Travelin’ music for those headed “Home”
It’s mid-May and the warm weather is here. Of course, it’s been here since February, so it’s no big deal I guess. The march of the seasons are now summer to spring and then back to summer.
But hey, I don’t mean to get all political on a Friday afternoon. It’s just that it’s neighborhood festival time again in Atlanta. This weekend offers Tunes from the Tombs in historic Oakland Cemetery, with bands playing at five different stages scattered through the property. We attended at last year’s inaugural event and had a (sur)real blast. Nothing makes you more grateful to be alive than sitting in a cemetery drinking a cold beer, enjoying the sun, the music and the company.
And two weeks from now comes the Virginia-Highland Summerfest, featuring more live music and beer in addition to hundreds of craft and artist booths. Among the highlights will be Lousiana’s own Marc Broussard, featured in tonight’s video.
Before we get to that, though, I’d like to make a quick announcement. I thought we’d try “crowdsourcing” an occasional Friday night music kickoff, and here’s how it would work:
Send me an email at jbookman@ajc.com with a link to a favorite Youtube video, plus two or three paragraphs explaining why you chose it. Maybe you just love the song or artist; maybe it means something to you personally. Whatever the story, send it along and I’ll post it to kick off next week’s music. If we get enough interest, we can do it once or twice a month.
And now, as promised, Marc Broussard:
– Jay Bookman
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They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:27 pm
ta da
josef
May 18th, 2012
4:28 pm
Whoop–dere it iz…FNM and about time….good choice…
And, hey, I REALLY like that idea,,,have to give it some thought, though, are we limited to just one? It depends on what it is I’m contemplating…
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
May 18th, 2012
4:29 pm
Shelter from the Storm of hate coming from this Cons this summer?
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:31 pm
Jay: are you seriously proposing democracy in FNM? I feel faint!
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
May 18th, 2012
4:31 pm
Man, I gotta choose a favorite Zamfir tune or Slim Whitman song? Arrrgh
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
Finn
Take it downstairs………….. Please
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:33 pm
I’m for an all-night Slim Whitman sing-a-long!
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Bruno: Hopefully you are here tonight. I will probably be gone, but noticed last night that you played a Harold Melvin and Blue Notes (Teddy P) tune
Great selection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKVKKneqdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNUDZT7Z2E
TP was a smooth criminal
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Or is that whistle-a-long?
Jay
May 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Democracy in the sense it’s practiced in say, Iran, Sooth.
You know, the kind in which the Imam — that would be me — decides who will run and who will not?
josef
May 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Home???
The first one to come to mind…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVoCaqX4SM
Oscar
May 18th, 2012
4:34 pm
Hey, it’’s Friday again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XRNQ2C2×0&feature=related
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:35 pm
Oh! Now I get it!
Jay
May 18th, 2012
4:36 pm
Sooth, if we play Slim Whitman, Barack Obama’s head will explode. Because as we all know, he’s not FROM here ….
Rightwing Troll
May 18th, 2012
4:39 pm
Jack Nicholson deserved what he got for trying to appease them…
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:39 pm
“Wake up Everybody”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HhV3Slqtvw&feature=related
“Satisfaction Guaranteed”: Baddest Harold Melvin song ever with Teddy P being Teddy P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zAik9LNnqU
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:41 pm
josef
Nice CK
back at you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2nvApLSFho&feature=related
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:41 pm
What do ya bet Redneck Convert shows up telling us to quit bad-mouthin’ Slim Whitman?
Matti
May 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
Another version of going home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6KMRDGfU8
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
jonix, you and I oscillate to that same frequency – the frequency of Carole King cool.
The same choice I would have made…
And check out our benevolent dictator! I love the idea, Jay!
