![]() Speaking of pastiches, I heard Van Morrison's "It Stoned Me" on the drive in this morning. Among the many links between the Hawks and Delaney and Bonnie is Sandy Konikoff, who arrived to occupy Levon's stool not long after that Nov 30, '65 session and who later appeared on "Motel Shot". John L: Thanks for the additional info on the instrumental track (which is a bit of a pastiche of snippets from Dylan's big tunes) and for the link to the upcoming D&B tribute in NYC. Now you are putting posters of these people up in your classroom! Things ain't the way they used to be. I used to rush home from school everyday and listen to Hendrix, Dylan and the Band just to get his militaristic crap out of my head. He ran the school like it was the navy and he didn't like any hippie types. The video is from the area where I have my roots.īEG, Back in the late sixties/early seventies I went to a high school that was run by a guy who had been a navy office in WWII. For another lovely Roy Lonhoiden original from the same album, check link above. "Det ensomme landet" ("The lonely country") is the album title. Roy's Norwegian song title, "Toget Hass Far" (written in our South-Eastern dialect, the one that I speak myself), means "My Father's Train". How nice that you enjoyed my friend Roy Lonhoiden's version of that old Hank tune, Bill. I was substantially cooler by grade 9, I like to think, but didn't hear "Sex Machine" until chess club. Another teacher that year used "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" to teach us about simile and metaphor and symbolism and whatnot. Because I was exceptionally unhip I hadn't even heard Dylan until grade 7, when one of the teachers played a couple of numbers from his Greatest Hits. ![]() ![]() Graham: Your navy guy wouldn't liked my schools in the same era. By the way, what was George Hultgren's stage name, post-Eclection? I thought to check YouTube while there, but found nothing. I can see why 'ensomme landet' means 'lonely country' (one-some land), but I'm totally lost with 'toget hass far'. Unfortunately it's Justin Bieber and not Richard Manuel. Speaking of Norway, I see that the pride of Stratford, Ontario has caused a fuss there. She never used to attend school assemblies and rumour had it that the navy guy had banned her because of the mini-skirts. ![]() Sometimes she would sit on one of the desks at the front of the classroom and cross her legs. I remember there was one rather attractive young English teacher who used to wear a mini skirt. Likely the first time I heard "The Weight", anyway.īill M, We had a couple of 'hip' teachers at our school who were in to the Beatles despite the best efforts of the navy guy. I can only imagine what certain parties thought of THAT decision. I also recall "Easy Rider" being shown in the gym one morning in grade 9. Graham: Yes, I do recall miniskirts on certain teachers, especially when they had to stretch up to write across the top of the blackboard. ![]()
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