Random, Thoughts, X,XXIV

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If you have a runner on first and third, one out, and the guy on first goes to steal second. When the catcher goes to throw, the guy on third takes off for home. Both are safe. How is that scored? One stolen base or two? Or something else?
 
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So maybe something to mellow you out, or at least to establish your groove thang: “Morning”, performed by Poncho Suarez of Austin TX, written by Clare (a guy) Fischer, an American fascinated by Latin Jazz, especially Afro-Cuban. He received a ton of Grammys for background work for American R&B artists.


And when I can’t remember the details on this song and try to go Googling, I keep flashing back to this:


Give it up, lay back, and enjoy. Peace y’all.
 
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And if you’re feeling REALLY old, here ya go: Low. Ride. Er, a most excellent song by War, because sometimes you just need to lay back and chill, no matter what might be heading your way.

I would really like for my 2002 Honda Accord to bounce up and down in a cruisin’ kinda way, but it seems really unlikely; and yet it would be pretty damn awesome proceeding down ... in West Asheville on a Saturday night:

 
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OK, one more, because I fear that too many peeps here are too young to have heard songs like this.. Here’s a clip from Tower of Power out of Oakland CA, one of their most commercial hits. Note the makeup of the band: black, white, Hispanic. The seventies were very nervous and twitchy about your race, and what you played, and were you white or black or ??? These guys had this amazing blend of soulfulness that happily blended it all together, and that was such a joy to listen to (and they are still around, rocking out, God bless their souls).

Oh, and I will also note that Soul Train (the source of this clip) was how countless white kids learned how to dance, so there’s that too, because guys, we were truly clueless. Have pity on us, as we tried to figure out how the hips could do one thing and the rest of the body something completely different:


People, people, people: it really is possible to live along with people who don’t live like you and don’t look like you and don’t act like you and don’t BELIEVE LIKE YOU. Instead of looking at how they are different from you, start looking at how many things you have in common!

It’s so easy to see how we are different from others. How about we consciously start looking for the similarities instead? We’re all God’s critters, after all.

Namaste, y’all.
 
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eta: Geeze, look at the brass. I will listen to pretty much anything at all, as long as it has at least five guys on brass and a big-ass percussion session.

Next to the Memphis brass (Stax studios), these guys were the bomb.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
*Memphis Horns
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No one ever matched them!

I saw Sam and Dave as the warm-ups for Linda Ronstadt in the (?) mid-seventies in Knoxville, and omg the horns, including the woman (“girl”) on I think tenor sax with the blond hair down to her butt.

It just isn’t real music without the horns and percussion!
 
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