Tag: Fool's Garden

Isolation … is not good for me

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In 2010 I saw Fool’s Garden live. The occasion was a Uriah Heep concert, organised by a company celebrating their 100th anniversary (Alpina, Ober-Ramstadt). Fool’s Garden had one world–wide hit, Lemon Tree. And this one line immediately resonated in my head when I heard today’s prompt:

isolation – is not good for me

Incidentally, Fool’s Garden addressed the one-hit-wonder phenomenon at this concert. Do they mind that they are always asked to play this one song? Do they get sick of playing Lemon Tree? And they said: No, why would they? Without this song they would have never seen the world like they did, they would have never had a tour of Japan (they had more tours, I’m sure, but “Japan” stuck in my mind). They would probably not be able to work and live comfortably as fulltime musicians for the rest of their lives.

FOWC with Fandango: Isolation

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Another Lemon Tree

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If you are looking for a tree, you’ve come to the right place. Brian on bushboys world linked Peter, Paul and Mary’s Lemon Tree song on Sunday. How could I then not mention the other song about a lemon tree that landed in the charts – at least in Germany. Austria, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden in the number one spot.

In 2010 I went to a Uriah Heep concert, organised by a paint company on a public square for their anniversary, not knowing anything about the opening group – I was there to see Uriah Heep! It happened to be the German group Fool’s Garden – I had heard their song Just another lemon tree but up to that point didn’t even know that the group was German.

And here is a photo from an actual lemon tree – situated next to the pond in the local castle gardens (Weinheimer Schloss). Now it used to be that we were told that Weinheim had such a warm climate that it was only one of two places in Germany where lemons not only flowered but actually bore fruit although they never quite ripened and stayed green. Things change and so, unfortunately, catastrophically, does climate, and the lemons now turn yellow in autumn.

Tree Square #20