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SirKadly

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I find that recently I have been buying too many books. I have to get this under control. So I am going to take a two day hiatus from even looking at any books. I think those two days will be February 30th and 31st.
 
Bliss Doubt

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SirKadly said:
Incidentally, I ran across this earlier today, and it is what made me start thinking it was time to stop letting my fears keep me imprisoned. Granted deciding to do something and actually doing it are different but it's at least a baby step towards changing how I have lived the last few years.

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Reminds me of a great book, "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd. I forget all the details, been a while since I read it, but at some point she realizes, "my jar is open. Why am I still here", and she runs away from home in search of...

I just saw your bookworm thread. One day soon I'm gonna overrun that thread.
 
Jimi

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Good afternoon Family :wave:
Had a busy day today then heard our neighbor got cancer, I kinda suspected it cause I talked to one of her kids and he said she was drinkin cabbage smoothies, don't know if you've ever tried one but havin cancer is the only reason I can think of that anyone would drink one, not real nasty but nothing I would prefer. Then we talked to her and I was right. So many people gettin it anymore.:(
I hope the day has been kind to everyone;).



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Born on this day, February 26, 1945, Bob "The Bear" Hite, vocalist and harmonica player with Canned Heat who had the 1968 US No.11 single with ‘Going Up The Country’ and a 1970 UK No.2 single with ‘Let’s Work Together’. In 1965, aged 22, Hite formed a band with blues aficionado, collector and scholar, slide guitarist and harmonica player Al "Blind Owl" Wilson. Henry Vestine, formerly with Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, joined soon after on lead guitar and this trio formed the core of Canned Heat, taking the name from bluesman Tommy Johnson's 1928 recording "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat". The trio were eventually joined by Larry Taylor (bass) who replaced Mark Andes, and Frank Cook (drums) replaced later by Adolfo de la Parra. Canned Heat appeared at most major musical events at the end of the 1960s including the Monterey Pop Festival, the Newport Pop Festival, and Woodstock, performing blues standards along with their own material and occasionally indulging in lengthy psychedelic solos. Although the two guitar players garnered much of the band's publicity, it was Hite's powerhouse vocals and imposing stage appearance that drove the band's sound.
The first big live appearance of Canned Heat was at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 17, 1967. A picture of the band taken at the performance was featured on the cover of Down Beat Magazine where an article complimented their playing: "Technically, Vestine and Wilson are quite possibly the best two-guitar team in the world and Wilson has certainly become our finest white blues harmonica man. Together with powerhouse vocalist Bob Hite, they performed the country and Chicago blues idiom of the 1950s so skillfully and naturally that the question of which race the music belongs to becomes totally irrelevant." D.A. Pennebaker's documentary captured their rendition of "Rollin and Tumblin" and two other songs from the set, "Bullfrog Blues" and "Dust My Broom", found a place later in a boxed CD set in 1992. Canned Heat also began to garner their notoriety as "the bad boys of rock" for being jailed in Denver, Colorado, after a police informant provided enough evidence for their arrest for drugs (an incident recalled in their song "My Crime"). Band manager Skip Taylor was forced to obtain the $10,000 bail by selling off Canned Heat's publishing rights to Liberty Records president Al Bennett.
"On the Road Again" became the band's break-out song and was a worldwide success, becoming a number one hit in most markets and finally put a blues song on the top charts. In October 1968 the band released their third album, Living the Blues, which included their best known song, "Going Up the Country". Wilson's incarnation of Henry Thomas' "Bull-Doze Blues" was almost a note-for-note copy of the original, down to Thomas' instrumental break on the "quills" (pan-pipes) which Jim Horn duplicated on flute. Wilson rewrote the lyrics with a simple message that caught the "back-to-nature" attitude of the late 1960s. The song went to #1 in 25 countries around the world (#11 on the U.S. national chart) and would go on to become the unofficial theme song of the Woodstock Festival as captured in Michael Wadleigh's 1970 documentary.
Numerous personnel changes (including guitarist Harvey Mandel who appeared with the band at Woodstock) followed but Hite remained a mainstay in the band. In 1970 Canned Heat had a big hit with "Let's Work Together" and was the band's only top ten hit to feature the vocals of Bob "The Bear" Hite. The album featured piano by Dr. John.
On September 3, 1970, just prior to leaving for a festival in Berlin, the band learned of Al Wilson's suicide by barbiturate overdose. He had suffered from depression. His body was found on a hillside behind Hite's home. Hite carried on again with a revolving door of personnel as the band struggled under heavy debt, even resorting to importing and selling drugs to stay float.
On April 5, 1981, during a break between sets at The Palomino Club in North Hollywood, Hite was handed a drug vial by a fan. Thinking it contained *******, Hite stuck a straw into the vial and snorted it. The drug turned out to be ****** and Hite turned blue and collapsed. Some roadies put Hite in the band's van and drove him to a nearby home where he died.
A serious blues and jazz collector, Hite reportedly had over 15,000 78 rpm recordings in his possession (see photo below).


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The first photo ever taken of the Rolling Stones, 1963.
 
Bliss Doubt

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Jimi said:
Good afternoon Family :wave:
Had a busy day today then heard our neighbor got cancer, I kinda suspected it cause I talked to one of her kids and he said she was drinkin cabbage smoothies, don't know if you've ever tried one but havin cancer is the only reason I can think of that anyone would drink one, not real nasty but nothing I would prefer. Then we talked to her and I was right. So many people gettin it anymore.:(
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I suspect chemtrails more than anything now. You can't get away from them. You can eat clean, filter your water, even wear organic cotton clothes, but walk outside and those chemtrails are falling down on you. This is the worst kind of war because you don't hear shots fired or bombs dropped, so there is no way to run for cover.
 
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