WHAT AN AWESOME SHOW!! Did you hear them do DIAMOND DOGS??
Come on Indie, I've said it before, I'll say it again: do that CD of "Jonesy and..." And make sure this is on it!!!
I was never a huge GnR fan, but I am a big Gilby Clarke fan after hearing this show!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!
THIS SITE IS AN ARCHIVE OF 42 JJB SHOWS I TRANSCRIBED THE BEST I COULD. YOU CAN STILL FIND JONESY AND SHOVEL ON KROQ ON SUNDAY NIGHTS. IT'S NOT THE SAME THOUGH...Playlists, guests, and my personal comments about the Jonesy's Jukebox Show on Indie Radio 103.1, L.A & O.C., CA, weekdays from 12-2 PM. I am not affiliated with the show or the station in any way, this is a fan site. I can't promise any consistency or accuracy. Use this site at your own risk.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
RAT SCABIES, 27 JANUARY 2006
Rat Scabies is back!!!
I can't blog today's, but if you want to read about his 24 August 2005 visit to JJB, click here.
JONESY'S JUKEBOX ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!
LONG LIVE INDIE!
I can't blog today's, but if you want to read about his 24 August 2005 visit to JJB, click here.
JONESY'S JUKEBOX ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!
LONG LIVE INDIE!
Monday, January 09, 2006
NO "HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLA"?
I can't believe there was no "Happy Birthday Bowie"?! Did he do a Bowie show on Friday?? I thought for sure he would do some sort of birthday salute!!!
I only even heard one Bowie song (SOUL LOVE).
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!
I only even heard one Bowie song (SOUL LOVE).
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
15 NOVEMBER 2005
I caught a nice little chunk of the show today for a change. I wish I'd been able to write more of it down, but it was another one of Jonesy's sets. He really has an ear for putting it all together.
I heard
Marianne Faithfull, SISTER MORPHINE
Rolling Stones
Then I caught a bit more, but I all I remember is TINY DANCER and The Who. There were a few songs I didn't know.
This set made me think of what it must have been like for Jonesy not while he was on the road with the Pistols, but what it must have been like during the eighties and nineties, when he was working with different musicians and realizing just how far he'd gone.
How he very much was no longer that kid on King's Road "nicking" stuff. And how good those memories and experiences were no matter how frustrating it must have been at the time. (All of those difficult personalities and agendas!)
He talks about this alot now, but these songs made me wonder about his life when he'd FIRST had the chance to get some perspective.
And he just knows how to put a good set together. He really has a way of making you hear a thread in all of the songs, which makes it alot easier to listen to stuff that normally you don't like.
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!
I heard
Marianne Faithfull, SISTER MORPHINE
Rolling Stones
Then I caught a bit more, but I all I remember is TINY DANCER and The Who. There were a few songs I didn't know.
This set made me think of what it must have been like for Jonesy not while he was on the road with the Pistols, but what it must have been like during the eighties and nineties, when he was working with different musicians and realizing just how far he'd gone.
How he very much was no longer that kid on King's Road "nicking" stuff. And how good those memories and experiences were no matter how frustrating it must have been at the time. (All of those difficult personalities and agendas!)
He talks about this alot now, but these songs made me wonder about his life when he'd FIRST had the chance to get some perspective.
And he just knows how to put a good set together. He really has a way of making you hear a thread in all of the songs, which makes it alot easier to listen to stuff that normally you don't like.
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
LONG LIVE INDIE!!!
Thursday, September 22, 2005
22 SEPTEMBER 2005
Hurricane Sebastian is coming... Jonesy wanted to know why they are always birds. He thinks the next Hurricane should be Hurricane Steve, or Hurricane Jonesy.
Spear of Destiny, AGE OF UNREASON
Damned, PROBLEM CHILD
Kinks, THIS IS WHERE I BELONG
Great Glass Elevator, RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Cockney Rebel, HIDEAWAY
The Duke: Nina's New Wave Nation
Jonesy is emotionally hung over today. Shovel wanted to know why and Jonesy told him some things were secret.
He played a Rolling Stones song. I missed a bit so I don't know if there was anything after that.
