Jim Dandy:  I know, so I'll guess last.

Jim Dandy:  Ya'll eh?

awesome:  What is it they say about once a doper always a doper?

Dolittle:  OK, you brought tears to my eyes, and a pain my my heart.  Desparado is the story of my life to date.  It's the one Gary and I worked out when I was in Cali in November. 

Jim Dandy:  Did you like the Hendrix and Stones thing?  I did.  Figure I'm a fan then.  It was kind of like being invited to the party.

Family Man:  You'd think they would sell for something today, wouldn't you?

Stevie Ray had to die on us, but Dallas has a few more tricks up her sleeve.  Eric Johnson is another home boy done good, and this vid will make you a believer.

Jim Dandy:  Awwww, that was sweet.  I'd never seen that, and today was the best day to play it. Thanks.  I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BEAT ME!  I heard that Elvis is Everywhere this morning on my way to work.  I ran straight home this evening, and was going to post it, and bam.....you were here first.  Thanks for giving everyone an advance in spite of my schedule. 

Family Man:  I wonder what those tickets are worth these days?  Have you looked for them on eBay?

Eriisa:  The lyrics are online. illustrated no less  This is a hoot and a half.

Mousetrap:  It was a Saturday.

awesome:  That Robinson video is amazing, great quality.  Man, there were so many things that were different in the 60s, and one was the way people dressed when they entertained.  Another is the dance steps that the back-up singers would do in unison.  That was a great video, thanks.

Jim Dandy:  The tape is pretty muddy.  I don't think I could hear more than a word in 50.  The voice had an Elvis-like sound.  But, Elvis mumbled, so it could be the real thing.  I've heard Elvis-is-still-alive stories almost from the day he died.  I don't know, he used to have to fight for his privacy, maybe he got tired of it, bought a mountain, and got on top of it. 

gogul:  Marvelous stuff you bring us.  Every one of those guys are at the top of their game!  That base was pretty amazing too, I mean the instrument itself.  I'm going to add that video to my favorites.

I was rolling north on Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, somewhere between Walnut Hill, and Royal Lane, going back to the office after lunch.  The car, 1975 orange Honda Civic, with those black and white hounds tooth checked seats.  I was listening to the radio, and at about 1 oçlock, I heard the news.  I found myself in that never land, where everything is strange, and had to pull off the road.  It seemed unreal to me - like he never existed, but he'd always existed.  The rest of that day, I was in total denial.  It had to have been a mistake.

Family Man:  Did you tell everyone at the beach?  Or were they telling you?  That's brutal, losing those tickets as WELL as the King.  

Jim Dandy:  You have to admit that Elvis dying was a big ending for us kids of the 50s/60s.  I got my first Elvis record when I was 10.  It was the first record he ever sold. and it was the first record I ever owned..  That's why we remember so specifically where we were, and what we were doing.  I almost remember what I was wearing!

Thanks for the few minutes with Beck.  He's really a guitarist, isn't he?

Yeah, I heard the pops too.  Kind of unnerving, but lip syncing was the thing back in that day.

gogul:  I liked it too.  I had to watch it again.  I'm going to check the Lone Star web site, and see if they have anything about this break of Scaggs' quietus. 

Jim the Dandiest:  (A) I don't know how you find this stuff, and (B) I had no idea something that great would be on YouTube.  It's obviously pretty old.  Great way to remember Merv Griffin.  I was said to hear he died on the news this morning.

coan.net:  I hadn't heard that on the radio, but I'd heard of the Plain White Ts.  It's a sweet song, do you think you need a pump to get it out of your head?  Or, do you like it there?

Here's one I love, that I used to hear on the radio a lot.  I heard it tonight during an interview with the artist.  I'm not sure if it was an old interview, but they were talking about a new album that, as far as I can see at first blush, hasn't hit the net.  But, I still love the song, "Sierra" by Boz Scaggs.

(he was in that last video as a RockStar), the 16th of August is the 30th anniversary of his last overdose.  I'd like to know where you were when you heard he had died.  If you don't want to tell us you boohooed, that's ok, just tell us the story.  Tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine.

coan.net:  OK, now I gotta figure out if the Wolf is in my head, or if it's just a coincedence.  Today, I went out for brunch, and I heard "I Wanna Be a RockStar for the first time.  I really dug it.  Then, you dragged it in here.  Now I'm really spooked.  Thanks for letting me know what I was listening to.

Jim Dandy:    You're right about Rush.  What else can be said?

Interesting to hear you have returned to heavy metal.  I dismissed it years ago as just so much noise.  Last spring, I started hanging out with a guy 17 years my junior, and after 10 days in a car with him, I became a devotee (or, is that deviate....no devotee, I'm sure of it).  The reason for this transformation was Queensryche - I love their music.  I even bought a CD.  The second reason as this band, Scatterbrain.  I now own all three of their CDs.

Jim Dandy:  Yes, I meant it was easier to watch stonoes if you are one yourself.  Like you, I found performing in an altered state difficult.

