Released: September, 1972 Black Sabbath Vol. 4.
1 Wheels of Confusion (8:00)
The Straightener
2 Tomorrow's Dream (3:08)
3 Changes (4:41)
4 FX (1:41)
5 Supernaut (4:43)
6 Snowblind (5:28)
7 Cornucopia (3:50)
8 Laguna Sunrise (2:50)
9 St. Vitus' Dance (2:25)
10 Under the Sun (5:52)
Every Day Comes and Goes
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Wheels of Confusion (8:00)
The Straightener
Long ago I wandered through my mind,
In the land of fairy tales and stories,
Lost in happiness I didn't know fears,
Innocence and love was all I knew,
Was an illusion
Soon the days were passing into haze,
Happiness just didn't come so easy,
Life was more than fairy tales and daydreams,
Innocence was just another word,
Was an illusion
Lost in the wheels of confusion,
Running through valleys of tears
Eyes full of angered illusion,
Hiding in ev'ry day dreams
So I found that life is just a game,
Hurts to know there's never been a winner,
Cry your hardest, you'll still be a loser,
The world will still be turning when you've gone
Yeah when you've gone!
Under the Sun (5:52)
Every Day Comes and Goes
Well, I don't want no Demon freak to tell me what it's all about,
No black magician telling me to cut my soul out,
Don't believe in violence; I don't even believe in peace
I've opened the door now my mind's been released
Well, I don't want no preacher telling me about the god in the sky,
No, I don't want no one to tell me where I'm gonna go when I die
I wanna live my life I don't want people telling me what to do
I just believe in myself, 'cos no one else is true
Ev'ry day just comes and goes
Life is one long overdose
People drive to ruination
I can see through their frustration
People hiding their real faces,
Each one running their rat races
Behind each flow'r there grows a weed
in their world of make-believe
So believe what I tell you;
It's the only way you'll find in the end
Just believe in yourself you know you really shouldn't have to pretend
Don't let those empty people try and interfere with your mind
Just live your life and leave them all behind
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
My love/hate relationship...
Yesterday, There was so many things
I was never told
Now that I'm startin' to learn
I feel I'm growing old
'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Some things could be better
In my book of memories
Prayers in my pocket
And no hand in destiny
I'll keep on movin' along
With no time to plant my feet
'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Some things could be better
If we'd all just let them be
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Got nothin' for me
Yesterday, There was so many things
I was never shown
Suddenly this time I found
I'm on the streets and I'm all alone
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
I ain't got time to reminisce old novelties
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday
Yesterday GnR, Use your illusion II
I was never told
Now that I'm startin' to learn
I feel I'm growing old
'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Some things could be better
In my book of memories
Prayers in my pocket
And no hand in destiny
I'll keep on movin' along
With no time to plant my feet
'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Some things could be better
If we'd all just let them be
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Got nothin' for me
Yesterday, There was so many things
I was never shown
Suddenly this time I found
I'm on the streets and I'm all alone
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
I ain't got time to reminisce old novelties
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday
Yesterday GnR, Use your illusion II
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Hot Wheels
The first Hot Wheel car I laid eyes on was a Silhoutte, which was part of a set that Steve got as a present (birthday?) and that was it...we were hooked!
The cars were heavy and colorful, some had little surfboards (Deora, beach bugs, etc.), and the sets got bigger and bigger. Roger wanted a "Hot Wheels hot curves race action set", and he got it for Xmas. We would go to Rascos, next to MDX at the Quad, and behind the cash register, there was a large display of cars for sale, just $1.00 each, and the man would let you check each one out as impatient customers pushed by to check out...So many choices, all awesome, so hard to decide!!
Seems like every kid on the block had Hot Wheels. The kids down the street had the LeMans Fords and Lolas. The kids up the street had the Vickys and Hot Heaps, with the black roofs. There seemed to be a MILLION different Hot Wheels, and you never found a twin.
We used to put that old orange clamp higher and higher on the stairs to get more speed, which required a longer and longer track to see just where the momentum ran out. I remember that Roger's Police cruiser travelled the farthest, but it suffered an untimely end...
We even had a neighborhood competition,at our house, complete with prize money, and the bad kids from way up the street won...BOO!!
