Not a sausage. I missed the last Muppet Show in this space with Peter Sellers. But having the whole set doesn’t prevent me from seeing it again. The one with John Cleese is quite good, btw.

wiz- zed?

hey alank — how ya doing tonight?

hey mac — how’s noo yawk city?

Suzanne, Suzanne – my weekly MupFix!

hey newton — tea party muppets even :) how ya doing tonight?

finally, I am

Good morning Suzanne and pups,
Usually if I cannot sleep I just lurk this early in the morning.
Suzanne, I really like your format. Thanks.
We are having our second night of major storms here in N. Ill. We are right in the midst of a doozy right now.

Hiya All! What a week of temps and news. Happy Friday everyone.

There are macaques at the zoo in D.C., as I recall. It’s a sad place, the D.C. zoo.

hey applecanyon — i’m glad you do — and yikes! how much of a doozy? tornado warning kinda storm?

As John Lennon once said, “I hope we passed the audition.”

hey ce — how’s ohio tonight?

hahahahaha

Glorious rainstorm tonight — changed the temps almost twenty degrees down. MrCE and I are sitting on the porch, listening to all the peepers in the backyard.

I know a little macaque in DC that finds it interesting. Beats me .

i love the line in this whoa… stop it – this whole tea party is getting totally out of control!!”

Suz,
Flash flood and flood warnings til 7 a.m. on Monday.
It is really hitting close with the lightening right now. Guess I had better close and take some precautions here.
Night all.

alice

Macaquer!

I’ve just heard that you’ve a substantial tornado warning for the city.

Batten yer hatches, hold onto yer bonnet, and, please, be safe.

DW

Then again, there always what some wise person told me I should be listening to while reading most comments at Seminal.

yikes — g’nite applecanyon and stay safe

Hi all!
I remember seeing Brooke Shields on a plane in the mid-1970s.
Still very very hot and humid here, but I did hear a storm warning announced on TV so maybe the heat will break!

hey rbg — so… do ya?

the Alice and the Carpenter

hey dwbartoo — how ya doing tonight?

Every dang day.

hey margot — applecanyon is in northern Ill and getting hammered — is that the same storm warning or are you too far away from that one?

and the walrus! thanks dood

lurk hides the hooch
/~~~

My niece used to sing (sing?) that all the time, and I could not figure out why! I thought it was an cereal ad jingle!

And when I’m reading diaries, I think of Buddy Rich…

Hey Folks:

What’s happening. It’s cool and foggy in San Francisco. Windy too. Had to put on a jacket to go to the corner.

Suzanne. btw, the post says “We are off to see the Wizard”, but the video is of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. I didn’t watch the whole video, maybe it ends that way.

the lengendary DW!! Howgoethit wise one?
I fain would batten happily on tails of your happiness and good health.

It would be a nice change to have some weather. 100 degrees and record dewpoint tomorrow. Enough to boil a monkey’s (or macaque’s) bum. Just ask the Bruces.

hey lurk — keep your forking fingers off my chocolate — i don’t care what ‘safety precaution’ excuse you are trying out this week — aint gonna work

hey spocko — how are ya tonight? — ya gotta keep watching to see them leap from wonderland to oz

Mah nah mah nah?

or

Mah nah mah nah!!!

Always a pleasure to encounter you RBG.

;~DW

That was one great diary earlier this evening.

wild thing

And you, my friend.

Oh and I think the Rutles didn’t say anything after their rooftop performance. But the general manager was shoved off the ledge.

indeed. i love spocko’s diaries — i learn so much from them

Juke
Juke

Mah nah mah nah!

You is in superb form, this swirling night, macmocker, and I’ve crossed yer tracks any number of times, of late, but you wuz done gone on to utter things.

Keep yer fur pristine and yer tail well-fluffed, for we shall meet tailishly anon.

How be the flips floppin’?

DW

that’s some serious Burning for Buddy.

And of course, there’s this one.

I bet it is.
This is a much hotter summer than last year. We noticed because we only bought one bag of ice that whole summer; now it’s one a week (or more).

Golden Earring actually did a competent live version of…

ooh, haven’t heard that one in a long time, nice

Ah Ha! Thanks. Those sneaky Muppets!

