While we are talking about walking down memory lane...

[WCGreen]

Closer to My Home, Grand Funk....

I remember my parents had just gotten divorced, my mom had remarried and I had decided to stay with my dad....

Well, i went to visit my mom and Brother and Sister the week before School Started.... 8th grade...

This song came on when I was all alone in the house one morning.....

I decided to move in with my mom...

It felt just right....

A Schlocky to say the least but......

Memories, sweet sweet memories.....

[Floogeldy]

1. My memory is quite different from yours.

I am a little older than you. But when Grand Funk came out with that song, I was blown away by the instrumentation leap they took in doing that song. Virtually all of their previous songs were straight ahead three piece blues rock.

"Closer To Home" holds a special place in my past.

:)

[WCGreen]

2. Yea it is cool the way they did that...

and then they went back to Three cord blues...

Just like that....

I liked them a lot growing up and all.....

[HEyHEY]

3. Another song memory from moi

I had it so bad from this girl from Tampico Mexico, she broke my heart in the end. But anyway, the whole thing introduced me to Mambo music. I remember she took me to a club for Latin night.. there was a remix of Rosemary Clooney's Mambo Italiano.
The way she looked dancing to it...yowza.
Whenever I hear that song I think of her.
We're still friends.

[WCGreen]

6. I have Mambo Italiano on my play list tonight...

Freaky or what..

A Girl went back to Napoli.....

[HEyHEY]

14. Because she missed the scenery

[WCGreen]

16. Oh man,,,,

What a cheesey song....

But I love it....

[HEyHEY]

18. Cheesy? It's bella!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Another piece of your past is coming alive for all of us here....

Thank you for it...my dear WC....

I can easily see how tough that time was for you...at such a tender age...

:grouphug: :loveya: :pals:

[WCGreen]

7. Oh it was horrible.....

But it was for the best...

And I knew that going in....

My dad was a Praticing Alcoholic, he finnaly got it right....

He had no business with a twelve year old....

[Swede]

5. Am I in my cabin dreaming

Or are you really scheming
to take my ship from me?

I like their cover of Gimme Shelter too.

[Tom Kitten]

8. I remember it

sometimes the FM stations here would "album track" and announce it as "I'm Your Captain" and play the complete ten minute version...

My fave Grand Funk song was "Paranoid" ...a great hippy military song...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Hi there Tom Kitten....

I just wanted to say how much I love your new picture! This is stunning...

Any particular reason for having it?


:hi:

:pals:

[Tom Kitten]

10. Hi Peggy!

The picture is from a Finnish poster during the Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40.

And yes I do have a particular reason for having it...! :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Are you teasing me?

And the particular reason for having it is?....or would you rather not say?

I'm laughing...not at you, but at the situation!

Tell me! ......... please?


:blush:

[Tom Kitten]

15. It's symbolic to me

it reminds me of an especially dark chickenhawk fighting, clawing at, trying to attack the light of Truth, Liberty...

sound good so far?

")

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. O yea...so far, so good...tell me more...

If there is anything more, that is....:thumbsup:

[Tom Kitten]

19. well, I did mean for there to be more

a picture is worth a thousand words and you don't have to say them all here at once just try to keep them in mind
I'm sorry I can't express myself clearly why I changed my sig pic, it was basically a response to the new rule and I wanted something a little different!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. I'm sorry, Tom Kitten...I didn't mean to cause you frustration!

Of course you don't need to tell me everything...this is good, what you've said to me so far...

I can understand why you wanted something different...and this is a beautiful picture......

Thank you....

:hug:

[Tom Kitten]

22. you've never caused me frustration!

until possibly maybe now! :)
why don't you just pm me and ask me what you really want to know?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Give me a moment, my dear Tom Kitten....

[Tom Kitten]

25. well...

if you're compiling a list of my bad habits it's going to take you more than a moment my dear...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. No such compilations have taken place, my dear Tom Kitten!

Go and read your PM from me...and hopefully all will be clearer..

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Ahhhhh...Closer To Home!

Had to be played every time when nearing my current place of hippiedom residence after a long haul in my VW camper and totally stoned...always saved a joint for that part of the trip...<<memories :::sigh::: >>

[WCGreen]

13. Good memory

And with all the impediments....

Seriously, old memories are good,

If you don't let them take control

[misanthrope]

20. I thought...

...the name of that tune was "I'm Your Captain?"

[WCGreen]

23. You are absolutly right....

But to me it will always be Closer to my home......