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A groaner:

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

Insensatez (How Insensitive) - Stan Getz and Luis Bonfa (Maria Toledo/vocals)

When we were gigging on the cruise ships, Cyndi came on for a week and performed as a headliner. The gal can sing better than her top40 records display. Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper And the original by Robert Hazard

Jeff and Stevie jointly composed "Superstition" so here is Jeff playing one written by Stevie Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck (And Tal Wilkenfeld is just too cute to play bass that well) 😉

IMO the most technically competent rock/fusion guitarist I know of. Little Wing - Jeff Beck The second one shows his technique better

I Love The Nightlife (Disco Round) - Alicia Bridges

Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen (we learned this for a regular fan, and I have a good time singing it and playing the sax at the end)

Stanley Turrentine - Sugar (One of my all-time favorite tenor sax players)

Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley & The Wailers Ever notice when he does the Yo-yo-yo figure, it's basically the same tune as "Mama's little baby love shortnin shortnin, mama's little baby loves shortnin bread"?

Holly Holy - Neil Diamond One of the two songs I like best from Neil Bonus ( OT) Here's the other - my favorite N.D. song (Love the arrangement and the musicians who playid on the session)

Theme For An Imaginary Western - Mountain

I have a soft spot in my heart for the blues and good guitar playing. This cut fills the bill. Thanks for sharing.

"Crazy He Calls Me" - Billie Holiday

Some great guitar playing by Gatemouth - Entire album "Gate Swings"

Same song, different take, equally nice, but in a different way. Baby It's You - Smith

CoveCamper, I've seen it with my own eyes, and well over 95% of the peer reviewed, published climatologists from all over the world agree. There will always be a minority who disagree, and who knows, sometimes they are correct. In this instance I doubt it. I am going to go with the majority. I said I've seen it with my own eyes. When I was a child, if the temperature got above 85 degrees, the headline on the Pompano Beach Town News screamed in giant headlines "IT'S A SCORCHER". And it rarely got over 85. Now 90s are common. That's global warming. I grew up in Pompano and Las Olas Blvd and streets in Miami Beach never-ever flooded, even during King Tides. Now they flood on regular high tides. That's ocean rising. And yes, trees love CO2, but there are fewer and fewer and fewer trees to make use of that CO2 as mankind bulldozes them over to make room for the demands of human overpopulation. The ice caps are melting. The droughts are worse. The fires are worse. The reefs I used to skin-dive on as a child are dying, the naysayers are saying nothing is wrong, but to me the evidence speaks otherwise. So I will do my best to take care of what we have left. I think it's the civilized thing to do. YMMV Insights and incites by Notes

I took a drive yesterday to run some long overdue errands, and as I often do, I took my digital Walkman with over 10,000 songs on it. I run it in the 'random' mode. To my delight, the Beatles' "Abbey Road Medley" came on. It is heavily edited from snippets of other recordings, with overdubs and ear candy added, and impossible for a 4 piece group to play live. And IMO it's one of the best things they ever recorded. I don't have VSTs, but I have a rack full of synth modules. IMO a digital piano does not replace an acoustic piano. They are two different but very similar instruments, each with their strengths and weaknesses. The digi-piano doesn't replace, it adds to the things a piano player can do. Sax is my primary instrument. There are times when I play synthesized sax with my wind controller and physical modeling synth module. Why? For the same reason why a pianist might decide to play Rhodes on a particular song, because it fits. The synth sax will do things my physical sax will not, and vice versa. So it's not either-or for me, it's both. I play guitar, and in my duo I'll play some solos with my wind synth. Why? Guitar is my 7th and newest instrument, and there are things I can do on the synth that I'm just not a good enough guitarist (yet) to do. As long as the music comes out good, it is good. But I still prefer symphonies and jazz recorded in one take. Insights and incites by Notes