Just some thoughts:
Hey Dean Martin used to sing about this....."Everybody Needs Somebody."
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February 4, 2017
Keep on,
Larry Adamson
Just some thoughts: Hey Dean Martin used to sing about this....."Everybody Needs Somebody." ==================================================== February 4, 2017 Keep on, Larry Adamson
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This afternoon driving home from golf course...I slipped in a cd and this song "Rocket 88" came on...good stuff... LA ========================================================================================= Just some thoughts: I'm glad I was around for the birth of rock-n'-roll. Supposedly the first rock-n'-roll song recorded was a little ditty done by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats called "Rocket 88." I am sure one can get debate on that matter. Ike Turner (Ike and Tina) played the lead guitar on that song. There has been and still is today a lot of stuff folks put out there that they want to call rock-n'-roll. Personally I don't think much of what has come out since about the time Elvis passed away. Exception, Bob Seeger. Fabrication is what it is... Give me the real thing....like the song says...
Thanks be to song writer Chip Taylor for the lyrics to this song and reminding us from whence came the roots of rock-n'-roll.
In my (humble) opinion today there are too many "one string guitar"pickers who have only one knob on their amps..(up) give me the real thing...like ole' Chuck, Jerry Lee and them early boys...now that's just my opinion....you don't have to agree.... ================================================================================================ September 17, 2016 Keep on, Larry Adamson
This past week I heard J. M Van Eaton tell that story. He went on to say that in about a year from the time he purchased those drums and sat in for those one or two sessions, he made over ten thousand dollars. He then went out and bought himself, not a used, but a NEW 1957 Chevrolet. Forget the used car. One might call that delayed gratification. What he got when he made the decision to buy the drums was a life and career in music; with the car he would have gotten transportation. You know, sometimes what is best is just to begin and not worry too much about what we think we need next.
Every year thousands of young people graduate from high school or college; talk with them and see what they are thinking. In many cases they think they have an idea of what they want, but often they don’t understand the process of getting there. Sometimes before you get that ’57 Chevy you want so badly, take some lessons and "learn to play the drums first." Often we hear a great deal about the word career. It is my opinion that an awful lot of folks have started out in life and the matter of a career comes to them. When I was young and working in Doyle Gunn’s grocery store one of the older guys who previously graduated from our local high school was about to graduate from Purdue University. He was in the store talking about his “career” and all that he wanted in his future. One of the local brain giants in the community was standing behind the old coal stove listening to all this, and his take to the young man was, “Get a job first, then you can find out about that career stuff.” There are many lessons that can be taken from this young drummer’s experience. Before we buy the things we think we need or want, maybe we best make some preparation about how to deliver on those wishes. Sometimes one has to get a "job" in an effort to start or sustain a "career." “Learn to play the drums first and then you can buy that ’57 Chevrolet.” =============================================================================================== November 13, 2012 Keep on, Larry Adamson Just some thoughts: Manual labor.....is beneath no one. Manual labor: physical work done by people. Some of the best lessons one can learn in and about life can come from one doing manual labor. "The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. Too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. And a young man with every reason to work---a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way--carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here--a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America." Hillbilly Elegy--J.D.Vance Vance's book is one of the best books I have read giving balance to the matter of true poverty and misuse of the system. Vance would know first hand the life of both having grown up in the Kentucky Appalachia region. Rising above his circumstance to be a graduate of Yale Law School yet in his own words "dirt poor and called white trash by some." I found the book hard to put down. ================================================================================================ Noverber 12, 2016 Keep on, Larry Adamson Just some thoughts: He left the splendor of heaven Knowing His destiny Was the lonely hill of Goigotha There to lay down His life for me And if that isn't love Then the ocean is dry There's no stars in the sky And the little sparrows can't fly Then heaven's a myth There's no feeling like this If that isn't love Even in death He remembered The thief hanging by His side Then he spoke of love and compassion And He took him to paradise And if that isn't love Then the ocean is dry There's no stars in the sky And the little sparrows can't fly Yeah if that isn't love Then heaven's a myth There's no feeling like this If that isn't love It's go to be love (Dottie Rambo) Those thoughts were so aptly said in song...as I left my drive early this A.M.--- I'll just leave it at that.....
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Larry Adamson was raised in Indiana. After teaching and coaching for several years he worked as Director of Championships at the United States Golf Association in NJ. He's retired, living just outside Nashville,TN. He blogs about his favorite things: sports, music, old cars, and the good ole days. Click on the about page for more information. Archives
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