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| I was going to put the Music stuff on a separate website called Green 1st. com and maybe I will eventually. I have registered the domain name. I call it Green 1st because now there are many other bands called Green (e.g. Green Day, The Green, Green Hope, The Greenband, Green Eggs, The Green Machine, Green Country, The Green Room, Green etc.) but we formed our band in the 60’s and we were the first to be called Green. This was long before anybody in the USA knew anything about all the Green environmental fuss. The closest thing to it back then was called Conservationism (which is not the same thing) and words like ecology and environmentalism were not yet part of the common American vocabulary. I had lived in Germany and knew about the beginnings of Green Party (Die Grünen) Even to the other members of the band, I didn’t try to explain why I wanted to call it Green. I knew that it just seemed like another one of my screwball ideas and it would have been too vague and generalized back then. I just said think of it as the color of Grass (pot) ……………..or money, with the hope that it would make us a lot. The money part was a good, capitalist way to explain it to the FBI when they came looking for draft dodgers who hung around with us back then. If I had tried to explain something about environmentalism (a word I didn’t know yet) the FBI would have considered it some kind of communist plot. I thought Green, the Environmental movement, would sweep across the USA within a few years and we would ride the crest of the wave and cash in on it. I was forty years too early. |
| This music mess was on on the Doodads & Tricks page because I have friends who do Yoga and yet they are not able to do this amazing trick that I can do. As Andy Griffith (the sheriff of Mayberry) once said “I am able to take this great big foot and put it into this little mouth”. I have spent a good part of my life putting my foot in my mouth (saying insensitive; asinine things to people whom I love) and I have this other trick which has often enabled me to slide right by as if I had always been a nice guy. I can drink some Fundador, Hack at playing a little Flamenco Guitar (and wish I could play it like Sabicas) or bang out a little Boogie Woogie Piano (and wish I could play it like Liberace). And, briefly, I am able to entertain as if there were no tomorrow (wish I could compose and play as well as Nina Somone) and draw everybody’s attention away form my amazing "Foot in Mouth" trick. Arrogantly puffed up with grandiose ideas about doing some tricks to change the world, I had the privilege, in my youth, of recording some songs with the band called Green. The beginning of a list of these songs is at left. As we are able to convert them to digital files, I will gradually add more, As Time Goes By. |
| We made these recordings when we were young and had grand ideas. Old poots now, we have started doing a little recording again but without the big ambitions. Maybe I’ll put some of the results here later. Here are a few internet references to Green: 1. Green 2. Green Technicolor Web Review 3. Green RYM Green 4. Green You Tube D. Casebeer Intro 5. Green You Tube David Casebeer, Various Songs View comments, related videos, and more 6. 7. Green 8. 9. Barnes & Noble 10. Best Buy 11. The Rare Music Shop |
| Members of the band “Green” include: 1. Bobby Blood: Brass, Vocals 2. Claudia Snowden: Flute, Vocals 3. Dee Zimmers: Vocals 4. Gary Casebeer: Drums, Keyboards, Vocals 5. James Neel: Reeds, Brass, Vocals 6. Jay Pruitt: Piano, Brass, Strings Arrangement, Vocals 7. John Martin: Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals 8. Kathy Pruitt: Cello, Violin, Viola 9. Richard Gardzina: Reeds, Keyboards, Vocals, Bag Pipes, Accordion 10. Wilson fisher: Base, Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica At one time, Larry Miller (Guitarist) was Green’s manager. He also wrote songs and a few are listed at left under Songs by Green Friends. Other musicians who played with Green: 1. Larry White: See next page 2. Lon Price 3. Tommy Morrell 4. Darrel Lenard 5. Chuck Mandernach 6. Mark Casebeer |
| I call four of these songs “Kathy’s Songs” because Kathy Kelsey Pruitt Kelley was a dear friend and a brilliant Cello Player, who was a member of our band called Green. Jay Pruitt was Kathy’s husband, a member of Green (Piano, Brass & Vocals) and he helped Cathy arrange some of the string parts for these songs. We were looking forward to many other things with Kathy and sadly, Kathy is no longer among us in this life, Kathy’s songs are: Where Angels Lay Can You See Me No Eyes but Mine Lady To play them, click the links in the list at left. |
| When “Footprints in the Snow” ends, Up next “Sunrise # 7” (a Green song) will appear. Some other songs that follow are not ours. To hear more of ours, click this link: Green You Tube-David Casebeer, Various Songs View comments, related videos, and more |
| This is not an authentic video of Green the Band. However, I like as much as any band I’ve seen so I put it here. |
| “Unto others as unto you.” As Christmas has become about shopping malls and commercials and no longer has anything to do with Jesus, “Going Green” has become a marketing gimmick and has little to do with the original idea. “Going Green”, was originally about preserving the delicate conditions on our Mother Earth that sustain us and not “Saving the Planet” e.g. “Go Paperless” is about eliminating the corporate expense of having to mail (stamps, envelopes, paper and typists etc.) paper bills. Green was originally about saving our asses. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you Luke 6:31 Matthew 7:12 |
| Facebook references to this and other Green Videos. goo.gl/g6YGur goo.gl/0Lj3XJ Note about links here: My webhosting tool is Abaco Sitebuilder. goo.gl/fO3OfP It is NOT dependable. If these links don’t work, you can copy and paste them in you browser. Or try the other links here: FB1 FB 2 Best bet is to copy and paste. |