going.
Mostly, we're concentrating on Since There Were Circles, which has been doctored up and duplicated by the fellow whose name on here is... get ready for it... since there were circles.
You should be able to find CDs of The Best of Bob Lind (you might have heard my footsteps) on Amazon over yonder, if that helps.
Fri Dec 03 5:43 am Someone in Florida has put the Since There Were Circles CD on ebay. ....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud.... rob68
Fri Nov 26, 1:53 am Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to the Bob man Himself Have a great one!.............All the Best - Rob_________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sat Nov 27, 6:17 am Happy Birthday Hi Bob,
At our age birthdays are often Ho-Hum-Yawn - I hope yours was new and exciting and that the next year will be just one long day in the sun!__________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Sun Nov 28, 8:09 pm Rob and Liz,
Aww, shucks. Thanks for remembering. I had a great B'day.
All the best to both of you and I hope your holiday went well. Whoops. Liz, I guess this "holiday stuff" means nothing to you. It's an American thing. Stay close to the board, both of you.
Fri Aug 20,
11:59 am We'll All Go Down Together Well, gosh golly, Bob .... congrats on the website. I was wondering if you've had a chance to revisit "It Takes One (to Understand One)" in your new groove?
"We'll All Go Down Together" is another song of yours that I've played for a few decades now that you didn't put on vinyl but which comes to mind as a possible born again contender. "I hear you gave your new old man the run around / they say the other day he even brought his gun around / desperation on his face at a chain of your lies / all that I can say is that I'm not at all surprised ...."
I was thinking that with its rolling bass line and chord changes, and with that shift from the verse to the swell at the start of the refrain and then that quiet last line of the refrain (at least the way I remember it and have morphed it over time), it might be cool with piano and horn ("We'll all go down together, when it's time to go, and it only matters whether ... we learn from what we know.")
Best always, Lou
Fri Aug 20, 7:50 pm Going Down Together Hey Lou,
You always remind me of these mid-period songs I've forgotten all about. Wait. Let me revise that. I'm hoping the stuff I'm writing now is being written in my early mid-period. How do you remember them? "WE'LL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER" was Bukowski's favorite. For readers who aren't aware of the late L.A. Poet Charles Bukowski, I highly recomend his work. Power, guts and grace. If you like my lyrics, my guess is you'll take to him.
He was a friend for a time, back in my drinking/using days.
Anyway Lou, thanks for logging on. Keep coming back to visit.
Sat Aug 21, 1:02 pm I guess I remember them because they hit me at the time I heard 'em and I've played them on and off ever since.
Plus, remember, I'm younger than you and have had a shorter span of time over which to forget them.
I didn't know you hung with Bukowski. I still love his stuff. I thought he had one of the best poem/book titles ever with "Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
One of my favorite poems of his was "Poems Like Gunslingers. ..." (sit on my refrigerator, tempting me to draw ...) Thanks for the reply.
Mon Aug 23, 6:17 pm For the record, there’s a good Bukowski web page over here: http://www.levee67.com/bukowski/
The links page is especially useful, if you want to read some buk.
Sun Aug 22, 3:26 am LUNA STAR CAFE show 1st Appearance
WOW! dolphin
Sun Aug 22, 2:54 pm Was it a good show? Tell me more. LittleSunflower
Sun Aug 22, 3:39 pm luna star it was a great show. pretty much a full house and Bob put
on a GREAT performance!! old songs and new songs. Elusive
Butterfly and A Song for You were 2 of the songs.
Bob was in great form. dolphin
Sun Aug 22, 3:49 pm I'm so glad. That just makes my day! LittleSunflower
Mon Aug 23, 5:52 pm He has good banter, too. I always appreciate banter when it's done well.
Smooth performance with the guitar, and perfect set up for the room. grant
Thu Nov 04, 10:07 pm Post subject: Spider John & Bob Lind in concert
Funny how things work out. I just read the new Dylan autobiography (Don't miss it BTW, it's great).
In it Dylan praises the fantastic talent of his friend and fellow Minnesotan, blues legend Spider John Koerner. Dylan and Koerner played the same club circuit and even performed together for awhile.
Reading it reminded me of how I used to enjoy Koerner's music back when I was cutting my musical teeth.
One of my friends wore out two copies of the "Blues, Rags and Hollers" album, stealing every one of John's licks.
It made me want to here his music again. From what I've heard, he's evolved tremendously as an artist and is even better today.
Anyway, now that I've hopelessly buried the lead here, let me give it to you before it becomes unreachable: I just got a call from my Florida agent yesterday. Koerner is doing a gig down in Miami on Nov. 12th at the Wallflower Gallery. His opening act cancelled and I've been asked step up and fill in. We'll be splitting the bill.
It's the weekend before my Luna Star show. Check out the tours page.
The Wallflower and Luna Star gigs will feature some of the same songs, but my shows will be different -- lots more material and and a longer set at the Luna. I'm looking forward to both of them. Hope to see you at either or both.
Bob and Rob, A radio show!!!! Concerts!!!!! Wow!!!! Please go ahead, have fun, don’t worry about poor little old me here in S Africa who will never get to see any of this. I hope all the fans realize how lucky they are and make the most of these opportunities. Good luck Bob, I’m so happy for you.
Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:49 am Liz, you can listen to the radio show online at http://www.wlrn.org/ at 2pm (U.S. Eastern Time)on Sunday. I'm assuming Bob's gonna do a couple songs live in the studio, and maybe a short interview. Rob.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:33 pm luna star/wallflower
both shows SHOULD BE GREAT!!!! SPIDER JOHN and BOB LIND on the same stage!!! BE THERE OR YOU ARE NOWHERE! dolphin
Thu Nov 11, 4:37 am concert Hey Bob, Just wanna wish ya good luck with the shows on the 12th and 20th. Wish I was down there!! I'm sure they'll be great. Sock it to Em'. Thanks for the Nilsson response............All The Best, Rob_________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sun Nov 21, 5:16 pm Luna Star Hi Bob and all the others who post here,
What happened at the concerts/shows - why so quiet? Dying to know all. Liz
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Sun Nov 21, 11:52 pm Hi Rob, Liz,
Thanks for your support and interest, both of you.
I usually try to stay out of these threads for awhile, leaving them open for others to post.
For that reason, I'll let last night's LUNA STAR show alone until some people who were there have a chance to post.
As for the Spider John-Bob Lind concert, I had a great time.
The Dolphin was there and he may decide to share some of his own comments later on.
As for me, I think it was a masterstroke of booking. John is ethnic to the gills, traditional, folk blues, hard-driving 12-string guitar in the rural 1920s-30s mode -- I'm a songwriter/singer with folk roots but with a wide variety of influences that come out in unusual ways in my writing and guitar playing.
So on our own, we might well pull in very different audiences.
On the other hand, we ARE drawing from that pool of people who enjoy good acoustic music.
Both of us, in our own different ways, sing with heart and feeling and both of us are totally unique.
I think we both picked up some new fans who might never have seen us were we not co-booked.
It was indeed a very thin crowd, though. Spider John was spread very thin down here in South Florida. He was only around for a week and, understandably, wanted to make as much hay as he could. As a result, he had four gigs booked in as many days -- all within about a 20-mile radius of one another.
As for me, I had the LUNA STAR already set up for the Saturday after.
Bottom line: Neither of us concentrated our efforts on getting fans to the WALLFLOWER, where we'd have to split the gate. [This may sound mercenary, but those are the realities of our business.]
That said, the people who did come were wonderful. I opened and did about 40 minutes. I felt I was well-received and got what felt like a genuine encore.
Spider John was fantastic. If you've never seen the man in person, you're missing the last of a breed. He's effortlessly authentic and dares to do folk songs that, from other artists would look and sound ridiculous. ("Froggy Went A-Courtin'" for instance.) But he plays and sings them with so much hard bark on him that they're simply not the corny songs you learned in music class.
He's also a classy gentleman. We got along well and, speaking for myself, I hope that later, down the road, he and I will maybe do a tour of some of these acoustic venues together.
Another pleasant sidelight of the evening: Michael Stock, whose radio show, FOLK AND ACOUSTIC MUSIC on WLRN Public Radio, is the life-blood of the scene down
here, was in the audience. John and I were both honored to have him.
Guthrie Center Live DVD
Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:25 pm PigeonBoy D.A. was fortunate to have received a copy of this DVD which she loaned to me. I watched it on my computer. I never moved; never blinked. It's a great performance. Great beyond words, even.
"Whenever I see roses...helpless in the rain...my thoughts go turning back to Dale Anne."
Thu Oct 07, 1:14 am Hey P.B.,
Thanks for the kind words and welcome to the board. Good to have you with us.
Fri Nov 05, 7:11 am
rob68 Post subject: DVD Wow, this performance is superb! Wish it was about 20 songs longer. Bob, you still sound amazing. I'm bowled over how you can just sing like that at any given moment...and your comment, "I'll sing my ass off" was so ballsy...great attitude. Some new favorites now are Looking For You (can't wait for the recorded version), and I Love The Way You Lie. Also, your performance of Spilling Over is nothing short of stunning! Too bad a nationwide tour isn't in the works....maybe after the cd is out. Do you ever sing the title track to Since There Were Circles, live? That would completely do me in.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Post subject: Tour Canada.
Tue Nov 16 1:41 am Hello Bob I'm new to this site; it's great to see an artist interacting with his fan base. Do you think it's possible that you may make up here to the Great White North? Toronto has a great folk club called "Hugh's Room" @www.hughsrooom.com check it out I'm sure you have lots of fans up here. Floorbird
Hey FB, Welcome to the board. Thanks for the invitation. I know there's a powerful and time-honored folk-acoustic/folk-rock tradition in Toronto -- it hatched Joni and Neil and Steve Stills. As I remember, Tom Rush hails from around there too, doesn't he? I'd love to get up there. I'll talk to the guy who's been booking me about Hugh's Room and find out what else is in the area that will have the likes of me. Meanwhile, stay close to the forum. It's nice to have you with us.
Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:35 pm Tom Rush. Bob speaking of Tom Rush I saw him just over a year ago at Hugh's Rm in Toronto. He was one of the first artists to cover songs by Joni Mitchell{Circle Game, Urge for Going} still has the chops, I believe he lives in New Hampshire.
SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES CD Re-Issue
Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:17 am Barring a delay with UPS, there will be official copies of the Since There Were Circles CD available at the Luna Star show. Bob will be signing them after the performance. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Mon Nov 01 5:14 am Nilsson Tell me to stop if this is getting old, but just wondered Bob, if you have any opinions or stories on another favorite artist of mine, Harry Nilsson? Rob68
we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:33 am Hey Rob,
You have a knack for asking about the sad ones.
I can't say Harry and I were close, but we knew each other. I had the great fortune to attend one of his recording sessions.
A guy who played B3 organ in my band was doing a session with him and I said, "Man that must be great."
My musician friend (Emmett Kennedy) said it was hard work but that Nilsson never made it seem that way.
The next day Emmett called me and said, "Harry wants to meet you."
Now at this time (it must have been 1972 or so) Nilsson was red hot. The Beatles were singing his praises to everyone and he was at the height of his much-deserved nototiety.
I, one the other hand, was ice cold at this time. So I was surprised Nilsson even knew who I was.
But I came to the studio that night and Nilsson treated me like visiting royalty. Gracious, respectful and genuinely pleased to have me there.
I had heard about his legendary drinking and drugging. (I would see it firsthand later.) But that night, he was straight as the proverbial arrow -- at least as far as I could tell.
Van Dyke Parks was at the session too, playing piano.
Nilsson (no surprise here) is a consummate master in the studio.
I thanked him and left. Later, through some mutual friends (Doug Dillard, Bill "Wild Willy" Martin and some others) I was at some parties where Nilsson was.
One of the most insanely wasted and drunken nights I ever spent was in celebration of the opening of a little diner some mutual friend of ours opened.
Nilsson was there we were all hitting the coke pretty hard.
The party started at around noon. I lost all memory at about 4 p.m.
The next day I woke up, not remembering how I got home. My guitar was missing. I remembered jamming with some other players. But couldn't remember what I'd done with my guitar.
Panicked, I called four or five of my friends who were there. None of them remembered what they did either.
Maybe we were all abducted by aliens.
I got the guitar back two or three days later. Some limo company called and said they'd found it in the trunk of one of their cars. (I didn't have any recollection of being in a limo.)
It was total cerebral detonation for me.
Friends told me it was just another night for Harry Nilsson.
[[Let me apologize in advance for any typos in this thing. Every time I make an entry here, I'm in a hurry. I check them over, but then, when I read them the next day I see I've done some stupid thing like write "here" when I mean "hear." Whatever.
Cut me some slack. I am, in the immortal words of Eric Burden, "just a soul whose intentions are good."]]
Bob,
Referencing your recent comments concerning Phil Ochs. The alter ego he took on later in life was John Train. His biography addressed many of the emotional problems he encountered later in life. Many of which stemmed from his inability to accept his place in comtemporary music, always looking for mass acceptance. His writing was very personal ("When I'm Gone") and his "protest period" in my view would have been very welcome and relevent in current times. His sister was once quoted as saying that after he completed "Power and Glory" he told her he had just competed his greatest work. The patriotism was there along with....call it peace or call it reason call it love or call it reason but "I Ain't Marching Anymore."
Harry....hanging out must of been a trip. Obviously a trained musician "Without You" with a sense of humor to boot "Take 54" and "You're Breaking My Heart"....you're tearing it apart so F#X# You !!
Bill
FORUM INDEX - BOB TALKS
1. Hey! Bob! 2. Nilsson 3. Influences
4. Bravo Bob! 5. Since There Were Circles 6. Nice eb Site Bob
7. Lind Trivia 8. Cover requests for the Luna show! 9. So Glad you’re alive and well
10. Thanks Bob 11. This may not be the done or the dude 12. Excellent!!!
13. Touring question 14. Greetings from Baltimore 15. Website Picture
16. A thank you 17. The other Bob 18. Sonny Bob
19. Excellent!! 20. World Pacific Liberty Records 21. Hi
22. Poetry as music 23. Jack Nitzhe (sp) 24. Hello!!!
TOPIC : HEY! BOB!
Wed
Aug 18
1:14 am Hey! Bob!
Does this website mean that all of my annoying pestering finally paid off? It's great to see your site up and running Little Sunflower
Wed
Aug 18
11:59 am Right
Thanks little S.F. Yeah. Looks like I'm actually up and running in this Cyber world. Keep checking in. And thanks for all your nagging and support.
Thu Oct 07, 6:04 am
Bob, just wondered if you'd care to mention any songwriters or performers that you admire, or that have inspired you, past or present And do you listen to much music, yourself ....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Tue Oct 12, 12:29 Rob, check out the new topic: "Influences."
TueOct 12
5:31 am Wow, Influences is a great topic. I didn't wanna spoil that thread with my message. Whenever you're up for it, The Teen Years will make for great reading as well. Great info! Bob, you should write an auto-biography. _____..could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
TueOct12, 7:05 pm Thanks Bob, Influences has answered some of my questions - I love Cool (Clear) Water. If its the same one it says - "Keep a'movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man and he spreads the burning sands with water" if my memory of the song is correct? Wonderful!!! ______Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Tue Oct 12 9:05 pm That's it Liz. "Cant' you see that big green tree where the water's running free . . .Points for the South African music buff.
WedOct13 1:11 pm Your discussion of early musical influences and impressions reminds me of a song that fascinated my young mind...Ghost Riders In The Sky. I used to look at the sky and try to imagine what "that old cowpoke" was seeing up there. LSF
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
WedOct13
33:51 pm Right S.F., that's another one I loved. "Their hot breath he could feel." A real cautionary tale isn't it? Did you "change your ways today" after you heard it. Or will you be riding with them?
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:04 pm My uncle had a reel-to-reel tape of "Ghost Riders In The Sky" (The Outlaws' 1980 country-rock version) and I remember being excited by the storm sound effects. I'm sure the lyrics affected me on a subconscious level._________________ Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:45 pm Hi Bob, another song that made me "get" music/lyrics/poetry - and a quiz for you - ............ "The sound of the seagull's distant cry, it's wings like parenthesis drawn in the sky and ............. " who sang that and complete the line if you can!!!!! I'm with you LS on "Ghost Riders" it was so dramatic and scary! _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Mon Oct 25, 8:01 pm Hey Bob and the rest of you out there, are there no takers? One last chance to tell me what song this is and perhaps even who sang it???
