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And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

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Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

In my day, never was longer.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    @sab: Only now Tina Turner?

    If I understand correctly, Turner was inducted as half of ‘Ike & Tina’ some years ago.  The new induction is for her solo work.

    (IIRC, if only because the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame is mostly about publicity, there are several artists who’ve been ‘rewarded’ more than once.  The Beatles were an early choice, but I think at least three of the four also have stand-alone awards.)

  17. 17.

    sab

    I live 40 miles from Cleveland and I have never been  to the Rock Hall. I always thought I don’t want to see guitars and costumes on display. Has anyone been there? Is it interesting?

  18. 18.

    laura

    @raven: if her activism includes performance, I hope you get to see her, if her activism includes candidate forums, I hope you get to talk to her.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    @raven:   Enjoying that. Dhani Harrison looks uncannily like his late father.  Like a twin.

    And Tom Petty sings lead.  I still feel a pang of loss every time I see or hear Tom Petty, and Prince.  Should have been here longer.  Now, back to the vid.

  26. 26.

    Craig

    @raven: I always love that clip, that smirk he throws out, and when he just throws the guitar up and it never comes down as he just walks off stage left… such a genius showman, master of his craft.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    @raven:   Cool.

    As always.  It is Prince, and everyone else is a good backing band.

    He looked like he was having fun.  And a quick tribute to Chuck Berry; a moment of duck walking, I thought

    ETA:  And the roadie who was there to prop him up when he leaned back way far.

  28. 28.

    Percysowner

    @sab: ​
    I’m stunned that Carol King just made it. Tapestry remains one of the best regarded albums of all time. Even without it her song writing credits are legion. Glad she finally got the recognition.

  29. 29.

    Percysowner

    @NotMax: Ah, Lawrence Welk, making every song as vanilla as possible. Don’t get me wrong, I watched it with my granny, who was an immigrant from Hungary and loved the show when I was 5. I later came to realize that it was, basically something a 5 year old could love.

  32. 32.

    prostratedragon

    @NotMax:  I’ve always thought Welk was trolling us. He’d been playing gigs around for decades when they recorded that.

  33. 33.

    Alison Rose

    @Elizabelle:

    I still feel a pang of loss every time I see or hear Tom Petty, and Prince.

    Saaaaaaaame. I’ll probably never get over Petty. One of my faves throughout all the different iterations of my musical preferences. Even at the height of my goth years, TPHB was still always on my playlists. Just so glad I got to see them live numerous times, including twice at The Fillmore in SF, which was the most amazing experience.

    Never did get to see Prince, or Bowie, two that I’m super sad about having missed out on.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    @Alison Rose:  You are lucky to have seen TPHB numerous times!  I saw them once, at the Hollywood Bowl, ZZ Top (RIP Dusty) opening for them.

    And got to see Bowie on the Let’s Dance tour.

    But never Prince.  A real regret.  Funny, I figured I would see him a few years in the future, perhaps once it was not so hard to get tickets …  as if that would ever happen.  And then his time ran out.  Way too soon.

  35. 35.

    Alison Rose

    @Elizabelle: That was me with Nirvana. I was SO into them in middle school, and they were playing a New Years Eve show in Oakland, what would turn out to be Cobain’s last NYE. My brothers were going and I begged my mom to let me go too, but she said I was too young. “There will be plenty of other chances” she said.

    To her credit, she felt awful later. Not that she should’ve been psychic, but you know.

  38. 38.

    Miss Bianca

    @Elizabelle: Prince’s death, for some reason, hit me a lot harder than either Bowie’s or Petty’s. I was never a big Tom Petty fan, although I grew to appreciate his music later in life. Bowie I admired but never *loved* the way some of my friends did. Prince always blew me away.

  40. 40.

    eclare

    @Miss Bianca:  I was in high school when Purple Rain came out.  I had heard him before that…1999, DMSR, Controversy, etc., but that album was the backdrop of my youth.  My friends and I listened to nothing else for at least six months.

  42. 42.

    Dan B

    @Alison Rose: My partner’s old house was a block from Cobain’s.  Once we were in the backyard and some kids came by on the street, which was 25 feet below us.  One kid pointed up at my partner’s house and said, “That’s Kurt Cobain’s house!”   Ah youth.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    @Miss Bianca:   I bet you can remember where you were when you heard that Prince had left us.  I certainly do.  And what a shock it was, although, there was that time his private jet had to make that emergency stop for medical care …  so maybe the rumor is true …

    But such a loss, and always a loss.

  50. 50.

    Miss Bianca

    @Elizabelle: Yep, I sure can. I was at work, desperately trying to fill e-commerce orders while also desperately seeking solace with like-minded mourners right here at BJ. A full-service blog indeed.

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    trollhattan

    When “Tapestry” was the thing I had not clue one about Carole King’s history as songwriter extrodinaire, the Brill Building, etc. Eventually, I learned and have come to revere her. Everything Peak Carole came together at the Kennedy Center Honors. Hi, Aretha.​​​

  55. 55.

    oldster

    @debbie:

    Heard about Lennon’s assassination while driving on the DC beltway between calls in my locksmithing van. Yup, remember it too clearly. He’d been on the radio quite a lot because of the new album.

    I was also driving around DC the day that Hinkley shot Reagan. Saturating a country with guns is a good way to make it a violent place.

  56. 56.

    oldster

    @Miss Bianca:

    “Bowie I admired but never *loved* the way some of my friends did.”

    Agreed. I thought he was incredibly cool, brilliant musician (who knew how to surround himself with brilliant musicians), but to my mind not someone I would ever love. Too intentionally distant, too aloof.  Very little human warmth. Hell, he was not trying to be a figure of comfort and intimacy — he wanted to shock, disrupt, change things. And he did. I admire him for that. But don’t love him.

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