Ronnie Loves To Hear People Talk - a lyric from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

 I have heard it said that you shouldnt meet your idols, people whose art or music you admire.
Waylon Jennings had a great song called Rambling Man where he sang

"You better move away
Your standing to close to the flame
Once I mess with your mind
Your little ol' heart won't be the same"

 I have loved Jerry Lee Lewis' music and legend for a few decades but have never thought I'd like to hang around with him. 

Richard Hell said this in his book I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp ...

"Being a pop star, a front person, takes indestructible certainty of one’s own irresistibility. That’s the monster part. If that ego confidence doesn’t eventually come so naturally that living at all is to flaunt it, you won’t have what’s necessary to give your audience the show, the stimulation, it needs."

 But when the performer is a woman, they don't ever get that much slack. Its a rarity, a female beautiful monster.  A powerful, loose, wild, female presence.

 

Ronnie loves to hear people talk about her

she says “tell me what you said about me that time!”

“Tell me again what you said about me that time!”

It’s nice to sit with someone who knows what they want

who tells you what they want from you

 

a star – a mon-star - a wo-man-star

a star – a mon-star - a wo-man-star

 

out on her own – stoned, immaculate

out of place – out of time

ain’t we all?

a song and dancer

her eyes are closed

her lips are pursed

her pupils are blown

the lights are cursed

she give people what they want

tells people to give her what she wants

shewants to get paid

she wants to get paid

 

a star – a mon-star - a wo-man-star

a star – a mon-star - a wo-man-star

 

 

Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October

 

itunes pre order link

https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134

 

 Bandcamp Compact Disc or digital album pre order link

 

 

Every Day It's the Blues, Period. - a lyric from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

 

photo by Kristyn Jones.

Every day it’s a scramble for your mind

you wake up and try to get a toe on it

I don’t mean a finger – I don’t wanna play

I mean a toe

so I can get to my feet and go

every day it’s a test of what you believe

what you are  - who you’ve been

every day its a dive to reach

what you were- who you’ve been

 

every day it’s the blues, period.

 

every day it’s a subterranean feel

what’s the opposite of a dive?

into the dangerous pool I climb

every day it’s a joke, I have to get it

I have to listen for it- the beat

I have to watch for it

I have to be open and shut

every day it’s a lie I’m bein’ told

I know it from yesterday

I got tricked into believing

I tricked myself

 

every day it’s the blues, period.

 

 Just for a stir. Un petit  jeu de mots

https://www.pablopicasso.org/blue-period.jsp

 

 The period (also known as a full stop, especially in British English) is a punctuation mark primarily used to indicate the end of a sentence. It appears as a single dot on the bottom line of the text ( . ), and it comes immediately after the last word of the sentence without a space."

 

 

Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October

 

itunes pre order link

https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134

 

 Bandcamp Compact Disc or digital album pre order link

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wilco Got No Wilcos - a lyric from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

 

Its a song about a life of being swamped by American culture- whether you like it or not. I know little of the band Wilco and what I do know I just wonder why I have to know. So I thought, do Wilco have a Wilco at the edge of their mind, whether they like it or not? Do Americans have an America? 

Can't wait for people to hear this track. It's got such a seventies feel to it. Like every song on the album, Clare Moore and I play every instrument.

It's also the second song in my career I've been inspired by Phil Silvers aka Sgt Bilko . The first was My Schtick Weighs A Ton in 2005.

 

Did you know pedal steel maestro Lucky Oceans had an uncle who played Doberman in the show?

 

Wilco got no Wilcos

I love the blues

Sgt Bilko, Hogans Heroes, F Troop

Wilco got no Bilko

Wilco got no Wilco – no other

 

those guys were worldly – worldwide

Wilco got no Wilcos

 

festival favourites – out of shape guys in denim

happy to be home - happy to be there

Romans! legionaires!

we saw the white sails

 

their kitchens came first – galleys!

clankin’ through the bush

twenty two flavours of milk shake

Wilco got no Wilco

 

Yankees got no Yankee

no cultural oppressor

West can’t get no East!

They want it, but can’t

Wilco got no Wilcos

No Wilcos on their case – in their mind

 

out on the town- Hershey bars and silk stockings

Wilco got no Wilco!

Wilco got no Wilco!

