The Bob hits seventy thread!

[barber olly]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John

Got to be 'Like a Rolling Stone' the Dylan song that changed everything, but the Traveling Wilbury's 'End of the Line' would be all right!
Interesting Paul Simon also 70, His 'Old Friends' ready and waiting for him!


Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears.

Whilst we mention ageing I can't believe that many of my Conductor idols from way back are now 80 or thereabouts!

[Lateralthinking1]

I love that song - "Old Friends". Neither hoped to die before they got old. Good on them. They got their wish.

(Have to say that just those two, among many, have given me more pleasure than the combination of all of the books I have ever read.)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

love em all really but the album that really does it for me is Planet Waves [yeh yeh i know all the others and love em]

i must go and listen to the albums ...

had a great road experience with my pal driving through the high desert in Arizona with The Rolling Thunder Tour blasting on the hifi and singing at the tops of our voices ....

[antongould]

Got to be 'Like a Rolling Stone' the Dylan song that changed everything, but the Traveling Wilbury's 'End of the Line' would be all right!
Interesting Paul Simon also 70, His 'Old Friends' ready and waiting for him!


Old friends, old friends,
Sat on their parkbench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
of the high shoes of the old friends

Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today,
Sharing a parkbench quietly
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends, memory brushes the same years,
Silently sharing the same fears.

Or a later view


The human race walked the earth for 2.7 million
And we estimate the universe at 13-14 billion
When all these numbers tumble into your imagination
Consider that the lord was there before creation
God is old
We’re not old
God is old
He made the mold

Take your cloths off
Adam and eve

[Richard Tarleton]

Which Birthday Bob song would you select for Radio 3's ' Breakfast ' John ( and everyone who knows me ) ?

Desolation Row - the pinnacle of Dylan's greatest album (IMV ). The phantasmagoria of images trooping past the mind and imagination of the listener never fails to astonish. And I love it also for the soaring guitar obbligato, played by Nashville sidesman Charlie McCoy who only called into the studio to pick up some theatre tickets from the producer but was invited to pick up an acoustic guitar and play along.

At over 8 minutes, though, it may be a bit on the long side for "Breakfast"

[johncorrigan]

Desolation Row - the pinnacle of Dylan's greatest album (IMV ). The phantasmagoria of images trooping past the mind and imagination of the listener never fails to astonish. And I love it also for the soaring guitar obbligato, played by Nashville sidesman Charlie McCoy who only called into the studio to pick up some theatre tickets from the producer but was invited to pick up an acoustic guitar and play along.

At over 8 minutes, though, it may be a bit on the long side for "Breakfast"

Oh I don't know Richard - I hear plenty long stuff on that Breakfast and it would certainly go down well with a morning cup of tea in my house - those glorious images, that haunting guitar, the crying moothie and the voice - poetic gem.

And while we're at 70, I see Martin Carthy is 70 today - unfairly, I think, still better known in some circles for the songs he 'gave away' to those two other upcoming septuagenarians - happy birthday Martin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5qk-...91EBAAC14FF799

[Paul Sherratt]

Has a ' Desolation Row ' segue with ' Famous Flower Of Serving Men ' has been prohibited by those at the top of the bbc food chain ... ?


Anyway I'm off to Charleston. Back in time for the party !

[johncorrigan]

Has a ' Desolation Row ' segue with ' Famous Flower Of Serving Men ' has been prohibited by those at the top of the bbc food chain ... ?


Anyway I'm off to Charleston. Back in time for the party !

Go easy on it, Paul!
http://www.partykiosk.co.uk/ekmps/sh...tume-900-p.jpg

[Paul Sherratt]

Well spotted John.
Mine's the only turquoise-blue number in the whole of Firle village !



Also once at Charleston
http://www.postmodern.com/~fi/pattip...s/farm-002.jpg

[Lateralthinking1]

The old folks and I are looking to move. Being forced out really. I've been trawling the websites of estate agents in Sussex. I want to be near Lewes, but cheap obviously, a few miles or so, as it has the Lewes Arms and the John Harvey Tavern, not that I drink a lot of real ale these days. It is the ambiance. I also think of it as the Glastonbury of the South East.

If you get the time, try to do the walk from Lewes to Eastbourne via Alfriston. Only 20-something miles and spectacular. Alternatively you could go up to East Grinstead to see if Anais Mitchell still has her songwriting school there. Might as well sneak in a spirited clip even if irrelevant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HLTBwCFO0

Lovely woman at the dole office today. Really human.