Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

đŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockin’ đŸŽ”

After roe, women are no longer free.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

This fight is for everything.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

White supremacy is terrorism.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Second rate reporter says what?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

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It was supposed to earn him a ton of free media this week… and then Jack Smith set everyone talking about some boring political crap that no real Master of the Universe would ever even notice. Tough week, Elon!


Yeah? Well, we can’t *make* him go away!…
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Speaking of failed branding exercises…

But it’s a dope joke! Are you saying dope jokes aren’t automatically funny?!?

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  1. 1.

    mvr

    He does seem to be really killing the platform. And the language problem accusation seems on point. Did he not think about what verb form would be used with X to describe what posting on the format would be called.? “Tweet” becomes what exactly? All I can think of is “excreet” for its replacement. And it doesn’t have the same ring to it.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    I dunno, both the Tesla Cybertruck and the SpaceX Starship feel like projects that kicked off because Musk got high and said ‘wouldn’t it be cool if?’.

  4. 4.

    Sister Golden Bear

    X.com as an “everything you need to do” app has been his great white whale, ever since he tried to do at PayPal 25 years ago and the board pushed out for that. Well that, and signing up people for an online banking play without doing credit checks, which nearly bankrupted the company.

    And yes, from people I know who work at Tesla, there was a whole layer of senior executives whose job were to manage Elon and make sure none well most of his drug fueled, whacked out ideas got implemented.

  5. 5.

    Ken

    You just know that “blaze your glory” will turn out to be from some neo-Nazi manifesto, or possibly a slogan used by some revanchist Afrikaner group.

  6. 6.

    Jackie

    I laugh every time I click on a tweet posted here. There is a big X facing you before you see the actual post, but the url at the top still says Twitter lol

    And the “x” in the upper left corner makes me want to click to close.

  7. 7.

    Matt McIrvin

    @dmsilev: I had a working hypothesis that Starship was the project that SpaceX used to keep Elon Musk busy so they could do the real work. And that still may be the case, but NASA’s Artemis project choosing a Starship-derived design for their lunar lander is a problem. I guess they’re starting to hedge that bet.

  8. 8.

    LAO

    I saw the best bumper sticker, it basically said “I bought it before I knew musk was an asshole.”  I’m thinking of buying it for my brother.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    @dmsilev: You’ll notice Cybertruck remains “in development”. Starship is a bit further along, but it’s possible they decided the easiest way to kill that project was to let Musk be in charge of launch operations.

  10. 10.

    HumboldtBlue

    SA very fortunate after a second  Dutch goal, from some excellent interplay, was ruled offside.

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    @Matt McIrvin: Given how cautious NASA is, or perhaps conservative in the older sense of the word is better, that decision was a surprise.  Starship is enormously ambitious, but there’s a lot of stuff that have to be made to work before it’s useful for things like Moon landings.

  13. 13.

    Tehanu

    I think we’ll all be happy when it becomes the ex-X. Personally it pisses me off that he’s slobbered all over the name of my favorite band.

  14. 14.

    HumboldtBlue

    Ohhhhh noooooo… South Africa’s goalie has the ball squirt through her arms on a pretty routine save, and the Dutch now lead 2-0. That’s heartbreaking for SA.

    Swart, the goalie, has played so well, and she just let that slip through.

    Great save by the Dutch goalie and a great shot from SA.

  15. 15.

    Matt McIrvin

    @dmsilev: I always thought it was questionable as hell and I have serious doubts about Artemis actually landing astronauts on the Moon because the lander bit seems insufficiently thought out. But I think the current plan is to go with a different design from another vendor for the second landing?

  17. 17.

    Kent

    @Sister Golden Bear: Tesla is a public company.  The HAVE to do that because millions of people’s investments are at stake and the SEC will be on their ass if he fucks around too much.

    Twitter is Elon’s privately-owned toy.  He can whatever the fuck he wants with it.

    I think that is the big difference.

  18. 18.

    Kent

    @dmsilev: Anyone who actually uses real trucks for a living will tell you how absolutely stupid the Cybertruck design is.  It is basically useless for most actual truck purposes.

    By contrast, Rivian is making actual useful trucks and selling them as fast as they can make them.

