Yesterday a fellow sports cyber chatter mentioned this old tune Gimme gimme good lovin- Crazy Elephant to remind me of the fashions and dancing of the late 60's and early 70's.
So I started thinking about another band from that time period Elephant's Memory, who also backed up John Lennon from time to time. This tune Mongoose- Elephant's Memory has been one of my favorites for a long time.
Mongoose are not immune to venom, some species attack and kill poisonous snakes by cracking the skull with a powerful bite.
Mongooses is the plural according to various dictionary sources although we want to say mongeese .
I wasn't in a mood to chat about guns, Boston bombings, etc.
10/20/13
Vapor's spirited sunday morning oldie: I got a line on you-Spirit
12/14/13
just to irk any sensitive readers Fat Man- Jethro Tull
6/26/14
An ornery tune nEIGHBORS-jonathan richman
9/14/14
War everywhere on the planet but I'll revisit
11/19/14
felt like re-visiting the song Mongoose "As the cobra turned its head, Mongoose caught it"
9/5/15
A passage in James Lee Burke's Light on the World about a wolf sizing up horses took me back to some of these song titles.
7/10/16
Historical reminder: thx Tragically Hip for covering it and bringing it to my attention since I misssed the original by Gordon Lightfoot released when I was a tyke. Take it any way you want. black day in july
8/5/16
I came across the phrase "drinking canned heat", a nasty "alcoholic beverage" made from straining alcohol from Sterno, while reading Ghostheart by RJ Ellory. Wonder if this was the source of this 1960's blues band's name. canned heat- going up the country
1/7/17
Goodbye Big toke (harvey), thanks for the mid 1960' tune reminders
2/10/18
Viewing the headlines and thinking about the song #mongoose . It's time for a re-spin
5/25/18
Hey #bobseger please re-work "Get out of Denver" to #Seattle. cuz the tax crazy city "looks just like a commie"get out of denver
6/30/18
" As the cobra turned its head Mongoose caught it." short lines from "Mongoose" by Elephant's Memory
8/3/19
Re-visiting Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown
aug 19, 2019
RIP larry "the mole" taylor of Canned Heat
march 28, 2020
Re-spinning tune Mongoose and noting that mongoose can get sick or die from a cobra bite, but they make a glycoprotein that binds to the protein in the venom so a moderate amount of snake venom won't hurt them.June 12, 2021
Ever felt like this? "Where you could say I became chronologically fucked up" Locked in the trunk
May14, 2022
Enjoying the fat food police getting upset that Great Britain will delay by a year new rules banning multi-buy deals on foods and drinks high in fat, salt, or sugar. So I'll re-spin "Fat Man" by Jethro Tull. Yes, I"m aware that Ian Anderson says I'd rather be a thin man in the tune.
June 25, 2022
While editing a short story about the 1980s in Bmore, I came upon this “corina, corina, an old blues tune that Steppenwolf covered in 1968. corina corina
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