He just whistled GIMME SHELTER for some tickets to something.
The Duke: Robbins Bros, and Tower Records
Rolling Stones, GIMME SHELTER
Fleetwood Mac, OH WELL
Neil Young, THE NEEDLE
Frente, A New Order cover
David Bowie, LIFE ON MARS
Shudder to Think, HOT ONES
Red Walls, a special track that went all wiggy, and Jonesy said a manchiefrill had gotten all over it....hmmm....
The Duke: Nouvelle Vague is going to be at special FREE Indie concert at Lowe's Hotel in Santa Monica--ohh and they are opening for DCD
He was singing but I missed it... However, even without hearing it, I can assure you it was High Silliness from the Pontiff of Pop himself.
Replicants?????????,
TWO WAY ARMY ??????????
...Sounds of Africa, WILLIAM OBE OBE ??? (Groovy song)
Jonesy stands up for the people, watching out for the little people. "What about the workers!" He shouts.
He's going to whistle a masterpiece. It's The Monkees I'M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE
He sang his Man who can to the Monkees, and now he's singing that MORE THAN A FEELING. For being knackered and having an emotional hang over he sure is full of silliness and energy today. I LOVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!
Spear of Destiny, AGE OF UNREASON
Damned, PROBLEM CHILD
Kinks, THIS IS WHERE I BELONG
Great Glass Elevator, RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Cockney Rebel, HIDEAWAY
The Duke: Nina's New Wave Nation
Jonesy is emotionally hung over today. Shovel wanted to know why and Jonesy told him some things were secret.
He played a Rolling Stones song. I missed a bit so I don't know if there was anything after that.
He just whistled GIMME SHELTER for some tickets to something.
The Duke: Robbins Bros, and Tower Records
Rolling Stones, GIMME SHELTER
Fleetwood Mac, OH WELL
Neil Young, THE NEEDLE
Frente, A New Order cover
David Bowie, LIFE ON MARS
Shudder to Think, HOT ONES
Red Walls, a special track that went all wiggy, and Jonesy said a manchiefrill had gotten all over it....hmmm....
The Duke: Nouvelle Vague is going to be at special FREE Indie concert at Lowe's Hotel in Santa Monica--ohh and they are opening for DCD
He was singing but I missed it... However, even without hearing it, I can assure you it was High Silliness from the Pontiff of Pop himself.
Replicants?????????,
TWO WAY ARMY ??????????
...Sounds of Africa, WILLIAM OBE OBE ??? (Groovy song)
Jonesy stands up for the people, watching out for the little people. "What about the workers!" He shouts.
He's going to whistle a masterpiece. It's The Monkees I'M NOT YOUR STEPPING STONE
He sang his Man who can to the Monkees, and now he's singing that MORE THAN A FEELING. For being knackered and having an emotional hang over he sure is full of silliness and energy today. I LOVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
20 SEPTEMBER 2005: DEAD MEN WALKING
I came in while they were talking about Daylight Savings Time.
Jonesy doesn't feel too great today and he might have "bird flu" hehehe...He's taking his ginger and wheatgrass.
He played a set but I missed most of it. Right now it's 12:35 and he is whistling to give away tickets to Madness tonight. It's that Sleepy Jean song by ?? Neil Diamond.
OH-- it was DAYDREAM BELIEVER!!! He is singing his "Pontiff of Pop" lyrics. Then he forgot the rest of it! I love Jonesy!
Monkees, DAYDREAM BELIEVER
?? , DOWN DOWN
Johnny Winter, JUMPIN JACK FLASH
Dead Men Walking are in the studios with Jonesy. I have to miss a bit, but I will back.
Well, I blogged the whole last twenty minutes of the show, but blogger ate it. Too bad if you weren't listening. It was great.
Jonesy doesn't feel too great today and he might have "bird flu" hehehe...He's taking his ginger and wheatgrass.
He played a set but I missed most of it. Right now it's 12:35 and he is whistling to give away tickets to Madness tonight. It's that Sleepy Jean song by ?? Neil Diamond.
OH-- it was DAYDREAM BELIEVER!!! He is singing his "Pontiff of Pop" lyrics. Then he forgot the rest of it! I love Jonesy!
