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One thought on Mr. Jones. I caught a set at Dizzy's in NYC in the fall of 2008. He was standing talking to the crowd. When he sat down at the piano he placed the MIC on the top of the piano. It started to roll off, but before the MIC hit the floor Hank grabbed it with his hand, like a falcon or a hawk grabbing its prey. I don't even have reflexes that fast and I exactly have his age. God bless him. He could probably pick it at second or shortstop.

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It's like that date you've waited for all week and she doesn't show up. It was good to believe for a while that this existed.

It is 40 years ago August 15th that the first Woodstock took place. Was anyone here at the first Woodstock? 40 years later, Woodstock still fascinates By MICHAEL HILL (AP) – 3 days ago BETHEL, N.Y. — Forty years after Richie Havens sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, he still gets asked about it and he still gets requests to sing "Freedom." He's not surprised. "Everything in my life, and so many others', is attached to that train," Havens said. The young hippies who watched the sun come up with The Who in 1969 are now eligible for early bird specials. Many of the bands are broken up or missing members who died. But Woodstock remains one of those events — like the moon landing earlier that summer — that continues to define the 1960s in the popular imagination. Consider the bumper crop of Woodstock nostalgia marking the 40th anniversary. There's a new director's cut DVD of the concert movie, a remastered concert CD, director Ang Lee's rock 'n' roll comedy "Taking Woodstock" and a memoir by promoter Michael Lang. There are also performances scheduled by Woodstock veterans at the old site, now home to a '60s museum and an outdoor concert pavilion. The Woodstock legend stems from big names such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin playing at a show where everything went wrong but turned out right. The town of Woodstock didn't want the concert and promoters were bounced from another site at the 11th hour. Lang settled on a hay field in Bethel owned by a kindly dairy farmer named Max Yasgur. The concert did come off Aug. 15-18, 1969, but barely. Fences were torn down, tickets became useless. More than 400,000 people converged on this rural corner 80 miles northwest of New York City, freezing traffic for miles. Then the rains doused everything. It should have been a disaster. But Americans tuning in to the evening news that weekend saw smiling, dancing, muddy kids. By the time the concert movie came out months later, Woodstock was a symbol of the happy, hippie side of the '60s spirit. It still is. Baby boomers are the "Woodstock Generation" — not the "Monterey Generation" or the "Altamont Generation." Bethel's onsite museum has logged more than 70,000 visitors since last summer, a fair number of them college students born well after Woodstock. A roadside monument there regularly logs visitors from around the planet. "It's almost a pilgrimage," said Wade Lawrence, director of the Museum at Bethel Woods. "It's like going to a high school reunion, or it's like visiting a grave site of a loved one." From Lollapalooza to All Points West, there have been plenty of big festivals focused on youth culture. The continent-hopping Live Aid shows of 1985 did that and more, enlisting top names such as U2 and Madonna to fight hunger in Africa. None have the cultural cachet of Woodstock. Who would ever ask a Generation X-er: "Were you really at Live Aid?" People who went to Woodstock say the crowd set it apart as much as the music. The trippy anarchy of Woodstock has become legend: lots of nudity, casual sex, dirty (and muddy) dancing, open drug use. The stage announcer famously warned people to steer clear of the brown acid. Many who were there recall Woodstock as an oasis of good vibes during a time of unrest over the Vietnam War. Ilene Marder, then an 18-year-old who hitched from the Bronx, saw people feeding one another and respecting one another. She knew she found her tribe. "The music was nice, but it was being with so many people who looked like us, who looked like me," said Marder, who later moved to Woodstock some 50 miles away. "I remember telling myself 'Don't forget this! Don't forget they way you feel right now!'" Former Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten remembers hearing buzz that something special was up at the nearby hotel where the band was staying. The scale of the event sunk in when the band choppered in over the mass of people. While artists like Joe Cocker and Santana boosted their careers at Woodstock, the Dead were notoriously flat. Jerry Garcia, the band's late guitarist, told interviewers that his guitar was being hit with bouncing blue balls of electricity — the kind that comes from bad wiring, not strong psychedelics. Constanten said he wasn't as bothered as his band mates. "Actually, I had a wonderful time. The guitarists were not. Because of electrical problems, they were getting shocks from their strings and all," he said. "Aversion therapy like that, no one needs." Constanten contends the music and spirit of Woodstock was not a revelation to the people there. But it was to the millions who saw the movie and listened to the album. As they say now, Woodstock went viral. "This juggernaut of a music scene burst in their awareness," he said. "It didn't feel different to us. It was their response." Woodstock has been resurrected a couple of times since then, at least in name. Promoters staged a 25th-anniversary concert near Woodstock in 1994 that was a musical success. But a 30th-anniversary performance at a former Air Force Base in Rome, N.Y., ended in disaster after crowds lit bonfires and looted on the last night. The unrelenting heat and $4 bottles of water taxed any vestiges of Woodstock spirit. Yasgur's old farm, meanwhile, has gone establishment in recent years. Local cable TV billionaire Alan Gerry quietly snapped up the land in the 1990s and started a not-for-profit foundation to run a museum and concert space. The gently sloping hill that provided a natural amphitheater in 1969 is nicely tended and fenced in. Concerts are regularly scheduled over the hill from the original stage at a modern, 4,800-seat amphitheater. Constanten and Havens are among the 1969 performers returning to the site on the 40th anniversary weekend. Havens will play a solo show that Friday, a day before a larger show featuring other Woodstock veterans such as Levon Helm, formerly of The Band, Ten Years After and Canned Heat. Though long separated from the Dead, Constanten said he'll play the band's songs that weekend. No electric shocks are expected under the multimillion-dollar pavilion, and probably no generation-defining magic either. "Then is then," Constanten said, "and now is now." Woodstock story

