Savoy Brown — I'm Tired
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I'm tired of being a fool
And my mind going from hot to cool
And trying to conform to others ideas
And someone else's rules
The life I'm living ain't mine
I'm supposed to feel that's fine
I didn't make the world I'm living in
And I ain't gonna toe the line
I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same
And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me
I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same
And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me
You'll have the blues not me
And my mind going from hot to cool
And trying to conform to others ideas
And someone else's rules
The life I'm living ain't mine
I'm supposed to feel that's fine
I didn't make the world I'm living in
And I ain't gonna toe the line
I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same
And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me
I'm tired of trying to be something I know ain't me
I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be
You know some people are different
Now ain't that a crying shame
Now wouldn't be a real drag if we were all the same
And I'm not going to try to please
Eyes that just don't see
If I get myself together
You'll have the blues not me
You'll have the blues not me
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Sweet_Virginia wrote:
A touch of AWESOME!!!
A touch of Jimmy?
A touch of AWESOME!!!
This is a 10. Kinda of an anthem for me over the years.
Saw them Christmastime 1970 in Cherry Hill, NJ
Allman Bros opened, then Savoy Brown with Van Morrison as the headliner.
After the first two, Morrison was kind of a let down. Still an awesome show.
Saw them Christmastime 1970 in Cherry Hill, NJ
Allman Bros opened, then Savoy Brown with Van Morrison as the headliner.
After the first two, Morrison was kind of a let down. Still an awesome show.
Coolest name for a RnR band.
hayduke2 wrote:
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I or something o
OO it looks
fab-you-lowso rockin baby
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I or something o
OO it looks
Wow. Thank you RP Team!
I love the groove they achieve and the mix/production is pretty sweet!
The incomparable Chris Youlden singing. RIP Kim Simmons, thanks for everything.
LOVE THE OLD STUFF! Don't get me wrong, I love the new stuff, too ... but good music from the 60s and 70s ... is STILL GOOD MUSIC!
"I'm tired of living up to what people expect me to be ..."
Skydog wrote:
Yes - At the Grande Ballroom.
Deee-troit Friday nite rock-n-roll!!!
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(yeah i know where they are from)
Yes - At the Grande Ballroom.
Sweet_Virginia wrote:
A touch of Savoy Brown.
A touch of Jimmy?
A touch of Savoy Brown.
Man I missed my era
fredriley wrote:
Hunh...given the polarization of the world into the lefts and rights and the lack of willingness to compromise that has occurred since you wrote this...well, sad that we continue to be hearded into "camps" and have our natural inclinations be reinforced by our own echo chambers (facebot, I'm looking at you). It's okay to be different folks...we can still be friends.
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same?" - amen to that! Sadly, there are strong social, political, economic and institutional pressures which are steadily forcing us into increasingly restrictive roles and personalities. (As a for instance, travelling around in a caravan or campervan looking for work, or for the sheer travelling hell of it, has now become a suspicious activity inviting cop harrassment.) It suits governments and corporations to homogenise us, to make for easier management and consumption. It's up to us to fight back against that homogenisation and to reassert our natural variety and individuality. Vive les différences!
Hunh...given the polarization of the world into the lefts and rights and the lack of willingness to compromise that has occurred since you wrote this...well, sad that we continue to be hearded into "camps" and have our natural inclinations be reinforced by our own echo chambers (facebot, I'm looking at you). It's okay to be different folks...we can still be friends.
Hey, It ain't JB but it's funky!
I don't hear anything else but Savoy Brown with this song. Got my attention at first listen when it was new. Been an anthem for me ever since.
Love this song!
This is nice, brings back memories of Kingston Mines in Chicago.
Got that Lady Marmalade brass rift
Chwkbud wrote:
NICE!!
This band..this album..so many good memories from early '70s. And SB was first concert I saw in a larger (arena type) venue. Savoy Brown and...Uriah Heep. (I know, I know...)
NICE!!
Chris Youlden on vocals, oh my.
Hendrix tones detected :)
This band..this album..so many good memories from early '70s. And SB was first concert I saw in a larger (arena type) venue. Savoy Brown and...Uriah Heep. (I know, I know...)
My husband turned me on to Savoy Brown 41 years ago (omg I'm getting old) - loved them ever since.
That's the spirit we all need.
DERAM Records! Yippee!
Early Bowie, Whiter Shade of Pale, and maybe Days of Future Passed (?)
Early Bowie, Whiter Shade of Pale, and maybe Days of Future Passed (?)
I had to think a moment about what that intro reminds me of.
It's probably Breeders - Cannonball.
A nice one from the Way Back Machine!
Sweet_Virginia wrote:
a very big touch!
A touch of Jimmy?
a very big touch!
If Jimmy & Lenny had a little white baby....yeah, that sums it up.
A little Jimmy vibe going on!
Dat brass section
Groovy!
Saboooooorrrr. XD
That man is one of the few who looks unenthusiastic while tappin the cowbell. Why?
frecko wrote:
frecko wrote:
Let's hear some cowbell...
