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savannah · 10-15-2009, 10:33 AM

i used to scoff at john mayer,....my only refrecence was that wonderland body song

but then i saw him at the crossroads guitar fest back in 2004,....

i was workin at a little dinner in town, and my friend david came in and told me his dad bailed on goin and he couldnt think of anyone who would want to put up with the day but me,.....so i covered my shift right then, threw on some blue jeans i found in the floor of my truck bought a cheap tank top at a truck stop on the way and took off to dallas

it stormed on us the whole way, which is one reason i didnt really worry about clothing,.....i knew no matter what i would just get wet

i'd been to festivals before,....but normally it just involved dancein around in a circle, or layin on a blanket,.....it was about the music, but also about the people around me,.....cross roads was different for me

i grew up on classic rock,...and to stand there and see joe walsh, james taylor, clapton, jeff ****in beck, jj cale, buddy guy, honeyboy edwards, santana,......it was epic to me,....

but as i stood there, i remember this guy in two polo shirts with poped collars comes out,....and just starts groovein,....just starts playin,....and he's makein these crazy faces,.....maybe it was that night,....maybe it was the high i felt just being there,....but i got john mayer right then,....

he's an amazing guitarist,....and he just,....he feels it,...its not theory, its not technical,....i really believe for him, its divine,....and i felt that,...

so you say john mayer's commin to town? sign my ass up

savannah · 10-17-2009, 03:55 AM

i hate to say it, but yes i am one of those who's life was changed by pat green,...
up until high school my texas music love affair was fueled by those my mother introduced me too,.....those she grew up listenin too
jerry jeff
guy clark
towens van zant

aside from robert earl keen and lyle lovett, the scene was dead

and then came pat green

beer drinkin, pick up trucks, being texan,.....ok ok i know what you are thinkin, but i eat that up sometimes

i saw pat not too long ago,....the first time i ever saw him was at gruene hall, and this time was at gruene hall,....it was like goin back to where it all started over for me,....that very moment i immersed myself in this scene i hold so dear

and while i've not purchased a pat album since wave on wave (and he hopped a bus to nashvegas) i was excited to revisit those old songs that still remain so comfortable

brandon and i were passing gruene hall as we walked to dinner, next door at the grist mill, and once you got close enough you could here carry on coming out of the building,....

i stopped dead in my tracks,....."oh my god brandon we are seeing pat green at gruene hall" and i repeated this several times and i even tried to look through the cracks of the building to see him,...this was the show for the 75 buck tickets that were sold out before we got to them,.....

i thought this was my usual excitement for a show... like when i see lucero, or guy clark, or jerry jeff

after dinner we got in line at 807pm they let us in at 9pm

im excited
i'm freakin out,....i'm so excited to see pat, to have that moment back

we grab some drinks and grab a spot center stage,.....at the old table i always sit at,....the one with my name carved in it at least half a dozen times,.....the one that marks milestones in my life, relationships come and gone, road trips taken with friends,.....what i wouldnt give to own that table someday

40 minutes pass

pat starts up take me out to the dancehall

in a matter of maybe 60 seconds the last decade came full circle

i remember being a teenager wanting to see pat green sooo bad it hurt but I wasn't old enough or no one wanted to go with me or I didn't know how to drive any where but a dirt road

10 years of
good times
bad times
hard times
responsible times
reckless times

10 years of
friends
enemies
love
fear
hope
needs
wants

10 years of
broken dreams
dreams come true

i would sit in my pick up and dream of seeing what I was living this night,....it was everything i dreamed and more and we weren't even half way through the first song yet

ive gone from a carefree teenager to working through a rough transition into adult hood

i feel brandon scratch at the small of my back and then squeeze on my hand i calm down and was just like wow i am really happy right now...

pat didn't even get through,...

"it's going to be late, hell we might not make it back at all"

and i was full stream crying,....shinner bock in hand

i don't know what happened

Bulldog · 10-24-2009, 12:36 PM

I'd be lying if I said the musical experience had made me feel that way for a long, long time, but I do definitely know the feeling, and there are a few artists who take me way back in that sense - Elvis Costello, the Doors, New Order, David Bowie, Steel Pulse, Iggy Pop and so on. It gives music even more staying power when it has that strange kind of emotional trigger like that.

I'll admit I haven't read this journal for a few weeks now, but just thought I'd drop by and say keep this up - there are some great reads in here.

