The World According to me...

[Old Garage-Bander]

I love Bob Dylan.

No, not like that. I'm not some superfan who has every album, and can quote all kinds of titles and lyrics at you. (well, maybe SOME) I was watching a TV show, and a very cool, professional, great-sounding piece of music came on during the titles at the end. The instrumentation was fantastic, and Bob's voice fit the mood perfectly, and actually gave me goosebumps. It's one of those shows that was obviously written by a baby boomer/baby boomer-lite/gen xer who loves his/her classic rock. No I'm not going to tell you what show, because it will ruin this piece.

The very next episode of the show had an ending credits musical piece that sounded Hendrix-esque. It could have been Jimi, I suppose, but I doubt it, because I had never heard it, and I AM some superfan who has every album, and can quote all kinds of titles and lyrics at you.

I love Jimi Hendrix.

What struck me is that Jimi Hendrix loved Bob Dylan. I would like to believe that Bob Dylan also, in turn, loved Jimi Hendrix, and realized that Jimi Hendrix, one of the greatest natural talents to ever influence the world of rock music and pop culture, thought of himself as insignificant next to the great, legendary Bob Dylan.

And in a way, I suppose Jimi was right. Death robbed of us Jimi's potential legacy, although the one he did manage is not too bad by any measure of rock greatness, and musical genius, and I do not use the word loosely at all, for those of you fond of tired words like "overrated," and phrases such as "I just don't get it."

You DON'T get it, and neither do I, and neither does anybody else, so just abandon yourself to the irrefutable fact that music is subjective, and what is one woman's poetry is another's dirty laundry and day-old egg salad.

There's a lot in this world that I love besides Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan.

But that doesn't change anything.

There are musical greats that shine with the light of a thousand suns, and all the careful analysis in God's universe cannot even begin to poke around at the edges of what inspires us, causes us to dream and love and care and cry and sometimes, on a good day, even laugh.

If you don't get the point, take comfort that you are hardly alone.

But that comfort is all you get.

No soup for you.

What's this mean?

 

[Son of Wobble]

OH NO! Not milkshakes again?!

Dig in to this bad boy, Chief!

 

[Son of Wobble]

What's this mean?

Don't overthink it. Just let the Mellowin flow through you.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Don't overthink it. Just let the Mellowin flow through you.
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Ahhhhh. That's much better. Thanks.

 

[mellowinman]

What's this mean?

It means what you think it means.

 

[mellowinman]

Possible title-
"The Lady & The Tramp"?


Sorry, MM.

No apologies necessary. I actually like it. I'm trying to be less of a tramp, but I have certainly dabbled in trampdom.

 

[Son of Wobble]

While I have the floor, I want to urge all Mellowists to keep the faith,
and disregard the fake news being generated by outlets such as Daily Mail
that would suggest Mellowinman has been somehow compromised.

 

[Engle]

As a fellow Hendrix fan, I encourage you to check out Wes Montgomery.

 

[FilterFunk]

What's this mean?

I think it means it's okay not to get it.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

The source of my difficulty is that the World, despite my best efforts, refuses to operate according to me. I've had it in the ear before.

 

[Bassquest]

Wholly smuck!!! The food is about the best part of this thread!

 

[Son of Wobble]

Please, help yourself.

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Please, help yourself.

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Essential elements of the 10,000 calorie a day diet.

 

[DirtDog]

PS - This photo makes me wish that network TV still did light-hearted, summer-replacement=style variety shows.

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It’s Tuck and Patti!

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

I think it means it's okay not to get it.

Uh?

 

[Son of Wobble]

It’s Tuck and Patti!

LOL !

Yeah, in Tuck's dreams, maybe!


Tuck & Patti are an American jazz duo, whose members are the married couple guitarist William Charles "Tuck" Andress (born Oct. 28, 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) and singer Patricia "Patti" Cathcart Andress (born October 4, 1949 in San Francisco).[1]

 

[Son of Wobble]

Incidentally, anyone considering a tenure on the SS MELLOWIN is urged to take the leap.
It was the most rewarding six months of my life. I learned so much.

Mellowinman even appeared on two occasions to speak to us personally. His helicopter landing on the deck
is one of the most thrilling memories of my life.

 

[mellowinman]

Incidentally, anyone considering a tenure on the SS MELLOWIN is urged to take the leap.
It was the most rewarding six months of my life. I learned so much.

Mellowinman even appeared on two occasions to speak to us personally. His helicopter landing on the deck
is one of the most thrilling memories of my life.

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The fun I had that day! Wow!

 

[StraffordMike]

Me, too...unfortunately, that lead to emergency CABG x 4 in 2014.
(Not really. I was doomed from age 10, according to the cardiologist).

Same here brother. Two separate triples and my 32nd stent just this past Thursday. Gotta love those family genes!

 

[Clef_de_fa]

I had some albums that I just didn't like until a few years later and the oposite is also true. Some album that did like in the past just doesn't sounds nice to me anymore.

It is just the way it is.

As for me ... both those artist do nothing to me. Just not my kind of music.