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Road Trip
So my 17 year old daughter and I are driving from Detroit Michigan to Columbia Missouri. Its a trip to visit prospective Universities.She's currently driving and I am blogging into a Blackberry as we drive across the seemingly never ending Illinois.
Its 22 hours of driving in total - but the wonderful part of the trip is how much we can connect musically. As I drive she DJ's on my iPod - I do the honors on her iPod whilst she drives.
Kings of Leon,Swell Season, Bright Eyes, She and Him, REM, joe Strummer, Avett Brothers, T Rex,White Stripes,even the Dixie Chicks - we both loved them all.
I tried her on the new Lloyd Cole album but failed to connect - his voice is "too good"
Highlight of the trip - both listenting to and loving Sufjan Stevens - Come on feel the Illinois album - as we drove across Illinois.
Anyway - greetings from Bluff City - only 8 more hours to home.
Any more classic road trip moments from the Massive?
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Pfft... I bet
you're really sitting in a bedsit in Bermondsey!
No, it sounds a fabulous experience, on all levels. Have some Dixie Chicks...
Avoid emulating the narrative of this Hold Steady track
but enjoy it
That sounds pretty wonderful.
I'd go with some Indigo Girls.
Driving out of LA towards Vegas
with college stations playing acoustic covers of old Punk iirc; seeing the Beatles Love Show; going on to Meteor Crater, Flagstaff, Hoover Dam etc.
And the coast road on Maui-the West side--we haven't done the famous East side Hana Highway but the left coast is pretty remrakable.
So have my favourite road composition:
and if that's too downbeat, how about some Indigo Girls as per comments above
Safe Journey
Andrew, as some one who did not have children himself , this post made me smile . I hope in years to come you both get the chance to reflect on this trip as something special to you both .
May I suggest Jill Sobule from Joe"s pub live Nothing to Prove (allowing for the use of the F bomb) it is a beautiful connecting moment between two generations .
Band I was with
in the early/mid '80's, we would semi-regularly get a Houston/Austin/Dallas three night run of jobs from a sympathetic DJ out there. Setting out from West Los Angeles around ten o'clock on a Thursday night we'd drive straight out on I-10 (doing the famous double nickles on the dime) and not stop until we reached Bowie Arizona around dawn the next morning. Just outside Bowie was a truck stop that served the finest chicken fried steak and chilli omelettes any of us had ever had. We'd then fill up and drive on to Houston arriving just in time for sound check. Once on the way back we drove through the desert after a snowstorm with snow piled on cacti like white biceps.
Like Danny said "The road does funny things to a man". But you gotta keep on moving.
Translation please
Sorry, but I don't know what "doing the famous double nickles on the dime" means.
Thanks for the Green On Red though.
Not in Google Translate, but Wikipedia
has a frascinating explanation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Nickels_on_the_Dime
Glad you asked about it.
What SpaceBoy said
is about it. I hadn't seen that wikipedia entry but Mike also spent a lot of time driving from Pipas (San Pedro) to Arizona (where he eventually died in a road accident). The highway out is Interstate 10. "Nickle" being American for a 5 cent coin and "dime" being American for a 10 cent coin, you were driving 55 mph on I-10, hence double nickles etc.
Road trip America; you can do worse than following I-10. It runs from Santa Monica California to Jacksonville Florida taking in Palm Springs, Joshua Tree, San Antonio, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile and Talahassee.
Thanks
Simple really.
I forgot about GoR
Here's my favourite from the same EP
Great song My American Mate
from a great sadly missed band. I will be doing the road trip from Houston to Austin via San Antonio next year when I take my son to SXSW.
When I first went to the USA in 1978 this song was playing incessantly on the radio. Give it a listen, it really is a great song:-
I'm sure you'll have a fantastic drive
Sadly SXSW wasn't even launched when I left the US. I keep promising myself a trip over to see it. Maybe we'll run into each other next year. Have a great time with your son.
Surely only one track fits the bill
Have a safe and fruitful trip.
Not long after moving to California...
... I was driving home on the freeway from San Diego to San Clemente on a dark and rainy Saturday night enjoying Tom Waits' "The Heart of Saturday Night" on the stereo when, just as I crossed the county line, I heard the lyrics to "Diamonds on My Windshield": Oceanside, it ends the ride, with San Clemente comin' up...
It was a magical moment.
Hearing Ventura Highway
on the, er, Ventura Freeway
Actually wish my episodic memory worked better ...
What's the come-a-the-go?
Let me know if it turns out like the university trip Tony Soprano took with Meadow.
Remember - if you see what looks like a rat filling up his car, it most probably is.
Go get him.
Moab by Conor Oberst
'There's nothing that the road cannot heal'.
we played that one
loved it - even if there was nothing that really needed healing......
Thanks for the suggestions...
Home safe - we were not sequested at all! - Rosie says hi!
I drive A LOT in this country - I need to remember I am lucky!