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I spent 2 days in El Remate, Guatemala and the ruins at Tikal. This is kind of a snap shot.
I took a plane across the Peten Jungle from Beleze. It...
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I spent 2 days in El Remate, Guatemala and the ruins at Tikal. This is kind of a snap shot.
I took a plane across the Peten Jungle from Beleze. It was small, just me and the pilot. It was 2 hours late taking off. They said they had reports of heavy smoke on the runway in Guatemala. When I found a cab I was so flustered I forgot what little Spanish I still knew. I told him it was very cold there and I needed a hot beer. I also told him I was staying 2 years. He was very amused After catching my breath I corrected myself. He stopped so I could get a (cold) beer. Then he made me practice my Spanish all the way to El Remate. He also offered to drive me back to Belize when I was ready, but I stuck with the plane. I already had my return ticket and wasn't trusting my powers of communication to cancle it.
Musically, it was heavily influenced by the Punta Rock of Andy Palacio, a brilliant man from Belize who left us too soon. Check out his "Watina" album. It's not Punta Rock like his earlier stuff, but Garifuna Traditional.
This was also heavily influenced by the bass speakers in the pick up truck parked close to the hotel blasting music for their picnic while I swung in my hammock in the sweltering heat. I should learn from this to only write songs that I can actually play on guitar and sing.
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effigy1543 uploaded a new video
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By Bob Nordquist, From the upcoming Intangibles CD, "The Age of Wonder". This isn't about anyone in my family, even though it's an open ...
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By Bob Nordquist, From the upcoming Intangibles CD, "The Age of Wonder". This isn't about anyone in my family, even though it's an open letter to a daughter, sister and mother. (I don't even have a daughter). I know some people with chronic pain though and have experienced it myself. I hope this is a hopeful song and not depressing. Either way, here it is.
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effigy1543 uploaded a new video
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This was on my, "Waiting For the Dam to Break" CD. Jerry Oliver played a great lead guitar on it. I wrote the first half in 1988 and th...
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This was on my, "Waiting For the Dam to Break" CD. Jerry Oliver played a great lead guitar on it. I wrote the first half in 1988 and the second half 10 years later after sitting with the same two guys on a Northern Minnesota Lake.
The morning sky on Saturday
Showed storm clouds, they were far away
We couldn't seem to get in motion
'til someone had a crazy notion
We went to town for batteries
It took two stores to find six D's
We filled the woods with rock and blues
We took turns when it came to choose.
I know a man, a friend of mine
He claims he's not, but he's very kind
He sort of opened up to me
I saw some things I shouldn't see
He told be about his early strife
He told me that he loves his wife
He told me that she changed his life
Now I'm out in the woods with a couple of regular guys
Drinking Mescal and watching Mars up in the sky
Friends remain, but some have gone
They say it's short, but life is long
And memories of distant days
Seem empty miles of space away
Time is caught in old guitars
In photographs and classic cars
Tonight it's shining down from Mars
I know I shouldn't reminisce
In looking back there're things you miss
The future's filled with memories
Still waiting to be lived by me
But days spend under leaking tarps
Or drinking beer and catching carp
With friends who share a piece of shore
Are places I keep aiming for
So I'm back in the woods with a couple of regular guys
Drinking Mescal and watching Mars up in the sky
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effigy1543 uploaded a new video
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I've posted this before from a live show, also released it on a CD and David Hanners covered it and posted it. Still I rewrote a verse of it. See...
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I've posted this before from a live show, also released it on a CD and David Hanners covered it and posted it. Still I rewrote a verse of it. Seems a little late, but I think it's a better verse now. This is about the great fire of 1918 that hit North Central Minnesota. Actually I should thank David for the new verse. When he was about to do the song, he wanted to know all he could about it. I did some more research and found an old newspaper story that talked about the train ride through the fire from Cloquet to Duluth. It inspired me to write a little more descriptively about it.
Words and music by Bob Nordquist c2009
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Hope you enjoy Youtube..Good luck!! Sherry