Beatles - Alternate Abbey Road

Outtakes of one of my all-time favorite albums.

Inspired by the eclipse....Greetings from Asbury Park NJ...

Still unfnbelieveable after 44 years about about 4400 listens....but, this whole eclipse thing reminded me of my love/hate relationship with Blinded ....Manfredd fn Mann almost drove me to hate that song...but the Bruce version is as good as Mann's is bad.

He might have gone off the deep end round about Nebraska or River, but holy **** that early stuff was (and still is) powerful...visual...visceral..

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The flag of piracy flew from my mast, my sails were set wing to wing
I had a jukebox graduate for first mate, she couldn't sail but she sure could sing

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He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint
Well, that blaze-and-noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point

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I was the pimp's main prophet, I kept everything cool
Just a backstreet gambler with the luck to lose
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But on your bed, Mary, I can see the shadow of a noose
I don't understand how you can hold me so tight and love me so damn loose

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The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes
In Volkswagen vans with full running boards
Dragging great anchors, followin' dead-end signs into the sores
The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore

SRV - Force of Nature, Disc 2 of 4

76 F / 73% RH / 15 mph with gusts up to 16 (...but feels a bit more than that...)

SRV - Force of Nature, Disc 4 of 4

Eric Clapton - August 26, 1990 - Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, WI, Disc 2

The last performance by SRV as he jams on the encore, "Sweet Home Chicago" along with Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan.

Tomorrow marks 27 years since the crash. RIP Stevie Ray.

A comp of local contemporary, probably spanning 10 years.

81 F / 68% RH / 14 mph (...but seems much less than that...)

Jeff Beck with Eric Clapton - Nov. 29, 2007 - Exhaust Note - Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, UK

EC comes on to do "Little Brown Bird" and "You Need Your Love"

Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Joe Cocker

Smooth Water

...by Pawtuckets --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpC1vEBoHb8

I want you ...Tony Joe White --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGwu2L2rm6E

My theme song right here...

Albert Collins - If Trouble Were Money --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6LbWWqX-g

..the KING on that damned Telecaster!

*edit OOPS ..a little buzzed! hahahaa

Let The Rain Come In

William Elliot Whitmore --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liwUG5l9WT8

Suspicious Minds (live)

My Morning Jacket --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpaTtpiTWQ ..great cover.

Gonna close out tonight's show with...

Hat and Cane "Circles Around the Sun" --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWtUN1oKNRI

This is off of their 2CD set "Interludes for the Dead".
Pick it up if you dig that kinda modern psychedelic vibe of days gone by.

Love, peace and joy.

Shalom.

Van Morrison - Nov. 18, 2005 - The Hexagon, Reading, UK

79 F / 64% RH / 7 mph

Buffalo Tom with Eddie Veder doing Tail Lights Fade...and that's Theo Epstein (creator of Hot Stove Cool Music event) in the gray t-shirt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeAZkdcVTVA

John Cougar Mellencamp - March 4, 1988 - Anatole Hotel, Dallas, TX

Great performance and a pretty good FM broadcast.

82 F / 65% RH / 9 mph - spent a good part of the day washing both of our cars and then waxing a bit of mine...then, after I pull my car out to smoke in the garage, it rains...😡

Chris Stapleton - What Are You Listening To (Live Acoustic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhnMSVb0oYA

Nice job!

Paging Dr. Freud....I'd like a ruling, please


I'm not one tenth the genius of Frank, but even I STILL know that Mellencamp pretty much suxks...I acknowledge that taste is subjective...but I don't see this one that way....JohnMellenBryanAdamsCamp was a sad bit of rock history...wish it were just an opinion...but I can't fathom a reasonable alternative argument...maybe if the music wasn't quite as unimaginative as the lyrics, I'd give him a pass...but, once my tongue started bleeding, I had to say something...PinkFnHouses hurt good????? Really?

I will give those a listen.....I'll try to keep an open mind.....tears are highly unlikely, however

#4333-4334 re Mellencamp

I kind of liked John Cougar. Then Mellencamp. But I was listening to Freedom's Road yesterday and heard these lyrics for the 1st time:

"I'm navigating my way down Freedom's Road
Trying to make my way back home
I got my foot to the floor
But she must need bleeding
This car just don't want to roll"

WTF?? You don't have to know a lot about cars to know that there is nothing you can bleed that will make the car go faster. Lost a lot of respect for JM there. Sounds like something Steve Miller would have written.

they're very moving songs.

Never really realized there was so much dislike for JCM. I liked his self-titled album ("John Cougar") but pretty much stopped listening to him after that. Too much Top 40. Fast forward to somewhere around 10 years ago and I bought a used copy of his greatest hits for like $3.00. Forgot he had so many "hits" and kinda, sorta got into it. Maybe not enough to go back and buy his catalog but enough to put him on every once in a great while. I now take his music for what it is, an artist that found commercial success and stuck to the formula. Like Frankie said, there's a ton of stuff out there so lots to go around.

Jane's Addiction...Nothing Shocking....I'd put in Porno for Pyros, but found it mostly irritating....everything's better now

Eric Clapton - Slowhand in the Garden - April 27, 1987 - Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY