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If I remember right, the story behind the song is the song writer found it humorous how his fellow Italians enjoyed singing English songs. The problem was that their English was all wrong. So he wrote a sing along song, shown in the video, and told Italians he was singing English. The only English said is "All Right". Everything else is made up gibberish.
 
I think native culture is really interesting. I have several native friends that I grew up with. We used to learn how to smoke fish and make native foods from the elders on field trips in school. They would dance and play music too, very cool. Those songs remind me of good times. :)
 
Coincidently last week I finished reading the book Firewater How Alcohol is killing my people by Harold Johnson. The book is about how alcohol is badly effecting native Indians in Canada to this day. The author attributes up to 50% of deaths to natives to alcohol abuse. It's sadly an old story. For some reason north American native Indians are effected worse when drinking alcohol. Some have written that a main reason why north America was depopulated of native Indians was due to alcohol addiction.
 
Bob Seger - Against the wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99OgSEDm7_0

For someone who was born too late (end of the 70's), it seems strange that this song seems to follow me around, through my life. It always seems to pop up when I need it, and least expect it, and it often effects me differently and a new part of the song will take on a different meaning for me (often nothing to do with the intended lyrics).

I would say I first remember hearing it when my parents played it on record, and as a teenager I would listen to it on my own record player in the dark as I contemplated the difficulties of being a teenager:rolleyes:.

The first time it really held a meaning was at the age of 22. I had just got married, I had what was becoming a successful franchise business (that I had managed to get into with the help of a mentor and the financial backing of the franchisor, I basically had the total assets of a $6000 car and owed $4000 on it). I was working long and hard hours, but making far more money than I could spend, with no responsibilities. When I returned from my honeymoon, my parents sat me down and let me know that my father had terminal cancer and it was expected he would only live a few more months. I later found out the doctor had told him a week before my wedding, but they had decided not to tell me until I returned from the honeymoon.

'Against the wind' played on the radio as I headed to work the following day (after my parents admitted they had known at my wedding), and I had to pull over as the words 'wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then' played. It wasn't the knowledge of my fathers imminent death that resonated with these words, but at that point, I realized how hard it must have been for my parents to hold their composure during the week leading up to the wedding, and my fathers strength, especially during his wedding speech. My father fought hard and managed to live a further 10 months, but passed away just after his 50th birthday (far too young).

With his passing, their was the financial burden of supporting the loan repayments on the family home as well as my own, and out of pocket health expenses. I had also fallen out with my business partner (who I had known for 8 years and was a school friend), we had tried to expand the business as an eventual exit strategy and this had failed and before we knew it, we were not communicating and the business was under serious financial pressure and we both risked loosing our houses. My mother decided she needed to get away (too many memories in the family home, but I suspect she was just trying to remove some of the financial burden), the family home was sold and she went to live with her sister, which was an 8 hour drive away (the banks got most of the money, but my mum was able to have enough for a small house). Hearing the song then, I found strength knowing that I had to fight through this as my father had so bravely fought. The second and third verse seemed to take on more meaning (although not as the song intends), and as the business partnership folded and I took on the responsibility of the debt, my wife and I worked harder than we ever had to build the business and get out of debt. Over the following years we managed to get out of debt, and eventually 'looking for shelter against the wind' sold the businesses with enough funds to leave us with a modest house and relatively small house loan (in hind sight going bankrupt would have been an easier path to take).

We managed to have a few years of working for someone else and a fairly stress free existence, we considered starting a family, but unfortunately that just never seemed to happen. It was now 6 years ago and the song is back stronger than ever as I was diagnosed with crohn's.

I have fistulising Crohn's, so it all started with an abscess and eventually being rushed to the hospital after the first GP treated me with several courses of antibiotics instead of draining the abscess. After the surgery things never settled and I found myself unable to work and desperately looking for a little 'shelter against the wind', often finding myself 'Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends' and again with financial pressures due to being unable to work, as I had many emergency surgeries and spend months away from home trying hyperbaric chamber treatment. I was left deciding 'What to leave in, what to leave out'. Take a different spin on the lyrics and now with Crohn's and the urgency that comes with it, even the words 'running against the wind' hold a somewhat morbid meaning I would have never thought about before :poo: (during the times I rush to find a toilet).

