That your mom was listening to the VU is pretty darned cool.rsmurphy wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 9:13 am Watched a video of "Shotgun" by JR Walker & The All Stars and thought about my mom who used to love that song. When he'd shout "It's Twine Time" my mom would go "HEYYY" and start to do the Twine and I'd go "GET IT THEN." Today I realized I never actually listened to the "Twine Time" song so I queued her up and let it rip. Good song! Slinky. Garage-soul. Then, I started thinking about the Velvet Underground and how as a kid I found their first record in my grandmother's basement. That discovery always tripped me out because there's no way that Little Mama, preacher's wife, was listening to the Velvet Underground and it hit me: that was probably my mom's record.
Last year in the wake of Tom Verlaine's death, I went poking around for the song which he'd had in mind as the basis for the somewhat inexplicable track "Yonki Time." Turns out...according to Robot A. Hull in the Washington Post in '79, it was "Twine Time." I guess one can kind of hear it in the keyboard. "Yonki Time" has grown on me, and "Twine Time" is also pretty cool.
