How ’bout some Southern fried travelin’ music?
Yeah, I know Mr. Charlie Daniels would not approve of my politics. But I do approve of his music. Very much so. If this doesn’t put a bounce in your step on the way home this evening, I’m sorry I cannot help you.
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May 29th, 2009
9:46 pm
Lake Gitchoogumie?
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
9:55 pm
@@,
It was Lake Superior.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
9:57 pm
JT@ 9:04
Hadn’t thought of that. Could be.
DB, Gwinnettian
May 29th, 2009
10:01 pm
It’s been good to know ya.
Later, all.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
10:07 pm
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Weird thing, when Gordon Lightfoot wrote that song the ship hadn’t been found. He said the “she might have split up or she might have capsized” he made up. When they did find her, she was broken in two pieces with one half upside down. He’s since become friends with the families of the crew.
I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(
May 29th, 2009
10:11 pm
I hate whiny liberals but every once in a while they come up with a truly jamming song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd1mKaxN6EY
@@
May 29th, 2009
10:14 pm
Hillbilly & RW:
I was just reading about the Edmund Fitzgerald. Curious by nature. A tragic story.
When all of you come in with something, I go ah searchin’.
Speaking of seafaring vessels
Didn’t one of those fellas sloop his knot?
getalife
May 29th, 2009
10:21 pm
I just ordered me an Anastasia.
Hope she does not speak English and can guzzle some 42 below Vodka
eagle scout
May 29th, 2009
10:22 pm
If you have ever visited the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and viewed out onto Lake Superior you can almost envision the “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald!
@@
May 29th, 2009
10:26 pm
With those —> teeth staring at me every time I refreshed the page, I HAD TO LOOK.
I don’t think I’da bothered whitening those teeth, what with the loose chiclets floatin’ around in there.
What are those things?
@@
May 29th, 2009
10:29 pm
Getalife, you’re clyde, aren’tcha?
Don’t lie to me!!!
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
10:37 pm
Of course. The South is the only region in the country that is still basically on welfare. Every other region of the country gets back less than a dollar for each dollar it sends to the federal government back from the federal government in order to support the South, which gets back 1.19 for every dollar it sends to D.C. Its just the only area of the country that cannot get the modern world, and modern economics right.
At least that is getting Georgia a lot of world press. Almost every international radio broadcaster is sending reporters to to “Special news broadcasts” on this area of the country, least prepared to handle the economic crisis. Last week the BBC was in Atlanta, this week, they were in Peachtree City. The main thrust of the stories, the area of the country where the American Dream has seen the biggest failures.
getalife
May 29th, 2009
10:37 pm
No @@,
It’s sad but true:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irOf5a0ss6g
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
10:50 pm
Chadly,
That 10:37 stuff isn’t welcome on the Friday night music thread. Consider me signature one in my online petition to have your music thread posting privileges revoked.
J/K At least you kept it to an easy scrolling length
@@
May 29th, 2009
10:53 pm
I kinda liked that one (Metallica), Getalife. That lead singer had l-o-n-g legs — always a plus with me.
You are too clyde.
RW-(the original)
May 29th, 2009
10:55 pm
@@,
The Sloop John B is the first song I ever learned how to play on the guitar. My guitar skills never advanced much beyond that and unfortunately for me there are enough people on this thread that know that didn’t require much skill in the first place. (ISH)
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:00 pm
I think the Squeezebox needs to be plugged into a stereo.
But if you can spare 600 or 650 bucks try this one:
http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/spcialty/0907.html
Top of the line. Plays internet radio streams as well as streaming audio off of stuff ripped to a hard drive.
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:03 pm
<a href=”SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea is preparing to move an intercontinental ballistic missile from a factory near Pyongyang to a launch site on the east coast, a South Korean newspaper quoted a source in Washington as saying on Saturday.”
What were Kim Jong’s health issues? A stroke? A brain tumor?
He seems determined to touch something off.
