Friday’s Feast – 9/21/2007

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Appetizer
What is your favorite type of art?

Definitely music, but I also like theater and film.

Soup
When was the last time you got a free lunch (or breakfast or dinner)? Who paid for it?

Last Saturday a friend of ours gifted us with one of the tastiest dinners we’ve had in a long time.  Thanks Allan!

Salad
On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being highest, how emotional are you?

Probably 6 pr 7, but I try very hard to not let it show.

Main Course
Approximately how long do you spend each day responding to emails?

About the same as my wife Renee - about an hour or so, spread throughout the day.

Dessert
To what temperature do you usually set your home’s thermostat?

69 or 70 – I like it cool.

Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky and Jessica

Dickey Betts wrote Blue Sky about his then girlfriend, later to become his wife, Sandy “Bluesky” Wabegijig.  They were married in 1973, and divorced 2 years later.  For a long time after the divirce, Dickey refused to perform this song.  This was the first song Dickey sang lead on.  Duane Allman and Dicket Betts played on the bridge solo -  one playing lead, the other playing rhythym.  They switched up about half way through. For a measure or 2, they synch’d up on a riff or 2, for a couple of measures.  I couldn’t find a video with Duane, but here’s a pretty good one.

On May 14, 1972, Dickey and Sandy Blue Sky had a daughter, that they named Jessica.  About a year later, with the help of his daughter, Dickey wrote the song Jessica.  He had been working on an in strumental, and wouldn’t let his wife clean the room where he was writing.  There were wads of paper, trash, beer cans, guitar strings, and all kinds of stuff just laying around.  Dickey could hear the melody in his head, but couldn’t quite get it out on the guitar.  Jessica crawled into the room, knocking everything all over the place crawling around.  Dickey started playing to her, and out came the melody to the song. 

references:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=833

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Sky_(song)

http://lamsmith.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E45AC9BE255C06C0!5722.entry

http://www.rockhall.com/public/hall-dickey-betts/