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| My Dad | |
| Created by: | johnny_luddite |
| Tracks: | 14 |
| Length: | 01:07:20 |
| Keywords |
1. dad 2. homage 3. memories |
| Created on | 1/20/08 09:22pm |
| Level | 5 |
| Points | 2060 |
| Total visitors | 46 |
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My Dad is very very ill. This weekend they pulled the feeding tubes. Only a matter of time now. I feel so inadequate as people do at times like these, but I have been thinking a lot about him today, about the good stuff. He never really knew why I spent so much time in my room as a kid making mixtapes (reel to reel before I got a casstte recorder, then reel to reel again when I could afford hi-fi) but I think he would appreciate the fact that I am using that medium all these years later to make a little tribute to him. Some of the music here is stuff we shared, but as in many parent/kid relationships there was a lot of music we didn't share, so a lot of this is stuff he wouldn't have listened to, but that has some kind of releavance to me when thinking about my dad.
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| 1 | Lindisfarne : Lady Eleanor |
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My Dad, Robert George Grant, was born in East Jarrow, England, on October 17th, 1919. East Jarrow is in the no [...]
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Track 1 from Nicely Out Of Tune
Length: 00:04:15 Year: 1970 |
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My Dad, Robert George Grant, was born in East Jarrow, England, on October 17th, 1919. East Jarrow is in the northeast of England, close to Newcastle. This was possibly the poorest part of England, and life was hard. My Dad was one of eight children, but with disease rife and access to decent medical service non-existent, only two survived, Dad and his brother Wilf. Their father died in 1921, their Mother had to resort to anything she could to keep her remaining sons alive. This is such a bleak picture, yet my father retained an affection for the area he came from. His Mother had sent him to London to find work when he was sixteen, he had long since lost his 'Geordie' accent, but any reminder of that part of the world was welcome to him. There was this folk rock band, Lindisfarne, that I liked a bit in the early seventies. They came from Newcastle, and most of their material dealt with life in that area. My Dad didn't like the music that much, but enjoyed the fact that they existed and sang about a much ignored part of the world. The one song of theirs he reall7y liked was oddly enough one of the few that did not deal with contemporary North East life, but like me, he was always a fool for a pretty tune. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | The Beatles : The Fool On the Hill |
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My Dad had many adventures in his early life, playing soocer at a pro level, losing out on a career because of [...]
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Track 2 from Magical Mystery Tour
Length: 00:03:00 Year: 1967 |
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My Dad had many adventures in his early life, playing soocer at a pro level, losing out on a career because of WW11, all kinds of stuff that he was always reluctant to talk about because it either hurt too much, or else he was too modest. In the late forties he met my Mother in the same Chelsea pub where I would meet my first wife some forty plus years later. My sister was born soon after they got married, and in 1957 I popped up unannounced. My earliest memories all have music involved somehow. My Dad and I used to watch 'Thank Your Lucky Stars' every Sunday night. An early attempt at a pop music show on British TV. One weekend we saw The Beatles playing. This would be in 1962, a couple of years before Ed Sullivan and worldwide Beatle mania. This was one musical act we could share. he favoured McCartney, I was more of a Lennon kind of guy, but we both liked the noises they all made. This was my Dad's favorite, and I have to say I have always liked it too. SHOW LESS
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| 3 | The Hollies : He Ain't Heavy...He's My Brother |
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Dad was very much a Nat King Cole and Jim Reeves kind of guy, but there were a few sixties groups he liked. Ne [...]
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Track 7 from The Hollies Greatest Hits
Length: 00:04:20 Year: 2002 |
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Dad was very much a Nat King Cole and Jim Reeves kind of guy, but there were a few sixties groups he liked. Next to the Beatles, the Hollies were the band for him. He liked almost everything they did, but this song moved him in a way I don't think I saw any other move him before or since. He didn't talk about his war experiences much, I do know he was a paratrooper, oine of teh 'Red Devils' who went in the day before the invasion of Europe, and I know he saw a lot of bad stuff. I always thought his connection with this song had something to do with liking this! SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Frank Sinatra : It Was A Very Good Year |
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My Dad was good to me. We were poor compared to a lot of kids I knew, but he made time to do stuff with me, ta [...]