Monkees, DAYDREAM BELIEVER
?? , DOWN DOWN
Johnny Winter, JUMPIN JACK FLASH
Dead Men Walking are in the studios with Jonesy. I have to miss a bit, but I will back.
Well, I blogged the whole last twenty minutes of the show, but blogger ate it. Too bad if you weren't listening. It was great.
Monday, September 19, 2005
19 SEPTEMBER 2005:MADNESS
I came in about 12:20 and heard part of this set.
Cockney Rebel, MAD MAD MOONLIGHT ("Mmmm, delicious" Jonesy purred, then he burped, hehe.)
Super Furry, DON'T BE A FOOL
88 ???
New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA
The Duke: Spectra
???,
Damned, HELOISE
?,??
NO SHIT!!!!! Madness is on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I was always a 2-Tone girl! I even nicknamed myself "Rudie.")
They were on KROQ last time they were here. They are playing the Troubadour tonight.
It's very static-y today, and I am still dealing with Internet virus drama, and I missed the last chunk. It's a bit spotty.
Jonesy is saying he is through with someone, "that lot", and not working with them anymore. They are tarts, says he of this someone or someones.
Madness wants some Imagineers from Disney. Sushi parades? A lot of laughter and stuff I couldn't hear.
"This is a conversation about English food, please don't worry," says a Mad Lad.
"Don't adjust your minds," adds another.
Madness is on English time. More laughter and stuff I couldn't catch or didn't write down fast enough.
"This is a conversation about English Soccer." Madness member says this in an English version of an American accent.
They are really enjoying themselves, but it's hard to keep up with the typing. THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM TALKING AND JOKING AT ONCE...
"Where's my wally?"
"At the end of the harvest, everything was pickled, everything that was left over-- pickled eggs, cuccumbers, and most important, pickled people."
"Pale sausages covered in lipstick-- you can get battered and non-battered!" Jonesy, I think. Really hysterical laughter from the whole studio. It sounds like a fun day to be there!!!!
"Food Poisoning!"
You can even get "Battered Mars bars up North!" They are all laughing hysterically.
The Duke
"English mustard. Stick some up your nose and feel the pain."
Madness is not allowed to leave the state of California. They will be back on the 25th to watch some Footie. One Madness has a sister in Ventura. I think the footie is Jonesy's team.
Michael Myers skit? "You weren't allowed to say yes or no... It was in the box." And it was brilliant. It was in black and white.
Jonesy is going to play some Peter Sellers.
Peter Sellers, BOILED BANANAS & CARROTS (BEEF STEW)
Clip: "Mr Jones, do you have any kidney?"
London Boys,WE ARE THE LONDON BOYS
Clip: "I have my sausage, Mr Jones." "Oh, Miss Meadows, I wish all my ladies were as easy to please!" "I do try, Mr. Jones!"
,
CocRosie and that singer, ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL BOYS
, JENNIFER JE NE PAS
David Bowie, CHANGES
"Madness in the foyer now!"
One Madness' first single purchase was PYJAMARAMA by Roxy Music. Another Madness was BOLAN BOOGIE.
"Lipstick on your codfish," trills a Madness.
Someone met Ferry at a cafe they other day. "He does a bit of aristocratic, and fixed up a manor house," but moved his old kitchen into it, and had all his old stuff in there.
Foxes are hunting the aristocrats now. They are in every garden now, like big rats.
The most successful musician in England has never sold a record. People just like having him in the record company office.
Roxy Music is supposed to play Camden Palace?
The Duke: Jenny McCarthy is guesting today after Jonesy, listen today and maybe she will let you bone her in the limo at the premiere.
I think this is all English humour that you had to know already.
What rhymes with London Boys??? Let's see..
London Boys/ lipstick sausage / gherkins...
They are all doing Ferry imitations. They are all fans. Now they are talking about him...
He's like 60 and has loads of kids and has been married... He always wears a cumberband... he can't dance, but he could stand very well...Ferry sashays and bends the knee slightly... He's seen alot of James Bond movies....
