To our traveling companions on the highway of life
I lost a close, longtime friend last fall, and this week some of us who knew the man best are gathering from around the country for the first time since he left us so suddenly. We’ve told stories, laughed a lot and handled a few moments of sadness. It’s all good, as they say.
The experience brought this cut to mind, recorded by friends of George Harrison a year after his passing. The guitarist looking uncannily like a young George is his son Dhani, who at the time of the video was probably around 24. All things must pass.
– Jay Bookman
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kayaker 71
March 8th, 2013
8:09 pm
Interesting side note to Clapton’s guitars……. in a recent auction of famous guitars, Clapton had 4 of the top ten, the most expensive, a Fender stratocaster, brought close to 900K. I might ask all of you music buffs out there….. what was the guitar that brought the most money and who was the original owner?
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
8:11 pm
Gospel. Did someone say gospel?
http://youtu.be/68SeZX2og_I
EC will be on Letterman again this week. She’s taking members of the Georgia Southern Marching Band to NYC with her. Should be interesting.
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:12 pm
FROG
One of the most beautiful pieces of poetry in the English language to me. I’m telling my age here, but one of the stations in Jackson signed off (remember THAT) with High Flight…
And I”VE danced with a Cherokee, too. Still do on occasion, sometimes even standing up!
Normal, plain and simple...
March 8th, 2013
8:15 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GCSWEgZT94
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
8:16 pm
Sooth:
One of my favorites
+1
td
March 8th, 2013
8:17 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9Y1Dq_cQ
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:18 pm
HEATHEN
Before I forget…thanks for turning me on to her….
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:22 pm
Speaking of passing to the great beyond, gospel and Cherokee’s…wouldn’t mind having this one played/sung at my farewell party…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJXfGHYnbE
Soothsayer
March 8th, 2013
8:23 pm
Ol’ Sooth’s had an exceedingly tough week. But I wanted to leave you with this humble Gospel song. I posted it the other night but I think everyone had already left. So, here it is again. Enjoy if you got ‘em. Goodnight and sleep well.
getalife
March 8th, 2013
8:25 pm
Both,
Tool is one of my favorites to Jam on Pandora.
Their stock is cheap and they are installing it in new cars.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
8:25 pm
This lovely young lady can’t sing either.
http://youtu.be/Wp8Vjz4p-j0
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
8:27 pm
josef
I’ve enjoyed it many nights at signoff…but a Cherokee brought
it to life…
http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_90180
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
8:29 pm
Normal,
You are the god of hell fire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3qo0JXk_RE
getalife
March 8th, 2013
8:30 pm
kay,
“1) Reach out to Asia Fender Stratocaster:
Sold for $2.7 million
In 2005, this guitar was sold in an auction in Qatar to raise funds for Reach Out to Asia, a charity formed to help tsunami victims. The instrument is signed by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus and Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard and Bryan Adams .”
I thought it was Jimi Hendrix guitar but it was second.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
8:32 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7fV-wB2z8
Fred ™
March 8th, 2013
8:34 pm
How funny josef, when you mentioned a gospel song you liked I was thinking of I’ll fly away. Here is a good medley……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDqTENtNvKQ
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:34 pm
Heathen
@ 8:25
They’re the real deal…my Pandora gospel station plays them…
FROG
Yeah, I figured that was the Cherokee you were talking about…
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
8:35 pm
After you, Kam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
8:36 pm
josef 8:22
my mom’s chosen exit song..I’ve listened to her sing
it hundreds of times in church…another of her favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJUpl7JjOU
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
8:37 pm
Sold for $2.7 million
I wonder what Trigger would bring.
http://iconicaxes.blogspot.com/2012/09/willie-nelsons-1969-martin-n-20-trigger.html
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:39 pm
moonbat
Are you saying Normal is a stranger whose car you went riding in… -)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f593X6rv8
or was this him…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_9hfHvQSNo
Inquiring minds want to know…
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:44 pm
FROG
One of my Mama’s and one I wouldn’t mind having played at my exit…gospel? Some might say no, but I agree with Mama, the pure gospel…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzxqzHueqdg
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
8:47 pm
As a gift for a friend of mine, I bought this niiice classic Fender baseball cap a few years back, but I think it was a tad less than 2.7mil… Wow.