Fast forward to now and having returned to work (in the last 6 months), the retail store I am working at, currently has this song come on two to three times a day, as it loops through it's internal radio. I heard it second day back, as I wondered if I had made a horrible mistake and returned to work a little earlier than I should have (I am hopefully approaching remission, with medication issues resolved).

This song now reminds me of not just the hardships I have been through (the dark stages of my life, the times with my illness when I contemplated if life was really worth living if it meant constant pain, loss of mobility, energy, and drive with no end in sight), but more importantly the strength that I have, and even more so, the strength my wife has, and how she stuck with me every step of the way, fighting harder than me, when I had given up. My wife is my true 'shelter against the wind', and I know she would say the same about me.

Yesterday I heard the song again at work and the words 'wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then' took on another importance. Because we were careful with our money, and managed to hold onto our house, we are actually in a fairly good position financially (far from comfortable, but we do have some breathing room if something was to go wrong), but the cloud of crohn's hangs overhead effecting my decisions for the future. We haven't had a real holiday in 10 years and I found myself talking my wife out of planning one for next year "we don't know if I might get sick again". Listening to the song it dawned on me, I need to get back a little of that naive spirit. I need to be smart about organizing the trip etc, not cancel the idea because the Crohn's might return to it's life altering state again.

Wishing you all a little shelter against the wind!!

Cheers,

Cameron
 
Right on Cameron. You are one tough guy, been through a lot and still making it happen. We need more people like you. Only the strong survive, you are very strong and so was your father. God bless.
 
When I'm off to see my consultant I go for "Couldn't I Just Tell You (the way that I feel)" by that old rocker Todd Rundgren.....and hope that by taking sufficient Loperamide the second line of the song doesn't come to pass "I can't keep it bottled up inside!"
 
I watched some 4th of July special last night and they had the Beach Boys on there. I enjoy their music.
 
I loved the Beach Boys growing up. Outside of the family home though I couldn't mention that in my circle of friends. As a teen, the Beach Boys we're not cool enough to be a fan of I guess. To say so I could risk being excommunicated from our group! Music was taken so seriously back then. :p

I heard this song yesterday, and now it has been rolling around my noggin all day long.

Gary Glitter: Rock 'n' Roll Part 2 (great sound)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpVu-aKdpqw
 
Beach said:
I loved the Beach Boys growing up. Outside of the family home though I couldn't mention that in my circle of friends. As a teen, the Beach Boys we're not cool enough to be a fan of I guess. To say so I could risk being excommunicated from our group! Music was taken so seriously back then. :p

I heard this song yesterday, and now it has been rolling around my noggin all day long.

Gary Glitter: Rock 'n' Roll Part 2 (great sound)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpVu-aKdpqw
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Hockey night in Canada music! I love it! Beach you never cease to amaze me.:)
 
Ihatefistulas said:
Bob Seger - Against the wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99OgSEDm7_0

For someone who was born too late (end of the 70's), it seems strange that this song seems to follow me around, through my life. It always seems to pop up when I need it, and least expect it, and it often effects me differently and a new part of the song will take on a different meaning for me (often nothing to do with the intended lyrics).

I would say I first remember hearing it when my parents played it on record, and as a teenager I would listen to it on my own record player in the dark as I contemplated the difficulties of being a teenager:rolleyes:.

The first time it really held a meaning was at the age of 22. I had just got married, I had what was becoming a successful franchise business (that I had managed to get into with the help of a mentor and the financial backing of the franchisor, I basically had the total assets of a $6000 car and owed $4000 on it). I was working long and hard hours, but making far more money than I could spend, with no responsibilities. When I returned from my honeymoon, my parents sat me down and let me know that my father had terminal cancer and it was expected he would only live a few more months. I later found out the doctor had told him a week before my wedding, but they had decided not to tell me until I returned from the honeymoon.

