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Here's the audio only from a Byrds concert in late 1971. This clip has the advantage of making it easy to jump to specific songs in their set list.

I will never in my life hear enough versions of Chestnut Mare . Interesting to know that McGuinn's co-author on this song was a psychoanalyst. This is ...

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In the video above, I think the Byrds were then using Eight Miles High as a vehicle for extended instrumental jamming, rather than playing it in their '3 to 5 minute pop hit' mode (which you can see in earlier videos). This may be an edited fragment of an even longer jam.

Below are some more ...

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Pistons rocking. Still no sign of Josh Smith.

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Dating a Buffalo gal, around Christmas in the mid 80s. Nietzsche's. Blues band. Forty degrees inside. Gritty. Fitting for the town.

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Can't tell you how much I hate Detroit City FC fans. Probably the shittiest fanbase in all of American soccer. Not even a joke. Just a group of a few thousand assholes that cosplay being hooligans and live to troll.
I enjoy Detroit City FC games from the supporter side of the stands. The Northern ...

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Now at the top of my "should be in the HOF list: Marvin Miller.

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I think the Rockets are a very real threat. I wonder how they can defend the Warriors. They're going to have to do something surprising on that end to have a strong chance.

Of course, any kind of injury to a rotation player throws everything up in the air. No one is deeper in stars who can turn it ...

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Trammell election removes the top player from my "should be in HOF" list. Whitaker is in the top five.

As much as I liked watching him win for the Tigers, Jack Morris wasn't on that list. I suspect one World Series game move him way up, and just enough to make it. I certainly count the post-season ...

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mister d wrote:The billionaire leaving a $200MM gift to an aging 1B can throw a little wrench in that plan.

After Judge, Stanton and Harper bust, the Yankees will beg the Tigers to send them Cabrera to them for their latest "next Jeter." Big Papi II.

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Just off-screen is Jerry Garcia, sitting in with Lawrence's band to play that nice pedal steel part. He was reciprocating after his friends Gail and Dale sang background vocals on several tracks on the Grateful Dead's "Mars Hotel."

Trying to figure out if you're kidding, but google isn't helping ...

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Well, it was a strange trip, in addition to being lengthy.

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Lawrence Welk was always on the cutting edge of the counter-culture. We all took our cues from his show.

Just off-screen is Jerry Garcia, sitting in with Lawrence's band to play that nice pedal steel part. He was reciprocating after his friends Gail and Dale sang background vocals on several tracks ...

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Jesse Ed Davis is one of those guys who seemed to frequently show up on record labels when I was wondering who played that sweet guitar line. Some of the legendary guitarists swore that he was someone they looked up to.

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Done got that right.

It's hard to handicap all the possible ways that we'll wreck this place. Climate change is well up there, as more and more ways that this is going wrong come to light. Bitcoin -- who knew? However, my money is on the consequences of advances in genetic manipulation. But there ...

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The great success that the Astros and Cubs had with tearing it down to the bare bones leaves me more interested in the Tigers now than I have been in recent years. It made sense to spend big to go for the long-shot when a dying billionaire was in charge. Now it makes sense to focus on acquiring ...

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So I don’t watch the NBA but are the Pistons for real or is this smoke and mirrors?
Probably somewhere in between. I'd be shocked if they finish as the #2 seed or win ~55 games (their current pace), but they should be a playoff team. They've been helped a lot by Drummond's FT shooting improvement ...

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It was WOW for me too. The Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band is largely unknown now. But back then they were the best working big band around. Better than the far better known Basie and Ellington bands.

Not that this mattered, because big bands were so far out of the cool zone that people in my generation ...

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My estimate for inflation-adjusted annual returns for average individual investors over the next 15 years:

-2%

That's average. Which means I expect 50% to do worse. And of course most of them currently believe they are not in the bottom 50% in investing acumen. Very few will get even +5% annual ...

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I'm quite interested in your view.

I've got no stigma regarding dope. I came up in the '70s in Northern California with both small to big grows quite nearby. Not to mention my run-ins with armed meth dealers. I don't think I had a friend who didn't smoke, throughout that time. I was on the light ...

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Yeah boooyyeeeeeee.

DiS, I would guess there are decent amount of people in your GF's exact position but afraid to ask the question. Will probably make googling a reputable source more difficult than usual, but I've got to imagine someone has some experience with this if you can find them.

