Something

I’m thinking of “something” by George Harrison, that wonderful love song he wrote for the Beatles, such a peaceful soul, always trying to help others, create a loving spiritual society. Yet here we are years after his death, needing to update and sing his song to help create that society that he strove so hard…

Smile…

Faint rumblings in the air, the sun still shines, while my guitar gently weeps; while suited men organize their next round of profit taking, and huricanes destroy our certainties, flood waters bring down mounds of mud, and still they deny climate change, while myh guitar gently weeps, passions run over into orgies of war and…

Green pastures.

Nodding off into infinite green pastures; soul sounds on a cow hide drum, bring me back onto my hard chair, typing a rhythm in the midnight hour, wondering how green, our wonderful earth will be, after the bombs and the poisons have had their say, but our soul music draws us together in a spiritual…

Something by George Harrison.

As it is Valentines day and because I love this wonderful love song, one of George Harrison’s songs that was a hit for the Beatles, and then later for Shirley Basse, I have decided to blog it. I have found the great performance of it that he did at the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.…

Three men playing

There were just three men standing together on stage all playing their instruments, and singing with mountains of passion as Bob Dylan growled his way through the hard rains are a gonna to fall, the huge crowd listened enraptured as the trio made their way through the song hitting the meaning home as one could…

Songs of hope

The guitars threaded there way over the bass and chattering drums, you got to switch on the light, and Gerry Garcia steps into the limelight, laying down a a lilting lick, pulsing passion through those tear drop dark glasses and the dead are on fire, my mind has picked up another melody and George Harrison…