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:06 pm
To date, no one has every outplayed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Its 30’s swing stuff a lot like cowboy swing. Reinhardt had a slight handicap. He lost two fingers on his left hand. The ring finger and pinky, but damn, he could play.
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:06 pm
Well whaddya know, RW!
I took guitar. My best song was “Wait A Minute” TWANG
“Wait a minute”, TWANG…
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:09 pm
I think Lightfoot wrote that for a movie or documentary made about the ship. Guy was in a hepatic coma for months and had to stop making music for a year.
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:11 pm
That 10:37 was a response to the 5:16…
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:11 pm
Django Reinhardt
My finger’s above my head and waggin’.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 29th, 2009
11:14 pm
NJ, I don’t think any one guitarist can be called the best but Django was as good as any. Damn good.
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:16 pm
Hillbilly:
Give me the name of a good spanish guitarist. I’ll google.
I love spanish guitar.
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:23 pm
The Kim Jong Il stuff is because if this guy is on the way out or incapacitated, his generals dont want the U.S. and other countries playing regime change games while there is a power struggle for the succession. Its like Jefferson said, by the third generation, any powerful person who makes history, for good or ill, has a bunch of incompetants to succeed them in most cases. And since Kim Il Sung died and Kim Jong Il, his son took his place, the dictatorship just isnt what it used to be. Strange, but the first dictator in the family tree was raised a protestant Christian and his maternal granddad was a protestant minister. In any case, this is all about making certain that there is no external hanky panky when it comes time for them to replace the “Dear Leader”
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:23 pm
This can’t be Django, can it? Surely he’s passed.
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:26 pm
I am a spanish guitarist (started out just plain old acoustic now flamenco) but there is always the Assad brothers, their sister Bani Assad is also fantastic, and then there is Liona Boyd. Strunz and Farah are exceptional.
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:29 pm
HEY!!!! there’s a big ol’ squeezebox for RW in that 11:23.
I googled the lyrics to that song. Shameful….just shameful!
I’ll check ‘em out N.J.
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:29 pm
No, thats just other people playing his stuff. Theres a lot of people who now just play his style of music. This is him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzsPGHsi90
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:31 pm
That was the same piece of music that Johnny Depp played in the movie “Chocolat”
N.J.
May 29th, 2009
11:33 pm
And for all you native Georgians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhwCgsnjqw&feature=related
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:41 pm
N.J.:
That 11:29 is the one I linked to @ 11:11. Are you payin’ attention.
I listened to the Assad bros. Kinda jazzy.
This is what I’m lookin’ for.
@@
May 29th, 2009
11:46 pm
Ooooo, Struntz & Farah
Very good.
I’m outta here.
the bull god
May 29th, 2009
11:58 pm
Little River Band is cool too
N.J.
May 30th, 2009
12:10 am
The stimulus money is being released as the states send in their request for it, and basically they have to sort of request it for each project that they have in mind, so it gets used on what it is supposed to be used for. They can’t just ask for it, and then decide they are going to distribute it all to big, private corporations and then claim they are going to use it on infrastructure, or to build a new school library and then use most of it on salaries for the top administrators of the contstruction company, etc. If you go to “Recovery.gov” the public gets to look at how every cent has been disbursed and how its being spent. The section of the site for what Georgia has asked for and what it says its going to spend it on is here:
http://stimulusaccountability.ga.gov/02/gov/stimulus/home/0,2804,134245182,00.html
the bull god
May 30th, 2009
12:12 am
This goes out to my other rowdy friends
N.J.
May 30th, 2009
12:13 am
The Assads are of Syrian extraction, but their family has been in Brazil for a long time.
The brothers are really good, but the younger sister Bani outperforms them both.
Their unofficial web site is at:
http://indra.com/~jkenyon/assad.html
N.J.
