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[LuvTooGolf]

Today's Over/Under is 8

So...did we start a DEI initiative for Page 3? 

I suppose Kenny Loggins is a worthy choice.  My first rock concert was Loggins & Messina, in 1974.

I saw them in '74 as well and Kenny last summer.

Also saw Frankie Valle in Sept.  Must have been my year of Seniors concerts...

I've avoided rock concerts for a very long time.  I prefer a couple of drinks watching a band in a smallish club.  I saw the Steve Gadd Band last year and sat at the edge of the stage and had dinner and drinks.  Got to talk shop with legendary guitarist Michael Landau while they took a break.  That's my idea of a good time.

But this year I got talked into seeing Warren Haynes, Cory Wong, the Rolling Stones, Counting Crows, and Santana. That should do it for a while.

I'm so over the concert thing. I always love the shows, but can't stomach the audience around me. Admittedly, it may have a lot to do with me being uncomfortable because I don't fit in the seats too well. Either way, I've seen some legends over the years, and I'm content with the memories.

Did I mention I have tickets to see Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks during the summer?

That should be a pretty good show, seat be damned.

[LuvTooGolf]

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[razgueado]

Today's Over/Under is 8

So...did we start a DEI initiative for Page 3? 

I suppose Kenny Loggins is a worthy choice.  My first rock concert was Loggins & Messina, in 1974.

I saw them in '74 as well and Kenny last summer.

I've always been a fan of his, and his "Keep the Fire" and "High Adventure" albums are among my all-time favorite albums. After that he, like Dan Fogelberg, fell into the aging Boomer songwriter rut. It's a distinct phenomenon - they start writing songs about issues they care about enough to go to expensive fundraiser hob-knobs in Los Angeles, but not to actually participate in.  I applaud them for the effort, but it produces really boring music.  Music for wine-tasting. 

There's nothing wrong with that either.  I like to play at wine tasting events.  Got one planned now.  It just doesn't produce interesting music.  When you've written something with the unashamed elation of "Don't Fight It," or the goofball funk of "Mr. Night", well, "Hope for the Runaway" is a real disappointment.  And one children's album is a passion project.  Two is maximizing commercial potential.  Three means you have some secret wish to be Pee Wee Herman or Captain Kangaroo.

Lyrically, this might be the best Kenny Loggins ever wrote:

"I've always said that I believe anything can happen
But lately I've been wonderin' if that's really true
For a boy, time can be a lovely dance
Suddenly the music can fade
And leave the man alone and dreamless
Till he only sees that he's used up all his chances after all
Till now, only a miracle could do to save the man I'd turned into
Won't somebody let me know...where's my miracle?

Love, it always sang so easy
But just like a child who plays with imaginary friends
I could see the face of someone I believe only in the words of a song
Then she came along and got me dreamin'
That's when you began
And when I held you, I held a miracle in my hands
Till now, only a miracle could do
I found the boy I was, in you
You've come to let me know
There are miracles
And now, only a miracle could do
What I have finally found in you
And I've got to let you know
I believe miracles can happen in the end"

That's some killer songwriting right there.

Don't think I've heard that song before, but those are some quality lyrics.

It's a deep cut, last track of the "High Adventure" album.  Michael McDonald helped write the music, and played the piano on the track. 

It's worth the listen, I think.

https://youtu.be/mHbtjC9ri90?si=b5EvAgukVYpCXAV2

[A Friend of Charlie]

Enough ABs during this jam to keep things interesting. 

[A Friend of Charlie]

Don't think I've heard that song before, but those are some quality lyrics.

It's a deep cut, last track of the "High Adventure" album.  Michael McDonald helped write the music, and played the piano on the track. 

It's worth the listen, I think.

https://youtu.be/mHbtjC9ri90?si=b5EvAgukVYpCXAV2

That sounds right up my alley. Big fan of Michael McDonald.

[razgueado]

Got a herf scheduled for Saturday evening.  My dad, my brother Thad and I, with clan sept Mark B and his son-in-law Troy.  Mark is providing hababos to celebrate the birth of granddaughter Elanor.

[razgueado]

Don't think I've heard that song before, but those are some quality lyrics.

It's a deep cut, last track of the "High Adventure" album.  Michael McDonald helped write the music, and played the piano on the track. 

It's worth the listen, I think.

https://youtu.be/mHbtjC9ri90?si=b5EvAgukVYpCXAV2

That sounds right up my alley. Big fan of Michael McDonald.

Michael McDonald's "If That's What It Takes" album is also on my all-time favorites list.  That album was the backdrop for a lot of, er, "intimate encounters" when Carol and I were first dating.   

[A Friend of Charlie]

Got a herf scheduled for Saturday evening.  My dad, my brother Thad and I, with clan sept Mark B and his son-in-law Troy.  Mark is providing hababos to celebrate the birth of granddaughter Elanor.

