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- By Phillip Brownlee
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Cease-fire shaky as Israelis raid Lebanon
{ wearing Lebanese Army uniforms }
http://www.workers.org/2006/world/lebanon-0831/
NYT “spins the same invation of Lebanon
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2061EF63E5A0C738EDDA10894DE404482
From Red State Rabble:
Death of ScienceBlogs For Bush, a group blog covering George W. Bush that organizes bloggers who support the President, breathlessly reported this weekend that “Science is Dead.”
Why did science stray from the path of truth? I think it is because we ceased educating the men of science [there are no women, apparently, in the Bush blogosphere, RSR] with a knowledge of religion – a knowledge, that is, of genuine truth, genuine reason, and the relationship of man to creation, and his Creator. When science became a narrowly forcused (sic) search for something immediately practical, it was bound to eventually be hijacked by people who wanted to use the cover of science for very impractical efforts.
Yes, the search for “something immediately practical” inevitably leads to “impractical efforts.” The cause and effect are indisputable. The logic impeccable. The idiocy undeniable.
It’s always funny when the religious folk use words like “truth” and “fact.” What an idiot I must be to question there unfounded ideology. I would trust my life to science over prayer anyday, for the simple fact that science has cured disease and put man on the moon. Even the most devout Athiest scientist knows more about religion than the average believer knows about science. The people that try to use the Bible as “something immediately practical” to govern everyones lives has done more to undermine religion than any secular science.
The only problem is that religious people have been raised that way and it is near impossible for people who have been indoctrinated about their religious values to ever come to reality that religion isn’t the answer to all our problems in the world.
Leftist are the same way. Many people and many ideologies are the same way. They aren’t going to budge and they will not be persuaded easily if not at all.
They will always be around. Honestly! The best thing we can do is to practice religious tolerance and try to strike as many compromises as possible. That is what Representative Goverment is all about. But many people just want the domination and control and disregard anybody else and have the power within their ownselves. Democrats are like this and this is what they want.
It’s a difficult world out there. I hope our children learn better and deal with each other better than what we do. We have already messed things up for them, they will have to work very hard to straighten it out.
Latest Lunacy From America’s Taliban
“The latest lunacy from one of our more fanatical right-wing American Christian television outfits, the Coral Ridge Ministries,” writes John Brummett, an award-winning columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock, is that the “Holocaust wasn’t Hitler’s fault. Darwin made him do it.”
Coral Ridge, writes Brummett, “espouses that America is not a free-religion nation, but a Christian one. It argues there should be no separation of church and state. Thus it’s America’s Taliban, America’s Shiite theocracy.”
# posted by Pat Hayes @ 7:15 AM
Today’s Bushism:
“A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.”Sept. 18, 2000
Right- whatever-in-the-hell you said!
It looks like religious fanatics in at least one country might be giving up their attempts to force their religious beliefs upon their country:
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/breaking_news/15388485.htm
Cease-fire brings hope to UgandaKATY POWNALLAssociated PressKAMPALA, Uganda – A cease-fire between Uganda’s government and a shadowy rebel movement that has terrorized this east African nation for nearly two decades went into effect Tuesday.
The truce signed Saturday is aimed at ending the brutal war between the government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, notorious for cutting off the tongues and lips of innocent civilians, enslaving thousands of children, and driving nearly 2 million people from their homes.
Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, mixed northern politics with religious mysticism, declaring himself a Christian prophet fighting to rule this country of 26 million people by the Ten Commandments.
U.N. officials estimate Kony’s guerrillas kidnapped 20,000 children in the past 19 years, turning the boys into soldiers and the girls into sex slaves for rebel commanders. Rebel attacks and atrocities drove 1.7 million people to flee.
gster, are you sure that’s not a typo?I would think they meant to say:”A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes coming out of an economic silliness.”
Makes more sense my way.
Tracy- that’s the way he said to Paula Zahn on that date. Granted that most of his day is a typo!
Hey Y’all quite making fun about my stupid friend. He can’t help having the IQ of melting ice.
Right, Joe.
How many of you can pass the 3rd grade:
Take the test:
http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf
Ed, He’s also reality-challenged!
(CARLOS MENCIA IMITATION):DEE DEE DEE !!
CARLOS MENCIA is coming to Wichita!
QUICK, SOMEBODY INVITE IAN.When will he be there?
