Both of my sons are lefties. The older one is a classic lefty who couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn if he tried to throw or bat righty. The younger son tried batting from both sides of the plate and was always more comfortable batting right. Everything else, he does left-handed.
Sorry for the diversion-- back to our regularly scheduled programming.
The privilege of youthful naïveté.
Bob Andrews keyboard player extraordinaire. Played with Graham Parker and the Rumor, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello…
Sly Stone
Frederick Forsyth, author of “Day of the Jackal”, “The Odessa File”, and “The War Dogs.”
I honestly thought he passed away years ago.
My goal is to live long enough so that, when news of my death starts to circulate, people’s reaction is that they thought I was dead already. It would mean that I had both outlived expectations and been able to avoid people. Win-Win.
Current vibe at the Casita de Juan streaming KUTX 98.9 in Austin, and they’re cranking the live version of “Are You Ready?” from the Live at Filmore album.
Damn good stuff.
RIP, Sly.
I’d argue most people have modest expectations of me. So my bar for success is pretty doable.
What’s the old saying…the key to success is to lower your expectations to the point they’re already met.
In other words, quod erat demonstrandum.
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys founder and musical genius. 82.
Someday I’ll tune in here and it’ll be Trump. Oh, what a wonderful day that will be.
I think my appreciation of Beach Boys music was adversely affected by the low fi ways it was presented to me as a kid.
I’ll have to give Pet Sounds a full sit thru with my decent headphones.
Any documentaries I should check out along those lines?
Gary England, groundbreaking weatherman, 85.
Loved by every Oklahoman.
This was a good one.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6683912/
There’s also a good documentary about The Wrecking Crew that highlights Brian Wilson a lot.
Pet Sounds will absolutely reward you. See if you can find the box set; it has (among many other things) the vocals isolated. If that doesn’t do it for you then I don’t know what to tell you.
This isn’t about Brian Wilson PUR SAY, but he’s in it and his participation is an absolute highlight, and there is no shortage of highlights:
Happily you don’t even have to go to Blockbuster, you can watch it raacheere:
HIGHLY recommended to anyone working with a little internal kook. Or a lot.
I grew up listening to the Beach Boys. Their early music was a lot of fun. Barbara Ann, Little Deuce Coop, Surfer Girl… Then Pet Sounds put them on a whole different level. I also dig the shit out of Smiley Smile.
I didn’t know much about him or the Beach Boys, saw this one recently. I felt I learned a good bit about him by watching it.
