"I Can See Clearly Now"

Brint Hannay · Post by **Brint Hannay** » 2 May 2008 2:44 pm

Theresa Galbraith wrote:

Who had it out first? Was it a #1 single?
It was outstanding!

Theresa, If you're talking about the song (sort of a parallel thread here), and if you mean the original vocal version, it was Johnny Nash. Of course, I've read here that Lloyd made the charts in some fashion with his (terrific) instrumental version.

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 2 May 2008 5:03 pm

Brint,
Yes, I was asking the ?
Love it!

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 2 May 2008 5:20 pm

John Steele wrote:I kinda like concise.

-John

John S, You can take comfort in the fact that
brevity is the soul of wit despite how others judge your writing.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 2 May 2008 11:40 pm

Nevermind.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 3 May 2008 12:22 am

Theresa,

Thanks for acknowledging Mr. Green's accomplishments. So much time has passed since the recording was made, and to be honest, I didn't recall at the time of introducing this thread, that Lloyd had chosen the song to be on his album. This thread is intended to allow for calling attention to making choices in the prime of one's life, that cannot be changed later in life. "I Can See Clearly Now" is a fitting title that describes that endless search for the gold that was never found. By reasonable standards, it should not require a lifetime of study to master the steel guitar. The steel guitar requires special talents to get it "right". The discomfiture isn't detected early enough, and the consequences range from disappointments to moving away from other important activities. If by chance there happened to be more players in the category of super pickers, an upsurge of new concepts may become a reality.

BJ Jenkins · Post by **BJ Jenkins** » 3 May 2008 10:41 am

Bill you have GOT to cut it out !!
The LAST time you went on one of these "Shakspearean" Diatribes three of our picker friends had to go into therapy!!! While I,myself, "Preciate" your efforts to expand the mind and skills with the English language,I will tell you now what I told you two or three years ago.
"If you think I AM CONFUSED.....LOOK AT ...ME !"
Rite ON, BRO. !!!
bj

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 3 May 2008 10:51 am

Duane R.,

John Steele mentioned that he liked concise. Well that places my thoughts with brevity. I see brevity all about me. Brevity in steel practice, ball club brevities choking up on the bat and spitting sunflower seeds, no time to explain details, and countless forms of routine behaviors that are precisely termed as brevities.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 3 May 2008 11:24 am

what if they started a thread and nobody came?

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 3 May 2008 11:58 am

chris ivey wrote:what if they started a thread and nobody came?

Chris, that's the only way to handle certain threads.
But there's just no way that nobody would come. Somebody always takes an interest, so you participate if you want, and if you don't like the thread, just kinda lay low until something of interest comes along.

Don Brown, Sr. · Post by **Don Brown, Sr.** » 3 May 2008 1:18 pm

Wow! Wonder if I'm close. Could it be that you (Bill) have promoted so many steel guitar shows (because you love the sound of steel) and felt you'd then get the most exposure to all the many different players who attended, and as such, you would then come to be one of them. But! Since that didn't work out the way you wanted it to, (in your favor of learning pedal steel easier) now your looking back on it being a waste of your time for having done what you now can't take back and have done something more productive that you possibly could have accomplished in your lifetime?

I have no idea whether or not you even play at all let alone how well you play.

I use to think you were simply writing for attention, but now I feel otherwise. I feel frustration in your writing. However, it's not me who is (any longer) frustrated with you. I truly believe it is you who is frustrated over not becoming what you spent lots of time on, to get to where you wanted to be in life, but missed it by a milestone.

Could I be close? I simply don't know. But you're a very deep individual, and I no longer feel it's for attention. I feel it's more of a psychological therapy, in venting out your frustrations of life in general.

Hope you soon find what you're looking for.

My sincere sympathy

:oops::oops:

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 4 May 2008 3:43 am

Don Brown Sr.,

Well Don, I would really be reluctant to question your aptitude at this juncture of verbal exchanges. I had written quite some time ago of an experience that I thought would tend to ameliorate or soften occasional crassitude among steel players here in the Northeast. Josh Dubin, whom I met here in the Berkshires, had located in and around New Jersey some time ago. I have some questions for this gentleman of the steel guitar cicuits, should we meet again. The Northeast has produced several pickers that may very well excel many others throughout the southern band of instrumentalists.
How rude can a fellow musician become? If it's a rude awakening through wake up calls, produced by exemplary musical performances; so be it. I believe that the extraordinary adaptability to the steel guitar here in the N.E., will someday become the standard in artistic advancements. Defining incredible slumps in writer observations, that weary quickly, by resorting to unfounded images, is more about the victim, rather than specific validities.

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 4 May 2008 8:11 am

Bill Hankey wrote:Duane R.,

John Steele mentioned that he liked concise. Well that places my thoughts with brevity. I see brevity all about me. Brevity in steel practice, ball club brevities choking up on the bat and spitting sunflower seeds, no time to explain details, and countless forms of routine behaviors that are precisely termed as brevities.