Family Man:  You have to be in plain text editor to get the link to embed the video.  Most of us don't embed videos anymore, or we choose to go out to watch the ones that are posted on YouTube itself.  I have heard others say, and it has been my experience as well, that if we watch them from here, there is too much traffic between here and YouTube, and the videos tend to stick. 

Coan.net:  Thanks for the post.  I'd not seen those guys before, but I would like to hear more.  But, ummmmm, I didn't know a banana amplified sound.  That was a pretty neat trick. 

Jim Dandy:  If you've had a little something yourself, it's not so bad.  

Oh wow!  Such a young Elvis!!!  And, that song, I had it on tape, and I played it, and sang that song at the top of my lungs on my way to work every day.  

GREAT stuff, Jim Dandy.  I needed that tonight.  It was definitely good for me, I think the earth moves everytime he opens his mouth.

The Paisley vids are great y'all.  Isn't that William Shatner?  Kind of unearthly, wouldn't you say?

Jim Dandy:  If your friend has been talking about going to the concert, you have probably done the exact right thing.  It might be just what he needs.  This is not an opportunity for self-flagellation.

gogul:  Interesting collage there, gogul.  I actually have heard nena, but not much.  Nina Hagen is an interesting artist, the way she dresses, and makes up her face gives a lot of texture to what she is doing.  In truth, she has a beautiful voice, and a very wide range.  I did enjoy her performance, thank you.

Family Man:  I would be considered a Dead head.  There is a radio station here that plays nothing but the Dead on Friday nights.  I'm always tuned in.  I think it's my age.

Gogul:  Thank you.  I always love it when someone brings us something we haven't seen, or that not all of us have seen.  Tell us something about her.  Re:  Pink Floyd, David Gilmour did Echos in its entirety at the show I saw last year in at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.  I was lucky enough to be there with a true Floydian, he's lead guitar in a PF cover band, or he was.  He has since moved back here to redneck land where he's too depressed to play.  Hahaha!  Have you heard it live?  It will take your heart.

Mousetrap:   I really don't care who knows what.  I haven't done much in my years I'm ashamed of, or regret except for maybe forgetting to floss, and DD surely wasn't anything to be ashamed of.  Not that I "did" anything, I was only 10.  He was 15, and my parents moved me to Pakistan to get me away from him.  Worked too.

But, I was lucky to have lived in Karachi, because I came to love this style of music.

Mousetrap:  No, and they don't make cartoons like that anymore.  THAT's the shame, that they have been replaced with too much reality, violence, and SA children.  When I watch a cartoon, I wanna see funny!! 

When I was a kid, we had what they called "Kiddie Shows" on Saturday mornings.  The theater was filled with kids and they showed a whole bunch of those types of cartoons, along with a feature show geared for kids.  Like they had those hokey space movies, and stuff, but they DID show Moby Dick one Saturday.  Sometimes we got the good movies too..  Hahaha!  Oh!  And, the GREATEST movie I saw at the Kiddy Show was Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender".  You talk about drooling pre-teen girls - the floors were slippery when we left that day.

Honest to goodness, I had a boyfriend at that time whose name was Donald Duck - I'm serious now - and his mother was the swimming teacher at my girl scout camp - serious again!!!!  Here comes the music part.  We made up a verse to Art Mooney's song "Honey Babe" that went like this....follow the bouncing ball...:
                   
                                                         

Swimming teacher's name is Duck, honey, honey
Swimming teacher's name is Duck, babe, babe
Swimming teacher's name is Duck
You go down, she'll pull you up
Honey, oh baby, mine.

OK, enough biography for now, well almost...but I've written lyrics to other songs in my life, like 101 verses to Mario Deboub's "Wine Wine Wine". That's how I got to know him, he walked into a coffee house across from the University we were supposed to be attending, and heard me singing them.  So, he joined in!  Haha!  Loved the guy, truly.

Eriisa:  You know, I think he's one of those people who delights in everything life offers him.  He was not only thoroughly enjoying playing that piece, he was enjoying playing that piece with Stephan, and he was enjoying hearing Stephan play the piece as well.  But, with him, it shows in every fiber of his being.  Do you think it's cultivated, or natural?

srnity:  I'm very sorry to learn about Pat.  I knew she was having some problems, but I didn't know her well enough to know they were life-threatening.  I know she will be missed on this site.

SO, HOW DID YOU PICK ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE ONES?  YOU INTO READING MINDS THESE DAYS.  THE DRUM SOLOS ON THAT ONE ARE ASTOUNDINGLY GOOD.  HAVE YOU BEEN PRACTICING UP ON THAT ONE, JIM THE DANDIEST?  HMMMMM, NOW I HAVE TO BEAT YOU AT YOUR OWN GAME.....HMMMMMMMM

Well, the ice caps ARE melting.  He was proof positive that anyone can make it in the entertainment world, it's all in the presentation.  Hahaha!  Thanks, Jim the Dandiest.

I used to play the uke, before I played the guitar.  You have to start small, don'tchaknow?

