Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Saturday, 9 May 2009

Seamus (My old Hound) -Pink Floyd

I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, that's the dog's outside.
Well, I was in the kitchen,
Seamus, my old hound's outside.
Well, the sun sinks slowly
But my old hound dog sat right down and cried.

From Meddle, 1971.

The HUGE equipment stack which a supergroup needed to go on tour back in 1969

6 comments:

jim gottuso9 May 2009 at 09:43
meddle... haven't heard that in a while, is that the album with "careful with that axe eugene" on it?
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soubriquet9 May 2009 at 16:43
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene" was on both Ummagumma, and Relics.
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jim gottuso10 May 2009 at 09:08
ummagumma right, is it possible i was in some sort of haze back then?
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soubriquet10 May 2009 at 18:22
Purple? Haze?, no, no, no, that was Jimi...

Ummagumma was the album which set out on its back sleeve, the AWESOME power of a rock band.... All laid out like a fighter plane's armaments. Oh how we laugh now to see the pathetic pile of bits which would easily travel in a UPS van......

Nowadays nobody can go on tour without a fleet of trucks and trailers, tour buses, etc.
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soubriquet10 May 2009 at 18:32
Pic posted
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bulletholes13 May 2009 at 12:37
"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" gives a nod to Jimi, don't it?
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