How do you prove you were the original person that bought the lottery ticket? A British man who found a winning lottery ticket on a supermarket floor and cashed it in has been ordered to pay back half the money plus interest to the original buyer

Damn! I don't what else to say but damn! RIP Rashied.

He was marvelous. RIP Mr. Paul.

Thanks, I placed an order and it's good to know they are reliable.

I read this and flipped. WASHINGTON — Although hundreds of well-trained eyes are watching over the $700 billion that Congress last year decided to spend bailing out the nation's financial sector, it's still difficult to answer some of the most basic questions about where the money went. Despite a new oversight panel, a new special inspector general, the existing Government Accountability Office and eight other inspectors general, those charged with minding the store say they don't have all the weapons they need. Ten months into the Troubled Asset Relief Program, some members of Congress say that some oversight of bailout dollars has been so lacking that it's essentially worthless. "TARP has become a program in which taxpayers are not being told what most of the TARP recipients are doing with their money, have still not been told how much their substantial investments are worth, and will not be told the full details of how their money is being invested," a special inspector general over the program reported last month. The "very credibility" of the program is at stake, it said. Full story

Are they sure it was cocaine and not Oxiclean? They both look the same.

I came across an import I want and can only locate it on this site. Has anyone ever bought from these guys?

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80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC FILE - This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who AP – FILE - This 1984 file photo shows director John Hughes. Hughes is the man who wrote 'National Lampoon's … By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Hillel Italie, Ap National Writer – 1 min ago NEW YORK – Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the teen and pre-teen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59. Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family. Article.

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All the best Lon. May you have another 54.

Happy birthday Hank. Hope you have another 91.

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Seriously, what if this person has figured out the space time conundrum? Someone want to say yes?

O.T.Y.O.G. Sonny Rollins. Two days now.

Same here.

The newest member is Bobby Broom. If you are the guitarist Bobby Broom, welcome to the board. If not, welcome anyway. How is the tour of Europe coming alone with Sonny?

Also the sound is somewhat poor on the copy I have.