Monday, Tuesday and Sunshine Song
Taking a meander more down the line of what affected song writers introducing songs, during my years in some cases leaving shattered memories, not always charming, riveting reality.
I don't like Mondays written by lead singer Bob Geldof and Johnnie Fingers after Cleveland Elementary School shooting, hearing news on the radio shattered many, event took place in January 1979, sad life has not changed! Tragic events keep happening which leads me to the next thought.
Why children go to school in fear, something we never experienced. Perhaps discipline, a swearword not allowed within a home or by teachers. Adult let children down still using pit latrines, crossing swollen rivers no bridge in sight, armed for protection when does it become an implement of hurt.
Events that affected lives of musicians often put into song, memorialized into realms of time many don't know where it began, sing along unaware of the horror that struck on the day.
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
Tuesdays gone, realization hits home, things now gone blowing in the wind, times have changed never to return, so it was the song was written. Songs that talk to your soul, if you lived long enough, remembering ordinary folk once majority working class.
We did not hear much Southern Rock of USA, yet this stuck in memory the words for some reason now resounding earlier years, feeling of walking away, never to return.
How often do we consciously recognize incidents that change our direction forever, big or small historically happens to all.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone - 3/7/1976 - Winterland
Music never ages, takes you back to a space in time throwing light back into blues, psychedelic sound some thought hubrid hard rock mixed with both blues and psychedelia.
"I call it world music and it's a brotherhood. Guitar players do not compete with each other. You compete in sports, but music is about complementing." - Carlos Santana
Captivating song many have reproduced, original lyrics written by Eric Clapton, Pete Brown and Jack Bruce, riff developed by Cream bassist Jack Bruce in dedication to Jimi Hendrix after inspirational concert attended in January 1967, each musician influenced another, bringing us back to the above mentioned quote.
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Many musicians have moved on from wild young years, still entertaining, support addiction centers/charities, influencing young generation through parents or grandparents love of music era we grew up in. Teething oneself on such variety I don't think has been seen quite so dramatically as it was back in the 60s and 70s.
As long as you can dance, move with the music it never gets ages, sing lyrics wherein stories are told, of not being poor but also not rich, space race and other dreams. Make up, short skirts, guys grew hair longer, people took stronger stand in communities when felt slighted or wronged. Woodstock happened, was a crossroad when all walks of life came together.
Legends who lived fast and died age 27, iconic rock musicians...., including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, died in the 1970s. Kurt Cobain in 1994, then premature death of Amy Winehouse at age 27 in 2011.
Fatal end where their music suddenly stopped, many drug induced deaths, scared many tampering with drugs to stop in their tracks in 1970.
Those who walk this road should read history about those whose life was cut all too short!
This music post was inspired by the Three Tune Tuesday #TTT with @ablaze
All links on loan from YouTube. First photo Drakensberg Mountains South Africa
Thought for Today: "Move your neck according to the music." - African Proverb
