So I was at the gym the other day and I heard a song which sounded pretty good but I have no idea what it is.
It was a classic rock kind of song.
It sounded kinda like the Grateful Dead
The chorus of the song sounded like the singer (Jerry Garcia?) was singing “CJ” or “See Jay” or something like that.
Any ideas?
TIA
Casey Jones?
If it was the Dead, there’s only so many of their songs that get regular (relatively speaking) play on the radio, but that’s one of them.
Is that the song with the line “Riding that train, high on cocaine”?
If so, that was not it.
“Driving that train”, but yeah. I was thinking: See Jay…See Kay…Kay See.
See Jay…Touch of Gray?
Or, Last Dance with Mary Jane? (Not Dead - Tom Petty)
The Last DJ by Tom Petty?
Pulling up the YouTube link for this song, if you didn’t know the title or haven’t heard the song, “There goes the last DJ” sorta kinda sounds like “There goes the las…CJ”, especially if you heard it once and got CJ stuck in your head. So if that’s it, that’s what the OP heard.
Don’t suppose it is British singer Robbie Williams Rock DJ but he’s big in gyms everywhere but America.
Yes, that’s it! Excellent job, thank you! It does sound a bit different without the sounds of exercise equipment in the background.
The Velvet Underground sound like the Grateful Dead now, does it, and Lou Reed sounds like Jerry Garcia? :eek:
And remarkably, both of them sound a LOT like the Rolling Stones!
I’d imagine both Lou and Jerry taking equal offense.
Well, to be fair, it’s probably the grooviest of the Velvet Underground’s songs. I don’t think there’s anything like it on White Light/White Heat, for instance.
It’s the heroin. You do enough and everything slows down to the same beat.
Lol, keep in mind that the gym is a pretty noisy place with all of the exercise machines running, weights clanking, and so on.
But there still seems to me to be a vague similarity in musical style. Am I the only one who hears it?
Lou Reed doesn’t sound like Jerry Garcia to me. He sounds like Bob Dylan.
I can hear it in the first 20 seconds of the video Just Ed linked to, but not the rest of the song. I know Sweet Jane and wouldn’t have thought Dead, though.
The Dead also cover Queen Jane Approximately:
Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?
Won’t you come see me, Queen Jane?
But Weir sings this. Jerry does sing Truckin’:
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same
Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine
all a friend can say is “ain’t it a shame”
But that’s the only mention of sweet Jane.
Slow clap…very impressive. I would never have made that connection.
You’re welcome, and thanks. Don’t know why, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the OP. Lou does kinda sorta sound like he’s singing “CJ” in the chorus sometimes.
I am continually impressed at the vast reservoir of musical knowledge on the Dope.
If only someone could identify the source of “Huckleberry Raskolnikov, the All-American Boy with the Marxist orientation” (not a song, but a radio skit).