Taking Care of Business
While I was contemplating posting the lyrics to "Monday, Monday," I thought the following would be more fun. The first concert I went to was BTO when I was in tenth grade. And while I thought these lyrics were fun then, they mean something entirely different to me thirty-five years later:
You get up every morning
From your 'larm clock's warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There's a whistle up above
And people pushin', people shovin'
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train's on time
You can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay
If you ever get annoyed
Look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
And I'll be
Taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime
Work out
If it were easy as fishin'
You could be a musician
If you could make sounds loud or mellow
Get a second-hand guitar
Chances are you'll go far
If you get in with the right bunch of fellows
People see you having fun
Just a-lying in the sun
Tell them that you like it this way
It's the work that we avoid
And we're all self-employed
We love to work at nothing all day
And we be
Taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
We be been taking care of business (it's all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime
Mercy
Whooooo
All right
[Instrumental Interlude]
Take good care of my business
When I'm away, every day
Whoooo
You get up every morning
From your 'larm clock's warning
Take the 8:15 into the city
There's a whistle up above
And people pushin', people shovin'
And the girls who try to look pretty
And if your train's on time
You can get to work by nine
And start your slaving job to get your pay
If you ever get annoyed
Look at me I'm self-employed
I love to work at nothing all day
And I'll be
Taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I've been taking care of business (it's all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime
[Brief Instrumental Interlude]
Takin' care of business, whoo
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business (every day)
Takin' care of business (every way)
Takin' care of business (it's all mine)
Takin' care of business
And working overtime
Whoooo
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
We be Takin' care of business
We be Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
Takin' care of business
And as a nod to Corey, here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybtl9qVFAjc
What was your first concert?
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My first concert: The Monkees, Lynn Randall, Jimi Hendrix Experience
Forest Hills Music Festival @ Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Sat., July 15, 1967
setlist upon request. I had just completed 6th Grade.
And do you remember your first 45 (or single for those post vinyl) or LP/ CD/ Album?
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So my first rock concert was the Grateful Dead, on my college campus in 1977 or 1978. It was held in the hockey arena (seated about three thousand), and my late friend Rob Chamberlain drove down from Syracuse in his 1957 Buick Century sedan. I must say I enjoyed it, despite the unbearably tight space, and I didn't then, nor do I now, like the smell of pot.
Other concerts I remember seeing at school were America and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Somehow got great seats at the Michael Jackson concert in 1984 (or thereabouts), and Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden. My very last concert, an Amnesty International event held in River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires, was kind of scary, because the police were clearly not in control of the (somewhat rowdy) crowd. Took my then-girlfriend (now wife) and she swore we were never going to go to another rock concert ever again.
Concerts today tend to be the New York Philharmonic, and little, local "oom-pah" bands on the village green bandstand on Wednesday evenings in the summertime. Sic transit Gloria...
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