I've ...

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https://i.imgur.com/BfenscW.jpg

Is that Cal Ripken? Man, he got old.

That is Cal. Cal, BJ Surhoff and Mike Bordick did a Facebook live event with a local radio station to benefit Pathfinders for Autism. They were discussing the 1997 season.
I like the style of your blue ...

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Unless someone has dependents, the odds are very low that any form of life insurance is a good move. Certainly not compared to maximally funding every possible retirement account and the several surrogates (e.g., HSA account not used for medical purposes until after retirement).

Life insurance can ...

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Dee Dee and the best jazz band around in 1974 were indeed cool. But really only to the very small number of people who were/are really into jazz. This genre was even more dead back then than it is today.

In my limited teen high-school drop-out circle, that meant almost no one. I did the gig, went ...

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Circa 1974 I played trombone one night with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis band. The lead singer was a young Dee Dee Bridgewater. The band was astonishing; she blew my mind. She was also the most attractive woman I've ever met. Quite a night to remember at age 17.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rrh7m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpArofkoVfA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_jgQoYoTE

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNermvyWO4

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Interesting thread. I'm deeply envious of some of those shows in front of tiny audiences.

My best experience in wildly contrasting venues is Bonnie Raitt. In the late 70s I saw her play a benefit in the small Northern California town of Ukiah, where she had lived for some time in her youth (and ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gobKu4UlxSA

The band is probably Quentin Warren on guitar and Billy Hart on drums. They can really play.

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Tremendous Hammond sound! The rotating Leslie sets my soul on fire.

This certainly qualifies this as 'old timey' by my standards. If a dinosaur ran over the Golden Gate Bridge and headed north on the 101 tomorrow, it would still be a dinosaur. Even if it crushed and ate a few Teslas in Marin ...

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The USMNT was an implosion waiting to happen. The best players got old, and the next age groups just aren't that good. Some of this is chance. But most of it speaks to the comprehensively misguided nature of youth soccer -- every level, including the top -- in the USA.

There are some signs of ...

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Being out of the insanity that is youth soccer for a few years now, it's always fun to come here to read about the dysfunctionality that I no longer have to deal with. The details differ considerably, largely due to the age and competitive level. But it certainly is one screwed up area of modern ...

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Take a poll of the mattress users. Perhaps a larger sample size would be advantageous in predicting future mattress satisfaction.

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Nah. The Hawk.

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Powerful stuff.

Segueing off drifting away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWO--z1S8A

Tremendous contemporaneous cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vu2tyk8cvc

Fine new cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXlI9Q-D72c

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As a young man, nobody was treated worse than Connie Hawkins by the corrupt, racist "amateur" athletic system and then the NBA. Later his career was crippled by a serious knee injury.

But in between, he lit it up against the best. Elgin Baylor, Dr. J, Larry Bird, Karl Malone -- Hawkins was better ...

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The instrumental "Flute Thing" was an improbable hit record for The Blues Project in the mid 1960s. The legendary Al Kooper wrote it. But it was the flute player Andy Kulberg who gave it the quirky charm that made the song. He was later the bass player in Seatrain, so it was in their book too ...

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I was early into bluegrass, when it was a dying form. So when wonder-child vocalist Peter Rowan left Bill Monroe's highly traditional bluegrass band to form (join?) Seatrain with a bunch of young guys, including notably fiddler Richard Greene (also a Monroe alum?), who played electric, rock ...

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This is an aging, weak, soccer team. One bright young star, who is not really a world-class player yet and may never be, does not a strong squad make. Certainly not as their best players of recent years -- as mediocre as they have been -- fade into the sunset, without comparable replacements.

The ...

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I've always been puzzled by the Lowell George - Frank Zappa connection. What did George offer Zappa? He wasn't a killer guitar player in the Zappa mode. Did Zappa let him play much slide? Didn't write the kind of songs Zappa wrote -- and Zappa wasn't keen on doing other people's ...

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Sweet looking instrument.

If it's in Houston, perhaps they're giving it away now. Perhaps some water damage. But shipping may be nearly free, given all the trucks full of supplies that are headed south. Empty trucks headed back north lower shipping rates.

Maybe you can locate Billy Preston's ...

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