Jamaica and Beyond

In the early 70s when I was considering a career as a hard rock miner the song Timothy was toping the rock charts. The song was about an act of cannibalism by trapped miners and when I first started working in the mines that song was on my mind and I wondered what co worker would eat me if there was a cave in . Eventually I stopped worrying about it because I became the powder man (in charge of the explosives) and I could arrange a boobie trap in case of cannibalizing . ( explosives on my boobies for anybody that tried to eat me) Cheers and happy new year!

Wow Nanoose, listening to this song while in the mine must have put fair in you. I like the song though, cannibalism and all.

Rose21 wrote:Wow Nanoose, listening to this song while in the mine must have put fair in you. I like the song though, cannibalism and all.

Well actually I wasn’t that worried about getting eaten because back then I was fearless and when I said jump the other miners jumped. Not because they were afraid of me but because they knew I probably made another math mistake and cut the fuses way to short and they had about 2 seconds to get out of there. Another song I liked to sing in the mine was that one “Bits and Pieces” by Herman ‘s Hermits. Cheers and happy New Year!

This might come as a shock but I was a bit of a pot head in the 80s and maybe that is why Space Trucking by Deep Purple is one of my favorite blasts of the past. Cheers and happy New Year!

Geez, I plum forgot all about Space Truckin! There's probably a whole chitload of other stuff I've forgotten, too...

Wahoo wrote:Geez, I plum forgot all about Space Truckin! There's probably a whole chitload of other stuff I've forgotten, too...

Well probably because when you think of Deep Purple you only remember – Smoke on the water because it got all the radio play

They had a lot of other cool songs like – Lazy and Highway Star. When that song came out
I had a Buick Wildcat it had a 456 (or 458) cubic inch engine with four carburetors. Cheers!

Maybe the reason I live on Vancouver Island is because of the song Rosy Roller .
by Sweeney Todd. When I worked the mine in Manitoba my chute blasting/tramming partner was always singing that song or talking about Sooke BC on Vancouver Island and the many times that he seen the local band Sweeny Todd singing Rosy Roller at the Sooke pub.
Maybe in a strange way Rosy Roller played another part of me winding up on Vancouver Island - if my chute blasting/tramming partner song a Country song all the time I would of blown my self up to end the misery.

I would like to add that a musical blast from your past is just an expression so posts don’t have to be about explosives – but about a song from your past.

Also at the bottom of the video I included joke that’s related to the Timothy vid and cannibalism but (warning) it is an adult joke that might be considered tasteless .



When the subject of cannibalism came up my chute blasting/tramming partner agreed that it would be better to eat a hard rock miner them some one from his previous job at sea because he would be eating sea –men.
Cheers!

I had tickets to see Deep Purple in 1986 when they played in Portland Maine. Since I was still in school I had to run my plans by my father who consulted my aunts and uncles since he wanted to make sure I would be safe. Lol, they told him people would be using drugs and alcohol and all sorts of weird stuff so he would not let me go to the concert

ECO wrote:I had tickets to see Deep Purple in 1986 when they played in Portland Maine. Since I was still in school I had to run my plans by my father who consulted my aunts and uncles since he wanted to make sure I would be safe. Lol, they told him people would be using drugs and alcohol and all sorts of weird stuff so he would not let me go to the concert

Well your aunt and uncle were right there were drugs, alcohol and weirdness at Deep Purple concerts but it didn’t mean that you would of taking part in it. Or would you? Cheers!

Of course, my car was already loaded with booze and smoking stuff.

The same aunt and uncle dicked me over a few months latter when my father called them to ask what he should do about coming home and finding all of his booze bottles empty and his home smelling like herb. Hmm, actually my uncle got the trifecta when he failed me by one point in my high school science class (I use to smoke under the acid fans).

In my junior year of college, I had tickets to a Fleetwood Mac concert at Scope Auditorium in Norfolk (when Fleetwood Mac was at the peak of their game), and I had a hot date for the concert with a coed I knew who'd been in the Israeli army (in Israel, every citizen--male and female--has to fulfill 2 years of mandatory military service, and all those Israeli gals are hot). I also had a quarter pound of righteous Jamaican ganja (2 different strains--2 oz of high grade and 2 oz of incredible primo, first Jamaican bud I'd ever sampled). Anyway, the weekend of the concert and my hot date arrived, and Fleetwood Mac abruptly cancelled the concert--Stevie Nicks had vocal nodes, or some such excuse! I phoned the Israeli gal and apologized for the change of plans, and to this day I can't understand why I didn't suggest that we still go out for dinner or beers or something. There's another one that got away...

Once me and the Monkey Man stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash…..
Actually his name was Brian and neither one of us would of touched cocaine with
a 10 foot pole. It wasn’t hash – it was Northern lights and we didn’t have to stay up
all night – it was more like a 12 hour special were we sold 1/8th for $20.
To keep myself on my toes I thought about the song Tweeter and the Monkey Man because it was about a sale gone bad. Cheers!

Once the little woman and I went through a trial separation and it was kind of like this song by Toni Basil



I thought I would through in Toni Basil’s song Hey Mickey. Cheers and happy week end!

Here is a couple of blasts from my old bar hopping days (all the bar bands tried o play them) I also through in the song - This town aint big enough for the both of us - because thats what I told peaple when I got drunk and disorderly. Cheers!

The Romantics – What I like about you



The Rockets - Desire



Sparks - This town aint big enough for the both of us

During the 70s I started considering getting out of a life of crime and starting a new career. My short list of possible careers was – become an explosive expert with the Princess Patricia's - A chute blaster at the Thompson nickel mine – Stock boy at the K-mart store. I choose the stock boy career because a girl that I liked worked there and after a year we moved to Thompson and I got a job in the mine as a motor man/switch man which included a bit of chute blasting. Maybe the reason I didn’t choose a career with the Patricia's was because of the song Billy don’t be a hero.
I included a link to the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Website below the video because they have a lot of special history. Also a link to some old mining photos. Cheers!



Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
http://www.ppcli.com/

Thompson Mine
http://www.gov.mb.ca/stem/mrd/min-ed/minfacts/mbhistory/photos.html

Years ago the wife and I would pack a lunch and the cassette deck and go to the creek for the day. Then well she relaxed and soaked her feet in the creek I would make my self useful by practicing making booby traps (stuff like bent cedar branches attached to trip wires) then I would get a stick trip then and then practice making another one.
When ever the song Your a strange animal came on I would always look at my wife and think what a strange animal she was because she would sit around by a creek when she knew that there was a cold war going on and if the Russians crossed that creek they would be in are back yard in a flash.. What I found funny about the video is it has a scene were a guy gets caught in a rope snare - I once made a snare like that but I couldn’t fully test it by just tripping it with a stick so I tried taking the wife into being a sport and testing it out. for me. Cheers!

(Also I can’t rember if it was the cold war Iwas worreid about or the inevitable collasp of society but ether way the creeek was a weak point)

Wish I had some Jamaican scooby snacks rite now...

The first song helped me deal with my son leaving home to early
When he came back he was heart broking – the second song help me point out to him that the girl he was with would always hurt him no matter how hard he tried to please her. Cheers!

couldn’t get the you tube box to display so I just included the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=7RUR-k3O3TY&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=ZgPbdnyoWf0&feature=related