Liz _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Wed Oct 27, 5:56 am Nina & Frederick... "Listen To The Ocean."
Clumsy lyrics in a pretty cheesy song... except for the following line: "The silence of noon, the clamour of night." That's brilliant...
_________________ Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Thu Oct 28, 3:34 am Hmm....clumsy, cheesy and brilliant all in one song? Quite a span of adjectives. And you're one of Bob's new producers? Uh-oh........just kidding Rob68
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Oct 28, 4:44 pm Clumsy, cheesy, brilliant... like the Beatles. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Fri Oct 29,4:49 am Hmm...maybe the first two. You can keep the Beatles.......give me the ZOMBIES
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sun Oct 31 4:47 pm .....My son told me he once got into a music discussion when someone said...."I think the Beatles are really overated." As CSN&Y said "Where do I go from here?" Bill
Mon Nov 01 9:00 pm If someone says the Beatles are overrated, you're talking to either:
1) the ghost of Mozart, or
2) someone who is attempting to wind you up. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
NILSSON
INFLUENCES - THE TEEN YEARS (ONE KEY EXPERIENCE)
Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:31 am Here's the Part I of the TEEN YEARS I promised a zillion years ago.
I'll do this in several sections. In this one I just want to relate one musical experience that knocked me on my ass. It's still vivid in my memory.
As I think of the music I listened to in my late-kid/early-teen years, I see very little of it influencing what I do now. Some of you who hear me at this stage of my life may be better judges.
But I didn't get off on what/who I was listening to between, say ages 10 and 14.
My dad was in the air force so my family moved quite a bit, stationed in different cities. I don't remember hearing any local music. My only source was the radio. And there just weren't any particular artists who stunned me. They all seemed pretty tight and rigid -- left-over forties guys I couldn't appreciate like Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Jerry Vale -- vanilla handsome white guys.
I was indifferent to them.
One day there was a talent show on the base. I was living in Orando then, age 11 or so. I'd heard there was going to be a magician in the show and THAT appealed to me.
I was on my way over to see the show, all by myself, and took a shortcut through the Service Club. A bunch of airmen were hanging out in the halls.
I had no idea of -- or openness to -- anything. I was just cutting through to see a guy make rabbits appear and disappear.
There were four black guys standing around in civilian clothes, which meant they were headed off base on leave for the night. But they didn't seem to be in any particular hurry to leave. They were just standing around singing a capella, getting the most out of the echo in the hall.
Nobody else was paying any attention to them. Despite a technically and legally "integrated" armed service, black airmen tended to hang with black airmen and white with white.
So I was the only one listening.
It was the most astounding thing I ever heard. One guy was singing lead and the other four were singing "oohhs" and "aahhs" behind him.
The Four Lads and the Ames Brothers didn't sing like that.
These guys were so relaxed, their voices and postures so natural. They were so unlike any of the singers I'd heard. Loose, free, and absolutely real.
I didn't even know the word "cool" yet. There was no such concept in my experience. But I wanted to be those guys. I knew girls would fall all over me if I could have some of that easy confidence with my body and voice. I still remember the song, "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad."
One guy was wearing a hat and, as he sang, he sort of reached up and tilted it over his forehead, slow and deliberate and for no particular reason. It made me want a hat so I could reach up and tilt it the same way.
When they finished singing I was shaking. Excited past words.
I said, "Are you guys going to be in the show?"
And one of them said, "Nah."
And another one said, "Let's go."
And they sauntered out like four leopards stepping easy into the jungle night.
If that sounds racist, well so be it. I never saw any white guys, sing, move or carry themselves like that. They sang as naturally as they spoke or walked and put absolutely nothing between them and the music.
In a few years there would be the Penquins, The Flamingos, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, The Medallions and scads of others. But I was left reeling with a near terminal case of the How-long-has-this-been-going-ons.
Next: The REAL TEEN teen years.
BRAVO BOB!
Sat
Oct 30, 6:31 am I came across the website early this morning and was floored. I have been looking for such a site for quite some time and nearly gave up.
I grew up listening to Bob Lind as my father was a HUGE fan of yours!
I cannot tell you how much it means to me to have found the message board and I just can't wait to tell my father. BRAVO BOB! BRAVO!!!!
Your music helped shape me into the person I have become
Sun Oct 31, 9:05 pm Hey Jen, Welcome to the board. And thank you AND your dad for your long memories and continued support.
But I hope you don't stop with "Butterfly." Check out the new tunes on the Playlist. They're just demos, as I keep telling everyone. But at least you'll get an idea of what I'm writing and singing these days.
Keep coming back.
NICE WEB SITE BOB!
Fri
Aug 20, 2004 10:17 pm Hello, Bob! I am very happy to hear that you are returning to performing and hope to have the chance to catch your act sometime soon. Also, I am glad to see that your web site is up and running. You have done a good job with it.
As you know, I have maintained the Bob Lind Page for the past few years. Maybe some of your fans would like to visit it at http://www.tsimon.com/lind.htm.
Good luck with the performances and the web site and the new CD, Bob.
Tom Simon
Sat
Aug 21, 2004 2:26 pm Ah, the competition weighs in.
Hey Tom, thanks.
For those who are unaware, Tom's Lind page preceded mine by at least three years. It contains considerably more biographical information on me than this one does.
It's one of the "excellent" sites I referred to on my welcome page.
Tom's one of the few who bothered to check with me before putting up a mini-bio.
Check it out at the address he posted.
Keep visiting, Tom. Always good to hear from you.
Thu
Sep 09, 2004 6:13 am Finding this site, courtesy of the Spectropop forum, has made my WEEK. Not only is there a boblind.com, but Mr. Bob himself posts here. This is so cool. Bob, you are truly an amazing singer/songwriter for ALL times! You don't know how often you've inspired goosebumps (seriously) with your singing and lyrics. I can't thank you enough for the hours of pleasure you've given me with your music. Your Best Of...CD would definitely be one of my Top5 choices for a desert island disc.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Wed
Oct 27, 2:45 am I'm bumping this topic up just to remind me to add this to the links page.Grant
TOPIC – BOB’S NEW MUSIC
Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:50 pm Hi Bob,
Have just answered my own question re some of your new music, found the page and downloaded China - haven't listened to it yet - but would still like to buy a CD. Which one of your songs did Hugh Masekela cover? _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:30 am Hey Liz,
Hugh M. covered "Elusive Butterly," some time ago. I understand the album has been released on CD.
As far as my new things are concerned, the songs posted are just demo quality. I'm playing all the instruments and recorded them on my little home recorderd. I'd feel a little too guilty selling them as they are.
But I'm in the process of recording them and some other unreleased songs with a couple of brilliant young producers who know what they're doing. So hang on. It won't be long.
Thanks for your interest. Keep coming back to the board.
Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:06 am Hi Liz. Actually, you can hear all the new demos at the playlist page. And read all the new lyrics. Hopefully, older lyrics will be posted eventually. What's your opinion of China? I think it's outstanding. Great to hear, Bob, that you're recording in the studio. If the demos are this good, the final versions should be great. Any projected release date month? _________________
....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:29 am Hey Bob, Have you been in the studio with the new songs and a producer? Looking forward to the finished product. Any updates?
.could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:02 pm Hey Rob, you're asking on the perfect day. Last night I got a copy of four new rough tracks that reflect the creativity and brilliance of the new guys.
We're going slow but so far I'm knocked out by what they're doing. No egos, no shopping-while-hungry production overkill. They love my work and apply their considerable talents to it with welcome sensitivity.
If you're interested, you might want to Google Chris Moll (don't know his Website right off the bat) and try to find the work he did with a group called SEE VENUS. Beautiful arrangements.
The other fellow, Jon Wilkins, is more mysterious. He keeps a very low profile, cyber-wise. (He posts here as Since There Were Circles.)
He's a rare find: A drummer who also has a broad understanding of music.
I call them Heaven and Earth: Chris writes these chilling string, horn and synthesizer arrangements; Jon keeps it all grounded with earthy rhythm-track ideas.
We're not rushing, but we're all dedicated toward creating something memorable for people like you who have been so faithful, patient and interested in the new stuff.
Stay close to the Website Rob, always good to hear from you.
Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:17 am Great! Chilling and moody and slightly offbeat is always the way to go. You certainly don't want to make a "normal" easy-listening record. You're much too deep for that. Sounds cool, very promising. ....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:11 pm Hi There Bob,
After listening over and over again I have to say that I love, love, love the new music. Even though I am a lyrics person, I love Waterfall and BocaMar. The sax is super.
Home in Time for Twilight is so, so lovely. I suppose it is like good art - each finds his/her own message, but Twilight is speaking to me on so many levels. "A precious piece of sun left in the sky", "When love come late it comes to stay" and "The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there" - brings tears to my eyes and so much emotion.
Initially I thought that I preferred China, but then suddenly Twilight hit me like a ton of bricks! Have a Lovely Yesterday - is gorgeous and so clever!!
I have only one problem and that is with the sentiment in Valentine .. The story is not consistent enough for me and also why the problem with commitment. But then again who am I and what do I know? Your music has stood the test of time for so many of us.
Bob do you like Jim Croce, Don McLean, Mike Batt, Leonard Cohen? They and you all have that special something, a nuance that one can't put one's finger on - if you don't like their work I will be surprised. What about Janis Ian and the lyrics (only) of Kris Kristofferson? Who are your favourites? Sorry, you're probably starting to get stressed out about all these questions, but hey! that's the price of fame and genius!
Seriously though, nice that you are so human (are you?) and not just a stuffed shirt (I said SHIRT). OK stopping now. Liz. Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Oct 25, 2004 3:13 am Hey Liz,
Thanks for your kind words about TWILIGHT. It's a song I certainly couldn't have written in the 60s. It's always a joy to hear people speaking glowingly about the new stuff.
As to your question: I'm not aware of Mike Batt.
So leaving him out of the equation, you're putting me in some good company there, particularly with Cohen. I think he's brilliant. He has unfailing trust in his images and doesn't censor his inner messenger. He was the guy who taught me, (through a song called "Dress Rehearsal Rag") that you can be funny and heartbreaking at the same time -- or more correctly, that you can express images in which those labels have no meaning. A new song of mine called "LOOKING FOR YOU" (not on the playlist yet) uses that tension, and I learned to trust it from listening to Leonard Cohen.
My respect for Croce has deepened in the years since his death. I didn't realize how great he was until just recently when I stumbled onto a biography on him and really listened full out. I like his love songs better than his "story" songs -- but that's a personal preference. "Time in a Bottle," "Operator" and "I Love You in a Song" -- so touching. And his give and take with that lead guitar player of his was phenomenal. What a loss, the two of them.
Kristofferson has always been a little too cerebral for me. I always feel that brilliant, intellect calculating in his songs. That's not meant as an insult, just a subjective preference. I like emotion and instinct more than cleverness and I sense him sometimes working his lyrics too hard for my tastes. He's a Rhodes Scholar and somehow, I can never forget that listening to his down home, just-plain-folks songs.
I think he's an excellent actor. His work in STAR IS BORN is wonderful.
Janis Ian and I once worked together for a week at an L.A. club called the TROUBADOUR. She was young and so was I. I don't think either of us were very well developed, musically, at that point in our careers. But we were attracting a similar crowd. I haven't heard her new things.
I leave Don McLean for last because I'm trying to avoid saying anything unkind. I'll say this: Vincent" is a passionate, heart-wrenching song. And before I met him, his music could make me cry. But I can't be objective about it now. My brief meeting with him colors my view of the songs. It may well have been as much me as him -- I was certainly no picnic to be around in those days -- but I was profoundly dissappointed in him as a human being. I admired him so much and was stunned by what I perceived as his rudeness and condescension to me. Other friends who play music report similar experiences with him. Having that view of him robs me of the joy of his art. Too bad, but that's how it is. To paraphrase Emerson: What he is speaks so loudly I can't hear what he sings.
Songwriters I like: Of the newer breed, Jon Mayer and Jason Mraz stand out.
Contemporaries and near contemporaries (age wise) Don Henley, Joni Mtchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg and Fagen & Becker (Steely Dan).
There's also a woman named Basia who is mysterious and rarely plays anymore. She puts me on the floor.
And of course, Dylan is in a class all by himself. So is Stephen Sondheim. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:25 pm Bob, I remember once reading that Don McLean was quoted as saying that he sang "Crying" better than it's auther ...Roy Orbinson. While that likely says more about him than his music, I never found either to be particulary interesting. Were or are you interested in the "urban or protest" singers like Phil Ochs & Eric Anderson. Phil took me to a whole new level in my appreciation of folk music which later evolved into "Folk Rock" ....how could it get any better than that, the intelligence of lyrics with a beat !! Bill
Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:51 am Bob... what about Jason Falkner?! JON______
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:52 am Phil Ochs was great. Personally, I prefer the Pleasures of the Harbor (and after) period. Also Tim Hardin was amazing. Both troubled souls, as all the greats seem to be. Bob, any stories or opinions on these two _________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless
Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:11 am Hey Rob, Unfortunately I knew both these men at a time when their demons had almost entirely consumed them. Neither was a pleasure to be around. Both deeply unhappy. Phil hung around a club called the Troubadour in Los Angeles. He was very manic. He had this alter-ego, dressed in gold lame and did a kind of Elvis thing -- onstage and off. If it had some kind of deeper meaning, or if it was funny in some way, no one got it. Everyone was just embarrassed for him.
When I knew him he was way out of his prime. Onstage, he was always getting into argments with people in the audience, calling them "stupid" that kind of thing.
He didn't seem morose, the way Tim did. But he wasn't at home in this world. Always ill at ease. Even when he was unpleasant (and don't misunderstand, he was never anything but polite to me) no one took offense. Everyone just found him pathetic, not dangerous or threatening.
Too bad. Because I feel, had he begun to transcend the bind his style was starting to put him in, he would be writing great stuff today. Tim Hardin was a different story. He too was alienating his friends toward the end of his life. But he was hostile and almost biker-like. Spikes up all around him. Barbed wire and an invisible sign that said "Don't get to Close Because I Might Explode and Kill Both of Us."
I first met him in late '66, I think, in my managers' office. He was still vital then. Clear-eyed and alive and vibrant.
I had just released "San Francisco Woman" and had come into the office to see how it was doing. Hardin was there visiting on some kind of business. From the moment we were introduced he started getting sullen and terse. It was as if he had taken an instant dislike to me.
It didn't make any sense. You know those deals where you examine your behavior and ask yourself what you could've done to offend someone?
I couldn't come up with anything so I just dismissed it. Later I ran into a woman who knew him and I told her about our meeting. "Something about me must have bugged him," I told her.
And she said, "Jesus, don't you know why he was that way?"
I said I didn't. She told me he was getting flack from everyone about the bridge to "If I Was a Carpenter."
I looked at her with these dull-fish eyes. "Huh?"
Turns out people were accusing him of ripping off the melody on "I Just Let It Take Me." I certainly never picked up on it. I truly don't think he stole from me (I'd actually be amazed if he'd ever heard my song, it went directly into the toilet on the B side of "Truly Julie's Blues.")
When I heard "Carpenter" next time, I could sort of see how people felt that way, (the tune on the "save my love through loneliness, save my love through sorrow" part) but I'm convinced it was just a coincidence. That stuff happens a lot with melodic fragments. Anyway the next time I saw him was years later, just weeks before he died. I went to see John Sebastian at the Troubadour and Hardin came. They were old firends. Tim was drunk and maudlin and looked awful. He was balding on top, shaggy-haired on the sides and badly bloated. He kept talking to John, repeating himself over and over.
I was watching/listening from a short distance away and what I remember most was the kindness in Sebastian's eyes. He was so patient and non-judgemental. Just let the poor guy gush and slur and slobber. Believe it or not, I have never really met John, I just introduced myself that night and, although he was an idol of mine (I think "Younger Generation" is brilliant), he had apparently no idea who I was.
But I'll always remember that patience and kindness in his eyes as he spoke -- or more correctly listened -- to Tim Hardin.
Abut a month later, Tim died and there was a memorial for him at the Troub.
I went, not out of reverence, but because the booze was free.
Everyone got drunk and acted like idiots.