  19. 19.

    sdhays

    @dmsilev: Yeah, it’s definitely not true those companies have an effective way of keeping him meddling. Just recently – the destruction of SpaceX’s launchpad was partially due to an Elon order to cut corners and launch on the “hilarious” 4/20.

    And he’s the reason Tesla’s are getting (already have) stupid and dangerous yoke steering wheel. Not to mention the shitty work culture (at least at Tesla – I don’t know about SpaceX) comes from Elon on down.

  20. 20.

    J R in WV

    Musk is a loon!!

    Unintentionally hilarious at every turn. Lucked into great wealth,  spending it ever since.

  21. 21.

    sdhays

    @Kent: I wonder if CyberTruck bombs in the market if the other investors will get fed up enough to chuck him over the rails, just like they did at PayPal.

  22. 22.

    dmsilev

    @sdhays:

    Not to mention the shitty work culture (at least at Tesla – I don’t know about SpaceX) comes from Elon on down.

    SpaceX is notorious for working its employees to the point of burnout and beyond. Their turnover is massive, but there’s a steady stream of (mostly young, just starting out) people who want to work there.

  23. 23.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Kent: I’ve just been noticing Rivians (and Polestars!) on the road over the past few days

    The electric that actually makes me drool is the Hyundai Ioniq 6. The one that looks kind of like a mutant Porsche instead of being a crossover SUV.

  26. 26.

    dmsilev

    @Kent: Ford as well. Reviews I’ve seen of the electric F-150 are basically ‘it’s an F-150. That runs off a battery. If you know the F-150, you know this’, which makes an awful lot of sense given how popular the model line has been for decades.

  28. 28.

    The Oracle of Solace

    Just going to say I had a very good day today: I got to hang out with some of my writing acquaintances while I was in full goth-girl mode. I hadn’t seen most of them in person since the Before-Time. They were glad to see me, and wanted to know if I’d be writing again anytime soon; one even asked when my next video would be out. In fact, a novelist acquaintance, as she was leaving, ran up to me to tell me how great my outfit was, and to check on my pronouns. I love these people.

  30. 30.

    Edmund dantes

    @sdhays: ehhh shitty work culture doesn’t need to rely on Musk. Plenty of CEO’s and others induce that type of shitty work culture.

  32. 32.

    ColoradoGuy

    This guy has to be high as a kite … with the difference he’s in a Howard Hughes corporate isolation bubble, sealed off from the physical world, with only a noisy data connection to the fantasies of MAGA-world.

  33. 33.

    Kent

    @dmsilev: Every single aftermarket pickup truck accessory from recreational camper boxes and bike racks like tool boxes to industrial uses such as these Knapheide https://www.knapheide.com beds are based on two things: (1) level flat truck bed so you mount things on it, and (2) ladder and frame construction so you can swap out beds.

    There are bazillions of aftermarket truck accessories out there that will fit on any pickup with a standard bed but not the cybertruck with its bizarro slanted bed sides that look like something from a 1980s video game.

    They are basically just weird looking commuting machines.  No one is going to redesign their assembly lines to make after market stuff for them until they reach some critical market share that they won’t ever reach.

  36. 36.

    Kent

    @Matt McIrvin: The Ioniq 6 looks exceedingly sweet.  Plus it has an 800 volt charging system so will charge 2x faster in the ultra high speed public chargers that are coming.  Tesla and most other companies are still making 400 volt systems or worse.

    If you are shopping for a new EV in the intermediate future, look for 800 volt charging.  It will be a game changer for long road trips.  No one will pay to have one put into their home, but at home you don’t need fast charging anyway

    https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1140166_these-evs-have-800v-charging-why-its-better-with-or-without-teslas-nacs

  38. 38.

    Sebastian

    @mvr:

    He obviously did not communicate his plans with anyone or think them through.

    Twitter Movies has not been renamed yet because, you know, there is already a website xmovies haha

  39. 39.

    Alison Rose

    @Citizen Alan: “You know, people ask, ‘What happened with you and Trump?’ I say, ‘Well, he beat me like a drum and I acknowledge that he did. He sorta liked hearing that. But, we found something in common. I’ve come to like him, and he likes him, and that gets us through 18 holes of golf.'”