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Track 8 from September Of My Years
Length: 00:04:28 Year: 1965 |
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My Dad was good to me. We were poor compared to a lot of kids I knew, but he made time to do stuff with me, take me to museums, soccer matches, all kinds of stuff. I loved all of that, but I also liked the family times when all four of us would sit and watch TV. It didn't happen often, but I do remember one time when there was some FS special on and we all sat and watched Sinatra sing this. It was probably the first time I ever paid attention to this kind of music. My Dad had a tear in his eye while Frankie sang. That did not happen too often. SHOW LESS
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| 5 | The Kinks : This is were i belong |
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On one of our trips to a museum or something, we saw this familiar looking guy in a striped jacket. We were on [...]
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Track 6 from Kronikles
Length: 00:02:26 Year: 1972 |
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On one of our trips to a museum or something, we saw this familiar looking guy in a striped jacket. We were on a tube train at the time,and a couple of girls were also staring at this guy. My Dad stepped over to him and said 'Hello Ray', to which the guy replied, 'Hello Bob.' It was indeed Ray Davies. I asked my Dad about it later, hoping that he had conections to all popstars and that within the week I would be having a go on Ringo's drums. Sadly, the truth was much more mundane, my Dad had been his postman for a time when he was growing up. I was still impressed though! SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Desmond Dekker : The Israelites |
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One of my happiest memories as a child going out with my Dad was the first time he ever took me to see Tottenh [...]
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Track 1 from The Israelites
Length: 00:02:36 Year: 1969 |
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One of my happiest memories as a child going out with my Dad was the first time he ever took me to see Tottenham Hotspurs play. I was about 11, and so excited. Spurs were a good team in those days, and the stadium had about 30,000 fans singing, shouting, drinking and swearing. Everything seemed so big to me. We were right near the front in the boys enclosure. The green of teh grass, the ornage of the running track surrounding it, even the blue grey of the sky, they all seemed to look different to me. Wondrous. I remember all this in technicolor. Dad had me standing in front of him so I was protected from any jostling. When the players ran out and the crowd roared, I thought I was going to wet myself. Now that was loud! My Dad kept checking I was ok though, and the match unfolded like an extra long fairground ride. At halftime, Dad went and got me a drink and a bag of peanuts. While I munched and drank, this came on the P.A system. I was never happier. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Jimi Hendrix : Voodoo Child (Slight Return) |
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You can probably guess this one. By the age of fourteen I had grown hair (all on my head, the facial stuff was [...]
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Track 15 from Experience Hendrix
Length: 00:05:13 Year: 1998 |
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You can probably guess this one. By the age of fourteen I had grown hair (all on my head, the facial stuff was still eluding me at that point)and I had discovered the volume control on my record player. I had an EP of Hendrix, released to cash in on his death a while before. On one side was 'Voodoo Chile', on the other 'Hey Joe' and 'All Along The Watchtower'. I would play that thing all afternoon and on. After I had ignored several threats, he finally entered my room and gave me the 'This isn't music, its just noise' speech. My counter was that he mustn't say that about a dead person. (It seemed a logical response to me at the time.)Finally, he grabbed my player and confiscated it. My response was to go find my sisters old player (she had left to get married a few years before) and crank the sound up louder. It was a battle of the wills, and as is usual in these cases, we both felt we had the moral high ground. Our arguments could be savage, but they never lasted long. He never did like Hendrix though! SHOW LESS
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| 8 | The Who : I Can't Explain |
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My Dad really wanted me to be a sports person, but my two left feet inhibited my growth in that area. Music wa [...]
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Track 1 from Then and Now: 1964-2004
Length: 00:02:07 Year: 2004 |
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My Dad really wanted me to be a sports person, but my two left feet inhibited my growth in that area. Music was what I was concerned with. In the mid seventies, I made my first appearance fronting a band, a truly awful garage rock band aptly called 'The Worst Band In The World' This was the first song we ever played. Needless to say, we proved little threat to Daltry and Townshend. My Mum ( I was a mummies boy by the way) unreservedly thought all my endeavours were great. My Dad was always worried that if I went too far down the music path I would have trouble getting steady work (yep you were right Dad). However, he told me that he was proud. That even getting up there and trying made him proud. That was a good day. SHOW LESS
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| 9 | The Clash : Janie Jones |
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Well, I finally went to college and when I first returned on a break, I had green hair and a bunch of punk rec [...]
