Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

MAYBE HE WILL WIN BIG AND TAKE US " ALL " out for a drink

YOU REMEMBER OFFICER DOYLE HIM AND I HAD A FIST FIGHT ONE NIGHT I THINK JOEY WAS THERE
HE SAID IF I CAN FIGHT HIM HE WOULD NOT BUST ME
HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO BUST ME BUT I OUT SMARTED HIM ALL THE TIME NEVER GOT TO BUST ME

GOODNIGHT AGAIN ...THIS TIME IM REALLY GOING!

CAROL HERE IS YOUR MEANING TO THE SONGThe America album was released in Britain to moderate response. Though "I Need You" was discussed as an initial single, Warner Bros. asked the band to come up with another song that would break them on the radio. So, five months after the album came out, they went into a small London studio and demoed four new tunes. Among them was an enigmatic Bunnell number with a catchy rhythm that was initially called "Desert Song." Much to the band's surprise, that was the song that Warners chose to release.

The band went into Morgan Sound Studios (where Beckley had played bass on demo sessions a few years before) to record the song, with Samwell producing and Kim Haworth brought in on drums. At Samwell's suggestion, "Desert Song" was retitled "A Horse With No Name."

A tune as famous as this one deserves a detailed explanation, though Bunnell suggests that its meaning has evolved over time: "I was messing around with some open tunings--I tuned the A string way down to an E, and I found this little chord, and I just moved my two fingers back and forth, and the entire song came from basically three chords. I wanted to capture the imagery of the desert, because I was sitting in this room in England, and it was rainy. The rain was starting to get to us, and I wanted to capture the desert and the heat and the dryness."

The imagery came from Dewey's childhood: "I had spent a good deal of time poking around in the high desert with my brother when we lived at Vandenberg Air Force Base [in California]. And we'd drive through Arizona and New Mexico. I loved the cactus and the heat. I was trying to capture the sights and sounds of the desert, and there was an environmental message at the end. But it's grown to mean more for me. I see now that this anonymous horse was a vehicle to get me away from all the confusion and chaos of life to a peaceful, quiet place."

Bunnell adds an aside about his choice of language in the song: "I have taken a lot of poetic license in my use of grammar, and I always cringe a little bit at my use of 'aint's,' like 'ain't no one for to give you no pain' in "Horse." I've never actually spoken that way, but I think it conveys a certain honesty when you're not picking and choosing your words, and you use that kind of colloquialism."

ANTHONY - THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH
FOR LOOK-N INTO THAT - YOU CAN PLAY IT & EXPLAIN IT !!! :thumright:

NOW I KNOW THAT THE HORSE WAS A SYMBOL
TO THE WRITER AND MOST LIKELY TO HIM ALSO. RIP J.C.

good morning,
a lot o reading since i left.
Getting ready for Brooklyn check in later. love ya all

family photo of the day our watch dog butch

same hair style as me lol

Oh that was too funny with the beaver!!!! I'm still laughing Terry.

Well good morning all. Getting the kids out to school and my friend is coming at 8 to have coffee. Be back later.

....GOOD MORNING FROM BEAUTIFUL STATEN ISLAND........

YES TERRY....TOO MUCH TO READ......

.....AND WHAT'S ALL THIS BEAVER STUFF.........

.....EVEN I KNEW THAT, BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS, I THINK A GUY WOULD KNOW ABOUT THAT TERM MORE THEN A WOMAN WOULD.....

......I PERSONALLY LIKE, "SNATCH, PUSS-PUSS, AND THE TRIANGLE"



........GOOD MORNING DEBBIE....HOW ARE YOU TODAY?

WELL, IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORST.....

....HAMSTER, SQUIRREL, POSSUM, HAIR PIE, SLIT, WOO-WOO, ETC........I'M GLAD I MISSED ALL OF THIS, I REALLY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN EMBARRASSED

WOO WOO LOL

......OK.....I'M INSPIRED NOW FOR THE .......

*************** QUESTION OF THE DAY *************

.......IS POSTED DOWN BELOW

BUSY DAY TODAY....
9:10
Daddy's school is having a plant sale so Mia has a little pocket book from Italy Cia Bella is says. It has a dollar bill in it that I gave her. She is going to buy Mommy a plant.....What kind for a dollar I don't know....

Next, Daddy's class is having a Mothers day breakfast at 10:15
next drive and look for a parking space for music class at 11 am

i am too old for this lol
She will keep me young and maybe i will lose a few pounds climbing 3 flights of school steps to Daddy's classroom. May need 911 after i get to the third floor with her... be back sometime today Have a Great Day and pray the sun stays out.....IT FEELS SO GOOD TO SEE THE SUN...

FRANNY..... REMEMBER
HERE COMES THE SUN......AND IN THE END ....LA LA LA LA LA

UMBRIA FIND ME THAD GROUP OF SONGS BY THE BEATLES IT IS MAYBE THE ABBY ROAD I DONT KNOW??? A BUNCH OF SONGS TOGETHER AND IT ENDS WITH AND IN THE END THE LOVE U TAKE IS EQUAL TO THE LOVE U MAKE FOGOT THE LYRICS BUT LOVE THAT MEDLEY SO MUCH..

ALL ANSWERS WILL MEAN ABSOLUTLY NOTHING

WE HAD A NAME WHEN WE WERE KIDS AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT BUT I WILL TRY BACHKALA OH I DONT KNOW HOW TO SPELL IT BA JAW KA LA
SOUNDS POLISH NO INSULT TO THE POLISH JANET IT JUST SOUNDS POLISH AND NOT ITALIAN

NOW I CALL IT A TUNUCK. LOL

YEAH CONFIDENTIAL
EVERYONE IN PARK SLOPE AND BROOKLYN READS THIS BLOG....LOL

...TERRY.....YOUR FRIDAY'S ARE ALWAYS BUSY.....
....WHAT A WAY TO END THE WEEK......

OK JOE BE BACK LATER...ON THE ROAD AGAIN WITH THE KID

...BACALA...?...LIKE THE DRIED OUT FISH ON 5TH AVE. IN THE WOODEN CRATES.

SEE YA LATER HAVE A GREAT DAY JOE KEEP BUSY

...HAVE A GOOD DAY......T-BONE

NO NOT BACALA

BUT IT SHOULD BE CALLED BACALA

OH......THEN ME AND MR. WIGGLY WERE WRONG

T-Bone51 wrote: OK JOE BE BACK LATER...ON THE ROAD AGAIN WITH THE KID

....BE CAREFUL OUT THERE.....YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO WILLIE NELSON, DON'T YOU?

...HE GOT HIT BY A CAR......WHEN HE WAS PLAYING.....

......"ON THE ROAD AGAIN".........L M A O