Let's hear some cowbell...
We got to see Savoy Brown in Grass Valley CA a few years ago...fantastic show!!! and just what I remembered from 1973
ScottishWillie wrote:
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never heard of this band/person. So glad that Radio Paradise plays so much educational material!
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never heard of this band/person. So glad that Radio Paradise plays so much educational material!
SO WICKED : )
Wikipedia says A Step Further came out in 1969.
BTW, love this song!
BTW, love this song!
Great way to end the work day!
Deee-troit Friday nite rock-n-roll!!!
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(yeah i know where they are from)
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(yeah i know where they are from)
trailhead wrote:
It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state. And the state U is in Amherst, further west.
I believe that Proclivities is also correct about there being a UMass campus in Worcester - the medical school, if memory serves. It is true that the main campus is in Amherst however.
It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state. And the state U is in Amherst, further west.
I believe that Proclivities is also correct about there being a UMass campus in Worcester - the medical school, if memory serves. It is true that the main campus is in Amherst however.
Proclivities wrote:
I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.
It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state. And the state U is in Amherst, further west.
I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.
It's only pronounced "Wistah", unless you are from out of state. And the state U is in Amherst, further west.
Thought this was an archive release of Hendrix.... pleasant surprise....
bam23 wrote:
Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!
I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.
Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!
I think he meant Worcester, which is pronounced more like "Wooster" (or sometimes "Wistah"). There is a State University in Worcester, Mass.
scadawizard wrote:
Sky dog don't worry about age it's just a number. Just think of all the music you have absorbed in that time and WALLOW my fellow RP listener, WALLOW
Savoy Brown. Here in the UK they ought to have a medal for services to the music industr. They supported more headline acts than anyone I can think of. Pure toon.
scadawizard wrote:
pretty much their breakout album for the usa / chris youdlen era ZESTY!soulful and it rocks
all good
all good
great stuff ! pretty much their breakout hit in the usa
great band
you know you're getting old when you look at the album cover and think 'Rhododendrons'
Follow this gem with something from Spooky Tooth II as I did in the sixties!! 
Ha!!! I loved this song when I was in my 20s in the 60s, sounds good to me.
Skydog wrote:
Skydog wrote:
I loved this album when I was a teen in the '60's,.....opps I shouldn't have said it that way because it'll just get laughed at for being an old man, let me try again.
Back in the day this album was dope.
Now that's cred.
Back in the day this album was dope.
Now that's cred.
Tpman wrote:
Love Chris Youlden
A touch of Jimmy?
Perfect song for today's events.
takes me WAY back love it TYVM RP jamming
Kind of sounds like Jimi H.
This should be followed by Lili Von Stupp.
jagdriver wrote:
Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!
I never tire or hearing old Savoy Brown. Saw them at Wooster College (MA) in 1970, Chris Youlden still doing lead vocals.
Are you certain it was spelled "Wooster" and was in Mass? Maybe pronounced that way, but unless you mixed up Ohio and Massachusetts, I think a detail may be off!
Sounds so groovy, that wicked bass and twangy guitar, perfectly interwoven by the cool yet disgruntled vocal style; just a KILLER jam!
EXACTLY.
wtango wrote:
wtango wrote:
Elvis' Little Less Conversation meets Jimmi Hendrix!
LoveIt.
LoveIt.
fab-you-lowso rockin baby
Haven't heard this band in years..............forgot about them, excellent
Thanks for this discovery
Savoy Brown soundin a lil like Tom Jones
fredriley wrote:
I don't always agree with you, Fred, but you're right on this.
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same?" - amen to that! Sadly, there are strong social, political, economic and institutional pressures which are steadily forcing us into increasingly restrictive roles and personalities. (As a for instance, travelling around in a caravan or campervan looking for work, or for the sheer travelling hell of it, has now become a suspicious activity inviting cop harrassment.) It suits governments and corporations to homogenise us, to make for easier management and consumption. It's up to us to fight back against that homogenisation and to reassert our natural variety and individuality. Vive les différences!
I don't always agree with you, Fred, but you're right on this.
oh yeah
I never tire or hearing old Savoy Brown. Saw them at Wooster College (MA) in 1970, Chris Youlden still doing lead vocals.
In the days of my youth I....
Oh, wait, different tune and band.
Oh, wait, different tune and band.
Elvis' Little Less Conversation meets Jimmi Hendrix!
LoveIt.
LoveIt.
"Wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same?" - amen to that! Sadly, there are strong social, political, economic and institutional pressures which are steadily forcing us into increasingly restrictive roles and personalities. (As a for instance, travelling around in a caravan or campervan looking for work, or for the sheer travelling hell of it, has now become a suspicious activity inviting cop harrassment.) It suits governments and corporations to homogenise us, to make for easier management and consumption. It's up to us to fight back against that homogenisation and to reassert our natural variety and individuality. Vive les différences!
I'm tired of living up to what people expected me to be. -- Savoy Brown
After the bars on that sax, I expect to hear
WAR! Ain't nothin' but an undertaker -- Edwin Starr
Sorry, mixing up my the melody hooks in songs...