Thanks for the note about the diaries RBG and Suzanne. I didn’t really want to include all the Zombie Boilerplate, but I need to include enough for people to get the fact he was violating his own TOS.

Tonight I was signing up for Salon’s Open Salon and read their TOSs to compare. A lot of the same stuff, however Salon makes it clear that you still own your work. In the Breitbart TOS they own everything. “Throughout the Universe” (seriously that is the phrase!).

And for the no longer that young Bucks.

weddings

Hi Pups, meet my long lost blogger, Jane Burgermeister.

Jane’s blog speaks truth to power in Austria, when she is able to speak.

Right now, Jane is in a Vienna court and in a world of hurt.

http://www.janeburgermeister.org/

muppet wedding

t

quick, Suzanne, very quick.

shoot!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA

Excellent! Standing on a chair on a chair, and…

hey plove — glad ya found her — i left ya a comment with her most recent post in my thread last night but i fear you had already headed out for the evening

how ya doing tonight?

Word has it that you’re the second guy from the right.

Yea, I missed your comment.

Thanks for trying.

Suz ! ARR BEE GEE !

petro! how’s toronto tonight dood?

‘evenin’ all-
someone asked on an earlier thread, but I never saw an answer…is Jane at NN10? If so, how is she being treated?

Dang, yer awake but I swear I don’t get why.

?

Hot ‘n’ sticky, but no Tornado warnings like Noo Yawk …

I saw Brooke in Grease in Pittsburgh in 1994 or so. Our seats were one row from the farthest back row in the upper mezzanine. (How far away were you?) We were so far back, I couldn’t even see Brooke’s eyebrows!

piggy

When he was only 19, Steve and those Spencer Davis guys

hey rond — how ya doing tonight?

Fuck Breitbart.

Keep it simple, hoss.

What a remarkable and courageous human being is Jane Burgermeister.

Thank you, PLovering for bringing her and her frightening (and most obnoxious and disturbing) plight to our attention.

DW

how cool aitchd — how ya doing tonight?

Every so often you ask a most perceptive question.

WHO’S right?

I liked the Moon, but he was too quiet, slow and restrained.

However, this was not one of your finer moments.

rond — per her twitter, she’s in maine not vegas.

RonD !

Saw your comment @ 64, Suz. It would be great to hear from Gregg, Marcy and the others, about the reception they got at NN10.

I played that last night (Thursday night)! (And the other Get Back the night before.)

Yer Still Killin Me

*G*

Wassup AitchD ?

i’m sure we will hear all about the trip when they return

Not sure, but I can pretty much bet I’m left of you.

evening, Suz … firegods

Hell yes it was . . . .

Fuck Breitbart.

*G*

Already rec’d it.

Hey sweety….another steaming night in the Great Swamp, but finally had a heat index below 110 today. BTW, I wrote my first Seminal diary yesterday…!

hey ppd — how’s the south south bay tonight?

Not really, Sweetie. I left after about 15 mins b/c I always hated Grease. I bought the tickets for the kids and their mom. They stayed, I walked around outside for two hours and smoked. I’m doing better than ever now, Hon. You doing okay?

oh yay! the first is the hardest — i recommended it and am looking forward to reading more, rond

Thanks. I haven’t adapted to Twitter yet.

Happiness runs in a circular motion.

I’m up a penny tonight despite losing.

‘m doing ok. been better but for sure been worse :) my back was acting up earlier this week but has settled down to just a dull roar now.

Um, a preposition? Isn’t ‘up’ a preposition? Sometimes an adverb? I’m retired. How’s your life and days, Petrocelli? I don’t hang here much or at all. What do these freaks call y’all?

Petro!
You Got Soul

Aww, dammit. Lower back?

And actually your reply was not one of your better moments.

Spocko wrote a great diary. You wanna pick holes in it, it’s right here.

And, we’ve been down this road before, but I ain’t your hoss.

ZBrez said, “They wanted a more controlled society, one dominated by an elite unrestrained by traditional values.”

Well, the unrestrained elite in Austria is alive and well.

OIC, it’s ‘Petro’.

