Let the Bodies Hit the FLOOR!!!
Posted on 06/26/2018 8:15:29 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group
Not so much the ELP song, but the title (Tank). Lots of ELP stuff isn’t always listenable. Numerous times I’ll try to be focusing on something (car repairs, data, etc.) and “Tank” or similar songs of theirs will come on the player and I have to turn it off. “TURN that crap off now!!”
(Better for driving - or just kicking back and listening.)
Heh. Maybe that’s why it is a suitable tribute to the left wing. “Turn that crap off now!”
I did a search on the back-sotry for “Tank”:
“Your drums’ lead role certainly showed itself early on—especially during “Tank” from the debut album.”
Carl Palmer (drummer): “Tank” was the very first piece that I actually wrote with Keith. I had a couple of musical ideas, which I played to him. And I had this rhythm and said that we could have these starts and stops. And I asked him, “What do you think?”
We kind of just kicked it around for a couple of hours that day, and the next day, we got it down and just played it. I think it probably happened the second take.
It was one of those kind of very natural pieces that just sort of fell under our hands, and we decided, “Oh, we’ll put a drum solo in that.”
A lot of those things were quite organic and they developed very quickly, which is always the best way. If we have to sit around for days and days, it’s usually because something is wrong with it. But “Tank” was extremely spontaneous, and I like it a lot. I’m very, very happy with it, and I continued to play it live with my own band. It goes down incredibly well. People still remember it.
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On one of the reviews of an ELP concert, somebody wrote that they were all pomp and no circumstance. Greg Lake acknowledged that to some degree. Said something like “Some times we wrote of things that needed to be said. Sometimes it was to create something beautiful. And sometimes it was just pure showmanship.”
I’m looking at the song’s lyrics from their perspective.
And I do feel sorry for them, although it’s their own damn fault.
I do kinda like you a bit too Gator. How’s life in Texas after the people we cant stand any more went there?
Wartime.
Been waiting so long.
Careful...they’ve been practicing urban warfare for 30 years with gang disputes.
Make sure your sh!t is in one sock before you ever start to tell people who you are.
Never thought it was coming.
But it’s coming
Oh, yes. And it’s a beautiful tune. David Grey and Annie Lennox. If you’re my FB FRiend you know it :) ‘Cause I post it A LOT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvxyDgqxmM
All our lives we’ve dreamed about it
Just to find that it was never real
This sure ain’t no great Valhalla
Coming closer each turn of the wheel
Forlorn adrift on seas of beige
In this our Golden Age
Bullied suckered pimped and patronized
Every day your tawdry little lives
So loose your head
And step within
The silence deafening
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we still bought it
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming but still
Running full steam ahead
In and out of consciousness
It breaks my heart to see you like this
Crying wringing hands and cursing fate
Always so little far too late
It’s 3am I’m wide awake
There’s still one call to make
Now you saw it coming
And I saw it coming
We all saw it coming
But we…
It is beautiful.
Why are you sad?
This has been meant to happen...only happens it’s now.
Imagine what is coming. Once they are gone.
Gone.
Like capital G
Gone.
Ah. Sad because you all saw it comin and we all saw it coming...
Ok....disregard previous post. I’m kinda sad too.
Oh, Lovely. <3 I see your WTW and raise you one Garden... Namaste :) .....
Dems don’t get this... because they are owned by Evil?
In the fulness of time, aye?
“The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time
It’s the only return that you expect”....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAxtFSpHxts
In this one of many possible worlds, all for the best, or some bizarre test?
It is what it is – and whatever
Time is still the infinite jest
The arrow flies when you dream, the hours tick away – the cells tick away
The Watchmaker keeps to his schemes
The hours tick away – they tick away
The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect
So hard to earn, so easily burned
In the fullness of time
A garden to nurture and protect
In the rise and the set of the sun
‘Til the stars go spinning – spinning ’round the night
It is what it is – and forever
Each moment a memory in flight
The arrow flies while you breathe, the hours tick away – the cells tick away
The Watchmaker has time up his sleeve
The hours tick away – they tick away
The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect
The way you live, the gifts that you give
In the fullness of time
It’s the only return that you expect
The future disappears into memory
With only a moment between
Forever dwells in that moment
Hope is what remains to be seen
Ok I will let you do that.
Because I have had way too many Adult Beverages to continue mocking them. But, I’m drunk as.f. They’re Communists.
Wait did I let that out prematurely?
Dammit. If there’s one thing I’ll do is blasting out a load of something on someones’s face.
What?
Like I’m the only one?
They’re liberals. You can blast goo all over them they just want pancakes after.
Yep... way too many beers.
DU. You reading? You feeling?
Imagine the heartbreak you’re going to have at the next Presidential Election.
Wow. That’s gonna hurt.
Just come over here. We have stolen taco technology. We know how to make them now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBNzf5JlZA
Above is the live version of The Garden with a small string section that they used for the second half of the concert.
I think the good Captain may need another look.
We’re just celebrating the selfimposedsuperdestruction.
I mean, them Lefties are soft as hell....once we go full court press?
It’s nothing but transsexuals and puddles of piss.
I’m too drunk I should not say more.
Oh, I know.... wish I could have still played the cello... Isn’t that the most beautiful tune Rush ever made?? Lyrics and music... Neil is so shy, but rips his heart out of his chest and shows it to us all in his words - lyrics and books. I rather adore him.
The night got to me :) I’m grooving for the 30th time on this one
... sorry to be off topic :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-SFgkVlno
As amazing as the guitar work is - Winwood’s voice is still amazing there as well. I’m always amazed when such a variety of players can get together and they can play so well together. I guess it is just great musical “sense” that they have.
Speaking of Clapton - below is Rush’s version of “Crossroads”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzgNTGwh3M
Which brings us back on topic perhaps - with the dem’s selling their soul to the Devil!
Glad that you enjoyed it. Rush did an album called “Feedback” that was just full of covers of old songs from when they were kids.
Below is a link to the studio album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_bIL1TMdw&list=PLA_Dvb93XgHTj70ChFY9dGsnaRlEVoyGw
Let the Bodies Hit the FLOOR!!!
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