    Pathetic doesn’t begin to describe Lindsey.

  40. 40.

    RaflW

    I mostly don’t care about Muskkker any more. I ‘participated’ in the 24 hour boycott, just by having somewhere to go that was interesting, and people to converse with. Wasn’t till my nightly stop at BJ that I found out I’d contributed to the non-event.

    I still look most days, but I’d say my time spent is down 80% or more, and while I would have missed cool content a year or more ago, now it’s just not very serendipitous or much fun.

    Pretty amazing accomplishment, Elongated Bowl. I was so heavily hooked a few years ago that a one day suspension got me sweaty and anxious back then.

  41. 41.

    HumboldtBlue

    An extraordinary letter from Niels Bohr to Churchill.

    22nd May 1944 The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P.

    Sir, In accordance with your kind permission, I have the honour to send you a brief report about my impressions of the great Anglo-American enterprise, in the scientific aspects of which I have been given the opportunity to participate together with my British colleagues.

    The principles on which the enormous energy stored in the nuclei of atoms may be released for practical purposes were, as a result of international scientific collaboration, already perceived in outline before the war and are, therefore, common knowledge to physicists all over the world. It was, however, by no means certain whether the task would surpass human resources, and it was therefore a revelation to me, on my arrival in England last October, to learn with what courage and foresight the effort had been undertaken and what an advanced stage the work had already reached.

    In fact, what until a few years ago might be considered as a fantastic dream is at present being realized within great laboratories and huge production plants secretly erected in some of the most solitary regions of the United States. There a larger group of physicists than ever before collected for a single purpose, working hand in hand with a whole army of engineers and technicians, are preparing new materials capable of an immense energy release, and are developing ingenious devices for the most effective use of these materials.

    To everyone who is given the opportunity to see for himself the refined laboratory equipment and the gigantic production machinery, it is an unforgettable experience, of which words can only give a poor impression. Moreover it was to me a special pleasure to witness the most harmonious and enthusiastic cooperation between the British and American colleagues, and on my departure I was expressly asked by the leaders of the American organization to convey their genuine appreciation of the help they are receiving, on an ever increasing scale, from their British collaborators.

    I will not tire you with any technical details, but one cannot help comparing the situation with that of the alchemists of former days, groping in the dark in their vain efforts to make gold. To-day physicists and engineers are, on the basis of firmly established knowledge, controlling and directing violent reactions by which new materials far more precious than gold are built up, atom by atom. These processes are in fact similar to those which took place in the early stages of development of the universe and still go on in the turbulent and flaming interior of the stars.

    The whole undertaking constitutes, indeed, a far deeper interference with the natural course of events than anything ever before attempted, and it must be realized that the success of the endeavours has created a quite new situation as regards human resources. The revolution in industrial development which may result in coming years cannot at present be surveyed, but the fact of immediate preponderance is, that a weapon of devastating power far beyond any previous possibilities and imagination will soon become available.

    The lead in the efforts to master such mighty forces of nature, hitherto beyond human reach, which by good fortune has been achieved by the two great free nations, entails the greatest promises for the future. The responsibility for handling the situation rests, of course, with the statesmen alone. The scientists who are brought into confidence can only offer the statesmen all such information about technical matters as may be of importance for their decisions. In this connection it is significant that the enterprise, immense as it is, has still proved to demand a much smaller effort than might have been anticipated, and that the development of the work has continually revealed unsuspected possibilities for facilitating the production of the materials and for intensifying their effects.

    These circumstances obviously have an important bearing on the question of an eventual competition about the formidable weapon, and on the problem of establishing an effective control, and might therefore perhaps influence the judgment of the statesmen as to how the present favourable situation can best be turned to lasting advantage for the cause of freedom and world security.

    I hope you will permit me to say that I am afraid that, at the personal interview with which you honoured me, I may not have given you the right impression of the confidential conversation in Washington on which I reported. It was, indeed, far from my mind to venture any comment about the way in which the great joint enterprise has been so happily arranged by the statesmen; I wished rather to give expression to the profound conviction I have met everywhere on my journey that the hope for the future lies above all in the most brotherly friendship between the British Commonwealth and the United States.