Thanks! I hope I can come up with something else to write-that’s the biggest problem I have with the Seminal. Most of the things I’d like to write about, there’s already someone covering it better than I could.
So I read a lot.

i’m still trying to figure it out myself

yup… i can handle dull roar tho…

Margot !

Care to join me in a virtual dance ?

Hey Petro!!!

dance

going down the road

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! as CTuttle would say

(MODNOTE: edited to not break margins)

(I’m gonna break ‘em all except gravity , I speck.)

Mais oui, long as it’s not complicated:)

‘nuther road

How’s it goin’, buddy ?

Toronto hit 109 today … I melted into a pool of chocolate … *g*

BTW, Spocko, I love the “Journalmalism” tag on your diary.

FUCK.. i did it again???

*head hanging in shame* that’s what, dang near every night this week i’ve hit the 100? sheez

here’s the road that us east Coast hustlers heard these boys play when Pigpen was still there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDjA3DqbcM

Thanks.

*G*

Two ladies are sitting next to each other on a plane. One is a Yankee and the other, a Southern Belle. The Southern Belle turns to the Yankee and asks,

“So where y’all from?”

The Yankee turned her steely gaze to the Southern Belle and replied,

“I am from a place where we do not end our sentences with a preposition.”

Silence ensues and the flight continues until a few minutes later when the Southern Belle again
turns to the Yankee and asks,

“So, where y’all from, bitch?”

We sure did get a long way from the Muppets.

Do y’all have a chin-up/pull-up bar you could hang from? Do you lie face down on a top step or long table and let your legs hang from the knees down to stretch? Was it a spasm at first? (You don’t have to answer this: have you put on weight lately?)

Blessings

hiya margot

wow, dood, your musical history continues to make me jealous :)

I’ve not often, if ever, dissed Spocko’s musings.

So I”m really not sure where yer coming from.

Hoss.

hahahahahaha

ROFL … Spocko !

What happened to his #111?

part of the charm of off topic is the topic is how the circle goes round and round

Hey you know that both Mark William’s and Andrew Breitbart have been in the news lately. Williams for his race baiting and “satire” letter and Breitbart for his posting of a video that misrepresented Sherrod as a racist.
Check out this photo

I was trying to find the video of Breitbart going nuts screaming about Salon, my friend Eric Boehlert and Joe Conason. In the process I found a video of him after the whole Acorn misrepresentation. He was yelling at Max Blumathal and saying. “Calling someone a racist is the worst thing you can say in America.”

As always with right winger, they don’t listen to themselves and can change their views from moment to moment.

nothing.. his 111 is still there — refresh your computer if you are not seeing all the comments

Juke!
Some very understated and creative guitar work.

y’ain’t got nothin to be jealous of, kid, you’re the class of the field tonight and always.

You continue to kill . . .

Pickin is ghood!

:P

How’d y’all know I live in the South? Cos I called Suzanne ‘Sweetie’, and used the locution ‘You doing okay?”

I heard that joke in another version, which I told to my students whenever the situation up with which one should not put, and it went something like this:

Orientation week in Cambridge. A frosh stops a don in his academic robes and asks: “Escuse me, but do y’all know where da liberry is at?” The don blanches, etc., “Heah at Haavaad” etc., and you know the rest, and then the kid says, “Oh. Uh, can y’all [etc.], asshole?

as long as its not this mare…

Did, thanks.

where in the south are ya? i lived in n/orleans in the 60′s and my mom’s from kentucky. spent a good bit of my childhood either living or visiting a lotta the south…

Well that didn’t work.

Check out this photo of Williams, Breitbart and Melanie M organ.

And then this photo of Williams, Breitbart, M organ and Sara Palin.

Greatest song ever.

Join the club, party, every day.

*G*

Hi PPD, how are things with the elders? Bless you for your care.

The Charlotte, NC part. I judge a society by its pizza, its FM radio, its universities, and its museums. Oh-for-four.

that worked…

Yes.

Brilliant work from them all.

Love them and this cut.

Read your reply at 83 again, to what was nothing more than my heartfelt and gracious comment to spocko, and perhaps even you will understand what I was saying.

I divide the number of churches by the number of bars. 1:1 ratio is ideal.

