Loggins and Messina On Stage
It’s a live two-disc album recorded in 1972 at Winterland, in 1973 at Carnegie Hall and at The Orpheum in Boston also in 1973. This is side three:
Archive of entries posted on September 2015
Used vinyl
My sister was in a “clean, sort and toss” mode the other day and found a box of vinyl records carefully stowed away in a plastic storage bin. Since she no longer has a turntable, she brought them over to me. Of about 20, I already owned six (Loggins and Messina On Stage, The Association’s …
This is Serbia?
Ever since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s I’ve been biased against Serbia because of its aggressive behavior toward its neighbors. Slobodan Miloševic and Radovan Karadžic were Serbian leaders who had no qualms about ethnically cleansing their country to be rid of all non-Serbs. It’s a bit of a surprise to me, then, to see …
Al Kooper Live
This is stunning. A gift from heaven is the only adequate way of describing this superb double-CD set, which comes in a slipcase with a neat little booklet. It is the definitive Al Kooper solo project, and a career reconsideration and retrospective, but it’s also damn close to definitive as a document of the Blues …
Library Thing is Ten Years Old!
And it’s celebrating! 99 million books cataloged by 1,980,643 members! Even better, for its 10th birthday it’s figured out how to allow its members to catalog not only their books but also their music and their movies, too. This has been on the wishlist of a lot of us for years, and now it’s here. …
Trumpeters
There’s no shortage of analysis trying to explain the Trump phenomenon, and I don’t think anyone’s quite got it. I certainly don’t understand why a whole slew of Republicans say they’d vote for an obnoxious bellicose dude who (cleverly) refuses to put forth any policies for people to chew on. Sometimes I wish the media …
Hawai’i kid makes good
At least in his first pro start, anyway. 2014 Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota of the U of Oregon and Honolulu’s St. Louis High School threw for 209 yards and four first-half touchdowns with no interceptions as his Titans defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and 2013 Heisman winner Jameis Winston 42-14. Football’s not as stat-happy …
Moral victories aren’t
But still, with 9 minutes left in the game the University of Hawai’i football team is down 24-0 to Ohio State, the number one team in the country. It was 14-0 at halftime. Considering the oddsmakers had OSU as a 40-point favorite, that’s playing them pretty hard.
National Geo, say it ain’t so!
The very thought of a Rupert Murdoch-owned company buying 73% of National Geographic makes my blood run cold. Then I read the news more closely, and I learn that what’s happening is that the media brands are being folded into something called National Geographic Partners, which will include National Geographic’s domestic and international channels, National …
Who said Jeb was the smart brother again?
We’ve been told that for years, right? And he keeps proving it wrong. He did so again today, when he announced a tax plan which is virtually identical to the one his brother foisted on us in 2001 and 2003, and one which would have the same deficit-exploding effects. We will cut individual rates from …
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