Dylan Thomas - The Forest Green 1950 Chevrolet Panel Truck

Dylan Thomas - The Forest Green 1950 Chevrolet Panel Truck
Tiger Lyons - Keyboards Dylan Johnson - Drums
There is so much to say about my 1950 Chevrolet panel truck with the chrome strips on the fenders and the chrome grill that looked like the Cheshire cats UN-nerving great wide grin. I restored that truck in 1975 at my aunt Rose's cabin that was melting into the ground under thick carpets of moss up at Pine Lake in Issaquah, right on the waterfront. I restored that truck from top to bottom, I even removed the body from the frame and painted the hidden areas and put in a four-on-the-floor transmission with a granny gear, (compound low). That truck would go anyway with it in granny gear, you could even put it in low and get out and walk faster then the truck would be moving. Absolutely loved that truck. The adventures that I experienced with my panel truck were amazing and wild and incredible never to be repeated in this plastic white-bread day and age! Sue L. and I drove it on "vacation" down the Oregon and California coast all the way to L.A. and then turned left and drove to Indio California, visited with a high school friend, then on to Arapaho Basin were I skied on my birthday in MAY and then to Fort Collins Colorado where we saw Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue playing the HARD RAIN Album LIVE and I guess coincidentally it was raining so hard you got soaked 1 minute out in it. The concert was in a stadium right at the base of a DAM and it felt like any moment the DAM would burst and flood us all out in an apocalyptic fury! But the DAM held and the concert finished in one of the hardest rainstorms I have ever seen. WE then drove without any agenda back into the west towards Seattle and found many more crazy adventures like a car on fire that we stopped and put out (I was a firefighter and always carried a fire extinguisher) the family of 7 people and their gear then abandoned the car and we drove them 3 or 4 hundred miles back to Salt Lake City in that wonderful truck. I ended up grabbing a potted cactus out of the car and keep it for some 3 years in my house in Bellingham Washington until one day it broke open and some blackish green fluid ran out. Well, I won't bore you with more stories about that rolling thunder of a truck but just say that myself, and many friends and my dog, Fender Bender Tire Biter and I had endless great adventures in that rig getting to where we were going slowly and unflappably just like the tall skinny Taurus bull that I am.
THIS VERSION of this song I wrote in the early 2000's is really just a rehearsal version and we will be doing a more bitchin version of it soon. I just HAD to post it so you can see Dylan's expression at the end. A very infectious smile!
Oh, this is the point of time where I have decided to use my old nickname and now my STAGE NAME, Tiger Lyons! Of Course my Dad used to call me that God bless the old man! Thanks to him I used to play lots of old jazz in that truck which at times made riding in it like being in the movie Paper Moon and or even MORE (historically accurate) and cool as well as The Who and The Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin and Allman Brothers and you know, all the good old rock bands when they were new!
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