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The View from Green Island GI Central - my 'net home' for several years, more or less hibernating for the last few years, but like any growly bear apt to wake up hungry and grumpy at any time, ready to engage whatever needs engaging - lots of venting, lots of good writing, lots of 'out-of-the-box' ideas you aren't EVER going to hear on the CBC (not for people who get triggered by intelligent ideas or certain words not allowed on the said CBC...) The Democratic Revolution Handbook by Dave Patterson
And a book for younger readers too, Dave's an eclectic sort of person - Aquila 
These and Dave's other books can be found at Dave's Smashwords EPUBS page - and for the curious, if anyone cares, a few words on From Hastings to Green Island - the (very) short form story of Dave's own journey.. Knowledge is like a candle. When you light your candle from mine, my light is not diminished. It is enhanced and a larger room is enlightened as a consequence. - Thomas Jefferson |
Aside from the cottage, my second spiritual home during the end of the 60s and into the 70s was my 64 Oldsmobile, white with red trim and black top, I loved the car so much. Came after I drove my first car, a hand-me-down blue Pontiac station wagon, into a tree at high speed after a party somewhere, somewhat fortunately because if the tree hadn't been there we'd have been in the river, and then the next car, a golden-brown Ford of some kind (Thunderbird??) ran into a herd of cows one day - not my fault, I drove over the top of a hill one day not going all that fast (maybe a bit fast to see my girlfriend of the time) and there they were all over the road - but the end of the car. And a couple cows. Those few years from my later teens through my 20s were a very wild and crazy time in many, many ways, a deeper look at most of which will have to wait for the bio if that ever happens - but here, a few of the better songs from those years - starting of course with - the 64 Oldsmobile song:  - to get a feel for it all, you kind of need to picture me as I pretty much was then, sitting on the back of the driver's seat, full head of beautiful long hair blowing in the wind with a stick in my hand to manipulate the gas and brake pedals, driving down the back roads sippin beers talking with whoever was around to go for a ride that day - So enough reminiscing, I was writing lots of songs during that period, late 60s through early 70s - a few of the best - Nice moving little song, called I Got Your Picture:  - and always one of my favorites - looking back at a songbook I put together in the mid-80s, it seems I wrote this around 1970, 20 years old - pretty into myself in those days - when I wasn't hiding everything behind beer - Wordman  - always spent a lot of time on the piano, always liked this, still do - Doesn't Really Matter  - I was quite insecure in those days - the psychological analysis can wait for the book someday - but at the time of the Fisher-Spassky chess match in Iceland I had a chance to go to a 'music camp', at which my inclination to avoid crowds of strangers asserted itself and I didn't get a lot out of it - but I did get this song, one of the short personal ones that still seem pretty good - Do You Hide In The Mornin?  - and Sweet Sister Mary, another of my favorites, something to do, I think, with my decision at some point to quit fence-sitting and just accept that I wasn't 'agnostic', I just couldn't believe in all the god stuff - Sweet Sister Mary  - another of my favorites, another bit of prescience, as it seems that a line I added a few years back seems more appropriate, 'I'm so old to feel so young' - the somewhat balding, bearded, portly (let's keep it polite here) guy in the vids is not the guy I feel like in my head - when I'm singing now, I still have a picture in my head of the guy you see in most of the pics, 20-ish, lovely head of long hair, etc, I really do 'feel' young in my head, although creaky knees etc don't let me maintain that illusion much of the time - Me and Mother Sun  - another 'introspective' piano song - Something You'd Rather Leave Unsaid  - wrote this one day thinking to see if I could sell it to some people doing some kind of country music, certainly nothing to do with any personal 'finding of Jesus' - good little song though ... My Friend Jesus  Bonnie - based on a true story, as they say, me and the Oldsmobile out seeing what life brings ...  - this one loosely inspired by a Gilbert-Sullivan song of the same name - a bit odd that some 20 years after writing it I'd find myself more or less beside the West China Sea ... Poor Wand'ring One
 - based on a sort of true story, as they say Any Way At All  - as with so many of the songs looking back, I have no idea where this came from - the Muse again, somewhere deep inside my brain, keeping me sort of sane with the Music Lazy River
 - and so that's the end of this short journey through some of my main tunes of the 70s, at least for now, there's another 20 or 30 songs I've written by this time, some of which would get into a B list anyways that I may add later - but for now let's get to the last part of this short muscial history - PEI and then Thailand
Dave's Songs part IV - PEI and Thailand OR - back 'Home' - Dave's Songs part I - The Beginning - or pg 2 - Dave's Songs part II - The Carpenter and Cottage Years
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