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Behind Those Hazel Eyes - Kelly Clarkson

Why do cows have hooves instead of feet? Because they lactose

Heart attack caused by High Blood Pressure - Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns

I spent 5 weeks in Australia in our fall, your spring 2018, before the fires in a class B camper van. I started in Brisbane, up to Cape Trib, over to Darwin, down the Steward hwy to Kangaroo Island and meandered over to Sydney. We saw tons of great scenery, enjoyed your cities, and saw all the wildlife species on our list (cassowary, platypus, echidna, dingo, kangaroo, wallaby, penguin, lyretail, koala salties, and so much more). However what I like most about Oz were the people. We met scores of friendly, cheerful, and helpful people -- not a sourpuss in all 5 weeks. I could move to Australia if someone would adopt us :D Anyway, my heart cried when I read about your fires. Good luck this season. Insights and incites by Notes

Indeed. Leilani and I were in a 4 piece, trio and then a 5 piece band before we went duo. Before that we were both in separate bigger bands. I was in a 7 piece and if I remember correctly she was in a 5 piece band. The last was the 5 piece. We lost a bass player. Family problems. We were out of work 2 months auditioning and then breaking in a new one. A few months later we lost the drummer. Illness (sadly). We found a drummer with a small kit, kept steady time, had tasty fills, supported but didn't overpower the band, and she could even sing backup well. How lucky!!! We were only out of work a month. Then we went to our first gig. It was at country club. We were to play in the dining room for a dinner set and then dancing but the crowd was so big they had to bring in extra tables. So they pulled back the accordion pleat walls between the lounge and the dining room and asked us to set up there. The new drummer who I think was a Seventh Day Adventist said, "God will never forgive me if I play in a bar." I said "God will have to forgive me for homicide if you don't play in a bar tonight." Where did she think we were going to play? Why didn't she bring that up at her audition? The next day I bought a keyboard that had an internal sequencer and a drum controller (I think it was my old Octopad). Since I play drums, bass, sax, flute, at the time only rhythm guitar, and I get around on a keyboard I figured I could make my own backing tracks. (I still don't consider myself a keyboard player - but a keyboard hacker - I have one smart and one dumb hand on that instrument.) I bought a Teac 4 track reel - to - reel and I recorded the keyboard/drum parts and added bass, guitar and whatever else on the other tracks. Mixed to cassette and played on an akai speed calibrated mixing two bay cassette deck. Then came MIDI sequencers and my load was lightened. Our first year the work was light, but since our second season in 1986 we haven't been out of work until COVID came along. We even had to block out times to take a vacation or else we wouldn't get one. So I've been done with groupies for a loooong time, and that's OK with me. I got lucky with Leilani. Insights in incites by Notes

To be or not to be a horse rider, that is equestrian.

I got married to someone in the band.

"Greatest Hits" - Nina Simone

I used to be an archaeologist. My career ended up in ruins...

Done with groupies, I got married.

I am what I am 'cause I am what I am.... Popeye zen

If I Only Had A Brain - Judy Garland & Ray Bolger

An old guy was working out at the gym when he spotted a young hot girl walking in. He asked the trainer standing next to him, "What machine should I use to impress that girl over there?" The trainer looked him up and down and said; "I would recommend the ATM in the lobby."

I don't drink beer. It was the first drink I got sick on - violently sick - and to this day I haven't acquired a taste for it. (Whine whine whine.) Whine? Someone say wine? But a good red wine? That's another story. I just bought some Robert Mondavi Cabernet aged in bourbon barrels. Yummy. Cheers!

"Liar" - Argent

Ron had owned a large farm in Florida for several years. He had a large pond at the back. It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some orange and lime trees. One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over. He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee. As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence, and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted to him, "We're not coming out until you leave!" Ron frowned, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked." Holding the bucket up Ron said, "I'm here to feed the alligator."

Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Burning Hell - Joe Bonamassa

Windows open, and a mockingbird has been singing for over an hour, almost non-stop

It's about "working girls" "Bad Girls" - Donna Summer

A blond and a lawyer were sitting next to each other in first class on a plane. The blonde just wanted to sleep. The lawyer said, "Let's play a game, I'll ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer you give me $5, they you ask. She says, "No, I just want to sleep." So the lawyer, says OK, I'll make it more interesting, I'll give you $50 if I don't know the answer, and if you don't know, it'll only cost you $5. This interests the blond. The lawyer asks, "What does nolo contendere mean?" and the blonde silently reaches in her purse and hands him $5. The lawyer says, "Now it's your turn". The blond asks, "What goes up a hill on 3 legs but comes down on 4?" The lawyer gets out his phone and his laptop and spends the rest of the flight trying to answer this one. Meanwhile the blonde is sleeping. When the plane starts to descend for landing, the lawyer wakes the blonde, and says, "I don't know the answer" and hands her $50. Then he asks "OK what is the answer to your question?" and she reaches in her purse and hands him $5.

Now you tell me :D I guess I'm stuck here.

"Higher And Higher" - Moody Blues