The Durban International Blues Festival starts tomorrow night. (Oct 14 - 19)
Tuesday 14th Durban Blues Explosion (Sea Level, Gloucester Blues Project, Seb Goldswain & East Coast Blues Band)
Wednesday 15th The Fender Evening (Various)
Venue: Zacks, Wilson's Wharf (at the harbour)
Entry is FREE!!! Please support our local artists.
Tickets Thursday - Sunday R130 or R400 for all the shows. Book at Computicket.
web: http://www.durbanbluesfestival.co.za
Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...
Bob Dylan ‘All along the watchtower’ Woodstock 1994
You could say that jokes and theft are the twin poles of Dylan's art, and this 12-line masterpiece about a joker (who believes he's being robbed) and a thief (who thinks everything's a joke) penetrates straight to the core of his work. "Watchtower" is among Dylan's most haunting tunes: Built around an austere arrangement and Dylan's spooked croon, it starts out like a ballad that's going to go on for a long while. But as soon as the joker and the thief get their opening statements, the song ends with an ominous image — two riders approaching — leaving listeners to fill in the blanks.
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Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook"There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.
"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “American Girl” 1978
Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinking that there
Was a little more to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Well it was kinda cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by
Out on 441, like waves crashin' on the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful, something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
Tom Petty “Free Falling” 1989
She's a good girl, loves her mama
Loves Jesus and America too
She's a good girl, crazy 'bout Elvis
Loves horses and her boyfriend too
It's a long day livin' in Reseda
There's a freeway runnin' through the yard
And I'm a bad boy, 'cause I don't even miss her
I'm a bad boy for breakin' her heart
[Chorus:]
And I'm free, I'm free fallin'
All the vampires walkin' through the valley
Move west down Ventura Blvd.
And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows
All the good girls are home with broken hearts
[Chorus]
I wanna glide down over Mulholland
I wanna write her name in the sky
I wanna free fall out into nothin'
Gonna leave this world for awhile
KISS “Detroit Rock City” 1976
I feel uptight on a Saturday night
Nine o' clock, the radio's the only light
I hear my song and it pulls me through
Comes on strong, tells me what I got to do
I got to
Get up
Everybody's gonna move their feet
Get down
Everybody's gonna leave their seat
You gotta lose your mind in Detroit Rock City
Get up
Everybody's gonna move their feet
Get down
Everybody's gonna leave their seat
Getting late
I just can't wait
Ten o'clock and I know I gotta hit the road
First I drink, then I smoke
Start the car, and I try to make the midnight show
Get up
Everybody's gonna move their feet
Get down
Everybody's gonna leave their seat
Movin' fast, doin' ninety five
Hit top speed but I'm still movin' much too slow
I feel so good, I'm so alive
I hear my song playin' on the radio
It goes
Get up
Everybody's gonna move their feet
Get down
Everybody's gonna leave their seat
Twelve o'clock, I gotta rock
There's a truck ahead, lights starin' at my eyes
Oh my God, no time to turn
I got to laugh 'cause I know I'm gonna die
Why
Get up
Everybody's gonna move their feet
Get up
Everybody's gonna leave their seat
KISS “Forever” 1989
I gotta tell you what I'm feelin' inside, I could lie to myself, but it's true
There's no denying when I look in your eyes, girl I'm out of my head over you
I lived so long believin' all love is blind
But everything about you is tellin' me this time
It's forever, this time I know and there's no doubt in my mind
Forever, until my life is thru, girl I'll be lovin' you forever
I hear the echo of a promise I made
When you're strong you can stand on your own
But those words grow distant as I look at your face
No, I don't wanna go it alone
I never thought I'd lay my heart on the line
But everything about you is tellin' me this time
I see my future when I look in your eyes
It took your love to make my heart come alive
Cos I lived my life believin' all love is blind
But everything about you is tellin' me this time
MotorHead “Ace of Spades” 1980
If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man,
You win some, lose some, all the same to me,
The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say,
I don't share your greed, the only card I need is
The Ace Of Spades
Playing for the high one, dancing with the devil,
Going with the flow, it's all the game to me,
Seven or Eleven, snake eyes watching you,
Double up or quit, double stake or split,
The Ace Of Spades
You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools,
But that's the way I like it baby,
I don't wanna live for ever,
And don't forget the joker!
Pushing up the ante, I know you wanna see me,
Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again,
I see it in your eyes, take one look and die,
The only thing you see, you know it's gonna be,
The Ace Of Spades
Peter Tosh “The poor man feel it” 1981
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, wo oh oh.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, yeah.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, oh.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution.
The poor man a feel it, oh ah!
The poor man a feel it, yeah ah!
The poor man a feel it, oh ah!
The poor man feel it, yeah ah!
Gas gone up.
Bus fare gone up.
The rent gone up.
For meal gone up
Lighting gone up.
The tax gone up.
Car parts gone up.
And mi can't take the first law.
And there has -
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, yeah ah.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution!
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, wo oh oh oh.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution.
Only the poor man a feel it, yeah ah!
The poor man a feel it, oh ah!
The poor man feel it, stand up!
Only him feel it, yeah, ah!
Time gone up.
Scallion gone up.
Onion gone up.
Red beans gone up.
Black pepper gone up.
Chicken gone up.
And the parents them angry,
'Cause the pickney them hungry.
And there has -
Gotta be a solution to this pollution, right now, yeah.
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, promises won't help!
Gotta find a solution to this pollution, we've been waiting,
For a solution to this pollution.
Only the poor man a feel it, yeah ah!
Only them a feel it, oh ah!
Only the poor man a feel it, yeah ah!
Only him feel it, oh ah!
Only the poor man a feel it, every time!
Only the poor man a feel it, yeah ah
Bruce Springsteen “Born in the USA” 1984
Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "son don't you understand now"
Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.
Free fallin played by a Master guitarist.
Excellence is not a skill; its an attitude...
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