    It was just this spirit of co-operation that the President’s friend [Felix Frankfurter], believing the matter to be of the highest importance for the two countries, and knowing that, at the Chancellor’s request, I was coming to England for technical consultations, entrusted me, in strictest confidence, to convey to you, that the President is deeply occupied in his own mind with the stupendous consequences of the project, in which he sees grave dangers, but also unique opportunities, and that he hopes together with you to find ways of handling the situation to the greatest benefit of all mankind.

    Most respectfully,

    Niels Bohr

  42. 42.

    RaflW

    @cope: Yeah if that really has the range in AWD that they’re claiming, and the wherewithal to be around in three years, I’ll be interested then. We just don’t need a new vehicle at the moment, and I want the industry to shake out a bit.

  43. 43.

    RaflW

    @HumboldtBlue: He needs a man to love him. But since his Southern closet is permanently nailed shut, he gets these man crushes that drive his life.

    When it was McCain, it wasn’t so toxic. But latching onto Donald has really, fully destroyed Lindsey. I feel bad for him, in that removed, literary way I might feel about a Tennessee Williams character.

  45. 45.

    Sebastian

    @Matt McIrvin:

    StarShip is the “solution” to keep Space X alive. The orbital launch is business is not profitable and their market share is due to investor money being burned. The prognosis of a miraculously expanding launch market never came to bear and that’s why Elno came up with Starlink, which isn’t profitable either and cannot scale with the current v1 of satellites.

    The v2 Starlink satellites however cannot be launched via Falcon/Heavy Falcon and that’s where StarShip comes in. If they cannot get StarShip to work and launch a few times per month, the company is toast.

  46. 46.

    Sebastian

    @Kent:

    I am sorry but the SEC has been completely incompetent regarding Musk and Tesla.

    Tesla is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, security fraud stories of this century, and I am including Enron in the list.

  47. 47.

    Sebastian

    @sdhays:

    Musk has complete control over the board of directors and his elaborate, and impressive, propaganda network of shills (and the call buying program out of Curacao and Singapore) keeps the stock price afloat due to an unprecedented amount of retail investors.

  50. 50.

    JWR

    Oops, he did it again! (From NBC):

    Social network Twitter, recently rebranded as X, has commandeered the handle @music from an open-source software developer who told CNBC he created the account in 2007, and had built a community of around half a million followers there.

    While Elon Musk-led X gave Jeremy Vaught no choice but to surrender the desirable username on its platform, he was offered the option to choose from a list of other handles related to the topic of music. His X-assigned account — @musicfan — is not to his liking but he’s settling for it for now. X ported his followers over to the new account at least, he said.

    He hasn’t decided what to do with it, but hey, it sounds cool, man!

  52. 52.

    eldorado

    what’s left of twitter 3 sales from now will still get posted daily on the front page here, though

  54. 54.

    Kent

    @HumboldtBlue: When I was my daughter’s age in HS and obsessed with music back in the early 1980s, a 50 year old song would have been some sort of big band thing from Glenn Miller or Bing Crosby that would only have ever gotten play on Lawrence Welk.

  55. 55.

    John S.

    @Alison Rose:

    You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit in the wind. You don’t pull the mask of that old Lone Ranger, and you don’t mess around with Jim!

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    @>a href=”https://balloon-juice.com/2023/08/05/late-night-open-thread-x-tinguished-last-weekends-musk-diversion/#comment-8920411″>Kent

    Vintage parody, sung to the same tune.

    Don’t know why
    There’s no buttons on my fly
    Lousy laundry
    .

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    Grr. Fix.

    @Kent

    Vintage parody, sung to the same tune.

    Don’t know why
    There’s no buttons on my fly
    Lousy laundry
    .

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW:

    I used to be on twitter very regular. I now check when I see a good whatever you call them now, usually seen here. All totaled I’ve been on twit/x less since he bought it than I use do in one day. I thought I’d miss it. I was wrong.

  64. 64.

    HumboldtBlue

    @HeleninEire:

    I made a comment on a family thread that you know you’re getting into middle age when the ad music you hear on TV and radio is the soundtrack of your youth.

