Heart Of Stone wrote on Mar 23
rd, 2012 at 2:22pm:
Wasn't Joe Walsh the first to use a voice box on his guitar? before Peter Frampton, he had this album "The Smoker You play the drinker you get" or some weird title like that, he had a song called "Smoking Mountain way" first heard this album at this party that this weird guy had across from Maple Leaf gardens, the guy had a pad lock on the door & you had to have a secret knock to get in, 3 of us were on acid, this guy had a kitchen closed of with curtains & he had hot knives for hash, & we would each take a turn to go in & do it, this guy had these granny glasses on the end of his nose, & he had a dog trained so that when he threw a lit cigarette on the carpet & said "Nixon Loved Fires" the dog would stomp on the cigarette & put it out, we were all on acid & freaking!!! when I think about it now, it's so funny but at the time, I was terrified, I later saw this guy on Yonge St, giving out pamphlets for strip joints & he had the dog with him! he probably lived on Welfare & had these crazy parties.
Great story; that acid's magick stuff, huh? One correction: it's "
Rocky Mountain Way," not "Smoking Mountain Way." Interesting that you mentioned Nixon, as many of us thought at the time that the song had some political content. Check out these lyrics: "Well he's telling us this/And he's telling us that/Changes it every day/Says it doesn't matter/Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat/Playing it play by play/Time to change the batter." Now consider that the song came out in 1973, right in the middle of the Watergate investigation. Nixon's henchmen kept changing their stories; the classic line from Tricky Dick's press secretary when they were caught in a lie was, "That statement is inoperative" (If you've ever heard that expression, that's where it came from). We all thought "Casey" was Nixon and "Time to change the batter" meant time for a new President.

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