Comments on Profile Post by Thad E Ginathom

I knew it was rock. Could not even get the band. Surely only the Grateful Dead could sound that lyrical and intense? If one starts playing stuff, the original unknown vanishes!

I thought of one song to check out. Looked at the lyrics. They made me cry but it wasn't the song.

Yesterday. Song gone.

Just now it resurfaced... I got the band! It's Hot Tuna, so I'm within a couple of LPs of finding it. I still have no words. "... ... ... yesterday;" I think.

It has that lilting, melodic, almost plaintiffly intense feel that some American rock of that period has

GOTCHA!

The fog rolled in from the ocean yesterday;
The Beach had disappeared within the grey;
And tomorrow, almost drowned at sea ...

Hot Tuna. Phosphorescent Rat: Soliloquy for 2.

And... It's a lyric the internet doesn't seem to know!

https://open.spotify.com/track/0ihSQLCReTwjhhZ67HhirH?si=3c27b77504bf45f9

The internet is wonderful if you know some lyrics. Shazam is even better if you are listening to a song you don't know. And Google (and others) will apparently try to identify a tune if you can hum, sing, or whistle a portion as well. Have not tried that last one yet, but sure wish these things has been around when I was a kid.

Very true. And it never fails to amaze me, finding out how much stuff I misheard, even with my relatively better hearing of 50 years ago.

But this one, it didn't help. I eventually pieced most of the first line from disused brain cells, and google found nothing. Not even when I eventually located the song by listening and typed in the lyrics I could hear!

" it never fails to amaze me, finding out how much stuff I misheard". LOL. Like Hendrix' Kiss This Guy or Judas Priest's Raking The Lawn. Sometimes it is hard to unhear things even when you know they are wrong, but it's all in good fun in any case.