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i didn't even make it to the street before i ran into these two musicians, who were looking for a rolling paper and a pair of babes to take them to the hot springs.
one looked like a young matt mcgonehey, but with a shirt.  his wingman,... his wingman was a topgun's nightmare!  i'd never seen feet so dirty!  he really needed a hot spring bath, and a scrub with a wire brush!
he said the dirt made him irresistible to hippy chicks.  I guess, but just sayin'....
the dirty one played the banjo, and at just 22, had already signed on as a sailor from the galapagos to new zealand, had ridden the rails into mexico city--- Oh MY God!  the biggest city in the world, with the toughest wrong side of the tracks, and this kid is riding the freight trains, hobnobbling with the kind of characters you find in Bob Dylan's  "Desolation Row!"
and he's just turned 22.....
the other one played a mean, i mean Mean! slide guitar, played the "Too Much!  Alcohol on Haight Street Blues,"  a retake on rory gallagher's retake of an old blues tune.  He broke a wine bottle to make a slide, but ended up using a bic lighter rather than cut his finger.
we played all afternoon, as the mercury rose, and the dirty one read "the devils dictionary" by ambrose bierce, and our neighbor-bob finally woke up to join us in a two-chord jam with banjo, 2 guitars, and harmonica that flowed so soft and smooth, there was more listening going on than playing, the little song burbling along like a low summer stream, never ending 'til the fall....
they're not here in town long, like i said, they're gonna find a couple hippy chicks to take them to the hot springs.   aah, youth!

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