    @NotMax:

    Your link is funky

    @Kent:

    It’s a great song.

  65. 65.

    kalakal

     

    @HumboldtBlue: Well thanks for reminding me I’m a wrinkly :)

    I made a comment on a family thread that you know you’re getting into middle age when the ad music you hear on TV and radio is the soundtrack of your youth.

    Sadly that made me old over 30 years ago. Here’s a UK Levis ad from 1990

    Levis

    Probably should be filed under “He’d never have got that bike past reception”

  66. 66.

    Alison Rose

    @HumboldtBlue: Or when it starts showing up on “oldies” stations or lists.

    Or there’s the bookish version, where the era you grew up in starts getting labeled in book genres as “historical fiction”. First time I noticed that label on a book set in the 80s, I could practically feel myself decaying in the grave.

  68. 68.

    NotMax

    @HumboldtBlue

    Fixed above. Reply link, not a link to a version of the parody (which I first heard almost 60 years ago, and undoubtedly predated that).

    Part of a series of parody lyrics of varying age which burrowed their way into the gray matter. Also remember, to the tune of “They Tried to Tell Us We’re Too Young” –

    They tried
    To serve us
    Egg foo yung
    ;

  69. 69.

    kalakal

    Bogle, Bargle & Hegarty did a great job using the soundtrack of my youth to sell Levis in the UK in the 90s. They were great videos, here’s John Hegarty telling a good story about how they also revived boxer shorts by accident in the process

    Grapevine

  73. 73.

    kalakal

    @NotMax: Heh indeed.

    One of my all time favourite “soundtrack of my youth” bits is in Witness* 

    McGillis Ford

    *Film not an ad but it’s wonderful

    Also McGillis was absolutely robbed, she didn’t even get an Oscar nomination

  77. 77.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @dmsilev: My brother, who runs a roofing company, bought the F150-EV for that very reason. It’s familiar, does the job, and the EV is saving him money since he has to drive a lot to meet clients, and check on job sites.

  82. 82.

    Splitting Image

    @Kent:

    When I was my daughter’s age in HS and obsessed with music back in the early 1980s, a 50 year old song would have been some sort of big band thing from Glenn Miller or Bing Crosby that would only have ever gotten play on Lawrence Welk.

    To be fair, in the ’80s Linda Ronstadt recorded three hit albums of material from the ’30s and ’40s with Nelson Riddle. What’s New actually went to #3 on the Billboard chart behind Thriller and Can’t Slow Down.

    Not bad for 50-year-old music.

    Barbra Streisand hit #1 a  couple of years later with The Broadway Album. So there was definitely a market for that kind of music in the ’80s.

  84. 84.

    HumboldtBlue

    Sweet Jesus beating Betsy Ross with a flag pole, the coverage from Fox Sports is absolutely dreadful.

    Jingoistic, childish, fake enthusiasm garbage.

    Fuck off all day.

  86. 86.

    Shalimar

    Musk’s insistence on staying in San Francisco is a bit weird for a company that doesn’t own it’s own building and reportedly also stopped paying rent 8 months ago.

    Also, weed jokes are fine, but potheads aren’t the customers who made him rich.  And it seems like limiting his influence to neo-nazi potheads in particular is a really niche market.

  87. 87.

    sdhays

    @Sebastian: Yeah, I know he’s pretty wedged in there at Tesla, so no one’s probably going to be able to organize sufficiently to oust him until it’s far too late (if ever).

  92. 92.

    Tony G

    @Sister Golden Bear: Unlike Elon I am not a super-genius — but I don’t understand why anyone would want or need an “everything app” in 2023.  I open my laptop or phone and I open browser window.  If I want to go to a “social media” app then I use my browser to go there.  If I want to hear music I go to Pandora or Spotify.  If I’m interested in political opinion then I go. to a political blog.  For my bank balance I go to my bank’s website.  Etc., Etc.  Why would I want to go to “X”, or any other”everything app” so that everything is neatly packaged for me?  Who cares?  Is this something else for the idiotic Elon Musk fan-boys?

  93. 93.