Oct 29, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: wild men Wow, another case of "be careful what you ask for". No, actually I'm not surprised. I knew both were pretty troubled. I just read an interview with Tim Hardin, done a couple months before he died. He sounded pretty bad. But strangely enough, his Homecoming Concert cd (also just before he died) is totally beautiful. Kinda like how the Let's Get Lost soundtrack (Chet Baker) is some of Chet's most emotional singing, not long before he died. Well thankfully, the sad stories fade away, but the music lives on loud and clear.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
TOPIC : “YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT”
Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:45 am Hey Bob, I was listening to one of my favorite songs of yours the other day, "You Should Have Seen It," and it reminded me to ask you a question that has been nagging me for years. I almost forgot that I now have the ability to ask the man himself One of my favorite aspects of the song is the percussion, especially the tambourines. However, there seems to be a tambourine towards the end of the song that starts out of sync with the everything, until it cuts out completely. Was it inside of a track and couldn't be removed? Did anybody notice it at the time? I'd love to know
Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:30 am Hey Matt,
I can't really place that part of the song, nor have I noticed the tambourine being out of sync.
But my guess is that it's probably Jack (Nitzsche) playing it. Jack was ultra-superstitious. Back when he was arranging for Spector, they hit a temporary snag at one point. There was a (very short) string of so-so records -- singles that didn't click.
But then, on the night they recorded "Da-Do-Run-Dun," for some reason Phil had Jack play tamborine. As you know, it became a monster hit. From then on, like a baseball team that won't take off its winning socks, Jack insisted on playing tambourine on every record he had some say-so with. Whenever you hear tambourines on any cut on the DON'T BE CONCERNED, or PHOTOGRAPHS albums, Jack is playing at least one of them. That's all I can tell you about "DOLL." I hardly remember anything about it except that it was on the very first session we cut. Lind
Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:05 am DOLL? As in "doll, you should have seen it all the time"? Matt, you're right. That one tambourine part is crazy! I laugh when I hear it. Does anyone know if it sounds like that on the original LP? Because it almost sounds like it was added during re-mastering. I have another EMI remastered cd (Cher) that has some strangely clear tambourine on one song (Blowin' In The Wind) that absolutely is NOT on the original LP. Actually, I just looked at the Lind & Cher cd's and Ron Furmanek was in charge of both of these. Hmm...maybe some liberties were taken during re-mastering. I'd hate to think someone added an out-of-sync tambourine part later on. The Lind cd does say "songs remixed"......
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:44 pm Good observation, Rob. I'm sure it's entirely possible that Furmanek could have tampered with the original in the re-mix. The truth is that I could well be one of the last people to ask about these things.
I never listen to those old things anymore. I do feel Jack was given the short shrift on the MIGHT HAVE HEARD MY FOOTSEPS credits. I wasn't consulted at all in that regard -- only asked for my song-by-song commentary.
Despite my request that they scrap that bogus artsy graphic on said song-by-song, they disregarded my input and put it in that impossible-to-read mish mash on the page. Who knows what else they might have done.
I try to keep my schnozz pointed in the direction of the future. Lind
Thu Oct 28 1:43 am I was so intrigued with the tambourine conversation that I put the vinyl on so I could hear what everyone was talking about.
The tambourine does seem to come out of nowhere. It's like someone came charging into the recording studio saying..."Hold on...this is where I play the tambourine!" And play it he/she/they did. It's like it's an entirely different track. LF
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
Thu Oct 28 3:10 am Exactly! It's like a separate track that comes in, then you hear it cut-out. And out-of-sync, as well. So it's on the original LP then? OK, my apologies to the re-master producer. Must be Jack Nitzsche trying to tame an out of control tambourine._________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Oct 28, 11:34 am No, Rob. I believe you are right. I just listened to both the vinyl and the CD and they don't sound the same. The tambourine on the CD version is kind of shattering. It is so much louder, and out of sync with the rhythm. Something has either been added or definitely cranked up.
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
Thu Oct 28, 7:52 pm Sorry everybody, I didn't mean to create such controversy . I was just always curious about that tambourine. Nevertheless, I still think it fits inside an already powerfully produced track. The tambourine adds some character and screams out "YOU should have seen it!" Matt
Fri Oct 29, 5:40 am No, it's ok Matt. If I would have remembered, I would've asked the same question. That crazy tambourine part makes me laugh every time I play the CD. Hmm...so it DOESN'T sound the same on the LP then? Strange. I don't have Don't Be Concerned on LP. Maybe everything just sounds different re-mixed and re-mastered OK, I'll shut up now.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
LIND TRIVIA ....
Fri Oct 22, 11:46 pm ...which only Bob may know. I need to settle an argument. In the close of "Drifters Sunrise" ("You will walk alone") I swear I hear a female voice singing harmony, (my buddy says strings) ...or is it just in my head? Thx. Bill
Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:09 am I'm sure Bob will answer you, but it's definitely strings. They go....weeeee oooh oooh a couple times at the end. That would be some HIGH pitched female if it was a voice. Rob68 _________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
POST SUBJECT: BACK TO THE LUNA STAR
Tue Aug 17, 10:57 make sure you catch Bob at the Luna Star this SATURDAY!!
Dolphin
Wed
Aug 18
12:29 am Right you are Dolphin. Attendance is mandatory. Thanks. You're the first official post on the board. To anyone planning on coming on Saturday, I suggest getting there early. .The place is tiny, even by small club standards. Hope to see you.
-Lind
Wed.
Aug 18
3:03 pm Cant wait! Dolphin
Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:01 pm Since the TOURS page is a little hard to fathom right at this moment, I'll use this space to let Florida fans know I'm doing the LUNA STAR CAFE again on November 20th – the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It's in North Miami and there's a link on the TOURS page. (You just have to look for it.) I've sent notices out to the people on the list, but in case I missed you. I'm telling you now.
The LUNA STAR is a top-notch place to play. Intimate, good sound and very performer-audience friendly. It's a "listening room" -- a vanishing breed of clubs.
Cover is a mere 8 smackers (seems criminal to charge more when the setting is so warm and close). If you need more details, call them at (305) 799-7123. Or just e-mail me at Boblindmusic@aol,com Hope to see you there.
Sun Oct 31, 4:42 pm (SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES)
is there anyone planning to attend the luna star cafe, that has the SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES LP , and can burn on CD for me? thats the one album i cant find.
LIMITED EDITION DVD : GUTHRIE CONCERT
Tue Sep 21 11:42 am Saw the Limited Edition DVD of Bob Lind at the Guthrie Center. Bob looked and sounded great. New music and old favorites. Red1
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:17 pm just watching it myself!!!!!!!! its like BEING in the same ROOM with Bob!!!!!! he does one OF MY FAVORITE OLD TRADITIONAL NUMBERS, the WAGGONERS LAD!!!
its GOING TO BE GREAT! dolphin
Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:10 pm Nice going, Bob. It's great to see all that energy and communication working together. And, it's a priviledge to be able to see this video. How many years has it been since I've actually seen you perform? Okay, I really don't want to know. It would scare me too much. Congratulations on a fine performance. Little Sunflower
Fri Sep 24, 5:43 am Who? What? Where is this DVD available through Rob68
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....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sun Sep 26 8:34 pm I beleive it should be AVAILABLE VERY SOON. Oct, i beleive i was told. dolphin
Thu Oct 21,
8:10 am Release date setback Just want to let you know I spoke with Jackie the other night. She and Arlo got hit hard by the hurricane last month. Their home in Sebastian got slammed. She's got her hands pretty full down here taking care of the property damage and hassling with insurance people, etc. Bottom line: The DVD may be a while in coming but she assures me that once she gets back to Mass., editing the disc is going to be a high priority.
I'll keep you posted.
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:18 pm
It occurs to me that those of you just plugging into this thread blind, might not know what we're talking about. Check out the topic: Guthrie Center Show Sparks Contoversy.
Check out the topic: Guthrie Center Show Sparks Controversy Questions. I explain in a little more detail about the DVD there. Some people on this thread have seen advance rough cuts but it’s in no condition to sell with the sound as it is.
Fri
Oct 22
4:25am That's ok, Bob. We'll wait.......we're used to it. I'm sure it'll be great.....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud.... Rob68
Fri Oct 22, 6:04pm Youch! I guess I deserve that one. Soon though. Really!
COVER REQUESTS FOR THE LUNA SHOW
________________________________________ SOLDIERS OF AUTUMN
Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:00 am "The soldiers of autumn are marching to sea. They are stealing the green from the hillsides and trees." Fall is a beautiful time up here where the seasons actually change. It can tend to be very introspective. But it means winter's near, and that's not a good thing. Who can name the song, besides Bob, that the quoted lyrics are from _________________
....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sat Oct 16, 5:11 am Easy...the song is "English Afternoon." I'll need more of a challenge . "Hold on, baby, and I'll find a way to get there soon." Matt
Sun Oct 17, 5:14 pm And....Morris Minor....would be "Go Ask Your Man. While on the subject I always thought "man" referred to father. Was the intention father or lover?
Bill
Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:42 pm I am convinced that the "man" is the lover/husband - Bob wrote this cheeky song very much tongue in cheek
right Bob?
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Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Sun Oct 17,10:50 pm I hear both but....."Tell him, I won't try to get your clothes too sandy, just let him know that I'me from a decent family".....
Bill
SO GLAD YOU’RE ALIVE AND WELL
Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:48 pm Hi Bob,
I am writing to you from South Africa. So glad that you're alive and well and doing what you do best (that is if you are writing songs as well as performing them). Your best lines are "Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes, you said you were concious of fashion", etc. Obviously from the Photographs of Feelings LP. Beautiful! I have ever only had that one record of yours (not for lack of trying) and that was given to me by a friend in the early 70's simply because I begged him for it. I still listen often - have transferred it onto a CD now.
Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:40 am Wow Liz, I have fans in South Africa? How great to hear from you. Please stay close to the board and keep posting. After years of not thinking about "Nameless Request," I started playing it for a brief time in the mid-70s. I added a verse and revised the chords. Then I dropped it again. Thanks for reminding me of it. All the best, Bob
Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:16 pm Vrystaat!!!!!! ZA?
Vrystaat!
(That's about the limits of my Afrikaans, but it's good to see some culture enter the scene around here.)
Tue Oct 12 10:03 pm Grant, good grief! how do you know anything at all about "Vrystaat" - were you here in SA or have you friends here?
Wed Oct 13 1:29 am I was conceived in Johannesburg, but first breathed air in Miami Beach. I'm Ian Balfour's grand-son, if that means anything to you -- the SABC sportscaster (no relation to Ngconde, as far as I know).
Wed Aug 18 1:14 am (that was me, by the way) Grant
THANKS BOB
Tue Oct 12, 8:03 pm Hey Bob, Thanks for responding to my e-mail (and so abruptly I might add!). I've taken your advice and joined the message board. Keep up the good work!
Matt
Tue
Oct 12, 9:02 pm Glad to have you with us Matt. Your input is welcome. By way of introduction for the rest of you, Matt here sent me a recent e-mail in which he revealed an astonishing knowledge of Lind trivia. He can quote Lind lyrics chapter and verse, singles, albums and B-sides, much better than Lind can -- and he's only 19! Bob.
Bob Replies all after Elinor
From: Lind
To: Liz
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:39 pm
Subject: Re: Elusive Butterfly
Hey Liz,
Aren't you the sweet one. Thanks so much for this.
I was aware of Dolly Parton and that I'm on a zillion of those 60s hits albums. But I'd never heard of Judy Page. (Is she hot in South Africa?)
To answer your question, one is never sure what he's getting paid on. The royalty statements aren't itemized by artist. I just cash the checks. I appreciate your e-mail.
Luv,
Bob
THIS MAY NOT BE THE BE THE "DONE" OR THE "DUDE" THING
Sun
Oct 10, 12:39 pm :
Hey Bob,
For 30-something years I have been playing "Photographs of Feelings" on average once a month - often more often (and I own hundreds of LP's, CD's etc so its not for want of alternatives that I do so). Not even your dog has been more faithful than that. Right?? And... I know this may not be
the "done" or the "dude" thing to do, however I care not for the former and I am not the latter, but please would you answer and enlarge upon some questions about yourself? I know the others in this forum know all this, but please bear with me.
I gather your were born at an early age to parents (yes?), but then ....... huh....?? What happened next? What about school, brothers, sisters, when did you start writing songs/music? Why? What makes you write? Were you exceptionally good at English/poetry in school? Did you read a lot? Were you a good little boy or a rebel? What happened in later life? Wife, kids, (dogs, cats) significant other? Tell me what you can and what you don't mind talking about. Are you a writer? What have you been working at for the last 30 years and where? If you've written stuff, can I read it?
Tue Oct 1
fortyfivesfrank
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4
Location: Mentor, Ohio Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:43 am Post subject: Your influences and songsters you listen/listened to?
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Hi, again, Bob. I am always curious who the people whose music I love listen to now and who directly (or indirectly) influenced his/her music...can you shed some light?
~ Frank.
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 77 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:
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Hey Frank,
Thanks for your interest. check out the thread called "Influences."
There are two parts so far and more coming as I get to them.
rob68
joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 60
Location: Michigan USA Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 7:16 am Post subject: Neon Lies 45
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You're welcome, Rodger ..... And Bob, We May Have Touched was also produced by Mac Davis. A completely gorgeous song! So the lyrics to Goodbye Neon Lies weren't an intentional goodbye to L.A., but things turned out that way anyhow....interesting. I asked (or speculated) about this in another thread (of the same name).....anyway, glad to know the story.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Lind
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 77 Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:03 pm Post subject:
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Hey Rob, Rodger,
Would you believe, people are already asking me about WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED. I don't remember the words.
If one of you has a spare moment, would you post the lyrics here?
I only remember part of the first verse.
Only if the mood strikes.
Thanks in advance.
Thu Dec 09 1:27 "We May Have Touched"/
"Goodbye Neon Lies" Greetings Bob
After all these years, thanks to wonderful people on your message board, I have finally heard these two songs. Some way, somehow you must make these gems available on you site. I'm sure there are many, many fans who have not heard them...it took 30 plus years for me to find them. Would love to hear comments from you about your wonderful "We May Have Touched" Brilliant, Brilliant. Thanks
Rodger Thompson
Thu Dec 09 3:30 am Thank you Rodger. I'm not sure I ever welcomed you to the board. I've seen several posts from you and I'm grateful for them all.
If I neglected to say it before, consider yourself welcomed.
I don't own a copy of that record. Haven't heard it in years.
But I do remember that NEON LIES was the bone of contention that ultimately severed me from WORLD PACIFIC RECORDS.
The song was, I believe my fourth and last single on the label. It was originally three verses long.
Mac Davis and I were friends at this time. This was long before Mac rose to stardom as a songwriter/singer. He was what was then known as a "song plugger" with my publishing company, Metric Music.
We hung out together and, being jam-packed with ambition and charm, he worked his way into the good graces of the powers that be at LIBERTY/WORLD PACIFIC and, with my blessings, was assigned to produce the record.
At this time, my career was ice cold. Jack Nitzsche and I were on the outs and I'm sure the LIBERTY people just figured they had nothing to lose.
So we did the session -- and recorded all three verses.
But when I went in to hear it in WP President Dick Bock's office, I realized a verse had been cut out of it.
"Too long for airplay."
I was furious. No picnic to be around under just about any circumstances, I was a veritable portrait of unpleasantness that afternoon. I ranted and yelled like a complete asshole. I stormed out of Dick's office like the small-minded self-centered jerk I was.
I was angry at Bock. Pissed at the fact that had this been my second single -- the follow-up to "Butterfly" -- he would never have pulled something like that. But now he felt he had the right to snip it.
Well, of course the execs DID have the right. It was their company and they were doing all they could to revive my failing career.
But most of my anger was directed at Mac, who I trusted and considered a friend. I felt betrayed because he never told me.
Time has given me a better perspective on it. I know there was nothing he could have done. But it put an irreparable gap in our friendship.
We never really patched it up, even though he later placed one of my songs "Long Time Woman" with Nancy Sinatra and made a beautiful record of it with her.
Shortly after that I asked for a release and moved to New Mexico.
My intent was to get back to nature.
Instead I fell into a three-year pit of drugs and alcohol.
When I think of the lyrics to that song, it's so ironic. It's like I knew I was going to get out of LA all along. The song itself was like a prophecy for what happened surrounding the song.
I've had that experience often with songs. I write them not knowing (consciously) what they're about. But then later my life unfolds into a situation that the song fits.
It's as though some part of me knows where my life is going. I just have to catch up.
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED is a pretty one isn't it? I don't remember who produced it and have no memory of the session. But I do recall that I thought the rcording caught the spirit of the song.
As near as I can figure, I wrote it about a woman who I won't name here. She's the same one as in "Mr. Zero," "West Virginia Summer's Child" and "We've Never Spoken."
