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"I've Got To Use My Imagination" - The Rides (Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shephard & Barry Goldberg) Kenny Wayne is one of my favorite blues guitarists And the story:

How about from Butcher to the dinner table featuring Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf

I watched a Rush Documentary a few days ago (DVD rented from Netflix). I've always liked the band and though they were under-appreciated.

The Music From Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini The title song is early Rock n Roll but the rest is some of the finest cool school jazz ever recorded. The music was much better than the TV show was IMO. I had this LP as a child, and it's good to visit an old friend every now and then.

Stormy Monday Blues (originally titled Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker (it's his song) (check out the three P90 pickups and he is a good picker. Every guitar playing blues artist owes a debt to T-Bone)

It's the only association I can think of this sleepy morning that fits the above. Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Robins are on their way back up north and are darting all around the area, chirping and squawking as they forage for insects, berries and anything else edible. So I have the windows open to enjoy the chorus. It only lasts a couple of days before they move on. They are early this year, they usually arrive in early February.

The Bells Of Rhymney - The Byrds I think it's originally a Pete Seeger song

True. The feral swine are doing well in Florida, but that's because the Spaniards brought them here in the 1500s. They've become a bit of a pest. But even so there are a lot more food source hogs in the USA than the feral ones. I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that to be global too. And if it weren't for the rapid proliferation of humans, most wild animals might be doing better. But I'm not volunteering to reduce our numbers yet ;) And I'm a hog for becan. Notes

Teen Town - Jaco Pastorius Jaco and I both played in that Boca Raton Teen Town in an old WWII Army barracks building. I also played with on of Jaco's first bass teachers. He said that Jaco learned so fast that pretty soon he had nothing else to show him.

I still have my 1987 Yamaha TX81z, and it still works. So does my Roland MT-32 that I bought shortly after. The nice thing about MIDI hardware is as computer OS's come and go, good ol' MIDI with that 5 pin DIN connectors still work. Notes

Corner Pocket - Count Basie sometimes I'm in the mood for some good ol' swing jazz, and Basie was one of the best.

Whacky Dust - Manhattan Transfer Originally a Chick Webb song with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals. I like the Manhattan Transfer version even better. You decide. And it's about cocaine.

But the pig is alive to feed us. If it weren't for the pork eating humans, pigs would probably be extinct by now. So logically becan is good for the pig as a species.

I remember when MIDI was new, too. My first was a Yamaha PS Keyboard that had a sequencer built in and I had a Korg DDD5 as a drum machine attached to the MIDI cable to get the then in-style gated snare sound. Then I bought an Atari/ST with built in MIDI ports, and Master Tracks Pro sequencer. MIDI has come a long way since then and the proof of the concept is that it is still useful and current. I do all my backing tracks for my duo in MIDI because it is so, so, so, so much more editable than sound files. Insights and incites by Notes

"Lovely Day" - Bill Withers

Sarah Vaughan - Brazilian Romance I'm neither wild about much of her offerings, nor bummed by them either. But IMO this album is so good I bought it and enjoy it.

I always thought it would be a good idea to put a few of those biohazard waste stickers on the band van instead of the name of the band.

Slovak Suite - Vítězslav Novák

Basket Case - Green Day

Nah. I consider myself a "stud muffin" :D

Funny, but it hurt to even think about that ^^^

"Zoot Suit Riot" - Cherry Poppin' Daddies

Truth. Every woman I've ever been intimate with was introduced to me via my saxophone. I wouldn't know how to meet a woman any other way. My first gig was when I was in junior high school. I was in the school band but after school I got together with some friends and started a rock band. We were terrible, but everybody was back then. We got a gig playing at a junior high dance. There I was on stage, with my best friends, having the time of my life playing the music we tried so hard to cover, and when I looked up, much to my surprise I noticed that cute girl who wouldn't acknowledge my existence in English class was "making eyes" at me! And at the end of the night they actually paid me for that!!!!!!!!! That's when I said, "This is what I want to do for the rest of my life." After being rejected (4F) by the Air Force I went on the road with a rock band. 2 weeks to a month in a different college town playing singles bars (this was before DJs got the youth market). It was the dawn of the free s-e-x age and before the AIDS age so anything you caught could be cured. So let's say I had a lot of fun. I've been playing music all my adult life and I eventually married another musician. She's the best and we have fun on and off stage. All thanks to my saxophone. Just livin' the dream I guess.