The Hammock Papers: Supertramp

Showing posts with label Supertramp. Show all posts

22 July 2026

Happy Birthday, Ric Davies

Rick Davies was born on this day in 1944.

"From Now On" ...

21 March 2026

Happy Birthday, Spaceman

Roger Hodgson was born on this day in 1950.

"Take the Long Way Home"...

08 September 2025

Rick Davies, Rest in Peace

Rick Davies has passed.

"Crime of the Century"...

22 July 2024

Happy Birthday, Davies

Rick Davies was born on this day in 1944.

"From Now On" ...

11 March 2024

Supertramp, "From Now On"

Play hide and seek

Throughout the week

My life is full of romance ...

27 October 2023

07 October 2023

Supertramp, "Give a Little Bit"

The Polka Family Band does the honors (and you're welcome) ...

I love it when a cover is better than the original.

29 March 2023

Good.

You're the joke of the neighborhood

Why should you care if you're feelin' good?

Released.

Supertramp released Breakfast in America on this day in 1979.

One of the greatest songs ever, "Take the Long Way Home" ...

19 March 2023

Supertramp, "Crime of the Century"

Now they're planning the crime of the century

Well, what will it be?

Read all about their schemes and adventuring

Yes, it's well worth a fee ...

16 October 2022

Supertramp, "Take the Long Way Home

25 September 2022

Supertramp, "Rudy"

Today's soup is French Onion and schooners of Heineken are two-for-one ...

22 July 2022

Happy Birthday, Davies

Rick Davies was born on this day in 1944.

"Ain't Nobody but Me" ...

09 July 2022

Always.

The soup is French Onion, Long Islands are the happy-hour special, and it's always five plays for a buck ...

Wings, "Junior's Farm"

Toto, "Manuela Run"

Supertramp, "It's Raining Again"

Poco, "Heart of the Night"

America, "Tin Man"

27 May 2022

Supertramp, "From Now On"

Sometimes I slowly drift away

From all the dull routine

That's with me every day

A fantasy will come to me

Diamonds are what I really need

Think I'll rob a store, escape the law

And live in Italy ...

29 March 2022

Released.

Supertramp released Breakfast in America on this day in 1979.

"Take the Long Way Home" ...

21 November 2021

Supertramp, "Take the Long Way Home"

11 October 2021

Drift.

Monday has come around again

I'm in the same old place

With the same old faces always watching me

Who knows how long I'll have to stay

Could be a hundred years

Of sweat and tears

At the rate that I get paid

Sometimes I slowly drift away

From all the dull routine

That's with me every day

A fantasy will come to me

Diamonds are what I really need

Think I'll rob a store, escape the law

And live in Italy ...

27 September 2021

Eddie Vedder, "Rise"

Such is the way of the world

You can never know

Just where to put all your faith

And how will it grow

Gonna rise up

Burning black holes in dark memories

Gonna rise up

Turning mistakes into gold

Such is the passage of time

Too fast to fold

Suddenly swallowed by signs

Low and behold

Gonna rise up

Find my direction magnetically

Gonna rise up

Throw down my ace in the hole

Eddie Vedder

"A song about a hitch hiker ..."

Thank you, Jessica.

13 September 2021

Released.

Supertramp released Crime of the Century on this day in 1974.

So you think your schooling is phoney
I guess it's hard not to agree

Richard Davies, from "Bloody Well Right"

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."