https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d8/55/66/d...fc2a2f2698.jpg

That’s what Willis was talkin’ bout!

^ Both died broke and under tragic circumstances. :(

And I'll post this here because it ties into the picture and there's a bridge in it...

She offed herself

Her interview from the day before on Howard Stern is depressing af

i can't believe i forgot about this one. maybe its cuz i listen to the whole album and never to a certain track and also that i have it on cd.. but this title is so charαcteristic i should have remembered anyway. great album by the way!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KARGMMT-0_8

^ Great band! I've seen them perform live several times since the early 90's. Always a good show.

i dlove to see tortoise live, i never had the chance. well at least till this album they made with will oldham, after that i kinda lost touch with what they did (for no particular reason...)

here's another good bridge song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD7seOgoxdw

and a doesnt-sound-like-them and also not-so-great song from Calexico.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmPAQWg-qMU

^ Another of your picks that I've seen perform live. Saw them at Antone's in Austin, TX in the early 2000's. They blew me away so I started checking out their studio albums but none of them have ever come anywhere close to impressing me like that live show did.

hey at least this time i m not jealous :) i am not cause i ve seen them perform about the same time (2001 i googled it) in Lycabettus. for some reason they are pretty popular here and have played several times live, they collaborated with a local musician etc.....

about their albums, i like hot rail and the black light almost entirely. other than those i guess you are right about them beeing better live than recorded..


back on the bridges, here's one track i stumbled upon some days ago:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKq4AFpMq4

here's today's bridge from 1990 and the album Twin Infinitives by Royal Trux


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu92vj0D-qw

You are clearly the winner when it comes to Bridge songs, ziggywas. :bowdown: Honourable mention to Psy-Fi too, for this video clip, a little-known outtake from Zabriskie Point:-

^ I have a couple of the instrumentals from The Black Light on mp3; time I gave the whole album a proper listen.

And here's a great track from a Nortec Collective album on which Calexico turn up as guests. ( ADVISORY: This song contains no mention of bridges.)

lisnaholic thanks. since its a game and not a contest cheers to psy-fi for beeing the only one who played along!!

the esabanda video doesnt play in my country and all i found was a dub verion...

one more bridge-song (last one i think) i had in mind:
by Scott Walker when he was..mainstream.
may he rip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgLfvwm4mg4

A bridge with quite a bit of historical significance that I haven't walked across in years but it used to be a favorite spot to occasionally visit with friends back in the 70's and early 80's.
The one in the photo is a reproduction of the original which was taken down 18 years after the start of the American Revolutionary War.

^ That's a nice bridge, Psy-Fi, or perhaps more notably, a beautiful location. When you are out walking, the midpoint of a bridge is a place to instinctively take a rest and have a look around, isn't it? Here are two bridges I've paused at the middle of on several occasions.

^ Well, the full title of the song (Esa banda en dub) is Spanish for "This Band In Dub", so maybe you're hearing the original track after all

^ Never say "last one" ziggywas! ;)

.... and how could we have forgotten this bridge made famous by Bobbie Gentry:-

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ieJoeMovie.jpg

1. agreed
2. you were right!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSlcGoZTCk

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The Brooklyn and Golden Gate were the two biggies when I was a kid but this was the first one that truly blew my mind at the time.

Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge - still the longest suspension bridge in the US.

https://dehayf5mhw1h7.cloudfront.net...f2d4e3ba55.jpg

Chula, Lisnaholic and Psy-fi these are some nice bridges. i particularly like the 1st photograph in Lisna's post......

i cant believe i forgot (til now) the bridge of death.
before you cross it you have to answer some questions and its crossing is inevitable in the quest for the holy grail.......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOyOM7wxlE

Quick side note: Read somewhere that it takes a crew just about a full year to paint the entire GGB - and as soon as they are done they start all over again.

Really? Again?
http://www.bldgblog.com/wp-content/u...HandLuke23.jpg

I think that's standard for longer bridges cause I remember hearing the same thing about the big dumbass bridge going to Wellesley Island in upstate New York.

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20150117223051

http://bridgehunter.com/photos/17/40/174087-L.jpg

^ Good call on this scene that I'd forgotten, ziggywas.

^ When I was about 11, we were taught the same thing about this bridge in Scotland: constantly being painted, but this one takes four years to finish before going back to the start again. Even a kid can see there's a lot of fiddly paintwork involved:-
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...rth_Bridge.jpg.....https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/me...943_bridge.jpg

Structural Engineering Gone Wild 101.

This looks awesome. I bet it's great to visit on shrooms.

Keep me the **** away from heights on psychedelics.

You a prime candidate for thinking you could fly?

I get nervous on ladders.

Idk, I always thought that skydiving on acid would be a cool experience.

I'm not sure that civil engineering, heights or sky diving are the right accompaniments for a psychedelic experience. In my day it was all about wall hangings, picture books and listening to Saucerful of Secrets - or a walk in the woods for the more intrepid.

A Three Stooges marathon is cool too. Linda told me that her and her friends once locked a tripping friend in a big dog's pen for an evening. Dude didn't know the dog.





I married a f*cking monster.

Well that escalated quickly.

Very cool! All-State needs to purchase ad space on those.

Horse gets wet.

http://jellybeansofdoom.com/wp-conte...t-of-water.jpg

OMG those guys don't see the train!

Ever seen the movie Bat? What'd ya think?

I don't watch snuff films, you sicko.

this is a pretty famous bridge in my country: γοργοπόταμος bridge. it was sabotaged in 1942 by guerillas in collaboration with english commandoes in order to cut/delay the nazis supply line to their forces in south greece and (maybe) north africa.. it was a heavily guarded bridge so it took a big fight to get close.
its one of the rare occasions the communist guerillas (and the vast majority of the guerillas were communist-politically left leaning) callaborated with some right-wing guerillas (mostly ex-army officers) in order to get what you see in this picture done.

after some time they began fight each other and the final outcome (after the nazis left) was a fully wadged civil war that lasted til 1949.

in the small picture: in retaliation the italians, who were responsible for guarding the bridge, shot 14 prisoners, 7 of them in the place were the sabotage took place.

https://cdn.sansimera.gr/media/photo...rgopotamos.jpg

https://www.rizospastis.gr/getImage....edium&id=55226

^ That's an interesting story, ziggywas, and a reminder of the life-or-death bravery of people who resisted the Nazi occupation of Europe.

A fun bridge from Psy-Fi and a great photo from Mindfullness. I heard about the flood on this morning's news and was surprised to realise it was the same place that you posted about a couple of days ago.
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Some bridges are rightly famous, but some are just lucky enough to turn up on album covers through no particular merit of their own:-

http://www.beefheart.com/wp-content/...out.album_.jpg.....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...iveBridges.jpg