I was terrified of fame and the Los Angeles Music scene. I always felt like a fraud. She was the woman who knew me when and despite the fact that we tore and clawed the hell out of each other's hearts, I continued to see her because I felf oddly safe with her.
She lived in San Francisco and when things got frightening in LA I'd to up to see her. We'd walk through Golden Gate Park and get to the ocean just as the sun was going down. One of those Sundays, I looked at her and realized I'd never really know that innermost part of her.
She was a maddening mystery to me. I could never fathom her. Some people, as you get to know them, their mystery diminishes. With this woman, the mystery only deepens.
I'm still in touch with her and still can't solve her. She's one of those wild creatures that will not be domesticated. You either take them on their own terms or you don't take them at all.
Enough for tonight.
Thu Dec 09 4:18 am We May Have Touched"/
"Goodbye Neon Lies" Bob
Thanks for your quick reply. I appreciate your comments...sheds a great deal of light. Hey, if you would like a copy...just let me know. Heck, I'll sell you the 45 if you've got enough money. (only kidding, only kidding). Seriously, I'd be happy to send you a copy.
Rodger Thompson
Sat Nov 27
5:15 pm BL CD Where-abouts, It's me again ... still searching for a Bob Lind Cd for my sister (remember I lost her Lind album and owe her BIG TIME!!!) I keep searching the internet and Ebay to no avail! Can anyone help so I can be good Santa to her AND make amends?! Thanks! -Amy[/b]
Mon Nov 29 3:38 pm grant Well, we're working on getting CDs for sale directly from the site, but as everything in life, it's slow going.
Mostly, we're concentrating on Since There Were Circles, which has been doctored up and duplicated by the fellow whose name on here is... get ready for it... since there were circles.
You should be able to find CDs of The Best of Bob Lind (you might have heard my footsteps) on Amazon over yonder, if that helps.
Fri Dec 03 5:43 am Someone in Florida has put the Since There Were Circles CD on ebay. ....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud.... rob68
Fri Nov 26, 1:53 am Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to the Bob man Himself Have a great one!.............All the Best - Rob_________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sat Nov 27, 6:17 am Happy Birthday Hi Bob,
At our age birthdays are often Ho-Hum-Yawn - I hope yours was new and exciting and that the next year will be just one long day in the sun!__________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Sun Nov 28, 8:09 pm Rob and Liz,
Aww, shucks. Thanks for remembering. I had a great B'day.
All the best to both of you and I hope your holiday went well. Whoops. Liz, I guess this "holiday stuff" means nothing to you. It's an American thing. Stay close to the board, both of you.
Fri Aug 20,
11:59 am We'll All Go Down Together Well, gosh golly, Bob .... congrats on the website. I was wondering if you've had a chance to revisit "It Takes One (to Understand One)" in your new groove?
"We'll All Go Down Together" is another song of yours that I've played for a few decades now that you didn't put on vinyl but which comes to mind as a possible born again contender. "I hear you gave your new old man the run around / they say the other day he even brought his gun around / desperation on his face at a chain of your lies / all that I can say is that I'm not at all surprised ...."
I was thinking that with its rolling bass line and chord changes, and with that shift from the verse to the swell at the start of the refrain and then that quiet last line of the refrain (at least the way I remember it and have morphed it over time), it might be cool with piano and horn ("We'll all go down together, when it's time to go, and it only matters whether ... we learn from what we know.")
Best always, Lou
Fri Aug 20, 7:50 pm Going Down Together Hey Lou,
You always remind me of these mid-period songs I've forgotten all about. Wait. Let me revise that. I'm hoping the stuff I'm writing now is being written in my early mid-period. How do you remember them? "WE'LL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER" was Bukowski's favorite. For readers who aren't aware of the late L.A. Poet Charles Bukowski, I highly recomend his work. Power, guts and grace. If you like my lyrics, my guess is you'll take to him.
He was a friend for a time, back in my drinking/using days.
Anyway Lou, thanks for logging on. Keep coming back to visit.
Sat Aug 21, 1:02 pm I guess I remember them because they hit me at the time I heard 'em and I've played them on and off ever since.
Plus, remember, I'm younger than you and have had a shorter span of time over which to forget them.
I didn't know you hung with Bukowski. I still love his stuff. I thought he had one of the best poem/book titles ever with "Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
One of my favorite poems of his was "Poems Like Gunslingers. ..." (sit on my refrigerator, tempting me to draw ...) Thanks for the reply.
Mon Aug 23, 6:17 pm For the record, there’s a good Bukowski web page over here: http://www.levee67.com/bukowski/
The links page is especially useful, if you want to read some buk.
Sun Aug 22, 3:26 am LUNA STAR CAFE show 1st Appearance
WOW! dolphin
Sun Aug 22, 2:54 pm Was it a good show? Tell me more. LittleSunflower
Sun Aug 22, 3:39 pm luna star it was a great show. pretty much a full house and Bob put
on a GREAT performance!! old songs and new songs. Elusive
Butterfly and A Song for You were 2 of the songs.
Bob was in great form. dolphin
Sun Aug 22, 3:49 pm I'm so glad. That just makes my day! LittleSunflower
Mon Aug 23, 5:52 pm He has good banter, too. I always appreciate banter when it's done well.
Smooth performance with the guitar, and perfect set up for the room. grant
Thu Nov 04, 10:07 pm Post subject: Spider John & Bob Lind in concert
Funny how things work out. I just read the new Dylan autobiography (Don't miss it BTW, it's great).
In it Dylan praises the fantastic talent of his friend and fellow Minnesotan, blues legend Spider John Koerner. Dylan and Koerner played the same club circuit and even performed together for awhile.
Reading it reminded me of how I used to enjoy Koerner's music back when I was cutting my musical teeth.
One of my friends wore out two copies of the "Blues, Rags and Hollers" album, stealing every one of John's licks.
It made me want to here his music again. From what I've heard, he's evolved tremendously as an artist and is even better today.
Anyway, now that I've hopelessly buried the lead here, let me give it to you before it becomes unreachable: I just got a call from my Florida agent yesterday. Koerner is doing a gig down in Miami on Nov. 12th at the Wallflower Gallery. His opening act cancelled and I've been asked step up and fill in. We'll be splitting the bill.
It's the weekend before my Luna Star show. Check out the tours page.
The Wallflower and Luna Star gigs will feature some of the same songs, but my shows will be different -- lots more material and and a longer set at the Luna. I'm looking forward to both of them. Hope to see you at either or both.
Bob and Rob, A radio show!!!! Concerts!!!!! Wow!!!! Please go ahead, have fun, don’t worry about poor little old me here in S Africa who will never get to see any of this. I hope all the fans realize how lucky they are and make the most of these opportunities. Good luck Bob, I’m so happy for you.
Sun Nov 07, 2004 7:49 am Liz, you can listen to the radio show online at http://www.wlrn.org/ at 2pm (U.S. Eastern Time)on Sunday. I'm assuming Bob's gonna do a couple songs live in the studio, and maybe a short interview. Rob.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:33 pm luna star/wallflower
both shows SHOULD BE GREAT!!!! SPIDER JOHN and BOB LIND on the same stage!!! BE THERE OR YOU ARE NOWHERE! dolphin
Thu Nov 11, 4:37 am concert Hey Bob, Just wanna wish ya good luck with the shows on the 12th and 20th. Wish I was down there!! I'm sure they'll be great. Sock it to Em'. Thanks for the Nilsson response............All The Best, Rob_________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sun Nov 21, 5:16 pm Luna Star Hi Bob and all the others who post here,
What happened at the concerts/shows - why so quiet? Dying to know all. Liz
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Sun Nov 21, 11:52 pm Hi Rob, Liz,
Thanks for your support and interest, both of you.
I usually try to stay out of these threads for awhile, leaving them open for others to post.
For that reason, I'll let last night's LUNA STAR show alone until some people who were there have a chance to post.
As for the Spider John-Bob Lind concert, I had a great time.
The Dolphin was there and he may decide to share some of his own comments later on.
As for me, I think it was a masterstroke of booking. John is ethnic to the gills, traditional, folk blues, hard-driving 12-string guitar in the rural 1920s-30s mode -- I'm a songwriter/singer with folk roots but with a wide variety of influences that come out in unusual ways in my writing and guitar playing.
So on our own, we might well pull in very different audiences.
On the other hand, we ARE drawing from that pool of people who enjoy good acoustic music.
Both of us, in our own different ways, sing with heart and feeling and both of us are totally unique.
I think we both picked up some new fans who might never have seen us were we not co-booked.
It was indeed a very thin crowd, though. Spider John was spread very thin down here in South Florida. He was only around for a week and, understandably, wanted to make as much hay as he could. As a result, he had four gigs booked in as many days -- all within about a 20-mile radius of one another.
As for me, I had the LUNA STAR already set up for the Saturday after.
Bottom line: Neither of us concentrated our efforts on getting fans to the WALLFLOWER, where we'd have to split the gate. [This may sound mercenary, but those are the realities of our business.]
That said, the people who did come were wonderful. I opened and did about 40 minutes. I felt I was well-received and got what felt like a genuine encore.
Spider John was fantastic. If you've never seen the man in person, you're missing the last of a breed. He's effortlessly authentic and dares to do folk songs that, from other artists would look and sound ridiculous. ("Froggy Went A-Courtin'" for instance.) But he plays and sings them with so much hard bark on him that they're simply not the corny songs you learned in music class.
He's also a classy gentleman. We got along well and, speaking for myself, I hope that later, down the road, he and I will maybe do a tour of some of these acoustic venues together.
Another pleasant sidelight of the evening: Michael Stock, whose radio show, FOLK AND ACOUSTIC MUSIC on WLRN Public Radio, is the life-blood of the scene down
here, was in the audience. John and I were both honored to have him.
Guthrie Center Live DVD
Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:25 pm PigeonBoy D.A. was fortunate to have received a copy of this DVD which she loaned to me. I watched it on my computer. I never moved; never blinked. It's a great performance. Great beyond words, even.
"Whenever I see roses...helpless in the rain...my thoughts go turning back to Dale Anne."
Thu Oct 07, 1:14 am Hey P.B.,
Thanks for the kind words and welcome to the board. Good to have you with us.
Fri Nov 05, 7:11 am
rob68 Post subject: DVD Wow, this performance is superb! Wish it was about 20 songs longer. Bob, you still sound amazing. I'm bowled over how you can just sing like that at any given moment...and your comment, "I'll sing my ass off" was so ballsy...great attitude. Some new favorites now are Looking For You (can't wait for the recorded version), and I Love The Way You Lie. Also, your performance of Spilling Over is nothing short of stunning! Too bad a nationwide tour isn't in the works....maybe after the cd is out. Do you ever sing the title track to Since There Were Circles, live? That would completely do me in.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Post subject: Tour Canada.
Tue Nov 16 1:41 am Hello Bob I'm new to this site; it's great to see an artist interacting with his fan base. Do you think it's possible that you may make up here to the Great White North? Toronto has a great folk club called "Hugh's Room" @www.hughsrooom.com check it out I'm sure you have lots of fans up here. Floorbird
Hey FB, Welcome to the board. Thanks for the invitation. I know there's a powerful and time-honored folk-acoustic/folk-rock tradition in Toronto -- it hatched Joni and Neil and Steve Stills. As I remember, Tom Rush hails from around there too, doesn't he? I'd love to get up there. I'll talk to the guy who's been booking me about Hugh's Room and find out what else is in the area that will have the likes of me. Meanwhile, stay close to the forum. It's nice to have you with us.
Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:35 pm Tom Rush. Bob speaking of Tom Rush I saw him just over a year ago at Hugh's Rm in Toronto. He was one of the first artists to cover songs by Joni Mitchell{Circle Game, Urge for Going} still has the chops, I believe he lives in New Hampshire.
SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES CD Re-Issue
Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:17 am Barring a delay with UPS, there will be official copies of the Since There Were Circles CD available at the Luna Star show. Bob will be signing them after the performance. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Mon Nov 01 5:14 am Nilsson Tell me to stop if this is getting old, but just wondered Bob, if you have any opinions or stories on another favorite artist of mine, Harry Nilsson? Rob68
we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:33 am Hey Rob,
You have a knack for asking about the sad ones.
I can't say Harry and I were close, but we knew each other. I had the great fortune to attend one of his recording sessions.
A guy who played B3 organ in my band was doing a session with him and I said, "Man that must be great."
My musician friend (Emmett Kennedy) said it was hard work but that Nilsson never made it seem that way.
The next day Emmett called me and said, "Harry wants to meet you."
Now at this time (it must have been 1972 or so) Nilsson was red hot. The Beatles were singing his praises to everyone and he was at the height of his much-deserved nototiety.
I, one the other hand, was ice cold at this time. So I was surprised Nilsson even knew who I was.
But I came to the studio that night and Nilsson treated me like visiting royalty. Gracious, respectful and genuinely pleased to have me there.
I had heard about his legendary drinking and drugging. (I would see it firsthand later.) But that night, he was straight as the proverbial arrow -- at least as far as I could tell.
Van Dyke Parks was at the session too, playing piano.
Nilsson (no surprise here) is a consummate master in the studio.
I thanked him and left. Later, through some mutual friends (Doug Dillard, Bill "Wild Willy" Martin and some others) I was at some parties where Nilsson was.
One of the most insanely wasted and drunken nights I ever spent was in celebration of the opening of a little diner some mutual friend of ours opened.
Nilsson was there we were all hitting the coke pretty hard.
The party started at around noon. I lost all memory at about 4 p.m.
The next day I woke up, not remembering how I got home. My guitar was missing. I remembered jamming with some other players. But couldn't remember what I'd done with my guitar.
Panicked, I called four or five of my friends who were there. None of them remembered what they did either.
Maybe we were all abducted by aliens.
I got the guitar back two or three days later. Some limo company called and said they'd found it in the trunk of one of their cars. (I didn't have any recollection of being in a limo.)
It was total cerebral detonation for me.
Friends told me it was just another night for Harry Nilsson.
[[Let me apologize in advance for any typos in this thing. Every time I make an entry here, I'm in a hurry. I check them over, but then, when I read them the next day I see I've done some stupid thing like write "here" when I mean "hear." Whatever.
Cut me some slack. I am, in the immortal words of Eric Burden, "just a soul whose intentions are good."]]
Bob,
Referencing your recent comments concerning Phil Ochs. The alter ego he took on later in life was John Train. His biography addressed many of the emotional problems he encountered later in life. Many of which stemmed from his inability to accept his place in comtemporary music, always looking for mass acceptance. His writing was very personal ("When I'm Gone") and his "protest period" in my view would have been very welcome and relevent in current times. His sister was once quoted as saying that after he completed "Power and Glory" he told her he had just competed his greatest work. The patriotism was there along with....call it peace or call it reason call it love or call it reason but "I Ain't Marching Anymore."
Harry....hanging out must of been a trip. Obviously a trained musician "Without You" with a sense of humor to boot "Take 54" and "You're Breaking My Heart"....you're tearing it apart so F#X# You !!
Bill
FORUM INDEX - BOB TALKS
1. Hey! Bob! 2. Nilsson 3. Influences
4. Bravo Bob! 5. Since There Were Circles 6. Nice eb Site Bob
7. Lind Trivia 8. Cover requests for the Luna show! 9. So Glad you’re alive and well
10. Thanks Bob 11. This may not be the done or the dude 12. Excellent!!!
13. Touring question 14. Greetings from Baltimore 15. Website Picture
16. A thank you 17. The other Bob 18. Sonny Bob
19. Excellent!! 20. World Pacific Liberty Records 21. Hi
22. Poetry as music 23. Jack Nitzhe (sp) 24. Hello!!!
TOPIC : HEY! BOB!
Wed
Aug 18
1:14 am Hey! Bob!
Does this website mean that all of my annoying pestering finally paid off? It's great to see your site up and running Little Sunflower
Wed
Aug 18
11:59 am Right
Thanks little S.F. Yeah. Looks like I'm actually up and running in this Cyber world. Keep checking in. And thanks for all your nagging and support.
Thu Oct 07, 6:04 am
Bob, just wondered if you'd care to mention any songwriters or performers that you admire, or that have inspired you, past or present And do you listen to much music, yourself ....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Tue Oct 12, 12:29 Rob, check out the new topic: "Influences."