'Against the wind' played on the radio as I headed to work the following day (after my parents admitted they had known at my wedding), and I had to pull over as the words 'wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then' played. It wasn't the knowledge of my fathers imminent death that resonated with these words, but at that point, I realized how hard it must have been for my parents to hold their composure during the week leading up to the wedding, and my fathers strength, especially during his wedding speech. My father fought hard and managed to live a further 10 months, but passed away just after his 50th birthday (far too young).

With his passing, their was the financial burden of supporting the loan repayments on the family home as well as my own, and out of pocket health expenses. I had also fallen out with my business partner (who I had known for 8 years and was a school friend), we had tried to expand the business as an eventual exit strategy and this had failed and before we knew it, we were not communicating and the business was under serious financial pressure and we both risked loosing our houses. My mother decided she needed to get away (too many memories in the family home, but I suspect she was just trying to remove some of the financial burden), the family home was sold and she went to live with her sister, which was an 8 hour drive away (the banks got most of the money, but my mum was able to have enough for a small house). Hearing the song then, I found strength knowing that I had to fight through this as my father had so bravely fought. The second and third verse seemed to take on more meaning (although not as the song intends), and as the business partnership folded and I took on the responsibility of the debt, my wife and I worked harder than we ever had to build the business and get out of debt. Over the following years we managed to get out of debt, and eventually 'looking for shelter against the wind' sold the businesses with enough funds to leave us with a modest house and relatively small house loan (in hind sight going bankrupt would have been an easier path to take).

We managed to have a few years of working for someone else and a fairly stress free existence, we considered starting a family, but unfortunately that just never seemed to happen. It was now 6 years ago and the song is back stronger than ever as I was diagnosed with crohn's.

I have fistulising Crohn's, so it all started with an abscess and eventually being rushed to the hospital after the first GP treated me with several courses of antibiotics instead of draining the abscess. After the surgery things never settled and I found myself unable to work and desperately looking for a little 'shelter against the wind', often finding myself 'Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends' and again with financial pressures due to being unable to work, as I had many emergency surgeries and spend months away from home trying hyperbaric chamber treatment. I was left deciding 'What to leave in, what to leave out'. Take a different spin on the lyrics and now with Crohn's and the urgency that comes with it, even the words 'running against the wind' hold a somewhat morbid meaning I would have never thought about before :poo: (during the times I rush to find a toilet).

Fast forward to now and having returned to work (in the last 6 months), the retail store I am working at, currently has this song come on two to three times a day, as it loops through it's internal radio. I heard it second day back, as I wondered if I had made a horrible mistake and returned to work a little earlier than I should have (I am hopefully approaching remission, with medication issues resolved).

This song now reminds me of not just the hardships I have been through (the dark stages of my life, the times with my illness when I contemplated if life was really worth living if it meant constant pain, loss of mobility, energy, and drive with no end in sight), but more importantly the strength that I have, and even more so, the strength my wife has, and how she stuck with me every step of the way, fighting harder than me, when I had given up. My wife is my true 'shelter against the wind', and I know she would say the same about me.

Yesterday I heard the song again at work and the words 'wish I didn't know now, what I didn't know then' took on another importance. Because we were careful with our money, and managed to hold onto our house, we are actually in a fairly good position financially (far from comfortable, but we do have some breathing room if something was to go wrong), but the cloud of crohn's hangs overhead effecting my decisions for the future. We haven't had a real holiday in 10 years and I found myself talking my wife out of planning one for next year "we don't know if I might get sick again". Listening to the song it dawned on me, I need to get back a little of that naive spirit. I need to be smart about organizing the trip etc, not cancel the idea because the Crohn's might return to it's life altering state again.

Wishing you all a little shelter against the wind!!

