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Jose Jones
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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 Posted - 03/13/2003 : 17:00:30
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march 12 (yesterday) was the anniversary of that tragic occurance, apparently. my dad heard them talking about it on the radio. they interviewed an old lady who witnessed it as a child. she said she went out her back door, and the rest of her family went out the front. she never saw her family again.
it's such a sad event, and i think frank really captured the feel of the whole thing in his song.
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echo park
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Saint Barthelemy
128 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2003 : 22:13:09
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funny thing.... I found myself exactly at the dam site on Tuesday, the day before exactly 75 years from when it broke. I love it up there, hadn't been up pin years but I got a work assignment and ended up reading about the dam disaster at the local fire house. It blew my mind cause I love that song, it's one of FB's best.
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misterwoe
= Cult of Ray =
Greece
675 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2003 : 10:32:59
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I agree
Signatures are for wusses...yeah, that's right...wusses. |
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
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Posted - 03/14/2003 : 22:56:34
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| It's definitely a masterpiece of his. It's very emotional and chilling...anyone else get chills listening to it? It's very dream-like and surreal, the pictures you get in your head of this giant wall of water just plowing through an entire region...so tragic. |
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echo park
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Saint Barthelemy
128 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2003 : 22:37:48
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Another thing I couldn't help but notice is a bit ironic, considering all that water... Today the lush green canyon that I remember as San Francisquito Canyon is spookily stark and bare, far fewer trees and green-ness due to an enormous fire that burned for days and days last June. Once again, I believe folks lost there homes to disaster, although I don't think you can pin this one on anyone but Nature herself.
I heard the tail end of the NPR report on the next day, the 75th anniversary. Here's the link to NPR's web article, I think there is audio from the broadcast.
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1190341 |
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freedom rocker
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USA
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Posted - 03/18/2003 : 19:38:53
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that's a dam good song.
ha
ha
the blues isn't an art-form, it's a product-- not unlike computer chips and tampons.
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