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Leilani fried fish today, but they weren't blackened. Oh my cod!!! They were tasty.

Seriously... I don't know about others, but when I'm playing music, especially when gigging and improvising a solo, I get into that place where there is no space, no time, no me, no they, no words --- just the music which seems like it is flowing through me instead of from me. It's a feeling quite a bit like meditation, which 'they' say is good for the mind. (Whoever 'they' are.) So for people like me it just might be good for mental heath. I know I like my life, and if I had to do it over again, I'd choose the same career. I'm happy, I haven't missed a gig due to illness or anything else since I was in high school, and most of the time of day I'm just happy. That sounds healthy to me. I wake up in the morning, go to bed at night, and in between do what I want to do, not what someone else tells me to do. That's freedom, and that seems mentally healthy too. Insights and incites by Notes

I've not heard this one yet, but I have appreciated some of the other works by The Residents (some more than others), this one seems like it might be quirky-fun, so let's give it a go, shall we? Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life - The Residents

Fantasy? Imagination? Imaginary Lover - Atlanta Rhythm Section

The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

I know, that's why the pun amuses me.

Who supposedly runs hell? Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones Musically one of my favorite Stones song. I wonder if someone like the Swampers did the recording. It's so unlike the majority of the Stones' output and I know they recorded in Muscle Shoals a few times. Whoever did it, the rhythm track cooks.

Is he buying the next round???

Flowers Of Neptune 6 - The Flaming Lips

I Put A Spell On You - The Animals My favorite version of this Screamin' Jay Hawkins blues standard

Norm? I'm Bob, and you are Bill. Who is the Norm guy anyway?

"One More Night" - Phil Collins

I like the pun that his band name sounds like Abe Lincoln.

I've been a pro musician since I graduated school (actually even before that). I'm happily insane. I know I'm weird. I'm not normal. But I believe that I'm OK and the rest of the world is off. :D Insights and incites by Notes

Brazil Song - Mark Murphy with Viva Brasil Perhaps one of the great North American interpreters of Brazilian songs backed by a band from Brazil. Delightful.

Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra

Symphony #1 in Em - Aram Khachaturian / Armenian Philharmonic - Loris Tjeknavorian conducting

Nice one Jackson My dad had a collection of Spike Jones records, and this reminds me of Dad. Silliness and music combined. My dad played trumpet, violin, ukulele, and in his later years organ. "Cocktails For Two" - Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Last Night - The Mar-Keys

I Walk On Guilded Splinters - Dr. John I have no idea what he is singing about, I never really listened to the words, I'm too interested in what the musicians and background singers are doing. The song is nothing more than a delightful trance to me.

Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin Jerry Wexler asked Don Covay to write songs for Otis Redding. Jerry played Covay's demo of this one and decided it would fit Aretha better.

I think the auto-censor was a little too aggressive on my last post ^^^

Psychotic Reaction - Count Five I was in a road band and we played this song. I played a Farfisa organ, and in the 2-beat 'psychedelic' section I'd kick off my boot and "play" the organ with my foot - pure bullsh*t - mostly glissandos but the audience would go nuts. I started it one night goofing off, and it went over so well we kept it in the show. Part of the gig is being a musician, and another part is being an entertainer.

Except that they wife and I (The Sophisticats) haven't had a gig for 10 months now. But it's better than catching COVID and croaking like a member in one of my friend's bands who took a few gigs.