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Shirt = Blouse Magdalena - Frank Zappa & the Mothers Lyrics: And a teenage daughter With a see-thru blouse Who loved to grunt and ball And her name was Magdalena

War: celebrating a Russian victory in over Napoleon: 1812 Overture - Piotr Tchaikovsky Usually done with cannons, but I prefer it without. The cannons never go off in time with the tempo and I find that distracting. I haven't heard this conductor/orchestra/interpretation yet, so no comment on the quality.

Damn Your Eyes - Etta James Etta was in top form and the studio musicians and engineers were outstanding in this session.

From what I found in touring bands is the drummer gets the most chicks. Fortunately there were enough who liked saxophone players. Keyboard players got the fewest. In the 4oqe band I was in the longest, the drummer also played trombone, so I'd sit in on the drums so he could get up front, sing and play the 'bone. We switched instruments a lot. I also played some bass and rhythm guitar. The girls would ask "How many instruments do you play?!!!" I was young, we did college towns from Florida to Maine to Iowa and it was a great time. Insights and incites by Notes

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In the mid 1990s I spent a month in the UK. From London to Wales up the west side of the island to the Outer Hebrides, down the east side to Dover and back to London for my 4 final days. I sput 3,000 miles on the rental car. I really enjoyed myself and the people. In Wales I couldn't pronounce the signs and in Scotland I couldn't understand many of the people. I stopped at a road house in the Hebrides and at a pub met a man and his friend "Bob". I could understand about 1/10 of what one guy was saying (including his name), and none of what Bob was saying, but we shared smiles and a few rounds of drinks. The band was terrible, but in a very nice way, amateurish, bad intonation, but with plenty of great energy and enthusiasm. We had a great time. In Wales the motel we reserved earlier that day on the phone figured we weren't coming so they rented our room out. They sent us to an old Castle turned hotel and we got a more luxurious room for the same price as the one we reserved. At the time I was selling my Band-in-a-Box disks through a UK distributor. He sent me a green P decal for my rental car, and the UK drivers were very courteous. He put me up for a night and was a great host. But I had and still have no idea how to pronounce the signs in Wales. Nice country though and full of nice people. Notes

"Blackbird" - Beatles

And the French have an abundance of "Xs" and "Qs". In French scrabble the X and the Q are worth 2 points each. :D Putting those letters in plenty of words I suppose is better than wasting them. Notes

What do you call a drummer that breaks up with his girlfriend? Homeless.

That's Why God Made The Radio - Beach Boys (quintuple word score) ?

My first instrument was drums. Here is my advice. First: Learn at least the first dozen basic rudiments for drums. I think there are 40 but the first dozen or so will bring you a lot. Then when you hear drummers do things, your hands will already know how. Listen intently to drummers. My favorite are: Hal Blaine (Wrecking Crew - the most recorded musician in history) Ginger Baker John Bohnam Bernard "Pretty" Purdy Start by stepping on the hi-hat (sock) on all the 2s and 4s of a 4/4 song. Then eighth notes on the ride cymbal, then bass on 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4. This will build your most basic rhythm and teach you coordination. Then start going from there. Choose the Hal Blaine recordings first, as he is solid but never gets in the way of the rest of the band. Drums take time. Don't try to rush, take it in steps. Insights and incites by Notes

You Go To My Head - Mark Murphy A very different take on this old jazz standard Most people do it more like Sinatra (also a nice version)

lyrics by Irving Berlin: She started a heat wave By letting her seat wave And in such a way that The customers say that She certainly can can-can Pretty racy for 1933 Heat Wave - Ethel Waters

God can't spell becan wright

Take On Me - aha

Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal

synkrotron, you have a lot of time on your hands. I'm glad you are putting it to good use. Keep working on the becan though. Consider it the next challenge Notes

Contrary to the masses, my favorite Beethoven symphonies are not 5 and 9 but 4 and 7. OK, I'm weird. Symphony #7: Beethoven - George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra

One of the stupidest songs in rock history "Jolly Green Giant" - The Kingsmen

But then Garcia is dead and a dead Dead at that. Pigpen is a dead Dead too. That makes two. So how can we have a live Dead performance when two of the Deads are dead Deads? Now you have me confused.

Bulletproof Picasso - Train

The lens maker fell into his machine and made a spectacle of himself.