TueOct 12
5:31 am Wow, Influences is a great topic. I didn't wanna spoil that thread with my message. Whenever you're up for it, The Teen Years will make for great reading as well. Great info! Bob, you should write an auto-biography. _____..could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
TueOct12, 7:05 pm Thanks Bob, Influences has answered some of my questions - I love Cool (Clear) Water. If its the same one it says - "Keep a'movin' Dan, don't you listen to him Dan, he's a devil not a man and he spreads the burning sands with water" if my memory of the song is correct? Wonderful!!! ______Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Tue Oct 12 9:05 pm That's it Liz. "Cant' you see that big green tree where the water's running free . . .Points for the South African music buff.
WedOct13 1:11 pm Your discussion of early musical influences and impressions reminds me of a song that fascinated my young mind...Ghost Riders In The Sky. I used to look at the sky and try to imagine what "that old cowpoke" was seeing up there. LSF
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
WedOct13
33:51 pm Right S.F., that's another one I loved. "Their hot breath he could feel." A real cautionary tale isn't it? Did you "change your ways today" after you heard it. Or will you be riding with them?
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:04 pm My uncle had a reel-to-reel tape of "Ghost Riders In The Sky" (The Outlaws' 1980 country-rock version) and I remember being excited by the storm sound effects. I'm sure the lyrics affected me on a subconscious level._________________ Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:45 pm Hi Bob, another song that made me "get" music/lyrics/poetry - and a quiz for you - ............ "The sound of the seagull's distant cry, it's wings like parenthesis drawn in the sky and ............. " who sang that and complete the line if you can!!!!! I'm with you LS on "Ghost Riders" it was so dramatic and scary! _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Mon Oct 25, 8:01 pm Hey Bob and the rest of you out there, are there no takers? One last chance to tell me what song this is and perhaps even who sang it???
Liz _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were conscious of fashion ..
Wed Oct 27, 5:56 am Nina & Frederick... "Listen To The Ocean."
Clumsy lyrics in a pretty cheesy song... except for the following line: "The silence of noon, the clamour of night." That's brilliant...
_________________ Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Thu Oct 28, 3:34 am Hmm....clumsy, cheesy and brilliant all in one song? Quite a span of adjectives. And you're one of Bob's new producers? Uh-oh........just kidding Rob68
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Oct 28, 4:44 pm Clumsy, cheesy, brilliant... like the Beatles. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Fri Oct 29,4:49 am Hmm...maybe the first two. You can keep the Beatles.......give me the ZOMBIES
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Sun Oct 31 4:47 pm .....My son told me he once got into a music discussion when someone said...."I think the Beatles are really overated." As CSN&Y said "Where do I go from here?" Bill
Mon Nov 01 9:00 pm If someone says the Beatles are overrated, you're talking to either:
1) the ghost of Mozart, or
2) someone who is attempting to wind you up. Jon
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
NILSSON
INFLUENCES - THE TEEN YEARS (ONE KEY EXPERIENCE)
Mon Nov 01, 2004 2:31 am Here's the Part I of the TEEN YEARS I promised a zillion years ago.
I'll do this in several sections. In this one I just want to relate one musical experience that knocked me on my ass. It's still vivid in my memory.
As I think of the music I listened to in my late-kid/early-teen years, I see very little of it influencing what I do now. Some of you who hear me at this stage of my life may be better judges.
But I didn't get off on what/who I was listening to between, say ages 10 and 14.
My dad was in the air force so my family moved quite a bit, stationed in different cities. I don't remember hearing any local music. My only source was the radio. And there just weren't any particular artists who stunned me. They all seemed pretty tight and rigid -- left-over forties guys I couldn't appreciate like Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Jerry Vale -- vanilla handsome white guys.
I was indifferent to them.
One day there was a talent show on the base. I was living in Orando then, age 11 or so. I'd heard there was going to be a magician in the show and THAT appealed to me.
I was on my way over to see the show, all by myself, and took a shortcut through the Service Club. A bunch of airmen were hanging out in the halls.
I had no idea of -- or openness to -- anything. I was just cutting through to see a guy make rabbits appear and disappear.
There were four black guys standing around in civilian clothes, which meant they were headed off base on leave for the night. But they didn't seem to be in any particular hurry to leave. They were just standing around singing a capella, getting the most out of the echo in the hall.
Nobody else was paying any attention to them. Despite a technically and legally "integrated" armed service, black airmen tended to hang with black airmen and white with white.
So I was the only one listening.
It was the most astounding thing I ever heard. One guy was singing lead and the other four were singing "oohhs" and "aahhs" behind him.
The Four Lads and the Ames Brothers didn't sing like that.
These guys were so relaxed, their voices and postures so natural. They were so unlike any of the singers I'd heard. Loose, free, and absolutely real.
I didn't even know the word "cool" yet. There was no such concept in my experience. But I wanted to be those guys. I knew girls would fall all over me if I could have some of that easy confidence with my body and voice. I still remember the song, "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad."
One guy was wearing a hat and, as he sang, he sort of reached up and tilted it over his forehead, slow and deliberate and for no particular reason. It made me want a hat so I could reach up and tilt it the same way.
When they finished singing I was shaking. Excited past words.
I said, "Are you guys going to be in the show?"
And one of them said, "Nah."
And another one said, "Let's go."
And they sauntered out like four leopards stepping easy into the jungle night.
If that sounds racist, well so be it. I never saw any white guys, sing, move or carry themselves like that. They sang as naturally as they spoke or walked and put absolutely nothing between them and the music.
In a few years there would be the Penquins, The Flamingos, The Drifters, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, The Medallions and scads of others. But I was left reeling with a near terminal case of the How-long-has-this-been-going-ons.
Next: The REAL TEEN teen years.
BRAVO BOB!
Sat
Oct 30, 6:31 am I came across the website early this morning and was floored. I have been looking for such a site for quite some time and nearly gave up.
I grew up listening to Bob Lind as my father was a HUGE fan of yours!
I cannot tell you how much it means to me to have found the message board and I just can't wait to tell my father. BRAVO BOB! BRAVO!!!!
Your music helped shape me into the person I have become
Sun Oct 31, 9:05 pm Hey Jen, Welcome to the board. And thank you AND your dad for your long memories and continued support.
But I hope you don't stop with "Butterfly." Check out the new tunes on the Playlist. They're just demos, as I keep telling everyone. But at least you'll get an idea of what I'm writing and singing these days.
Keep coming back.
NICE WEB SITE BOB!
Fri
Aug 20, 2004 10:17 pm Hello, Bob! I am very happy to hear that you are returning to performing and hope to have the chance to catch your act sometime soon. Also, I am glad to see that your web site is up and running. You have done a good job with it.
As you know, I have maintained the Bob Lind Page for the past few years. Maybe some of your fans would like to visit it at http://www.tsimon.com/lind.htm.
Good luck with the performances and the web site and the new CD, Bob.
Tom Simon
Sat
Aug 21, 2004 2:26 pm Ah, the competition weighs in.
Hey Tom, thanks.
For those who are unaware, Tom's Lind page preceded mine by at least three years. It contains considerably more biographical information on me than this one does.
It's one of the "excellent" sites I referred to on my welcome page.
Tom's one of the few who bothered to check with me before putting up a mini-bio.
Check it out at the address he posted.
Keep visiting, Tom. Always good to hear from you.
Thu
Sep 09, 2004 6:13 am Finding this site, courtesy of the Spectropop forum, has made my WEEK. Not only is there a boblind.com, but Mr. Bob himself posts here. This is so cool. Bob, you are truly an amazing singer/songwriter for ALL times! You don't know how often you've inspired goosebumps (seriously) with your singing and lyrics. I can't thank you enough for the hours of pleasure you've given me with your music. Your Best Of...CD would definitely be one of my Top5 choices for a desert island disc.
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Wed
Oct 27, 2:45 am I'm bumping this topic up just to remind me to add this to the links page.Grant
TOPIC – BOB’S NEW MUSIC
Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:50 pm Hi Bob,
Have just answered my own question re some of your new music, found the page and downloaded China - haven't listened to it yet - but would still like to buy a CD. Which one of your songs did Hugh Masekela cover? _________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:30 am Hey Liz,
Hugh M. covered "Elusive Butterly," some time ago. I understand the album has been released on CD.
As far as my new things are concerned, the songs posted are just demo quality. I'm playing all the instruments and recorded them on my little home recorderd. I'd feel a little too guilty selling them as they are.
But I'm in the process of recording them and some other unreleased songs with a couple of brilliant young producers who know what they're doing. So hang on. It won't be long.
Thanks for your interest. Keep coming back to the board.
Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:06 am Hi Liz. Actually, you can hear all the new demos at the playlist page. And read all the new lyrics. Hopefully, older lyrics will be posted eventually. What's your opinion of China? I think it's outstanding. Great to hear, Bob, that you're recording in the studio. If the demos are this good, the final versions should be great. Any projected release date month? _________________
....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:29 am Hey Bob, Have you been in the studio with the new songs and a producer? Looking forward to the finished product. Any updates?
.could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:02 pm Hey Rob, you're asking on the perfect day. Last night I got a copy of four new rough tracks that reflect the creativity and brilliance of the new guys.
We're going slow but so far I'm knocked out by what they're doing. No egos, no shopping-while-hungry production overkill. They love my work and apply their considerable talents to it with welcome sensitivity.
If you're interested, you might want to Google Chris Moll (don't know his Website right off the bat) and try to find the work he did with a group called SEE VENUS. Beautiful arrangements.
The other fellow, Jon Wilkins, is more mysterious. He keeps a very low profile, cyber-wise. (He posts here as Since There Were Circles.)
He's a rare find: A drummer who also has a broad understanding of music.
I call them Heaven and Earth: Chris writes these chilling string, horn and synthesizer arrangements; Jon keeps it all grounded with earthy rhythm-track ideas.
We're not rushing, but we're all dedicated toward creating something memorable for people like you who have been so faithful, patient and interested in the new stuff.
Stay close to the Website Rob, always good to hear from you.
Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:17 am Great! Chilling and moody and slightly offbeat is always the way to go. You certainly don't want to make a "normal" easy-listening record. You're much too deep for that. Sounds cool, very promising. ....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:11 pm Hi There Bob,
After listening over and over again I have to say that I love, love, love the new music. Even though I am a lyrics person, I love Waterfall and BocaMar. The sax is super.
Home in Time for Twilight is so, so lovely. I suppose it is like good art - each finds his/her own message, but Twilight is speaking to me on so many levels. "A precious piece of sun left in the sky", "When love come late it comes to stay" and "The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there" - brings tears to my eyes and so much emotion.
Initially I thought that I preferred China, but then suddenly Twilight hit me like a ton of bricks! Have a Lovely Yesterday - is gorgeous and so clever!!
I have only one problem and that is with the sentiment in Valentine .. The story is not consistent enough for me and also why the problem with commitment. But then again who am I and what do I know? Your music has stood the test of time for so many of us.
Bob do you like Jim Croce, Don McLean, Mike Batt, Leonard Cohen? They and you all have that special something, a nuance that one can't put one's finger on - if you don't like their work I will be surprised. What about Janis Ian and the lyrics (only) of Kris Kristofferson? Who are your favourites? Sorry, you're probably starting to get stressed out about all these questions, but hey! that's the price of fame and genius!
Seriously though, nice that you are so human (are you?) and not just a stuffed shirt (I said SHIRT). OK stopping now. Liz. Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Oct 25, 2004 3:13 am Hey Liz,
Thanks for your kind words about TWILIGHT. It's a song I certainly couldn't have written in the 60s. It's always a joy to hear people speaking glowingly about the new stuff.
As to your question: I'm not aware of Mike Batt.
So leaving him out of the equation, you're putting me in some good company there, particularly with Cohen. I think he's brilliant. He has unfailing trust in his images and doesn't censor his inner messenger. He was the guy who taught me, (through a song called "Dress Rehearsal Rag") that you can be funny and heartbreaking at the same time -- or more correctly, that you can express images in which those labels have no meaning. A new song of mine called "LOOKING FOR YOU" (not on the playlist yet) uses that tension, and I learned to trust it from listening to Leonard Cohen.
My respect for Croce has deepened in the years since his death. I didn't realize how great he was until just recently when I stumbled onto a biography on him and really listened full out. I like his love songs better than his "story" songs -- but that's a personal preference. "Time in a Bottle," "Operator" and "I Love You in a Song" -- so touching. And his give and take with that lead guitar player of his was phenomenal. What a loss, the two of them.
Kristofferson has always been a little too cerebral for me. I always feel that brilliant, intellect calculating in his songs. That's not meant as an insult, just a subjective preference. I like emotion and instinct more than cleverness and I sense him sometimes working his lyrics too hard for my tastes. He's a Rhodes Scholar and somehow, I can never forget that listening to his down home, just-plain-folks songs.
I think he's an excellent actor. His work in STAR IS BORN is wonderful.
Janis Ian and I once worked together for a week at an L.A. club called the TROUBADOUR. She was young and so was I. I don't think either of us were very well developed, musically, at that point in our careers. But we were attracting a similar crowd. I haven't heard her new things.
I leave Don McLean for last because I'm trying to avoid saying anything unkind. I'll say this: Vincent" is a passionate, heart-wrenching song. And before I met him, his music could make me cry. But I can't be objective about it now. My brief meeting with him colors my view of the songs. It may well have been as much me as him -- I was certainly no picnic to be around in those days -- but I was profoundly dissappointed in him as a human being. I admired him so much and was stunned by what I perceived as his rudeness and condescension to me. Other friends who play music report similar experiences with him. Having that view of him robs me of the joy of his art. Too bad, but that's how it is. To paraphrase Emerson: What he is speaks so loudly I can't hear what he sings.
Songwriters I like: Of the newer breed, Jon Mayer and Jason Mraz stand out.
Contemporaries and near contemporaries (age wise) Don Henley, Joni Mtchell, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg and Fagen & Becker (Steely Dan).
There's also a woman named Basia who is mysterious and rarely plays anymore. She puts me on the floor.
And of course, Dylan is in a class all by himself. So is Stephen Sondheim. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:25 pm Bob, I remember once reading that Don McLean was quoted as saying that he sang "Crying" better than it's auther ...Roy Orbinson. While that likely says more about him than his music, I never found either to be particulary interesting. Were or are you interested in the "urban or protest" singers like Phil Ochs & Eric Anderson. Phil took me to a whole new level in my appreciation of folk music which later evolved into "Folk Rock" ....how could it get any better than that, the intelligence of lyrics with a beat !! Bill
Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:51 am Bob... what about Jason Falkner?! JON______
"If you're going to be around a girl you better know about her, I can tell you she can get along and don't you ever doubt her, maybe she'll be looking like a lady needs a lover, but you know she's just a loner working easy undercover..."
Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:52 am Phil Ochs was great. Personally, I prefer the Pleasures of the Harbor (and after) period. Also Tim Hardin was amazing. Both troubled souls, as all the greats seem to be. Bob, any stories or opinions on these two _________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless
Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:11 am Hey Rob, Unfortunately I knew both these men at a time when their demons had almost entirely consumed them. Neither was a pleasure to be around. Both deeply unhappy. Phil hung around a club called the Troubadour in Los Angeles. He was very manic. He had this alter-ego, dressed in gold lame and did a kind of Elvis thing -- onstage and off. If it had some kind of deeper meaning, or if it was funny in some way, no one got it. Everyone was just embarrassed for him.
When I knew him he was way out of his prime. Onstage, he was always getting into argments with people in the audience, calling them "stupid" that kind of thing.
He didn't seem morose, the way Tim did. But he wasn't at home in this world. Always ill at ease. Even when he was unpleasant (and don't misunderstand, he was never anything but polite to me) no one took offense. Everyone just found him pathetic, not dangerous or threatening.
Too bad. Because I feel, had he begun to transcend the bind his style was starting to put him in, he would be writing great stuff today. Tim Hardin was a different story. He too was alienating his friends toward the end of his life. But he was hostile and almost biker-like. Spikes up all around him. Barbed wire and an invisible sign that said "Don't get to Close Because I Might Explode and Kill Both of Us."
I first met him in late '66, I think, in my managers' office. He was still vital then. Clear-eyed and alive and vibrant.
I had just released "San Francisco Woman" and had come into the office to see how it was doing. Hardin was there visiting on some kind of business. From the moment we were introduced he started getting sullen and terse. It was as if he had taken an instant dislike to me.
It didn't make any sense. You know those deals where you examine your behavior and ask yourself what you could've done to offend someone?
I couldn't come up with anything so I just dismissed it. Later I ran into a woman who knew him and I told her about our meeting. "Something about me must have bugged him," I told her.