FETCHER. · 10-24-2009, 06:17 PM

I always get really interested with this one, mostly because you've taken a completely different approach to your Journal than any of the other ones I've read. I like this, and I don't mind your grammer at all!

I mostly like how you relate to the music through a personal experience, and which emoticons you feel. I like this Journal more than I thought I would, even though I've never commented in it, or told you so

.

Bane of your existence · 10-26-2009, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kayleigh.

I always get really interested with this one, mostly because you've taken a completely different approach to your Journal than any of the other ones I've read.

It's the only one that's not pretentious?

savannah · 11-09-2009, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kayleigh.

I always get really interested with this one, mostly because you've taken a completely different approach to your Journal than any of the other ones I've read. I like this, and I don't mind your grammer at all!

I mostly like how you relate to the music through a personal experience, and which emoticons you feel. I like this Journal more than I thought I would, even though I've never commented in it, or told you so

.

thank you kayleigh,...
i know that at times i may be a bit venomous twards you, and i think its just that we just arent on the same wave length,...so, i'm sorry,....thank you for your kind words, and i hope to get so drunk with you someday it doesnt matter we misunderstand each other

for a time in my life i was so emursed in the texas scene that i couldnt see my way out of it,....it was my friends, it was my family, it was my day to day business

i would always go on listenin spree tangents in other genres but there was always some connection to what i had emursed myself it,....it was an influence, a recommendation, its what was playin in the van

in my late teens and early 20s i was so wrapped up in that penny lane persona, prolly because i wish i could harness talent in a way that i saw was influencing my life so much,....i found alot of solace in it

its been so long that i was at a small show and did not know the band that lucero saturday night threw me back into that whole 'wonderment of it all'

even with the vomit, and outragous bar tab i'm really glad that i was thrown back into it

i stood there in the crowd jumpin around witha buncha drunken sweaty flannel clad boys and just sang my ass off,...rather off key if i remember correctly

i shared it with my lil ginger fellow friend jake,....jake whose not a lucero fan,...jake who makes me listen to the stroke and sparklehorse,....jake who worships at the alter of morrsey,..jake in his skinny jeans and cord jacket with little leather patches on the elbows,....jake in his union jack high top tennis shoes,...jake who lit all of my smokes, and shoved water down my throat

and i cant imagine sharein the show with anyone but him

he has influenced my listening so much in the past six months, reminded me that there was a scene so much bigger than the lil one i've embraced my whole life,....he has shared so much of himself with me through his music, both that he is listening to and createing

he would always roll his eyes when i made him listen to MY ipod, and it was exciteing to share something so dear to me with him, something that has ment so much to me,....to show him that it is so much more than simple riffs, and no bridges,....more than just a glass gargling distortion of vocal cords

i think this show might be what bridges our tastes together,....more than a mix tape ever could

and i look forward to him doin the same with me

jake, if youre reading this, i promise when julian casablancas makes it anywhere near texas, or a neighboring state for that matter,....we will be at that show, even if we eat ramen for a month to fund it,......and if you had a purse, i would hold it the whole time for you, just like you did for me

VEGANGELICA · 11-15-2009, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by savannah

i've the most horrible week,...a couplea friends are breakin up, and i'm having to hold them together, separately,....i had a horrible cakeless birthday,....i've been stuck typein sex offender reports the past two weeks,....there's someone i want to be with so bad, and just cant get too,....just, a buncha stuff

but this is makein me feel better right now

lucero - what are you willing to loose
ray lamontage - winter birds
blue october - 18th floor balcony
neil young - castles burning
spoon - i summon you
laura marling - failure
jason boland and the stragglers - mary
counting crows - raining in baltimore
john mayer - stop this train

Sorry about your tough week, Savannah. I hope you finally got some birthday cake!

I hadn't heard Lucero's "What are you willing to lose" or Laura Marling's "Failure," so I listened to them (as YouTube videos) and liked both their message and the sound of them. I enjoyed Laura Marling's voice (oh, and her lovely accent! Sigh). I feel the Lucero video of "What are you willing to lose" did a very good job of illustrating the meaning of the lyrics by having the hero be someone dressed up like a fairy, riding his bike around, with his eventual secret weapon being the beer he's always offering people. Poor guy. Even the woman he saves runs off with his little mesh bag while he closes his eyes, thinking she is going to kiss him!

