Favorite Guitar Solos (your list)

[sweatboard]

Here's your finger excercise....

[sweatboard]

Awwww YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHh!!!!!!!!!

thanks Sal

[SmoothOprtr]

Complainer is a tool.

Free Bird and One Big Holiday Rule!

[sweatboard]

[glb]WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!![/glb]

[Complainer]

lol  
If you guys can't find boring, repetitive sections in both those solos you are more sycophantic than you'll care to admit. Instead of giving me the finger, why wouldn't you say something about the music itself?

Listen to the solos in I Ain't The One and Free Bird and then tell me which one has personality and which one is mostly ridiculous. There are good parts to Free Bird, but I just think the "watch how fast I can deedle dee dee" part is lame, especially considering what Allen Collins was capable of playing.

I suppose you're next going to tell me you've never shaken your head at any MMJ lyrics?

[sweatboard]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Let's see, How should I put this?........................................................................................................................................................................................OH, Yeah

[sweatboard]

No seriously, Which MMJ lyrics do you think are lame?  Top Five.  Let's hear them.

[EC]

I suppose you're next going to tell me you've never shaken your head at any MMJ lyrics?

Ummm, dangerous territory dude...  

Honey, I've shaken my head to MMJ lyrics, but I don't think we're talking about the same thing...

[Complainer]

No seriously, Which MMJ lyrics do you think are lame?  Top Five.  Let's hear them.

So, instead of just replying like a normal person you post two pictures that essentially say "Fuck You". I guess that's sort of funny - you would be more polite in person.

You asked me which MMJ lyrics I think are lame. From 'Old September Blues', I think "all alone at the end of the day. really tired it's time to hit the hay" sounds like he threw together a rhyme at the last minute.

From 'The Dark', this section is just...dumb:  
"its called THE DARK. its not a sunny day for the dark. let in the dark, then you you can sleep and fuck and park. let in the dark, it's not another day for the dark. let in the dark, then you can sleep and move and park."   In case anyone missed it, it's called the dark.  

From 'My Car':
"i asked where you go'd,
and you said where you went"  Go'd?

"bought you big houses and payed all the rent" Why is he paying all the rent for houses that he bought? Maybe a mortgage payment, but not rent. A song as beautiful as this one deserves better words.

From 'They Ran':
"somebody stole my lighter. and where it go'd is higher" There's that "go'd" again. I'm not asking for Shakespeare, but go'd?

From 'Lowdown':
"So love, dawg, can't you see?" Dawg? Is Dude going to be on the next album? How about Homey?

From 'I Will Sing You Songs':
"stories of the greater years...fill your heart and soul with beer" I don't think "beer" fits the mood of the song.

From 'Steam Engine':
"your skin looks good in moonlight"  This one bugs me because it comes at the best part of the best song on the album, in my opinion. Couldn't her skin do something in the moonlight other than "look good"? That line is surrounded by a bunch of really good ones, so it sticks out out like a sore thumb.

Before you give me the finger again, sweatboard, - which you're obviously going to do, being the wit that you are - understand that I'm not saying all of MMJ's lyrics are lame, or that I could have done so much better at the age Jim James was when these lyrics were written. I'm just saying that some really, really good songs could have been a lot better had there been some more thought about the words. I actually think a lot of the lyrics are excellent, and they've gotten better on each album; it's just that the band is fallible, like any other band. Having said that, I'd listen to Jim James sing just about anything.

And for the record, the Free Bird solo still sucks.  

[sweatboard]

For the record......

[Complainer]

lol

Wit.

[MMJ_fanatic]

I have to admit I'd rather hear "On the hunt" or I ain't the one" anyday over "Free-overplayed-bird"  

'Board--is that you in the the bird flipping pics?

[sweatboard]

No that's not me Fanatic.    

[sweatboard]

I can't friggin wait to hear what MMJ does with Freebird in Elizabethtown.  As much as I've heard it requested, I've never actually heard anyone cover it.  I don't think anyone has the balls to try and hang with that solo much less try and top it.  

[sweatboard]

I appreciate you posting those lyrics you had a problem with Complainer.  I have to admit that I've wondered the same thing about "Love Dawg".  As for "your skin looks good in the moonlight" I have to say I can't Imagine another line being as good there.  As for Jim's lyrics, I just enjoy the images they paint in my head.  If you sit and try and disect everything you kind of kill it.  Kind of like when you take your friend to see a movie and all he does is sit there and say things like "oh my god that's so fake" or "Yeah right, that'd happen in real life".  Well no kidding, but the fun of it all is the suspending all that shit for a few moments and getting lost in the story.

[SmoothOprtr]

Most of those lyrical selections were from earlier songs as well.  The group has obviously evolved as they have went.

[SMc55]

From 'Lowdown':
"So love, dawg, can't you see?" Dawg? Is Dude going to be on the next album? How about Homey?

I thought that line was "So loved up, can't you see?" for so long that it's what's in my head when I hear the song. Is he calling her a dog? That's a really offensive thing to call a woman here.

[EC]

HA!  No, I think it's a term of endearment.  Whoever he's referring to is his "love dawg".  And dog is spelled differently in order to confirm that it's meant in a nice way.  (See sweatboard's sig line for future reference...)

Also, for the longest time, I thought he was saying "lowdown".  Like, "[I'm] so [lowdown], can't you see?"

I remember being very, very surprised when I saw it was love dawg.  (I love the way hellaciousc pronounces "daawwwwwwg" in his rendition of Lowdown.)

[MMJ_fanatic]

I agree whole heartedly--dawg is a definite term of endearment as applied here

[marktwain]

Complainer,

"By My Car" has some of my favorite MMJ lyrics.  I didn't get it at first - I shook my head, especially at that buying houses and paying rent bit.  BUT I think Jim is assuming a narrative voice.  Like when Faulkner writes as Benjy thinks in _Sound and the Fury_, he (Faulkner) sounds less intelligent than he is, b/c Benjy is retarded.  

Maybe you're not from the south, but down here there are a lot of folks who talk like the narrator of 'By my car'.  Also, after he asks her where she "go'd", the mean girl corrects his fucking grammar - "you said where you went"

I think he does this (assumes a voice - often an "average guy" voice) in other songs, as well. I think it's happening in "Old Sept. Blues", where the dude has a weird accountant's view of love "never were a drawback, always were an asset."

'Course, this is just my own damn opinion. I may be right or wrong.  

I don't think you deserved the finger, though.  I think (hope) that was just joking.  Sweatboard's cool.  We got drunk together virtually. ;D