I think that Steve was the first [also] to get a Sizzler, a Mustang Boss 302, and we had a long track (must have cost a fortune!) that travelled completely around the fireplace, and Steve's car was so fast, it flew off at every turn!!
We later got the Sizzlers "California 500" race set, a little Indianapolis 500, complete with little antenna that clipped to the cars to count laps! Great toy!!
I think we got 9 cars on it once, a great race for half a lap until the cars started flying off the track!
Fast forward to the future...We were on the ground floor of the Hot Wheels boom, yet we had no idea that the cars would be worth alot of cash someday...I remember our demolition derbys!!!If we only knew that these cars, and not so much the "Johnny Lightning" cars, which were just wierd, would stand the test of time! The hot cars right now are the "Custom Fleetside", and the "Classic Cord", but a few dealers know about, and have the rare colors, light blue is hot, but surprisingly the Chrome "Boss Hoss" cars that only Hot Wheels club "members" could get, seem to be a dime a dozen...I guess there were alot of members in the Hot Wheels clubs! Some dealers even have the prototypes for sale, which cost more than my Kawasaki 400 triple!
The real experts know all the rare colors, have NIB cars that go for 300-plus dollars, and I know that Roger, predictably, took great care of his Hot Wheels... he was noticably absent at our crash-fests, and he'll probably send both his girls through college when he finally trades in his collection.
As for me, I have a few cars lying around...I have a lime green truck, "Short Order", that was the last Hot Wheel car I bought new from Rascos, I remember hemming and hawing over my decision,in 1971, I think. I also have a red "Custom Dodge Charger", along with an early gold "Custom Mustang", a perfect Vicky in "antifreeze" color, with a black roof, a dark green Lotus turbine (wedgy!), and my best car, a first-year perfect red Mongoose funnycar, with all it's stickers intact! I just bought a Deora (red, no surfboards, to me the classic hot-wheel, complete with skinny front and REAR wheels!), and I'm now looking for a first year yellow snake!
Also, I just found out that I have the entire California 500 Sizzlers set in my garage, complete with 4 cars, which have faded chrome and dead batteries. Surprisingly, the Sizzlers cars and race sets don't fetch such high prices, but there is a few people back east that will restore them for me...
I was thinking about all this, as I scoured Evil-bay for Hot Wheels, and I decided to take a break and take the trash to the curb. I turned the corner and saw our mustang gt, in "antifreeze, and with 5-spoke wheels! I guess I never got over those Hot Wheels, and by judging by the comments from strangers about the mustangs' color, alot of other people never got over them either!
Chris
The cars were heavy and colorful, some had little surfboards (Deora, beach bugs, etc.), and the sets got bigger and bigger. Roger wanted a "Hot Wheels hot curves race action set", and he got it for Xmas. We would go to Rascos, next to MDX at the Quad, and behind the cash register, there was a large display of cars for sale, just $1.00 each, and the man would let you check each one out as impatient customers pushed by to check out...So many choices, all awesome, so hard to decide!!
Seems like every kid on the block had Hot Wheels. The kids down the street had the LeMans Fords and Lolas. The kids up the street had the Vickys and Hot Heaps, with the black roofs. There seemed to be a MILLION different Hot Wheels, and you never found a twin.
We used to put that old orange clamp higher and higher on the stairs to get more speed, which required a longer and longer track to see just where the momentum ran out. I remember that Roger's Police cruiser travelled the farthest, but it suffered an untimely end...
We even had a neighborhood competition,at our house, complete with prize money, and the bad kids from way up the street won...BOO!!
I think that Steve was the first [also] to get a Sizzler, a Mustang Boss 302, and we had a long track (must have cost a fortune!) that travelled completely around the fireplace, and Steve's car was so fast, it flew off at every turn!!
We later got the Sizzlers "California 500" race set, a little Indianapolis 500, complete with little antenna that clipped to the cars to count laps! Great toy!!
I think we got 9 cars on it once, a great race for half a lap until the cars started flying off the track!