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
8:47 pm
josef: Is it ironic or just weird that the gh is such a gospel music fan? I suppose it’s a connection to my young days and the country folks, like it was back then.
http://youtu.be/iQoTH6LQpak
Fred ™
March 8th, 2013
8:48 pm
One last one for you josef, you gospel loving MOT lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D8YEgANLow
Fred ™
March 8th, 2013
8:52 pm
gh: I’ve seen trigger up close. Maybe 4 feet away at the tabernacle. Willie is so awesome. Until I saw that concert I never realized that his keyboard player is his sister. I forget her name, he just called her sister………. And with this I go to bed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpGEAwH1k0
josef
March 8th, 2013
8:57 pm
FRED
One of my favorites…I like the idea of shaking Jesus’ hand…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6MINS2JE0U
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
9:02 pm
Until I saw that concert I never realized that his keyboard player is his sister. I forget her name, he just called her sister………
Bobbie. 82 and going strong on the tours today.
Matti
March 8th, 2013
9:09 pm
josef,
Thanks for the Jimi footage! Awesome! Also, thanks for the image of you in 1968-ish. Haha! We should all post something that looks like we used to look “back in the day.” You know, when we rode the highways of life with our traveling companions.
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:12 pm
josef 8:39,
I guess the 2nd one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csONW-zWFqs
josef
March 8th, 2013
9:13 pm
FRED
“josef, you gospel loving MOT…”
We’ve got ours, too,…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMH9vV_45yM
josef
March 8th, 2013
9:20 pm
HEATHEN
It’s hard to explain, and I don’t bother with trying, but it just speaks to something in me…
Moonbat
Heh, heh!
MATTI
When the subject of the new blog format came up, I figured we were supposed to follow Big Daddy’s example…so I went looking through the old pictures…and, well, no matter what we thought, they did
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVdOQvx379Y
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:24 pm
The morning after…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56k6QCjJnc
Matti
March 8th, 2013
9:26 pm
josef,
That song was part of my childhood, at my Daddy’s knee while he strummed the guitar and we sang it with everything we had. I know now what it meant to him then….
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:28 pm
“We should all post something that looks like we used to look “back in the day.” You know, when we rode the highways of life with our traveling companions.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ITv4OBV9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ITv4OBV9c
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
9:29 pm
Matti
did you check the corner on your video ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_4lVgHpm8&list=PLk6sFoNnb27zqZ22H6U2eI3QL_r-79_iR
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
9:34 pm
EC doing some old church lady hand clapping and Tim Carroll with some righteous guitar licks,
http://youtu.be/CuBmi9mjTw4
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
9:34 pm
…a connection to my young days and the country folks…
Me too.
Jewish reggae…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChV5BZ8SmS0
Matti
March 8th, 2013
9:34 pm
moonbat betty,
WHOA…. powerful. I’ll spare y’all what I’m feeling after watching that one!
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
9:38 pm
We should all post something that looks like we used to look “back in the day.” You know, when we rode the highways of life with our traveling companions.”
OK
http://youtu.be/ei2PVpSKkF4
josef
March 8th, 2013
9:38 pm
moonbat
I love that video…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
9:39 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYqIvnPvqQ
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
9:40 pm
josef my 9:29 was on the video you posted for Matti
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
9:41 pm
A Judy Collins lament about the rodeo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jn90y9H9S4
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:45 pm
git down, Kam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NV_K4o4f_Q
josef
March 8th, 2013
9:45 pm
There I am at :45…a few years back…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDCX_UjIbo&feature=related
Jm
March 8th, 2013
9:47 pm
I’ve been waiting to post this for you music junkies
If you are one, you’ll probably find this fascinating
http://www.pbs.org/soundtracks/
Watch the video at the website
Matti
March 8th, 2013
9:47 pm
frog,
Okay, I was always the roommate who’d catch the frogs & lizards and chase the roomies around with them. “KISS him!” But that was just… a bit farther than I ever went with them. Eww.
