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He never just plain walked, He always strode. His dogs were his constant companions, playing and barking, wherever he went. If you wanted the king to do something, you had to walk with him.
Charlemagne was reputed to have a great memory. He always addressed everyone by name. He seemed to know everyone from the top princes down to the lowliest peasant.
Charlemagne always led his troops into battle. He always wore a bright blue cape over his armor so that he could be easily seen. He was a great warrior and even though he fought in many battles he managed to survive them all and live into his seventies.
Since most people died much younger during the medieval times this was another wonder and part of his mystique. Expansion: The Franks were a great warrior tribe. Charlemagne and the Franks defeated most of the other tribes in Europe and expanded the Frankish Empire to cover Germany, France, Italy, and parts of Spain.
This also included Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Denmark. Charlemagne means Charles the Great and he certainly was. Some of the things he accomplished:.
Charlemagne brought scholars from all over the world to his new learning center. He put them to work teaching others how to read and write. He also had them copy all the old manuscripts he could find. During this copying, a system of illustrating and painting with gold foil was developed. These copies were known as illuminated manuscripts.
Take care. Steely consistantly kept refining their compositions drifting into Jazz funk areas. KC my all time favorite rock song. All time fav rock guitar lead. Bar none. Go ahead. Play me one better. Larry Carlton. My three fav rock icons: Fagen, Gilmore, Joel.
They drove me home through the silent madness. Thanks to this time, those times, and time none of us shall know. All the while the music played. Said I had regarding that song! Denonymous on January 22, General Comment from wiki Although the lyrics are, at first glance, typically oblique and allusive, writers Walter Becker and Donald Fagen have stated that it was loosely inspired by the exploits of the infamous s San Francisco-based LSD chemist Owsley Stanley[1] — although it conflates the core story with numerous other images of the Sixties.
This is evident in the following lines: On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene But yours was kitchen clean Everyone stopped to stare at your Technicolor motor home The first two lines draw on the fact that Owsley's acid was famed for its purity, although the last line is clearly a reference to the famous psychedelic bus named Furthur, which was used by the Merry Pranksters.
The final verse foreshadows the main reason for Owsley's eventual bust: Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail Those test tubes and the scale Just get them all out of here Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car I think the people down the hall know who you are Owsley and another person were arrested after their car ran out of gas.
The song features a famous guitar solo by guitarist Larry Carlton. Owsley Stanley b. His total production is estimated at around half a kilogram of LSD, or roughly 5 million microgram "trips" of normal potency, although accounts vary widely. The widespread and low-cost often given away free availability of high-quality Owsley LSD in the San Franciso area in the mids may well have been indispensable for the emergence of the "hippie" movement in the Haight-Ashbury area, which the historian of that movement Charles Perry has described as "one big LSD party" and which has had continuing repercussions to this day in American society in terms of increasing tolerance for alternative perspectives and lifestyles.
He was also an accomplished sound engineer, and the longtime soundman for seminal psychedelic rock band The Grateful Dead; the band's well-known "dancing bear" icon derives from his nickname, as he frequently printed the image on blotter sheets of LSD distributed at Grateful Dead concerts.
Not only is the song about acid chemist Owsley - it is pretty much historically accurate. He did run out of gas prior to being busted. Mandalex's answer should be on top, IMO. General Comment jackiebum and pakalolo are right. Although written by the squarest of the squares, it's a great piece of New Journalism that also conveys just how world-changing people thought LSD might be at its inception and introduction to the world.
Owsley was also a sound man for the Dead. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment Mandalex pretty much nails it. Also "White Men on the street" is a reference to cocaine use on the rise in the 70's. People were moving away from hallucinogens towards stimulants, which added to the Kids demise. Sleepy LaBeef on February 28, Link. Sleepy LaBeef. All the way around, a number off their last "guitar-based" album, signaling the end of one style on the threshold of something more.
Larry Carlton was just superb. As Donald opined in the PBS special, the song was, yeah, loosely based on a character like Owsley, with all the particulars of his story, but was also, as the boys have said earlier in a "Musician" magazine interview from , that their method of penning these vingettes is to, instead of presenting the kernal of the idea, they more or less go for the "husk"--the outer, or whole idea, allowing the others to draw their own conclusion as to what it means to them.
Namely, a beginning, middle and final chapter, like the fusiform shape of a muscle fiber: "", if you will. It's all in C major. Yes, the bridge and the turnaround have different chord progressions, they are all within the C Major frame work. The very 1st chord is a C7 9th chord a five note chord , which is a very well utilized jazz chord going back in rock to The Beatles' "You Can't Do That" as well as way before in the jazz annals.
I find LAbeefs comment on the White Men and the cocaigne shift amusing. I still pnder that phrase. General Comment jakiebum is right. I wouldn't call it a tribute. To me it comes off as a sardonic look at him. I also recommend "Acid Dreams" which can be read for free here: erowid. My Interpretation DCEngineer.. Bit late on this reply to you man but I just had tell that for a seemingly intelligent man you can crap on why Kid Charlemagne dissappointed you and Owsley Stanley didn't "DESERVE a great song and I find your comment that it "somewhat upset you," obnoxious, you pretentious prick.
If it wasn't for songs like this and the '60's movement you wouldn't be what you are. I also take offense you feel you can even comment on Owsley, a fucken genius!
If you knew him you'd be writing songs, Poems and Books about him as well and the World is a much lesser place without him.
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