My grandmother, who lived with us when I was growing up, actually would ask me this. Of course, it sounded idiotic and embarrassing to me then, but now that I think back it was a more interesting and probably more accurate term than “dating.”
What’s In a Name?
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264 responses to “What’s In a Name?”
@Mark in TTown,
Just a Fargone bit away on that theater…..may have to pass the cost of the hall exceeds the cost of the band by 200%…..might be sorry but am Symply still seeking solutions….
With all the talk about music here, I’m wondering what has the members of the village last seen live and what do they expect to see next….for me it was/is two local bands Jim Perry’s Sunday Blues Jam and Hot Letter tomorrow at the Cigar Bar……the two I really want to talk about is 2Cellos on Feb 24th in Connecticut and Sting and Peter Gabriel in Worcester in July.
What do you have going on?
Last thing I saw was something I sponsored in late October, the Texas tropical rock writer musician Kelly McGuire. Two days later on way home I had small stroke and haven’t done a darn thing since but I must plan on living if I am looking at Ticketmaster. Tulsa has Cains Ballroom and eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas has lots of music.
Actually Kelly is a friend and does major tropical rock venues, I will go see him in Seattle when I am there in August. But I do a concert with him every year for my friends.
Symply, this is the outdoor venue near Birmingham. http://www.livenation.com/venues/14486/oak-mountain-amphitheatre
We have one here in town but so far there is no one scheduled this year I would go see.
Symply, check these folks out: http://www.blackjacketsymphony.com/
Today’s “Speedbump” cartoon is one for those fascinated by unclad chestal areas….
“Speed Bump”, that is.
Good morning Villagers…..
SF, the last three concerts I went to were Tom Petty, Trans Siberian Orchestra, and for $10, about five years ago, I saw The Marshall Tucker Band. A small community puts on a Turkey Trot Festival, yes they race turkeys (last year, no turkey race…Avian Virus). Any hoo, the one year they brought in Marshall Tucker. It was an outdoor concert, bring your own chair. I was right up front, had seen them before with Charlie Daniels. My son, Ian, was there, and his friends ribbed him….hey, ain’t that your mom near the stage dancing? Ian was afraid the cops would arrest me as I was the only one standing and dancing. Hey, that’s what concerts are for, right????? Besides, I didn’t bring a chair 🙂
Jackie, I would love to see Springsteen…but, I don’t think I can handle the crowds anymore and ticket price. And I loved Freddie…check out his “I want to break free” video…you’ll love it. Maybe it’ll make you feel better.
Mark, I remember that song 🙂 And is your Mom doing better?
Some crazy weather coming in….50’s today, high 60’s on Tuesday….that means windows need to be opened more and fans running…..still no new reports on the virus in a 12 mile area. Keep saying prayers, please.
Happy Caturday to all…..
GR 😉 want to go…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMc8naeeSS8
Jefferson Airplane…..ahhhh, the seventies….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc
GR 🙂 just watch…..(warning…bare pokie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N4gy-ZZlIo
…and time goes on for Grace
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/13-rock-stars-who-disappeared-20120926/grace-slick-0196717
Have not read any posts since last evening. 2nd Jan. thaw two days ago [Th.], high 20s Fri., 32 F now, predicted hi 36, = 3 Jan. ’16 thaws. Peace, emb
And the strip of 01.30.16 reinforces the idea that we all have a past –
and that most of us have a past that should remain in the past.
That is old Rolling Stone article. Lots of their recluse dead I suspect.
Today heard a Grateful Dead song called Truckin’ which could be played on any current Cout try station and was WAY better than.modern country. Interesting.
Mark, I need to look and see where I am supposed to be in April but want to go see Buffet in Birmingham? I can afford a couple of tickets except whoever is wanting over $700 for his that must be special?
The year was 1970 and song still sounds fresh to me.
Just saw a photo I wish I could post here of Keith Richards. It is on my time line Mark if you can do it. It’s about our music icon thread we’ve had going here.
By the way, those Billy Joel tickets are quite well thought of by the tour. Tulsa is outrageous.
Saw Arlo Guthrie last week, Jack Williams a couple months ago, Beth McKee earlier last year. Next definite plan is the Gamble Rogers Festival April 29 – May 1.
Old musicians never die, they just tour away.
The only live groups I have seen in the past 40 years have been orchestras and choirs. I quit rock concerts before I started when I realized how freaking loud they were. So, today I don’t need hearing aids unlike too many of my peers.
Here you go, Jackie.
https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-9/12644678_1557885751189827_2744966740392285232_n.jpg?oh=70694998dce7abec94c4777e7abfae0b&oe=573E2E6B
Debbe, ultrasound showed blockages. Mom is to see vascular doc tomorrow. My brother is taking her, so I hope to know more tomorrow afternoon. Weather app says high near 71 today.
I think the last live concert I saw was Fleetwood Mac, when they played in Nashville before Christine McVie took her long time out. I saw the Moody Blues once at Oak Mountain with the Birmingham Symphony, and once at Starwood Amphitheater near Nashville. Both were great shows with a good (well-behaved) crowd in both places.
THE SENILITY PRAYER:
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.
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Was trying to remember something – will have to settle on the above.
Prayers for Debbe’s girls.
Get well Jackie.
Prayers for Marks Mom too
emb: I read your words at face value, and they sound innocent. But you Rarely introduce a new post of the day in that manner, leaving it Feeling like a targeted comment. Then you continue with a weather report, stoking a new round of climate angst.
I have to say, the number of times, in the last five years, I’ve been told, ‘you’re not smart enough to see the difference between weather (short term, local) and climate (long term, global), therefore your opinion doesn’t matter’. So in fairness, I believe it is necessary to point out your observational bias at work. There are a lot of US residents feeling relief with this thaw. Maybe they prayed for it, and we can see God’s hand at work? If we choose to.
Debbe 😉 Yep, pretty hair, sexy mouth…Gracie was hot. And you know what? Judging from that RS photo, she still is.
Technically, that “bare pokie” is not a pokie, as a pokie has to have something through which to poke. Also, it’s not a “nip slip”, as it was obviously not an accident. (Yeah, right…like all female celebrity nip slips are “accidental”.) It appears to me to be just a good ole boob flash. 🙂
Would have earned her mucho beads at Mardi Gras in NOLA, too.
SF: My experience was similar to TruckerRon’s. Teenage years are when we start to find our own sound, and in that period I was convinced that orig. 50’s rock, and 60’s Britpop, led to 70’s AOR glory. I can’t bear the thought of, shudder, disco; even though ABBA has something undeniable about it. So I’m the guy that thought ROCK peaked in 1974, even if I didn’t get there for ten more years. I was sheltered, and enjoyed this stuff in headphones. I was rural, and couldn’t get to the big arena shows. But our local vaudeville era theater had been rebuilt, housed our local symphony, and became a stop for what would now be the college/casino circuit.