Boris Karloff_Aesop's Fables: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", etc.,(v)
Hunter Davis_"St. Lucia" and "Piss On the Beta House"
Burke, Black and Redmond_Live From the Tipperary Pub, Too Hot to Dance, Too Wet to Plow. (This album contains an older version of "John Barleycorn")(v)
Traffic_"John Barleycorn"(v)
Rupert Holmes_"Escape"(v)
New Riders of the Purple Sage_"Panama Red", "It's Alright with Me", "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy"(v)
Lowell George_from Thanks, I'll Eat It Here: "What Do You Want the Girl To Do?", "Honest Man", "2 Trains", "Can't Stand the rain", "Cheek to Cheek", "Easy Money", "20 Million Things"(v)
Then there was a request for REO Speedwagon's "Roll With the Changes" but I was surprised to find that not in my collection and we were forced to settle for "Don't Let Him Go"(v). Hmm, I thought I had that somewhere.
Rush_"Limelight"(v)
Dave Mason_"Only You Know and I Know", "Pearly Queen", "Feelin Alright", "All Along the Watchtower"(v)
The Chieftains w/ Sinead O'Connor_"The Foggy Dew"
Marcus Chatfield_from a cd, titled "Songs I Made Up"
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Froderick,
I know what you mean about the Dylan version. I remember when I first heard the original. I was in Mr. Tatum's class at Pimmit Hills adult Ed. I can't remember if I was still on my phases or if I'd graduated by then. Mr. Tatum was a WW2 vet. He mostly told stories, more than taught the subject. Pimmit Hills Adult Education Center. It was a former elementary school Mostly ESL refugees. There were also some pregnant girls who were taken out of the mainstream and besides that it was the trouble makers of the Fairfax county school system. I remember the one pretty girl from Ethiopia. The teachers were just like the students, all the cast-outs. Clockwork Orange was in some of my classes. We'd been in $tr8 together and he was even the other newcomer when I copped out from that host home in Vienna, VA on my 64th night. So even though he'd been pulled by his parents months earlier and I wasn't supposed to talk to him I did anyway. I was the only phaser or cult member enrolled there so I got away with a lot. Besides him there were 2 other kids who'd been in $tr8 in my school. I hung out with them too. No one could report me. There was only about 20 kids in my entire graduating class. Most of the classes I had were about 2 hours long and there were only about 4 to 8 students in each class. I only had 3 teachers during my time there. Of course at Adult Ed you can do 3 grades in about a year an a 1/2, which is what I did. When I filled out my school permissions, I lied and made it seem like I was gonna be in class all day, when really I would have a morning class and a late afternoon class, in the meantime I'd be roamin around, exploring the neighborhood and nearby woods. Sometimes I'd go down to the library and watch a movie, or I'd go to the shopping center and hang out or go to the park and sleep on the bleachers(I did that even in winter). I was one a those completely full a shit 5th phasers. You know the kind they'd love to stand up in review and use to show the group how there was no hope of outwitting the program or something...?
Anyway, yeah, it was in Mr. Tatum's classroom out there at ol' Pimmit Hills that I first heard the original "All Along the Watchtower" by Dylan. All acoustic and earthy or somethin. He had one 'a' those ol' 60's era console stereo units against the back wall of the room. You know, the kind with the turntable down inside. Like a single piece of furniture, with speakers on the corners. You had to slide open the top to get down into the controls. It had a radio dial and a 8 track plaer too, if I recall.
Lot's'a' times we wouldn't really even have class. Maybe he'd tell some interesting story about bein in Guam during WW2 and then leave us to our vices. At times like these I'd turn on the stereo. Tube amp sound.
I spent a lot of time hiding in the woods even while I was in the program. Thank God I never got caught.