Fast forward to the future...We were on the ground floor of the Hot Wheels boom, yet we had no idea that the cars would be worth alot of cash someday...I remember our demolition derbys!!!If we only knew that these cars, and not so much the "Johnny Lightning" cars, which were just wierd, would stand the test of time! The hot cars right now are the "Custom Fleetside", and the "Classic Cord", but a few dealers know about, and have the rare colors, light blue is hot, but surprisingly the Chrome "Boss Hoss" cars that only Hot Wheels club "members" could get, seem to be a dime a dozen...I guess there were alot of members in the Hot Wheels clubs! Some dealers even have the prototypes for sale, which cost more than my Kawasaki 400 triple!
The real experts know all the rare colors, have NIB cars that go for 300-plus dollars, and I know that Roger, predictably, took great care of his Hot Wheels... he was noticably absent at our crash-fests, and he'll probably send both his girls through college when he finally trades in his collection.
As for me, I have a few cars lying around...I have a lime green truck, "Short Order", that was the last Hot Wheel car I bought new from Rascos, I remember hemming and hawing over my decision,in 1971, I think. I also have a red "Custom Dodge Charger", along with an early gold "Custom Mustang", a perfect Vicky in "antifreeze" color, with a black roof, a dark green Lotus turbine (wedgy!), and my best car, a first-year perfect red Mongoose funnycar, with all it's stickers intact! I just bought a Deora (red, no surfboards, to me the classic hot-wheel, complete with skinny front and REAR wheels!), and I'm now looking for a first year yellow snake!
Also, I just found out that I have the entire California 500 Sizzlers set in my garage, complete with 4 cars, which have faded chrome and dead batteries. Surprisingly, the Sizzlers cars and race sets don't fetch such high prices, but there is a few people back east that will restore them for me...
I was thinking about all this, as I scoured Evil-bay for Hot Wheels, and I decided to take a break and take the trash to the curb. I turned the corner and saw our mustang gt, in "antifreeze, and with 5-spoke wheels! I guess I never got over those Hot Wheels, and by judging by the comments from strangers about the mustangs' color, alot of other people never got over them either!
Chris
Sunday, December 3, 2006
4020 Mt. Brundage
A few thoughts about the first house I remember as a kid...
Watching Steve and Roger walk to school from the backyard swings, which were way in the back of the huge yard, past the pool, through a path. I could just see the school from there across the canyon. I would spend hours on that swingset, wishing that I could go to school, too,(I was 4) and realizing that I wouldn't get out again for 13 years!
We had Birds of Paradise plants and I think Banana leaf (?) plants also. My favorite was the huge pine tree, which I used to climb up, all the way to the point where the tree would sway under my weight! I could see everything from up there, and I don't remember anyone looking for me!
I remember sonic booms happening about 10 times a day, along with those airplanes with the huge plate on top (record player planes, really E-2c Hawkeyes) and Flying Banana helicopters (Huey CH-46?) along with countless jets. There was an airraid siren that would go off at noon everyday, which sounded very far away.
I remember a Christmas where I got two WWI airplanes, on red Fokker, and one Yellow Sopwith Camel, which I loved. I actually found a yellow wingtip in my junk a few years back. I also remember getting a car carrier with one yellow and one red Corvette, probably Tonka. Another Chrismas I remember was when I got a big "Flying Tiger" airplane, complete with 3 red machine guns on the nose, and a bomb that you could drop with the push of a button! Amy got a big metal doll house that year, and I would strafe it, machine guns blasting away, as Amy screamed, and I would drop a bomb on the roof, which would just roll off!
Once in first grade, my lunchbox and jacket got stolen from school, and Steve and I found them 2 weeks later in the creek by the drainpipe, an oily mess, people must have been Constantly changing thier engine oil, and letting it run down the gutters!
I knew the jacket was toast, but for some reason, I had to get my thermos and drink the milk!
Steve kept saying, "You don't want to do that!", along those lines, but I did anyway, and was rewarded with chunks on my face! Thakfully, I don't remember the smell!
Amy and I were invited to a birthday party for a little girl across the street, and Mom got her a huge tea set, about 2 feet square, or so it seemed at the time! Mom wrapped it for us, but the paper wasn't big enough to cover the sides, you could plainly read "Tea set" on both sides of the present! Amy and I complained, but Mom sent us on our way...When we got to the party, the little girl immediatly read the side of the box, and we felt bad for about 1 second until we realised that she was totally thrilled by the present!