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:52 pm
I was trying to figure out where this one was recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE
josef
March 8th, 2013
9:52 pm
FROG
That was hilarious….
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
9:53 pm
a young barking frog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfAraUEgDJk
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
9:58 pm
Here’s a good dance tune for you Kammy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WZ-Ba-gps
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
10:03 pm
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
9:29 pm
LOL. FNM is off the hook tonight.
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
10:05 pm
frog at 9:53, I never pictured you looking like a mannquin.
This is cuter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuXjNuKV_RY
Matti
March 8th, 2013
10:06 pm
frog,
Oh, yeah… RP was totally hot!! That’s what young Matti went for. (Haven’t found an adequate representation of young Matti yet.)
godless heathen - owner of many things he does not need
March 8th, 2013
10:10 pm
All this talk of “last requests” etc. Here’s one:
http://youtu.be/WAbFXffZ7Wc
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
10:10 pm
Too much great stuff to keep up with… and that Palmer vid was killer.
jo, the NO pics were great! As was the music.
josef
March 8th, 2013
10:10 pm
BARKING at the Colonnade
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mpjbXhcFrIA/TAA-OhEFY0I/AAAAAAAAEVI/OmlvbyR0La0/s1600/frog+legs-SamGross.JPG
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
10:18 pm
Very cool, Jm.
One world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtQSX1Xrruk
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
10:18 pm
Matti
my chin was just a bit sharper and hair just a bit darker
but not much of a singer…many years ago…my ma in law
said I looked like Gregory Peck
more like this now with white hair and no sideburns…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xzTw_k9jbs
josef
March 8th, 2013
10:21 pm
ZamVet
One of my folks down there sent that to me…that really is me @ :45…I remember WELL when this was taken, though I never knew the photographer! He was in the crowd, and was standing, uh, rather close at one point. Unmentionable smiled and told him he could take all the pictures he wanted, but that was ALL he was going to get…and then for this to show up in a video all these years later…strange twists and turns life takes, eh?
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
10:22 pm
josef 10:10
look at that lady wanting to get a hold on me….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg-5_KHR-ZE&NR=1&feature=endscreen
josef
March 8th, 2013
10:26 pm
FROG
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
10:27 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
10:31 pm
Dance betty, dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7PLcHnMNKE
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
10:32 pm
josef, love it. Great story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoA5cqDSasM
Jm
March 8th, 2013
10:32 pm
Jamvet 10:18
Yeah I thought so too
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
10:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivFYVAntpw0
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
10:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6EFg5eWWlM
josef
March 8th, 2013
10:40 pm
Y’all keep it going…I gotta run for now…catch up on the tunes in the a.m…great show tonight…
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
10:42 pm
Come on, Kam, jump up on stage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AcdGteG3kc
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
10:46 pm
The Frog 10:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQq72ULF_g
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
10:49 pm
I’m trying to keep Kam jumping around, jo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifoy6_nARUc
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
10:54 pm
moonbat betty 10:46
been there done that and then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uz_aDo0YA
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
11:02 pm
moonbat betty
and then…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OglaGA-UiLc
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
11:05 pm
Dance betty, dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yNS2_-71dQ
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 8th, 2013
11:05 pm
Jump betty, jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5Z1jXms7A
Matti
March 8th, 2013
11:14 pm
Sort of what Mr. Bookman and his friends were doing this week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:16 pm
Ok, Kam, ride that pony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05jcrJw0as
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:18 pm
Matti in high school?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW7VnHnX3LQ
j/k.
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
11:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmgh6pwYSA
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
11:23 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoHZbKnUW4
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
11:23 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81ph3BslqQ
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:32 pm
Kick up your heels! Come one come all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2kFrGluKs
Matti
March 8th, 2013
11:33 pm
moonbat,
Haha! I did “date” Mickey, (heh…) but this was more me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhMxfC9N4tY
barking frog
March 8th, 2013
11:34 pm
from the frog on the blog at the bottom of the AJayC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZm96PKwtHc
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:34 pm
Goodnight Bookmaniacs!
