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Jimi

Jimi

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Good Mornin Family:wave:
Gonna be in and out all day, tryin to get this pre surgery stuff done, what a true PITA, but tryin to do it with a good attitude, ;)
I hope everyone is stayin healthy and havin a fantastic day:)


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ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY: 12.29
1967 - Dave Mason announces that he is leaving Traffic, just as the group is releasing its debut album. There was friction about the direction of the band between Mason and Steve Winwood..
Said Mason:"I have a very pop sensibility, and in the beginning the songs that I was writing became the singles for the band, and that was a rub for the other three. They didn’t want it. That’s why I upped and moved to California.”
The reconciled with Mason, who rejoined Traffic in the spring of 1968 and contributed heavily to the band's second album, Traffic, writing half of the songs, among them "Feelin' Alright?," which went on to become a rock standard, particularly after Joe Cocker's 1969 cover version became an American Top 40 hit in 1972.
1975 - Time magazine introduces the phrase "Sex Rock" in an article taking aim at Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby."
Time claims that 15 percent of air time on AM radio is taken up by sex rock songs like "Do It Any Way You Wanna" by People's Choice, "That's The Way (I Like It)" by KC & The Sunshine Band, "I Want'a Do Something Freaky To You" by Leon Haywood and "Let's Do It Again" by the Staple Singers. The most egregious offender though is "Love To Love You Baby," a song they say contains 22 orgasms.
Sex Rock only grows stronger, and it takes "Darling Nikki" by Prince to spark the next kerfuffle over lascivious lyrics, which comes in the mid-'80s when the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) launches a successful campaign to get warning stickers places on certain albums.
1982 - Unexpectedly (and some say inexplicably) delving into electronic music, Neil Young releases his 12th studio album, Trans. He had employed a vocoder to synthesize his voice on five of the album's nine tracks, resulting in disembodied singing.
Later, Young would reveal that some of the songs expressed a theme of attempted communication with his disabled son, and in that context, lines like "I stand by you" and "So many things still left to do/But we haven't made it yet" seemed clearer. Trans had a few good songs, notably "Sample and Hold" (which seemed to be about a computer dating service for robots), a remake of "Mr. Soul," and "Like an Inca"
Birthdays:
Rick Danko, best known as the bassist and sometime lead vocalist for the Band, was born today in 1943. As a member of the Hawks — alongside his future associates in the Band — he was part of the backing band for Ronnie Hawkins, and later Bob Dylan. In the late ‘60s, Danko found a pink house in Saugerties, New York. The residence, later dubbed “Big Pink,” became a home and recording space for the Band’s Music from Big Pink and The Basement Tapes, released with Bob Dylan.
Yvonne Elliman is 72. She sang the role of Mary Magdalene in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar; the role brought her instant fame. Elliman also played the Magdalene character in the film version of Superstar and was nominated for a Golden Globe award; it also gave her a hit with "I Don't Know How to Love Him."
In 1977, the Bee Gees were working on Saturday Night Fever and wrote 'How Deep Is Your Love' for her, but the band's manager Robert Stigwood wanted the Bee Gees to perform it. Instead, she recorded 'If I Can't Have You'. She also worked with Eric Clapton performing on his albums from 1974-77, including 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One in Every Crowd, E. C. Was Here, No Reason to Cry, and Slowhand.
Marianne Faithfull is 77. One time girlfriend of Mick Jagger, she achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single 'As Tears Go By' (written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham) and became one of the lead female artists during the "British Invasion" in the United States. She also co-wrote the Rolling Stones' "Sister Morphine."
She pulled off an astonishing comeback in late 1979 with Broken English. Displaying a weathered, cutting voice that had lowered a good octave since the mid-'60s, Faithfull had also begun to write much of her own material, and addressed sex and despair with wrenching realism. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
R.I.P.:
1980 - Singer/songwriter Tim Hardin died of a ****** overdose. A gentle, soulful singer who owed as much to blues and jazz as folk, Tim Hardin produced an impressive body of work in the late '60s without ever approaching either mass success or the artistic heights of the best singer/songwriters.
Hardin wrote the songs "If I Were A Carpenter" (covered by Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash and June Carter, The Four Tops, Leon Russell, Small Faces, Robert Plant and Bob Seger,) and "Reason To Believe" (covered by Rod Stewart).
On This Day In Music History was sourced, copied, pasted and occasionally woven together with my own crude prose from Song Facts, Best Rock Bands, Allmusic, and Wikipedia.
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Bliss Doubt

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SirKadly said:
Love the idea of a regular thread party, just not sure how well it could be arranged.
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Jimi said:
I have thought this over and was thinkin it would probably haveta be a Sunday night cause Bliss goes out on Saturday night and other than that Kad works every night except Sat and Sunday nights, Wolfie might be able to be free one Sunday night Snap could too, Goph and me are retired so we could prolly swing it, well with me it would depend on how Jean is doin after surgery. But Sunday sounds like the most likely, What's everyone else think , any other ideas?
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All I can add is that if you guys figure it out I'll do my best. I don't always go out on Friday and Saturday nights. The only thing I try to be faithful for is our supper club, since I started it during the 2020 lockdown :devil: . I'm not dating anybody right now.

Sunday nights are definitely good nearly always.

I think when we're all playing on this thread, it's a party anyyway, but intention, announcement and planning might gather in more people.
 
Jimi

Jimi

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Good still mornin Family :wave:
Been tryin to catch up around here cause next week starts all of Jeans pre-surgery stuff again:crazy: so got to have a little fun when I can;)
I hope the New Year is bein kind to everyone:)

December 31, 1961: Janis Joplin makes her debut on stage, at The Halfway House, in Beaumont, Texas, USA.

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2WhiteWolves

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Two days ago with the good day.....
Went well until deciding to eat dinner on the couch. Tangee decided he wanted what was on the plate. He sneaked up, stretched up his leg, brought out claws, grabbing my plate with said claws and dumped it all over me and couch :gaah: The good thing is, I bought couch cover. Took it outside cleaned the food off and put it the washer. And oh, more goodness, there was enough of dinner I refilled my plate and the food was tasty :)

Yesterdays good thing. All of my dinner stayed on my plate and all ended up in my tummy :) 👍
 
Jimi

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My good thing for today was I made 2 successful batches of spaghetti, even spelled it right, made one regular batch for Jean and one outta chickpea for me, No burnt spaghetti, no burnt sauce, no burnt chuckwagon :bliss: . Now to most that's just regular stuff but till lately my cookin skills were confined pretty much to the grill, well at least for the past almost 50 years;)
 
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