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"In My Room" - Beach Boys

True. But if you are going to endorse a label, be true to that label. It's about respecting the people who will come to your gig with expectations. Notes

If you get too far from 1, 4, 5, m6 you drift away from the blues. Jazz guys do that a lot, but it isn't blues anymore. When a blues artist tries to stay blues and starts putting in M7, 6, #9#11, etc, chords and plays bob scales, it bugs me. If he does it in the jazz genre, it delights me. It's about being creative with that limited palette. Insights and incites by Notes

The USA and S.Korea got their first case the very same day. The US denied it for 6 weeks (it's just a flu/hoax/etc.) while the politicians secretly dumped their stocks. S.Korea immediately isolated. Now we are the epicenter of the virus. It's late, but not too late. Stay home. Some governors look out for the welfare of their constituents, others look out only for themselves and the people who bought them with huge campaign contributions. Notes

"Our House" - Crosby, Stills & Nash

I don't believe anything that is to the left of The Atlantic or right of The Hill on the chart below. The rest I consider politically motivated propaganda.

"44 Minutes" - Megadeth

I'm Coming Home - Tom Jones triple word score

Obviously not perfectly healthy ;) Anyone getting COVID-19 is technically sick. Once dead, he is no longer sick, but certainly not perfectly healthy. Headlines can be a source of amusement. * * * We're in economic self-isolation. All gigs cancelled between March 17 and mid October. Fortunately the mortgage is paid and other than my car payments, we have zero debt. Notes

Hey Craig - I said I prefer capitalism (with controls) but I'm not above saying that there are pros and cons to both systems. I think controlled capitalism has more pros and fewer cons than socialism or communism. My post wasn't meant as political but as an analysis on how different systems are treating the virus. We have to learn from examples or we don't learn anything at all. Right now with a fraction of the population of China, the US has more cases of the virus according to the middle of the road media that are most trustworthy (I do not trust anything to the left of The Atlantic or the right of The Hill - and that means I trust neither Fox or MSNBC). That shows the result of isolation and ramping up the defense a thousand percent. It's only a method of comparison, and is not meant to show political bias, but reaction bias. We have two choices - 1) Isolation to "flatten the curve", this minimizes the deaths and the stress on the medical system but prolongs the pandemic 2) "Herd immunity" - let it run wild and take the casualties in stride, no hospital beds left, no ventilators left, and doctors have to decide who to try to save and who to give a death sentence to. This maximizes the casualties and gets it over with quicker There are pluses and minuses to both methods. Since I am probably in the age group that doesn't get a ventilator, I prefer choice number 1 (In Italy, anybody over 60 doesn't get a ventilator and many under won't either). We all watch and listen to the media. The attached diagram is from Politifact, which shows no bias to either side of the aisle and has won Pulitzer Prizes for honesty. The three sections in the middle of the chart are all I trust, and no, I don't trust them 100% either, only about 90.

The sun is out, it's in the low 80s. the windows are open, a gentle sea breeze is drifting through and I'm listening to Cardinals, Blue Jays, Woodpeckers, Buntings, Mourning Doves, and Mockingbirds sing.

"Monkey Time" - Major Lance

"Over, Under, Sideways, Down" - The Yardbirds

The problem with capitalism is that if there is no profit incentive, nothing gets done. And the politicians delay before they do anything and won't budge until the financial losses reach the point where it gets more profitable and the oligarchy tells them to move. Plus they dump their stocks while telling the public not to panic. China built a huge hospital immediately (no profit motive but life saving) and isolated. I'm not saying communism is better. I prefer capitalism (but with sensible controls), but there are some things each system does better and worse than the other. And when some politician says in so many words, "give up your life for the good of the economy" I say "You first". Notes

Back in the 1980s I lived a block away from a college. It was nice, lots of young people around, quiet at night. Then the put up a giant radio antenna to broadcast the school's radio station. WQCS was in everything. Stereo sets, telephone, any recording device. I complained to the FCC and they sent out an engineer, the same one the college uses. Needless to say, that never got resolved. Recording anything but MIDI was out of the question. We moved. Fortunately we were renting at the time so it was easy. So what I'm saying is this: "I understand and feel your pain." Notes

When they sing "Who Are You" a number of people respond, "I forgot".

Autumn Leaves - Eva Cassidy Great singing and guitar playing from a lady who left us way too soon.

Is this what happens to some when they are quarantined together too long? I think they each married a pin head.

Make Me Smile - Chicago Featuring Terry Kath, one of the greatest rock guitarists ever - one of two that Jimi Hendrix said, "He's better than me." Too bad he killed himself playing with guns. He should have known better.

The older folks should get this one....

Guatemala Connection - Hubert Laws I haven't heard this in a while, it brings back good memories. I bought by first flute at about the time this came out from a fan. She showed me how to blow into it with the proper embouchure, and I got a fingering chart and a method book. Hubert is probably my favorite jazz flute player.

Mandolin Picker, what you say is definitely true, but if "orange" hadn't: 1) Fired the NSC Pandemic Team Experts to increase his tax give-away to the super rich 2) Try to deny the pandemic as long as he could get away with -- and lie about the numbers and severity so it wouldn't tarnish his his image and rating as a president 3) Instead of sailing our ship through these troubled waters he spend way too much time blaming others for the problem to keep his image up as the US response was delayed a US response even longer 4) Handed it off to Pence instead of steering the ship himself so that Pence might get the blame The captain is always blamed when the ship sinks. He is supposed to take care of us. Yes I know there are dedicated health professionals working long shift with limited equipment. My brother-in-law is a world-famous doctor who lectures others all over the world. Yes I know that in the USA's for-profit medical system, the bean counters running the hospitals want to keep costs down and profits up. And yes I know that this isn't his fault -- although his ferocity to kill the better-than-nothing Obamacare (which was modeled on Romneycare) does hurt the poor excessively while it helps the rich bean counters. But there is no excuse for him not taking charge immediately, ignoring the expert opinions given to him right at the start because of his on personal vanity and delaying our response resulting in needless deaths of US citizens. A president is supposed to put the country in front of his own self-interests. He has not done this. I'm a moderate +50 year registered independent. I lean slightly conservative on fiscal issues and slightly liberal on humanitarian issues. I expect the people who are elected to do the right thing, immediately, no matter what it does to their personal finances and/or reputation. In this case, our president utterly failed us. So I have a right to be angry with him. There are things I both liked and disliked about every president since Nixon. Before Nixon I was too young. I'm not a fan-boy to any of them, even the ones I generally liked. In my opinion the present leader scores lowest in my estimation. Others may disagree and have a right to do so. Insights and incites by Notes