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Martha Washington

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The thing I miss most about the days of vinyl albums is 'Liner Notes'.
Sure, cd's have liner notes. The BEST liner notes, full of knowledge and information and previously unpublished photographs.

Too bad I can't read them.

Oh, how I long for the days, sitting in front of my speakers, hitting myself in the face with my album covers.
Remember how cool liner notes were before they were scholarly and you needed a microscope to read them?
some of them were GREAT. This is a thread just for them (well, you know, and anything else somebody may happen to write)
 

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surely the wonderfulest liner notes ever written:
(from 'bringing it all back home' by bob dylan)

i'm standing there watching the parade/
feeling combination of sleepy john estes.
jayne mansfield. humphry bogart/morti-
mer snerd. murph the surf and so forth/
erotic hitchhiker wearing japanese
blanket. gets my attention by asking didn't
he see me at this hootenanny down in
puerto vallarta, mexico/i say no you must
be mistaken. i happen to be one of the
Supremes/then he rips off his blanket
an' suddenly becomes a middle-aged druggist.
up for district attorney. he starts scream-
ing at me you're the one. you're the one
that's been causing all them riots over in
vietnam. immediately turns t' a bunch of
people an' says if elected, he'll have me
electrocuted publicly on the next fourth
of july. i look around an' all these people
he's talking to are carrying blowtorches/
needless t' say, i split fast go back t' the
nice quiet country. am standing there writing
WHAAT? on my favorite wall when who should
pass by in a jet plane but my recording
engineer "i'm here t' pick up you and your
lastest works of art. do you need any help
with anything?''

(pause)

my songs're written with the kettledrum
in mind/a touch of any anxious color. un-
mentionable. obvious. an' people perhaps
like a soft brazilian singer . . . i have
given up at making any attempt at perfection/
the fact that the white house is filled with
leaders that've never been t' the apollo
theater amazes me. why allen ginsberg was
not chosen t' read poetry at the inauguration
boggles my mind/if someone thinks norman
mailer is more important than hank williams
that's fine. i have no arguments an' i
never drink milk. i would rather model har-
monica holders than discuss aztec anthropology/
english literature. or history of the united
nations. i accept chaos. I am not sure whether
it accepts me. i know there're some people terrified
of the bomb. but there are other people terrified
t' be seen carrying a modern screen magazine.
experience teaches that silence terrifies people
the most . . . i am convinced that all souls have
some superior t' deal with/like the school
system, an invisible circle of which no one
can think without consulting someone/in the
face of this, responsibility/security, success
mean absolutely nothing. . . i would not want
t' be bach. mozart. tolstoy. joe hill. gertrude
stein or james dean/they are all dead. the
Great books've been written. the Great sayings
have all been said/I am about t' sketch You
a picture of what goes on around here some-
times. though I don't understand too well
myself what's really happening. i do know
that we're all gonna die someday an' that no
death has ever stopped the world. my poems
are written in a rhythm of unpoetic distortion/
divided by pierced ears. false eyelashes/sub-
tracted by people constantly torturing each
other. with a melodic purring line of descriptive
hollowness -- seen at times through dark sunglasses
an' other forms of psychic explosion. a song is
anything that can walk by itself/i am called
a songwriter. a poem is a naked person . . . some
people say that i am a poet

(end of pause)

an' so i answer my recording engineer
"yes. well i could use some help in getting
this wall in the plane"

-- By Bob Dylan
 

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Holy cow, Angshu, that was lots of readin', but I muttled through. Dylan is cool. Like him lots. Saw him in some weird movie the other day, about an old music star that was gonna do a benefit show in some war torn Latin country, sound familiar?

Martha, liner notes, what are those?(ha ha). I remember the days when I used to put on the album, lay on the floor, and start readin' and lookin' at all the cool stuff on the album and on the album sleeve inside the cover(that was before the days of "reading" glasses, uhg!!). But I suppose those days are over, huh?!? Still got about 75 or so of my old 60's and 70's albums. Made the mistake of selling a bunch of them years ago. Oh well, it's onward and upward, right?!?
 

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yeah, I finally gave ALL my vinyl the heave-**.
nice to see people get excited about it when I did.
I sort of liked that weird Dylan movie. Sounds like "Masked and Anonymous"
I had a leg up on fellow concertgoers when we went to see him last month because of that movie.

That's pretty much the sort of thing he does live nowadays, I guess.
 

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Jefferson Airplane's 'Bark' LP came in a brown paper bag.
Inside the album were liner notes listing what you could do with the bag.
yes, you probably guessed my favorite one!
 

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Martha Washington said:
Jefferson Airplane's 'Bark' LP came in a brown paper bag.
Inside the album were liner notes listing what you could do with the bag.
yes, you probably guessed my favorite one!
LOL I remember that one! It was most awesome.

I do miss liner notes...
 

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