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I have written nothing this week and have no real excuse for not continuing Stevie's adventures.
On Tuesday the Who CDs I ordered from Amazon arrived and went on heavy rotation on my hifi. I then managed to break the headphone socket on my PC, which I'd been using to listen to the radio (my old satellite receiver gave up the ghost a few weeks back and the new one doesn't have my favourite DAB station), so I ordered an internet radio which arrived the following day.
Despite my profession I am useless when it comes to setting up PC stuff (working on an Alpha is no preparation for PC repair, if only my family understood that), and two days went by as I set it up on my network. It has more than 10,000 stations, around a 1000 of which interested me, and also streams music from a PC... the Who CDs were ripped forthwith, and I spent an evening compiling playlists,ripping some other CDs, running cables into my amplifiers etc.
I'm walking around with a whole week of Stevie's life crammed between my ears and bursting to get out, and hopefully I can overcome my temporary technophilia long enough to get them down... except I just went on another Amazon and a boxfull of Rolling Stones, Yardbirds and Pretty Things albums will soon be winging its way to my home.
Mr Credit Card meet Mr Scissors.
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It's Really Ok for You To Do What Makes You Happy
Besides, you're just creating an appropriate creative writing environment, right? Rock On!
Yeah, or at least give *him* a rest
Canceling *Mr. Credit Card* can hurt your credit score but if the temptation to spend is too much, cut it up and cancel after paying it all off, duh!
Look forward to more when you have the time.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Seems like people think
that Devs are PC technician aswell ( at least by the amount of : "fix my PC " comments I get) . Anyway here's a t-shirt that might help:
Cool Tshirt
I Love Those Groups
But you have to get Chuck Berry, the teacher of them all. NOT until you do your next OHOP though,
Joanne
there may be progress
left work early today... my left arm and leg went into spasm after lunch and the boss sent me home as my swearing was upsetting our non-cymric colleagues, so will milk it for another day and get down to proper work tomorrow. However, as a contingency I bought a couple of CDs (Led Zeppelin remasters) on the way home, and there's a Moby Grape album calling to me from Amazon...
I nearly played with Chuck Berry when he came to South Wales, and the local promoter was casting around for a scratch band... the band I was playing in at the time however was considered far too glam for the task :)
with a name like moby grape we HAVE to be good
Moby Grape is one of the great forgotten bands from that era, probably because I don't think they ever had a top-10 hit (at least not the U.S.), but they were fun, smart, inventive and varied. For some reason they remind me of the Byrds, when they (the Byrds) weren't being overly slick. Murder in My Heart For the Judge is a GREAT blues number; Hey Grandma gets to the heart of full-tilt boogie, and that Chipmunks version of Columbus Stockade was silly fun. Etc. etc. etc. I'm glad someone else remembers them!
~~hugs, Laika
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PS: I hope your Stones selection included Aftermath &/or Between the Buttons, two I still play a lot.
(God, I'm old! At least compared to my thirty-something RL friends.
I still remember that "with a name like Smuckers" ad...)
We now return to our regular programming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTl00248Z48
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I must confess
I've read a lot of great things about them but I've only heard one of their songs, which I liked but can't remember exactly as it was played on Alice Cooper's radio show which airs at 6 a.m. on this side of the Atlantic :)
'Aftermath' was part of the order but 'Between the Buttons' is still on my Amazon wishlist until next month. I sorted my CD rack - it's alphabetised, don't hate me - on the weekend and left spaces for the albums still to be bought... there are plenty of gaps, especially in the Stones and Kinks list.