Posted on 01/19/2013 9:25:13 AM PST by Uncle Chip
The America is completely gone now.
I always envisioned what it would be like to swim out to the bow section, climb aboard and do some exploring.
I read recently the the SS United States days are now seriously numbered as well.
Both beautiful ships.
The wreck that I really love seeing pictures of is the schooner “Sweepstakes” up in that cove in Canada. It’s hull is about 25’ down in the crystal clear water of a cove. It’s pretty, and surreal.
The ship on it’s side in front of the barges, listed as being in Lasalle Missouri, is the Admirable class minesweeper ex-USS Inaugural.
Wow funny thing...I just forced my family to listen to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” at full volume on the way home from pizza tonight. Hubby had never heard it even tho he was born in ‘74. Weird.
It’s not a favorite of mine, to say the least (kazoo-like nasal vocal is a constant of G.L.’s body of work) — but I love the cadence of “the churchbells chimed, they rang 29 times”.
Carefree Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhM7I9gD4U
Byrds founder Gene Clark did a cover of one of GL’s, but it suffers a bit from GC’s idea of what constituted a good arrangement. I like his songwriting, but Clark was also lucky to be associated with strong-willed talents also in that band, who were better arrangers than composers for the most part.
If You Could Read My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj21GwxL0k4
Oh man, I had “the morning after blues, from my head down to my shoes,” all day today. Oy, New Year’s! ;)
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