The Eclectic Beast Band: Music
Living The Music
(Curtis Paul Campbell)
February 15, 2009
Curtis Paul Campbell
The way that it was growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area when I was a kid...
WHEN I WAS A KID EARLY ON MY OWN, I BOUGHT ME A MISSISSIPPI SAXAPHONE WELL THOSE HARPS WERE SCATTERED FROM KINGDOM COME I USED TO RACE TO SEE IF I COULD MATCH THE SONG ON MY HOME I WAS HONKING LIKE A MOTHER IN A HOLY ROLLER CIRCUS I WAS PLAYING WITH THE BROTHERS YEA OH YEA
WELL I HIT THE HIGHWAY TO MAKE AMENDS I HAD THE WORLD BY THE BALLS BUT I DIDN’T KNOW THEN THAT THE RHYTHM AND THE MUSIC IN THE PALM OF MY HAND THROUGH HARD TIMES WAS MY ONLY FRIEND THE BLUES OVER TOOK ME WHEN I WAS JUST A BABY LIVING ON THE ROAD WITH FAST WOMEN AND WHISKEY YEA…
BOZ SCAGGS, ELVIN BISHOP, DOOBIE BROS TOO, GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION, SLY STONE AND HUEY LEWIS, COLD BLOOD THE TOWER AND LITTLE RICHARD OOH, WE HAD THE ROCK AND ROLL FEVER AND THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES, THEM HOOTCHIE COOTCHIE GIRLS WERE DANCIN TO THE BLUES, WE HAD THE ROCK AND ROLL FEVER WE WERE LIVING THE MUSIC….
THE RADIO’S PLAYING WHEN I BOUGHT MY FIRST CAR A STEVE MILLER MERCURY DOWN ON BLITHEDALE DRIVE, ZEPPLIN AND THE DOORS AND THE ALLMAN BROS HAD IT I WAS SO DAMN HIGH I NEVER THOUGHT I’D LAND IT ROCK STAR SUPER STAR I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT I WROTE ALL OF THESE SONGS ON THE BEACHES OF THE PLANET…
BOZ SCAGGS, ELVIN BISHOP, DOOBIE BROS TOO, GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION, SLY STONE AND HUEY LEWIS, COLD BLOOD THE TOWER AND LITTLE RICHARD OOH, WE HAD THE ROCK AND ROLL FEVER AND THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES, THEM HOOTCHIE COOTCHIE GIRLS WERE DANCIN TO THE BLUES WE HAD THE ROCK AND ROLL FEVER WE WERE LIVING THE MUSIC….
