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Jimi

Jimi

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Ok I'm tired, I'm goin to bed:(
Good night everyone
Thank you for playin today
Sleep well

May be an image of text that says 'Good .welhesa Night 11 1 1 10 2 9 3- 8 7 4. 6 765 6 5.'
 
Bliss Doubt

Bliss Doubt

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The Crosses
-Juliette Greco (1927-2020)

Born in 1927, peace was never to come in Juliette's childhood. This is what war does:

My God, there are so many crosses on this earth
Iron crosses, wooden crosses, humble familiar crosses
Small silver crosses hanging on chests
Old crosses from convents lost among the ruins

And I, poor me, have my cross in my head
An immense leaden cross as vast as love
I hang the wind on it, I hold back the storm
I prolong the evening on it and hide the day

And I, poor me, have my cross in my head
A word is engraved on it that looks like “suffer”
But this familiar word that my lips repeat
Is so heavy to bear that I think I will die

My God, there are so many on the deep roads
Silent crosses watching over the world
Tall crosses of forgiveness raised toward the gallows
Crosses of madness or deliverance

 
Bliss Doubt

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Jimi said:
Hate to admit it but I have too, when I was young hung with a group that all camped in the winter and the rule was No tents but you learn what to do pretty quickly or you go home. Honestly it was a blast, we usedta build a campfire and cook over it, it was fun, but I'm weird:giggle:
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Was that a survival training group, boy scouts, or just friends wanting to toughen up?
 
2WhiteWolves

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Jimi said:
Hate to admit it but I have too, when I was young hung with a group that all camped in the winter and the rule was No tents but you learn what to do pretty quickly or you go home. Honestly it was a blast, we usedta build a campfire and cook over it, it was fun, but I'm weird:giggle:
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It isn't weird, you're not weird, it was a good adventure a good story to tell. If you hadn't done it, no story to tell us.

Like this....and yes, this one is embarrassing.

Was with friends at a deep river with barely any water in it, really rocky. A rope was hanging from a tree, so when it had water in it could swing on it and splash into the river.
I decided to give a try, it was autumn with a chill in the air. I grabbed the rope, swung, and didn't make it the other side. My hands were slipping, and yes, slipped off the rope. This is were my guardian angel step in once again, and laid me down between all the rocks. I really should have hit my head on one big rock and cracked my skull open. But, nope, was gently laid down with no bruises, no scratches, and no cracked skull. Just my pride damaged.
 
Jimi

Jimi

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May be an image of deer and text that says 'PEACE& PEACE&LOVE LOVE そ'



May be an image of piano and text that says 'The folk singer who refused to cut one second from his six- minute song about a shipwreck. His label said radio wouldn't play it. He said those 29 dead men deserved the full story. He wouldn't budge.'



The executives leaned back in their leather chairs, certain they'd won the argument.
"Six minutes? Gordon, radio stations won't play it. Songs need to be three minutes. Maybe three and a half if you're The Beatles."
It was 1976, and Gordon Lightfoot had just played them his new track. A haunting ballad about the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, the freighter that disappeared into Lake Superior's black waters one November night in 1975. Twenty-nine men swallowed by the lake in minutes.
The song was six minutes and thirty-one seconds. His label had concerns. The length was risky.
Lightfoot held firm: "No."
Not maybe. Not let me think about it. Just no.
"Those men deserve the whole story," he said quietly. "Every verse stays."
By 1976, Lightfoot had enough clout to push back. But a six-minute single was still commercial suicide.
He wouldn't budge.
The label released it untouched, probably expecting it to sink without a trace. Instead, something strange happened. Radio stations played the entire six-minute track. Listeners sat in parking lots with their engines running, waiting for the final note.
The song climbed to number two on Billboard. It became more than a hit. It became how an entire generation remembered those twenty-nine men.
But this wasn't Lightfoot's first act of quiet rebellion. He'd been doing things his own way since the 1960s, writing spare, honest songs about weather and loneliness while everyone else chased psychedelic trends. He never moved to Nashville or LA. Stayed in Canada, writing about truck drivers and fishermen.
Then in 2002, his heart literally exploded. An aortic aneurysm put him in a coma for six weeks. Doctors prepared his family for the worst.
He woke up. Recovered. Started touring again at age sixty-six, voice raspier but still carrying every ounce of truth.
Lightfoot kept performing until he was eighty-four. Died in May 2023, having proven that integrity outlasts trends, and that some stories are worth every single minute.
 
Jimi

Jimi

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February 13th - Born on this day Wingy Manone (1900), Les Hite (1903), Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919), Boudleaux Bryant (1920), Wardell Gray (1921), Buck Hill (1927), Jim Reynolds – Jim and Jesse (1927), Bill Szymczyk - producer (1943), Peter Tork - The Monkees (1942), Roy Dyke - Ashton Gardner & Dyke (1945), King Floyd (1945), Peter Gabriel (1950), Roger Christian - The Christians (1950), Rod Deas - Showaddywaddy (1948), David Naughton (1951), Judy Cheeks (1954), Peter Hook - Joy Division / New Order (1956), Tony Butler – Big Country (1957), Mark Fox - Haircut 100 (1958), Henry Rollins - Rollins Band (1961), Freedom Williams - C&C Music Factory (1966), Sonia (1971), Todd Harrell - 3 Doors Down (1972), Robbie Williams (1974), Leslie Feist (1976), Aston Merrygold - JLS (1988)
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Chart News
1961 Lawrence Welk at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Calcutta'
1965 Petula Clark at No.1 in Australia with ‘Downtown’
1971 The Osmonds at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'One Bad Apple'
1977 Julie Covington at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina'
1984 Pat Benatar at No.1 in Australia with ‘Love Is a Battlefield’
1993 2 Unlimited at No.1 on the UK chart with 'No Limit'
1993 The Cult at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Pure Cult'
1999 Monica at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Angel Of Mine'
2000 Oasis at No.1 on the UK chart 'Go Let It Out'.
2002 Jennifer Lopez at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Jo To Tha L-o! The Remixes'
2005 Keane at No.1 for the fourth time on the UK album chart with 'Hopes and Fears'
2005 U2 at No .1 on the UK singles chart with 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'
2016 Justin Bieber at No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart with 'Love Yourself'
2020 The Weeknd at No.1 in the UK chart with 'Blinding Lights'
2021 Olivia Rodrigo at No.1 in the US chart with 'Drivers License'
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Gig News
1965 The Rolling Stones played at the Capital Theatre in Perth. Also appearing on the tour was Roy Orbison, The Newbeats and Ray Columbus and the Invaders.
1971 The Jackson Five, Diana Ross and the Supremes and Mungo Jerry appeared at the Grand Theater, Gary, Indiana
1972 The Greasy Truckers Party, Hawkwind, Man and Brinsley Schwarz appeared at The Roundhouse, London, England.
1976 The 101'ers featuring Joe Strummer played at The Town Hall, Hampstead, London, and on the same night DP Costello, (Elvis Costello) played at The Half Moon, Putney, London
1997 Kiss played at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia.
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Music News
1982 The Jam became the first band since The Beatles to play two numbers on the same edition of 'Top of The Pops' performing 'A Town Called Malice', and 'Precious'
1996 Take That announced they were splitting up
2002 Waylon Jennings died
2015 John McCabe died
 
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