And she said, "Jesus, don't you know why he was that way?"
I said I didn't. She told me he was getting flack from everyone about the bridge to "If I Was a Carpenter."
I looked at her with these dull-fish eyes. "Huh?"
Turns out people were accusing him of ripping off the melody on "I Just Let It Take Me." I certainly never picked up on it. I truly don't think he stole from me (I'd actually be amazed if he'd ever heard my song, it went directly into the toilet on the B side of "Truly Julie's Blues.")
When I heard "Carpenter" next time, I could sort of see how people felt that way, (the tune on the "save my love through loneliness, save my love through sorrow" part) but I'm convinced it was just a coincidence. That stuff happens a lot with melodic fragments. Anyway the next time I saw him was years later, just weeks before he died. I went to see John Sebastian at the Troubadour and Hardin came. They were old firends. Tim was drunk and maudlin and looked awful. He was balding on top, shaggy-haired on the sides and badly bloated. He kept talking to John, repeating himself over and over.
I was watching/listening from a short distance away and what I remember most was the kindness in Sebastian's eyes. He was so patient and non-judgemental. Just let the poor guy gush and slur and slobber. Believe it or not, I have never really met John, I just introduced myself that night and, although he was an idol of mine (I think "Younger Generation" is brilliant), he had apparently no idea who I was.
But I'll always remember that patience and kindness in his eyes as he spoke -- or more correctly listened -- to Tim Hardin.
Abut a month later, Tim died and there was a memorial for him at the Troub.
I went, not out of reverence, but because the booze was free.
Everyone got drunk and acted like idiots.
Oct 29, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: wild men Wow, another case of "be careful what you ask for". No, actually I'm not surprised. I knew both were pretty troubled. I just read an interview with Tim Hardin, done a couple months before he died. He sounded pretty bad. But strangely enough, his Homecoming Concert cd (also just before he died) is totally beautiful. Kinda like how the Let's Get Lost soundtrack (Chet Baker) is some of Chet's most emotional singing, not long before he died. Well thankfully, the sad stories fade away, but the music lives on loud and clear.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
TOPIC : “YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT”
Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:45 am Hey Bob, I was listening to one of my favorite songs of yours the other day, "You Should Have Seen It," and it reminded me to ask you a question that has been nagging me for years. I almost forgot that I now have the ability to ask the man himself One of my favorite aspects of the song is the percussion, especially the tambourines. However, there seems to be a tambourine towards the end of the song that starts out of sync with the everything, until it cuts out completely. Was it inside of a track and couldn't be removed? Did anybody notice it at the time? I'd love to know
Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:30 am Hey Matt,
I can't really place that part of the song, nor have I noticed the tambourine being out of sync.
But my guess is that it's probably Jack (Nitzsche) playing it. Jack was ultra-superstitious. Back when he was arranging for Spector, they hit a temporary snag at one point. There was a (very short) string of so-so records -- singles that didn't click.
But then, on the night they recorded "Da-Do-Run-Dun," for some reason Phil had Jack play tamborine. As you know, it became a monster hit. From then on, like a baseball team that won't take off its winning socks, Jack insisted on playing tambourine on every record he had some say-so with. Whenever you hear tambourines on any cut on the DON'T BE CONCERNED, or PHOTOGRAPHS albums, Jack is playing at least one of them. That's all I can tell you about "DOLL." I hardly remember anything about it except that it was on the very first session we cut. Lind
Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:05 am DOLL? As in "doll, you should have seen it all the time"? Matt, you're right. That one tambourine part is crazy! I laugh when I hear it. Does anyone know if it sounds like that on the original LP? Because it almost sounds like it was added during re-mastering. I have another EMI remastered cd (Cher) that has some strangely clear tambourine on one song (Blowin' In The Wind) that absolutely is NOT on the original LP. Actually, I just looked at the Lind & Cher cd's and Ron Furmanek was in charge of both of these. Hmm...maybe some liberties were taken during re-mastering. I'd hate to think someone added an out-of-sync tambourine part later on. The Lind cd does say "songs remixed"......
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:44 pm Good observation, Rob. I'm sure it's entirely possible that Furmanek could have tampered with the original in the re-mix. The truth is that I could well be one of the last people to ask about these things.
I never listen to those old things anymore. I do feel Jack was given the short shrift on the MIGHT HAVE HEARD MY FOOTSEPS credits. I wasn't consulted at all in that regard -- only asked for my song-by-song commentary.
Despite my request that they scrap that bogus artsy graphic on said song-by-song, they disregarded my input and put it in that impossible-to-read mish mash on the page. Who knows what else they might have done.
I try to keep my schnozz pointed in the direction of the future. Lind
Thu Oct 28 1:43 am I was so intrigued with the tambourine conversation that I put the vinyl on so I could hear what everyone was talking about.
The tambourine does seem to come out of nowhere. It's like someone came charging into the recording studio saying..."Hold on...this is where I play the tambourine!" And play it he/she/they did. It's like it's an entirely different track. LF
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
Thu Oct 28 3:10 am Exactly! It's like a separate track that comes in, then you hear it cut-out. And out-of-sync, as well. So it's on the original LP then? OK, my apologies to the re-master producer. Must be Jack Nitzsche trying to tame an out of control tambourine._________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
Thu Oct 28, 11:34 am No, Rob. I believe you are right. I just listened to both the vinyl and the CD and they don't sound the same. The tambourine on the CD version is kind of shattering. It is so much louder, and out of sync with the rhythm. Something has either been added or definitely cranked up.
As the water goes one way, the train goes another...
Thu Oct 28, 7:52 pm Sorry everybody, I didn't mean to create such controversy . I was just always curious about that tambourine. Nevertheless, I still think it fits inside an already powerfully produced track. The tambourine adds some character and screams out "YOU should have seen it!" Matt
Fri Oct 29, 5:40 am No, it's ok Matt. If I would have remembered, I would've asked the same question. That crazy tambourine part makes me laugh every time I play the CD. Hmm...so it DOESN'T sound the same on the LP then? Strange. I don't have Don't Be Concerned on LP. Maybe everything just sounds different re-mixed and re-mastered OK, I'll shut up now.
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....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
LIND TRIVIA ....
Fri Oct 22, 11:46 pm ...which only Bob may know. I need to settle an argument. In the close of "Drifters Sunrise" ("You will walk alone") I swear I hear a female voice singing harmony, (my buddy says strings) ...or is it just in my head? Thx. Bill
Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:09 am I'm sure Bob will answer you, but it's definitely strings. They go....weeeee oooh oooh a couple times at the end. That would be some HIGH pitched female if it was a voice. Rob68 _________________
....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud....
POST SUBJECT: BACK TO THE LUNA STAR
Tue Aug 17, 10:57 make sure you catch Bob at the Luna Star this SATURDAY!!
Dolphin
Wed
Aug 18
12:29 am Right you are Dolphin. Attendance is mandatory. Thanks. You're the first official post on the board. To anyone planning on coming on Saturday, I suggest getting there early. .The place is tiny, even by small club standards. Hope to see you.
-Lind
Wed.
Aug 18
3:03 pm Cant wait! Dolphin
Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:01 pm Since the TOURS page is a little hard to fathom right at this moment, I'll use this space to let Florida fans know I'm doing the LUNA STAR CAFE again on November 20th – the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It's in North Miami and there's a link on the TOURS page. (You just have to look for it.) I've sent notices out to the people on the list, but in case I missed you. I'm telling you now.
The LUNA STAR is a top-notch place to play. Intimate, good sound and very performer-audience friendly. It's a "listening room" -- a vanishing breed of clubs.
Cover is a mere 8 smackers (seems criminal to charge more when the setting is so warm and close). If you need more details, call them at (305) 799-7123. Or just e-mail me at Boblindmusic@aol,com Hope to see you there.
Sun Oct 31, 4:42 pm (SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES)
is there anyone planning to attend the luna star cafe, that has the SINCE THERE WERE CIRCLES LP , and can burn on CD for me? thats the one album i cant find.
LIMITED EDITION DVD : GUTHRIE CONCERT
Tue Sep 21 11:42 am Saw the Limited Edition DVD of Bob Lind at the Guthrie Center. Bob looked and sounded great. New music and old favorites. Red1
Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:17 pm just watching it myself!!!!!!!! its like BEING in the same ROOM with Bob!!!!!! he does one OF MY FAVORITE OLD TRADITIONAL NUMBERS, the WAGGONERS LAD!!!
its GOING TO BE GREAT! dolphin
Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:10 pm Nice going, Bob. It's great to see all that energy and communication working together. And, it's a priviledge to be able to see this video. How many years has it been since I've actually seen you perform? Okay, I really don't want to know. It would scare me too much. Congratulations on a fine performance. Little Sunflower
Fri Sep 24, 5:43 am Who? What? Where is this DVD available through Rob68
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....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sun Sep 26 8:34 pm I beleive it should be AVAILABLE VERY SOON. Oct, i beleive i was told. dolphin
Thu Oct 21,
8:10 am Release date setback Just want to let you know I spoke with Jackie the other night. She and Arlo got hit hard by the hurricane last month. Their home in Sebastian got slammed. She's got her hands pretty full down here taking care of the property damage and hassling with insurance people, etc. Bottom line: The DVD may be a while in coming but she assures me that once she gets back to Mass., editing the disc is going to be a high priority.
I'll keep you posted.
Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:18 pm
It occurs to me that those of you just plugging into this thread blind, might not know what we're talking about. Check out the topic: Guthrie Center Show Sparks Contoversy.
Check out the topic: Guthrie Center Show Sparks Controversy Questions. I explain in a little more detail about the DVD there. Some people on this thread have seen advance rough cuts but it’s in no condition to sell with the sound as it is.
Fri
Oct 22
4:25am That's ok, Bob. We'll wait.......we're used to it. I'm sure it'll be great.....we are the strength of the ocean, we are the lightness of clouds. In perfect and timeless devotion, we're standing proud.... Rob68
Fri Oct 22, 6:04pm Youch! I guess I deserve that one. Soon though. Really!
COVER REQUESTS FOR THE LUNA SHOW
________________________________________ SOLDIERS OF AUTUMN
Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:00 am "The soldiers of autumn are marching to sea. They are stealing the green from the hillsides and trees." Fall is a beautiful time up here where the seasons actually change. It can tend to be very introspective. But it means winter's near, and that's not a good thing. Who can name the song, besides Bob, that the quoted lyrics are from _________________
....could anything be finer than rolling toward the ocean in your trusty Morris Minor?........
Sat Oct 16, 5:11 am Easy...the song is "English Afternoon." I'll need more of a challenge . "Hold on, baby, and I'll find a way to get there soon." Matt
Sun Oct 17, 5:14 pm And....Morris Minor....would be "Go Ask Your Man. While on the subject I always thought "man" referred to father. Was the intention father or lover?
Bill
Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:42 pm I am convinced that the "man" is the lover/husband - Bob wrote this cheeky song very much tongue in cheek
right Bob?_________________
Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes - you said you were concious of fashion ..
Sun Oct 17,10:50 pm I hear both but....."Tell him, I won't try to get your clothes too sandy, just let him know that I'me from a decent family".....
Bill
SO GLAD YOU’RE ALIVE AND WELL
Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:48 pm Hi Bob,
I am writing to you from South Africa. So glad that you're alive and well and doing what you do best (that is if you are writing songs as well as performing them). Your best lines are "Take off your lies, they don't match with your eyes, you said you were concious of fashion", etc. Obviously from the Photographs of Feelings LP. Beautiful! I have ever only had that one record of yours (not for lack of trying) and that was given to me by a friend in the early 70's simply because I begged him for it. I still listen often - have transferred it onto a CD now.
Sat Oct 02, 2004 2:40 am Wow Liz, I have fans in South Africa? How great to hear from you. Please stay close to the board and keep posting. After years of not thinking about "Nameless Request," I started playing it for a brief time in the mid-70s. I added a verse and revised the chords. Then I dropped it again. Thanks for reminding me of it. All the best, Bob
Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:16 pm Vrystaat!!!!!! ZA?
Vrystaat!
(That's about the limits of my Afrikaans, but it's good to see some culture enter the scene around here.)
Tue Oct 12 10:03 pm Grant, good grief! how do you know anything at all about "Vrystaat" - were you here in SA or have you friends here?
Wed Oct 13 1:29 am I was conceived in Johannesburg, but first breathed air in Miami Beach. I'm Ian Balfour's grand-son, if that means anything to you -- the SABC sportscaster (no relation to Ngconde, as far as I know).
Wed Aug 18 1:14 am (that was me, by the way) Grant
THANKS BOB
Tue Oct 12, 8:03 pm Hey Bob, Thanks for responding to my e-mail (and so abruptly I might add!). I've taken your advice and joined the message board. Keep up the good work!
Matt
Tue
Oct 12, 9:02 pm Glad to have you with us Matt. Your input is welcome. By way of introduction for the rest of you, Matt here sent me a recent e-mail in which he revealed an astonishing knowledge of Lind trivia. He can quote Lind lyrics chapter and verse, singles, albums and B-sides, much better than Lind can -- and he's only 19! Bob.
Bob Replies all after Elinor
From: Lind
To: Liz
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:39 pm
Subject: Re: Elusive Butterfly
Hey Liz,
Aren't you the sweet one. Thanks so much for this.
I was aware of Dolly Parton and that I'm on a zillion of those 60s hits albums. But I'd never heard of Judy Page. (Is she hot in South Africa?)
To answer your question, one is never sure what he's getting paid on. The royalty statements aren't itemized by artist. I just cash the checks. I appreciate your e-mail.
Luv,
Bob
THIS MAY NOT BE THE BE THE "DONE" OR THE "DUDE" THING
Sun
Oct 10, 12:39 pm :
Hey Bob,
For 30-something years I have been playing "Photographs of Feelings" on average once a month - often more often (and I own hundreds of LP's, CD's etc so its not for want of alternatives that I do so). Not even your dog has been more faithful than that. Right?? And... I know this may not be
the "done" or the "dude" thing to do, however I care not for the former and I am not the latter, but please would you answer and enlarge upon some questions about yourself? I know the others in this forum know all this, but please bear with me.
I gather your were born at an early age to parents (yes?), but then ....... huh....?? What happened next? What about school, brothers, sisters, when did you start writing songs/music? Why? What makes you write? Were you exceptionally good at English/poetry in school? Did you read a lot? Were you a good little boy or a rebel? What happened in later life? Wife, kids, (dogs, cats) significant other? Tell me what you can and what you don't mind talking about. Are you a writer? What have you been working at for the last 30 years and where? If you've written stuff, can I read it?
Tue Oct 1
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
lIND LYRICS
LYRICS
How the Nights Can Fly Bob Lind
There was something of the eagle
In the way his voice could rise
And she thought she saw salvation
In the way he closed his eyes
He was turning like the seasons
She was turning toward the sky
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years go floating by
The only touch that thrills you
They were only passing passengers
On separate sets of scenes
But there was something of the lifeline
Through the distances between
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years that move you on
Memories that still you
Sometimes our needs are most in danger
From the ones we need the most
And there is something of the stranger
In the closest of the close
As he kisses her forever
He is kissing her goodbye
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
And when the chance goes by
How the years can kill you
REMEMBER THE RAIN Words and music by Bob Lind
ANGEL THAT YOU ARE,
YOU STILL REMEMBER SUMMER WALKS AND QUIET TALKS WE HAD
BEFORE OUR CLOUDS WERE BREAKING.
IN THE HEAVEN OF YOUR MIND YOUR HOPEFUL HEART HAS PUT BEHIND
ALL THE UGLY JEALOUS TIMES OUR HEARTS WERE ACHING.
NOW THAT YOUR PAIN HAS BEEN MENDED
YOU'RE ONLY SEEING ONE SIDE.
BEHIND THE BRIGHT EASY LAUGHTER
RIVERS OF TEARS HAVE BEEN CRIED.
SO REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE
YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO SEE THAT IT HAS GONE FOR YOU AND ME
AND THERE IS NO WAY TO BRING IT BACK AGAIN.
IN A SAD UNSTABLE WAY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN SAY
BUT NOW IT'S LOCKED IN YESTERDAY AND MUST REMAIN SO.
THE GENTLE PRISONER IN THE STALLS SOMETIMES FORGETS THE VERY WALLS
THAT GAVE HER SHELTER IN THE FALL WILL ALSO CHAIN HER.
DRINK FROM THE SPRING OF TOMORROW
YESTERDAY'S WELL HAS GONE DRY.