Please come home
I can hear them calling
Please come home
Please don’t leave us all alone
Your mama and your papa are crying all alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pblpe2PcFUM
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
4:46 pm
The BOTH: Great HMBN song — Wake Up Everybody! One of my very favorites!
josef
May 18th, 2012
4:47 pm
RIP
Donald “Duck”
Thanks for many a Memphis memory….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHq4laFwAEM
Mr_B
May 18th, 2012
4:48 pm
“Because as we all know, he’s not FROM here ‘
Yeah , I always thought there was somthin’ strange about Slim……
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOEQTJV_3-w
josef
May 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
BOTH
Thanks for the CK….
ZamVet
Not sure how many copies of Tapestry I’ve worn out!
Atlanta Mom
May 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmtmgxk2J1g
Home–wherever I’m with you
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVzyoMVjWA&feature=relmfu
Sunday morning when we go down to church
See the menfolk standin’ in line
I said they come to pray to the Lord
With my little girl, looks so fine
In the evening when the sun is sinkin’ low
Everybody’s with the one they love
I walk the town, Keep a-searchin’ all around
Lookin’ for my street corner girl
josef
May 18th, 2012
4:58 pm
For Brother Barack…
Thanks for being a Profile in Courage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0xoMhCT-7A
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydzF8Zk8dno
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 18th, 2012
5:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NZQIz8tzhw
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqKdZ3JZ2k&feature=related
SOUTHERN ATL
May 18th, 2012
5:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kH_EZF0XqM&feature=related
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 18th, 2012
5:12 pm
Well, I don’t see why people are throwing off on Slim Whitman. All the ads said he was No. 1 in the country at one time. Course, they didn’t tell us the country was England.
Home. Sometimes you leave it and spend your life trying to get back. And you never make it back or maybe it wasn’t there the way you recall it to begin with. Anyhow, this one here is a favorite of mine. Have a good weekend everybody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGdEMstkBA
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
5:13 pm
Let me hear what those speakers have got!
Tom Middleton
May 18th, 2012
5:14 pm
Thanks, Kam @ 5:04. I didn’t know Bryan was still out there making it happen, He’s one of the all-time great autoharp players, maybe the best ever!
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:18 pm
Sooth
hell yeah
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxJFjO4Skgo&feature=related
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
5:19 pm
BOTH @4:34, that first Pendergrass piece is so fine. it is just impossible not to feel good listening to that one…
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:19 pm
St Simon’s, Na ne ha…
A little Native American spiritualism for ya from Unmentionable of a Friday Night….and CARLOS, for you, too,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQBR8YrQIe4&feature=relmfu
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:20 pm
Jam
Glad you like. TP could do it for sure
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
5:21 pm
Stevie Winwood’s voice always reminded me of this guy.
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfYkhQblYjY&feature=related
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
5:22 pm
Oh! I almost forgot: Donald “Duck” is on the 5:21.
Normal Free...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
5:24 pm
It’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmAmJFUvzM
pogo
May 18th, 2012
5:24 pm
Then by all means Jay @4:36, play Slim Whitman for the next 24 hours. Of course with Obama’s narcisistically enlarged head it would take more than Slim to explode it. Darn. Obama was OK with being labeled as being born in Kenya until 2007 wasn’t he? What changed then?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 18th, 2012
5:24 pm
Hiya, Tom
I remember back in the late 70s when WREK would play a song of his called “This Age We Live In”, but I have yet to see it on youtube.
Back when I started looking for his stuff, there was only one or two vids and now there are maybe a couple dozen.
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:24 pm
BOTH
“Simple Gifts…” one of my life’s credos…thanks,,,
and Rod the Mod? Been there, seen it, done it, bought the t-shirt!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD_6KqP7K0g&feature=related
Normal Free...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
5:28 pm
Josef,
2012 and it’s ….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcG47CpsU6c
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
5:28 pm
The awesome Dan Fogelberg had numerous “going home” themed songs.
He was born in the Land of Lincoln, so it’s little wonder this one is so damn fine…
South California, your sun is too cold
It looks like your hills have been raped of their gold
I should have come out when I was first told
This lamb has got to return to the fold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u05eH6cYRSI
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:28 pm
josef
Maggie May……. what an fn tune
Jay
May 18th, 2012
5:30 pm
Really Pogo?
