Comments on: What I’m thankful for.

By: John C

John C — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:45:40 +0000

One of my favorite brushes with musical fame was just after college 0 mid ’80s. Some friends and I got together at the Tam O’ Shanter in Boston (Brookline, actually) and wound up in an extended drinking session with none other than The Magic Dick! (Unfortunately I must’ve (you know I MUSTA) got lost, ’cause that’s about all I remember.)
Hope everyone had a good turkey day.

By: basset

basset — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:46:37 +0000

I was up in Michigan for the opening of deer season last week, sat in the blind for three days and part of another… didn’t take a shot but I just about got one with the rental car heading out of Big Rapids at night. and a Michigan out-of-state hunting license doesn’t cost a whole lot less than the deductible on the car, either…

related factoid… I do some work for a hunting show on cable tv, the research they use says whitetail deer are by far the most popular topic. because they’re accessible to everyone, I guess.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:38:56 +0000

Note to Dorothy and anyone else in Ohio on Monday, 26 November –

Deer gun season begins at dawn (defined by drowsy fellows in tree-stands, the very definition of subjectivity). Stay away from windows facing woodlots near the morning or evening hours, and the real danger — not kidding — is that all at once, the forests alive with trudging stout yeomen bearing firesticks, the deer that survive this morning’s fusillade will be absolutely and understandably frantic, and they are running every possible direction.

Hundreds of thousands of them, all over Ohio.

No better time to run into a deer at dusk, or midnight, or noontime, than during the week of boom-boom season. They run into coin-op laundries, used bookstores, barns, and office park lagoons. We have for a brief time both too many deer, and too many (newbie) hunters, and they’re everywhere.

You’ve all been warned.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:29:13 +0000

More fires out in SoCal today. We are still having 75 degree weather. This is the first time I haven’t had to light my furnace pilot in November, I might get all the way to December before getting to that, and I am still leaving the windows open (a little) at night. The wood is piled up for the fireplace, but it is too warm for a fire (and now too windy). My neighbor, who likes to have a fire if it drops below 68 isn’t even having one yet.

One of my favorite quotes from “Atomic Cafe”: “…That atomic testing has blowed us clear down to the equator…”

By: michaelj

michaelj — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:31:38 +0000

I’d have to say that as far as live albums are concerned, Kick Out the Jams beats the Who and Silver Bullet. But maybe you had to experience MC5 in person. And Bob Seger in ’67 at the Birmingham Teen Center was the best Bob Seger. Too bad nobody thought to tape that.

If y’all go to South Dakota, just drive up into the Black Hills. Clean streams, wild blackberries, abandoned mines that look as though they’d been populated until yesterday. Stunning.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:07:41 +0000

Thanks for being the house mother to a group of folks who likely will never meet (tho SD is a beautiful place and I’d suggest Sylvan Lake Lodge for the festivities.) Hope everyone had a delicious Thanksgiving.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:11:28 +0000

I mostly agree with the Top 100, I might order the songs differently. I would have substituted “25 Miles” as one of Edwin Starr’s entries, that song is my Motown favorite. I used to go see Jack Scott play in a lounge in Lincoln Park during most of 1969, and “Burning Bridges” should be on the list.

Someone forgot Ray Parker Jr. is a Detroit, ex-Motown sideman and should include something like “Ghostbusters”. We were auditioning guitar players in 1972 and Ray showed up, but our manager talked us out of getting him. Good for Ray, he immediately got a job with Stevie Wonder!

Also, it wasn’t mentioned that Barrett and Nolan Strong were cousins. “Mind Over Matter” should have been near the top of the list. Lastly, “Function at the Junction” by Shorty Long needs to be on the list.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:42:24 +0000

Great story, Ashley. We actually flew yesterday in spite of the doom and gloom of The-Busiest-Travel-Day-of-the-Year! stories. Southwest airlines. Non-stop from Baltimore (my home town) to San Diego. It was fine. Got in to San Diego at 11:15 AM. You all have a great holiday. We're going to this restaurant. Here is the menu.

By: basset

basset — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:55:12 +0000

The best live album in modern history was indeed recorded in Detroit, but it wasn’t “Full House,” although that one was damn close… along with “Live at Leeds” and “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out.”

The best live album in modern history would be… “Live Bullet.”

meanwhile, I am looking right now at a poster from a J. Geils concert at Indiana U. in the fall of ’73, with Mark-Almond and Strawbs supporting… tickets $5, $4, $3, and $2. Hell of a show, too.

By: ashley

ashley — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:41:25 +0000

Thought y’all might enjoy how this smartass with an iphone gets shut down, by an airline captain:

http://www.planebuzz.com/2007/11/we_knew_this_was_going_to_happ.html