Roxy Music, PYJAMARAMA
Kinks, VICTORIA
The Who, HAPPY JACK
Football... soccer, etc...American's aren't interested in Football unless it's American football...
"Soccer, a minority sport played by every other country in the world," quips a Madness... Chelsea, Holland, etc..
They are singing a song about Jonesy-- and a Pie shop where Bryan Ferry worked, it's too LONDON BOYS.... the lyrics incorporate all of the food conversations... it's pretty funny...
He's whistling for Dead Men Walking tickets. They are all whistling with him! And adding little funny bits! I LOVE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...And more food lyrics.... too bad if you missed this!!!! Even if you missed everything they were saying there was so much laughter you couldn't help but laugh too!
The Duke
"You've been listening to JJB."
"Are you hungry?" Quips a Madness.
"I'm a bit hungry," says Jonesy.
"For Love," adds a Madness.
Gordon Lightfoot, IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
Two winners.
They are singing it, or actually, humming and making up lyrics about fish and chips and taste glands and lard...
Deep fat fryers have been banned in California. Instead, everything is cooked in Mayonaisse.
MADNESS IS PLAYING TOMORROW NIGHT AT TROUBADOUR!!!!!
They are playing that football song.
GOD BLESS JONESY!
Cockney Rebel, MAD MAD MOONLIGHT ("Mmmm, delicious" Jonesy purred, then he burped, hehe.)
Super Furry, DON'T BE A FOOL
88 ???
New Pornographers, TWIN CINEMA
The Duke: Spectra
???,
Damned, HELOISE
?,??
NO SHIT!!!!! Madness is on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I was always a 2-Tone girl! I even nicknamed myself "Rudie.")
They were on KROQ last time they were here. They are playing the Troubadour tonight.
It's very static-y today, and I am still dealing with Internet virus drama, and I missed the last chunk. It's a bit spotty.
Jonesy is saying he is through with someone, "that lot", and not working with them anymore. They are tarts, says he of this someone or someones.
Madness wants some Imagineers from Disney. Sushi parades? A lot of laughter and stuff I couldn't hear.
"This is a conversation about English food, please don't worry," says a Mad Lad.
"Don't adjust your minds," adds another.
Madness is on English time. More laughter and stuff I couldn't catch or didn't write down fast enough.
"This is a conversation about English Soccer." Madness member says this in an English version of an American accent.
They are really enjoying themselves, but it's hard to keep up with the typing. THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM TALKING AND JOKING AT ONCE...
"Where's my wally?"
"At the end of the harvest, everything was pickled, everything that was left over-- pickled eggs, cuccumbers, and most important, pickled people."
"Pale sausages covered in lipstick-- you can get battered and non-battered!" Jonesy, I think. Really hysterical laughter from the whole studio. It sounds like a fun day to be there!!!!
"Food Poisoning!"
You can even get "Battered Mars bars up North!" They are all laughing hysterically.
The Duke
"English mustard. Stick some up your nose and feel the pain."
Madness is not allowed to leave the state of California. They will be back on the 25th to watch some Footie. One Madness has a sister in Ventura. I think the footie is Jonesy's team.
Michael Myers skit? "You weren't allowed to say yes or no... It was in the box." And it was brilliant. It was in black and white.
Jonesy is going to play some Peter Sellers.
Peter Sellers, BOILED BANANAS & CARROTS (BEEF STEW)
Clip: "Mr Jones, do you have any kidney?"
London Boys,WE ARE THE LONDON BOYS
Clip: "I have my sausage, Mr Jones." "Oh, Miss Meadows, I wish all my ladies were as easy to please!" "I do try, Mr. Jones!"
,
CocRosie and that singer, ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL BOYS
, JENNIFER JE NE PAS
David Bowie, CHANGES
"Madness in the foyer now!"
One Madness' first single purchase was PYJAMARAMA by Roxy Music. Another Madness was BOLAN BOOGIE.
"Lipstick on your codfish," trills a Madness.
Someone met Ferry at a cafe they other day. "He does a bit of aristocratic, and fixed up a manor house," but moved his old kitchen into it, and had all his old stuff in there.
Foxes are hunting the aristocrats now. They are in every garden now, like big rats.
