Cold blue steel and sweet fire
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Don't know James Burton. He was the inspiration for this song? Love Joni's work on this, Saw her live in D.C., six months before this recording, heard this song for the first time, just cried.
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@brianallancobb I always loved James Burton's work on the original. And yes, Joni's tunings are scary!! But, they work.
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Joni tuning the E down to C is just wild. The sub-dominant. It makes absolutely no sense. Brilliant. Love you, always, Joni. Terrific guitar. Nobody like you.
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Love her tuning the E down to a C. No guitar techs for Miss Joni. Saw her on this tour. Jackson Browne (just him) opening act. Sublime.
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Joni was a genius composer 20th century icon
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Gawd I can sure appreciate this song ,,,,its very intense if you have ever been around junkies its pretty Angelic compared to that addiction and its evils ///////
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@beelzabubba : It's a great song, one of the most subtly chilling and bleak songs about drug addiction.
But the line is "One eye for the beat police." Not "pig."
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Is it just my imagination or does her gentle, angelic delivery get gentler and more angelic the darker the lyrics get? I'm in unabashed awe of this performance.
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I came with her, she knew the way, it was down, down the dark ladder.
Not smack, but because I had no access to smack.
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"Pin cushion prick this poor bad dreamer."
One of the better lyrics ever written.
brianallancobb 1 year ago 7
Joni had and still has something that cannot be measured..... the 5th element, the intangible force, whatever you want to call it...... the first line of this song is: Cold Blue Steel out of Money, one eye for the Pig Police....... Joni got away with calling cops pigs more than anyone..... I'll even kiss a sunset pig... California I'm comin' home....
beelzabubba 11 months ago