May 30th, 2009
12:22 am
Strunz and Farah. One is Costa Rican, the other Iranian. One plays what is called Guitarra Morisca, in which a plectrum (pick) is used on a nylon stringed guitar and the other is “Guitarra Hispanica” which is just spanish guitar where the fingers of the right hand are used to sound the strings. Normally you dont want to play a nylon stringed guitar with a pick, because there is no pick guard and you can rip the top up pretty good, but on a flamenco guitar, there is a “tap plate” that the player uses sometimes to get a percussive effect of of the top of the guitar by striking it with the fingernails. But it acts as a pick guard when played like this.
N.J.
May 30th, 2009
12:28 am
Not all the time. I dont always read all of the posts. Just jump around to the ones that interest me.
The link to the 11:41 piece was actually written by Strunz and Farah.
N.J.
May 30th, 2009
12:33 am
Its called Nomad, I think..This Al Marconi is doing a cover of Strunz and Farah.
just went and looked at my CD’s. Its from Strunz and Farah’s album “Mosaico” but its also the last track on their “Best of” album
Bud Wiser
May 30th, 2009
6:12 am
Love this song….just haven’t picked up the piano part yet.
I Rule You :-) / You Whine :-(
May 30th, 2009
6:52 am
Oh good, the experts lend their opinion-
American capitalism gone with a whimper It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.-Pravda
Baaaaaaa, liberals, baaaaaaaaaaaa.
eewwwww
clyde
May 30th, 2009
7:31 am
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I’m clyde.I wasn’t around last evening to remind you of Hiawatha.
By the shores of Gitchie Gumee
By the shining big sea water.
@@
May 30th, 2009
8:50 am
Sure you are clyde. You wouldn’t gitchie, gitchie, goo goo me now, would ‘ya?
Luv ManyHaHas.
SuperDave
May 30th, 2009
8:53 am
Speaking of Gitchie Gumee.
Anyone know what a Yooper is?
You can Google it if you don’t know.
@@
May 30th, 2009
9:00 am
Google, eh?
jay has instructed us all to get busy today.
I’m off to do just that. My plans were in place before his instructions but HEY! isn’t it nice we have jay to tell us how to spend our time.
N.J,
May 30th, 2009
1:50 pm
Aint just liberals. Marx is having a comeback and no more stronger than on Wall Street. These guys are looking for someone to explain the mess they got the country into, and both Marx and Kenyes writings are having record sales that are getting into Best Seller levels.
Even Christopher Hitchens, one time leftist turned free market publicists just penned an article titled “The Revenge of Karl Marx”
Marx quotes are all the rage on Wall Street as the investor blog “blogging stocks discusses the Marx quotes being discussed on Wall Street and of course even consertive blogs are pointing to an article about how the “free marketers” of Wall Street have turned to Marx for their inspiration about how to save the economy in an article entitled:
Comeback of Karl Marx?
By Martin Masse
In his Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, Karl Marx proposed 10 measures to be implemented after the proletariat takes power, with the aim of centralizing all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Proposal Number Five was to bring about the “centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.”
If he were to rise from the dead today, Marx might be delighted to discover that most economists and financial commentators, including many who claim to favour the free market, agree with him.
http://conservativechatroom.blogspot.com/2008/10/comeback-of-karl-marx.html
Sorry kids, the guys who have been running the nation’s “free market” for the last 30 years have had to turn to Marx for their solutions.
While you agreed with these guys when they were touting free market solutions, you have suddenly started to disagree with them when the only solutions these wealthy free marketers can turn to is …Marx because they know the market better than anyone else.
N.J,
May 30th, 2009
3:28 pm
Piano tab for the Cool Change piece is at:
http://www.911tabs.com/link/?2560794
N.J,
May 30th, 2009
5:28 pm
Palin is hardly one of “We the People” I cannot imagine a person who is less “We the People” than Palin. When you compare her personal life, to the affectation of “We the People” that she put on for the presidential campaign, this is more than obvious. Rather, the only real objection to Obama is that he is really not “We the White People”