That’s both sad and funny.
pogo
May 18th, 2012
5:31 pm
Elizabeth Warren, the liar that just keeps on giving.
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBFCfGLVnlI
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:32 pm
pogo
DOWNSTAIRS…………….
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:33 pm
BOTH
Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose…yow-zuh and back atcha..
..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i99FQsRbRMY&feature=related
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
5:34 pm
This one has truly special memories for me. Courtesy of some extraordinary friends.
Please, celebrate me home
Play me one more song that I’ll always remember
That I can recall whenever I find myself too all alone
I can make believe I’ve never gone
Let me, let me know where I belong
Sing me home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmaKSpTIJzI
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:34 pm
ooops
The beer’s obviously kicking in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i99FQsRbRMY&feature=related
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:36 pm
Jam
Cool Fogelberg
back at you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsocZrEcp0Y&feature=related
Normal Free...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
5:37 pm
Normal the storm-al..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPt7NnhwvA
Tom Middleton
May 18th, 2012
5:38 pm
Kam
Yeah, and I remember Bryan doing “Black Jack Davy” that I wore out the grooves on, and his rendition of “Dixie” was so good that I almost started liking the damn song! LOL
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:39 pm
Lets get so full or soul that we can’t stand it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmZ03Q7AoaU
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:39 pm
“full of soul…………….”
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:39 pm
POGO
For Elizabeth Warren…one drop is all it takes..
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veE3BJ9jJhU
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
5:40 pm
Jamman: always loved that KL song. Always reminds me of a freezing cold night for some reason.
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw&feature=related
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqUEh4uMvek
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
5:44 pm
Nothing says home like ABB. Used to put this one in the old cassette player when I headed home from college for the w/e. Sometimes I just well up when I hear the opening.
http://youtu.be/22MRGWnPPIU
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYvaobyNYbE&feature=related
paulo977
May 18th, 2012
5:45 pm
Just remembering!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlZuk5N2co&feature=related
Normal Free...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
5:45 pm
quick silver messenger service, maiden of the cancer moon…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRuhBK74YGU
josef
May 18th, 2012
5:47 pm
TOM
Whatcha got against “Dixie…” If HE said it’s okay, it’s okay. Okay?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnM2IVnGPI
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:49 pm
godless
ABB is always a winner………. anytime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC5s3nzVzo
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 18th, 2012
5:49 pm
Tom
I wish I had bought Home, Home on the Road when it first came out as it is only available as a download or CD-R manufactured on demand from Amazon.
Since I finally got an MP3 player, I’m seriously considering doing the download thing.
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFSm6×2fIZI
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
5:49 pm
For josef
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
5:56 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6svFLIUKB-M&feature=related
SRV: saw him in San Diego, two months before he was taken too soon from this world
A master at his craft without a doubt
wet wiccan
May 18th, 2012
5:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=LFpfureaCVs
Tom Middleton
May 18th, 2012
5:59 pm
Kam
If Amazon, download is cheaper by half. I just hate using my card online. Later, friend…
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:00 pm
Rock the Nation…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loaxDYWPZ54
Bruno
May 18th, 2012
6:01 pm
For anyone looking for a little pick-me-up tune, here’s a lesser known offering from the Climax Blues Band. Dedicated to the Blog Brotherhood, Bros Normal, Brosephus, JamVet, Mick, Hillbilly Deluxe and josef:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1LPzfHT7o
josef
May 18th, 2012
6:01 pm
SOOTH
@ 5:48
That was a great vid…
Unmentionable was passing by as it was playing. He didn’t know it was sent to me. He smiled and said, “remember THAT night!”
Thanks for the memories…
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:02 pm
heathen, sweeeet….
paulo, special memories for this Wichita born kid.
Roy Rogers singing the state song of Kansas.
Too bad I can’t show everyone here the photo of me dressed up as a cow singing “I’m a Sunflower from the Sunflower State” with all of my first grade classmates!
