Reading recommendation

[unixronin]

Those of you who have not yet stumbled across captoblivion should -- really, really, really should -- read this post recounting the saga of last weekend's trip to Virginia Beach for Digital racks.  Just be careful not to be drinking soda or anything hot when you read it, because spraying soda or hot coffee out of your nose is really not a good feeling.  The man could give Dave Barry a run for his money.

(And he has C.W. McCall's Wolf Creek Pass completely memorized, and can recite it at full speed.  But that's another story.)

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[ehintz.livejournal.com]

And right at end of the whole damn show was a real nice tunnel, now wouldn'tcha know... Sign said clearance to the 12 foot line but the chicken's was stacked to 13-nine. We shot that tunnel at a hundred and ten, like gas through a funnel or eggs through a hen. We took that top row of chickens of thicker n' the scum of a Loosiana swamp...


Mmmmm.... I'm also rather fond of The ol' home filler up and keep on a truckin' cafe. The chorus girls on that one sound scrumptious. And Crispy Critters:

Boy lemme explain the situation to ya: A: you gettin me down. B: we got us a leash law here and C: you in the wrong town. You drop one string a beads in that there park you gonna see a whole lotta stars. You got fifteen seconds to get outta town boys, or we gonna blow ya to mars.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it as "slicker'n'the scum off..."

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Could be... Wouldn't be the first time I heard a lyric wrong, nor would it be the last...

[jilara.livejournal.com]

I can do Wolf Creek Pass, too. (And Black Bear Road, including the flubs (...pay no attention to the gitar there...).) And most of the score of Music Man, but that's another story...

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

C.W. McCall. I knew there was something missing from my .ogg collection....

Best I can do is "Hot Rod Lincoln"; the Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen version is quite like something C.W. McCall might have done...

-JDF

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

"And my father said, Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that hot-rod Lincoln."

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I have that song by that band on 45. Heh. I didn't even know there was an older version.

-Ogre

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

I don't know who did the original (I do know it's a "sequel" to Jimmy Dolan's "Hot Rod Race", but am pretty sure it wasn't Jimmy Dolan who did it), but of all the versions I've heard, I like the Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen version best, and I'm pretty sure if it's not the original it's the earliest recorded version I've heard. It also sounds truest to "Hot Rod Race". I've heard a couple other versions, the most common one seems to be the one Les Claypool (of Primus) did.

I used to think I had a nice collection of automobile-oriented music (being something of a gearhead), but some of the guys at local autocross events put me to shame...

-JDF

[captoblivion.livejournal.com]

Yes, they "took that top row of chickens off slicker'n the scum off a Looziana swamp". It's amazing thta I can still recite it from memory a full 20 years after I last heard it...

PHIL: I can't fucking believe that I forgot to mention your Vicious Guard Cows...