Cheers,

Cameron
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Music is a very powerful thing for sure. Some times to help us not feel so alone or to get us through hard times. Then sometimes to just scream with some song that demands it with their beat and words. I love music all genres for sure which is weird to some, but different ones for different moods. Thanks for sharing. Everytime I hear Dust in the Wind I think of a friend of mine who used to sing it so well and is no longer around. Whenever I have a procedure I sing, "There will be peace in the valley for me someday".
 
cmack said:
That's a pretty good one Beach, but now you have gone and done it! I have the same thing stuck in my head, and actually, it's pretty good :)

Willie Nelson- "Always on my Mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y
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It's a good one to have running in the mind! It's the only Willie Nelson song I'm familiar with. I can remember a grandfather playing it quite a bit when coming to visit, along with a host of other country tunes.

For the dance version, here is the Pet Shop Boys take. Got to love the crazy 80s music video. I suspect they might have been smoking weed with Willie before making it. :p

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg
 
Hey! I was just reading that most animals have the enzymes necessary to breakdown some alcohol! Don't know how helpful that info is but thought to pass along.
 
My dog lived to be seventeen and she drank some beer once in a while, (tipped the can and drank it off the coffee table when nobody was looking), she also stole my coffee right out of the mug. She was a sneaky one but so much fun.
 
:drink:
We have a couple cute brother and sister cats. Adorable pair. Thinking about it though, as crazy as cats can be at times I'm unsure if I could tell if they had been drinking or not.
 
I remember that song! For awhile as a child I took piano lessons and that was a song I could play ...some. I was never all that good but enjoyed the 70s piano tunes.
 
Good times! Piano is great, I wish I could play one. We used to sing it in school, but we made it Ford versus Chevy on the lunch breaks. "Ford it won't be long, until you need, somebody to lean on." We had the Ford vs Chevy debates every day as a kid. LOL
 
That sounds a bit like my father and his hot rod car friends. It's a big deal with them over what is better Ford or Chevy vehicles. Kind of funny now that I think about it. Dad's a Chevy guy. Funny in that now dad lives on an island made by Henry Ford. Hmmm....never thought of that before. Ford made good islands. His 50s and 60s cars apparently were not so good.

Well, lets see, on memory lane, the first guitar song I could play was this simple tune. I always loved this early Cure song.

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryImbOTDXe8&list=RDryImbOTDXe8
 
Good one! I hadn't listened to that song in awhile.

Well, I think we've become a 2 man band of late Cmack. In honor of that, but not because of that, I've had this song buzzing around my head today. I've been feeling pretty darn well of late, upbeat with that, fingers crossed it continues. I could use more energy but thats the song of my life it seems! Regardless I might find myself soon listening to less music and instead picking up the guitar and messing around with it.

The Jam - That's Entertainment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ&list=RDm-H0uIH5HHQ
 
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Beach said:
Good one! I hadn't listened to that song in awhile.

Well, I think we've become a 2 man band of late Cmack. In honor of that, but not because of that, I've had this song buzzing around my head today. I've been feeling pretty darn well of late, upbeat with that, fingers crossed it continues. I could use more energy but thats the song of my life it seems! Regardless I might find myself soon listening to less music and instead picking up the guitar and messing around with it.

The Jam - That's Entertainment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ&list=RDm-H0uIH5HHQ
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Love their sound!! Thanks
 
cmack said:
Good times! Piano is great, I wish I could play one. We used to sing it in school, but we made it Ford versus Chevy on the lunch breaks. "Ford it won't be long, until you need, somebody to lean on." We had the Ford vs Chevy debates every day as a kid. LOL
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I so enjoyed learning the piano, never got good. Hope to take it up again someday. When we moved we sold the piano to the people. :-(
 
Even better or at the very least as good as the original
which was originally written by Bob Dylan (at least the chorus part) for the movie Pat Garett and Billy the Kid but never used in the movie .
https://youtu.be/1gX1EP6mG-E
 

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