Well…not sure what is going on with me but everything seems to be just so much damn effort today…getting out of bed, getting the papers, working out, the bike ride, and a trip out to get some allergy medicine just took everything out of me….hmmmm…but that’s not what this one is about…riding through the woods on the trail get to be pretty strange this time of the year with the leaves covering the entire thing…making it basically disappear….and it is a little disorienting to go into the woods and not remember which way the trail goes when the direction is not clear to me…pretty weird feeling today but I survived it…I may have to pay more attention on the bike since riding the same trail every day puts me on autopilot….
Category Archives: Misc
Neil Young….
Well….no, nothing has happened to Neil….let’s get that out of the way right off the bat….I just watched an hour long interview with Neil done by Dan Rather and, even after being a fan for over 40 years, I learned a bunch of new stuff that I didn’t know before. First….he had polio when he was a kid and still can’t really control the left side of his body as well as his right…and that flashed into my head the explanation for how he plays guitar…the choppy, kind of crude way that he plays is a result of that disease….but the rest of the interview was a portrait of someone who is at peace with his life and yet wants it to continue…similar to how I’ve started to feel over the past few years…I wonder if that happens to everyone or if it’s a result of the introspection that I have felt and done, and what Neil has done? Whatever it is…it was a riveting and good natured hour…one of the pieces of insight that I took away was when Dan asked Neil if he was angry all the time given that many of his songs protest things going on in the world…and Neil said no…his answer was that he loves people and this country and that love drives him to comment and try to make the place better…and the funny part was Neil asking Dan if he thought he looked and acted angry and Dan had to admit he didn’t…pretty cool stuff for a Tuesday morning as I sit here and wait for the furnace guys to show up….
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…just watching Eric Clapton at the New Orleans Jazz festival and they have a B-3 on the stage…this one is painted black but it is still a B-3…so, add another one to the B-3 count…
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well….just working out and watching the Today show, they have Norah Jones on and her band has a B-3 on the back of the stage…it looks almost new and that is pretty weird….so, add another one to the B-3 count…
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…just sitting here watching a documentary on Jethro Tull and what do I see? A Hammond B-3 on stage…so, add another one to the B-3 count….
Another one for the B-3 count…
Well…just sitting here watching a documentary on James Brown and guess what I saw at the back of the stage…yep, a Hammond B-3…and it looked new since the clip was from the early 60’s….so, add another one to the B-3 count….
Does this one count?
Well…was just watching and episode of and old tv show called “Run for your life” and in the opening scene they have a jazz band on stage that has a Hammond B-3…does that count? I’m going to count it since it is so cool to see a show from 1965 with a B-3 in it….
And another one….
Well…needed to do this one before I forgot it….was watching tv the other day and Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” came on and the organ part is certainly a Hammond B-3….so, add another one to the B-3 count…oh, and I saw another commercial that had “Magic Carpet Ride” in it and that is almost all B-3…
Another one for the B-3 count….
Well…keeping with my obsession with the Hammond B-3 organ…am watching a concert on AXS tv right now with the jam band from Colorado, the String Cheese Incident…it it raining so hard that they have the instruments covered but there is no mistaking a B-3 when you hear it…so, let’s add another one to the B-3 count…
Okay, they just uncovered the organ and it IS a B-3….
There are no trees….
Well…with all of the delusional stuff on the internet, it is not often that something fresh comes up that make you shake your head and laugh…but today is one of those days. Just read an article about a video out there called “There are no trees” that posits that the forests we see on earth now are not really forests and don’t contain “real trees” just small versions of the real trees that used to exist and towered hundreds of kilometers high carrying it’s own ecosystem. For proof, the makers cite Devil’s Tower as being the stump of one of the real trees and then goes on to say that other geological formations are more stumps. Now, you just have to hand it to the flat Earth folks…doing all the work to invent a brand new delusion for people to embrace…and the internet fringes have with over a hundred thousand views of the video…I haven’t seen it…not going to waste and hour and a half of my life on someone else’s delusions when mine work perfectly fine….oh, one last thing…these “real trees” sound suspiciously like the “Integral Trees” of the novel of the same name by Larry Niven…that was a pretty good story…but, just a story…