My first tricycle came home with Dad one night, it wasn't my birthday, as I remember! It had a huge clear reflector in the front, and I rode it around the block about 100 times before Dad called me in on account of darkness!
The first time I rode a bike, it was rogers' (The red one with the basket) and I could ride it pretty good, but I remember Roger helping me along...I do remember getting my own bike later,I inherited the red bike with the basket, but the first day I had it, I left it at school, and that was that!
Roger later got a Green Rollfast, with a big "R" on the front (irony?) and Steve had a purple Royce-Union, I later broke the frames on both theese bikes at Alcazar, jumping them in the canyon. A bike I couldn't break was Amys' pink "girls bike" and when jumping it, the other kids used to make fun of me, until they realised that they couldn't keep up!
We flew alot of kites, the kids on the block had realistic toy guns,which shot pellets across the street, milk came in glass bottles, there was a bakery truck that came around in the morning with free dohnuts for the kids, and our house number was on the street sign!
Watching Steve and Roger walk to school from the backyard swings, which were way in the back of the huge yard, past the pool, through a path. I could just see the school from there across the canyon. I would spend hours on that swingset, wishing that I could go to school, too,(I was 4) and realizing that I wouldn't get out again for 13 years!
We had Birds of Paradise plants and I think Banana leaf (?) plants also. My favorite was the huge pine tree, which I used to climb up, all the way to the point where the tree would sway under my weight! I could see everything from up there, and I don't remember anyone looking for me!
I remember sonic booms happening about 10 times a day, along with those airplanes with the huge plate on top (record player planes, really E-2c Hawkeyes) and Flying Banana helicopters (Huey CH-46?) along with countless jets. There was an airraid siren that would go off at noon everyday, which sounded very far away.
I remember a Christmas where I got two WWI airplanes, on red Fokker, and one Yellow Sopwith Camel, which I loved. I actually found a yellow wingtip in my junk a few years back. I also remember getting a car carrier with one yellow and one red Corvette, probably Tonka. Another Chrismas I remember was when I got a big "Flying Tiger" airplane, complete with 3 red machine guns on the nose, and a bomb that you could drop with the push of a button! Amy got a big metal doll house that year, and I would strafe it, machine guns blasting away, as Amy screamed, and I would drop a bomb on the roof, which would just roll off!
Once in first grade, my lunchbox and jacket got stolen from school, and Steve and I found them 2 weeks later in the creek by the drainpipe, an oily mess, people must have been Constantly changing thier engine oil, and letting it run down the gutters!
I knew the jacket was toast, but for some reason, I had to get my thermos and drink the milk!
Steve kept saying, "You don't want to do that!", along those lines, but I did anyway, and was rewarded with chunks on my face! Thakfully, I don't remember the smell!
Amy and I were invited to a birthday party for a little girl across the street, and Mom got her a huge tea set, about 2 feet square, or so it seemed at the time! Mom wrapped it for us, but the paper wasn't big enough to cover the sides, you could plainly read "Tea set" on both sides of the present! Amy and I complained, but Mom sent us on our way...When we got to the party, the little girl immediatly read the side of the box, and we felt bad for about 1 second until we realised that she was totally thrilled by the present!
My first tricycle came home with Dad one night, it wasn't my birthday, as I remember! It had a huge clear reflector in the front, and I rode it around the block about 100 times before Dad called me in on account of darkness!
The first time I rode a bike, it was rogers' (The red one with the basket) and I could ride it pretty good, but I remember Roger helping me along...I do remember getting my own bike later,I inherited the red bike with the basket, but the first day I had it, I left it at school, and that was that!
Roger later got a Green Rollfast, with a big "R" on the front (irony?) and Steve had a purple Royce-Union, I later broke the frames on both theese bikes at Alcazar, jumping them in the canyon. A bike I couldn't break was Amys' pink "girls bike" and when jumping it, the other kids used to make fun of me, until they realised that they couldn't keep up!
We flew alot of kites, the kids on the block had realistic toy guns,which shot pellets across the street, milk came in glass bottles, there was a bakery truck that came around in the morning with free dohnuts for the kids, and our house number was on the street sign!
Saturday, December 2, 2006
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