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Track 10 from The Essential Clash
Length: 00:02:05 Year: 2003 |
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Well, I finally went to college and when I first returned on a break, I had green hair and a bunch of punk records under my arm. This was the start of a lengthy period where Dad and I just did not get on. One time when I cheered when an interview with Joe Strummer came on TV he looked at me and I could see that at that point we were so divided. You never think that ground seperating you can be made up. Sometimes it can't, but things did get better between us. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Fripp & Eno : The Heavenly Music Corporation |
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Oddly enough, the music that broke the ice between my Dad and I was of all things this long noodling collabora [...]
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Track 1 from No Pussyfooting
Length: 00:21:00 Year: 0000 |
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Oddly enough, the music that broke the ice between my Dad and I was of all things this long noodling collaboration between Brian Eno and Robert Fripp of King Crimson. I was listening to it one day when my Dad sat down and remarked how beautiful it sounded, and then just pat me on the arm. That was one of several tiny incidents that indicated a thaw in our own personal cold war. SHOW LESS
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| 11 | David Bowie : Life On Mars? |
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One time in the 80's, I was spending time with my parents when out of the blue my Dad said "I would really lik [...]
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Track 4 from Hunky Dory
Length: 00:03:52 Year: 1971 |
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One time in the 80's, I was spending time with my parents when out of the blue my Dad said "I would really like to have met David Bowie. I bet he would be really interesting to talk to." He never mentioned him before or after. He did take me by suprise when he would say little out of character things. He came up and visited me for teh day when I lived in Birmingham. I was in a theatre company at the time, and living in a dingy flat. It was cold, damp and a mess. My Dad's response on seeing it was to suggest that I get a girl to move in so she could look after me, "In more ways than one" he said. I was shocked for a week. This was not normal talk for him. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Portishead : Roads |
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In the 90s, I got very sick. I was newly divorced, and my Mum and dad, both way over retirement age even then, [...]
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Track 8 from Dummy
Length: 00:05:09 Year: 1994 |
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In the 90s, I got very sick. I was newly divorced, and my Mum and dad, both way over retirement age even then, stepped up to be my Mum and dad again to get me through it. It took an awful toil on them, but I will forever be grateful that they did help me through. As I slowly recovered, they asked me if there was any music they could bring for my walkman. The only music I could stand to listen to at that time was Portishead, and dad bought me 'Dummy' in one day on casstte. He asked me about it. I said he wouldn't like it. He said that the point was that I should like it. What a difference a couple of thousand days make. SHOW LESS
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| 13 | Eurythmics : Love is a Stranger |
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Odd musical choice here, but I remember clearly that this song was on the radio the first time the subject of [...]
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Track 1 from Greatest Hits
Length: 00:03:41 Year: 0000 |
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Odd musical choice here, but I remember clearly that this song was on the radio the first time the subject of my Dad's memory loss came up. We had known for a long time that he was becoming forgetful, but this one day, I was in the office with the radio playing when I heard from my mum. Dad had been going by bus to pay the rent. That was hours ago.I rushed to their home just in time for us to recieve a call from Dad. He was in a call box and it had taken him a long time to get teh phone number right. The problem was he was lost, and hoped someone could come find him. Soon after he was diagnosed with dementia, later upgraded to Alzheimers. For a long time he was still able to function, he was forgetful, but he could make jokes about his situation. Once, a work colleague of mine called him trying to track me down. My friend asked to whom he was speaking. "It's on the tip of my tongue" my Dad said. Eventually though, I moved back in with my folks to look after them. It was not easy. My Dad would think I was sixteen once more, and relive the arguments we had then. Also, he would get frustrated with his memory problems and take it out on those around him. My Mum also got diagnosed with Alzheimers, and life became a living hell, albeit a loving one. SHOW LESS
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| 14 | Fleetwood Mac : Albatross |
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I met someone and fell in love. She lived in California, and I didn't. My Mum had become very ill, and she had [...]
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Track 20 from The Collection
Length: 00:03:08 Year: 0000 |
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I met someone and fell in love. She lived in California, and I didn't. My Mum had become very ill, and she had been in hospital for a long time. My Dad was ever more stressed out by her not being there. One weekend, I risked leaving London for three days to fly to LA, see Karmen, my love, for her birthday, and then fly back. My Mum died while I was in the air on the way back. When I got home, my Dad could not take in that she had died. For the next year he would ask me every ten minutes or so where she was. At her funeral, they played this song, a favorite of hers, both from the recording and also of the version I used to perform. When Dad heard this tune, he got sad. I thought it helped him to remember, and finely I thought "Why should he have to" so I never played it again at home. SHOW LESS
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