Kansas is the Kansa word for “people of the south wind”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZz5TaNDrOU
paulo977
May 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
josef
————————————
Thank you for Dixie ….Home is home!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmI-PfF-8k
Oscar
May 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
Someone mentioned ABB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WGVW7byRCA
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:04 pm
Here’s another good Going Home set – kinda long but HQ video, audio, and talent. 2nd part is about good manners.
http://youtu.be/k3tS7ihFiyg
Soothsayer
May 18th, 2012
6:06 pm
On a more somber note.
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
6:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2xRYw3DmRY&feature=related
josef
May 18th, 2012
6:06 pm
Going home??? Well, it is FNM and we all know deep down inside, this is us…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP1ROEe6sSk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL80ABDF52A04626AB
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:07 pm
wiccan, you stealth monster, you. Blowing the doors off of the evening with the inimitable Alvin Lee!
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:09 pm
Bro Normal, back in the day, guess who was one of the cooler cats around, and who was one of the first to have that Montrose album? (grin)
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:10 pm
Another “going home” song…not as good as Josef’s though…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6K8wfyzAJQ
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:11 pm
and I was born in the backseat of a Greyhound bus rollin down Highway 41.
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:11 pm
Jam,
I figured you’d like that one…
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
6:12 pm
Jam
Great Kansas tune. Not sure if Steve Walsh still lives on Lake Spivey in Jonesboro, but a buddy of mine used to own a landscaping company and they did his yard.
This was in the 80s. He said Walsh was a nice guy and loved to party……… too much
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:12 pm
Godless,
At least you weren’t born on Highway 41 with the bus coming…
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
6:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUzvqxzNQrQ&feature=related
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
6:19 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqz876VkwwY
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:19 pm
BOTH, ironic that they became an Atlanta based band, huh? Without giving away any details, my girlfriend and I became pool hang out buddies with one of the guys in the band through his wild ass wife.
They kicked some serious musical butt and as a native born Jayhawker, I was damn proud of them…
B, niiice deep cut from CBB.
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:20 pm
Here’s one for my 2nd home town. Teaser / warning. When the Williettes start dancing at 1:29, it ain’t safe for work.
http://youtu.be/cqJ-mCpoJ9c
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:21 pm
Almost…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yb00UmUqLI
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:22 pm
heathen and Normal, when I first moved to Georgia in 1979, I used to go up to Cartersville and thereabouts on business. And back then, if you were already in Marietta, it was just as easy to go up Highway 41, and I always thought about that song every time I made that drive…
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:25 pm
Time for the high water mark…and I gotta go flip a few burgers…grand kids are hungry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKbk_dQ8Mhg
They BOTH suck
May 18th, 2012
6:25 pm
To all the JB regulars, semi-regulars and drive bys have a safe and enjoyable weekend…….
I’m out
Peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgukXPbGS1I&feature=related
“Get up OFFA that thing”
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
6:26 pm
Jam there was a time before I75 that 41 was the main highway north and south. It was a good bikers road too.
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:30 pm
Jam,
It wasn’t long before then that you had to take 41 up through there. Seems they were forever getting I-75 open all the way. I met The Big Chicken going on trips with my parents that way. You could get some fine chenille bedspreads and velvet Elvis’s up on 41.
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:32 pm
One of my favs there, Normal. GG&HT is an all-time southern rock classic. I love the bass riff that carries all the way through the song.
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:34 pm
Normal, heathen and all Outlaws fans,
Right from the beginning, I knew that song had nothing to do with weed. But I was never quite sure exactly what that famous line in the song meant until I read it years later…
‘As kings and queens bow and play for you.’ – It’s about Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
Two searing guitar solos and a song that simply demands to be played LOUD!
Jay
May 18th, 2012
6:34 pm
And to think, Godless, that young lady in the blue top is now someone’s granny.
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
6:37 pm
Jam: Got it cranked to 11.