Bratbart looks like a rabid possum. Possums are such slow, waddley nice little animals usually but I would not want to encounter a rabid one.

that’s one area i’ve not been to — i think i’ve got some cousins in the carolina’s.. or at least used to

RGB, still wondering why you jumped my shit.

Huh?

newt, the original of that is not just brilliant guitar, but bass and drums and damn near everything.

that’s the one of the best from a top three group.

My 83 is not the comment that it was.

I remain completely confused about your consternation WRT anything I posted tonight.

You continue to kill me.

I’ve NEVER maligned Spocko.

Never.

Fucking QUE?

Charlotte has a church on every corner except for the corners the banks have cornered. There’s a Billy Graham Parkway here. The PTL Club originated here. You have to go to South Carolina to buy Chartreuse (only a short ride from here, TG.)

I try to down-play it, but I’m sort of a Dan nutjob.

We don’t talk about it at the dinner table

This in the minority, but IMHO The Royal Scam is one of the best 5 pop albums of all time (which is why we don’t talk about it at the table).

I had to shoot one in my neighbor’s back yard about a year ago. A possum, in broad daylight, trying to go after her dog. It was frothing…textbook rabies. You don’t want to mess with it…think giant rabid rat.

let’s sing instead of sling
something from what was once vices, are now habits

black water

see ya and raise anytime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tllhmK9g4G4

You jumped mine dude. Do you not see that?

What’s with pissing all over a comment that was nothing more than telling spocko that they wrote a great diary?

Or am I just crazy for trying?

You could lose POP in yer verbage and I’d readily concur with ya.

*G*

other vices

I have NO clue as to what you are jumping my shit about.

None.

What so ever.

Honest.

And I really mean it.

What the fuck are you busting me about?

I honestly have no clue . . . .

Kinda hard to include Songs In The Key Of Life, The Royal Scam, Revolver and such without the grouping…

pop

I never got to New Orleans, with regrets now. It’s one of the few great cities I haven’t been to and spent time. I liked Kentucky the short time I was there. Toronto’s my fave, though. There’s nothing in Charlotte. It was a trading terminal once, like Atlanta, whose original antebellum name was Terminus. Too-too many carpetbaggers in Charlotte. I’m a Native New Yorker, not a carpetbagger because I didn’t come here for opportunities. I can’t get the hang of the code. Never will. I might as well have a scarlet Y for Yankee branded on my forehead.

what the big three ain’t enough

Gotta fade. The grandkids will be up in about five hours, ready to rock.
Goodnight, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

You are right about possums. Scary. Our dog
Trapped one up by our house. Evil looking thing. [shutter]

whereas, since i spent so much of my youth there, whenever i get around anyone from the south, or have been drinking, i start to da-wrall and there’s not a forking thing i can do about it. i’ve got an entire east coast (other than virginia where i was born but don’t rememer) on my gotta see list.

g’nite rond

Lived in the South my whole life, and there are really only two rules. Be A Good Neighbor, and Don’t Burn The Locals. If you do those two things, you can pretty much do whatever you want.

Brr. I don’t ever want to see that.

Suz, WTF is RGB diggin on me for?

I swear, he’s killin me, and I’m completely confused.

WTF?

Thanks for coming, sleep and be well.

Thanks for the local knowledge. (I notice you’ve adopted the iTunes style for caps in titles and such. Way to go, man!)

i have no style… i’m old :)

Boy, that Walter Becker sure can…
Stand back while some of the best guitarists in the world do their thing.

Say what you will about Fagan & Becker, but they know how to stay out of the way of better musicians.

but then again….

‘nuther walter

I’ve reread your comment at 83 and am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you intended something different than how several others have interpreted it.

So let’s try this again.

Were you trying to say in your first graf that:

“Hell yes it was” was actually trying to say ….”yes spocko wrote a great piece”

and your “Fuck Brietbart” was trying to pile on to support spocko’s diary?

Cuz if not, my point stands.

And if so…a self described “former journalist” should know how to make his point a little more understandable to the great unwashed.

Gracie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0

those guys can play jes’ fine… but they learned to find guys who were monster good.

Elliott Randall on the first album……..and on and on.

hey bb — how’s your bay?

