Favorite Music before a hunt
04-14-2005, 04:03 PM
#38
Dominant Buck
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RE: Favorite Music before a hunt
This here Christian is prone to wonder. From 1971- 1976 I was a pretty mixed up kid. I hitch- hiked to Jacksonville to see Skynard . They didn't arrive because of the plane crash. Instead Jethro Tull played. Since then I'm a Christian and as I read it What soever I do should be done to the glory of God. I don't see how the Needle and the Spoon or Give me Three Steps can give glory to God. Not only that ,I'm a firm believer in the verse that says "as a man thinks so he is" The mind of man makes that man. I try to guard my mind. One good Skynard song doesn't justify the others. I've tried to listen to that stuff before and it's not long and I want to pick up my old habits.
Chuck
Chuck
04-14-2005, 08:44 PM
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RE: Favorite Music before a hunt
Chuck7 I don't think anyone ever accused Ronnie Van Zant of being like one of the Blackwood Brothers, BUT the guy knew right from wrong and was raised a southern Christian.
As for "Needle and the spoon" you either need to go back and listen too it or you completely missed the original point of the song. It was their ANTI-DRUG song during a time (mid 70s) when drugs were truly percieved as cool and usually sang about with reverance and encouragement too try by many other artists.
Some lyrics:
The chorus itself was: "Quit the needle, Quit the spoon. Quit the trip too the moon."
other lines were: "... I've seen alot of people who thought they were cool. But then again Lord I've seen alot of fools. Well, I hope you people, Lord can hear what I say. You'll have your chance to hit it someday..."
"Dont mess with the needle or a spoon or any trip too the moon. It'll take you away!"
"Lord their gonna bury you boy. Don't mess with the needle... now I know, I know, I know."
The song was a STRONG encouragement to quit for those already on them and to discourage others from ever beginning. The opening lines of the song "Thirty days Lord and thirty nights, I'm comin home on an airplane flight. Mama waitin at the ticket line. Tell me son why do you stand there cryin? ... I've been feelin so sick and tired. Got to get better Lord before I die. Seven doctors couldn't help my head, they said you better quit son before you're dead!" was about coming home after a month in rehab. How many rockers ever (then, now, future) talk about rehab in a positive light? Some of the truest slackers in society are of the mindset that, "Rehab is for quitters"!!! [:@]
I'm NOT tryin to tell you that artists "good music" makes their "bad stuff" ok. But I just think that proper credit should be given too those artists that at least tried on occasion. As for the "bad stuff" I don't see where a song EVER makes a sane person act anyother way than what they normally would. To argue otherwise is to buy into those rediculous notions like the parents suing artists like Ozzy Ozbourne for their deadbeat kids whackin themselves supposedly after listening too music. I grew up on Waylon and Willie and by the time I was a teenager Hank Jr. was blarin his one night stands and whiskey bents allover radio. The music is great, but I STILL knew the subject was'nt proper. But IMHO that should'nt stop someone from enjoying music that makes their feet shuffle and encourages them to "let their hair down" if for only a few moments.
RA
As for "Needle and the spoon" you either need to go back and listen too it or you completely missed the original point of the song. It was their ANTI-DRUG song during a time (mid 70s) when drugs were truly percieved as cool and usually sang about with reverance and encouragement too try by many other artists.
Some lyrics:
The chorus itself was: "Quit the needle, Quit the spoon. Quit the trip too the moon."
other lines were: "... I've seen alot of people who thought they were cool. But then again Lord I've seen alot of fools. Well, I hope you people, Lord can hear what I say. You'll have your chance to hit it someday..."
"Dont mess with the needle or a spoon or any trip too the moon. It'll take you away!"
"Lord their gonna bury you boy. Don't mess with the needle... now I know, I know, I know."
The song was a STRONG encouragement to quit for those already on them and to discourage others from ever beginning. The opening lines of the song "Thirty days Lord and thirty nights, I'm comin home on an airplane flight. Mama waitin at the ticket line. Tell me son why do you stand there cryin? ... I've been feelin so sick and tired. Got to get better Lord before I die. Seven doctors couldn't help my head, they said you better quit son before you're dead!" was about coming home after a month in rehab. How many rockers ever (then, now, future) talk about rehab in a positive light? Some of the truest slackers in society are of the mindset that, "Rehab is for quitters"!!! [:@]
I'm NOT tryin to tell you that artists "good music" makes their "bad stuff" ok. But I just think that proper credit should be given too those artists that at least tried on occasion. As for the "bad stuff" I don't see where a song EVER makes a sane person act anyother way than what they normally would. To argue otherwise is to buy into those rediculous notions like the parents suing artists like Ozzy Ozbourne for their deadbeat kids whackin themselves supposedly after listening too music. I grew up on Waylon and Willie and by the time I was a teenager Hank Jr. was blarin his one night stands and whiskey bents allover radio. The music is great, but I STILL knew the subject was'nt proper. But IMHO that should'nt stop someone from enjoying music that makes their feet shuffle and encourages them to "let their hair down" if for only a few moments.
RA