Music Drives the Savage ODDfellow
Music doth drive us today. Lookee here and let us wander from Barney Martin’s
start with ‘Name That Tune’ over to
singing Don Durant and his one season western ‘Johnny Ringo‘, then onward
to Saul Holiff and Johnny Cash before finally ending on the beach with Wayne Miyata and surfing; hence of course
surf music and the surf guitar.
‘Although your world wonders me
with your majestic superior cackling hen.
Your people I do not understand.
So to you I wish to put an end.
And you’ll never hear surf music again.’
Word has it that the last line here was
dedicated by Jimi
to the King of Surf Music Dick Dale who was in the hospital suffering from
rectal cancer and given a scant 3 months to live. This
was 1967 and at the time Jimi was
recording the song ‘Third Stone From The Sun’.
And did you know that Dick, like Jimi did, plays a Fender Stratocaster upside
down? Of course you all recall Dick’s playing in ‘Pulp Fiction’, but do you remember what time it was (always) in
the movie?
Let’s try a bit of a Jump To The Left going
from images of John
Travolta and the Twist in ‘Pulp Fiction’ over to
Elaine’s roundly
booed dance in Seinfeld. Some people shouldn’t air their moves it seems, but we’re awarding ODD Bonus Points if
you can guess the next jump to a time when your moves literally kept you alive. If you guessed the art of the
QuickDraw, then the points are yours Lucky Citizen. Of
course gun fights in the True West
were no picnic.
And speaking of no picnic, we’ve arrived at the bonus round and our cleanup act for today courtesy of surfing. Remember to
bring more than a pistol when two great whites attack.
