Been off the grid, deliberately, for the last week.
Nothing happened, right?
I’ve got some saved up fury, but while I was driving in a remote corner of northeastern California, the shuffle function in my music app kicked this out of the depths of my music library:
It was a scary time when this first hit the airwaves; it’s scary now. But maybe we get to look past the individual moment.
In that hope, I can’t say I love everything Jefferson Airplane did, and I’ll pretend most of Starship didn’t happen — but at their best, they were stunning…and this song seems more apposite now than it did then.
We can rage more soon. For now, a dawn-through-the darkness open thread.
ETA: By Yutsano’s demand, Tikka — who was royally pissed off to be abandoned to neighbors and petsitters for a week:
And…getting over it (0r not):
With that…sweet dreams, y’all.
J R in WV
First?
Cool. I’m good with trying to chill for a while!
West of the Rockies
I wish you had proposed a BJ meet up! I’m in the area through which you were traveling.
Welcome back. Yeah, been pretty quiet politically the last week
J R in WV
And congrats on the trip away from the whole mess!
oatler.
Nothing hits the spot like Airplane in northern California.
patrick II
Rachel is on fire tonight. She often over explains, but tonight she is explaining why Barr has been going around the world trying to discredit our intelligence agencies opinion that Russia interfered in our 2016 elections. It is to get rid of sanctions that are legally required to stay in place because of that interference. Stunning news to me.
Steeplejack
@patrick II:
She also had a good interview with Chris Hayes as a guest on his show, talking about her new book, Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth, which comes out tomorrow.
Raoul Paste
Up against the wall…….
The revolutionaries are now the climate kids, and rightly so.
HumboldtBlue
This administration needs a little more Spice.
Yutsano
You show up out of nowhere and no Tikka pictures? How dare!
Seriously, I hope the time off did you well.Also Brendan (our mutual physicist friend) does a FANTASTIC cosplay of Velma.
Ask them about it.
Leto
Did anyone else watch the Ken Burns Country Music doc? It was very interesting going through the history. Country isn’t really my listening choice, but there were a few artists that I might give a try. Also Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton transcend time/labels.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Spice up your life.
joel hanes
Up against the wall, Republican felons.
Saw Airplane do this live on Cavett the night after Woodstock: Hendrix was a no-show, so Cavett asked them to do a second song, and they did We Can Be Together.
First time I ever heard the word “motherfucker” on TV.
Won’t You Try/Saturday Afternoon from After Bathing At Baxters is another favorite.
mrmoshpotato
@Yutsano: Jinkies?
Sab
Jessye Norman died and nobody noticed!!!!?
I had no idea she was so young. I am 65 and I have been aware of her forever, so probably since her mid-twenties.
What a loss. What a voice.
Mary G
oldster
Youtube is an amazing resource for reliving years and decades that have faded from memory. And there is some great live footage of Airplane on there.
I agree with your assessment of their career — 70% of their catalogue does not hold up, but 10% of it is absolutely sublime. (And yeah, Starship, embarrassing. Living on the East Coast was the only configuration in which I got to see them live, so I did once — that and an early Hot Tuna concert that took ten years off of my ears’ acuity.)
No point in my recommending any particular clip, but if you like “We can be together” then you can find several live performances of it.
AliceBlue
@Leto: I’m not what you’d call a country music fan (even though I do love me some Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline), but I thought the documentary was fascinating.
I also love me some Jefferson Airplane–thanks Tom.
Redshift
@patrick II: Rachel connected a lot more of the dots than I had, but I was saying just last night that the one thing Trump promised Putin that he wants more than anything was sanctions relief, and he hasn’t delivered.
I go back and forth on whether Trump and his minions are working overtime on that because Putin threatened to pull the plug, or because Trump has gotten delusional enough to actually believe the Russian attack is a hoax.
frosty
@joel hanes: I think Baxters and Volunteers are my favorites of theirs. Best moment on Baxters: When Martha segues into Wyld Thyme (sp?)
Elizabelle
@Sab: We noticed plenty about 3-4 threads down about Jessye Norman. Rest in power.
kindness
Jerry Garcia used to say the Jefferson Airplane was the best rock band out of the Bay Area. The word Classic belongs in there somewhere.
prostratedragon
@Sab: I just heard and am still processing it. Doesn’t seem right, somehow.
HumboldtBlue
@mrmoshpotato:
If you wanna be my lover.