That's awesome. Congrats to Mark!

[Travellin Dave]

Today's Over/Under is 8

So...did we start a DEI initiative for Page 3? 

I suppose Kenny Loggins is a worthy choice.  My first rock concert was Loggins & Messina, in 1974.

I saw them in '74 as well and Kenny last summer.

Also saw Frankie Valle in Sept.  Must have been my year of Seniors concerts...

I've avoided rock concerts for a very long time.  I prefer a couple of drinks watching a band in a smallish club.  I saw the Steve Gadd Band last year and sat at the edge of the stage and had dinner and drinks.  Got to talk shop with legendary guitarist Michael Landau while they took a break.  That's my idea of a good time.

But this year I got talked into seeing Warren Haynes, Cory Wong, the Rolling Stones, Counting Crows, and Santana. That should do it for a while.

Not exactly rock concerts....These were at the Greenville Peace Center.  Mostly hosting travelling Broadway shows.  Audiences strongly tilted to the grey sector.  Not a lot of pot smoking and cigarette lighter encores.   

[Travellin Dave]

Don't think I've heard that song before, but those are some quality lyrics.

It's a deep cut, last track of the "High Adventure" album.  Michael McDonald helped write the music, and played the piano on the track. 

It's worth the listen, I think.

https://youtu.be/mHbtjC9ri90?si=b5EvAgukVYpCXAV2

That sounds right up my alley. Big fan of Michael McDonald.

He and Kenny have done a LOT together.

[Travellin Dave]

Got a herf scheduled for Saturday evening.  My dad, my brother Thad and I, with clan sept Mark B and his son-in-law Troy.  Mark is providing hababos to celebrate the birth of granddaughter Elanor.

Outstanding.  You providing the whiskey?

[Travellin Dave]

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[Travellin Dave]

Today's Over/Under is 8

So...did we start a DEI initiative for Page 3? 

I suppose Kenny Loggins is a worthy choice.  My first rock concert was Loggins & Messina, in 1974.

I saw them in '74 as well and Kenny last summer.

Also saw Frankie Valle in Sept.  Must have been my year of Seniors concerts...

I've avoided rock concerts for a very long time.  I prefer a couple of drinks watching a band in a smallish club.  I saw the Steve Gadd Band last year and sat at the edge of the stage and had dinner and drinks.  Got to talk shop with legendary guitarist Michael Landau while they took a break.  That's my idea of a good time.

But this year I got talked into seeing Warren Haynes, Cory Wong, the Rolling Stones, Counting Crows, and Santana. That should do it for a while.

Not exactly rock concerts....These were at the Greenville Peace Center.  Mostly hosting travelling Broadway shows.  Audiences strongly tilted to the grey sector.  Not a lot of pot smoking and cigarette lighter encores.   

Bon Secours is where most rock/big name concerts are held.  Although I did see the Stones at Clemson Memorial Stadium in '89.  Think that was the only concert held at that stadium.

[LuvTooGolf]

Got a herf scheduled for Saturday evening.  My dad, my brother Thad and I, with clan sept Mark B and his son-in-law Troy.  Mark is providing hababos to celebrate the birth of granddaughter Elanor.

Congrats to him! And tertiary congrats to you for getting to enjoy the spoils of the birth, so to speak.

[razgueado]

Let's do a little post-whorin'.  Since I've mentioned some of my all-time favorite albums, let's try to list what those are.

Here, in the order they came to me, are 20 albums I couldn't live without.  Note that these are not necessarily what I consider the best albums of all time.  But they all have two things in common.  First, each are linked essentially to particular periods of my life.  Second, when I put them on, I never have the urge to skip a song. 
  
Dan Fogelberg - "Nether Lands"
Dan Fogelberg - "Captured Angel"
Rolling Stones - "Exile on Main Street"
Kenny Loggins - "Keep the Fire"
Michael McDonald - "If That's What It Takes"
Frank Sinatra - "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely"
Counting Crows - "August and Everything After"
Richard Thompson - "Semi-Detached Mock Tudor" (Live album)
Pink Floyd - "The Wall"
Boston - "Boston"
Queen - "Jazz"
Dave Grusin & Lee Ritenour - "Harlequin"
James Taylor - "Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon"
Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited"
Bob Dylan - "Blonde on Blonde"
Simon & Garfunkel - "Bookends"
The Beatles - "Revolver"
The Beatles - "Rubber Soul"
Styx - "Paradise Theater"
Jellyfish - "Spilt Milk"

Runners-Up - These were considered, but missed the list because of one song on each, which I identify.

Prince and the Revolution - "Purple Rain" ("When Doves Cry")
Prince and the Revolution - "Parade" ("Christopher Tracy's Parade")
Kenny Loggins - "High Adventure" ("Welcome to Heartlight")
Richard and Linda Thompson - "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" ("The Great Valerio")
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Texas Flood" ("Mary Had a Little Lamb")