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| From | "josh chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Beatles to blame in Philly murder? |
| Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:02:37 -0400 |
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From: "Jocelyn Geboy" <smussyolay@yahoo.com>
> --- josh chasin <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Another great Audities thread: what songs make you
> > want to actually go out
> > and kill someone? My list:
> >
> > "Baker Street" Gerry Rafferty
Actually , Jocelyn, since you ask-- yes, there is.
It all started at a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California...
No, seriously. You have to admit that the sax riff in that song is
somewhat... insistent. The summer it was out ('78) I was a 19 and working
in my father's factory. We would drive out-- 43 minutes to the tick each
AM-- I'd work a hot grueling sweaty 8-hour shift on the loading dock, 8 Am -
4 PM. Then-- because he was the boss and worked 10 hours-- I'd sit around
till he was ready to go home. Then I'd go home-- same 43 minutes-- eat
dinner, collapse asleep, and wake up next day and repeat.
Now my Dad actually used to like the rock stations, which was nice-- we
never argued about what radio station to play-- and so I must have heard
that damned song 15 times a week all summer (it certainly seemed like that.)
So that sax solo is burned into my brain as being associated with that
brutal grind.
By the way, there was another song that summer that has the same effect--
Bruce Springsteen's "Factory." Not nearly as ubiquitous on the radio, but
the lyrics hit much closer to home.
You'd like to think I took a lesson from that summer and really hit the
books when I went back to college in the fall. Sadly, you'd be wrong.
Unless by "books" you mean "bong."
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