Comments on: Dancing on fire

By: mike taht

mike taht — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:08:15 +0000

Heh, if you are ever in south jersey again, Joe’s Pizza still makes pretty darn good pizza and the joes special sub is out of this world…

I miss those peppers and a good football game.

By: Michael Turro

Michael Turro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:06:41 +0000

You would be surprised how little that part of Pequannock has changed – at least since my earliest memories of it in the 70’s. Carnival Spot has expanded to two store fronts – one is the old pizza place with the same menu – the other side is a trattoria – and there is still Jones Hardware a few doors down. The fact that they’re still in business in the era of Home Depot is perhaps an even more amazing story than the Carnival Spot longevity.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:17:14 +0000

OMG! Carnival Spot is still there?!?! Yes! Look at this! That changes everything. My faith in Jersey is sustained. Do they still have #5 and #7 subs? #5 was "Italian," as I recall. #7 was roast beef. I got that one often, with just onions, oregano, oil and vinegar. Once, when I was starving for Home Food in college in North Carolina, I almost organized a caravan of Yankees to dive up to Pompton Plains to pick up an order of goods from Carnival Spot. No kidding.

By: Michael Turro

Michael Turro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:50:14 +0000

Doc: You might be glad to know that Carnival Spot is still alive and kicking and still making great pizza.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:20:59 +0000

Yep on all grounds. Will catch up on the listening later. Meanwhile, what blows me away about the Doors is what good musicians they were, as well as songwriters and performers. (And the arrangements on the first two albums, one recorded on four tracks, the other on eight.) Too bad Morrison was so freaking self-destructive. But, hate to say it, that was clearly part of his art. What would he have become, had he lived? Or, had Lennon, or Hendrix, or Joplin, or Steve Goodman or…

By: David Taht

David Taht — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:41:44 +0000

I’m now on 1968 and 67 flashback. currently queued:

Couple other Doors tunes – “riders on the storm”, “Peace frog”, and “ship of fools” and all of
Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet
Pink Floyd: A saucerful of secrets
Creedence: their first record, with “I put a spell on you” on it
Hendrix Electric Ladyland, and to come down from that
Taj Mahal’s Giant Step, De Old Folks at Home.

By: David Taht

David Taht — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:05:53 +0000

And just queued up Miller’s Book of Dreams after that… beats the heck out of again listening to Jamie Johnson’s record in progress Rainstorm trying to figure out how to best improve the mix….

(the above is a blatant plug to share some new music in progress of formation in the hope it can be improved further)

Loved the mix on strange days in many places – how the piano just leaps out of “My eyes have seen you” for example.

By: David Taht

David Taht — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:56:52 +0000

I hadn’t listened to that record in a long time… queued it up, was just amazed at how good love me two times sounded… I have no idea how you got through the next intro without flashing on smoke and adolescence….

GOOD record for today.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:43:32 +0000

Wow, the threads to connect here... Jerome, I had no idea that Jet Airliner wasn't written by Steve Miller. Now I'm digging into Paul Pena and ... holy shit. Sorry I missed this guy when he was around. Also crazy to see he died of complications from pancreatitis, which laid me out in June. It was during that hospitalization that I got re-turned on to Leonard Cohen. See, it all hangs together.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:32:55 +0000

Thanks, Doc, great post, pulling out a bunch of related threads. Here’s another…

Thanks to KPIG, was made aware that “Big Old Jet Airliner” was written by Paul Pena, who has also passed on. Google turns up plenty about a very interesting character and life…

http://www.google.com/search?q=paul+pena

Also a favorite of mine is his “Gonna Move” which has been covered by Susan Tedeschi.