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Mr. Big - Free

Car cleaning? What? Remove that protective covering and expose it's paint to the damaging rays of the sun?

From the very interesting movie about "gypsy" music from Spain to India: Taraf de Haidouks is the name of the group, a Romani taraf from Clejani, Romania They have two songs on the DVD and audio CD I couldn't get either one to embed, but they are worth your time. In the first one the violinist pulls a string over the violin strings to get some very haunting and unusual sounds. The second one is just a joy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-_W-dOYeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQn6Qb-9mD8

Concierto de Aranjuez ( Joaquin Rodrigo), Recuerdos de la Alhambra ( Francisco Tarrega) - Pepe Romero I saw the Romero family play guitar in concert, and although they are all extremely talented, I thought Pepe had that something extra that can't be described.

Here in Florida, thanks to Corona, Bands have been Banned. If we demonstrate in front of a government building, will it be a Band Stand?

Perhaps the bari player got her dress at a 20% off sale? :D Or cut rate? Notes

Yes the one with the biggest sax has the shortest dress. There must be a message there, but I be damned if I can figure it out. For those not familiar from left to right: Alto, Alto, Tenor, Baritone (usually shortened to Bari in conversation). The altos and bari are in Eb. When the piano plays Bb, they play a G The tenor is in Bb. When the piano plays Bb, the tenor plays C. Why is this done? So the player can finger the notes on each horn identically. There is a soprano (think Kenny G) also in Bb and a bass in Bb. There are other seldom seen saxes, contrabass, sopranino and no longer manufactured altos in F and tenors in C. Unlike the guitar, the sax is not a transposing instrument. To play a C scale and a D scale requires entirely different fingering. No moving it up one fret like the guitar, but completely different. On the other hand, it's a lot easier reading music on the sax. Every instrument has its gifts and challenges. Insights and incites by Notes

"Rip It Up" - Little Richard

"Wild One" - Bobby Rydell The song and style are definitely dated, but Bobby was a good singer (better than his pop stuff showed)

Leilani and I spent a day there and still didn't see/hear everything. There was even a very early Les Paul Gold Top owned by Les there. Leilani and I were on our way to The Badlands and we stopped in a motel in Vermillion to spend the night. We noticed a poster in the lobby. It featured a vintage poster of an all female saxophone quartet and an ad for the museum. Since we had a rough itinerary with no pre-booked hotel reservations, we decided to visit it. WOW! What a find. If you ever get near it, it's worth the day. Here is part of the poster we saw: Notes

https://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/47/messages/499.html

Stormy Monday Blues - Bobby "Blue" Bland Of all the versions of the T-Bone Walker classic I've heard, this is my favorite.

And the dyslexic are without a gif

"It's Now Or Never" - Elvis Presley New, different words to the Neapolitan song "O Sole Mio". The Elvis version has become the biggest selling recording of "O Sole Mio" according to an article I read in Billboard years ago.

Thanks, I knew about the legal battles, but not in that much detail. I also didn't know of the childhood accidents. When I was in the National Music Museum, in Vermillion, South Dakota I saw an entire family of his saxes as well of a few of his other inventions like a trumpet with two bells. Back then it was called America's Shrine to Music and it's on the campus of the U of S.D. If you ever get near South Dakota, a stop at this museum is a must for any musician. It rivals the finest instrument museums in Europe. You can go online and view a sampling of the instruments here http://nmmusd.org/ and click on collections. When I visited the museum they had an audio guide that let you hear some of the very instruments in that museum being played. Thanks again for the interesting history lesson.

"I Miss You" - Adele lyrics: I miss you when the lights go out It illuminates all of my doubts

"In Dust We Trust" - Chemical Brothers

The Hit "Sway" was first a Spanish pop song: Quien Será - Ksenya Nikora & Nikorasong I've never heard this version so I'll listen to it with you ?

"Kiss And Say Goodbye" - The Manhattans

El Amor Brujo - Manuel de Falla - Orquesta de Postsmout Some Spanish "classical" music for this morning.

"Can't Find My Way Home" - Blind Faith

Same here. But L.A. Lakers, Ruth Chris' Steakhouses, Trump Hotels, Big Oil and tons of other businesses have their money (and they have ours as well). I figure that's the way it was planned from the start. The alpha dog gets the best food, and when the pack is starving, the alpha dog is still well fed. I filed unemployment in Florida. Now Florida has made International news in the BBC, The Guardian and other papers as being the hardest state in the US to get benefits and one of the stingiest in those benefits IF you can get them. The system designed under the direction of our former governor Rick Scott was designed to crash, and to deny, not to help. BTW before he ran for office, under Scott's leadership his hospital had the all-time biggest Medicare/Medicaid fraud/theft to date. Even though the present governor has banned all live music (banned bands) the Florida Unemployment software has classified me "ineligible". Same for thousands of other musicians, waitresses, bartenders, cooks, uber drivers, and so on. One paper estimated that between 10 and 20% of all applicants get approved thanks to the built in discrimination. I doubt I'll see the stimulus check or get any promised help. Actually I'd rather work. It seems to me mass producing testing kits then testing and tracking everyone would cost less than all this welfare fiat money. It would put people to work FDR style, making the kits, and most of us could go back to work without fear of playing Russian Roulette. After all there are asymptomatic people out there who are virtual "Typhoid Mary" people. Aren't we supposed to learn from history? It's actually working in New Zealand. With repeated testing, tracking, isolating, and treating they have effectively wiped it out in their country. The PM said with continued testing, tracking, and treating she feels any isolated new cases could be taken care of quickly. But I guess that's too logical and the alpha dogs won't get fat enough. Insights, incites and a minor rant by Notes

"Teen Town" - Weather Report (Jaco Pastorius) Named after a place Jaco and I both played (on different dates and in different bands). Boca Raton Teen Town, a dance venue that was housed in abandoned WWIi army barracks. I also played with Jaco's first bass teacher. He told me Jaco learned so fast he outgrew his teacher quickly.

Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 (arr. W. Kanengiser) : V. Fandango Asturiano · Los Angeles Guitar Quartet This is just one movement. I heard the entire Rimsky-Korsakov piece by them on NPR and am thinking seriously about buying the CD if available, if not a download and I'll burn my own.

"Yours Is No Disgrace" - Yes