The most successful musician in England has never sold a record. People just like having him in the record company office.
Roxy Music is supposed to play Camden Palace?
The Duke: Jenny McCarthy is guesting today after Jonesy, listen today and maybe she will let you bone her in the limo at the premiere.
I think this is all English humour that you had to know already.
What rhymes with London Boys??? Let's see..
London Boys/ lipstick sausage / gherkins...
They are all doing Ferry imitations. They are all fans. Now they are talking about him...
He's like 60 and has loads of kids and has been married... He always wears a cumberband... he can't dance, but he could stand very well...Ferry sashays and bends the knee slightly... He's seen alot of James Bond movies....
Roxy Music, PYJAMARAMA
Kinks, VICTORIA
The Who, HAPPY JACK
Football... soccer, etc...American's aren't interested in Football unless it's American football...
"Soccer, a minority sport played by every other country in the world," quips a Madness... Chelsea, Holland, etc..
They are singing a song about Jonesy-- and a Pie shop where Bryan Ferry worked, it's too LONDON BOYS.... the lyrics incorporate all of the food conversations... it's pretty funny...
He's whistling for Dead Men Walking tickets. They are all whistling with him! And adding little funny bits! I LOVE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...And more food lyrics.... too bad if you missed this!!!! Even if you missed everything they were saying there was so much laughter you couldn't help but laugh too!
The Duke
"You've been listening to JJB."
"Are you hungry?" Quips a Madness.
"I'm a bit hungry," says Jonesy.
"For Love," adds a Madness.
Gordon Lightfoot, IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND
Two winners.
They are singing it, or actually, humming and making up lyrics about fish and chips and taste glands and lard...
Deep fat fryers have been banned in California. Instead, everything is cooked in Mayonaisse.
MADNESS IS PLAYING TOMORROW NIGHT AT TROUBADOUR!!!!!
They are playing that football song.
GOD BLESS JONESY!
Friday, September 16, 2005
14 SEPTEMBER 2005: MC5
MC5 is going to be the guest. Jonesy played my favourite MC5 song LET ME TRY.
He whistled the Elvis version of SUSPICIOUS MINDS. I have only been able to listen and haven't been able to write except for just now.
He sang his version of MELLO YELLOW to Shovel ("I'm just wild about Shovel..."). I'll tell you what, I didn't think that a look could be transmitted over the radio, but somehow, it was. Jonesy lost it and started giggling uncontrollably. It was very funny.
BTW, Jonesy needs a woman, per Shovel. He wears the same socks for five years and his washing up sponge has cancer.
Anyhow, Jonesy says he needs a new stinky scent thingy. (Those glade things I think they were talking about.)
MC5 are on now. They played Sun Ra but I don't know what song it was.
Per MC5, Sun Ra can astrally project to different planets. Sun Ra introduced the MC5 to the idea that music is more than just entertainment.
Jonesy wondered if he did LSD, but Sun Ra hasn't. Sun Ra is into other mind sets, and trance. Sun Ra is very into ancient Egypt and taking black people back to their roots.
His band was more of a troupe and people would dance and the instrumentation was all over the place. Was he a cult, per Jonesy? Not like Jim Jones, but he attracted a strong following.
OH MY GODDESS!!! Steve Jones was just invited to come and play with MC5 on Saturday!!! I hope he goes! Shit, I wish I could go. (Working...ugh...) They are going to have a bunch of guests, but I haven't really heard of any of them. They are going to play with Sun Ra's Arkestra, but Sun Ra won't be there. (At least not in the flesh.)
Jonesy wonders if they have played with Primal Scream?
OF COURSE they have! And their DJ was once the drummer in Primal Scream. They carry on the tradition of the rock n'roll celebration, per an MC5.
(Gilby Park is another guest, as well apparently. Couldn't discern the voices.)
They will be at Amoeba Records on Friday. They haven't said what time yet. Then they will go to San Diego on Friday night too. Wear a cape and get in free.
They are going to jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh-- the Duke first!!!! Then Jonesy and MC5 will jam together !!!!!!!!!
The Duke: Download Festival in San Francisco
There is alot I didn't blog, but they are playing live AMERICAN RUSE!!!!
