Beatles - Alternate Abbey Road

Outtakes of one of my all-time favorite albums.

SRV - July 14, 1990 - Memorial Hall, Columbus, OH

A week from now and it'll be 27 years since we lost a great one.

77 F / 81% F / 10 mph with gusts up to 26

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

^^^ I liked some of "The River." "Nebraska" on the other hand.... ^^^

SRV - Force of Nature, Disc 1 of 4

76 F / 81% RH / 15 mph - no way! AccuWeather is w-a-y off!!

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 3 of 4

SRV - Force of Nature, Disc 4 of 4

SRV - Texas Flood

Where it all began for many of us.

87 F / 45% RH / 17 mph

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. 🙏

RIP SRV

The Sky Is Crying in memorial

A comp of local contemporary, probably spanning 10 years.

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

Highlights taken from Free's "Songs of Yesterday" box set.

Paul Kossoff was such an underappreciated guitarist.

79 F / 84% RH / 5 mph - sticky as anything with little or no breeze

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"

Mynah Birds --- crazy interesting music history ...I had no clue....Rick James and Neil Young....wow.....wild intersections of what would become CSNY, Superfreak, the Band, Steppenwolf, Buffalo Springfield

Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Joe Cocker

The Safecracker

..by The City Champs -->

Smooth Water

...by Pawtuckets -->

Sugar on the Floor (live) -->

I want you ...Tony Joe White -->

Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain -->