@darlincommitme whoops that reply just before this was intended for you, but I forgot to direct it to you. Anyway I am impressed by your ability to recollect even the smallest details of what you read. I have what passes for a bio of Tom Petty and I read that well before my illness in '07 so I reckon that is why it is more imprinted upon my memory! Ask me something from that!! and I can likely tell you something correct.
Well, I did read the bio "Hard Core Troubadour", and "Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet" is kicking around this indescribable landfill my other half calls a house somewhere too, but I read them both about 5 years ago before I got ill. Thus it really remarkable I retained anything at all, my memory was so severely sabotaged by the treatment. For a while it was all I could do to remember my own salient info, much less that of a songwriter whose work I love.
incredible, never, never, never gets old. been a fan of Steve's for 25 years, he never fails to give $500 worth of music for a $40 ticket at his shows. God bless Steve Earle.
Ha! This takes us to Missoula, MT on Saturday night 6.18.11 when Steve, Allison & The Dukes rocked us for three hours!!! Go, Steve, Go & THANKS FOR A GREAT SHOW!!!
@Waylonstillthebest As I was growing up, ASUM productions brought lotsa music to the field house, but now that we're old (50) nobody's got enough balls to do it anymore, so I guess all we can do is bask in the memories of B.O.C., Molly Hatchet, Van Halen and a few more that I can't remember...Ha! Go Figure, eh?
This is just Steve at his best in my honest opinion. Would love to see him rock it up again, but I feel he is a different place in his life now (well, clearly!) and the rock lifestyle has passed him by. Shame....still love him though.
ah, hell yeah, when the day has been crappy and people have accused you of ruining their lives or whatever the else you were supposed to do, this is the only thing that makes it all make some sort of sense...
2:40 "You see it used to be I was really free, I didn't need no gasoline to run. Before you could say Jack Kerouac you'd turn your back and I'd be gone".
I throw this guy in the mix with Bob Seger. Their lyrics are honest, sincere, and no bullshit. You believe that everything they sing about, they lived.
I agree with ConnieLynchtz. I absolutely love this song and couldn't wait to see this video, but was absolutely disappointed. It's not a song about country cliches such as rodeo but about someone who's became someone they're not happy with- I can relate to this as I worked hard to be successful, but found I was much happier with my old self. Wish Steve could re-do this video without the country music stereotypical BS.
Making out for the country hicks, horses n' shit. When it's clearly about "aluminum and steel" as Steve himself states. It's about hitt'n the road, being a non-conformist. Steeped in the Beat movement and Kerouac, It's more than just a shallow "country tune" as the record company tries to sell it as thus.
Maybe... but I remember reading that the concept for the DVD was Steve's. I thiink they are drawing a parallel between bikes and the old West. The video has both.
Maybe... but I remember reading that the concept for the video was Steve's. I thiink they are drawing a parallel between bikes and the old West. The video has both.
@ConnieLynchitz I doubt it if this is what the people who filmed the video had in mind, but it might fit in more with the spirit of the song, if you look at it from the horses point of view. The horse keeps bucking the riders who want to break it and make it carry them wherever they want it to go.
@ConnieLynchitz Horsesh-t? I don't think so...and this song is about a lot more than aluminum and steel. And you don't seem to get, Steve IS country. He might live in NYC now, but he grew up in rural TX, steeped in country tradition. What COULD he be talking about, when he sings "It used to be I was really free, I didn't need no gasoline to run..." Well, what can you ride that doesn't burn gas like a steel horse? And if you knew people that ever did the rodeo circuit... they ARE non-conformists.
I have always thought "didn't need no gasoline" referred to Steve hitchhiking around in his teens and 20s, not horses. He grew up in the suburbs, really, not rural Texas, though his grandfather had a farm. I agree with you that horses and the rodeo are used to emphasize nonconformity. Generally, I think this song is about being bound to fame and record contracts, and his bike reminding him of the days he felt more free.
@darlincommitme Well, I am not saying you are wrong about it being technically a suburb, but the thing about San Antonio is that even the city proper has areas that are so remote or at least unpopulated, they feel rural, rather than suburbia. When SE wrote that line "they don't even know it there's a town around here" I figured he was talking about where he grew up, being a pretty remote place...although I don't doubt he would be even more desperate to get out of the suburbs than the country.
I don't know San Antonio... though I have seen Steve refer to his childhood as middle class suburbs. I remember an interview where he said Someday was written about a character, not himself, though I am sure the emotions are his own. It was written on tour when they pulled off the highway for gas and the kid pumping got Steve started thinking about the people stuck in the town they were jut passing through.
Steve is the oldest of his siblings, but I think there are elements of himself mixed into his character songs. It is just hard at times to sort out what is him. I assume you know about the biographies. Well worth a read, though I think there are always inaccuracies. There is also a great archive of interviews on "the unofficial Steve Earle" fan site - google and it is easy to find.
@darlincommitme I hope you saw my other replies, I wasn't ignoring your comments, I just forgot to direct them to you. Since you seem to be something of an expert on Steve info, maybe you could answer a Q that has been nagging at my consciousness. I read somewhere that one producer was more interested in one of Steve's songs on one of the "earl"iest albums, ha ha! that sounded--intentionally--more like Elvis's style, than any of the songs that sounded like Steve. D'ya know what song they meant?
@fancifulfilly I don't know if I am expert, but I have wasted far to much of my time reading interviews with him and do have a good memory for some things. I don't actually own the books but checked out the library copies.
Not sure about your question. Generally, Steve was doing rockabilly f in the early 1980s, so a few songs sound a bit like Elvis. He did an EP called Pink and Black a and then a LP that was not released until after Guitar Town. It is called "Early Tracks."
@darlincommitme Wow! I had no idea about that! SE must have been only what, 21 or so when Elvis died. I thought "Poor Boy" sounded like Elvis's style, but don't know ir that was the one. BTW, do you think in that song "Think it Over" SE sounds quite a lot like Buddy Holly, and if that was intentional-- the Beatles idolized Buddy, (and Elvis), other rockers did too. Just wondering. BTW i don't know why all these negative remarks about the video-- I like the symbolism of the bronc riders etc.
@darlincommitme Oh! and P.S. I forgot to say thanks for all the info. I am afraid if I post too much it'll look like I am trying to monopolize these comment pgs. and i will really piss someone off! Have a nice evening d.c.m.!
Steve Earle in his prime, are you kidding???? i've been a fan forever, Steve and I actually grew up in the same part of TX, he's got a couple of years on me, but encourages me to keep going, old as we both are!! The best ever.....
I don't get all the people lamenting Steve's popularity. Lots of people like him, and he makes a comfortable living. In his Nashville heyday he wasn't that big, and he's always sold way less than the pop-country sludge pumped out by Shania, Garth, Rascal Flats and all those other miserable cheese acts. To be really poplular, he would have to change; he wouldn't BE Steve Earle. People who like Taylor Swift will continue to breed, and Steve's music will still be out there, so who gives a shit?
@joynthis so true, my friend...quality will always win out, Steve will be around a long, long, time after the same old country junk is gone...and even when all of us oldfolks, who have known and loved Steve for a long tme....and even when Steve, have gone on to the next place...he will still be here....always....
@mrwoodrow no doubt! why do I have to manually advance the scrollbar to urge the video to play after the obligatory commercial . . .if you gottta sponsor every freakin' click at least code it correctly . . .obviously getting paid
@DolphinsPenguins Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs, my friend. I'm sure Ms Swift is just dandy for computer monitor wallpaper, but for MUSIC, I mean, seriously...
omg i just found out that steve earle either has been or currently is a cult member. omg that really bugs me because i worship jesus christ, i just wished he did too
Yes I agree he is the GREATEST! Best darn singer/songwriter out there! Really enjoyed his concert I went to this past Jan/10. I love his music... from his older songs right to his new songs!.
I remember 20 years ago Steve Earle's roadie letting me and my brother into the show for free, cause all the tickets were sold out...
We were just walking by and seen the sign and decided to stop to pay in, and the ticket guy turned us away, and a roadie let us in a side door and said "just stay in the back, enjoy the show and don't make a ruckus"...Damn Good Tunes, and Damn Good People...
i love steve earle but in all fairness we have all written a song elvis didnt record
nightintheruts617 2 days ago
@nightintheruts617
Yeah, but few of us have had our song up to be recorded by Elvis... and Letterman wants his joke back. :)
darlincommitme 17 hours ago
@darlincommitme whoops that reply just before this was intended for you, but I forgot to direct it to you. Anyway I am impressed by your ability to recollect even the smallest details of what you read. I have what passes for a bio of Tom Petty and I read that well before my illness in '07 so I reckon that is why it is more imprinted upon my memory! Ask me something from that!! and I can likely tell you something correct.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
Well, I did read the bio "Hard Core Troubadour", and "Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet" is kicking around this indescribable landfill my other half calls a house somewhere too, but I read them both about 5 years ago before I got ill. Thus it really remarkable I retained anything at all, my memory was so severely sabotaged by the treatment. For a while it was all I could do to remember my own salient info, much less that of a songwriter whose work I love.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
I agree with you princess.3 hour show last year.Awesome
62waylon 1 month ago
incredible, never, never, never gets old. been a fan of Steve's for 25 years, he never fails to give $500 worth of music for a $40 ticket at his shows. God bless Steve Earle.
princessofhesse 1 month ago
Hello EveryOne!
I’m just a girl who wants to become this dream come true.
I love music and I love what I do.
When I’m singing I forget about all my problems and I feel much better and I can be who really I am (There’s a me no one knows)
Music is so nice that I have no words to describe it.
All I want is keep singing all my life and I would like that you guys support me.
Please stop by my channel and check out my covers, that’s all I need.
I’ll Be so grateful If you support me.
Thank Of all you!
Anlimema 2 months ago
where ya at dale?
freddysthedevil 3 months ago
i love this shit
oink4466 5 months ago
thank God for VEVO! the best of the best!! been a fan for yrs and yrs, God bless Steve Earle!
princessofhesse 6 months ago 2
Great Song. Top Top Man.
Boviss1 6 months ago
Ha! This takes us to Missoula, MT on Saturday night 6.18.11 when Steve, Allison & The Dukes rocked us for three hours!!! Go, Steve, Go & THANKS FOR A GREAT SHOW!!!
ChuckieInMT 8 months ago
@ChuckieInMT Damn the brought some real music to Missoula for once.
Waylonstillthebest 7 months ago
@Waylonstillthebest As I was growing up, ASUM productions brought lotsa music to the field house, but now that we're old (50) nobody's got enough balls to do it anymore, so I guess all we can do is bask in the memories of B.O.C., Molly Hatchet, Van Halen and a few more that I can't remember...Ha! Go Figure, eh?
;-)
ChuckieInMT 7 months ago
This is just Steve at his best in my honest opinion. Would love to see him rock it up again, but I feel he is a different place in his life now (well, clearly!) and the rock lifestyle has passed him by. Shame....still love him though.
unrepentant42 9 months ago
The Hard Way is a great album. Wish Steve do another one like it or Copperhead Road.
dwagon1973 9 months ago
luv ya steve lol. i grew up to you and i'm going to rest in peace to you haha. best artist ever!!!
gnrflory 10 months ago
my favorite of the best.....Steve Earle has been my hero for yrs and yrs...always great...
princessofhesse 11 months ago
Right now I´m listening this great song and read Big Sur of Jack Kerouac, sometimes life can be so good...
valverdista 11 months ago 4
dale wher u at.....
freddysthedevil 11 months ago
dale wher u at.....
freddysthedevil 11 months ago
yep, this song just gets better and better as the years roll by...best song, best looking singer...all of it.....God bless Steve Earle...
princessofhesse 11 months ago
ah, hell yeah, when the day has been crappy and people have accused you of ruining their lives or whatever the else you were supposed to do, this is the only thing that makes it all make some sort of sense...
princessofhesse 1 year ago
@princessofhesse .....Amen to that brother ....... Amen to that.
audimanpov 11 months ago
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Vevo sucks. If I have to watch an ad, I wont even bother!
mrwoodrow 1 year ago
2:40 "You see it used to be I was really free, I didn't need no gasoline to run. Before you could say Jack Kerouac you'd turn your back and I'd be gone".
heatherhear 1 year ago
I throw this guy in the mix with Bob Seger. Their lyrics are honest, sincere, and no bullshit. You believe that everything they sing about, they lived.
goodtarist 1 year ago 4
I agree with ConnieLynchtz. I absolutely love this song and couldn't wait to see this video, but was absolutely disappointed. It's not a song about country cliches such as rodeo but about someone who's became someone they're not happy with- I can relate to this as I worked hard to be successful, but found I was much happier with my old self. Wish Steve could re-do this video without the country music stereotypical BS.
sparebeer24 1 year ago
@sparebeer24 I really like the line "all this real estate don't seem all that real to me sometimes".
rojamey 1 year ago
@sparebeer24 yeah, he wasn't happy when he wrote and performed this song....but, that's changed now, God bless Steve Earle...
princessofhesse 1 year ago
Great song.
This clip was absolute horseshit.
Making out for the country hicks, horses n' shit. When it's clearly about "aluminum and steel" as Steve himself states. It's about hitt'n the road, being a non-conformist. Steeped in the Beat movement and Kerouac, It's more than just a shallow "country tune" as the record company tries to sell it as thus.
ConnieLynchitz 1 year ago
@ConnieLynchitz
Maybe... but I remember reading that the concept for the DVD was Steve's. I thiink they are drawing a parallel between bikes and the old West. The video has both.
darlincommitme 1 year ago
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@ConnieLynchitz
Maybe... but I remember reading that the concept for the video was Steve's. I thiink they are drawing a parallel between bikes and the old West. The video has both.
darlincommitme 1 year ago
@ConnieLynchitz I doubt it if this is what the people who filmed the video had in mind, but it might fit in more with the spirit of the song, if you look at it from the horses point of view. The horse keeps bucking the riders who want to break it and make it carry them wherever they want it to go.
rojamey 1 year ago
@ConnieLynchitz Horsesh-t? I don't think so...and this song is about a lot more than aluminum and steel. And you don't seem to get, Steve IS country. He might live in NYC now, but he grew up in rural TX, steeped in country tradition. What COULD he be talking about, when he sings "It used to be I was really free, I didn't need no gasoline to run..." Well, what can you ride that doesn't burn gas like a steel horse? And if you knew people that ever did the rodeo circuit... they ARE non-conformists.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly
I have always thought "didn't need no gasoline" referred to Steve hitchhiking around in his teens and 20s, not horses. He grew up in the suburbs, really, not rural Texas, though his grandfather had a farm. I agree with you that horses and the rodeo are used to emphasize nonconformity. Generally, I think this song is about being bound to fame and record contracts, and his bike reminding him of the days he felt more free.
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@darlincommitme Well, I am not saying you are wrong about it being technically a suburb, but the thing about San Antonio is that even the city proper has areas that are so remote or at least unpopulated, they feel rural, rather than suburbia. When SE wrote that line "they don't even know it there's a town around here" I figured he was talking about where he grew up, being a pretty remote place...although I don't doubt he would be even more desperate to get out of the suburbs than the country.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly
I don't know San Antonio... though I have seen Steve refer to his childhood as middle class suburbs. I remember an interview where he said Someday was written about a character, not himself, though I am sure the emotions are his own. It was written on tour when they pulled off the highway for gas and the kid pumping got Steve started thinking about the people stuck in the town they were jut passing through.
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@darlincommitme Well, good to know... I thought the brother who went to college,etc., was his older brother.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly
Steve is the oldest of his siblings, but I think there are elements of himself mixed into his character songs. It is just hard at times to sort out what is him. I assume you know about the biographies. Well worth a read, though I think there are always inaccuracies. There is also a great archive of interviews on "the unofficial Steve Earle" fan site - google and it is easy to find.
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@darlincommitme I hope you saw my other replies, I wasn't ignoring your comments, I just forgot to direct them to you. Since you seem to be something of an expert on Steve info, maybe you could answer a Q that has been nagging at my consciousness. I read somewhere that one producer was more interested in one of Steve's songs on one of the "earl"iest albums, ha ha! that sounded--intentionally--more like Elvis's style, than any of the songs that sounded like Steve. D'ya know what song they meant?
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly I don't know if I am expert, but I have wasted far to much of my time reading interviews with him and do have a good memory for some things. I don't actually own the books but checked out the library copies.
Not sure about your question. Generally, Steve was doing rockabilly f in the early 1980s, so a few songs sound a bit like Elvis. He did an EP called Pink and Black a and then a LP that was not released until after Guitar Town. It is called "Early Tracks."
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly
There is also the story of Elvis planning to record Steve's song "Mustang Wine," but not showing up for the session and never recording again.
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@darlincommitme Wow! I had no idea about that! SE must have been only what, 21 or so when Elvis died. I thought "Poor Boy" sounded like Elvis's style, but don't know ir that was the one. BTW, do you think in that song "Think it Over" SE sounds quite a lot like Buddy Holly, and if that was intentional-- the Beatles idolized Buddy, (and Elvis), other rockers did too. Just wondering. BTW i don't know why all these negative remarks about the video-- I like the symbolism of the bronc riders etc.
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
@fancifulfilly
Yeah - it was when he first went to N'ville. He tells the story to Letterman in a video here - look up Lettermen and Copperhead Road.
I agree "Think it Over" sounds a lot like Holly, and anyone doing rockabilly has to have him as an influence.
darlincommitme 1 month ago
@darlincommitme Oh! and P.S. I forgot to say thanks for all the info. I am afraid if I post too much it'll look like I am trying to monopolize these comment pgs. and i will really piss someone off! Have a nice evening d.c.m.!
fancifulfilly 1 month ago
Steve Earle in his prime, are you kidding???? i've been a fan forever, Steve and I actually grew up in the same part of TX, he's got a couple of years on me, but encourages me to keep going, old as we both are!! The best ever.....
princessofhesse 1 year ago
I don't get all the people lamenting Steve's popularity. Lots of people like him, and he makes a comfortable living. In his Nashville heyday he wasn't that big, and he's always sold way less than the pop-country sludge pumped out by Shania, Garth, Rascal Flats and all those other miserable cheese acts. To be really poplular, he would have to change; he wouldn't BE Steve Earle. People who like Taylor Swift will continue to breed, and Steve's music will still be out there, so who gives a shit?
joynthis 1 year ago 3
@joynthis so true, my friend...quality will always win out, Steve will be around a long, long, time after the same old country junk is gone...and even when all of us oldfolks, who have known and loved Steve for a long tme....and even when Steve, have gone on to the next place...he will still be here....always....
princessofhesse 1 year ago
VEVO SUCKS
mrwoodrow 1 year ago 11
@mrwoodrow no doubt! why do I have to manually advance the scrollbar to urge the video to play after the obligatory commercial . . .if you gottta sponsor every freakin' click at least code it correctly . . .obviously getting paid
the42voice 1 year ago
awesome song :)
stallard1968 1 year ago
awesome song
stallard1968 1 year ago
before you could say jack Kerouac you'd turn your back & I'd be gone . . . . what a great line
snaholo 1 year ago
This is simply brilliant.
iainisc 1 year ago
I didn't even realize this song had a video and I have this song on cassette, cd and MP3 . It's sad that Taylor Swift gets more views this this...
DolphinsPenguins 1 year ago
@DolphinsPenguins
Who is Taylor Swift??
:)
nilradem 1 year ago
@DolphinsPenguins Yeah, it's a sad state of affairs, my friend. I'm sure Ms Swift is just dandy for computer monitor wallpaper, but for MUSIC, I mean, seriously...
captnswing 1 year ago
i love steve earle
dugazordcito 1 year ago
omg i just found out that steve earle either has been or currently is a cult member. omg that really bugs me because i worship jesus christ, i just wished he did too
kandycane73 1 year ago
@kandycane73
You are either a troll or very gullible. Earle is not a member of a cult (Unless you count 12 step programs as cults.)
nilradem 1 year ago
Ye one of many GREATEST! Best darn singer/songwriter
mobilechief 1 year ago
Yes I agree he is the GREATEST! Best darn singer/songwriter out there! Really enjoyed his concert I went to this past Jan/10. I love his music... from his older songs right to his new songs!.
78joann 1 year ago
one of the greatest..this is my favourite song of all time..steve just brings the truth and for that,i salute him..
tazztower44 1 year ago
I remember 20 years ago Steve Earle's roadie letting me and my brother into the show for free, cause all the tickets were sold out...
We were just walking by and seen the sign and decided to stop to pay in, and the ticket guy turned us away, and a roadie let us in a side door and said "just stay in the back, enjoy the show and don't make a ruckus"...Damn Good Tunes, and Damn Good People...
Thx Bro
Fan for life
Meesh.
meeshgohns 1 year ago 51
Supreme Steve!
StevesGirlxx 2 years ago 4
never realised there was a video for this song.the song is slightly different from the album . tanx for posting
CFOGO 2 years ago
this is the live version (pretty sure)
laurelms1 2 years ago
id say its just a different version that was released as a single
CFOGO 2 years ago