After the bars on that sax, I expect to hear
WAR! Ain't nothin' but an undertaker -- Edwin Starr
Sorry, mixing up my the melody hooks in songs...
Nice to hear SB after years without hearing. Anything from Streetcorner Talking would also be appreciated as would a little Capt Beefheart to go along with the yin of Tim Buckley
Great pick. Would love to hear "Stay while the night is young" sometime.
Mmmhmm, yup stingray, way excellantay!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Very good band! XXXelent!
I miss Chris Youlden's vocals on top of this excellent English blues band!
Can I go back to those days?
Wasted late nights in Robinson dorm with a wild assortment of Bogarts. Savoy Brown still sounds good, though.
Oh Yeah! The beginning of that was sampled in Transglobal Undergrounds "International times" album!
Just caught the end of this beauty......Damn...
Just finished teaching "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and this song reminds me of the scene with old Pete: "I said I'm TIRED! Awful tired!" This could be Pete's theme song.
OUTSTANDING!!! 
Great rhythm!!!!
Such a groovy find!!!
This is SAVOY BROWN...?
Sounds sooo modern and fresh!
WONDERFUL!!!
PS
BLACK KEYS someone?
This is a funky song, very cool, but I don't think it sounds like Hendrix at all.
scrubbrush
(Sea of Calm)
fredriley wrote:
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
agreed. total Jimi vibe.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Totally agree......
(Sea of Calm)
| Posted: Aug 08, 2011 - 14:08 |
fredriley wrote:
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
agreed. total Jimi vibe.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Totally agree......
Shesdifferent wrote:
Its always night somewhere ...
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
Its always night somewhere ...
Definitely worthy of cranking the volume!
Shesdifferent wrote:
...seems to be true!
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
...seems to be true!
VERY!!!! underrated band, indeed!
Great musicians playin' real music!
Great musicians playin' real music!
Always loved this one. An underrated group.
maxmox wrote:
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
in the silence of windlesslass snow...storm..at night " mmm....loyalty"...
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
in the silence of windlesslass snow...storm..at night " mmm....loyalty"...
maxmox wrote:
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
in a silent snow...storm..at night " mmm....
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
Nnaaa there's a..loyalty...rare as the silence of a windless snowstorm in
the dark of bunny fur knight on snowshoes...."whistling under a washtub
in a silent snow...storm..at night " mmm....
B&R, More Savoy Brown please!!!?
mikeatlarge wrote:
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
Well, for 4+ hours this morning Bill was on a roll with amazing music. Then he had to play THIS. Time to change the channel...
Wot? one song you don't dig and you flip out to another mob......where's ya loyalty
fredriley wrote:
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
agreed. total Jimi vibe.
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
agreed. total Jimi vibe.
Oh man that opening riff on the left channel. I gotta learn the tabs to that!
Saw them way back in the 70's with Manfred Mann opening. Great show, no horns just guitar band and guitar playing. Hellbound Train was a highlight
I love Chris Youlden on vocals for SB.
peter_james_bond wrote:
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
Reminds me a little bit of Blood, Sweat and Tears. 
Reminds me a lot of Jimi Hendrix - I honestly thought this was one of his songs. Ver' nahce - 7 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
Reminds me a little bit of Blood, Sweat and Tears.
Jelani wrote:
Hmmm. Not so much.
Goo goo goo goo barabjagal....
Hmmm. Not so much.
Goo goo goo goo barabjagal....
Yamson wrote:
Also reminded me a lot of Finley Quaye's "Sunday Shining" (funny — Finley was born in 1974)
Wow, that intro sounded a lot like the intro on Cake's "Love You Madly." Think they borrowed it?
Also reminded me a lot of Finley Quaye's "Sunday Shining" (funny — Finley was born in 1974)
Yep, this confirms it...RP does play better stuff at night. Love it!
I'm NOT tired of this song!
WOW. I was uneducated on Savoy Brown. That was great relief and company in the misery of the heat. Thanks RP!
Well, for 4+ hours this morning Bill was on a roll with amazing music. Then he had to play THIS. <sigh> Time to change the channel...
keller1 wrote:
Well, it's a pretty standard, R&B chord progression.
Slowed down Brand New Cadillac. Didn't realize it until today.
Well, it's a pretty standard, R&B chord progression.
cardinalfan wrote:
I feel your pain...
When did we all become so respectable and stodgy? Maybe we need a blast of Savoy Brown to bring out the fun-child in us... This is a good song. Thanks to whoever uploaded it for review, and thanks to Bill and Rebecca for bringing it on!
A K-SHE Classic...been a while. I think the last time I heard this, A seed popped out of my pipe and burned a hole in my shirt.
I feel your pain...
When did we all become so respectable and stodgy? Maybe we need a blast of Savoy Brown to bring out the fun-child in us... This is a good song. Thanks to whoever uploaded it for review, and thanks to Bill and Rebecca for bringing it on!
A touch of Jimmy?
Just a. Touch?!