Steven Tyler: Past Is Gone, It Goes By Like Dusk To Dawn

"Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It goes by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life
is in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears..."
(Dream On by Steven Tyler/Aerosmith)

I grew up listening to Dean Martin, Nat Cole and Cliff Richard. The King was always standing by. Middle of the road stuff like Beautiful Sunday, Killing Me Softly and Mother And Child Reunion were also my cuppa in the mid 70s (having listened to them on New Zealand radio day and night in 1973).

But I began to appreciate Badfinger's Come And Get It and Steven Tyler's Dream On after having been introduced to them by younger college mates who were around me in the 80s, especially in Canada. The grounding of course came much earlier from Deep Purple, with their heavy guitar drawl that was metal.

These songs gave me that extra edge for what I term kick music, songs with that extra under-the-jaw punch. But Tyler's composition was one that I kept in the back drawers of my mind. I never appreciated the screaming man and his harmonica although I like the song.

When I started seeing him again week after week on American Idol a few years ago, I thought I'd open the drawer again and take out the crumpled paper that had part of the lyrics, Dream On. And when I read the words once more, they made a lot of sense. "The past is gone, it goes by like dusk to dawn" but "sing with me, sing for the year, Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears." Thank you Steven Tyler and Canadian Uni mates.

Image: Google images.
Original article: Andy Lim.

Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) - DREAM ON - live on American Idol - HD      

Video by: pjanczyk - June 11th, 2012.

NB:
Lead singer Steven Tyler, 65, described local women as delicious and a great melting pot since there are a lot of different kinds. He was replying tongue-in-cheek to a female reporter who had asked his views on the subject.  The veteran Aerosmith rockers are in Singapore to attend and perform at the Social Star Awards at the Marina Bay Sands area this weekend. The Psy guy will be here too I hear. Gallop on...

This article is a rejuvenation of two earlier postings.

'Come And Get It' - Badfinger, Burns - Dunedin

FOR unk DICKO, daughter and son-in-law:

The Banks o' Doon
YE flowery banks o' bonnie Doon,
How can ye blume sae fair!
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae fu' o' care!

Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird,
That sings upon the bough;
Thou minds me o' the happy days
When my fause luve was true.

Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird,
That sings beside thy mate;
For sae I sat, and sae I sang,
And wistna o' my fate.

Aft hae I roved by bonnie Doon,
To see the woodbine twine;
And ilka bird sang o' its luve,
And sae did I o' mine.

Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Upon a morn in June;
And sae I flourish'd on the morn,
And sae was pu'd or' noon.

Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose
Upon its thorny tree;
But my fause luver staw my rose,
And left the thorn wi' me.

Robert Burns

Image: Burns Statue, Dunedin.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/BurnsStatueDunedin.jpg/250px-BurnsStatueDunedin.jpg

Reference: http://uncledicko.blogspot.com/

The Travel Tale To Tell Badfinger Robert Burns NZ

SONGS I LOVE

This story does not report the recent earthquake but today's) tragedy reminds me of the great and beautiful people who live in N.Z. May God help them in their calamity. 14.11.2016

It's a tragedy that New Zealand's Christchurch has been hit by an earthquake. The city brings back memories, having been there way back in the early 70s, when I was on a three week attachment from my one year stint in Wellington.

The people are truly a lovely lot; they are warm, polite, hospitable, kind and mostly generous. My short stay had been a memorable one. I know the situation in Christchurch will improve and hope the people well.

During the second weekend in this floral city, our group decided to travel south for a two day fun trip to Dunedin. As I wandered alone downtown on the second day and amidst witnessing a group of colorfu,l screaming school girls on racing bicycles, I met a lass gazing at the statue of *Robert Burns. We struck up a conversation and she told me she was Scottish. During our chat, we realized our interest were in Burns' poetry and pop music. Since the latter was more interesting, we whiled away our time exchanging songs and melodies.

So amidst discussion about Elvis, Cliff, Donegan, Donovan, Marmalade, Connie Francis, The Beatles and Russ Hamilton, she asked me if I knew a song by Badfinger. I was struck dumb. "Bad who?" I asked surprised as I heard loudly the ego-bubble bursting. So as the Brit group was revealed, I learnt a song.

           Badfinger - Come And Get It (1969) - You Tube Video from TickTock70

To this day, Come And Get It (1969) will always be associated with Christchurch and Dunedin as  these line stick in my mind:

If you want it, here it is come and get it
Mmm, make your mind up fast
If you want it anytime I can get it
But you'd better hurry, cause it may not last...

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*Robert Burns, The Bard, was a Scottish poet and a lyricist (1759 – 1796).
**No matter the tragedy within their ranks, Badfinger was one of the greatest Brit bands ever.