By Chris DeMento
I got these Christmas blues
I don't know what do
I got a brand new song
But no one to sing it to
- G Love, Monday, Dec. 10 at the Grand
Dear G Love,
When I left out of work today the air was kind of chilly, the NoCal weather likes to change all silly. Shivering, I thought I better warm me up, really, 22 to 49 to catch my man from Philly.
I wanted to stay and maybe help you turn it out, but I'm on my work jawn I know you know the route. See I'm green with envy and I'm squinting through some purple, like trying to find some sense in the square side of a circle.
So I hope you'll be alright then if I tell a quick story, I can't imagine that you'd mind it if I gave my oratory. So here goes nothing push my pen toward a shove, I thank you for your "Peace, Love, and Happiness," cuz:
Once upon a time off of 9th Street beach, surfed a tall and skinny mug kind of looking like Screech. Business harmonica and bad guitar - see the ones he calls family knew he'd take it real far.
He did it "Coast to Coast" on a blues hop recipe, the next thing you know "Electric Mile"-ing with Modeski. I remember New Year's Eve in way back when, Where the Wild Things Are - that shit was crazy, man.
We sang "get along you seventy-sixers," it was parents' liquor cabinets and then Wawa for the mixers. I'm sounding longwinded, so I'll move this along, and hey sorry that I dissed you for that Coke commercial song.
Can I be so bold to say G Love is still the truth, just ask Da Real Manip and he will give you the scoop. My Man Fifty Grand you brought your hustle to the Regence, but I will not swear instead I'll write you my allegiance.
"This Ain't Living" man you made my night, your gutiar it sounds easy and your harp sounds tight. Bluesman moves making eyes at all the ladies, in the "Back of the Bus" playing the mack all shady.
You had to give the old "…Got Sauce" and "Cold Beverage," the latter into "Gin and Juice" - it showed much leverage. You staged the kid from Oakland that you did not know, because you heard him rhyming
outside before the show.
Because you heard him rhyming and you dug his flow, G, please excuse the need, I major duggin it though. I got one more thing you really need to know: I got your Christmas blues and now it's time to go.
Thank you kindly,
Chris DeMento
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Comments (1)
Ah, I was offered free tickets to this and couldn't make it. Chris' rhyme took me back home...2500 miles.
Posted by Gnome | December 11, 2007 04:46 PM