The Bagsy Blog: I Feel Fine

Friday, 7 November 2014

I Feel Fine - The Beatles

It's there the vast majority of the time, but when you reach that moment of realisation it dawns on you that 'WELL-BEING' is one of the greatest feelings on Earth. What brought all that on? Well, first of all my 'dear freinds' arrived back safely from their 2 weeks trip to Zimbabwe, with tales of Cheetah, Cape Francolin, Water Dikkop, Warthog etc, during which time I had successfully abstained. Sat here in Slight II, enjoying the second half of a Spatchcocked Chicken with veg, my thoughts returned to a recent visit to see the Secret Lemonade Scupperer and looking around at the photographs of Elizabeth, Fred, Benny, Alex, the

2 Skinny Kids (Jim the Medic and Rather Rotund William)

riding a Yak on the Mongolian Mountain Steppe

and decided it was time for an Executive Decision or TWO!

Firstly a decent Merlot and then an equally decent tune! With the first bottle drained within the hour a second was broached by which time U2 had performed the full works of The Joshua Tree

especially

Red Hill Mining Town (Link)

We'll scorch the earth, set fire to the sky
We stoop so low, to reach so high
A link is lost, the chain undone
We wait all day for night to come
And it comes like a hunted child

Yeah, you keep me holdin' on
In Red Hill Town, see the lights go down on
I'm hangin' on, you're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting, hangin' on
You're all that's left to hold on to, on to.

The remainder on the Play List included:- High Priestess - Uriah Heep, Edged in Blue - Taste, We Are the Pigs - Suede, Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys, Driving South - Stone Roses, Beirut Moon - Stiff Little Fingers, Help the Aged - Pulp, Tea For One - Joe Bonamassa, Black - Pearl Jam, Closer to the Heart - Rush, Man on the Moon - REM, both albums Clutching at Straws - Marillion and Dark Matter - IQ (in their entirety), Nobody's Fault But Mine, Thank You and No Quarter - Page and Plant and finally

Pillar of Davidson - by the superb Pennsylvania band 'LĪVE' (Link)

With just a short intro to their travels in Africa
I am inspired to re-visit the Southern African photo archive
and show just a few to YOU!
More tales of the Big Zim over dinner this evening.