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So let the good times roll
The first "grown up" records I ever owned were birthday gifts from my mom in the very early 70's when I was 11 or 12. One was a Johhny Cash Greatest Hits (to that time)
- “isis Is More Powerful Now Than Al Qaeda Was On 9/11”
Congressman Peter King, yesterday. King formerly served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, where he drew attention in early 2011 for holding hearings on the extent of radicalization of Muslim Americans. He also...
- We Are All Danes Now!
“Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship,...
- Palestinian Jokes
So this Palestinian walks into a bar and sits down. The bartender says, “What’ll it be, pal?” The Palestinian goes, “BOOM!” * * * * * * * * * * *...
- Spare Change?
It’s no surprise that Hamas considers the cutoff of foreign money to be “blackmail.” After all, that’s what a teenager always considers the threatened withholding of his allowance to be. “Dad! You can’t do that; it’s not fair!”...
- Dhimmied Down Again
Dhimmification continues. In a review from Newsweek you can find the latest on offer: a sitcom — actually, they term it a “drama” — on HBO about polygamy. Don’t ask why, maybe they just figured it might draw an audience. Essentially, the plot...
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So let the good times roll
B.B. King couldn't play a chord. Not one. He was strictly a one note at a time player.
But what he did with those notes was legendary, mythical.
No other bluesman since Robert Johnson had the impact on so many forms of popular music that B.B. King and his great love Lucille did.
and the other was the just released B.B. King Guess Who
I've been hooked ever since.
The Beatles were the band that made me pick up a guitar in the first place, but it was B.B. King that introduced me to the Blues and started me on my lifelong musical passion
I've been to well over 100 concerts (that's when I stopped counting) in my 53 years (the ever present tinnitus is delicious) but by far and without a doubt the best was at Reading's River Days Fest in the late 80s or early 90s.
B.B. King was playing. My mom, working where she did at the time, was able to score my friend and I 3rd row seats.
The concert was held in a huge white tent, so we were very close to the band and the speakers.
Close enough that when his horn player James "Boogaloo" Bolden began tossing his head side to side we were sprayed with sweat.
It was hot already that summer but in that tent it was broiling.
And B.B. King never let it cool.
The music and ambiance that summer night, the call and response with the audience, his preaching of the blues, made that concert feel like an old time tent revival meeting.
When B.B. King played, no matter how deep the Blues and sorrow he was singing about, he just couldn't hide the sheer joy in his playing.
But now Lucille is quiet and lonely and no one will ever make love to her that way again.
- “isis Is More Powerful Now Than Al Qaeda Was On 9/11”
Congressman Peter King, yesterday. King formerly served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, where he drew attention in early 2011 for holding hearings on the extent of radicalization of Muslim Americans. He also...
- We Are All Danes Now!
“Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship,...
- Palestinian Jokes
So this Palestinian walks into a bar and sits down. The bartender says, “What’ll it be, pal?” The Palestinian goes, “BOOM!” * * * * * * * * * * *...
- Spare Change?
It’s no surprise that Hamas considers the cutoff of foreign money to be “blackmail.” After all, that’s what a teenager always considers the threatened withholding of his allowance to be. “Dad! You can’t do that; it’s not fair!”...
- Dhimmied Down Again
Dhimmification continues. In a review from Newsweek you can find the latest on offer: a sitcom — actually, they term it a “drama” — on HBO about polygamy. Don’t ask why, maybe they just figured it might draw an audience. Essentially, the plot...