CarolPW
@Leto: I watched and loved it. You should look into what is often called Americana and Outlaw Country, very different from the pop country crap most think of as country music. I recommend Steve Earle and James McMurtry to start as current singers, and Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt as classics no longer with us.
cain
@joel hanes:
I feel dated knowing who Cavett was without asking.
joel hanes
@frosty:
Baxters
No man is an island.
He’s a peninsula.
frosty
@kindness: I have to disagree with Jerry. Quicksilver (first iteration with Cipollina, Duncan, Elmore and Freiberg) was the best band in the Bay. All their other lineups? meh.
Leto
@AliceBlue: Same; it was nice to put faces with names I’d heard before (Hank Williams, for example), and it was nice to learn about some of the artists my mom talked about all the time.
laura
@Leto: it was well done, but I’m surprised it ended at Garth Brooks instead of new artists like Sturgil Simpson, brandy Carlile and Rhiannon Giddons formerly of the Carolina Chocolate Drops.
I’m already packing for Hardly, Strictly Bluegrass this weekend at Golden Gate Park. You should check the website as they stream live via spotify.
So many great artists, so many decisions about who to see and who to pass on. EmmyLou Harris always closes the show on the main stage on Sunday. Did I mention it’s free? The history of this festival is to warm the hardest of hearts.
http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2019/schedule/
Barbara
@kindness: Santana? I cannot listen to We Belong Together without hearing a lot of misguided premature celebration on the passing of one era into another.
frosty
@CarolPW: IIRC the revolt against Nashville started with an album called Outlaws featuring Waylon, Willie, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser. Second the recco on Steve Earle and there’s too many more good ones out there to mention.
RSA
@kindness: It’s a good position. IMHO, aside from the Grateful Dead, there’s Santana and Sly and the Family Stone, but not much else (unless we count Creedence).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@RSA: what about the Bay Area Rollers?
James Langdell
I have reason to remember@CarolPW: I’ve been appreciating, in that genre, the Jayhawks, thanks to their collaboration on the last two Ray Davies solo albums (Americana and Americana II) prior to the can-it-really-happen reunion of The Kinks.
surfk9
Y’all left out Merle Haggard
CarolPW
@laura: They technically ended at 1996, so Sturgil and a bunch of other current lights in alt-country were not mentioned, and why Hank III and Shooter Jennings weren’t mentioned (although they did include the death of Cash, so that was one excursion outside of their timeline).
Leto
@CarolPW: I’d give the Americana a try. I saw this come across my news radar last week, The Highwomen. Female super group (same vein as the Highwaymen) trying to combat the all male radio dominance, which after watching that documentary, I find especially weird. I knew most of the women superstars from the 70s through the 90s, so hearing that country music is pretty much now the domain of just dudes… thought that was depressingly familiar and just fucking weird.
hilts
@Leto:
I second your endorsement of Ken Burns’ Country Music! Lots of great anecdotes and performance clips. I especially enjoyed the segments covering Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and Waylon Jennings. Absolutely loved seeing the Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan duet.
Tom, thanks for the Jefferson Airplane video, a very underrated song in my opinion.
Steeplejack
@Leto:
I watched Country Music. I thought it was pretty good and I learned a lot, even though (I think) I knew a fair amount about the music. Learned a lot about the early history of the Carter family and Jimmie Rodgers, also the rise of the radio superstations and live radio music in the ’30s. Good treatments of Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton.
I had a few issues. I thought Peter Coyote was an infelicitous choice as the narrative voice (not his fault), and in the early episodes (’20s and ’30s) there was too much talking/explaining and not enough of the actual music, as if the makers were a bit embarrassed about the raw roots. And the last episode (roughly 1986-96) wobbled a bit as history got closer to the present. But that was true with Jazz, as well, It sort of wobbled when it got to the ’60s and ’70s, but jazz itself was sort of wobbling and trying to find its way forward at the time. (I highly recommend Jazz, by the way.)
CarolPW
@frosty: And Outlaws got the private label thing going, and people realized they could make enough money (if they also toured a fuck of a lot) to do whatever kind of music they wanted to.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Hopefully not “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” and “We Built This City”
Leto
@laura: thank you!!! I do love me some bluegrass. You can thank, “O’Brother, Where Art Thou?” For that. Some amazing artists on that album, but it also lead us to Nickel Creek. Too much talent in three people.
To be honest, I’m kind of glad that they ended at ‘96. Past that was the post 9/11, “BOOT IN YOUR ASS” style music that I feel just kills everything. I’m thinking about the Dixie Chicks backlash, as another specific example. The entire, “love your country no matter what”, theme was just particularly galling.
