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Walk right in, Mr. Tambourine Man, shake, rattle, and roll, put your name on it, cry me a river, fall asleep. I gotta run. Call me, maybe, then I'll be tired of you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/business/mary-anderson-died-co-founder-of-rei-cooperative.html?_r=0 Avid climbers and outdoor enthusiasts, Mrs. Anderson and her husband, Lloyd, were unhappy with the ice axes available in the United States in the 1930s. So they began to import less expensive, high-quality ice axes from Austria, and these soon caught the eyes of their climber friends. In 1938, 21 of those friends paid $1 each for a lifetime membership in the Andersons’ company, originally the Recreational Equipment Cooperative, which imported outdoor equipment for lower prices than it could be bought domestically. In 2016, REI reported revenues of $2.56 billion and said that more than six million active members had received dividends or credit card rebates worth a high of $193.7 million. The company said it returns 70 percent of its profits to the outdoor community, including $9.3 million to nonprofit groups. “I never thought a man should make money off his friends,” Mr. Anderson once told Timothy Egan, who wrote about REI last week in an Op-Ed column in The New York Times. Mrs. Anderson retired in 1968, followed by Mr. Anderson in 1970, but their influence was still felt at REI.

Why don't we do it in the road, truck driving man? Momma tried! You say Grandma got run over by a reindeer. So what's new? It's all in the game. I am but a stranger here, heaven is my home. If I die young, I'll fly away. You say the battle is over...roll big wheels, roll, say I! It's now or never - GET DOWN ON IT.

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Ramblin' Rose, lonely woman, when will the blues ever leave? Focus on sanity. Peace, eventually.

Baby, it's cold outside. The thrill is gone, blowing in the wind. But not for me, I've got my love to keep me warm. Please, please me. Hold me tight. Hold me, thrill me. Never let me go. Is that all there is? Am I that easy to forget? Love is blue.

Oh, they got fun in Waco, but you gotta know where to look, and then you gotta be ready to run when you get found.

Or maybe one of them them for you!

Hell, I would buy a record store for that.

Hate that kind of thing. I drove down to Waco once in mid-day to do a soundcheck for what was supposed to be an opening band for what was supposed to be an Ohio Players concert. Got to the venue, an arena/convention center, whatever, and there was nobody there. I mean NOBODY. Apparently I had left an hour before the bandleader got the word that the concert was cancelled. Or so he said. Whatever. Driving to a gig that's not there is one of the suckiest forms of suck, unless you're going to a place where you can have fun with the money you're not gonna make. Waco ca. 1979 was not such a place.

Not getting started did not appear to be a problem.

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You've seen worse! I caught it on late-night tv a good while back. It's pretty funny (often unintentionally), but there's a lot of music in it, most of it very entertaining. Make the popcorn, sit back and have fun. And then get back to work!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/arts/television/chelsea-brown-dead-laugh-in-cast-member.html

Just got back from the last performance of this year's Soundings series at the Nasher. It was a performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe and the North American premier of Jörg Widmann’s song cycle Das Heisse Herz, which was inspired by Schumann's work. Performers were baritone William Sharp and pianist Seth Knopp. . I have never heard this type of performance live before, and frankly, it fucked me up in the good way, the best way. Widmann's work in particular, it ran deep in all kinds of ways. His string quartets last night were interesting and engaging, but this song cycle was one of those things that, as they said about Monk, if you got lost it was like falling down an elevator shaft, only the logic was so strong, the melodies so pure, it wasn't a matter of possibly getting lost, it was like you knew where you were going, but damned if you knew how you were going to do it. http://www.yellowbarn.org/events/das-hei%C3%9Fe-herz-hot-heart World premier was in October 2013: http://www.harrisonparrott.com/news/new-song-cycle-jorg-widmann-das-heisse-herz-receives-its-world-premiere There is still new music being created, all kinds of it, music worth leaving the house for, music to wait for there to be a recording of!

Needed proof that the good don't always die young!

not in this thread!

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That was some delightfully purposeful music, on all fronts!