You liked it?  I'm now on the hunt for Setzer's albums.  Amazon has them, so now I'm in for another investment.  Hahaha!

Was that your take on sane, then?  Hahaha!

Here's a song I was thinking about this morning, but I was thinking of Glenn Miller, and the swing era.  Interesting the parallels in this to more current musical styles.  Another thing I remember about the swing genre is its use in cartoons in the 50s.  What music!!!  See what you think....

PEnnsylvania 6-5000 - written by Glenn Miller so he could remember the phone number of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City.

Well, not about you, Goat Girl.  From one GG to another, I know the signs when I see them.  But, I don't know about Canadians.  They might actually be sane.  After all, they live up there where it's nice and cool.  We live down here where it's blazing.

Thanks for the Spock's Beard vid, JD.  You also opened my eyes to a new band, and that is always a thrill.

You may have heard of this guy, but I was very happy when I found him too.  He was a member of Cry, Cry, Cry with Lucy Kaplansky and Dar Williams.  I have actually seen Dar Williams live, and she is an excellent song writer and solo performer.  I have never had the opportunity to see this artist.  But, I have bought everything I have found that he wrote and performed.  Have a listen to
Richard Shindell, "The Next Best Western".

Now, on this Barney & Muppets thing.....have you people lost your minds?

You'll do a great job!

Awwww, you're the Dandiest!  That WAS pure, even down to acoustic.  Now, I can go to bed in peace.

Andersp:  Those guys are pretty good.  I didn't appreciate the advertising, though.  I would think maybe a banner at the end would be sufficient.

Jim Dandy:  Same with Zep, have they spent all their money already?  I guess I have to get used to the new world where everything is about money. 

baddessi:  Yes, we have a new co-mod.  Good of you to notice.  I think she'll do a great job, and as she's watching these videos, we can steal her frozen marbles.

Jim Dandy:  That was certainly idyllic.  What a nice, laid back Sunday afternoon that would be.  But, my reality is a little different, you see?  Because back when we did Sunday afternoon drives, mine were more like this.....Fun Fun Fun

You beat me to the punch.  I appreciate that, as I just got home, and I'm already ready to crash!  But, alas, my days are long, and there are things still to do around here.

Jim Dandy:  Man, oh man!  Frank Zappa.  And, also one of my favorite songs, with the line about the pygmy pony and the dental floss bush.  That guy was a bizarre talent, too little appreciated by many, and much appreciated by us weirdos.  Haha!  I take it you're one of "US".

I've been watching the board this week, but I haven't had time to comment.  Please forgive me one and all, as I wind down my mania to return to a more normal life.

SEAWOLF2:  YOU CAN ENLARGE THE VIDS TO FULL SCREEN.  ON THE
BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE YOU TUBE WINDOW THERE IS A LITTLE
BUTTON, IT'S PRETTY HARD TO SEE EVEN FOR ME, BUT IT'S THERE.  I'D SAY
IT'S SAFE TO SAY POSITION THE CURSOR OVER THAT CORNER, AND CLICK.  THE
VIDEO SHOULD THEN TAKE UP THE SCREEN.  TO RETURN TO THE REGULAR SIZED
WINDOW, JUST PRESS ESCAPE.

Another tormented genius who died at the age of  52 on January 1, 1997 after almost a life-time in rehab, Townes Van Zandt appears in this interview about how he wrote If I Needed You, another of my all-time favorites.  He does sing the song in the end.  He didn't tell my favorite story about that song, so I'll tell it.  Emmy Lou Harris, and some guy (can't remember who) recorded that song, and sang the lyric "Who could ill agree she's a sight to see." The lyric is "Loop and Lil agree she's a sight to see." Loop and Lil were his parakeets.  

Townes loved a joke, and he always wanted to tell jokes when he was on stage.  So, he'd go around to all his friends in the room before his set, and have them (us) tell him a joke, so he could tell them while he was on stage.  We all worked really hard to have a good joke for Townes whenever he was in town.  

As you will see in the interview, because of his substance habits, he really couldn't tell jokes, but we all laughed anyway.  He also wrote Poncho and Lefty, and White Freightliner (another one of my favorites - his ode to cocaine).  You've heard his songs in a lot of places.  He was more widely known in Canada than in the States.  Imagine my surprise walking in a mall in Calgary, and hearing Townes and Willie Nelson singing Poncho and Lefty.  Guy Clark, for obvious reasons (after watching this interview), did a tribute album to Townes after his death.  It includes a lot of different artists doing Townes' music.  I can't listen to it without having a sob fest.  I really miss him.

Jim you're the Dandiest:  How did you know Blinded By The Light was one of my favorite songs, right up there with Comfortably Numb.  And, Gram Parsons too?

Nirvana:  Thanks for the information.  I didn't know Springsteen wroth both of those songs either.  Interesting article in the Wikipedia too.

Mousetrap:  Spirit in the Sky was hilarious.  That really brought me up after a hard day in the salt mines.