ALL THE GOOD TIMES ARE BEHIND US AND WHENEVER YOU ASK YOURSELF WHY
JUST REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE.
ON THE OCEAN OF A SMILE WE FLOATED EASY FOR A WHILE
BUT NOW WE'VE DRIFTED TO THE SHORE WHERE BEAUTY DIES.
IT ISN'T EASY TO EXPLAIN, I NEVER DREAMED YOU FELT THE SAME -
BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT TO BLAME WE CAN'T CONTINUE.
DON'T LET YOURSELF PRETEND THAT WE'VE GOT SOMETHING TO DEFEND
YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO FACE THE END WITH ALL THAT'S IN YOU.
OH I CAN'T DENY THAT I LOVE YOU, BUT MY SOUL CAN NO LONGER BE BOUND.
FLY ON THE WINGS OF YOUR FREEDOM BUT WHENEVER YOU LOOK TO THE GROUND
JUST REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE.
TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT HAS FALLEN FROM OUR HANDS
AND JUST BE THANKFUL THAT YOUR SOUL IS STILL YOUR OWN.
Home In Time For Twilight Lyrics BobLind.com
Home in time for twilight
A precious piece of sun left in the sky.
This long, long day will stretch forever,
Just as long as I can find me in your eyes.
Home in time for twilight
Thank God you’re waiting for me here.
You’re the only one my heart knows how to talk to,
The only one it’s easy to be near.
So long ago, I pushed away my right to shine,
I burned down all my golden days.
God brought me diamonds when your life
Entwined with mine.
When love comes late, it comes to stay.
Home in time for twilight
I reach across the past and take your hand.
The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there.
And the night will never cover us again.
VALENTINE FROM NEIL - Words and music by Bob Lind
Just coming out of a bad one
Finally shaking free
You’re the first one I’ve seen ‘don’t look like
A ball and chain to me
Does it have to be going somewhere
Must we sign that line
I’m getting to like you
We’ve got time
Could’na been more than month ago
We hit it off right away
Drunk on the smell of your hair
And you were crazy with words to say
Didn’t we laugh that night
Didn’t we talk till dawn
Didn’t you like that magic
Where’s it gone
Birds take flight and break from the hands that hold too tight
And make for the sea
Or die in captivity.
You and I, don’t we deserve to fly
Can’t we fly free Can’t we fly free
Maybe we’ll end up closer
Maybe we’ll break apart
All I really know is there’s no controlling
Powers that move the heart
Does it have to be serious
Can’t we just have fun
It’s wild and mysterious
And it’s only begun
CHINA - Words and music by Bob Lind
This is not the world I keep remembering
It’s grown unkind and cold, and I have too.
I sail against a savage wind that casts me out away
From the wide-eyed little boy that I once knew.
I could drift away to China,
Swept across the sea.
Sometimes I’m just that far away from me.
This is not the home I spread my wings to find.
The shrinking sky has poisoned all my birds.
Strangers killing children with their guns, and bombs and planes;
Lovers killing love with careless words.
I could drift away to China,
Half a world away.
That’s just how lost I feel today.
This is not the course that I was charted for.
Nothing looks familiar anymore.
The stars that used to steer me look like burning buildings now.
And it’s harder every day to see the shore.
I could drift away to China.
Miles away from home,
Out in the darkness on my own.
NEVER EVEN THERE Words and music by Bob Lind
A woman’s an emotional creature
She’s not a bit ashamed of her tears.
She’ll give you her attention and rub your neck
And say the things you love to hear.
Mild as milk, Soft as silk,
Speaking your name like a prayer.
But once she stops believing you still care,
She’ll leave you like you were never even there.
A woman likes to tell you her troubles
She likes to hear what you did all day.
She talks about the little things in great big ways
And hangs on every word you say.
Leaning close, Deep engrossed,
In every detail you can spare.
But once that heavy silence fills the air,
She’ll leave you like you were never even there.
Things have changed. Don’t you get it yet?
You’re out in that strange new cold.
You’re frozen here and she’s moving on.
If you still haven’t said it yet,
It probably won’t be told.
Cause when she goes – believe it – she’s gone.
The woman used to wait at the table
The woman used to wait in the bed
She waited so attentively for all those nights
For all the things you never said.
Dawn comes down. You look around
And find that her closet is bare.
It may take years, but one day you’re aware
In all the time you were never even there.
“MY FRIEND” Words and music by Bob Lind
Oh my friend, this wall between us stands in both our ways.
We’re not here long. Must we be strangers in these candle days?
And when that final darkness starts to fall,
These bitter monuments to pride will look so small.
Wars don’t start with nations
In global confrontations
They begin when conversation closes down.
And it’s not so much the violence
As the cold and awful silence
That drives our dreams of peace into the ground.
Oh my friend, once it was easy to forgive mistakes.
But hearts grow hard. The years leave disappointments in their wake.
I still recall a time the slate was clean.
Two souls who dared to hitchhike on their dreams.
You were always grounded,
Centered and well-rounded
And I was always somewhere in the clouds.
Back then, it didn’t matter.
And somehow that makes it sadder
To see it drive a wedge between us now.
Oh my friend, this wall between us stands in both our ways.
We’re not here long. Must we be strangers in these candle days?
And when that final darkness starts to fall.
These bitter monuments to pride will look so small.
HOW TO GET DEPRESSED Words and music by Bob Lind
Beginning with the basics, you sit right down
And give a lot of thought to yourself.
If any higher value should cross your mind,
Consider the state of your health.
Think of what that strange little cough could mean
And what you should have said to that jerk.
Start with the assumption that something’s wrong
And anything you think of will work.
Make a list of who’s slighted you and all the things it’s too late to do.
Think of all your mistakes and how little difference you make.
You’re halfway there.
Don’t be like the amateurs who waste their time
Counting up the bad breaks they’ve known.
Use your time efficiently and call to mind
All of the good breaks you’ve blown.
Think of all those chances for happiness –
Chances that only knock once.
Watch the clock and remind yourself
How the days keep turning to months.
Judge people that you never met
Watch the news every chance you get
Spend your mornings inside
Keep defending your pride
You’re almost there.
Think about those sneaky middle-eastern creeps
Think about your backstabbing friends
Sit around remembering the good old days
Life was so much simpler then
If right now someone’s heart is reaching out to you
Shut it hard away from your mind
You know you’re prob’ly to cool for her
He’s gonna suck up your time.
Think of Hemingway, Monroe and van Gogh
Remind yourself of how the great ones go.
Geniuses don’t ask for help.
You’re kind of brilliant yourself.
There you are.
Jazz ballad: Jerry & Kassandra (“Drugs and Drink”) Words and
music by Bob Lind
Jerry loved Kassandra and Sandra loved cocaine
Well you can see that this is headed for a real sad ending
But maybe not the one that you think
About drugs and drink
That powder don’t blow for pennies
Tequila well they call it gold
Jerry used to dream they’d have a nice new home
But every dime he made became a link
To her drugs and drink
He said baby I’d give you my breath and blood
But I can’t keep helping you die
If you don’t put down I swear to God I’m gone
But Sandra grabbed and his jacket sleeves
She fell on her knees and cried
So he lost himself to keep her keepin’ on
Jerry was raised up righteous
But good love can take a real bad turn
Soon he started stealin’ just to feed her demons
And every dirty dollar helped her sink
Into drugs and drink
Jerry went up on charges
Sandra went straight downhill
She bottomed out in treatment with the Jesus people
Born again with Jerry in the clink
For her drugs and drink
Now Jerry waits in an eight-foot cell
For letters that never come
And Sandra shuts those days out of her mind
But sometimes she senses a tender voice
Like the sound of a distant drum
Calling faintly from the world she left behind
Maybe like all sad stories this one hits close to home
The world is full of pretty things that hook and kill you
It turns around as fast as you can blink
SOPHIA'S LULLABY (For all the Chinese babies adopted by American
parents) Words and music by Bob Lind
“You’ll make a journey over water,”
The Chinese fortunes used to say.
Not many trust those sunny proverbs anymore.
But sometimes love still finds a way.
Out there, this wounded world is struggling.
We turn our backs and let it die.
But you will sleep tonight, protected and secure,
Cause some one cared enough to try.
These tiny whispers promise peace
As daylight moves in from the East.
Your little bed is made and waiting.
Your golden future’s waiting too.
Some gracious hand reached through a billion hopeful dreams
And chose that this one would come true.
Tonight the dangers are behind you.
Your guiding star is bright above.
You came a long way over water to be here.
Some day you’ll know how much you’re loved.
THE REPTILE Words and music by Bob Lind
You’re prime for the reptile, Mister.
You’ll turn around and see her pretty soon.
She’s as fresh as the first weeds of April
And as beautiful and icy as the moon.
You’re prime for the reptile, Mister.
She’ll pick you like a pocket and then
Send you back to your wife in little pieces
That will never fit together right again.
You’ll tell her why
You can’t keep up the broken trust, the self-disgust,
The poison lie.
You’ll say goodbye.
She’ll find your eyes with hers
And say she understands.
But she’ll be talking while her hand is on your thigh.
Maybe the first thing you’ll notice
Is the flash of those perfect teeth.
You’ll feel as strong and as cool as a Maserati
And as dirty as the wheel well underneath.
ROLL THE WINDOWS DOWN Words and music by Bob Lind
Roll the windows down. I see no sign of rain.
The sun is just like gold dust on my skin.
Every ray of hope I lost is mine again.
I can feel it beginning. Can’t you feel it beginning?
It’s the sweet taste of winning. And I’m drinking it in.
Roll the windows down. We’re driving straight away
From every bump and bend we ever knew.
The road lies out ahead like one long Saturday.
And I’m not gonna miss it. There’s no way that we’ll miss it.
It’s so real I could kiss it. And it’s kissing me, too.
{Instrumental break}
Jenny put on some jazz. Let’s get in motion.
There’s a breeze off the ocean.
And a seaside café
On this beautiful day.
Roll the windows down. The sky is clear and blue.
Close your eyes and let your red hair blow.
All the dreams you thought you lost are here for you.
And we’re not gonna miss it. There’s no way that we’ll miss it.
It’s so real I could kiss it. Roll ’em down and let’s go.
HAVE A LOVELY YESTERDAY Words and music by Bob Lind
Wave goodbye. I’ll be at the window
As our future drives away.
You’re going back to him, knowing what you’re leaving.
Have a lovely yesterday.
Nights on end, it all comes down to nothing.
There’s nothing kinder I can say.
You can call me bitter, talking from self-pity.
But have a lovely yesterday.
What do you think’ll be different with his hands on you again?
You think he turned into Jesus when you disappeared?
Don’t you think you’ll wake up one day and remember
You had love, but you left it here?
Tonight I’ll dream, reaching through the darkness
For the one I thought I knew.
As you live that rerun, and push the truth away,
Have a lovely yesterday.
TWO WOMEN - Words and music by Bob Lind
Diana says, "Man, that shirt
Brings out the blue in your eyes."
She tells you the things you say
Are such a welcome surprise.
Sarah says, "Jesus Christ,
Do we have to hear that story again?
Can't you pick up around you?
I'm not your maid. Is it too much to ask?
Put a coaster under that glass."
Diana looks in your eyes
And sees there's somebody there.
Sarah can only see the clothes
You left on the chair.
Diana brushing by, her fingers
Tingling your neck, triggers a memory.
You start reaching back for the day
Sarah used to touch you that way.
You twist your wedding ring
And wonder whether everything
You used to think was right could now be wrong.
But buddy, don't kid yourself.
If you move on to something else,
Diana will be Sarah before long.
Sarah picks up the kids
And brings in the groceries and bills.
She knows you and loves you anyway
Like no one else ever will.
Diana will always call from the shadows,
Promising more.
Either way, it's not easy.
Every step, either road that you take,
You're gonna carry the choices you make.
IT'S JUST MY LOVE
THE SOUND OF SPRINGTIME MOVING IN THE ARMS OF EARLY MORNING,
THE WALLS OF DARKNESS BREAKING,
ITS JUST MY LOVE
AWAKING
BRONZED AGAINST THE PILLOW CASTING SHADOWS ON THE WALL
HER EYES REFLECT THE SUNLIGHT AS MORNING BIRDS BEGIN TO CALL,
THE SMILING ORANGE DAWN IS HERS FOR TAKING
AND SO AM I.
THE MUSIC OF THE FLOWERS RECORDED BY THE HOURS,
THE SOUND OF STORM CLOUDS LIFTING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
LAUGHING.
THE SIDEWALK SINGS IT'S MELODIES, RESPONDING TO HER FEET,
THE BUIDINGS TURN THEIR HEADS TO SEE HER SAFELY DOWN THE STREET.
SHE MOVES AS THOUGH SHE DOESN'T KNOW THEY'RE LOOKING
AND SO AM I.
CLOUDS ACROSS THE TWILIGHT AND THE DANCING YELLOW SUNLIGHT,
LONG SILENT DOORS UNLOCKING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
WALKING.
THE MAGIC OF THE MIDNIGHT SMILES TO SEE HER AS SHE DREAMS.
THE MOON SENDS DOWN A TENDER WORD TO HER UPON IT'S BEAMS.
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE DAWN IS IN HER KEEPING
AND SO AM I.
THE NIGHT RETIRES FROM SORROW AND RECLINES UPON TOMORROW,
THE STARLIGHT SOFLY SLIPPING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
SLEEPING.
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED ~ BOB LIND
SUNDAY WAS ENDING ON THE BEACH
I COULDN'T FIND A WAY TO REACH
THE STRANGE DIMENSION WHERE SHE HIDES HERSELF AWAY
TWILIGHTS RED BOUQUET
FOUND US BY THE ROLLING WAVES WITH NOTHING MUCH TO SAY
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES I CAN FIND MYSELF ALONE
AND I FEEL LIKE MY SHIP HAS COME AND GONE
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD TO HAVE A NAME
FOR EVERY ECSTASY AND PAIN
NOBODY TOLD HER THERE WAS SOMETHING REAL BETWEEN
JEZEBELS AND QUEENS
AND NO-ONES EVER QUITE AGREED ON WHAT BECOMES OF DREAMS
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN BALANCE UP THE DAY
AND YOU WONDER, "CAN YOU MAKE IT EITHER WAY?"
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
SOMETHING HAS PASSED US ON THE RUN
IT'S NEITHER ENDED NOR BEGUN
IT ONLY MATTERS THAT WE HAD IT FOR AWHILE
NOW AND THEN A SMILE
WILL BLOSSOM IN THE CARNIVAL OF ARGUMENTS AND TRIALS
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN CATCH IT WHEN IT COMES
YEAH, BUT MOSTLY IT WILL LEAVE YA WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I JUST CAN'T TELL
AND IF IT WASN'T LOVE IT'S JUST AS WELL
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
QUIETLY REPEAT ENTIRE FIRST VERSE
How the Nights Can Fly Bob Lind
There was something of the eagle
In the way his voice could rise
And she thought she saw salvation
In the way he closed his eyes
He was turning like the seasons
She was turning toward the sky
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years go floating by
The only touch that thrills you
They were only passing passengers
On separate sets of scenes
But there was something of the lifeline
Through the distances between
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years that move you on
Memories that still you
Sometimes our needs are most in danger
From the ones we need the most
And there is something of the stranger
In the closest of the close
As he kisses her forever
He is kissing her goodbye
How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
And when the chance goes by
How the years can kill you
REMEMBER THE RAIN Words and music by Bob Lind
ANGEL THAT YOU ARE,
YOU STILL REMEMBER SUMMER WALKS AND QUIET TALKS WE HAD
BEFORE OUR CLOUDS WERE BREAKING.
IN THE HEAVEN OF YOUR MIND YOUR HOPEFUL HEART HAS PUT BEHIND
ALL THE UGLY JEALOUS TIMES OUR HEARTS WERE ACHING.
NOW THAT YOUR PAIN HAS BEEN MENDED
YOU'RE ONLY SEEING ONE SIDE.
BEHIND THE BRIGHT EASY LAUGHTER
RIVERS OF TEARS HAVE BEEN CRIED.
SO REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE
YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO SEE THAT IT HAS GONE FOR YOU AND ME
AND THERE IS NO WAY TO BRING IT BACK AGAIN.
IN A SAD UNSTABLE WAY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN I CAN SAY
BUT NOW IT'S LOCKED IN YESTERDAY AND MUST REMAIN SO.