Not sure what “da-wrall” means, I figure you mean you slip into a dialect (‘drawl’)? The so-called educated Southern dialect I think is the most beautiful English that’s spoken today. Oh, the eastern US is not to be missed. PA is gorgeous, from Ohio to NJ. New England will exceed any expectations you have. New York, well, it’s what Paris, Rome, and London wish they could be.

more gracie

Oh yeah. They employed Pretty Purdie.

Randall, right, reelin.

And later, Steve Gadd.

tis what i meant… was trying to type it as i say it when it happens. i want to see the fall colors in new england, the sun rise while looking east on a maine beach…. and the man-made wonders in the museums.

I think that Lurk oughta break out the liquor, chocolate and whatever the fuck else ya got if you guys have to deal with the level of shit imposed on you by someone that can’t remember to lighten up for two hours.

I still don’t have an 83 you refer to.

I have always been supportive of Spocko.

I have NO places I know of, that you can show me, where I HAVE not supported Spocko,

I continue to not understand WTF you are talking about.

Hoss.

I have neckties older than y’all

Link

i can’t help it

Lucky me I saw Steve when he was with Paul Simon (twice). Never got to see Purdie. And Purdie said, Let there be Funk! And there was Funk.

have we another drummer here?

here it is larue

I have never seen either one. Saw Buddy a couple of times in Tahoe.

Well I thought Larue was agreeing that my diary was great and that his comment to f*uck breitbart and keep it simple was a humorus dig at my longwinded style.

And although I appreciate slash fiction I do not want to have sexual intercourse with Andrew Breitbart.

I hope that is clear. Now everyone go read my diary as everyone agrees it is in fact “great”.

I’ve agreed to take another look at all of this, but are you being intentional obtuse tonight?

I saw Gadd a few times playing with Mike Manieri and Warren Bernhardt in Steps when they played regularly at a downtown Manhattan club called Seventh Ave South.

Y’all did it perfect, then. In ‘text’, one never knows for sure, does one? The October foliage in PA is legendary. I grew up in Pittsburgh, lived and worked there most of my life. The fall foliage in Charlotte is almost as breathtaking, but not as expansive (only a small area). Reds, oranges, yellows, browns, all-at-once in every eye-behold.

Yeah, we don’t get the ‘good’ music out here in Californee.

Formerly. Gretsch.

hey! i get home from work early enough that suze and the Pups are still up, and dang! Having to dodge a pie fight. Oh well! It’s my “saturday night” and i was working a bit of overtime, had to drive home thru a thunderstorm. The lightning was gorgeous, the monsoon-like downpour not so much fun as i’m not a great fan of hydroplaning.

i was impressed with oregon’s fall foliage — was in ca since i was a pre-teen and the bay area is not known for color :(

shit, Larue was kicking my ass about that yesterday.

sure you guys are, like all deprived, but at least you can get sushi at all those baseball games.

I would sooooo like to agree with you. Since all I said that started this was what a great diary it was.

I saw Buddy also a couple of times. One time, at a Holiday Inn, he quit in the middle of his third number and walked off because of a woman heckler. It was in the early 70s, during his Keep-The-Customer-Satisfied period.

california love

well, I’d tell you that Buddy picked out my Roger’s Dynasonic for me, but newt would get annoyed, and since my kid ran off to DC with it, don’t matter much anyhow.

I understand that he was quite the prick. Not evidenced in the shows I saw.

happy 200 aitchd!

:)
Congrats on the deuce…

Hoss, I was in complete agreement with your every word.

Start to finish.

And I maintain, Fuck Breatbart, which is a proggy POV and has NOTHING to do with any contrary POV you might have.

I’m pretty sure, you and me, we agree across the board about proggy thangs and always HAVE!

So RGB, WTF? I mean, WTF anymore hoss, cus YOU brought this up like a Breitbart slandrer on a Sherrod.

And I’ll not be j’accused for being maligned.

Not as you do it to me.

I hope we’ve settled this.

Yer wrong.

I did nothing wrong. Not at all.

And you jumped my shit.

Why?

ha! you tried, but you get aitch’d out!!!!!!!!

!
!
!
!
!

