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Gee the right stuff guys always drank so not too surprised but I had a thought. Imaging a half a dozen guys sitting in the shuttle before launch passing a bone around. 3, 2, 1 lift off.
Hey man don't press too hard on the gas take it easy....

I like their expression "12 hours from bottle to throttle".

With a $200,000 8-track mfd. by EG&G playing Jimi Hendrix.

Imagine oribiting the planet with Procol Harem's "Salty Dog".

too cool...

Sorry. EG&G is secret. I must have meant General Dynamics... at $300,000.

Nope - Metallica's "Hit the Lights" ;)

Ellen - AF9J
One of the original thrash metal kids

skuze me while I kiss the sky....or kiss my ass good by

There's a website out there that lists tons of misheard music lyrics;

Here's the main website:  http://www.kissthisguy.com/

Nice take on "Purple Haze" Frank.  Hendrix is fun to play on guitar.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

I still like Ina godda divida and the story behind the song.

Ah yes - Iron Butterfly. Have you heard the full length 17 minute version of Inna Gadda Da Vida?  When I was young, a lot of us neighborhood kids would hang out at one of the kid's house, because his family had a killer Kenwood stereo system.  His older brothers had Iron Butterfly, and Steppenwolf albums, and they were playing all of the time in the early & mid 70s.  BTW, Iron Butterfly's still around (with only a few of the original members of course).  They have a website: 

http://www.ironbutterfly.com/

73,
Ellen - AF9J
Guitarist at-large & amateur musicologist

Secret??? Yeah right, they bid on taking over the maintenance on military installations regularly.

Owned by Bush 41 and a bunch of Saudis among others.

Iron Butterfly was second to record.  It was originally recorded in about 1956 by a single guy (too long ago to remember his name and Google was no help).  The actual name of the song is In the Garden of Eden.  Iron Butterfly could not be understood so they named it Inna Gadda Da Vida because that was the only thing that could be decipered.

A bit loud for an old DJ Ellen even though I spent many hours behind a console playing songs up until about 68.

Yeah, I'd read somewhere about the "In the Garden of Eden" reference.  But, isn't the verdict out as to whether or not "Inna Gadda Da Vida" is a cover of "In the Garden of Eden"?  Some of the band members claim they wrote the song after getting stoned on weed.  Not that I have anything against covers, if they're done in a departure from the original.  I think Van Halen's version of the Linda Ronstadt song "Baby You're No Good", is far better than Linda's.  I also like the way Hendrix amped up Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" (you can hear it on the "Live at the Montery Pop Festival album), and the old blues song "Killing Floor."

73,
Ellen - AF9J

The story about the cover is true.  Evidently the only thing Iron Butterfly remembered is they forgot who wrote the song and it was so unintelligible no one could say anything otherwise.

Interesting about cover artists, Pat Boone, Frankie Avalon, and many more of the early 60s groups were doing cover songs.  I need to dig out my 4 vinyl album set of "The Roots of R & R" that has the original songs covered by many white singers.  You might remember the original artists like Ivory Joe Hunter.  Bill Haley's "Blue Swede Shoes" later recorded by Elvis was cover of a black artist in the late 40s or early 50s.  My set goes back to about 1948 and includes a lot of songs you might remember as being covered in the 70s by the new groups.  One last bit of trivia...the Beatles actually covered one song before international prominence.  It was included on one of the albums released later in their career.  Wish I could remember the song.

It would be appropriate for an astronaut wake up if they are sobering.

Hmmm... When taking pilot training they always said 8 hours between the bottle and throttle. I guess since we fly closer to the ground we are allowed a little more slack.

I remember back when taking glider lessons, I showed up at the airfield a tad buzzed, after very long night, almost too buzzed to even try to fly, I thought. Ready to barf buzzed, that is.. But then my buddy's dad was the instructor.

Anyways, off we go, we're at 200 feet and the instructor says "rope break", and releases us from the tow plane. "Geez" I think as I look down at the woods below. I pull up a little, since we just got off tow at 70 mph, I see we are clear to the left, so I roll into a nice 180 degree turn, ever aware of the treetops so close below at this point.

As I level out we are at treetop height (dang, I hate runways that end over forests) I head for the runway from which we just left. Everything looks ok fine to me, and the instructor says "watch out for wires, watch out for the runway lights", etc.

