Just A Preparatory Warm up to get me warmed up to begin my Deep Dive into ‘Phases and Stages.”
(Too much Prep, over-training, will kill you on the field)
My HG Warriors, 1974, Learned this lesson the hard way when we stood eyeball – to -eyeball with them damn’d despised Cooper Bulldogs.
And got our asses handed to us…
We had spent the entire ‘off-season’ training for nothing but Cooper.
By the time we actually faced them,
We were spent.
Done
Exhausted.
They easily kicked the ever-loving shit outta us.
It was never ever even a contest.
Just a shameful old-fashioned beat-down.
Worst defeat in the History Of Honey Grove Warriors proud History.
Even today, that Friday Night Lights night still stings.
Not unlike Salt in a Freshly Open Wound.
Willie:
“People are saying that time will take care of people like me
That I’m livin’ too fast and they say I can’t last too much longer
But little they see that their thoughts of me is my savior
And little they know that the beat oughta go just a little faster
So pick up the tempo just a little and take it on home
The singer ain’t singin’ and the drummer’s been draggin’ too long
Time will take care of itself so just leave time alone
And pick up the tempo just a little and take it on home
Well I’m wild and I’m mean and I’m creatin’ a scene I’m goin’ crazy
Well I’m good and I’m bad and I’m happy and I’m sad and I’m lazy
I’m quiet and I’m loud and I’m gatherin’ a crowd and I like gravy
About half off the wall but I learned it all in the Navy”
So pick up the tempo…
to be clear…the real Soap on Bee Caves, where Doug Sahm lived right down the road. Not the half-assed reincarnation at the old Skyline Club on Lamar.
RIP Bobbie Nelson! You have passed from one Phase to another. Now Stage 1 is done and another begins. Somewhere. Give my regards to Doug Sahm. Ah, those treks from HG to the ‘dillow and Soap Creek. And that iconic ’75 gig w Alvin Crow, Doug and Willie at the Soap!!!!!