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To: Drumbo

Thank you for that lengthy explanation. I had known that Appice was still around. He wrote a book on how to play the drums which I had read many, many moons ago. I did not know that other members of the group were still getting together.

Because of my piano/organ background, I used to play, “You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” over and over again. My then wife thought that I was playing the song about her which almost led to a divorce. I had to reassure her that I was simply jammin’ to the organ. ROFL Crazy woman!


292 posted on 04/04/2015 4:51:59 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
Try "Chest Fever" instead - that should drive her nuts. When the Band recorded it, they had no lyrics, so Robbie Robertson scribbled some nonsense for Levon Helm, the take was too good to tinker with and the rest is jabberwocky history. Robertson's said, "I'm not sure that I know the words to 'Chest Fever'; I'm not even so sure there are words to 'Chest Fever'." He has also stated the entirety of the song does not make sense. Garth Hudson's organ on it is pure genius purportedly based on Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It may just be Levon's fat beat, Garth's "Church up in here" Hammond, but I absolutely rock out to "Chest Fever".
298 posted on 04/04/2015 5:28:23 PM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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