Tunes For Tuesday – Arthur Brown “Fire”
I want to try this out as a regular “feature”. I have a very weird span in taste of music; thought I’d share some tunes I enjoy on Tuesdays.
Why Tuesday? “Tunes For Monday” just doesn’t have the same ring.
Some you may like, some you may not, some you may not of ever heard of
My first selection was picked for its timely appropriateness.
Not that I have any sympathy for LA – but there’s a lot of people there that don’t deserve this
… mixed in with way too many of those that voted for it, profited from their vote, and deserve every bit of it.
And I was lying in the grass
By a river
And as I lay, the grass turned to sand
And the river turned to a sea
And suddenly the sea burst into flames
And the sand was burning
And I breathed in
And there was smoke in my lungs
And there was fire in my brain!
And I looked around me
And there were all these shapes being sucked into the flames
And they were rising and trying to escape
And I knew that I had to get out
And I looked above me and I saw a shape
That was smiling down at me and beckoning, saying
“Come on home!”
And I raised myself and I tried to get outta the flames
And I was getting higher and higher and higher and higher
And I reached out towards the shape
And as I reached out the shape shed
And my hands were empty!
And I was falling!
I was falling
Falling
Falling
I was falling into the flames
And I knew that I was gonna burn!
I was gonna burn!
Oh it’s so hot in here!
Let me out! please!
You fought hard and you saved and earned
But all of it’s going to burn
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind
Now’s your time, burn your mind
You’re falling far, too far behind
Oh no, oh no, oh no!
You’re gonna burn
Fire, to destroy all you’ve done
Fire, to end all you’ve become
I’ll feel you burn
You’ve been living like a little girl
In the middle of your little world
And your mind, your tiny mind
You know you’ve really been so blind
Now’s your time, burn your mind
You’re falling far, too far behind
Fire, I’ll take you to burn
Fire, I’ll take you to learn
You’re gonna burn
You’re gonna burn
You’re gonna burn, burn, burn, burn,
burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, bu
Haven’t heard that in a very long time.
Yes, appropriate.
Toons for Tuesday is a good idea.
Keep em coming!
Just noticed the edit gear for the first time, by accident.
As I type this I can’t see the gear, but if I mouse down and hover over my comment it appears on the far right. Move my cursor away and the gear disappears.
It is highly elusive. It is fleeting, tiny and temporary. And it’s the Star of David.
Yeah, I know I’m not supposed to mention that, but that’s what it looks like to me.
So, the fire was intentional.
https://voxday.net/2025/01/14/la-2-0/
Stew Peters says it’s Direct Energy Weaponry. Lots of overhead footage and some street scenes of insides of buildings burning but nothing else on fire around them. At the 10 minute mark he goes to commercials. https://www.bitchute.com/video/nElokdKJ9Hdp
Test for the edit gear….or Star of David….or whatever.
Edit: Yep. It works. Thanks for pointing out how to find it.
Good idea.
Since this is tunes for tuesday I’m going to stay on that theme but expand a little as I am want to do. I am all about encouragement and I do it frequently, preferably, with the living things I engage with, and right now that is YOU.
I’m also all about expanding knowledge into areas you may never have thought about but can take you to places inside your own mind you have never been before. Maybe you can bloom.
I’m talking about learning how to play a guitar. Now, now, now. Don’t go all thinking it is hard and you have no musical ability and you’ll never be able to do it.
Learning to make music is like learning another language, one in which it encompasses more than just the air coming out of your mouth. In this case it is s-l-o-w-l-y learning how to coordinate between your eyes, ears, and hands to transport you to a place you never knew, but maybe always wanted to.
“The most important thing in any life is “ATTITUDE”.”
–gs, 2099
Attitude is everything and trumps all else, every time.
If you think you can’t you probably won’t, but, if you think you can you probably will. Attitude!
I’m supplying some links below that can quickly get you on the road to success, enjoyment, and expansion.
We’ll start with a link to Ambers youtube channel where she is a master teacher. She breaks it down into simple syllables that even a cave man can grab onto. Even though I have been playing guitar for more than half a century I have learned things from her.
At this link Amber will show you how to play the song “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynrd. I learned how to play this song in the 1970’s the old fashioned way, brute force. Amber will show you an easier way.
Here’s Amber:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E6lxQoc3Ps
Here is an audio version of the original song as recorded by Lynyrd Skynrd back in the 70’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eNoms9wsGc
Here is another version of this song played on electric guitars with the tablature scrolling across the bottom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qXNH4EsAg
Finally, here is a video of the recent version of Lynyrd Skynrd (2015) playing Simple Man in a concert in their home state, and mine, Florida.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqfwbf3X8SA
Lastly, you need a guitar to get started and you don’t have to spend a lot of money.
At the link below is a guitar I suggested to a young lad last year and he bought it. I have played his guitar and it is far nicer than what I learned to play with back in 1968. It comes with everything you need to get started and won’t break the bank.
https://tinyurl.com/5d4bv5tb
Yes, even old dawgz can learn new tricks if they have a hankering to get off the couch and try. I bet anyone reading this that uses the links I have provided and applies a modicum of effort could be playing Simple Man and much more by summertime. Now, this coming June you can look back at Jan 2025 and see how much enjoyment you are getting out of your guitar and your effort and smile broadly, or you can look back and wonder why you didn’t try. Your choice. guten lukken and if you ever have any questions don’t hesitate.
I was once long ago a bass player. Or so I could claim. At least I knew which finger went to which string at the proper place on the neck. Most of the time. If I gave it enough time.
My girlfriend-at-the-time’s mother worked for Gibson in Kalamazoo. Stupid me – I passed up the chance to pick up an EB3 at employee pricing. Oh … friggin – ^*(*%%^ – skiddles!!!
But then a few years later while actually working for a living, I had a stamp press break down and smash the ring finger on my left hand. Now if I had been a wizard with the axe, I could have overcome that – maybe. Alas, that side path ended (as did “working” for a living). But I did have a chance to play a few gigs before that world crashed to an end … and I still miss it a bit.
I’ve not seen Casey or Anne lately. Have they abandoned us or just lurking?
More weirdness. This is Peggy Hall interviewing forest specialist Robert Brame who has been studying trees and forest fires over 50 years. Robert shows nails in fences that burned and barbed wire wrapped around wood posts that singed the wood. There’s a fire hydrant on fire. Aren’t those made of steel? Of course, lots of cars that melted. Suspicious evidence from the Paradise disaster, too. I wrote Gerard about that but he wasn’t curious enough to respond. This is a deliberate disaster utilizing technology that defies nature. https://www.bitchute.com/video/-0XHs5W4Qk4
https://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/2025/01/15/certainly-no-malice-in-this-corporate-decision/
Remember when AOL was a thing?
“At one point, 50% of the CDs produced worldwide had an AOL logo.”
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL )
I remember receiving skoonz of the 3.5″ floppies in the mail, and the CD’s.
Jeez, the CD’s. Never ending. One time a friend and I took about 100 AOL CD’s a to a blank place we used to shoot guns at and did some “skeet shootin'” with those discs.
In 1998 I was using Compuserve to get online with an early IBM PC through a modem. Then in about 1991 I switched over to AOL. I remember being mesmerized with the AOL GUI interface and through retardation and a childlike imagination I some how managed to mouse click my way into about $200 worth of fees in the first month for shiny flashing objects and services on websites without actually being aware of it. When I got my bank statement I was stunned into a major behavior change. LOL
When I woke up this morning for some reason I was thinking about the old browser Netscape Navigator and looked it up and that’s where I seen that AOL had bought NN out back in the late 90’s.
gs, I continue to use AOL. First hook-up 2004.