Jimmie Spheeris
Jimmie Spheeris (November 5, 1949 – July 4, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter who released four albums in the 1970s on the Columbia Records and Epic Records labels. Spheeris died in 1984, at the age of 34, after a motorcycle accident.
from this album in RP library
length: 3:53
listen:
The Main Mix
This is probably my least favorite of the animations (gifs) that get posted here at RP. For me, smashing guitars just isn't entertaining, whatever the context. And I was not a fan of the movie at all. I went to school with jerks like Belushi's character and it bugged me to see them celebrated like that. Airplane. That's a funny movie.
So I'm exercising executive privilege and deleting the damn thing.
Only one poster was negative, although he/she was very negative about the "goat wailing".
Why don't more people give this a 9 or 10 rating, like me?!?
Yes, love this guy's music. Don't hear enough of it on RP. HInt, hint, nudge, nudge, say no more.
What does that have to do with being liberal?
Like others have said this one rips wide open my memories; and carries me back to certain younger days. Early college, living just off campus in a larger (student) group house much akin to Animal House...and well before that movie came out. A big, old, Victorian house with a wrap-round porch. Lot'sa "long hairs" lived therein. The local sororities across the street used to call it "the BOD house." Not many curtains on the windows so I trust you get the reason?
I almost literally turned my turn-table into a lathe from having played this one so much. Vinyl shavings...they were everywhere! Heh! Nice album cover, too. I blew it up and put it above the fireplace in my solo one room in that house. Yeah...I know...fireplace...it was a popular room.
But I digress. Did I mention this one blows open my memories? Old stuff, new stuff, some good, some weird. And some awful. But all of it the basic reason why RP is my go to site whenever I want to listen to music. And that is almost all the time.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
True! I actually thought it was it after the first couple of notes
I remember hearing this for the first time in college back about 1975. I had a pictorial copy of this album cover up on the wall of my room. I suppose you could say it titilated my youthful fancy. This guy died in July of 1984. It's now 2020, almost 2021, a good portion of 40 years ago and still his music gets played. The tune itself is now older than its creator, and still getting a listen.
Isn't that interesting?
And in a fashion, out here on the 'Net, he could never even have imagined. Nobody from that era could have envisioned how all the tech brewing as fanciful imaginings in the heads of the college students of that time would impact the world.
I was there then. I'm fortunate to be here still....and let me tell you...to quote an old song....what a long strange trip it has been.
I know I'm not alone. Many are still on the same exploratory path.
So let me ask. As healthy as I am I'm simply a'goggle over what might be comin' from over the horizon next....aren't you? There are times where I know it seems, at least in the eyes of the grand-kids, that i'm dazed and befuddled by all that has happened - which I'm not - but even if, I can still hear the noises of the future comin' at me from just over that distant line. Just as I could back in 1975. The main distinction now is that I'm a bit less clueless in interpreting the onrushing sounds. I'd like to think I know how to get out of the way if necessary..
And then, at other times it's like...."Really? That's IT!?"
Which I suppose you could carve on my tombstone when the moment comes.
In any case here on the cusp of 2021, and if you as reader bothered to read this far, let me wish you a Happy New Year! May Peace and Prosperity hold you close.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
It was an old Victorian-styled house with wrap-around front porch, and many a "long hair," both young men and women, students all, lived there back then. Thems were the days. Or maybe it's more appropriate to say "daze?" In any case thanks for playing this piece. It opened up memories I'd long forgotten. It's funny how it all seems like just yesterday.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
And this is why I listen to Radio Paradise and not online algorithms. Thanks!
Then = Deep
Now = Shallow
Yeah, that cover illustration is very interesting—an untold story. As far as I can tell, it's not credited on the back side of the LP cover. Looks a bit like the work of Gustav Dore—something along the lines of his work illustrating Dante's Divine Comedy. That's a lot work and talent...
Yeah, that's definitely the work of Gustave Dore; I believe it's an illustration for Ariosto's poem "Orlando Furioso". I have a book of his illustrations for that work...somewhere...