when i was a young boy

[mitchfit]

When I was a young boy
Advice I would scorn
Now I'm gettin' a little older
I know I got a lot to learn

Yesterday's illusions are tomorrow's smiles
I look back and laugh
Baby sometimes in a while

And it always seems the same
And who knows what to blame
If I knew then what I know now
The mistakes I wouldn't have made
But you can't get a sneak preview
Of what you're gonna go through
And you have to rely on your body and mind
To see the light from shade

Life's the same, but time does change
Respective of your view
You're lookin' for a mystery
But you can't find a clue

Some say a man makes his life
Some say that it's fate
But when you find out what to do
Oh, sometimes it's too late

And it always seems the same
And who knows what to blame
If I knew then what I know now
The mistakes I wouldn't have made

But you can't get a sneak preview
Of what you're gonna go through
And you have to rely on your body and mind
To see the light from shade

Life's the same, but time does change
Respective of your view
You're lookin' for a mystery
But you can't find a clue

Some say a man makes his life
Some say that it's fate
But when you find out what to do
Oh, sometimes it's too late...

mitchfit

[Pickers Ditch]

Played in a support band to Savoy Brown a few times in the late 1960s.

Chris Youlden, absolute gent that he was (is?), shared his J Collis Browne's Mixture via a table spoon with all and sundry in the dressing room before the gigs started.

...those lyrics really mean something.

[pete1951]

If only we could go back a few years( well decades in my case).
Pete

“I wish I had listened to what my mother said”

“What did she say?”

“ I don’t know, I never listened!”

( the late D. Addams)

[Michael Messer]

It's a great song. What has always intrigued me about Savoy Brown is how they became and stayed more popular in the US than at home in the UK. But to those in the UK that were fans, they were really hardcore fans.

I bumped into them a couple of times when we were both playing at festival in Europe, they were a good band and very much of their time.

This is of that time....1973



Shine On
Michael

[mitchfit]

PD--

the US government has a long, long time love-hate relationship with the chemical entertainment choices of the nation's populace.

starting back in the "whiskey rebellion of 1794" when the colonial moonshine manufacturers were required to pay taxes for sales of their product. perhaps more offensive to the people was the law demanded payment to be made ONLY in federal government issued fiat currency. [same is NOT an electric automobile made in Italy] the newly printed "paper money" was one that they had very little faith in at the time.

where as before the "Whitney Act of 1917", citizens were allowed to buy most any drug they wanted to put in their body at the local pharmacy, Doctor prescriptions were mandated to get them afterward. lotsa olde blues songs about this mandatory transition remain popular to this day.

before that our current federal income tax law was allowed in as a temporary emergency tax to fund world war one by the "Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913". unfortunately, alcohol sales were no longer allowed in 1920 and the lack of tax funding caused an extension of national income tax to the present. bunch of deadbeats who need to get on the ball and payoff our debts?

:^)

after returning from "the war to end all wars", the veterans found themselves trying to get some form of employment in an economy the was shrinking quickly due to the war production industries all out of demand for even the workers they had. as a fix, congress passed "The World War Adjusted Compensation Act, or Bonus Act", mostly in federal government bonds due to mature in 1945. then, black friday happened in 1929 and the stock market cratered resulting in the great depression. the "Bonus Army" set up camp in Washington, DC in a call for advanced payment without interest in 1932, reasoning they were starving then, not in 1945.

soon after congress allowed payment and then went to their respective states for summer vacation. in the only case i know of where US active army soldiers were called on to fire on US army vets, and heavily armed federal troops, led by General Douglas MacArthur and Major Dwight Eisenhower and Major George Patton, who torched and gassed the veterans’ camps, killing several and wounding many. all to remove the bonus army.

[ya can't make this stuff up...]

an America basher here? no, would advise France and UK citizens to check into the "Opium Wars" of the mid 1800s. the newly formed hammer and sickle group sent military units to arrest and execute opium den members in the late 1940s, eradicating addiction for the most part. why would that government view fentanyl as a modern warfare tool today?

with addicts living in tents in large cities of the US today, was easy access really the root problem? or did the government just create more middlemen in the supply chain?

the point is that the hysterical records all show that governments who become too large eventually make bad decisions equally large.

does he hate his own nation? no. wouldn't have burned all the time to type this if i believed it was too late to force change in our government in a peaceful way. those who feel violence is the way to stop the violence have little insight into warfare over the last 5 centuries. us being the previous generation and the ones who dropped the ball, don't we owe it to those younger than ourselves to inform them that being politically inert was our biggest mistake?

pete1951--

in an >alleged< recent poll, pot smokers were asked if they feel continued use would eventually hurt their memory. 70% of those who answered said no. 20% said it would. 10% couldn't remember the question...

:^)

MM--

the irony of it all. my first exposure to American artist Muddy Waters was from Savoy Brown. feel a need to repay the debt to them and expose what is their best album to their native country. feel that it is worth a listen for those who haven't heard it before. or even those who have:



mitchfit