Tata
@laura: Rhiannon Giddens is amazing.
CarolPW
@Leto: Pop Country big dollar stars are largely men. Pop Country is crap country. I loved “BJ to a DJ” by Folk Uke, describing the extent females may meed to go to get played on the radio. Folk Uke is one of Willy’s daughter and one of Arlo’s.
Steeplejack
@CarolPW:
Americana and outlaw country both got good coverage in the doc.
TomatoQueen
@laura: Rhiannon Giddens was very much in evidence, with interview and commentary, tho’ brief. And she is powerful in the concert that was given prior to the series. One of the things that local public tv (washdc) did was repeat all the episodes twice, and re-air related specials that were done within the last year or two, not by Ken but by other producers, so you get a sense of the broad reach of this music and how it is connected with so many other things historically. There is so much to cover and the writers said right at the beginning that not everybody could be included and there will be disappointments. But if you look around, you can see that many of these missing artists have been covered elsewhere. I disagreed with the emphasis on the most famous and the most sales, but since Ken is a recent convert to this music I can see how those things were inevitable. Still, it was disappointing to see only Glen Campbell, without John Hartford and Dave Mason, or the utter lack of Steve Goodman, Arlo, Prine, David Bromberg and no Doc Watson at all, ffs? Nonetheless it was rich and intense and it ended with Mother Maybelle’s sweet beatific face, most satisfying.
Jacel
Several years ago, a favorite former boss (and now deceased) sent me three CDs of his appreciate-the-Grateful-Dead sequence. I had mentioned that I didn’t like The Dead that much, since my first exposure to The Grateful Dead had been while growing up in San Francisco with my psychiatrist father, who picked up the first GD albums in an effort to understand patients who spoke in psychedelic rock lyrics. He would play such albums gravely listening for clues that might help deeply troubled people. My former boss’s Dead selection strongly improved my opinion of that group, especially when they had a succession of brilliant piano players in place of the lugubrious organ of sainted Pigpen, who was involved in all of the earlier GD music I had heard around when it happened. The aftereffect improved my enjoyment of the GD, but resulted in me remembering to listen more intently to the backcatalogs of Miles Davis, John McLaughlin and Jefferson Airplane (here’s the relation to the OC), who came back to mind from hearing the best moments of the Dead.
NotMax
Strictly off-mic within the radio station at the time a group of us put together parodies of Jefferson Airplane songs, crediting them to Madison Ornithopter.
Ruckus
@frosty:
Early Quicksilver was great. Of course it sounds a lot better stoned. Most of it hasn’t held up well at all.
Jacel
@Steeplejack: I figure to start tomorrow at the nearest B&N, proving the people case about this book.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Since I can’t keep politics out of the discussion…. but this is on-topic (from Wiki)
CarolPW
@Steeplejack: It was pretty clear they would way back in last year when I saw who was going to be playing at the Ryman for the concert that they aired at the start of the series. Not a Toby Keith among them. Could have used less Hank Jr and more Guy Clark though.
Leto
@hilts:
I think he absolutely surprised me the most. I knew he sang country (he was in the Highwaymen, knew he wrote Sunday Morning Coming Down via my dad), he acted, but honestly that was about it. ROTC grad, Rhodes Scholar, studied poetry and philosophy, quit a promising military career to go sing country? Man… and his songs? Man… just amazing.
@Steeplejack: Is Jazz on Amazon Prime video? I found it interesting listening to Wynston Marsalis and Rhiannon Giddons explain the allure of country music: it’s the stories! Which is why I like so much of Cash’s work.
HumboldtBlue
@laura:
Rhiannon Giddens
And for more extraordinary women singing and sultry, we have Post Modern Jukebox
cain
Looks like Barr is trying to stop the releasing of taxes of one Donald J. Trump –
Read the thread. The Manhattan US Attorneys office is joining in on sueing the New York State. If you ask me, I think Congress needs to look into that as well. If Barr is doing it, then he is truly using the power of the U.S. govt to stop the State from looking at taxes during the time when Trump was not president.
Ken
Let’s see, a week ago we had the whistleblower report and knew that the White House was mis-using the classification system to hide the fact that Trump was an idiot, but not what else they were hiding.
Then Trump published a summary of what they were hiding, demonstrating he is, in fact, an idiot.