They were talking about free form radio in the 1970's.
I have to say, MC5 are far more optimistic than I am about the masses choosing imagination over an easily accessible, ephemeral sensation, which is what most music is these days. But I uphold their optimism. They are awesome and I love them!!! I think they are so courageous and also true visionaries.
I wonder though. Is Patty Smith considered like Yoko, or do they all like her? I never know anything about artists. I will have to ask my Patty Smith fan friend. I love her, but you know how bands/musicians can be.
I hope I can listen and blog tomorrow.
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
He whistled the Elvis version of SUSPICIOUS MINDS. I have only been able to listen and haven't been able to write except for just now.
He sang his version of MELLO YELLOW to Shovel ("I'm just wild about Shovel..."). I'll tell you what, I didn't think that a look could be transmitted over the radio, but somehow, it was. Jonesy lost it and started giggling uncontrollably. It was very funny.
BTW, Jonesy needs a woman, per Shovel. He wears the same socks for five years and his washing up sponge has cancer.
Anyhow, Jonesy says he needs a new stinky scent thingy. (Those glade things I think they were talking about.)
MC5 are on now. They played Sun Ra but I don't know what song it was.
Per MC5, Sun Ra can astrally project to different planets. Sun Ra introduced the MC5 to the idea that music is more than just entertainment.
Jonesy wondered if he did LSD, but Sun Ra hasn't. Sun Ra is into other mind sets, and trance. Sun Ra is very into ancient Egypt and taking black people back to their roots.
His band was more of a troupe and people would dance and the instrumentation was all over the place. Was he a cult, per Jonesy? Not like Jim Jones, but he attracted a strong following.
OH MY GODDESS!!! Steve Jones was just invited to come and play with MC5 on Saturday!!! I hope he goes! Shit, I wish I could go. (Working...ugh...) They are going to have a bunch of guests, but I haven't really heard of any of them. They are going to play with Sun Ra's Arkestra, but Sun Ra won't be there. (At least not in the flesh.)
Jonesy wonders if they have played with Primal Scream?
OF COURSE they have! And their DJ was once the drummer in Primal Scream. They carry on the tradition of the rock n'roll celebration, per an MC5.
(Gilby Park is another guest, as well apparently. Couldn't discern the voices.)
They will be at Amoeba Records on Friday. They haven't said what time yet. Then they will go to San Diego on Friday night too. Wear a cape and get in free.
They are going to jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh-- the Duke first!!!! Then Jonesy and MC5 will jam together !!!!!!!!!
The Duke: Download Festival in San Francisco
There is alot I didn't blog, but they are playing live AMERICAN RUSE!!!!
They were talking about free form radio in the 1970's.
I have to say, MC5 are far more optimistic than I am about the masses choosing imagination over an easily accessible, ephemeral sensation, which is what most music is these days. But I uphold their optimism. They are awesome and I love them!!! I think they are so courageous and also true visionaries.
I wonder though. Is Patty Smith considered like Yoko, or do they all like her? I never know anything about artists. I will have to ask my Patty Smith fan friend. I love her, but you know how bands/musicians can be.
I hope I can listen and blog tomorrow.
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!
Thursday, September 15, 2005
15 SEPTEMBER 2005: ALICE COOPER
I missed almost the entire show. It was Alice Cooper as the guest.
I heard just a snippet, and Cooper made a joke about how their were 18 Hooters girls in the studios.
"They're all mutes," quipped Jonesy.
But I knew from that the Cooper probably doesn't listen to the show much, because Jonesy isn't into boobs at all. He is a hardcore ass-man.
They jammed a teeny bit on EIGHTEEN.
I am sorry I missed most of it. I hope you were listening!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!
I heard just a snippet, and Cooper made a joke about how their were 18 Hooters girls in the studios.
"They're all mutes," quipped Jonesy.
But I knew from that the Cooper probably doesn't listen to the show much, because Jonesy isn't into boobs at all. He is a hardcore ass-man.
They jammed a teeny bit on EIGHTEEN.
I am sorry I missed most of it. I hope you were listening!
GOD SAVE JONESY!!!!
Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
Jonesy is always wondering what this song is about when he plays it. He has asked so many times I have decided to investigate it for myself:
Before we begin, we already know from the title that maybe the people would be the times-- probably the times that are being lived in, and not chronological or clock times--and therefore that the people themselves would be the times. That the singer could define the times by the people if the people would agree. Moreover, those people appear to be found, at least during the writing of this song, between Clark and Hilldale. And I surmise from MC5 on JJB that it must be the stretch of Sunset between those two streets, which I now imagine as some sort of Haight/Ashbury.
But it occurs to me that the writer came to this song in more ordinary encounters with fans who expressed appreciation for his music when they chanced to see him on the street. Or perhaps from bumping into his musical cronies or acquaintances on the street, maybe after he had been away touring, or in the studio or recording, or something else that would have taken him away from the shared "times." Or maybe it was just a really tiresome Love record release party, that he didn't want to seem ungrateful for, but frankly, had no desire to attend.
Verse 1:What is happening and how have you been
Gotta go but i'll see you again
And oh, the music is so loud
And then i fade into the...
A meeting, and greeting. He must be off, but another meeting is assured. The music is so loud. The music around him? The music inside of him? And where is the singer going? To die? Back into dreams? Back to oblivion? Back home? Back on the road?A surplus of meaning. Wherever he is going, the music is so loud that he will fade, fade into the...???
Verse 2:Crowds of people standing everywhere
'cross the street i'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me, i wonder if it's...
AH, he's fading into a crowd of people!! And as we read on we see that it's something that leaves one laughing? Are they laughing at him? Is it laughable? Well, they always play his songs, so it's probably shared laughter. Or is it one of those horrible record company get togethers? A release party or something where all of his contemporaries are there, and some are just old news, and tired and obsolete? It's very crowded, that's for sure. And he's wondering.... What is he wondering???
Verse 3:Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street, hey hey
He's wondering about right and wrong, and the nature of right and wrong. And whether the collective motive to coming to this undefined "here"-- this here of laughter, where the singer's songs are played-- is right or wrong, and further, that hidden motives are being revealed. Everything is being questioned. Or perhaps that is game itself? How droll, how sophisticated, how cynical they are, telling everyone about their games. How rich, how bored, how boring.
However, if you have transcended this revelation of the games, and feel it is obsolete, this judgement (right vs wrong), then simply go back across the street. Which we might divine, given the name of the song, is a real street. But at any rate, there is another crossing, another transition. Perhaps back to ones roots, or back into the music, or back to the beginning, or back to simplicity.
Verse 4:When i leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the...
But something has changed. The singer has changed and the relationship to his environment has changed. Some unknown love and bonding has entered this scenario, for weeping is presumed to follow the departure. It must be consoled and assured that a return can be expected. The atmosphere and the gathering, despite the anticipated weeping, is very casual. And if you can't save the seat, if it is filled in my absence, look up and see me... Where will you see me? Shmoozing with someone else and promising to return? What? Where? When will you see me?
Verse 5:Moon's a common scene around my town
Yeah where everyone is painted brown
And if we do get stuck away
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray, yeah
AH, of course! You do remember don't you? All musicians are really sorcerors. Witches and shamans and medicine men. Speaking to us in the language of our hearts. Making music of our feelings. Singing to us the sounds of moonlight on a clear night. The moon is common scene around the singer's town. And common among night people, which musicians surely are as well. And common among the hippies and the partiers and Sunset night life that lives on still. Or perhaps this is the end of the money, the label's belief in you, the end of touring and these parties and back into being unknown, almost.
Back to being as far away from all of this as being on the moon.
But everyone is painted brown. There is no colour distinction, no race, or perhaps it is the dulling of ones bright and true colours. The lifeless masks we don for one another, to "fit in." But if we get stuck while we are away, we can paint everyone grey... Perhaps this is the shade uncertainity, or the mixing of all the peoples of the world, or perhaps, a rhyming word, chosen under the auspices not only of the Lady herself, the moon, but her favourite Love Child consort, LSD. Or perhaps we can make everything the same again, and start all over again, revealing, as artists do, those bright colours beneath the mask...