Anyway I managed to miss the treetops, telephone and electric wires, even the landing lights. Still had a great buzz when I exited the glider and was told "you're ready to solo, nice flying!"     

      " I remember back when taking glider lessons, I showed up at the airfield a tad buzzed, after very long night, almost too buzzed to even try to fly, I thought. Ready to barf buzzed, that is.. But then my buddy's dad was the instructor."


Along the coast you'll hear them boast
About a light they say that shines so clear.
So raise your glass, we'll drink a toast
To the little man who sells you thrills along the pier.

He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go.


klc

I think I know what the song is:  It's a rock-n-roll version of "My Bonnie (lies over the ocean)", recorded in late 1961 or early 1962 in Polydor's, German studios, when they made their first trip to Hamburg.  I heard the recording on a weekly Saturday morning radio show that had Beatles music, a few years back on 95.1 FM, WKLH, while I was driving to the Oak Creek Swapfest (the one I went to 3 weeks ago, where I got some tubes for my Heathkit Cheyenne, and I bought a Yaesu FT-620B, 6m CW,SSB, & AM rig for peanuts). Lennon sang the song.  It was pretty raw sounding.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

You got me thinking Ellen.  I looked back at the pre-invasion albums and found several songs recorded by the Beatles prior to 1964.  Chains, Twist and Shout, Please Mr. Postman, And I love Her plus Roll over Beethoven.

All were cover for US artists in one form or another.  Some would say they were recorded just for consumption in the UK, others would argue they were cover in the UK for some black artists.  I will leave that judgment up to you.  One thing for sure, all would suffice to wake up an astronaut drunk or sober.

Yuppers Jim! :)  And don't forget the old R&B song "Money".  We did a punked up version of it in a band I was in, in the early 90s.

73,
Ellen - AF9J

P.S. - food for thought: the Beatles were considered hard rock back in the early 60s. 

My son Shane (the 19 year old) goes to Montserrat College of Art and he is just learning to play the guitar. I asked him what inspired him to suddenly want to eat sushi and learn an instrument. This is what one year of college does to a kid..

Anyway, they make their own music at inpromptu coffehouses and such at the school and it is just expected that you can contribute. He said that his friend Judith is in a band and that she was going to drop by this Summer at his art hang out in Manchester. Artists Avenue is a place where kids from the four local high schools can come and do art. It is in the mill where a bunch of artists have studios near WMUR, on the river.

Anyway, I came out of curiousity to see what modern garage music sounds like... I did not excpect these kids to blow me away. They could play anything from violins to the fan on the wall.

http://www.prettybalanced.com/photos.html

Mike WU2D

Guys, we must pay homage to Elton John!

"She packed my bags last night, preflight
Zero hour, Nine A.M.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then ..."

Bill

Should that be "Blue Suede Shoes"... it was written by Carl Perkins (http://www.history-of-rock.com/perkins.htm), who is white according to this article... I haven't heard Bill Haley's cover, though.

"Blue Swede" had a hit in 1974, a cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" which I like much better than the sappy original. They added that obnoxious "Ooba chaka, ooba ooba Ooba chaka" chant in the intro to the verses that still makes me laugh whenever I hear it.

-Charles

I still have the original album!

If you are truely an Iron Butterfly fan and a conniseur of that style of music. You should find the instrumental called "The Iron Bytterfly Theme" to be quite a piece of music. (including the cw at the end)
It used go very well with many different types of awaerness altering substances. 8)

                                              The Slab Bacon

  Bill Haley's "Blue Swede Shoes" later recorded by Elvis was cover of a black artist in the late 40s or early 50s. 


I believe Blue Suede Shoes was written & first performed by Carl Perkins.

"Thinking is the best way to travel"

Moody Blues.  Gonna see them in Radio City 8/9.

You know what I'm saying on the 'zed Rag Chew.

I should stop by here more often.

Looks like one TV helo was parked and taking a shot, while the other one was making a move and didn't have a good look around first.

you tube has three views of the situation. Besides the views one of the two helicopters that crashed, and a second from an uninvolved helicopter that caught only the plumes of smoke and aftermath, the third is from another news helicopter which panned swiftly over to the left and actually caught the impact of both the falling aircraft.

NTSB preliminary: