[Interesting Times]

Iiiiiiiii remember.
We were flying low, and hit something in the air...

[speedy]

"Call out the revolution -- because there's something in the air -- and you know it's right."

[Charles Henrickson]

Now 'splain this to me, Loosy:

How could one guy do some of the greatest songs and also some of the worst--and even do it with the same song?

I refer to Mr. Eric Clapton. In his "Derek & the Dominoes" phase, he gave us the wonderful "Bell Bottom Blues" and "Layla," the latter being one of the greatest songs of all time.

Yet this is the same Eric Clapton who sang, "I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy." And much later he took the magnificent "Layla" and destroyed it with an "unplugged" version of the same. There must be tears in heaven.

Of course, Paul McCartney went from the Beatles to Wings.

And then there's the group I like perhaps as well as or even better than the early Beatles, and that's CCR. John Fogerty wrote "Proud Mary," and CCR's version was OK, but not one of their best. But because John Fogerty wrote that song, we then had to suffer under Ike & Tina Turner's lousy and more ubiquitous version of same.

[jejones]

Oh, yeah..."D.O.A." by Bloodrock. You have to admire the harmonic structure of the song, though--it's built totally around tritones, the diabolus in musica interval that is almost always avoided, precisely to induce that uneasy feeling that the song generates.