Louisiana Friday (or Sat) Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yljf4Lpj7CI
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:39 pm
lol Matti, or this? (blog guys wishing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELpxApT8Kc
moonbat betty
March 8th, 2013
11:44 pm
Dang frog 11.34.
Thanks. Closing out with the master (fer real this time):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDf9UwHGF4
until next time…
JamVet
March 8th, 2013
11:45 pm
Fantastic FNM, guys and dolls.
Signing off with the Faces…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZEy_kJ8nJU
Jaypat
March 9th, 2013
2:10 am
You managed to maintain your journalistic credibility throughtout this trip though the wonderland of billionaires. Good on you.
southpaw
March 9th, 2013
6:52 am
Jay -
Maybe you can just look forward to saying this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdTo3BuJDz0
(JamVet, it isn’t exactly gospel, but you might still like it)
Another one with the same drummer, before a lot of turnover in the band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQdCPlxP50
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
7:39 am
All this gospel last night reminded me that I haven’t worshiped the Sun for awhile. Been up to watch the Sunrise…all and all, I gotta say…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwhfhncPfM
JamVet
March 9th, 2013
7:47 am
southpaw, not familiar with that band, but I did like it.
Death is part of the deal, not being morbid or maudlin here, just accepting of the inevitable. Where’s the sense in not? I just plan on doing the same things I always have, loving what I have and what time I have left.
From arguably the single greatest album ever made…
(And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do,
I don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCEPytSFqU
Breaking Through: Innovative Solutions to End Violence Against Women
March 9th, 2013
8:00 am
This week in New York, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is convening global delegates for its annual meeting. The priority this year? The prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women. Executive director of U.N. Women Michelle Bachelet has flatly declared: “Enough is enough.”
The world is watching. How are we going to address violence effectively, sustainably, and in a way that preserves freedom and returns stolen dignity to the women and girls of the world?
We need to look outside the box. Far outside. The real solutions lie on the periphery, in creative minds and unusual alliances.
Because when it comes to violence against women, there is no “typical” victim; the risk factor is simply being born female. There is no generation, race, culture, or socioeconomic group whose women and girls are immune to violence in its many forms: domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and harmful traditional practices. One of the most widespread violations of human rights, violence against women will directly impact one in three women living today, according to United Nations estimates.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/08/breaking-through-innovative-solutions-to-end-violence-against-women.html
barking frog
March 9th, 2013
8:07 am
the music of the earth, feng-shui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlWw0Hyb-XU
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
8:10 am
Jam,
Don’t fear the Reaper, right?
When I go, I just want to go naturally, and with dignity….smilin’ while I cross that dark room to the other door.
indigo
March 9th, 2013
8:15 am
Breaking – 8:00
A lot of things, none of them good, are happening in our world.
Global warming is steadly increasing and will get worse and worse in the years to come.
The human population is steadly increasing with no end in sight.
Clean water, something most of us take for granted, will get increasingly scarce in the years to come.
Germs and viruses are becomming increasingly immune to our antibiotics and antiviral drugs.
A combination of all the above means food will become increasingly scarce in the years to come causing mass migrations from country to country. This will cause massive social upheavels in many countries including, possibly, the US.
In light of all this, violence against women will be the least of our worries sooner than we think.
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
8:16 am
Barking,
Navy feng-shui…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoNC52xF4RY
Normal, plain and simple...
March 9th, 2013
8:28 am
Indido,
One thing I have learned in my 66 years is that we, as individuals, can control very little of what is going on in the world, and I refuse to worry about that. I will, and have, quietly done my part to help, small that that may be, but mankind seems to have a short sighted suicidal gene embedded in it’s DNA. I agree that the Dark Ages will be upon us in a 100 years, and the survivors will have to remember or repeat. Where is the Great Spirit when you need him, huh?
And another thought, of all of the seven deadly sins, Greed is the worst. It blinds one to everything else that is happening. There are clues out there. Mother Earth IS warning us, but, as they say, “there are none so blind that will not see”.