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Jealous Bone - Patty Loveless

We gigged for a Halloween Costume party at a gated upper-middle class community last night. Defying our governor's executive order, only fully vaccinated people were invited. We had a great time. We've played this group a couple of times per year pre-COVID and it was good to see and play with old friends again. When we pulled up to unload our gear, we saw this sign:

Get a new bass player. I learned when I was young, never hire someone who drinks on the gig. Life is too short to deal with that. Notes ♫

This is really interesting, well done, and the guy can sing...

I did Apple for a number of years. They are even more aggressive in their "upgrade or perish" policy than Windows, it's a lot more expensive, and the OS isn't really all that different. I let my software decide which OS I use. The StyleMaker app in Band-in-a-Box Windows has more features than its Apple app. It lets me write better aftermarket BiaB styles. Since that is part of my musical income, it requires me to have a Windows PC. For years the styles weren't 100% compatible (they are now) so I needed to also have a Mac. The Mac required expensive updates. They went from Motorola chips to IBM chips to Intel, then changed to a version of Unix, and on and on and on. Each change rendered my existing software apps obsolete, and so they also needed expensive updates -- that is, if they were still in business. If I had some software that I need to make a living with that worked better on Apple, I'd still keep up with Apple's upgrade or perish policy, but since I don't, I'll live with Microsoft's upgrade or perish policy. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Like Young - Buddy Greco

Every time either MS or Apple needs a stock boost, it's "Upgrade Or Perish". I plan on sticking with Win10 for now. I'm in no rush to be a virtual beta tester for Win 11. Let them get the bugs out first, and if I see a clear advantage to upgrading, I will, if not, I'll wait until Win10 is about to expire. I still have an XP computer that works fine, and as long as I don't connect to the Internet, it does what I want it to do. Notes ♫

We Are The Champions - Queen

A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 in C major, Leningrad (1941) - London Philharmonic / Valery Gergiev

Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics

Eight Miles High -The Byrds

Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk When I was gigging in a jazz band in the 1980s, we played this one often.

Empty Spaces - Pink Floyd

I wanted to marry an English teacher when she got out of jail... But you can't end a sentence with a proposition.

Space Is the Place - Sun Ra & His Arkestra

Original: Try A Little Tenderness - Ray Noble And the cover by Otis Redding:

Call Me - Blondie

I found this one doing another Band-in-a-Box project for one of my customers. One nice thing about making projects for BiaB is that it introduces me to some music I may have never stumbled on before. This is one, and I plan to investigate the group some more. The UK guys on this forum might know about them than we do in the USA. It's interesting and a bit quirky. 78 Stone Wobble - Gomez

I (Who Have Nothing) - Tom Jones IMO even better than the very good Ben E King version