Still Figurin' Out Who I Think I Am

This one's about the Rez Juke catch-up (8 of 9).

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Ok, here's one all y'all true music nerds are gonna make me feel embarrassed about, like I should've known this or somethin'...I never really listened to The Band (and I know..."What band?" Fuck you...I got jokes, but it's too late for jokes and I've only got one more of these to write, so I may get to bed before the whole "turn your clocks back an hour" thing that happens tonight. So you know, The Band. That's the name of the band, The fucking Band.).

I'd heard of them, and every god damn local band in every dive bar across the US and Canada has been inspired by them (here, they're really called The Band  ), but me? Nope. Took me hearing one song on a stupid ass Facebook game to cop their Greatest Hits off iTunes last winter. Last winter!! What can I say? I'm always a late adopter of cool shit.

And it's funny...I think I've mentioned at some point to both skeason and Lyn's a Witchy Woman this week something about the Grateful Dead. I was gonna add them to my playlist for this, because I'd read that Black Flag did a cover of "Truckin'"...but I'll be damned that no one has put that shit up on YouTube. There's 8.32 billion useless Justin Bieber songs crashing into one another on the internet, and not one fucking legendary, meaningful 80's punk band covering hippy jam band music?! If there were ever one good reason to call the triple-dubya a failure, there it is.

But as I was scrolling through my iTunes library this afternoon, mining it for ideas, I came across The Band (that band), and I thought to myself "Someone's had to have covered 'The Weight'". Luckily, my ability to look things up without anyone else's help really wasn't broken (a legit thought after being foiled on the Grateful Dead/Black Flag thing), and after a few clicks I was able to put together a Dead/Band (wow, that's kinda fun to type) connection.

So yeah, like most kids I had a Grateful Dead's Greatest Hits cd out of curiosity at some point...but I'm not one of them Deadhead types (although, good for them). I have a couple of their studio albums now because they were my uncle's, and I got his cds when he passed two years ago. They're alright to listen to for a couple of songs, but if I had to listen to one of their records straight through, I might try to pull my ear canals out through my ass. And speaking of dead people, like, half the prominent members of The Band (not the Grateful Dead, but The Band) are no longer with us...and Jerry Garcia joined them a few years ago.

Me? I gave up a fun evening of Songpop just so I could type all this out.

"I pulled in to Nazareth; was feeling 'bout half past dead."
Lyrics.