The sushi I could take.
But you know what is a pretty popular item now? (prepare to be rather ill) – Tofu-dogs.

i was lucky to miss it (whew)

shit. one of the mrs. nutritionist buddies was going to manufacture them, but she couldn’t even get herself to eat them..

what’s worse is sitting down to a thanksgiving dinner of Tofurkey.

more walter

they had better not fuck around with the garlic fries….

And now, I’m outta here.

I have pickin and cookin to do tomorrow.

I have NO clue why RGB jumped my bones.

And frankly, at this point, I don’t care, it was seriously maligned.

I only wish all pups well and a good life.

Harumph.

same as the old, boss

I saw Elvin a few times (sad to say, much after the Coltrane years), including a workshop he conducted at U of Pittsburgh. During the concert at Carnegie Music Hall, I walked around to one of the boxes so I could watch sort of from behind him. He was tap-dancing! He was wearing a fishnet shirt, I guess so the steam could escape. I think he was a more beautiful human specimen than Muhammad Ali. He never played his stick on his hi-hat, except after the last song. Some beer-farters in the crowd had been yelling “Boogie!” a lot. After all the bows, while he was standing, he picked up his sticks and on the open hi-hat he banged Dum-dum-dum, dum-da-dum-da-dum, and tossed his sticks onto the floor.

I saw Lennie White a lot when he was with Freddie Hubbard. Tony Williams in his later years. De Johnette with Miles Davis at the Cellar Door in Georgetown, 1970. You can hear my hands clapping on the recording.

Miles spoke to me after. Jeebus, he didn’t even speak to some of his own band members.

go wash that man right outa your hair.

and have some picking and grinning and fun.

g’nite larue

MY Bay is like my cup..it is full I jogged up the sand trails for an hour then came home had a snacks and rowed to the sand spit and back. Kinda tiring but getting a quick recovery. How’s the FDI LN Bay? By the way a therapy massuese came over this morning. Very expert! How lucky is that.

only cos I don’t touch-type

wow!

I mean, really…
Soy bean curd masquerading as… anything
gawd

how cool bb — my bay appeared low today… the high wasn’t the usual high so it looked emptier down at my end… my landlady is a masseuse — i really should talk to her about getting a therapeutic massage — my masseuse in boulder creek (the yoga master) really spoiled me tho….

throw in Billy Cobham and you got near the whole crop.

As a lurker mostly I’ve noticed your ‘fork’ locution being used regularly, but not when you’re mentioning food, is that it?

lln celebrates when someone gets the lucky 100, 200 etc (except of course, when i hit it — i try to avoid it since i’m the host but … )

OK…perhaps I misread your original comment, the intentions of which were not received as it would appear you intended, FWIW, by more than just my humble self.

As a self described “former journalist” you might want to revisit how what you intend to say is received by others.

In the mean time, I am RBG, not RGB, and will not now, or will never, be your Hoss, so please don’t ever use that term in a reply to me again.

i use fork when i’m trying to not swear. but if they try to tufu garlic fries, the swears would really fly — my dad was in the navy for 20 years and i worked for a police dept for 24… i know a lotta swears

I can’t remember if I saw Cobham. I saw Mouzon a few times. I menat to mention that I was kind of friendly with Lenny White when he came to town. We’re talking about brilliant, intelligent folks, all of them.

cobham

of course they’re intelligent, they’re drummers, not guitar pickers.

and Miles Davis actually was friendly, just not real friendly in public.

This lady is a yogi as we;l. We had a nice running conversation then i walked across the street to my dentist and met the new hygenist from an Adventist family of 7 girls all in medicine. She was really very good. had the binocular glasses. Just moved here and had a surprise 2 year old girl with her 13 year old son. Her husband is part of the army of unemployed draftsman. Really a wonderful day. Here and now seems to magnify it.
PS your tide should have beeen high at 8-9 pm that’s when I was rowing as the moon came up.