Jay: LOL! I sure hope so
Rightwing Troll
May 18th, 2012
6:43 pm
Well Jm,
We don’t agree on much, but good call on Facebook…
The emperor has no clothes… now look for all the fashionistas to realize this and run for the doors…
josef
May 18th, 2012
6:52 pm
PAULO
Back atcha…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQu0sFykbw&feature=related
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
6:57 pm
Non-musical news…
The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year’s Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff.
f one or both of the league champions are selected to play in the playoff, another team would be selected for the Big 12-SEC bowl showdown on Jan. 1.
josef
May 18th, 2012
7:20 pm
and mama said….just south of the Mason Dixon Line…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGDmZw-liFg
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
May 18th, 2012
7:24 pm
“I Won’t Let Go”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af8mB9ABuJA
wet wiccan
May 18th, 2012
7:35 pm
Paulo –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGIds7cSf3U
kayaker 71
May 18th, 2012
7:35 pm
Still miss the lady in the orange shorts.
josef
May 18th, 2012
7:39 pm
What’s happened to music?
You want lyrics? You want harmonies? You want soul wrenching angst? You want music as it oughta be…just maupo…but, best to come out in years…and over 14,000,000 seem to agree…
Ever been there…?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM213aMKTHg&ob=av2e
josef
May 18th, 2012
7:41 pm
kayaker
@ 7:35
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
7:46 pm
Kayaker, Did you see the Williette in the blue top?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
May 18th, 2012
7:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wawp5NNKOi0
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
7:56 pm
For brother getalife and all the heavy rockin’ bad boys and girls…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlNo1NjAEQ
wet wiccan
May 18th, 2012
8:39 pm
Josef
Are you ready for your high school reunion? Remember this one from 1971?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwzdVHTNpXs&feature=fvwrel
Mick
May 18th, 2012
8:49 pm
jamvet
I think jack black peaked in the movie school of rock, I thought it even better than almost famous. Here’s a great unknown song by one of the greatest rock voices ever-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWwGV0sdOr0
godless heathen
May 18th, 2012
8:49 pm
Ewww, Jam. I never could do the scream bands like AC/DC, Guns & Roses, Hagar. Except for this one.
http://youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
8:54 pm
Saw this artist when listening to Mick’s offer. Back in 69, when I was re-couping from wounds received in San Diego, there was a little strip joint on Main Street. I think Segar wrote this song for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5WXmG4uH2A
josef
May 18th, 2012
8:58 pm
wiccan
A great year for music, wasn’t it?
Our class song….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfAik7wP8U
josef
May 18th, 2012
9:05 pm
wiccan
Our yearbook theme…
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVhB0jGP7I
Hard to believe looking through it that that was me! Oh, welll…those were the days, my friend…
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 18th, 2012
9:05 pm
time to take a flight on that Steel Monarch…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hERcrFD2GA&feature=related
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
9:12 pm
wiccan, what a fantastic performance!
Mick, another great soundtrack…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswQl-hcvU0&ob=av2e
Finn McCool
May 18th, 2012
9:13 pm
I just new “Imam” was short for “Bookman”….
paulo977
May 18th, 2012
9:13 pm
Josef @6:52 pm
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and from Down Under…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je4iHVfNjAc
Finn McCool
May 18th, 2012
9:19 pm
Jam, have you seen “Amazing Journey” yet? It goes into detail as to how the Who was realy five guys on lead – lead bass, lead drums, lead vocals, and lead guitar. The whole segment on how Entwistle impacted bass playing is just sublime as is the segment on how Moon’s drumming is totally different from everyone else’s.
I always liked the Who but this documentary exploded my interest – it really shows what is going on in the music. One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
Mick
May 18th, 2012
9:21 pm
josef
Thanks for all you do for this great country!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esp_hOlFqiM
Mick
May 18th, 2012
9:22 pm
jamvet
Gotta go out for a bit, I’ll be back…keep it rockin!!!
Finn McCool
May 18th, 2012
9:22 pm
and i’ve seen alot of friggin documentaries.
Remember those little documetnary shorts they used to show us in school? Each was a little “this is how you should be/live/work” segment? All were filmed by government and most appeared to be from the military.
I used to love those things – they were kinda creepy in a Tim Burton kind of way.