 

 

Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October

 

itunes pre order link

https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134

 

 Bandcamp Compact Disc or digital album pre order link

 

 

Great story about Phil Silvers. 

The Smoking Years - lyric from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

 I started smoking at about 12 or 13 and carried on for about two decades.

An excerpt from my book, WORKSHY...

"We all smoked and drank in our family from an early age. I was on the fags regularly from about thirteen. I smoked my mother’s and father’s. Peter Stuyvesant soft packs. In high school I would get some lunch or lunch money, along with about four smokes. One morning I left my lunch and extra smokes at home and my mother took them up to the school office so they could give them to me at lunchtime. ‘He likes a couple of smokes on his way to school and on his way home,’ she informed them. They gave me the lunch money but not the smokes. I marched to the Principal’s office full of teen righteousness to argue my case. Wearing my old faded jeans with ‘Dave’ sewn across the arse. That square got a fright. But I didn’t get my fags back".

 

The smoking years

I loved the soft packs

European style – toasted

I was in surplus

I had a life to burn

 

later came the bulk packets

the bad burning, no name, loosely packed

I was in surplus

I had a life to burn

 

started on Trent, ended up Embassy

Zippo lighter, engraved, scrimshaw

still got it!

 

chain smokin’ , blowin’ smoke rings

beyond words

like an actor – any actor! - it was a great act!

a prop – way up high

hidden in a cloud

I was in surplus

I had a life to burn

Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October

 

itunes pre order link

https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134

 

 

 

Where did you glom your glimmer? - Lyric from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

Lyrics from Where did you glom your glimmer? a song on our 2021 album EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY.

It's a queasy, horror blues. Murky and dank. 

 

glimmer

/ˈɡlɪmə/

verb

verb: glimmer; 3rd person present: glimmers; past tense: glimmered; past participle: glimmered; gerund or present participle: glimmering

shine faintly with a wavering light.

"the moonlight glimmered on the lawn"

glom

/ɡlɒm/

verb

informal•North American

verb: glom; 3rd person present: gloms; past tense: glommed; past participle: glommed; gerund or present participle: glomming

1. 1.

   steal.

   "I thought he was about to glom my wallet"
2. 2.

   become stuck or attached to.

   "the ice gloms on to bridge pilings"

    

    

Gee, two verbs.

 I asked Google,

"Can I use 2 verbs in a sentence?"

In English, sentences have two basic parts: a subject and a verb. ... Some clauses can contain two verbs. These constructions are called compound verbs, meaning that two verbs appear in a single sentence, even when there is only one subject.

 THE GLIMMER TWINS.

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

pink rocks fizzing under your skin pop (doin’ it right there)

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

don’t wish on a bummer

you’re a slim slammer not a flim flamer
tell me
Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

an only child, all grown up

good morning big school girl

can you walk me home?

tell me
Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

nothing wrong with stealing
some things money can’t buy

some things you just got to steal

nothings so grim

its actually like

it glommed onto me! it glommed onto me!

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

Where did you glom your glimmer? where?

Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October

 

itunes pre order link

https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134

Great early review from Bob Osborne at DIFFERENT NOISES

The Ballroom Blitzed - words from a song on EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY

 These are the lyrics to a song from EVERYTHING WAS FUNNY - which comes out October 1st. Which is next week. Album cover picture Kristyn Jones. The other picture- doesn't he own that Social Media platform? Gee.

 

 I thought about us making show on the bandstand, looking out at the people over - lets say - three or four decades period of time. Feeling like we can see everybody while we just play the archetypical roles of musicians. So they just see us deep within a costume or a known character. Meanwhile, we could step out of that and let our eyes wander the room and - perhaps - name some of the dances that are being attempted.

 

I’ve been in the ballrooms all my life

I’ve seen some things

I need to tell you

the crazy lights

shadows on the wall

when people get bombed and get up to dance

I’ve seen ‘em all

 

slow dancin’ – moga done

the leaning tower – the static statue

the grim reaper – the junkie at the crossing

the luuude dude

arms in the air – eyes closed

epic?

flamencish? nah – matador much?

the pole – the invisible pole

the polarity

the drama inherent

the one legged Brolga

the eye patch - the violin bow

the power chord – the wang face

whatever you do , don’t catch an eye

you’ll regret it

whatever you do , don’t catch an eye

you’ll regret it