Bane of your existence · 11-16-2009, 06:32 AM

I can kick a Laura Marling album your way if you want it, V.

savannah · 12-03-2009, 10:45 AM

i've been sittin on this for a week

over the holiday i spent alot of time with my old high school friends,....granted most of the time was spent on a dirt road,...or sittin in someone's barn,....but it was quality time none the less

shallow this may seem, but through our ipods i realized my home town friends havent progressed
they still do the exact same thing we did in high school, all while listenin to the exact same thing we did in high school, my music is still just as foreign to them as it was in high school, and the older i get the more problems i have relating to those in my past

i asked myself, as i sat there listenin to 2pac,...yes i swear it was the 2pac,.....what is wrong with these people

i couldnt sing along to any of them anymore,....and barely remembered all of 'my' part to getto cowboy (dont judge i was a 14 year old drunk),....

they didnt know anything i had, nor were they willin to explore it,.....we just all had to go back to the same ol same ol because i mean,...things that are different are scary,...everyone knows that,....

and that made me think about being an awkward kid,....i was very awkward until high school,...i listened to weird music,...i wore alot of flannel,....i read these things called books,....and was just all around weird,....my friends still like to remind me that i'm the weird one, even though i slowly let their back woods pop culture seep into my life,...

and lookin back, i'm glad that i learned enough of their bull**** that i had a really great time,....because i did,....outside of the class room i had a wonderful time in high school,....but i'm kinda sad too, i'm sad that i soaked up so much of them, and they soaked up nothing of me,.....

sadly, alot of my self identity is tied to those years,....and how i've progressed after them, but they are the base,.....and as i sat there i realized all of that,...this,....is ridiculous,...that i couldnt wait to get out of the county,.....and from now on i hope to run into my friends from time to time in town,....but i wont be callin anyone up to hang out when i got back home,.....i'm gonna go on about my business, and pray that drinkin the water there doesnt get me knocked up or married

savannah · 12-11-2009, 11:30 PM

falling out of music love

this week i have fallen out of music love,...no really

i have

the sound of it, no matter what it is just makes me cry
i dont know why
i dont know what to do about it

but lets hope it goes away soon

10-15-2009, 10:33 AM	#11 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	i used to scoff at john mayer,....my only refrecence was that wonderland body song but then i saw him at the crossroads guitar fest back in 2004,.... i was workin at a little dinner in town, and my friend david came in and told me his dad bailed on goin and he couldnt think of anyone who would want to put up with the day but me,.....so i covered my shift right then, threw on some blue jeans i found in the floor of my truck bought a cheap tank top at a truck stop on the way and took off to dallas it stormed on us the whole way, which is one reason i didnt really worry about clothing,.....i knew no matter what i would just get wet i'd been to festivals before,....but normally it just involved dancein around in a circle, or layin on a blanket,.....it was about the music, but also about the people around me,.....cross roads was different for me i grew up on classic rock,...and to stand there and see joe walsh, james taylor, clapton, jeff ****in beck, jj cale, buddy guy, honeyboy edwards, santana,......it was epic to me,.... but as i stood there, i remember this guy in two polo shirts with poped collars comes out,....and just starts groovein,....just starts playin,....and he's makein these crazy faces,.....maybe it was that night,....maybe it was the high i felt just being there,....but i got john mayer right then,.... he's an amazing guitarist,....and he just,....he feels it,...its not theory, its not technical,....i really believe for him, its divine,....and i felt that,... so you say john mayer's commin to town? sign my ass up __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