And yet, one well-placed swing of the bat can likely say far more than your pen...

I give up.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 4 May 2008 9:03 am

Steve F.,

Your name rings a bell that suggests that your name could have been grouped in my filing cards that contained the names of numerous pickers in Massachusetts. I've screened the entire state from side to side in the past by running down leads from players who had steel playing friends throughout the state. Players from Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other neighboring states were always there for me at the "MASSBASHES". It just seems as though I've invited you to several shows in the past.

Stephen Silver · Post by **Stephen Silver** » 4 May 2008 10:41 am

Josh Dubin is an old friend and has lived in Nashville for at least the past 15 years.

Though he hasn't given up steel, he does not play out much and is in the hi tech industry.

SS

Steve Feldman · Post by **Steve Feldman** » 4 May 2008 11:19 am

Bill Hankey wrote:Steve F.,

Your name rings a bell that suggests that your name could have been grouped in my filing cards that contained the names of numerous pickers in Massachusetts. I've screened the entire state from side to side in the past by running down leads from players who had steel playing friends throughout the state. Players from Vermont, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and other neighboring states were always there for me at the "MASSBASHES". It just seems as though I've invited you to several shows in the past.

I've been to a couple of MassBash shows in the past, Bill. Don't recall getting contacted about any of these, but like I said, it was some time ago.

Cheers.

David Hartley · Post by **David Hartley** » 4 May 2008 11:35 am

I just clicked on this thread too thinking it was about the LG instrumental...I quickly read through this post and some of its replies, and all I can say is...'I can't see clearly now'..I dont even know why I'm replying, I don't understand the question or the replies..I suppose I am just 'thick'!

Think I'm gonna log out!

David Hartley

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 4 May 2008 3:20 pm

Brint,
Johnny Nash was the hit I grew up with.
Pretty melody and lyric.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 4 May 2008 4:49 pm

Temptations are the forces that balloon into diversionary interests. Things of this nature prompts our desires and wishes to be put on hold, while we chase after irresistible dreams. The eyes are in part responsible for nurturing those temptations. Illusions play a large part in portraying something too beautiful to resist. Life is full of main attractions that can lead us to utter disappointments. Opportunity at times presents itself by knocking ever so lightly at your door. It will slip away as quickly as it appeared, after "offering" possible fruitful endeavors. The song title "Rose Colored Glasses" hints of imagination going wild in unfamiliar situations. "I Can See Clearly Now" stirs memoirs of the past; with recollections galore of failing to achieve successes in pursuits of personal interests. The moods of the general public changes over time. Combining these traits to chasing down dreams that fail to materialize into worthwhile pursuits, appears to be realized as one matures with the times.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 4 May 2008 4:59 pm

!!!???!!!

Chris Schlotzhauer · Post by **Chris Schlotzhauer** » 4 May 2008 4:59 pm

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin?for
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there’s nothin?but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin?but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 4 May 2008 7:56 pm

Nevermind.

Jeff Evans · Post by **Jeff Evans** » 4 May 2008 8:28 pm

It appears to the individual in the first-person position of this particular posting (once again but not limited to one-time only, "me") when reviewing information in a section of the computer screen containing multiple, but not random, variations in the the output of neighboring pixels in the computer graphical interface, or, for the sake of textual efficiency, known commonly and by most individuals as a "post"

Satire is alive and well in Granbury. Funnier than a dozen threads in the Humor section.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 4 May 2008 10:22 pm

Duane R.,

It can be agonizing to lock horns with an adversary whose literary "horns" can rip and tear away concepts with relative ease. I can't think of anything more pitiful than engaging oneself in a contentious disagreement over a single word. I'm totally aware of your intellectual prowess, after reading samples of your literary redundancies proclaiming my nonsensically submitted material to be absurd. In the process of not having the ability to digest the tone of a well written page is frustrating. Education is defined by the lack of it, as it rears its ugly head when needed most.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 5 May 2008 1:37 am

Nevermind.

Bill Hankey · Post by **Bill Hankey** » 5 May 2008 2:30 am

Duane,

Thanks for taking the time to respond to a bit of carelessness on my part, as I've attempted to test the "winds" of the English language. Sorting out word usages, can be accomplished by relying on authoritative sources, but it may erase the chances of developing a few interesting quips, that would otherwise be passed over. I was about to make changes by editing to conform to acceptable levels of writing, and missed making some changes before submitting the written material. Of course, the word (process) features more versatility than average diction of the English language. I will go back and reword the phrase, hopefully to provide an intent to be reciprocative.

The Steel Guitar Forum

"I Can See Clearly Now"

AT IT AGAIN !!!

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