He apparently did this on the advice of his senior staff and possibly Senator McConnell, demonstrating they are all idiots.
The White House staff promptly e-mailed their talking points to the House Democrats, demonstrating they are all idiots.
And finally, Trump’s various unpaid sycophants, minions, and toadies went on the news shows and delivered those talking points sometimes verbatim, demonstrating – well, you get the idea.
Oh, and besides the idiocy, the self-published information shows they’re all criminals and possibly traitors.
So overall, a slow news week by Trump administration standards.
Jacel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Such an amazing moment of history, of which I hadn’t heard some of this Wikipedia entry before.
It’s also time to mention, as I continue to consider a key moment in history, of the Furtuhr bus driving through Phoenix in 1946 with a freshly-painted sign saying A VOTE FOR BARRY IS A VOTE FOR FUN.
Steeplejack
@Jacel:
One of the best things about having a Kindle or Nook (or the app) is the ability to download the book as soon as it’s available. Plus no hardcopy to clutter the shelves later. (I try to save space only for classics, personal favorites or books that don’t do well as e-books, e.g., cookbooks.)
I’m tempted to get Maddow’s book. It sounded very interesting when she was talking about it with Hayes.
CarolPW
@TomatoQueen: Agree on the omissions. Last night saw an Austin City Limits performance by Prine and he still sounds exactly like he did when he originally recorded the songs. He seems to be holding up very well.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jacel: I heard Grace Slick tell the story– I can’t remember where but I want to say some kind of documentary– and as I recall she was pretty damn funny. I’d forgotten the part of about Abbie Hoffman
NotMax
@Ken
The Gang That Couldn’t
ShootLie Straight. More clowns than you can shake a rubber chicken at.Leto
@TomatoQueen: Philly PBS, WHYY, did the same: repeated the episodes back-to-back, and also did a lot of other concerts of various artists from the past 30 years. I don’t know who those artists are that you listed, but inevitably there will be people left off. Otherwise you’re going to have a month long documentary series.
@NotMax: #slowclap
hilts
@Steeplejack:
Wynton Marsalis was the primary musical consultant for Ken Burns’ Jazz and he despises experimental, avant garde jazz which partly explains why musicians like Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor were given short shrift.
While I’m glad Ken Burns made Jazz, I wish someone could make a 4 or 5 hour documentary covering Coleman, Taylor, Sun Ra, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and the other great practitioners of free jazz and jazz fusion.
Steeplejack
@Leto:
Jazz does appear to be on Amazon Prime. I don’t know if it’s free or not. Might be time for another viewing.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
Hello, Police? I’d like to report possible rubber chicken abuse.
Chetan Murthy
@HumboldtBlue:
Kiah Victoria doing “All of Me” (John Legend):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXS52TSweKc
Devi Ananda doing “Jar of Hearts” (Christina Perri):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_4Qf2yV0KQ
Boom! Boom!
I started listening to Christina Perri via this Devi Ananda cover, and some of her stuff is good. But Ananda really belts this one out. And Victoria with All of Me … oh man oh man.
Just too amazing.
And yeah, Haley Reinhart has *some* voice. *some* voice.
hilts
@Leto:
Kris, like so many other musicians who appeared in Country Music, is a great storyteller.
After watching Country Music, I browsed YouTube and fortunately, there’s plenty of interviews with Kris, Willie, Johnny, Waylon, and Merle. I also found some other country music documentaries.
James Powell
@Barbara:
NotMax
So far as SF area bands of the period are concerned, gotta mention Mother Earth. Tracy Nelson has a superlative set of pipes.
Used to use this tune as an outro for my radio show.
Mary G
h/t Tom Levenson:
Steeplejack
@hilts:
Anthony Braxton!
Okay, you hit a nerve with Wynton Marsalis. He knows a lot about music and is a valuable resource and commenter, but, damn, he’s a bit of a blowhard at times. Really hit me when Jazz was winding down at the end. “What is the future of jazz? Oh, hey, it looks a lot like Wynton Marsalis!” It wasn’t him saying it, but it was clear that he had an outsized influence on the series.
ruemara
This has been the weirdest week and it’s just Monday.
Side note, I’m in BOSTON on the 19th & 20th for the PodTales convention, so if you like podcasts or just want to find out what they are, it’s free. It’s on the 20th. It’s at the Lesley University Porter Square Campus in Cambridge.
Side side note, how cold is it in Boston in October?
Duane
That cat looks like the judge at the court hearing when you realize you’re really in trouble. People have told me anyway.
