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"Back At The Chicken Shack" - Jimmy Smith & Stanley Turrentine IMO anyone who plays B-3 organ or a synth emulation owes a debt to Mr. Smith, and Mr. Turrentine is one of my top 10 all-time favorite tenor sax players.

Valley Of Pain - Bonnie Raitt

Don't You Just Know It - Huey 'Piano' Smith And The Clowns Some ancient New Orleans R&B/Rock n Roll I played in a previous band. It brings back good memories of some old friends I haven't seen for years and lost touch with.

"***** Toad" - Prince

Thanks. I'm having a nice birthday. Brian May doesn't know it, but we share July 19th as our birthday. I didn't get invited to his party though. But then I didn't invite him to mine either.

If ever you are near Tampa Florida, the Dali Museum in neighboring St Petersburg is a good visit. Take a docent tour (they are free) and you will not only get a lot of information about Dali's work, but will be shown how to see hidden images in some of his paintings. Where we? --- Royal & the Serpent x Marky Style - Salvador Dali Spiders And Snakes - Jim Stafford

And he missed Pluto which wasn't discovered yet, and sadly now has been demoted.

Because it's my birthday today:

Orb? Like planets? The Planets - Gustav Holst

Scythian Suite - Sergei Prokofiev - Antal Dorati / London Symphony Orchestra I love the dissonances in this one - it's "heavy metal classical" and certainly NOT music to relax with

Blame the roadies.

"That Old Black Magic" - Louis Prima & Keely Smith Corny by today's standards, but fun anyway. My dad was a huge Louis Prima fan, and Sam Butera, the sax player/band leader was one of the best New Orleans genre sax players.

"That's Life" - Frank Sinatra

Kenny Wayne Shepherd as a one-man garage band (this guy can play blues guitar) "Why We Cry (Lockdown Version) - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Surrender - Swing Out Sister

The orthopedist went back to school to bone up on new surgical techniques.

I give you a song consistently voted in the top 10 worst rock n roll songs of all time. We play a shortened version of it as a goof and our audience loves it. Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen

I use the digital tuner in my amp sim/fx pedal using harmonics on the 12th fret. Close enough for rock n roll. Notes

A Real Mother For Ya - Johnny 'Guitar' Watson

Indeed, equal temperament puts the notes out of tune but gives us the ability to transpose the song and have it sound right. With my sax, I use my ear and lip pressure. Sometimes even intentionally out of tune for effect. I'll do the same on guitar at times, although I find it easier on the sax. But then I've been playing sax since I was a child. As long as it sounds good to me, I'm OK with it. Some old rock songs that have out of tune guitars wouldn't sound as good if they had invented electronic tuners back then, :D Notes

Sidewalk Surfin' - Jan & Dean

Balada Conducatorolui from the great Gypsy music album Latcho Drom The fiddler does something I've never seen done before by pulling a string instead of a bow across the strings.