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My sister Pert requested this song, a simple cover By BackStreets of Neil Young's song Birds. Who would of know it would be the last time they play as a group. It was recorded during Backstreets last time preforming together. Putting on a great final show at Drowsy Maggi's. Rex, Dave and Rick all moved on to other projects. But they will always be around.

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Estelle

(Musings of an Impetuous Teenager)

The darkest eyes I’ve ever seen

without a trace of blue or green

Though I’ve heard you speak of dreams

What’s underneath you’ll never tell

….Estelle

you spoke of hours on the phone

a midnight call, you weren’t alone

Yet you could not disconnect

You weren’t so sure that he fell

….For you Estelle

As I look back such a long time ago

I think of you and the one who made our  introduction

The painful beauty of watching you both grow

Such a real, yet out of reach seduction

So when he looks into your eyes

A love not yet realized

It would come as no surprise

That you would cast a spell

….Estelle

The darkest eyes I’ve ever seen

Without a trace of blue or green

Though I’ve heard you speak of dreams

What’s underneath you’ll never tell

….Estelle

Rick Saxton

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The Latinos

I remember how he helped me forge my dreams

Childhood fantasy of how it’s supposed to be

Drivin faster cars holdin down a job

To afford the weekend flights to the boulevard

He was the Latino

He was the Latino

As I grew old enough to see my fathers world

Images of success and financial means

I can’t forget who ran his shops and factories

Sweaty hands and faced working to feed

Their families

He was the Latino

He was the Latino

Our childhood friends Arturo and Consueld

said we had it made because we were white

Always together wherever my sister and

I would go

I just wasn't smart enough to see that

they were right

He was the Latino

He was the Latino

Then to college, a protected middle

class world

But there were no Latinos there to

study the proper words

The only lessons learned shattered by

Defeat

The words found their way to the

Project walls

and the war waged in their streets

He was the Latino

He was the Latino

They are the Latinos.........They are the Latinos.........

By Rick Saxton

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Another Backstreets cover. Amy or Amie.. Depending on who you are talking to. With Dave Brian, Rick Saxton and Rex Wilson performing this great cover. I do believe that Dave Brian is on lead vocals.. Now this is one of my favorite songs. So much so I included the original from Pure Prairie League.

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Pure Prairie League in 2010

About:

Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1965 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, with Craig Fuller, Tommy McGrail, Jim Caughlan, John Call and Mike Reilly. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a fictional 19th century temperance union featured in the 1939 Errol Flynn cowboy movie Dodge City. The band has had a long run, active from the 1970s through the late 1980s and was revived in the late 1990s for a time, then again in 2004. As of 2014, they are still doing at least 100 shows a year.

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Lyrics:

I can see why you think you belong to me
I never tried to make you think, or let you see one thing for yourself
But now you're off with someone else and I'm alone
You see I thought that I might keep you for my own
Well I guess I was wrong

Amy what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Don't you think the time is right for us to find
All the things we thought weren't proper could be right in time
And can't you see
Which way we should turn together or alone
I can never see what's right or what is wrong
(cause it'll take to long to see)

Amy what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

(Acoustic solo)

Well
Amy what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

Now it's come to what you want you've had your way
And all the things you thought before just faded into gray
And can't you see
That I don't know if it's you or if it's me
If it's one of us I'm sure we'll both will see
Won't you look at me and tell me

Amy what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer
Longer if I do

Yeah now
Amy what you wanna do?
I think I could stay with you
For a while, maybe longer if I do

I keep
Fallin' in and out of love with you
Fallin' in and out of love with you
Don't know what I'm gonna do, I keep
Fallin' in and out of love
With you.

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The BackStreets Band, Live At Drowsy Maggi's in 1982 doing a Kingston Trio Cover. With  Dave Brian, Rex Wilson and Richard Saxton on lead Vocals. Sadly I do not know the name of the song and a little too lazy to look it up. So with that if you know the title please leave it in the comments section Thanks. Enjoy!

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The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950's to late 1960's. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33⅓ rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.

The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in

The Kingston Trio's original lineup: Dave Guard,
Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds (Spring 1957)

1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which sold over three million copies as a single. The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.

In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick." Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as "phenomenal popularity", and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.
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BackStreets cover of "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard". Recorded around 1982  at the now sadly gone drowsy Maggi's With Dave Brian, Rick Saxton and Rex Wilson.

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"Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon from his 1972 self-titled album.

The song is about two boys who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song. When "the mama pajama" finds out what they have done, she goes to the police station to report the crime. The individuals are later arrested, but released when a radical priest intervenes.

In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked: "What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know." Simon replied "I have no idea what it is... Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say 'something', I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didn't make any difference to me." This implies that Simon left the crime up to the imagination of the listener, allowing each person who listens to the song to draw their own conclusion from their own thoughts and experiences. This has not stopped speculation on a definite interpretation: commentators have detected references to recreational drug use, and believe that the mother saw the boy buying drugs. More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as "a bit of inscrutable doggerel."

The percussion sound in the song, unusual for American pop, was created with a Cuica, a Brazilian friction drum instrument often used in samba music.
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Band: BackStreets Live At Drowsy Maggi's 1982 Dave Brian, Rick Saxton, Rex Wilson

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BackStreets Live At Drowsy Maggi's 1982 Dave Brian, Rick Saxton, Rex Wilson

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This is a great cover by BackStreets. Preforming  Live At Drowsy Maggi's around 1982. With Dave Brian, Rick Saxton and Rex Wilson  

ABOUT THE SONG: "The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968 and on the group's debut album Music from Big Pink. Written by Band member Robbie Robertson, the song is about a visitor's experiences in a town mentioned in the lyric's first line as Nazareth, from which the Scottish band Nazareth later took its name. "The Weight" has significantly influenced American popular music, having been listed as #41 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004. Pitchfork Media named it the 13th best song of the Sixties, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. PBS, which broadcast performances of the song in "Ramble at the Ryman" (2011), "Austin City Limits" (2012), and "Quick Hits" (2012), describes it as "a masterpiece of Biblical allusions, enigmatic lines and iconic characters" and notes its enduring popularity as "an essential part of the American songbook." From Wikipedia 

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Rick Saxton speaking about his return from his paid government vacation, from Vietnam. Taking him 15 years before he could open up enough to write about it. Closing with a letter from his sister Lois and the song December '68

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Just a simple little video I made years ago for my Mother and Uncle Rick, Set to one of Rick Saxton's songs... What was lacking in our relationship of days past. Is more than being made up for now. It is amazing how close we have became.. The prodigal son / nephew has returned.. Love Ya.

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