Carlos MenciaWed, Sep 13th, 2006, @7:30pm
@ the Cotillion
http://www.thecotillion.com/
ATTN: Joe Williams
Sir, You have been observed offering common sense solutions to solve the world’s problems. Please stop immediately. The next thing you know, common sense and compassion will rule the world and then what will humans have to whine and fight about?
Dave Chapelle is funnier.
Yup.
world population growth
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html
07/01/06 6,528,089,56208/01/06 6,534,625,67209/01/06 6,541,161,78210/01/06 6,547,487,05111/01/06 6,554,023,16112/01/06 6,560,348,42901/01/07 6,566,884,54002/01/07 6,573,420,65003/01/07 6,579,324,23404/01/07 6,585,860,34505/01/07 6,592,185,61306/01/07 6,598,721,72307/01/07 6,605,046,992
http://www.tranquileye.com/clock/
World Population
From now until the middle of the 21st century, in only fifty years, the world’s population will increase by 50% from 6 billion at the end of 1999 to close to 9 billion in 2050.
October 12, 1999 has been chosen as the official date marking the advent of a planet with 6 billion inhabitants. This historic milestone serves as a reminder that the rate of population growth has varied widely down the centuries. Two thousand years ago, only about 300 million people lived on Earth. The world population grew rather slowly, taking 1,500 years to double. From 1750 onward, however, the rate began to accelerate, doubling to 1.7 billion in a mere 150 years. A decline in the mortality rate, coupled with scientific and technical progress, was responsible for this spectacular growth.
Malthus was right.
Population increases geometrically.
Especially when you’ve got the Catholic church banning birth control.
Has the Bush doctrine failed?Analysts say conflicts in the Middle East have halted aggressive US policy, and may hint at end of West’s military superiority.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0829/dailyUpdate.html?s=mesdu
Chappele and Mencia together would be a hoot.
Aww jeez!There are too many people in the world. Oh well, nows the time for all of you shitheads who bitch about the world population to fulfill your service to humanity by committing suicide! Hey, the world would be a much safer place without 300 million arrogant Americans who sit on their fat asses all day while complaining about the world population!
So Capn? You wanna go first?
I mean seriously! If America didn’t exist, you know how much less pollution there would be? 25% of the total fossil fuel consumption by Americans alone? Gone if there were no more Americans! 300 million dead Americans? Why that’s 300 million less air conditioners running! Then we’ll let the Mexicans take over North America, I mean hell they’re already doing a fine job of it already! Yep, we got it all figured out.
Of course this is eventually going to happen since Americans in general practice contraception thereby decreasing there birth rates while good Catholic Mexicans don’t. Thereby Mexican birth rates increase while contraception/abortion practicing Americans who bitch about world population birth rates decrease. If we can not force the Americans out of existence, we’ll simply breed them out. It’s very simple really.
Go forth, be nutty and divide?
Quote of the Day:
” I believe in a pure black race just as how all sef-respecting whites believe in a pure white race, as far as that can be. I am conscious of the fact that slavery brought upon us te curse of many colors within the Negro race, but that is no reason why we of ourselves should perpetuate the evil; hence instead of encouraging a wholesale bastardy in the race, we feel that we should now set out to create a race type and standard of our own which could not, in the future, be stigmatized by bastardy, but could be recognized and respected as the true race type anteceding even our own time”. – Purity Of Race from The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Viva La Raza Blanco!!!
OY VAY, israel, israel, our best and only friend!!!! lmrfosao
Who was Ariel working for?
By Curt Maynard
The United States government has done it again: they’ve hidden another Jewish spy from the American public, but this time the cat’s out of the bag. Someone leaked the details and now we find that another Jewish American, this time a Navy Petty Officer by the name of Ariel J. Weinmann has been arrested for passing along Top Secret information related to National Security to the Israeli government.
In Weinmann’s case, one can bet the information he stole was of a highly classified nature. You see, Weinmann was stationed on an American nuclear submarine, the USS Albuquerque. Despite this, Kate Wiltrout, of the Virginian-Pilot reports:
“The Navy originally refused to release basic information about the Weinmann case – including the dates of his Article 32, or preliminary hearing – but reversed course after The Virginian-Pilot revealed Weinmann’s confinement, and the secrecy with which it was being handled.”