Finn McCool
May 18th, 2012
9:23 pm
Ok, I gotta get in some WOW instance running. Ya’ll be cool.
paulo977
May 18th, 2012
9:26 pm
wet wiccan
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Elton…what a voice
Can’t forget the voice and this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0_rb3bmYIs&feature=fvwrel
josef
May 18th, 2012
9:37 pm
MICK
Must admit, I does get a little sentimental about the l’il buggers this time of year…of course a bit of a break won’t do them or me any harm!
wet wiccan
May 18th, 2012
10:02 pm
Jamvet
Here’s a Kansas girl who has done pretty good for herself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0HCOS4nbzU
JamVet
May 18th, 2012
10:10 pm
Finn, I must see that film.
Mick, really fine choice with Teacher.
I’m really feeling the high school mojo this month. Maybe because I just watched American Graffiti . And forty years ago I was getting ready to leave home and start my own voyage.
And tomorrow evening I’m going to a graduation pool party for a young lady I’ve known since she was born.
The spiral moves on…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rls8cfomkBQ
St Simons - he-ne-ha
May 18th, 2012
10:43 pm
josef, thank you, this one was always my fav by her (early 70’s)
its not what you think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thoSWryEhls&feature=relmfu
St Simons - he-ne-ha
May 18th, 2012
10:52 pm
i’m still bummin about donna summer – here’s her good good friend
and one of our local heroes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SdoclYTS_0&feature=related
Jm
May 18th, 2012
11:25 pm
Rw troll
All about value, moats, and markets….
I have no idea what facebook will do in the short run
But the moat is shallow and the PE is high
St Simons - he-ne-ha
May 18th, 2012
11:41 pm
and the best native song evahhhhh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0drevGOgA&feature=related
Jm
May 19th, 2012
4:05 am
Private sector rocket launch time baby
Rightwing Troll
May 19th, 2012
8:03 am
32 years ago today I awoke and stepped out on my back porch to watch Mt St Helens erupting. It was awe inspiring to say the least. I climbed up on our roof and just sat and watched for hours. It went on for days and within a day we were covered in a layer of ash an inch thick, very surreal. It was Oct of that year we moved down here to the ATL… the change in culture from there to here, too was very surreal… Now I have a love hate relationship with GA and ATL , but I’m stuck here for the interim due to an ex-wife and two children whom I refuse to leave behind… The politics here don’t bother me as much as the city does, to be honest the two places I’d like to move most are as conservative or even more conservative than GA… Sarasota FLA or Wichita KA… Oh well ya’ll are stuck with for the next 7 years at least…
Rightwing Troll
May 19th, 2012
8:17 am
Jm,
FB was all about hype, they have no real revenue stream and the only way to achieve such is to do things that will drive users away, throw in questionable items like paying a billion for Instagram, and a fickle user base always on the hunt for the next cool thing, and it’s just not a good long term picture. You’d think after the last 10 years investors would be wiser than to get all geeked out about an offering like this.
stands for decibels
May 19th, 2012
8:25 am
Wasn’t able to hang wit y’all yesterday, and can’t contribute much this morning, but…
For Brother Barack…
Thanks for being a Profile in Courage…
Josef, from one cynical b@st@rd to another, I gotta say I likee. both your words, and the wonderful world music.
stands for decibels
May 19th, 2012
8:27 am
I haven’t seen all the links, but I bet nobody posted this, from the Fab Four, about their home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEyJ2EEvRBU
JamVet
May 19th, 2012
8:59 am
Rightwing Troll,
You’re a good dad for staying to be near your kids.
Wichita, huh? I was born there but haven’t been back since 1971. Though I would love to see the tiny town of Perth that I grew up in. So many memories of innocence and childhood. Perhaps it’s best to leave them there in that two room schoolhouse, those dirt roads and wheat fields.
Forty years ago this month, at the age of 17, I enlisted in the US Air Force. I spent the summer in Denver, awaiting boot camp in October. What a crazy, wonderful time to be coming of age.
