Good morning from Florida, WA2K folks.
edgar, Loved your goodnight song by George. Hope you sleep well.
Well, here's a Scott and a Brit with us this morning. Welcome back McTag.
Aretha's Bridge Over Troubled Waters was great. Having Such a Good Time by Queen made me want to run out and try to have a good time. Stevie Nicks' Dreams I know and like, yawl. Also know and enjoy Rod Stewart's Maggie May.
Today is Allen Ginsberg's birthday and this one by Dylan and the Howl man sent me searching again.
Here's the story, in Allen Ginsberg's own words:
Vomit Express: These 1971 sessions came about because Dylan had come to hear a poetry reading at NYU's Loeb Auditorium, standing in the back of the crowded hall with David Amram. We were on stage with a gang of musician friends, and Peter improvised, singing, “You shouldn't write poetry down but carol it in the air, because to use paper you have to cut down trees.” I picked up on that, and we spent a half an hour making up tuneful words on the spot. I didn't know 12-bar blues, it was just a free-form rhyming extravaganza. We packed up, said goodbye to the musicians, thanked them and gave them a little money, went home, and then the phone rang.
It was Dylan asking, “Do you always improvise like that?” And I said, “Not always, but I can. I used to do that with Kerouac under the Brooklyn Bridge all the time.” He came to our apartment with Amram and a guitar, we began inventing something about “Vomit Express,” jamming for quite awhile, but didn't finish it. He said, “Oh, we ought to get together in a studio and do it,” then showed me the three-chord blues pattern on my pump organ. A week later in the studio Dylan actually did the arrangement, told people when to do choruses and when to take breaks, and suggested the musicians cut a few endings on their own to be spliced in.
“Vomit Express” was a phrase I got from my friend Lucien Carr, who talked about going to Puerto Rico, went often, and we were planning to take an overnight plane a couple of weeks later, my first trip there. He spoke of it as the “vomit express” – poor people flying at night for cheap fares, not used to airplanes, throwing up airsick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzm0eEANMQ&feature=related
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