Many people reading this will automatically assume that the Navy was keeping the case mum so as not to let the Israelis know they had caught Weinmann, but this isn’t the case. The Israelis probably knew before the Navy that Weinmann had been arrested; the Navy was keeping the case quiet in an effort to keep the American people in the dark, just as the United States government did with more than one hundred and fifty Israelis after they had been arrested for espionage just after 9-11, and the five Israelis arrested on 9-11 as a result of being witnessed by several people laughing while filming the impact of the airliners into the twin towers and clapping one another on the back in a congratulatory manner.
The Navy buried Weinmann’s case in the hope that the American people would never find out about him and what he did, just as the government did with Asher Karni, an Israeli Jew arrested at Denver International Airport on January 2, 2004 for having sold [past tense] more than sixty nuclear weapon detonators to Pakistan, a country populated by more than three hundred million Muslims, who generally don’t like the United States and where the name “Osama,” is the most popular name for a newborn male child. There are dozens of cases just like these that have occurred in this country recently, the common denominator is that they all involve ethnic Jews. Another case is that of American citizen Yehuda Abraham, a New York City jeweler and Orthodox Jew, who was arrested in 2003 for having sold FBI agents posing as Al Qeada operatives Russian made shoulder launched surface to air missiles, with the understanding that they’d be used against Americans on domestic flights.
Ever heard of any of these people? Surprise, the fact that you haven’t doesn’t mean they aren’t real people and they weren’t arrested for the crimes; they are all quite real and they are all quite guilty.
The other day I emailed an article about Weinmann to an acquaintance who replied that the case probably wasn’t important because the media wasn’t reporting it. Besides, the fool wrote back, how much classified information would a Petty Officer have access to? I then quickly typed up another missive and sent it back to the miscreant, pointing out that there was a case involving an Army Specialist a few years ago in which the young man was arrested and tried for treason after he had passed along completely useless and antiquated information on the M1 Abrams battle tank. The information he passed along was information that could have been gathered on the Internet. This is not to mitigate what he did, since he passed this information on to FBI agents posing as Al Qaeda operatives, thus committeding treason, and I’d be the first to say he should be held responsible. His name is Ryan G. Anderson and he sits in a military prison today with a life sentence – just where a traitor should be. Anderson was a Specialist, a glorified private really, who did not have access to anything spectacular, while Weinmann was a Petty Officer stationed on a fast attack submarine that stole classified information that was directly related to American national security – do you see the difference?
When Anderson was arrested the media apparatus went immediately to work – nobody was trying to cover up Anderson’s crime, not like they are with Weinmann. What’s the difference?
Another common denominator associated with people arrested for spying on behalf of Israel is that Israel is almost never mentioned by name; it is always referred to as a “foreign government.” The media does this so as to report whatever story may be in the works but at the same time to protect that little Middle Eastern provocateur from exposure – how can you convince Americans in the hundreds of millions that their hard earned tax dollars should be sent overseas to bolster the Zionist state if everyone knows that Israel is an enemy, not an ally. As an example of the media predilection, please note the following Associated Press blurb from an article entitled “Sailor Faces Spy Charges”:
“Officials accuse Weinmann of passing classified information to a foreign government representative in Austria and again in Mexico.”
The reason the government attempted to cover up Weinmann’s arrest and the media attempts to suppress the fact that the “foreign government representative,” was an Israeli are the same – to prevent Americans from learning the extent of the Jewish nation’s intrigues against the United States and to keep the money rolling into Israel.
Awake America, they are lying to you!
Sourcehttp://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=9962
Viva La Revolucion Blanco!!!
“Go forth, be nutty and divide?”
Numbnuts didn’t even notice that this is the perfect header for his posts.
TRACY<It would seem that you do not understand the meaning of satire. It is however my fault since I did not post a disclaimer for mentally handicapped people like yourself that I was satirizing CapnAmerica for taking a swipe at my church.You’re not the only one around here who is capable of sarcasm, ole chap!
WILL, BITE ME YOU PRICK.
BTW, You’re the one with problems you twit.
I wasn’t addressing anything to or at you, but you come up with some shit about re-re’s?
Somebody’s a dumbass.
OOOHHHH Big man that you are behind your little keyboard! Must have took a lot of guts typing those fightin words of yours! OOOOOHHHH!
Hey man! It’s cool man! I’m just exercising my First Ammendment rights, man! You know? the ones the Man wants to take away from us, man? Yeah man, make love not war man!
Who’s puerile now, you trolling twit?Now you’re gonna say meet me somewhere bla, bla.Any of your Mom’s kids live?
Meet you somewhere!??
No thanks TRACY, I’m not interested in guys!
Come on, knock this chip off my shoulder.Ha, blocked you with the keyboard,take that.
TRACY,NO MEANS NO!Stop trying to pick me up! The WE Blog is not a dating service! =)
hehehehe…victory is mine.
Are you sure?You seem awful feminine.
Anyway, here’s a couple of rich kids who sound like a real blast to hang out with.
From the London Times:
AS the leader of the Republican party in the US Senate and a possible presidential candidate, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee has a reputation for sober rectitude. The same cannot be said of his son Jonathan, a Vanderbilt University student who recently appeared on the internet wearing six cans of beer strapped to his belt.Nor has Jonathan’s brother Bryan done much to help his father’s attempts to strike a reasonable note about US involvement in Iraq. “I was born an American by God’s amazing grace,” wrote Bryan Frist in an online profile. “Let’s bomb some people.”Continued….—–
Joe,
According to what you wrote in your post, it seems that you believe that all Republicans are Christian and no Democrats are. That’s pure bs.
I’m a liberal. My mind can be changed. But it’s going to take some work to do it. Shelve the talking points. Shelve the rhetoric. Then tell me what your plan is for making it better.
“It’s a difficult world out there. I hope our children learn better and deal with each other better than what we do.”
I wouldn’t count on it. Children learn best by example. Take a look at the examples going on right now.
Oh, HI ARDEE!!I’m just here entertaining willie, you wanna’ take it for a while?
I’m gettin’ George Jetson finger from all this entertaining.
On the contrary the unbecoming actions of Bill Frist’s sons as well as the Cowboy in Chief’s daughters are perfectly representative of the Republican party! All show on the outside, brutally self-centered and unemphatic on the inside!
oooh yeah, throw them there Bush girls in there, wheeee-ha!LET’s PARTY!!
Tracy–Did you see that Bill Frist’s kid’s face book entry has something about “no Jews allowed”?
Of course we have to read about it from the foreign press.
They’re not getting the pay-offs yet, apparently.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2330177,00.html
Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today, RAW STORY has learned.
Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who represent hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits against Verizon, AT&T, and the US Government, will announce today that they are serving both the Bush administration and Verizon with subpoenas.
Mayer explained that the subpoena seeks to learn “whether the Bush administration has unlawfully targeted journalists, peace activists, libertarians, members of congress or generated an ‘enemies list.’”
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/BREAKING__Bush_White_...
Oops . . . here’s a link that works
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/BREAKING__Bush_White_House_subpoenaed_0829.html
You’re calling ME feminine? With a name like YOURS?
Gahahahaha!!!
Mind yourself, Will. Tracy may be a decrepit old coconut but he can still knock a lung loose.
V.L.R.B!!
Well thanks for the advice, I didn’t think you were particularly concerned with the well-being of a young coconut such as myself!
It’s all fun. These blogs can get rather stale debating the same issues over and over again ad infinitum.
Besides I don’t think he’d want to mess with me once he found out that I’m a 22 year old fire breathing dragon that farts lightning bolts.
He wouldn’t stand a chance!
Will–one more reminder of the ancient adage that children should be seen and not heard.
You know we have an old saying in the Philippines, it goes:
“Never listen to old English sayings.”
You’re from the Philippines, Will?So’s my first wife, and, God willing, my next one :)Interesting topic that’s been fueling debate around my office…a British radio station took a poll to create a list of the 40 greatest guitar riffs of all time.Their winner: “Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd.My choices, “Jumping Jack Flash” and “Layla”, didn’t even make the top 10.Thoughts?
No. I’m an American of Filipino descent. But I have been there when I was younger. Very much like Columbia.
My choice for favorite guitar riff of all time:
Hot For Teacherby Van Halen
followed by,
Hotel Californiaby The Eagles
and/or
All Along the Watchtowerby The Jimi Hendrix Experience
How about Samba Pa Ti by Santanna?
Achilles Last Standby Led Zeppelin
That is by far my favorite guitar riff.