Tehanu
@patrick II:
As a lifelong yellow-dog Democrat I never thought I’d be on the side of the intelligence agencies. The very idea of an Attorney General trying to discredit OUR side — it’s a wonder to me that William Donovan and even that fascist J. Edgar Hoover haven’t risen from their graves in rage.
Al Z.
IDLES anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkF_G-RF66M
(Warning they are a loud rock-don’t-call-them-punk band)
Chetan Murthy
@ruemara:
I remember it as “the last of the nice weather”. Last year it was in the high 60s. So maybe take a jacket? Also, this site might tell you more (you could look back several years, etc).
https://www.wunderground.com/history/weekly/KBOS/date/2019-9-30?req_city=Boston&req_state=MA&req_statename=Massachusetts&reqdb.zip=02108&reqdb.magic=1&reqdb.wmo=99999
JC
@frosty: @frosty:
Yes! “Words Can’t Say” from Shady Grove, with Nicky Hopkins. Beautiful.
James Powell
@RSA:
Huey Lewis and the News gets no respect!
JC
No! What about “Words Can’t Say” from Shady Grove, with Nicky Hopkins? Beautiful.
NotMax
@James Powell
Doobie Brothers? Pointer Sisters?
Mnemosyne
My Instant Pot chili turned out more watery than I wanted, so I threw in some macaroni and turned it on for about 4 minutes to see if I can make it into chili mac.
It’s either going to work or be a disaster. We’ll see how it looks when I open it.
surfk9
nobody has mentioned Big Brother and the Holding Company or Country Joe and the Fish
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@surfk9: or Greg Kihn
Luc
Tom, did you enjoy your time in the “State of Jefferson” ?
frosty
@surfk9: “Four gentlemen and one great, great broad …”
Mnemosyne
Success! Watery Instant Pot chili can be salvaged by turning it into chili mac.
I’m not sure how much dried gluten-free pasta I used — maybe a cup?
Fair Economist
@Mnemosyne: Well?
surfk9
@frosty: ok you got me!
West of the Rockies
Any medical folk on hand? All this stress, a bad diet, little exercise, obesity… These must be impacting Trump, yes? High blood pressure, inflammation, poor sleep, mental decline?
I want him gone. I’m getting desperate, I suppose, and hoping maybe he’ll just goddamnit die from ill health before he really brings on calamity.
surfk9
how about It’s a Beautiful Day. Saw them in Monterey and they were sublime
Hungry Joe
@surfk9: Country Joe & the Fish’s “Electric Music for the Mind & Body” is the best psychedelic blues LP ever. Says me, anyway. Lead guitarist Barry Melton later self-taught himself the law, passed the bar, and for many years headed up the Public Defender’s office in Yolo County (Sacramento area).
surfk9
@Hungry Joe: Saw them several times. When The lost Joe MacDonald the band just wasn’t the same. He was a good public defender from what i have heard
piratedan
@Leto: for me, I like the fact that Burns spent so much time trying to show that while Country music has had its own issues with the race questions (just like all of the other entertainment industries and musical genres) it took the time to show how closely aligned it was was with the roots of rock and roll and that they spent a good bit of time explaining the awesomeness of Charley Pride and the rise of women artists. Also noting the signature event of Ray Charles was also good to see…
If you do enjoy the Americana sounds, I would definitely recommend guys like Rodney Crowell, The estimable Ms. Harris and guys like Steve Earle, but also bands that seem to have fallen into this niche without understanding what they were doing, like the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and The BoDeans
hilts
@Steeplejack:
I’m actually a big fan of Wynton Marsalis fan, but I completely disagree with him about free jazz and jazz fusion.
By the way, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool ,directed by Stanley Nelson, is a must see documentary.
Groucho48
Surprised no one’s mentioned this, but, you came back just in time to celebrate Chris Collins(R-NY) resigning from the House just before pleading guilty to insider trading charges.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Mnemosyne:
Hope it turns out tasty! I wish I could give you some cooking advice but I make frozen stuff a lot ‘^^
lahke
@ruemara: Depends on where you’re from. For us locals, it’s barely jacket weather.
So, are we talking meetup?
hilts
@joel hanes:
To your Republican felons list, I’d like to add that flaming conservative douchebag Byron York and his fellow conservative dirtbag pundits who continue to defend Jabba the Trump.
