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Music Appreciation

Uncle Joe

(58,483 posts) Tue Nov 30, 2021, 06:18 PM Nov 2021

America Ventura Highway

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America Ventura Highway (Original Post) Uncle Joe Nov 2021 OP

Great song. Weird lyrics. rsdsharp Nov 2021 #1

Clouds Wah_Guy Nov 2021 #3

Welcome to D.U. Wah Guy. Uncle Joe Nov 2021 #5

That whole album was great Bayard Nov 2021 #2

Did This Song In College ProfessorGAC Nov 2021 #4

rsdsharp

(9,223 posts)

1. Great song. Weird lyrics.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 06:51 PM

Nov 2021

“Alligator lizards in the air”(?)

What the hell does that mean?

Wah_Guy

(31 posts)

3. Clouds

Reply to rsdsharp (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 08:11 PM

Nov 2021

I think I got the info from an old radio interview. The line was about the clouds in the sky while on the Ventura Highway.
Couldn't help but start singing it in '79 when I moved to California and saw my first Vta Hwy sign. Corny but true.

Uncle Joe

(58,483 posts)

5. Welcome to D.U. Wah Guy.

Reply to Wah_Guy (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 09:58 PM

Nov 2021

Bayard

(22,196 posts)

2. That whole album was great

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 07:47 PM

Nov 2021

ProfessorGAC

(65,324 posts)

4. Did This Song In College

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 08:34 PM

Nov 2021

Was playing with a coffee house trio. I didn't play guitar back then, but I had a beat up old 12 string tuned to an open chord. So, I could contribute more than vocally. Unless of course there was a piano where were playing. Then, I'd play what I really know!
We did this, Sandman, & Horse With No Name.
Those were fun gigs. Didn't make much money, but no gear to move, little rooms, intimate crowds.
Did it a couple years. Was a hoot.

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