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217 stockextra Offline Send Email Aug 1, 2006
1:51 pm
... I thought it was about ... driving. To the park, where everybody's laughing and playing in the sun. And staying in the car. d.hitchcock...
218 nick
cruise_elroy Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2006
5:37 pm
... From: Yahoo! Groups <notify@yahoogroups.com> Date: 2 Aug 2006 16:12:32 -0000 Subject: Your Message to embos To: rick.scud@... We're sorry. The reply...
219 noguff4jj Offline Send Email Aug 2, 2006
6:14 pm
"i always thought "drive me to the park" was written from a dog's perspective?"- Ohhhhh so he's singing "through your Irish setter" Ahhhhh i always wonder what...
220 Jim Rosencutter
jimrosencutter Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2006
6:57 pm
I knew some guys in a band in Austin that covered it, and sang "there are so many sights to see when you're a setter." The correct lyrics are "from your...
221 jake balfour
jake_bal4 Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2006
7:36 pm
"i always thought "drive me to the park" was written from a dog's perspective?" I thought that too, but why would a dog want to stay in the car when there are...
222 jj
noguff4jj Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2006
8:18 pm
Thanks jim! I used to cover that song in a few bands and i was always singing "isetta", but never actually knew what it was that i was singin' about. Jim...
223 jj
noguff4jj Offline Send Email
Aug 2, 2006
8:21 pm
I really hope nobody thought i was serious about the whole irish setter thing...Just had to make that clear. jake balfour <jake_bal4@...> wrote:...
224 Thomas Hoyt
tph4embos Offline Send Email
Aug 3, 2006
12:40 am
That is "Isetta" a very small (Italian?) car. I don't think the author wanted to get out because driving around in an Isetta was so cool. Supossedly, John...
225 Michael Carmody
scoobyranchero Offline Send Email
Aug 3, 2006
5:34 pm
I can't believe so few people understood the lyric "Isetta," and fewer still seem to be familiar with the BMW automobile of that name. Wow. ...
226 Eric Coleman
e_f_coleman Offline Send Email
Aug 3, 2006
5:50 pm
Weirdly enough, I always knew what he was talking about. But amongst my many car toys when I was a kid was a toy Isetta. My folks got it for me in London a...
227 R Klotzzz
klotz1965 Offline Send Email
Aug 4, 2006
3:24 pm
Wiki has a fun article about the Isetta. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta Loads of Embos tunes about cars. Rob K. p.s. Will there be a dancefloor at the...
228 nick
cruise_elroy Offline Send Email
Aug 4, 2006
4:01 pm
... maybe the dog is somewhat sarcastically making the best of the fact that he knows he'll be left in the car....
229 Christie
clmreinhardt Offline Send Email
Aug 5, 2006
4:13 am
... So does anyone still have an Embos tee shirt that isn't in rags? Something you only wore on holidays and your wedding? What if we got some Embarassment...
230 Paul Linnabary
wichita_rangers Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
4:22 pm
After listening to Heyday the past several weeks and having memories flood my mind, one song which no one has mentioned that I feel is quite a diamond in the...
231 WWWisconsinM Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2006
6:19 pm
Hi, all. I'm writing a preview of the Lawrence show for Pitch magazine in Kansas City/Lawrence, and I'd love to be able to talk to a few members of the band...
232 yippee4742 Offline Send Email Aug 7, 2006
7:41 pm
Hi Mike, this is Bill from the band you seek. Please email me at yippee4742@... and we can work out a plan. Thanks for caring! -Bill Goffrier...
233 Cinna Turnbull
cinna829 Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
9:18 pm
Hello fellow Embos fans! Since we're on the topic of t-shirts (more or less), I must tell you all that I FINALLY got off my butt and put my extra (yes, can you...
234 Matthew Wall
matt_wall_of_pa Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
11:16 pm
Hey Group those of you on the old embos-l@... list will remember we started a lyrics archive project at that point. We got about 1/4 of the songs done...
235 Matthew Wall
matt_wall_of_pa Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
11:16 pm
As an example: Wellsville Driving fast down the road on the highway I guess so [I get so?] We stopped just past the Flint hills there's a sign it was...
236 Matthew Wall
matt_wall_of_pa Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
11:16 pm
I don't think I've heard anybody who has fronted t-shirts for the big reunion gig, so as far as I know they're not happening. However, I'd like to volunteer to...
237 Jim Rosencutter
jimrosencutter Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
11:50 pm
The band is planning on having some merchandise available at the shows, including t-shirts, commemorative posters, possibly CDs, official Embos toenail...
238 Jim Rosencutter
jimrosencutter Offline Send Email
Aug 7, 2006
11:52 pm
Great idea, Matt. And with some of the band members double-checking the entries, we might even figure out some of those that we had difficulty deciphering in...
239 Cinna Turnbull
cinna829 Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
1:21 am
... Drive me to the Park: (Heyday version) (DACG) Drive me to the park The sun is shining people smiling Drive me to the park The winter's past, drive me real...
240 Cinna Turnbull
cinna829 Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
1:49 am
... Sorry, hit return before I finished Jazzface. I hate computers... These are songs that I play frequently for the hell of it, which is why I'm most...
241 Kate Bagby
kate@... Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
2:00 am
This one , CAN"T FORGET, has got to be my all time favorite!!! The wind up -racing tempo is SET BY THE rhythm section, THEN the agitated guitar PIERCES THE AIR...
242 mike wahweotten
mikewahweotten Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
4:14 am
Wow Matt, now you got me scheduling a visit to my storage space tomorrow to dig out that copy of Capitol Punishment (Jim Jones' Lincoln, NE zine from '82-'83)...
243 R Klotzzz
klotz1965 Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
6:24 am
There are so many sights to see From your Isetta Let me feel the shrill wind (ness?) ?????? I think the end of the verse is something along the lines of: Let...
244 michaelcartrightdba
michaelcartr... Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
1:20 pm
SOUND OF WASPS Right now it's very windy It's wrestling the red trees I can sit and watch it And listen to the sound of planes I eat a hotdog outside Trying to...
245 michaelcartrightdba
michaelcartr... Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
1:23 pm
LEWIS & CLARK 1804 and the logs were new It wasn't hard to build our own canoe We're both brave and we knew what to do The more we strived the more we knew it...
246 Jim Rosencutter
jimrosencutter Offline Send Email
Aug 8, 2006
2:04 pm
My 2 cents: Line 4 should be "The more we tried the more we knew it was true." The last line, I believe, is "famous big-headed egotists."...
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