Yeah. And I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard he died. A bartender at the Franklin Inn (A Mexican restaurant) told me. That night in Georgetown, I thought he was playing for me. He kept looking my way with his horn, he aimed it at me so many times… The Cellar Door is a very small club. Oh, and we’d eaten hash brownies for dinner.

ok, settle

haha, I think a year or so ago you assumed I was too serious – I can’t bring myself to use emoticons or the bracketed g. (((Suzanne!)))

dizzy muppets

awww thanks aitchd…

a sure sign of my being tired is when i can’t tell humor from serious — my bad

get loose

Suzanne, you are Awesome, and not a little bit. Billy played on the Al Kooper Blood, Sweat, and Tears album. In the Day, arguments raged about Cobham vs. Serafine (of Chicago Transit Authority – I saw them before they broke out. They played at a homecoming at Carnegie-Mellon in 1969, we already had their first album. I met them backstage. Danny Serafine couldn’t come down. He was still playing his thighs).

i saw chicago back when they were chicago transit authority and opened for hendrix at oakland in 1969

speaking of being tired.. i’ve hit the wall. thanks for letting me spend a wee bit of time with ya tonight. thanks for creating the soundtrack for tonight’s thread.

lurk is around — i hereby rescind the no spitballs in my post — have at it — lurk is outta practice and needs to work off some of that chocolate… i’m just saying

g’nite all

Thank you so much.

Sleep well & good, Suzanne, and thx a lot

That is just not fair.

Wow! A very very rare treat!

yeah, more spitballs …… for der KGB.…..

Soft Machine opening for

Chambers Bros.

Big Brother

Hendrix

NY don’t settle!

and Godiva’s own chocolate martinis!

I was in SF 69-70 working in the Richmond District N Judah Line to Sunset Organic Merchants had started up the industry in the Bay area converting framers to certify organcally David Rohe was a genius in doing that. The music in the Bay area was so varied and awesome what a cultural milieu and pot porri of creativity at every level.
Have to say the Alemeda County Sheriffs were harsh on us People’s Park demonstrators. The panthers had a store front on Haight but were never there it was out of sight.
That had to be an exciting day for you.

nice night

out, see you guys later

Those few seconds in 1970 when Miles and I exchanged a parting greeting have lasted forty years, and will go on. My roommate for a few years was a drummer (and one of many extraordinary, gifted musicians who never get noticed). And a playwright. He went to Louisville, where they performed his play at their drama festival. It played later in Chicago and LA. He became a Hollywood script doctor.

Whoa that is a line up that rocks your soul. Did you really catch that?

Early Cold Blood and Lydia Pense absolutely killed me. She’s still cooking.

Great sharing with you & thanks

he really was a nice man and just got caught up in playing to people’s expectations of him having to be some kind of supercool badass.

you got a glimpse and I’m glad for you.

night to you and everybody and hope to catch you around.

missed most of the Soft Machine, but that was one of the first rock shows I ever saw.

first one was Janis Ian, Richie Havens and the Doors.

night, Lurk.

In 1957 MIles Played at the Univ of New Mexico with the Modern Jazz Quartet every note and rest was played so elegantly that it took your breath away. Great class and style. http://jh666.blogspot.com/2010/06/miles-davis-european-tour-with-mjq.html I hope I got that right. MJQ was perfection in sound delivery.

Blessings! What a find! I was about to sign off… Thanks, man! Tomorrow I’ll convert it to Lossless, probably burn a CD or two.

I caught Richie Havens in Cape Cod Mass after the Democratic convention protests in Chicago where I was introduced to some mean honkie cops. I was under the illusion that the world was mine it it needed my slant on things. Still laboring under that mis apprehension.

Night to all or good morning.

When I was in first grade at PS 246 in Brooklyn, Jackie Robinson came to our school and spoke to us over the P.A. system. I later saw him play often. Saw Sandy Koufax a lot. Roberto Clemente a lot. Roger Maris in one game. Last and not least, I saw one of Barry Bonds’ 75.

Good morning, pups. It’s just Collins and Herbert because Mr. Blow is off today. Ms. Collins is in Louisville, KY. In “My Old Kentucky Zombies” she says in Kentucky’s United States Senate race, there’s talk of taxes and profanity and coal. Oh, my! There’s also Rand Paul… Mr. Herbert, in “Thrown to the Wolves,” says Shirley Sherrod’s essential message was lost amid all the self-serving agendas. Ya think? What a clusterphuck.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup. The porch kittehs have been fed, so I’m headed out to the garden to water before the heat index gets up to 110, which is in the forecast. Have a great day.