There are many meanings to this song. That is what I see.
Before we begin, we already know from the title that maybe the people would be the times-- probably the times that are being lived in, and not chronological or clock times--and therefore that the people themselves would be the times. That the singer could define the times by the people if the people would agree. Moreover, those people appear to be found, at least during the writing of this song, between Clark and Hilldale. And I surmise from MC5 on JJB that it must be the stretch of Sunset between those two streets, which I now imagine as some sort of Haight/Ashbury.
But it occurs to me that the writer came to this song in more ordinary encounters with fans who expressed appreciation for his music when they chanced to see him on the street. Or perhaps from bumping into his musical cronies or acquaintances on the street, maybe after he had been away touring, or in the studio or recording, or something else that would have taken him away from the shared "times." Or maybe it was just a really tiresome Love record release party, that he didn't want to seem ungrateful for, but frankly, had no desire to attend.
Verse 1:What is happening and how have you been
Gotta go but i'll see you again
And oh, the music is so loud
And then i fade into the...
A meeting, and greeting. He must be off, but another meeting is assured. The music is so loud. The music around him? The music inside of him? And where is the singer going? To die? Back into dreams? Back to oblivion? Back home? Back on the road?A surplus of meaning. Wherever he is going, the music is so loud that he will fade, fade into the...???
Verse 2:Crowds of people standing everywhere
'cross the street i'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me, i wonder if it's...
AH, he's fading into a crowd of people!! And as we read on we see that it's something that leaves one laughing? Are they laughing at him? Is it laughable? Well, they always play his songs, so it's probably shared laughter. Or is it one of those horrible record company get togethers? A release party or something where all of his contemporaries are there, and some are just old news, and tired and obsolete? It's very crowded, that's for sure. And he's wondering.... What is he wondering???
Verse 3:Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street, hey hey
He's wondering about right and wrong, and the nature of right and wrong. And whether the collective motive to coming to this undefined "here"-- this here of laughter, where the singer's songs are played-- is right or wrong, and further, that hidden motives are being revealed. Everything is being questioned. Or perhaps that is game itself? How droll, how sophisticated, how cynical they are, telling everyone about their games. How rich, how bored, how boring.
However, if you have transcended this revelation of the games, and feel it is obsolete, this judgement (right vs wrong), then simply go back across the street. Which we might divine, given the name of the song, is a real street. But at any rate, there is another crossing, another transition. Perhaps back to ones roots, or back into the music, or back to the beginning, or back to simplicity.
Verse 4:When i leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the...
But something has changed. The singer has changed and the relationship to his environment has changed. Some unknown love and bonding has entered this scenario, for weeping is presumed to follow the departure. It must be consoled and assured that a return can be expected. The atmosphere and the gathering, despite the anticipated weeping, is very casual. And if you can't save the seat, if it is filled in my absence, look up and see me... Where will you see me? Shmoozing with someone else and promising to return? What? Where? When will you see me?
Verse 5:Moon's a common scene around my town
Yeah where everyone is painted brown
And if we do get stuck away
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray, yeah
AH, of course! You do remember don't you? All musicians are really sorcerors. Witches and shamans and medicine men. Speaking to us in the language of our hearts. Making music of our feelings. Singing to us the sounds of moonlight on a clear night. The moon is common scene around the singer's town. And common among night people, which musicians surely are as well. And common among the hippies and the partiers and Sunset night life that lives on still. Or perhaps this is the end of the money, the label's belief in you, the end of touring and these parties and back into being unknown, almost.
Back to being as far away from all of this as being on the moon.
But everyone is painted brown. There is no colour distinction, no race, or perhaps it is the dulling of ones bright and true colours. The lifeless masks we don for one another, to "fit in." But if we get stuck while we are away, we can paint everyone grey... Perhaps this is the shade uncertainity, or the mixing of all the peoples of the world, or perhaps, a rhyming word, chosen under the auspices not only of the Lady herself, the moon, but her favourite Love Child consort, LSD. Or perhaps we can make everything the same again, and start all over again, revealing, as artists do, those bright colours beneath the mask...
There are many meanings to this song. That is what I see.
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