10-17-2009, 03:55 AM	#12 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	i hate to say it, but yes i am one of those who's life was changed by pat green,... up until high school my texas music love affair was fueled by those my mother introduced me too,.....those she grew up listenin too jerry jeff guy clark towens van zant aside from robert earl keen and lyle lovett, the scene was dead and then came pat green beer drinkin, pick up trucks, being texan,.....ok ok i know what you are thinkin, but i eat that up sometimes i saw pat not too long ago,....the first time i ever saw him was at gruene hall, and this time was at gruene hall,....it was like goin back to where it all started over for me,....that very moment i immersed myself in this scene i hold so dear and while i've not purchased a pat album since wave on wave (and he hopped a bus to nashvegas) i was excited to revisit those old songs that still remain so comfortable brandon and i were passing gruene hall as we walked to dinner, next door at the grist mill, and once you got close enough you could here carry on coming out of the building,.... i stopped dead in my tracks,....."oh my god brandon we are seeing pat green at gruene hall" and i repeated this several times and i even tried to look through the cracks of the building to see him,...this was the show for the 75 buck tickets that were sold out before we got to them,..... i thought this was my usual excitement for a show... like when i see lucero, or guy clark, or jerry jeff after dinner we got in line at 807pm they let us in at 9pm im excited i'm freakin out,....i'm so excited to see pat, to have that moment back we grab some drinks and grab a spot center stage,.....at the old table i always sit at,....the one with my name carved in it at least half a dozen times,.....the one that marks milestones in my life, relationships come and gone, road trips taken with friends,.....what i wouldnt give to own that table someday 40 minutes pass pat starts up take me out to the dancehall in a matter of maybe 60 seconds the last decade came full circle i remember being a teenager wanting to see pat green sooo bad it hurt but I wasn't old enough or no one wanted to go with me or I didn't know how to drive any where but a dirt road 10 years of good times bad times hard times responsible times reckless times 10 years of friends enemies love fear hope needs wants 10 years of broken dreams dreams come true i would sit in my pick up and dream of seeing what I was living this night,....it was everything i dreamed and more and we weren't even half way through the first song yet ive gone from a carefree teenager to working through a rough transition into adult hood i feel brandon scratch at the small of my back and then squeeze on my hand i calm down and was just like wow i am really happy right now... pat didn't even get through,... "it's going to be late, hell we might not make it back at all" and i was full stream crying,....shinner bock in hand i don't know what happened __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

12-03-2009, 10:45 AM	#19 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	i've been sittin on this for a week over the holiday i spent alot of time with my old high school friends,....granted most of the time was spent on a dirt road,...or sittin in someone's barn,....but it was quality time none the less shallow this may seem, but through our ipods i realized my home town friends havent progressed they still do the exact same thing we did in high school, all while listenin to the exact same thing we did in high school, my music is still just as foreign to them as it was in high school, and the older i get the more problems i have relating to those in my past i asked myself, as i sat there listenin to 2pac,...yes i swear it was the 2pac,.....what is wrong with these people i couldnt sing along to any of them anymore,....and barely remembered all of 'my' part to getto cowboy (dont judge i was a 14 year old drunk),.... they didnt know anything i had, nor were they willin to explore it,.....we just all had to go back to the same ol same ol because i mean,...things that are different are scary,...everyone knows that,.... and that made me think about being an awkward kid,....i was very awkward until high school,...i listened to weird music,...i wore alot of flannel,....i read these things called books,....and was just all around weird,....my friends still like to remind me that i'm the weird one, even though i slowly let their back woods pop culture seep into my life,... and lookin back, i'm glad that i learned enough of their bull**** that i had a really great time,....because i did,....outside of the class room i had a wonderful time in high school,....but i'm kinda sad too, i'm sad that i soaked up so much of them, and they soaked up nothing of me,..... sadly, alot of my self identity is tied to those years,....and how i've progressed after them, but they are the base,.....and as i sat there i realized all of that,...this,....is ridiculous,...that i couldnt wait to get out of the county,.....and from now on i hope to run into my friends from time to time in town,....but i wont be callin anyone up to hang out when i got back home,.....i'm gonna go on about my business, and pray that drinkin the water there doesnt get me knocked up or married __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

12-11-2009, 11:30 PM	#20 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	falling out of music love this week i have fallen out of music love,...no really i have the sound of it, no matter what it is just makes me cry i dont know why i dont know what to do about it but lets hope it goes away soon __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

10-24-2009, 12:36 PM	#13 (permalink)
Bulldog why bother? Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: UK Posts: 4,840	I'd be lying if I said the musical experience had made me feel that way for a long, long time, but I do definitely know the feeling, and there are a few artists who take me way back in that sense - Elvis Costello, the Doors, New Order, David Bowie, Steel Pulse, Iggy Pop and so on. It gives music even more staying power when it has that strange kind of emotional trigger like that. I'll admit I haven't read this journal for a few weeks now, but just thought I'd drop by and say keep this up - there are some great reads in here.

11-16-2009, 06:32 AM	#18 (permalink)
Bane of your existence Such That Join Date: May 2007 Location: Austin, Tx Posts: 1,197	I can kick a Laura Marling album your way if you want it, V.