THE GENTLE PRISONER IN THE STALLS SOMETIMES FORGETS THE VERY WALLS
THAT GAVE HER SHELTER IN THE FALL WILL ALSO CHAIN HER.
DRINK FROM THE SPRING OF TOMORROW
YESTERDAY'S WELL HAS GONE DRY.
ALL THE GOOD TIMES ARE BEHIND US AND WHENEVER YOU ASK YOURSELF WHY
JUST REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE.
ON THE OCEAN OF A SMILE WE FLOATED EASY FOR A WHILE
BUT NOW WE'VE DRIFTED TO THE SHORE WHERE BEAUTY DIES.
IT ISN'T EASY TO EXPLAIN, I NEVER DREAMED YOU FELT THE SAME -
BUT EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT TO BLAME WE CAN'T CONTINUE.
DON'T LET YOURSELF PRETEND THAT WE'VE GOT SOMETHING TO DEFEND
YOU'VE GOT TO TRY TO FACE THE END WITH ALL THAT'S IN YOU.
OH I CAN'T DENY THAT I LOVE YOU, BUT MY SOUL CAN NO LONGER BE BOUND.
FLY ON THE WINGS OF YOUR FREEDOM BUT WHENEVER YOU LOOK TO THE GROUND
JUST REMEMBER THE RAIN WHEN YOU THINK OF THE SUNSHINE.
TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT HAS FALLEN FROM OUR HANDS
AND JUST BE THANKFUL THAT YOUR SOUL IS STILL YOUR OWN.
Home In Time For Twilight Lyrics BobLind.com
Home in time for twilight
A precious piece of sun left in the sky.
This long, long day will stretch forever,
Just as long as I can find me in your eyes.
Home in time for twilight
Thank God you’re waiting for me here.
You’re the only one my heart knows how to talk to,
The only one it’s easy to be near.
So long ago, I pushed away my right to shine,
I burned down all my golden days.
God brought me diamonds when your life
Entwined with mine.
When love comes late, it comes to stay.
Home in time for twilight
I reach across the past and take your hand.
The sun sits at the edge of time and stays there.
And the night will never cover us again.
VALENTINE FROM NEIL - Words and music by Bob Lind
Just coming out of a bad one
Finally shaking free
You’re the first one I’ve seen ‘don’t look like
A ball and chain to me
Does it have to be going somewhere
Must we sign that line
I’m getting to like you
We’ve got time
Could’na been more than month ago
We hit it off right away
Drunk on the smell of your hair
And you were crazy with words to say
Didn’t we laugh that night
Didn’t we talk till dawn
Didn’t you like that magic
Where’s it gone
Birds take flight and break from the hands that hold too tight
And make for the sea
Or die in captivity.
You and I, don’t we deserve to fly
Can’t we fly free Can’t we fly free
Maybe we’ll end up closer
Maybe we’ll break apart
All I really know is there’s no controlling
Powers that move the heart
Does it have to be serious
Can’t we just have fun
It’s wild and mysterious
And it’s only begun
CHINA - Words and music by Bob Lind
This is not the world I keep remembering
It’s grown unkind and cold, and I have too.
I sail against a savage wind that casts me out away
From the wide-eyed little boy that I once knew.
I could drift away to China,
Swept across the sea.
Sometimes I’m just that far away from me.
This is not the home I spread my wings to find.
The shrinking sky has poisoned all my birds.
Strangers killing children with their guns, and bombs and planes;
Lovers killing love with careless words.
I could drift away to China,
Half a world away.
That’s just how lost I feel today.
This is not the course that I was charted for.
Nothing looks familiar anymore.
The stars that used to steer me look like burning buildings now.
And it’s harder every day to see the shore.
I could drift away to China.
Miles away from home,
Out in the darkness on my own.
NEVER EVEN THERE Words and music by Bob Lind
A woman’s an emotional creature
She’s not a bit ashamed of her tears.
She’ll give you her attention and rub your neck
And say the things you love to hear.
Mild as milk, Soft as silk,
Speaking your name like a prayer.
But once she stops believing you still care,
She’ll leave you like you were never even there.
A woman likes to tell you her troubles
She likes to hear what you did all day.
She talks about the little things in great big ways
And hangs on every word you say.
Leaning close, Deep engrossed,
In every detail you can spare.
But once that heavy silence fills the air,
She’ll leave you like you were never even there.
Things have changed. Don’t you get it yet?
You’re out in that strange new cold.
You’re frozen here and she’s moving on.
If you still haven’t said it yet,
It probably won’t be told.
Cause when she goes – believe it – she’s gone.
The woman used to wait at the table
The woman used to wait in the bed
She waited so attentively for all those nights
For all the things you never said.
Dawn comes down. You look around
And find that her closet is bare.
It may take years, but one day you’re aware
In all the time you were never even there.
“MY FRIEND” Words and music by Bob Lind
Oh my friend, this wall between us stands in both our ways.
We’re not here long. Must we be strangers in these candle days?
And when that final darkness starts to fall,
These bitter monuments to pride will look so small.
Wars don’t start with nations
In global confrontations
They begin when conversation closes down.
And it’s not so much the violence
As the cold and awful silence
That drives our dreams of peace into the ground.
Oh my friend, once it was easy to forgive mistakes.
But hearts grow hard. The years leave disappointments in their wake.
I still recall a time the slate was clean.
Two souls who dared to hitchhike on their dreams.
You were always grounded,
Centered and well-rounded
And I was always somewhere in the clouds.
Back then, it didn’t matter.
And somehow that makes it sadder
To see it drive a wedge between us now.
Oh my friend, this wall between us stands in both our ways.
We’re not here long. Must we be strangers in these candle days?
And when that final darkness starts to fall.
These bitter monuments to pride will look so small.
HOW TO GET DEPRESSED Words and music by Bob Lind
Beginning with the basics, you sit right down
And give a lot of thought to yourself.
If any higher value should cross your mind,
Consider the state of your health.
Think of what that strange little cough could mean
And what you should have said to that jerk.
Start with the assumption that something’s wrong
And anything you think of will work.
Make a list of who’s slighted you and all the things it’s too late to do.
Think of all your mistakes and how little difference you make.
You’re halfway there.
Don’t be like the amateurs who waste their time
Counting up the bad breaks they’ve known.
Use your time efficiently and call to mind
All of the good breaks you’ve blown.
Think of all those chances for happiness –
Chances that only knock once.
Watch the clock and remind yourself
How the days keep turning to months.
Judge people that you never met
Watch the news every chance you get
Spend your mornings inside
Keep defending your pride
You’re almost there.
Think about those sneaky middle-eastern creeps
Think about your backstabbing friends
Sit around remembering the good old days
Life was so much simpler then
If right now someone’s heart is reaching out to you
Shut it hard away from your mind
You know you’re prob’ly to cool for her
He’s gonna suck up your time.
Think of Hemingway, Monroe and van Gogh
Remind yourself of how the great ones go.
Geniuses don’t ask for help.
You’re kind of brilliant yourself.
There you are.
Jazz ballad: Jerry & Kassandra (“Drugs and Drink”) Words and
music by Bob Lind
Jerry loved Kassandra and Sandra loved cocaine
Well you can see that this is headed for a real sad ending
But maybe not the one that you think
About drugs and drink
That powder don’t blow for pennies
Tequila well they call it gold
Jerry used to dream they’d have a nice new home
But every dime he made became a link
To her drugs and drink
He said baby I’d give you my breath and blood
But I can’t keep helping you die
If you don’t put down I swear to God I’m gone
But Sandra grabbed and his jacket sleeves
She fell on her knees and cried
So he lost himself to keep her keepin’ on
Jerry was raised up righteous
But good love can take a real bad turn
Soon he started stealin’ just to feed her demons
And every dirty dollar helped her sink
Into drugs and drink
Jerry went up on charges
Sandra went straight downhill
She bottomed out in treatment with the Jesus people
Born again with Jerry in the clink
For her drugs and drink
Now Jerry waits in an eight-foot cell
For letters that never come
And Sandra shuts those days out of her mind
But sometimes she senses a tender voice
Like the sound of a distant drum
Calling faintly from the world she left behind
Maybe like all sad stories this one hits close to home
The world is full of pretty things that hook and kill you
It turns around as fast as you can blink
SOPHIA'S LULLABY (For all the Chinese babies adopted by American
parents) Words and music by Bob Lind
“You’ll make a journey over water,”
The Chinese fortunes used to say.
Not many trust those sunny proverbs anymore.
But sometimes love still finds a way.
Out there, this wounded world is struggling.
We turn our backs and let it die.
But you will sleep tonight, protected and secure,
Cause some one cared enough to try.
These tiny whispers promise peace
As daylight moves in from the East.
Your little bed is made and waiting.
Your golden future’s waiting too.
Some gracious hand reached through a billion hopeful dreams
And chose that this one would come true.
Tonight the dangers are behind you.
Your guiding star is bright above.
You came a long way over water to be here.
Some day you’ll know how much you’re loved.
THE REPTILE Words and music by Bob Lind
You’re prime for the reptile, Mister.
You’ll turn around and see her pretty soon.
She’s as fresh as the first weeds of April
And as beautiful and icy as the moon.
You’re prime for the reptile, Mister.
She’ll pick you like a pocket and then
Send you back to your wife in little pieces
That will never fit together right again.
You’ll tell her why
You can’t keep up the broken trust, the self-disgust,
The poison lie.
You’ll say goodbye.
She’ll find your eyes with hers
And say she understands.
But she’ll be talking while her hand is on your thigh.
Maybe the first thing you’ll notice
Is the flash of those perfect teeth.
You’ll feel as strong and as cool as a Maserati
And as dirty as the wheel well underneath.
ROLL THE WINDOWS DOWN Words and music by Bob Lind
Roll the windows down. I see no sign of rain.
The sun is just like gold dust on my skin.
Every ray of hope I lost is mine again.
I can feel it beginning. Can’t you feel it beginning?
It’s the sweet taste of winning. And I’m drinking it in.
Roll the windows down. We’re driving straight away
From every bump and bend we ever knew.
The road lies out ahead like one long Saturday.
And I’m not gonna miss it. There’s no way that we’ll miss it.
It’s so real I could kiss it. And it’s kissing me, too.
{Instrumental break}
Jenny put on some jazz. Let’s get in motion.
There’s a breeze off the ocean.
And a seaside café
On this beautiful day.
Roll the windows down. The sky is clear and blue.
Close your eyes and let your red hair blow.
All the dreams you thought you lost are here for you.
And we’re not gonna miss it. There’s no way that we’ll miss it.
It’s so real I could kiss it. Roll ’em down and let’s go.
HAVE A LOVELY YESTERDAY Words and music by Bob Lind
Wave goodbye. I’ll be at the window
As our future drives away.
You’re going back to him, knowing what you’re leaving.
Have a lovely yesterday.
Nights on end, it all comes down to nothing.
There’s nothing kinder I can say.
You can call me bitter, talking from self-pity.
But have a lovely yesterday.
What do you think’ll be different with his hands on you again?
You think he turned into Jesus when you disappeared?
Don’t you think you’ll wake up one day and remember
You had love, but you left it here?
Tonight I’ll dream, reaching through the darkness
For the one I thought I knew.
As you live that rerun, and push the truth away,
Have a lovely yesterday.
TWO WOMEN - Words and music by Bob Lind
Diana says, "Man, that shirt
Brings out the blue in your eyes."
She tells you the things you say
Are such a welcome surprise.
Sarah says, "Jesus Christ,
Do we have to hear that story again?
Can't you pick up around you?
I'm not your maid. Is it too much to ask?
Put a coaster under that glass."
Diana looks in your eyes
And sees there's somebody there.
Sarah can only see the clothes
You left on the chair.
Diana brushing by, her fingers
Tingling your neck, triggers a memory.
You start reaching back for the day
Sarah used to touch you that way.
You twist your wedding ring
And wonder whether everything
You used to think was right could now be wrong.
But buddy, don't kid yourself.
If you move on to something else,
Diana will be Sarah before long.
Sarah picks up the kids
And brings in the groceries and bills.
She knows you and loves you anyway
Like no one else ever will.
Diana will always call from the shadows,
Promising more.
Either way, it's not easy.
Every step, either road that you take,
You're gonna carry the choices you make.
IT'S JUST MY LOVE
THE SOUND OF SPRINGTIME MOVING IN THE ARMS OF EARLY MORNING,
THE WALLS OF DARKNESS BREAKING,
ITS JUST MY LOVE
AWAKING
BRONZED AGAINST THE PILLOW CASTING SHADOWS ON THE WALL
HER EYES REFLECT THE SUNLIGHT AS MORNING BIRDS BEGIN TO CALL,
THE SMILING ORANGE DAWN IS HERS FOR TAKING
AND SO AM I.
THE MUSIC OF THE FLOWERS RECORDED BY THE HOURS,
THE SOUND OF STORM CLOUDS LIFTING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
LAUGHING.
THE SIDEWALK SINGS IT'S MELODIES, RESPONDING TO HER FEET,
THE BUIDINGS TURN THEIR HEADS TO SEE HER SAFELY DOWN THE STREET.
SHE MOVES AS THOUGH SHE DOESN'T KNOW THEY'RE LOOKING
AND SO AM I.
CLOUDS ACROSS THE TWILIGHT AND THE DANCING YELLOW SUNLIGHT,
LONG SILENT DOORS UNLOCKING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
WALKING.
THE MAGIC OF THE MIDNIGHT SMILES TO SEE HER AS SHE DREAMS.
THE MOON SENDS DOWN A TENDER WORD TO HER UPON IT'S BEAMS.
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE DAWN IS IN HER KEEPING
AND SO AM I.
THE NIGHT RETIRES FROM SORROW AND RECLINES UPON TOMORROW,
THE STARLIGHT SOFLY SLIPPING,
ITS ONLY MY LOVE
SLEEPING.
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED ~ BOB LIND
SUNDAY WAS ENDING ON THE BEACH
I COULDN'T FIND A WAY TO REACH
THE STRANGE DIMENSION WHERE SHE HIDES HERSELF AWAY
TWILIGHTS RED BOUQUET
FOUND US BY THE ROLLING WAVES WITH NOTHING MUCH TO SAY
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES I CAN FIND MYSELF ALONE
AND I FEEL LIKE MY SHIP HAS COME AND GONE
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD TO HAVE A NAME
FOR EVERY ECSTASY AND PAIN
NOBODY TOLD HER THERE WAS SOMETHING REAL BETWEEN
JEZEBELS AND QUEENS
AND NO-ONES EVER QUITE AGREED ON WHAT BECOMES OF DREAMS
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN BALANCE UP THE DAY
AND YOU WONDER, "CAN YOU MAKE IT EITHER WAY?"
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
SOMETHING HAS PASSED US ON THE RUN
IT'S NEITHER ENDED NOR BEGUN
IT ONLY MATTERS THAT WE HAD IT FOR AWHILE
NOW AND THEN A SMILE
WILL BLOSSOM IN THE CARNIVAL OF ARGUMENTS AND TRIALS
YEAH, BUT SOMETIMES YOU CAN CATCH IT WHEN IT COMES
YEAH, BUT MOSTLY IT WILL LEAVE YA WHILE YOU'RE YOUNG
BEHIND THE SYMBOL OF AN ARTIFICIAL ROSE
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I JUST CAN'T TELL
AND IF IT WASN'T LOVE IT'S JUST AS WELL
WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED, BUT I DON'T KNOW
QUIETLY REPEAT ENTIRE FIRST VERSE
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"I can't walk roads of anger - I ain't got the time"
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Susanne Gilmore
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Liz - thanks for the lyrics to WE MAY HAVE TOUCHED. This is the first time that I have ever seen them. Now, if I could just hear the song (and also Goodbye Neon Lies) I'd be a happy woman. I've been looking for recordings of those two songs since ...... 1960-something.
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Thanks so much Liz! If we don't get all the posts back, we at least still have these.
I want to compliment Jamie for the fine taste he shows in his top ten list--it is exactly the same as mine I'm not sure who submitted the list attributed to me, those are good choices too. I would add "It's Just my Love" to my list were I to write it now.
I believe Grant will recover all the posts for us. Gotta keep the faith.
I want to compliment Jamie for the fine taste he shows in his top ten list--it is exactly the same as mine
I'm not sure who submitted the list attributed to me, those are good choices too. I would add "It's Just my Love" to my list were I to write it now.I believe Grant will recover all the posts for us. Gotta keep the faith.
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You'll catch a fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow...
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Danny Harris
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