Speaking of Cavett, if you like interviews that go off the rails, you should check out Norman Mailer’s appearance on Cavett’s show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw
trollhattan
@surfk9:
Or Sons of Champlin, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, the Flamin’ Groovies, Tower of Power, Dead Kennedys, Boz Skaggs, Steve Miller, The Nuns, Hot Tuna…
More will emerge after I hit post.
If Levinson was in far NoCal the last week he got whiplashed by some crazy weather. We went from 100 to thunderstorms and the 40s in about a day and a half, and the mountains got snow and lightning and Davis had a tornado.
Miss Bianca
Love the Airplane. Always have, always will.
That is all, thank you, Tom.
frosty
@surfk9: Bill Graham’s intro to Big Brother. The first thing you hear on Cheap Thrills.
Steeplejack (phone)
@hilts:
Nothing serious against Wynton Marsalis. I just think he was overused as a source.
I will check out that doc.
Millard Filmore
@surfk9: Oh wow! Marrying Maiden.
surfk9
@trollhattan: loved all of those bands, saw them all. Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks put on one of the best shows I have ever seen. They were so tight. They are only surpassed by Frank Zappa
Miss Bianca
@laura: Just for you…the first piece I ever edited/wrote for Colorado Central Magazine features Hardly Strictly Bluegrass…an appreciation of Frank Wolking from the Sons and Brothers band, from my hometown in CO…I went out there with my friend Mike, whose name is on the byline. Not sure why, because part of it at least is for damn sure my writing – I think he gave me what he’d done and I rewrote it for him.
@James Langdell: The Jayhawks collaborated with Ray Davies? Now *that* I did not know. Must.find.
hilts
@trollhattan:
What about Quicksilver Messenger Service?
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I highly recommend Grace Slick’s autobiography, “Someone to Love?”, which contains that anecdote along with a lot of other highly entertaining vignettes of the 60s rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.
trollhattan
@hilts:
Mentioned upthread already and yeah, the quintessential Bay Area psychedelic blues band. John Cipollina–guitar god. Never saw him with Quicksilver but did see his band Copperhead, then later play with the Welsh band Man, who revived some of Quicksilver’s songs.
Another died-way-too-soon tale.
M. Bouffant
@Hungry Joe: Couldn’t agree more.
Amir Khalid
It is always good to see the face of the Lee Van Cleef of cats. Scary, but good.
hilts
@trollhattan:
Glad someone mentioned them. At least you got to see John Cipollina. Unfortunately, I never saw Quicksilver, Jefferson Airplane, or any of the other Bay Area bands except for the Grateful Dead.
rikyrah
@patrick II:
She put those dots together last week. I am glad that she hasn’t left it. Needs to be told over and over.
rikyrah
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah ??
Yutsano
There’s a Tikka boy. I’m sated.
I’m also sleeping. Good night universe!
J R in WV
@Elizabelle:
I read somewhere that she had septic shock which was the final insult to her immune system.
Almost got my wife back in fall of 2011, very scary. V quick downhill, Friday you’re OK, suddenly Sunday afternoon you have a fatal illness.
J R in WV
@Leto:
Interesting thing about Hank, who died in the back seat of his limo near my home town. His music was so universal. We were in rural Mexico last year for whale watching, actual whale petting they practically got into the Zodiaks with us. That night they had local amateur musicians come on board the tiny ship, which was far more like Summer Camp afloat than Cunard Lines Tuxes for dinner. They were doing local folk music with guitars and mandolins and most folks were dancing what was basically a simple reel … suddenly I realized like the 3rd or 4th song they were doing was a Hank Williams tune, but in Spanish and with a Mexican style. Nothing wrong with it, in fact they were doing a great job of adapting something very different into their village’s concept of good music. Big fun that night in the little lounge with open bar, big tipping for the band!
J R in WV
@CarolPW:
May have been an older show. He has recovered from cancer is is touring again, Love his work! Was amazed to drive through Mulenberg County Ky, it was flat as a pancake after the big machines stripmined the whole county. It’s all there, Green River, Paradise, the whole song laid out as the geography of Mulenberg county. We saw the total eclipse of the sun there also.
RAVEN
I hate it when you fuckers have a thread that is in my wheelhouse and I’m asleep.
tybee
Blows against the Empire.
saw JA, as they were transitioning into starship, in the Atlanta Omni back in the early/mid 70s on Halloween.
some verrrrry freaky people there. Papa John Creech was on fire that night.
HinTN
@joel hanes:
Acid, incense and balloons