RealGM WizBoard Poetry, Lyrics, & similar Shenanigans Thread

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I think I was 14 when I first heard this guy live in a little coffee house on the near North side of Chicago. No joke:

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Ah yeahh the Clash. Soundtrack to my angst and adolescence. This was the 80's to me:

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[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

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PIF I bet you know that einstein quote. Probably dont know that riff at 1:45 though. Do you know the backstory?

Dave was kicked out of Metallica in a very disrespectful way, they bought him an 80 hour greyhound bus ride from NYC to LA. He wrote this song on the way back.

Kick ass song which I just played three times. Thanks for posting.

PS: I never thought about it, but rock videos in the poetry thread for their lyrics is a good call.

Found this video of a classical composer reacting to old megadeth. Pretty cool.

I only got into metal because I'm a jazz pianist and thrash metal is the closest thing to it IMO

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I am sorry

I am angry and I am mad
Feelings so far away from sad
Death comes for us all
God takes what is needed
But I am upset about the fall
Much work never seeded
Words could never be heeded
The smiles rarely glimpsed
I am upset I never pleaded
I left over egotistical ways.
I am mad at god
Not giving me the need to plod
Take my words being unheard
Humble me to take the sword
Cuts from what is always stronger
Made me push forward and try longer
I am angry that they never listen
That my words felt like they had fallen
To nothingness and meaningless
Then my actions made it true none the less
Once again my hubris shows
I has bled through everything I’ve wrote
These words begin to bloat
I am angry that i can not separate my emotions
I am mad instead of sad during this devotion
Clinging to what more I could of done
Instead of celebrating the life that was run
The distance made was real
I put it there and missed the feel.
Missed being part of the final stories
Push away from all my worries
I am mad because My actions were not enough
I am angry because god has the stuff
Not willing to give it unless taking away
I am sad cause he couldn’t let her stay.

Scabs/Moto in the 'Life' thread.

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PIF I bet you know that einstein quote. Probably dont know that riff at 1:45 though. Do you know the backstory?

Dave was kicked out of Metallica in a very disrespectful way, they bought him an 80 hour greyhound bus ride from NYC to LA. He wrote this song on the way back.

Kick ass song which I just played three times. Thanks for posting.

PS: I never thought about it, but rock videos in the poetry thread for their lyrics is a good call.

monte, since you liked this song (one of my favorites) thought you would like a very similar piece from metallica (also one of my favorites), both written at the height of the cold war about a nuclear holocaust....this is Metallica at their very best IMO

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first 40 seconds or so is actually them playing a riff in reverse

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that album cover is hard af by the way

lady justice with her scales tipped from money

2:35 is one of my favorite switchups in metal history

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...I only got into metal because I'm a jazz pianist and thrash metal is the closest thing to it IMO...

Whoa... just noticed this, AFM.

I'm a lifelong jazz fan & aficionado. I don't see how thrash metal is close to jazz -- but so what....

When I say "lifelong," here's what I mean: I bought Miles Davis a drink at the Sutherland Lounge in Chicago when I was 15. Dizzy Gillespie -- a grin on his face -- tried to steal two drinks from me as I was carrying them back from the refreshment bar at a party for the playboy jazz festival (I think...) in 1958 when I was 16.

In the early 1970s when I was down & out while living in Paris, the great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy put me up for a couple of months in his loft on the rue des Feuillantines.

If you name a jazz musician of any note who played in the '50s & '60s, it's extremely likely that I heard him live, usually more than once. The exception was Bird, who died exactly 6 months before I turned 13 (about a year before I started figuring out how to get into clubs...).

Being a jazz pianist, tell me if you know this guy:

Watch on YouTube

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(one of the most under-appreciated players...)

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...I only got into metal because I'm a jazz pianist and thrash metal is the closest thing to it IMO...

Whoa... just noticed this, AFM.

I'm a lifelong jazz fan & aficionado. I don't see how thrash metal is close to jazz -- but so what....

When I say "lifelong," here's what I mean: I bought Miles Davis a drink at the Sutherland Lounge in Chicago when I was 15. Dizzy Gillespie -- a grin on his face -- tried to steal two drinks from me as I was carrying them back from the refreshment bar at a party for the playboy jazz festival (I think...) in 1958 when I was 16.

In the early 1970s when I was down & out while living in Paris, the great soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy put me up for a couple of months in his loft on the rue des Feuillantines.

If you name a jazz musician of any note who played in the '50s & '60s, it's extremely likely that I heard him live, usually more than once. The exception was Bird, who died exactly 6 months before I turned 13 (about a year before I started figuring out how to get into clubs...).

Being a jazz pianist, tell me if you know this guy:

Watch on YouTube

;t=746s
(one of the most under-appreciated players...)

Of course I know him--and I'm certainly jealous of pretty much everything in this post. I'm only in my 30s so I missed out on seeing a lot of these legends live. I did see Pharoah Sanders live here at Bohemian Caverns. One of my best memories tbh, he was incredible. Also saw Roy Hargrove before he died and some others. Unfortunately DC's jazz scene has died down quite a bit recently especially with the pandemic. Only a few clubs left.

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AFM -- I'm definitely glad that you're aware of Phineas Newborn -- one of the true greats!

Speaking of "the true greats" -- check out the link I'm about to put on the music thread!

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“Love” by Czeslaw Milosz

Love means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills—
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.

Then he wants to use himself and things
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn’t matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn’t always understand.