Mitch Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah 1971 Lake Shore Drive Big Foot BF 714 Rock Folk

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Mitch Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah 1971 Lake Shore Drive Big Foot BF 714 Rock Folk
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Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah  1971 Lake Shore Drive Big Foot BF 714
The title track of the same name pays homage to the Chicago boulevard Lake Shore Drive, which extends between the downtown area of Chicago and Lake Michigan for approximately 16 miles. Outside of the Chicago area, the song was generally interpreted as a reference to the drug LSD.
Side A Lake Shore Drive (3:50) For Eddie (3:39) Long Time Gone (5:46) Uppers and Downers (3:14) Side B Snow Queen (4:28) Leaving Chicago A.M.F. (5:54) One Night Stand (3:30) Last of the Night People (3:45)
Despite the fact that composer Skip Haynes maintains that the song is not about LSD, the line "Just slippin' on by on L.S.D. / Friday night, trouble bound" has been construed as a double entendre of both driving on Lake Shore Drive and tripping on the drug.
Other references include the lines "Pretty blue lights along the way / Helping you right on by," which some think refer to the blue lights of the Chicago Police Department squad cars that patrol Lake Shore Drive. However, Lake Shore Drive was set up to have reversible lanes in the early years. As such, blue lighting helped depict the raised lane barriers when they were activated. The lighting was removed when the reversible lanes were removed. ""Rats on up to riches" denoted driving from the south side to the north side. Composer Skip Haynes says, "I was a northsider so I usually was 'runnin' south on LSD' looking for a good time."[2] Other lyrics in the song illustrate the physical features of the road and its surroundings: "It starts up north from Hollywood" refers to West Hollywood Avenue, which, running eastbound, becomes Lake Shore Drive, and "A ten-minute drive from the Gold Coast back / Makes you sure you’re pleasure bound" refers to the Gold Coast, a strip of affluent residential housing, hotels, university campuses, and office buildings along the Drive. "Concrete mountains rearing up / Throwing shadows just about five" refers to Chicago's downtown skyscrapers casting their shadows across the Drive as the sun sets in late afternoon.
"A ten-minute drive from the Gold Coast back / Makes you sure you’re pleasure bound" is described as "The thing to do when going to clubs (Sgt. Peppers, Sitzmark, Barnaby's, Beaver's etc,) on State street and Rush Street during the late sixties and early seventies was to double (or triple) park in front of the club and go in to hit on the waitresses and listen to the first set from bands like (Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Aorta, Big Twist, the Illinois Speed Press, Mason Profitt, CTA etc.).
When the set was over (the club that inspired the song was Beavers on State Street), you would pile into the car, turn right on Oak Street, turn left at the Drive, shoot the loop at Foster Avenue, then back down to Oak Street, left on State Street, make an illegal U-turn on State and re-double park (with the first ticket you got still under your windshield wiper) in front of Beaver's then go back into the club.
This was the perfect amount of time to get high and be peaking just as you walked in and got a drink from the waitress as the band came on for the second set. That's it."