Dark Side of the Moon is good but I can’t listen to it for too long else my head will explode. Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent is great, that song or Stranglehold should have been on there. You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC was great. I think that radio station put Pink Floyd as number 1 because they’re a British band but I say their music is more psychedelic than rock. So I can’t really compare to the bands I like.
Joe Williams,
I can play all 10 minutes of that song, even the solo.
I do agree that Achilles is by far the best Led Zeppelin song, way better than Stairway or anything on I,II,III, and IV. Physical Graffitti is their best album I think.
*worshipping Will**worshipping Will**worshipping Will*
Dude! If you can play like Jimmy Page, you’re a God!
Sayings From The Wise:
“The ultimate universal truth regarding human existance, is that human existance is meaningless. It is therefore the noblest cause of action for a human being to become aware of the futility of his actions and the meaninglessness of his life, and to end his own pointless existance.”
-Jean Paul Sartre-
(On Existentialism; paraphrased from the original French)
Joe,I AM NO SUCH THING!!!
It isn’t that hard really, just get the tablature book or you can go get the tabs for Achilles on the following website:
http://www.guitaretab.com/l/led-zeppelin/10183.html
Really it looks complicated, but just listen to the song for the tempo and you’ll get it. It took me 2 days to get the solo down without making mistakes.
Will,”I’m a 22 year old fire breathing dragon that farts lightning bolts.”
Isn’t that painful?
It is my very great pleasure to break some very happy news here.
I am informed by Mountain Man that Julie has given birth to little Winter Rose this morning at 9:11 A.M.!! Today is my birthday too and I am proud to share the day with our first “blog” baby!
Mother and daughter are reportedly doing just fine. Dad seems fine too and proud as can be.
Congratulations Julie and Mountain Man!
JR,I have heard of Julie, but who is Mountain Man? Well good on them I say! I must say Winter Rose is a very exquisite choice for a name, very poetic.
XXX,Not really. No.
And Why are you blogging on your birthday? Yeesh! Go out and play tennis or whatever floats your boat.
I’ve had a nice birthday thank you for asking Will. Tennis in the dark? Thanks no!
Obviously Mountain Man is Julie’s husband. He was also “you” once for just a little while at a meet up:)~.
Yaaa . . . Go Julie, Mountain Man and Winter Rose!!!!!
hahaha! So he was me huh?Well they say that impersonation is the highest form of flattery. I guess my insightfulness must have rubbed off on him.
“Highway Star”, Deep Purple. Awesome lead riff.
“Hey Joe”, Jimi. Brings tears.
“24 Hours”, Jon Amor. Blows me away every time I hear it.
“Well To The Bone”, Scott Henderson. Blues at its rawest.
I was “you” once also Will!
As fun as it might be to tell that story, let’s stick with congratulating the happy family.
Yeah I always knew you looked up to me JR.
Happy birthday to Winter Rose (a real BIRTH day) and to JR, too.
And congratulations and hugs to Julie and MM!
Will and Ian, just remember:Age and treachery wins over youth and stamina every time, HA.
Your lungs are safe. As Willy pointed out, this is a stupid blog.One big game.
I do, however, eat farted lightning bolts for snacks.My breath alone would take you out.
Will! I don’t play guitar, but I do play bass. I have to respect guitar players. Playing it is one thing, but if you can get the exact sound down, that’s even awesome.
I knew a guy that match Van Halen to the teeth in sound. Had a Peavy guitar and everything. It was awesome to hear.
The latest Kinky Friedman telephone poll results on whether or not people who live in Texas think illegal immigration is a serious problem:
> 38% of the respondents answered: “Yes, it is a serious problem”.
> 62% of the respondents answered: ” Lo siento, pero no hablo ingles”.
“I do, however, eat farted lightning bolts for snacks.My breath alone would take you out.”
OMG!!! ROFLMQAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All Hail Tracy, the KING of snark!
(in my best Jackie Gleason voice:)GIRL, YOU’RE THE GREATEST!!
JOE, for a great guitar player, check out Ingvay Malmsteen.
My favorite performer is Shawn Phillips.Saw him at the Cotillion almost thirty years ago.
Check out his website, and hit the spot that says “Shawns friends”.It’s the freakin who’s who of rock n’ roll origins!! Everbody from Clapton and the Beatles to Joan Baez. Check it out dude.
Clapton is god.
And stevie ray aint far behind!
“My favorite performer is Shawn Phillips”
Damn Tracy, you are an old fart!
