Happy Easter!

Thoughts and recap tomorrow ...

Blue Garden

This was a big one for me, back in 1988 or 1989 or so, winter if I recall correctly. Didn’t know nothing about the band. Bought it cuz of a review in a guitar magazine. Fascinated me endlessly that season, and not just this tune, though this was the big takeaway for me. Always think of snow when I hear this song.

Love the Hendrix-y sound, the vocals, the lyrics, the organ thingie at the end. I think, if in some parallel universe I am a successful musician, the majority of my songs would incorporate the Organ-Thingie in some Way Shape Form.

“The Blue Garden,” by Masters of Reality

Good Friday

Jesus went out with His disciples across the Kidron valley to where there was a garden, into which He and His disciples entered. Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples. So Judas got a band of soldiers and guards from the chief priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. Jesus, knowing everything that was going to happen to Him, went out and said to them,

“Whom are you looking for?”

They answered him,

“Jesus the Nazorean.”

He said to them,

“I AM.”

Judas His betrayer was also with them. When He said to them, “I AM,” they turned away and fell to the ground.


- The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John, chapter 18