I was looking through my bullet journal and found notes from this book that I had read about 9 months ago. I wanted to make sure that I can easily find my notes in the future, so here they are. At some point, they might be rewritten into permanent notes and then reside in my Obsidian database.
- p. 12 “When you don’t know nothin’, you got plenty to learn”
- p. 31 “In 1965, being invited to a Bob Dylan session was like getting backstage passes to the fourth day of Creation.”
- p. 128 “…it’s nice to let people know that you’re human beings and not programmed machines vomiting our someone else’s music”
- p. 171 Frank Zappa “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”
- p. 176 Roy Orbison’s backup band, the Candymen, became the Atlanta Rhythm Section around 1972
I find the p. 12 quote inspirational. Perhaps a separate blog post on why it resonates with me.
Before reading this, I had no idea that Al Cooper was involved with Dylan and the Blues Project in 1965-1967
Here’s something else I noted. The CD Projections might be worth listening to. On page 77 it’s mentioned that on Two Trains Running Danny Kalb tuned up a a flat string during a 4 beat break, and created a riff out of it.
I subsequently noted that the Beaverton Library had the CD. I must have checked it out and listened to it.
Other records noted in the book that might be worth listening to.
- Lynyrd Skynyrd-Nothin Crazy
- Nils Lofgren-Cry Tough
- The Tubes