One of the many fantastic songs from that summer…
The things you think are precious
I can’t understand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bwHK1xkgJA
Mick
May 19th, 2012
9:09 am
jamvet
Going to wichita next month or more exactly douglass to visit and old buddy from the service. He’s got a 40 acre spread and is a test pilot for cessna. Never been, looking forward to the trip.
rightwing troll
Sarasota is a pretty nice place, I give it a thumbs up…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfO738Ok5Y
Normal Free, Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
May 19th, 2012
9:12 am
Good morning my fellow Conservative and Liberal music lovers, and a happy Saturday to all y’all…
My Saturday standard…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0-a4zlwNM
Fred ™
May 19th, 2012
9:33 am
Mick: Make sure he takes you to eskimo joes in Stillwater. Depending on which side of Tusla he’s on, it’s just a short drive away.
Get the world famous cheese fries (I ate mine with chili too).
http://www.eskimojoes.com/
Mick
May 19th, 2012
9:35 am
Saturday, yeah let’s go-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziSLGVQOSg&feature=related
JamVet
May 19th, 2012
9:39 am
Mick, you may already know that little old Wichita is the Air Capital of the World.
Stearman, Cessna, Mooney and Beech were all founded in Wichita in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The city experienced a population explosion during World War II when it became a major manufacturing center for airplanes needed in the war effort. By 1945, an average of 4.2 bombers were being produced daily in Wichita.
Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft remain based in Wichita today, along with Learjet and Spirit AeroSystems.
Throw is a bunch of Airbus folks and that gargantuan Boeing facility at McConnell AFB, and there you have it.
One other nod to Kansas aviation – one of my great heroes, Amelia Earhart, is from Atchison.
From that not quite endless summer. And one of the greatest pop songs of its day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4
Fred ™
May 19th, 2012
10:05 am
LOL Mick, don’t ask me how I got Tulsa out of Wichita……… I guess because I have family all over that area I get it all mixed up.
If you see my sister in Wichita, kick her in the ass for me.
Fred ™
May 19th, 2012
10:07 am
Jam: My BIL works (or worked, he may have retired) for Beechcraft.
carlosgvv
May 19th, 2012
10:21 am
I spent some time in east Tennessee last week. Much to my suprise, and delight, there were NO lawyer commercials on TV. Does anyone know why accident lawyers don’t advertise in Tennessee?
Rightwing Troll
May 19th, 2012
10:32 am
My dad’s family is from Tulsa.. poorer than dirt… but happy and long living. We used to go visit and I’d sit and count train cars on the tracks as they went by… Love me some Coney Island hot dogs from the place downtown.
Boeing has sold off a bunch of their stuff to another company that they now outsource to. My family grew up a stone’s throw from the Boeing plant and the AFB, McConnell I believe it is… we moved to Mulvane, just south of Derby, for a couple years, a town so small at the time, the grain elevator was probably larger than the entire downtown area, it’s not much bigger now. Joyland finally closed down…
carlosgvv
May 19th, 2012
10:39 am
josef
I wasn’t able to post this week so I’ll have to put the t*rd in the punch bowl now.
Jay, I’m so glad you’re enjoying tunes from the tombs. Wow, grateful to be alive while drinking beer in a graveyard. Gosh! Gee! Boy! Wow!!! Maybe next week you can arrange a party in a funeral home. And you think I’m a little strange??????????????
Mick
May 19th, 2012
10:43 am
jamvet
Thanks for the mini history lesson, I knew none of that! A new perspective and appreciation, I’ll be taking it all in-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDjRFTIhxnA
paulo977
May 19th, 2012
11:06 am
wet wiccan re:1971
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and who can forget this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yU7Gd1-HRU&feature=related
JamVet
May 19th, 2012
11:23 am
He’s from Raymond, Mississippi and died in Chicago, but you gotta love the name, Kansas Joe McCoy.
Along with another way cool name, Memphis Minnie, he penned this monster, covered to perfection by an obscure little English band.
And covered here again, by four smokin’ hot ladies…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug&feature=related