    Tony G

    @Splitting Image: That’s true.  In the seventies and eighties there was a revival of music from thirties and forties.  (Bette Midler was part of that trend.). But I feel like, in a real sense, the rock music from the sixties and seventies has never gone away.  Maybe the influence of the Boomers?  I don’t know.  Yesterday I was at a family gathering and chatting with a couple of my son’s Millennial friends, who are young guitar players in a rock band.  We ended up talking about the pros and cons of different songs by Jimi Hendrix — a guy who’s been dead for more than 53 years.  Maybe it’s the way that the internet facilitates listening to old music.  If a kid wants to hear the “Band of Gypsies” album he can just do a search without leaving his chair.

  94. 94.

    Anne Laurie

    @Tony G: Is this something else for the idiotic Elon Musk fan-boys?

    It’s popularly believed that WeChat, the one-platform-for-everything, mints money for the Chinese government.  Musk has been convinced for the last twenty years that the only thing preventing him from ‘inventing’ the American / global version of WeChat is his partners’ lack of BOLD VISION, and also sometimes the ORWELLIAN GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS.

    People keep trying to tell him that WeChat started with two irreplaceable advantages — a lack of competition and a government strong enough to suppress any aspiring contenders — but THAT’S JUST YOUR OPINION, MAAAN!

  95. 95.

    Tony G

    @Anne Laurie: That sounds about right to me.  Boy, is that guy dumb.  I “think” that a lot of the success of WeChat is due to the company being a crony capitalist company in alliance with the corrupt, authoritarian Chinese government.  For Chinese users of WeChat, it represents a “safe” place on the internet — which will be free of overt government censorship because it self-censors due to its close relationship with the government.  It’s like a speakeasy during Prohibition that is “safe” to go to because it’s already  bribed the cops.  (I’m making this up, but that’s my impression.).  Elon, being a narcissistic dummy, seems to think that he can recreate that particular lucrative arrangement just by the force of this “brilliant” mind.  I can’t decide whether his narcissism or his sheer stupidity is his most prominent characteristic!

  97. 97.

    Bill Arnold

    @Tehanu:

    I think we’ll all be happy when it becomes the ex-X.

    I’ve read the Musk-history material about how he was pushing the name “X” for decades.
    In the context of the current time, It is also probably a response to Facebook’s shift to “Meta”, which was roughly a (stupid and annoying) name change to “About [Facebook]”.
    “X” is similar, in the sense that X is, among various meanings, also a symbolic variable.

  99. 99.

    Bupalos

    I don’t think musk is dumb exactly. Nor is he the kind of inventive genius his fans want to believe in.

    I think he’s a very unique combination. He has the personal emotional IQ and profile of a volatile 6 year old, but somehow has the discipline to operate towards long-range big-picture visions. It’s a very odd mix that in some ways complement each other effectively. He scares me.

  100. 100.

    mvr

    @Tony G: In the seventies and eighties there was a revival of music from thirties and forties. (Bette Midler was part of that trend.).

    I think two things happened at once.  On the one hand from the late 60s onward there was a valorization of writing one’s own songs. Whereas many of the early 60s bands were covering older music at the beginnings of their careers (when they mostly covered the 50s) where the Beatles & Stones kind of set the standard.  But this was alongside of exploration of older music with roots in folk music. And even the bands known for their own songs would slip in blues songs which were even older. (Crossroads is a great example, but the Stones did this on nearly every album – Prodigal Son, Terraplane Blues, Love in Vain, etc.)

    What started to happen somewhat later in the late 70s and 80s was covering Jazz of the sort that was commercially more popular and which had often been done with white singers the first time around.

    Late to this thread, but the topic interests me.

  102. 102.

    Jinchi

    @Jackie: And the “x” in the upper left corner makes me want to click to close.

    Exactly. His whole X branding is moronic because the letter is used generically in so many different ways.

  104. 104.

    VOR

    @Tony G:  Several years ago I saw a presentation at a conference by a major US automaker. Their idea was apps running in the vehicle’s onboard screens. You could pay for gas from the car’s apps, order fast food, or order things in stores. I kept thinking “why would I have these apps running in my car instead of my phone?”

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