Jackson Browne – Before The Deluge

8 Responses to Jackson Browne – Before The Deluge

1. mawm says:

   July 20, 2013 at 11:41

   Very nice!

   I always liked his “Running on empty”
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYRtOPUonA

   and “The load out/Stay just a little bit longer”
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pHlX1xGARA
2. KG says:

   July 20, 2013 at 14:14

   I think the blonde backing singer should marry me……….
   • mawm says:

     July 20, 2013 at 14:41

     Mmmmmm………. I like the way she held the mike stand.
3. KG says:

   July 20, 2013 at 15:46

   Must go and take another look….the thought never occurred to me. Nossir. Not at all. The last thing on my mind.
4. Francis W. Porretto says:

   July 21, 2013 at 00:17

   Browne had a gift for writing wrongheaded but beautiful stuff. “The Pretender” is another example of that.

   It might be a bit perverse of me, but I miss that era. It had a weird sort of promise, and retains a peculiar glow. We could have known better, and if we had, we might have freed the entire world…but we didn’t, and in the folly of our self-righteous convictions and well-meant proclamations we were doomed to teach Mankind, yet again, the oldest of all the lessons of hubris:

   The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
5. KG says:

   July 21, 2013 at 08:20

   I miss it too, Francis. Perhaps we could have known better, but we were so caught up in optimism and a sense of possibility (and it really did seem for a while there that anything was possible) that the hard realities and looming consequences got shoved on to the back burner.
   It wasn’t all self-indulgent flowers and hippiedom, though–there were plenty of thoughtful people who saw an opportunity to change things for the better.
   A wonderful time to be young, and a terrible price to be paid down the track.
6. mawm says:

   July 21, 2013 at 08:50

   Off topic (well not really, just a piece of history of a different time and different values and of people who gave it all to stop evil) – pic of the day….

   http://standywandyandard.tumblr.com/post/55985997512
   • KG says:

     July 21, 2013 at 09:35

     What a beauty! That’s a very late mark of Spitfire, I’d say.