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... 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...
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Aug 1, 2006
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... 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...
nick
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Aug 2, 2006
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"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...
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Aug 2, 2006
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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...
Jim Rosencutter
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Aug 2, 2006
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"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...
jake balfour
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Aug 2, 2006
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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...
jj
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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:...
jj
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Aug 2, 2006
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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...
Thomas Hoyt
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Aug 3, 2006
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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. ...
Michael Carmody
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Aug 3, 2006
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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...
Eric Coleman
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Aug 3, 2006
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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...
R Klotzzz
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Aug 4, 2006
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... maybe the dog is somewhat sarcastically making the best of the fact that he knows he'll be left in the car....
nick
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Aug 4, 2006
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... 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...
Christie
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Aug 5, 2006
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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...
Paul Linnabary
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
WWWisconsinM
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
Cinna Turnbull
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
Matthew Wall
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
Matthew Wall
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
Matthew Wall
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Aug 7, 2006
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The band is planning on having some merchandise available at the shows, including t-shirts, commemorative posters, possibly CDs, official Embos toenail...
Jim Rosencutter
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Aug 7, 2006
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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...
Jim Rosencutter
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Aug 7, 2006
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... 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...
Cinna Turnbull
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Aug 8, 2006
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... 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...
Cinna Turnbull
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Aug 8, 2006
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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...
Kate Bagby
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Aug 8, 2006
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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)...
mike wahweotten
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Aug 8, 2006
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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...
R Klotzzz
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Aug 8, 2006
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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...
michaelcartrightdba
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Aug 8, 2006
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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...
michaelcartrightdba
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Aug 8, 2006
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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."...
Jim Rosencutter
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