Rainer Ptacek
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 11:56 am
Thalia Zedek did an energetic version of "Dance me .." yesterday. She shared the bill with the headliners Giant Sand from Tucson, Arizona. In the middle of the gig they showed a video of Rainer Ptacek, playing the dobro to one of his songs from Texas Tapes. Amazing how he managed to play that thing. He died way too early. From one of the GS songs I heard something like "Home is where your .... is" and I understood "hat". If that was true and I would wear hats I would have million homes in my life because I use to lose all the things that I carry with my on my road. How many umbrellas travel alone now in trains and planes and busses and other people's cars. How many pencils feel comfortable now in other people's hands. What drove me always nuts were these two dark ladies who spoke spanish and all I understood was that they tried to spell the lead singers name "Howe Gelb" which is a strange name indeed. But why babbling for 15 minutes to get that name spoken rightly ?
The polished steel took me home safety to write this down.
"If I needed you,
would you come to me
would you come to me
to ease my pain ?
If you needed me
I would come to you
I would swim the seas
to ease your pain"
Townes van Zandt
The polished steel took me home safety to write this down.
"If I needed you,
would you come to me
would you come to me
to ease my pain ?
If you needed me
I would come to you
I would swim the seas
to ease your pain"
Townes van Zandt