Je réalise en retard que mon patrimoine a moi a disparu, des endroits historiques et mémorables
en fait les deux endroits associés a un peu de plaisir dans une vie habituellement remplie d'anxiété.
Mes "souvenirs de guerre" sont que tout m'était toujours refusé, enfin tout ce que j'aimais.
Les scouts, les cadets de l'air
ou j'ai essayé 3 fois mais échoué 3 fois
parce que ma mère utilisait ce que j'aimais comme la belle-mère de Cendrillon je suppose ou un autre sorcière quelconque de nos contes anciens.
Si tu fais pas ci tu n'iras pas au cadets,
Si tu fais pas ça tu n'iras pas au cadet.
Et moi je pleurais et rageais comme un enfant impuissant devant un destin et une autorité si cruelle.
C'était comme si elle tournait le couteau dans la plaie et moi epuisé, brisé, et crevé j'arrachais l'ostie de couteau des mains de la crisse de malade et je quittais les cadets,
ce que j'aimais le plus.
Enfin il semble y avoir 2 fois ou j'étais plus libre.
Le Donald Lautrec Chaud au Centre Paul Sauvé a Montreal (Pie IX et Beaubien) de 1969 a 1972 donc de 13 ans a 16 ans environ.
J'arrivais toujours tres de bonheur et me plantait au premier rang a 1 pas des haut parleurs immenses qu'ils avaient.
Je me rappelle tres bien être a moitié sourd pour des heures apres le spectacle.
Toutes les vedettes locales s'y présentaient et c'était fantastique.
Un peu plus tard vers mes 16 ans
il y a eu La Récréatheque a Chomedey Laval
(tres loin de chez nous a Montreal-Nord)
La premiere fois j'avais rendez vous avec mon demi-frère a la Récréatheque mais juste avant je suis arreté chez mon foreman hippie a sa maison et il a sorti une brique de hash presque aussi grosse qu'une vraie brique.
C'etait ma premiere fois et je me rappelle me rendre de peine a la Récréatheque et mettre mes patins et tenir la rampe pendant que l'aréna tournait toute seule.
Je me rappelle être devenu assez adepte même apres un certain temps patinant de reculons et tout et tout.
C'est la aussi que j ai eu mon premier French Kiss :)
La blonde de mon demi frere qui avait un peu trop bu a la veille du Jour de L'an .
Apres plusieurs baisers du jour de l'an comme ça (avec d'autres) c'est tourné en chicane
naturellement
mais moi je brillais encore
de ma mémoire ineffaçable. :P
Elle avait 29 ans en passant moi 16 ans.
Si je me rappelles bien.
Je me rappelle que nous avions eu une petite aventure platonique ou j'avais gardé des photos de nous deux ensemble dans une boite photos pour des années. Dans ce temps le j'étais l'épaule et le grand frere des blondes de mon demi frere qui venait se confier a moi.
Enfin petit voyage en pays nostalgique.
Voila.
Répertoire ou
Les goûts et les couleurs
les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas
there’s no accounting for taste
or
To Each His Own
les goûts et les couleurs ne se discutent pas
is a French saying I repeat often
especially when it comes to music.
One of my fav subjects even though as I just realised I am NOT a musician,
I could not tell a time signature to save my life even, and that too might have influenced my choices among many other things.
I understand that some artists are often musicians' musicians.
I would think Nick Cave and even Rush would fit in that category among others.
So where does it begin really? From early childhood for sure I remember singing She Loves You from a very early childhood
and with very little English that I had at the time
with a love like that quickly became with a dog black cat. :P
I remember ruining a 45 RPM trying desperately to understand the very last words of
Badfinger's Baby Blue,
My Dixie Dear just wasn't in my limited vocab and there was no internet to get the lyrics way back then just good old needle scratching ad nauseum.
And then Adolescence probably the most formative years music wise.
Being born in 55 and hitting the teenage years at the very end of 68 was well the best timing ever.
Even though in hindsight also being French Canadian with little English until my early 20's might have affected my choice.
I mean I have "Common Likes" basically the Classics:
Led Zep
Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
Beatles
Supertramp?
etc
and I must forget a few
I have peculiar likes
like Babe Ruth for instance First Base a British Band who apparently hit it hard in Montreal but fail to break the ice elsewhere.
Also I have peculiar likes timely likes like being introduced to
( I know it's a lot of likes lol)
Elvis Costello at a particular time which resulted in me Loving "All This Useless Beauty" and "Blood and Chocolate" and not caring much for the rest of his work.
Not sure if King Crimson is a classic or peculiar one now as I ONLY love the In the Court of the Crimson King album
Did I say love?
I mean worship! 😛
Ani DiFranco came along with a big bang also
so did Georges Brassens for a long time
where I listened to every song they ever made
I have been a fan of a lot of Serge Lama also for years also due to my sister's boyfriend love of him way back then.
I missed a shitload of bandwagons for reasons
Jetho Tull
Yes
Rush
Genesis
Uriah Heep
and many more
So now if I was to do the rhetorical old desert island dilemma it would be a hard choice and I hate making choices but let's give it a quick try
5 ALBUMS
Supertramp -Crime of the Century
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
CCR- Cosmo's Factory
Pink Floyd - DSOTM OF COURSE
and errrrr thinking now
First thing that comes to mind oddly is Babe Ruth - First Base
of course all this could change in the next 5 seconds so I ll leave it at this for now
in alphabetical order now
1. Babe Ruth - First Base
2. damn damn damn lol lol I just realised I CANNOT go on this desert island now without Tom Waits I can live without Brassens and without Ani even though I'd miss 'em but I can't live without Tom now but the toughest choice of all is WHICH album now??????
Funny cuz while I was typing all that Tom was playing in the background and yes On the Nickel would be a good choice but but but even though Heart Attack and Vine has always been one of my all time five I would miss the old Small Change or Bone Machine or Mule Variations even some of the Orphans especially the Bawlers.
Unlike many fans
Rain Dogs and Swordfishtrombones
are not that high on my list
in fact I prefer the early stuff Closing Time etc
so rewrite already Babe Ruth has been slain by Tom Waits unless we go to a top 10 list
1. CCR- Cosmo's Factory
2. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
3. Pink Floyd - DSOTM OF COURSE (WYWH is a strong contender)
4. Supertramp -Crime of the Century
5. Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
Even though I'd like to cheat on this last one and add Tom Traubert's Blues to it
So here it is for now most of my choices are OLD and ANCIENT!
Many more would come to surface as the times roll
I have spells of
Bob Seger
Dwight Yoakam
Kenny Rogers even
Johnny Cash
Mozart
Leonard Cohen
James Blunt
Alanis Morrisette
Guns N' Roses
Eagles
Dr Hook
Doors
Dire Straits
Les Colocs a great Quebec band
Bernard Adamus another great Quebec artist
Veronique Sanson
Amos Lee
Amy Winehouse
AC/DC once in a while
Neil Young (not big on CSNY or CSN)
Dont really have a Bob Dylan spell.
and I forgot
Alice Cooper (how could I?)
Santana
will have to stop here I suppose as brain is getting older and tired but here it is in a nutshell anyway
