10th of September & Johnny B. Goode

Have you ever felt that your memory doesn't do justice to the reality around you. If I ever walk into the balcony of my 1304 Avalon Cove apartment, or if I ever walk on the boardwalk around Jersey City area my eyes would still search for those two buildings. They overwhelmed me, I always compared them to living in the shadow of a great mountain. I can't imagine that it has been almost 8 years since that fatal day in New York. How time flies? I still can't believe that those magnificent pieces of architecture and all those souls are not around anymore.

So yesterday I heard that Mr. Obama say that one person he whom he would like to dine with is Gandhi. Who wouldn't? When anyone praises Gandhi ji's life, one line that comes to my mind is from the Gandhi movie trailer: 'Some men change their times, one man changed the world for all time'. Now who wouldn't like to dine with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mYdulpNEWc&feature=related

That reminds me another thing that Ben Kingsley won the Oscar for this potrayal of Mohandas Gandhi. However its hard to believe that he won it against probably the strongest competition if there was for the best actor:
The nominations that year were:
Paul Newman in Verdict
Dustin Hoffman for Tootsie
Jack Lemmon in Missing
Peter O'Toole for My Favorite Year
and
Ben Kingsley

As sandeep came to drop me we listened to a couple of good old 50s songs in his car, Stupid Cupid was one of them. However the song which I enjoyed was 'Johnny B Goode.' It reminded me all those memories from my teens when I had learnt what music actually meant.

Chuck Berry was the first to sing this awesome song and it is probably the most widely covered rock song. It has been sung by probably the greatest of the greatest musicians of all time. The list is so big that it would probably one blog in itself however some of them are:
Elvis Presley, BB King, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Elton John, The Roling Stones, Prince, AC-DC, Judas Priest, The Carpenters, LL Cool J, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin and ofcourse THE Jimi Hendricks.

The original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8enzt3JP-I&feature=related

When Bruce Springsteen was left to be a second fiddle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPFZJF-d5kc&feature=related

The great Jimi Hendrix version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4RTVi5dfPQ&feature=related

However, my favorite has to be one which brings all my memories back. I had seen this movie in mid 80s and ofcourse I wanted to be Marty McFly. I loved everything about this movie and I have watched it at least 25 times since then. However this song takes me back to those memories in MHOW. Ofcourse it is

"All right. This is an oldie, but, uh... well it's an oldie where I come from."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgI1FaLpGM&feature=related
(for lack of better version available on you tube)

There are lot of things common between India and the US and as India's economic strength increases one more thing that we add is a Country where a common country boy can not only imagine but can actually conquour the world (just what Mohandas Gandhi wanted this country to be). It's for that optimism......

Johnny B. Goode

Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood
Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode
Who never ever learned to read or write so well
But he could play the guitar just like a ringin' a bell

Chorus:

Go, go, go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
Johnny B. Goode

He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
Or sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
Oh an engineer could see him sitting in the shade
Strummin' to the rhythm that the drivers made
People passing by they would stop and say
Oh my but that little country boy could play

Chorus

His mother told him "some day you will be a man"
And you will be the leader of a big old band
Many people coming from miles around
And hear you play your music till the sun go down
Maybe someday your name gonna be in lights
Sayin' 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'

SAD

I have something sad to share, my laptop has crashed and with it 5 or 6 articles that I wanted to post. I had put a lot of hard work in a few articles on Jinnah, that anomalous man, free will and one on presidential vs. parliamentary form of government.
I really wish that i find someone who can fix it.