Like most new year's resolutions I almost blew this one today. I have been struggling with yet another headache for most of the day. Funny how most of my life I dealt with the headaches and have always just accepted it as part of who I am but recently they have begun to frustrate me to no end. I am pissed off that I have the heart, will and sprit to keep fighting the good fight and my body keeps arguing with me at every step. Some days it's just so damn hard to put up with. Maybe today's record was a perfect choice after all.
I sat here feeling sorry for myself avoiding the task I had set forth and the I grabbed my proverbial boot straps, settled into my new rocking chair and put on side one of a two record set. As Stephen Tyler screamed "Back in the Saddle" at me my eyes closed and I groaned. It's a live version so there is a lot of background noise which the part of me that doesn't have a migraine appreciates. There is something very energizing about music done live. This was no exception. It's time for me to get back in the saddle again in some form or fashion. So my body objects, time to stop using that as an excuse. I have never been one to make excuses for my behavior, always owned up to the mistakes or successes I have made in this life. For the past ten months since I was forced to quit working that has not been true. I have hidden myself away from those who care about me and though most of the time I was really not feeling well due to my disease, there were times I quite frankly was just too damn pissed off at the world and my fate to talk to another living soul. There are weeks I don't even leave the house. That is not the fighting Serena I know so well. I think truthfully that is part of what this project is about. I am used to routine, it's how I get buy in my life and that routine was taken from me ten months ago and I didn't know what to do with myself. So I got up and am now with headache squinted eyes smiling as I listen to a 1978 album of Aerosmith.
Sometimes ones senses become a lil skewed when the head feels like it's about to burst. It wasn't until side two of the second record that I realized I wasn't imagining things that the record really was warped. Not beyond recognition but when "Walk This Way" sounded a bit like it was in a wind tunnel or like the teachers on Peanuts, it occurred to me to look at the record and as the needle made its way over the black vinyl like it was doing a slow dance over the hills of a volcano prairie all I could do was laugh. Luckily for me the second record though slightly warped was not the rolling hill the other one was and Dream On, my favorite song on both records, was nearly perfect. I had never heard it live before. This one was done live and recorded in Louisville KY on July 3, 1977. I was nearly a year old. Funny how this song has been one of my favorites my entire life.
Aerosmith Bootleg
- Back in the Saddle
- Sweet Emotion
- Lord of the Thighs
- Toys in the Attic
- Last Child
- Come Together
- Walk this way
- Sick as a Dog
- Dream On
- Chip Away the Stone
- Sight for Sore Eyes
- Mama Kin
- SOS
- I Aint Got You
- Mother Popcorn
- Train Kept A Rollin
Today's lesson brought to me by Stephen Tyler. Get back in the saddle, Dream On, Walk this Way Cause the Train Kept a Rollin.
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