Updated for a friend's request: Gracie and I attended the Robert Burns Dinner last night in Houston. It is the 5th largest event of its kind in the world, and great time of tippling single malts, celebrating the Haggis and baudy poetry in honor of the Bard.The world famous St. Thomas Pipe Band performed for the kilted crowd. Here's a little sample I shot with my iPhone: Ellisland, near Dumfries, 18th May, 1789 Fair the...
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Installed now in The Curve at the Barbican in London, artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, an aviery filled with zebra finches and electric guitars makes for an interesting sight-sound experience. I really like the one who uses a twig as a guitar pick on the Les Paul. Have a look:I'm very busy right now and will post when I can. Have a great weekend....
This year, it was a great Christmas for both my family and me. My grandson, at 16 months, hasn't figured it all out yet, but really loved the wrapping paper his gifts came in. I scored big time with tickets to Opening Day of the Red Sox in Boston in April, and some other really good stuff. It was also a Beatles kind of Christmas, since I got the new box set of the entire...
Many of you may remember when Bob Geldof got a group of musicians together on behalf of Africa in 1984 and recorded a song whose proceeds went to famine relief in Ethiopia. (http://www.bobgeldof.info/Charity/bandaid.html)I don't know a group of musicians that I can get together, but I have written some new lyrics that are apropos this year.Check out this link to the original recording, but read along with my lyrics as it plays and see...
On November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, Lucille Hendrix gave birth to a son she named Johnny Allen Hendrix. Johnny's father Al later changed his son's name to James Marshall Hendrix, better known as Jimi to rock music fans everywhere. Here's one of Jimi's best performances, in my opinion. His version of Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone, at the Monterey Pop Festival in the summer of 1967: ...
Time to unwind after a tough week at the political grindstone. Let's start with Smooth, featuring Rob Thomas on vocals and Carlos Santana on guitar:Speaking of guitarists, how about 4 of the all-time greats-Eric Clapton, B.B.King, Jimmie Vaughn, and Buddy Guy-on stage together at the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival in Dallas: Happy Saturday....
Rush Limbaugh's ongoing tantrum over being excluded from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams is hilarious to me. Especially this statement yesterday that the NFL is an "outpost of racism and liberalism": <br />Yes, that outpost of racism where 70% of the players are African-American. Where 17 of the top 25 salaries belong to African-American players. Just for our 2 Texas teams, the highest salaries on both the Houston Texans and the...
On a lighter note, and since the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday pre-empted Friday's music, how about the #1 record on the charts on this day in 1959. Bobby Darin singing Mack the Knife:Fifty years old and still good stuff. ...
The chilly weather makes me want to go down to the market and pick up a whole bunch of seafood and make what is claimed to be the best, biggest pot of Gumbo that can be found outside of Louisiana. Here's Rockin' Sydney with some Zydeco for your listening pleasure (Warning: Dancing may ensue): And for you baseball fans, I'd like to thank the Angels for keeping my husband a happy man (so far)..with...
From a friend, a one man band in Italy. Enjoy: Have a great Sunday....
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