Believe it or not, I was there too! I dont know how many times he played there, but I remember driving down to see him at the Cotillion.
And I remember Leon and Willie there too. Kinda. Sorta. In a purple hazish kinda way….
…and on another news front….
In the continuing story of the gop’s tactic of tell america that “up is down and black is white”, it has been noted that “facism” is the new GOP buzz word.
I guess they are usurping the use of that word before it can be used in its appropriate context against them.
Remember uncle karl’s strategy of taking your weakness and then pinning it on your opponent, whether it is true or not.
So… liberals are now facists?
heheheh. Yep. Up is down and black is white and their weakness is being used to blame their opponents.
This meme busting is just too easy…
Oh, and here is a link to a thread about how facism is the new twisted GOP buzzword.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×2484032
GIRL, YOU’RE THE GREATEST!!You saw me, I had hair.Setting with the ex-hag, (a pregnant red-head), and I had hippy Vince with me.It snowed that eve.We were the first ones in the parking lot, in a 62 Dodge Dart (red), ugliest car ever made!Ingested L-S-crazy and beer, was very, very small when the show started. Wonderful 3-D laser show.I know we were at the same one if you remember this.Shawn stopped the show right in the middle of a song, and had the only table of drunken rednecks there tossed out.Everbody else there looked like Lennon & Ono. Very cool.
BTW, saw SRV three times.Sober once in Joplin.Drunk at the river ampitheater in Tulsa.I was the drunken asshole who took a swim in front of the stage, when the security guys caught up with me I was doing the backstroke and spitting water in the air like a fountain. My buddies say I tried to get on stage and sing. Don’t remember that part at all!!
I’d like to encourage people who believe in stem cell research to also sign their organ donor cards.
Have yet to see JJ Cale.Must see before he’s gone too.
Sam Brokeback endorsed Phil Kline. Is anybody amazed?
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/
THE BEST CARE ANYWHERE….Thanks to innovations introduced during Bill Clinton’s administration, VA healthcare is now among the nation’s best. It’s cheaper than either private healthcare or Medicare, the quality is top notch, and it operates according to strict performance standards. Sounds like a great model, doesn’t it? So how about saving the feds money by allowing vets on Medicare to switch over to the VA? Time magazine says it’s no dice:
Congratulations to Julie and Mountain Man on their new addition to the family.
I would also like to say a belated happy birthday to our very own blog sheriff, JR.
Cheers.
Tracy,
I thought you were exaggerating about the ugliness of the 1962 Dodge Dart. As the picture at this site attests, you weren’t.
http://www.bcautos.com/musclecars/62dodgedart.html
You could buy the one pictured on the site for a mere $42K and some change. What a deal!
heheheheh
I remember worrying about the snow as I had a LONG drive.
Dont remember the show stopping, but hell, I coulda been one of the drunks being tossed out…..
Hi folks, yeah I wish I had that car now.Girl, I was so buzzed at that concert that I named my daughter Shawn Phillips.I’m glad there wasn’t water there,and I didn’t try to take the stage either.
Yngwie Malmsteen.Steve Vai is good too if you like that atonal sound.
Steve Vai’s performance in the movie Crossroads was over the top.
He is a great guitarist.
Stevie Ray still has my vote. You know his statue at Austin’s Town Lake Auditorium Shores is wearing thin because so many people go there to touch it.
Only in Austin. They have Stevie Ray. We have terry, joe and fred. Go figure.
I thouhgt Ry Cooder was behind the music on Crossroads – but, I could have the wrong movie. The movie I am thinking of is a kid at a Julliard type school goes looking in Mississippi for the last lost song of a Robert Johnson type figure.
Stevie Ray’s version of “Little Wing” convinced me that I was unworthy to even pick up a Fender Stratocaster. I gave that guitar to a nephew, who *choke* formed a Christian band. That taught a lesson about respecting my guitars.
Still have my Martin and a Larivee.I am trying to learn a Ry Cooder version of “How can you keep on moving (unless you migrate, too)?”… progress is slow…
Did ya miss me?!?
Thanks to all for their kind words and good wishes.
Baby and I are home and doing just fine.
Certainly! ( How do you spell it Stooges style?)- there’s a bunch of rambling weirdos here- beware!
They’re hovering and fluttering everywhere!Except you & me, of course.