I think the blonde backing singer should marry me……….
Mmmmmm………. I like the way she held the mike stand.
Must go and take another look….the thought never occurred to me. Nossir. Not at all. The last thing on my mind.
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.
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.
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….
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
I think the blonde backing singer should marry me……….
Mmmmmm………. I like the way she held the mike stand.
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.
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.
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
What a beauty! That’s a very late mark of Spitfire, I’d say.