edna Posted March 30, 2005 Report Share Posted March 30, 2005 edna, if you're reading this, you are within easy reach of the facts. I was puzzled just like jr. The best explanation I found in my research is that it is about being up at 3:34 or 3:35 a.m. [twenty-five or (twenty-)six to four] with lyric writer's block. Have you heard the one about George Harrison's Bluejay Way? The song is supposedly pretty much just a literal report of Harrison getting tired waiting for friends who couldn't find the house (on Bluejay Way) one foggy night in L.A. It's funny that it was made to sound so heavy and ominous. OMG, I couldn´t even imagine LSD and Quaaludes would be so complicated!! Too good I haven´t had a taste of neither one or another since at least twenty years... Reminds of "Paul is dead" and all that backwards stuff... Actually, Quaaludes are exactly the opposite to LSD, that would be the most different drugs I ever took... I preffer Quaaludes... I guess Bazooka´s explanation is the best one, I would say that too... And "BlueJay way" is a strange (underated) song... seems his friends were so stoned they got lost, so they called George Harrison on the phone and he suggested them to ask a policeman... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD 55 Posted March 31, 2005 Report Share Posted March 31, 2005 I like those, too, Old 55. Yes, I'm a sucker for sappy mushy love songs, what can I say? Me too Jenny! In another Site some time ago, they had "Favorite 5 Songs of the 60s" and someone pointed out to me that mine were all love songs. He reckoned the 60s should be divided into two "half decades" - the first relatively "innocent" and the second slightly(?) "decadent". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy1104 Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 I liked Chicago before Peter Cetera castrated them. JR....wasn't Peter Cetera one of the founding members? In what way do you mean he castrated them? Did you mean when he left the band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 JR....wasn't Peter Cetera one of the founding members? In what way do you mean he castrated them? Did you mean when he left the band? I also remember him as one of the olders Chicago members... am I wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJonSurfer Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 OMG, I couldn´t even imagine LSD and Quaaludes would be so complicated!! Too good I haven´t had a taste of neither one or another since at least twenty years... Reminds of "Paul is dead" and all that backwards stuff... Actually, Quaaludes are exactly the opposite to LSD, that would be the most different drugs I ever took... I preffer Quaaludes... I guess Bazooka´s explanation is the best one, I would say that too... And "BlueJay way" is a strange (underated) song... seems his friends were so stoned they got lost, so they called George Harrison on the phone and he suggested them to ask a policeman... Eric Clapton was one of those friends George was waiting on. He also wrote Savoy Truffle (White Album) about Clapton's love of sweets. Of course Clapton wrote Layla about his love for George's wife, Patti. I saw A Hard Day's Night recently and Patti is in the movie (one of the girls gathering round the boys on the train ride), I can see what George and Eric liked about her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 He also wrote Savoy Truffle (White Album) about Clapton's love of sweets. I read somewhere recently that George Harrison wrote "Savoy Truffle" about Eric Clapton´s love of sweets, but as a joke! Seems Clapton had big trouble with his teeth by then and couldn´t eat sweets as it hurt... as most of you might know... :: Could it be I read it right here in Songfacts? I´ll check... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_jr_ Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 JR....wasn't Peter Cetera one of the founding members? In what way do you mean he castrated them? Did you mean when he left the band? I mean when he turned them into an 80's pop/MTV band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Oh, right. I guess I agree with you, Jr... I stoped liking Chicago at a certain time, it must have been by then... they became... mellow? They suddenly had big hits and sounded on the straight radios very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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