Ozzy rocks!
Twenty one Jeff Beck CDs… Every Beatles album and tons of re-masters, tributes, etc. Fourteen AC/DC discs. Junior Brown. And everything by Black Sabbath. Just a very few of the cds I’ve loaded onto a hard drive for Lily from George’s collection. I’m loading everything he had and I’m already up to 3947 songs, and not finished with the bs.
I’m enjoying this job. I’m not listening to the cds (at least not all of them,) but I’m reading all the song titles and I’ve gotten more than a few smiles while reading. There are some artists I’m not familiar with, but most I know. As I go through the discs I’m remembering so many conversations and experiences with George.
When we went out the first time, George was a hard case. He didn’t want to give up his free and easy existence. He just wanted me to give up mine. I remember the first time he told me he loved me. He was really irritated. “I guess I’m in love with you, but I don’t want to be in love,” he said. I know this is what he said because I found my diary from that time last week and read the page I wrote when I got home that night. My entry is pretty funny, because I didn’t know what to think about his attitude. George was painfully honest. It could get upsetting at times, but it was way better than living with a liar, trust me.
Iron Man
So he did fall in love with me and we did date for over two years way back then and our song was Iron Man. Yep. He played it for me all the time. It totally cracked me up, and I never heard the song during the years we were apart without thinking of George in his underwear, standing in his room on Gatewood Drive in Atlanta, playing me Iron Man on his guitar. I don’t know what started him playing it to me every night, but I loved it and I was always a very appreciative audience.
Flash forward to 2008. The Iron Man movie came out, and we took Lily. We told her Iron Man was our song, and she watched the movie, a little confused about what the story had to do with mom and dad. The whole movie went by and she leaned over at the end and asked why the song wasn’t in the film. Just as she did, the song boomed into the theater over the credits. She was galvanized. Lily absolutely loved Iron Man. When we got home, she got George to download the lyrics. Then they went downstairs to his music room, he gave her a microphone, and she belted the whole song out. Now its her song with George too. That and “Baby Please Don’t Go,” which they “jammed” to all the time. Lily would sing crazy verses she made up while George played the song, but that’s another story.
When I would try to join them during these sessions they would run me off. They were jammin’ and they didn’t want me around. Very serious stuff, only musicians allowed.
I’m pretty sure its going to take another month to finish with the cds. There are 21 shelves and I’ve done three. I’ve had a lot of sad moments going through George’s stuff, but loading the Black Sabbath cds wasn’t one of them.
I miss my Iron Man, but he left lots of reminders… and in our time together, we sure did have a ball.
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