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hullabelew

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  1. Peaceful thoughts to the PCH family.
  2. Takes me back to my days of yor when Iva Lou used to sing me to sleep with this little lullaby.
  3. I'll take George Gobel to block.
  4. Well said @BBQ2Bayou I feel the same way.
  5. Speaking of Bruce's "The Next Waltz" project, last year Wade Bowen and Holly Williams recorded one of Robyn Ludwick's songs. Robyn is Bruce's sister and Kelly suggested they do this song. What a stellar song and performance. Also, Robyn and her husband, Lunchmeat, own The Devil's Backbone Tavern of Todd Snider fame. Lunchmeat has played bass for Bruce and Charlie for years. Great dude. https://thenextwaltz.bandcamp.com/track/wade-bowen-holly-williams-bars-aint-closing
  6. My 80 yr dad bought a new pickup a couple of years ago. His first with XM Radio. He has been in bad health lately and hasn't been driving so he let the XM subscription expire. The other day, they had to go to Dallas for a doctors appointment he discovered this fact. "I've lost Willie. When we get back home, we are calling those sumbitches and getting him back."
  7. A friend of mine was a pilot for a young oil man in the mid 80s. Dude was young, rich and a lunatic. I can't find the picture anymore, but he would sit at the back of the plane, wearing an old leather helmet, flying scarf, goggles and old leather jacket, like he was flying a bi-plane against Snoopy. One year, the oil man threw a party and my buddy had to fly to Louisiana to pick up Chuck Berry who was the entertainment. My friend asked Mr. Berry if would sign something for him. Last I heard, he still has that Chuck Berry autographed Coors Light can.
  8. John Prine has a interesting story about what a genius he was to write with but what a complete lunatic he was in every other aspect. They wrote enough of this one together for Prine to give him co-write credits. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/18/621022949/john-prine-on-music-cancer-and-why-he-never-thought-hed-be-a-recording-artist Full story in the link above: And the whole evening kind of went like that. It was a big circus - sort of a show. You know, Phil had a couple of bodyguards with him all the time. Your drink never got past - lower than half full. And these guys - one looked like a squirrelly, sort of skinny guy. And the other guy looked like Chewbacca. And they were with him everywhere. And Phil had a three-piece suit on with a shoulder holster. All of them were carrying pistols, you know. And it was a pretty crazy evening.
  9. Los Lobos Recs: Both compilations mentioned above are fantastic. Studio Releases: My two favorites are listed above. I can't imagine my life without either of them. Bought them both on the day they were released. Musicianship is stellar and the material is as solid as it gets. "Will The Wolf Survive" is a great party album. Perfect for backyard bbq, beer drinking and general merriment. "Kiko" is sit-your-ass-in-a-chair-and-soak-it-in record. When Baboso and I saw them, I was really surprised they played the title track to "Kiko". I still get chill-bumps thinking about that moment. I always thought that album was the best Neville Brothers album ever released, if that makes sense.
  10. I'm with you @baboso. To me, the two greatest American bands are Los Lobos and The Heartbreakers. About 90 years between the two of them with very few member changes.
  11. You're always right, and I've never been wrong.
  12. @BTW Just be there for him. At some point, he my just start talking to you. I have done that several times when the feeling hits me. One night, pretty late at a buddies cabin, he said he felt bad about drinking in front of me and asked if it bothered me. Nope. Then I started telling him shit that happened in rehab. The funny and bizarre stuff. He was pretty lit and said, "That is fucked up. I'm on my 5th whiskey drink and your drinking ginger beer and telling me rehab stories that are funny as fuck." Next day, I got up and started working in his basement to finish some work from the day before. He was laying on the couch, bitching about his hangover and saying he didn't think he drank that much. I just had to chuckle.
  13. My college girlfriend is a HUGE music fan. We never watched TV or went to a movie. We went to live shows and sat at home listening to albums. Really listening to them. She is still the biggest Dylan fan I've ever met. This was around 82-86. I always wondered about the line in parentheses below from the first time I heard it. This is what we finally settled on, though it made NO sense. Yeah, she could hear the cars roll by(I don't fall for the one)Like waves crashin' on the beach Then in 1985, we had a huge house party to watch Live Aid, and Petty opened with American Girl. That was the first time we ever figured out what he was saying. Yeah, she could hear the cars roll byOut on 441Like waves crashin' on the beach I saw Petty in Feb, 2017 and when he played American Girl as his last song, I cried. I knew I would never see that song performed live again by the full band. I cried for falling for the one and for 441..... It was maybe the happiest I've ever been since my daughter was born. This version makes me cry as well.
  14. Outstanding @Jerry Callo Great to hear. I'm in the more 'hardheaded' crowd.
  15. For me, it hasn't changed since I first heard it. That way it steps in to that first verse, the bass part that was really the first time I remember paying attention to the bass, and the constant driving of the bass and snare. Even with the breaks in the middle of the song...you are always on the edge of kicking in to the driving rhythm. Buddy of mine in college said you know it is a great song when you think it it too short. And I included this version because of Stan Lynch's harmony vocal work. I know he caught a lot of shit because of his studio issues, but live? The guy was spot on.
  16. Yep. I started it because she woke me up at 5am, screaming that something was wrong with the dog. Bumps on his belly. "Boys don't don't tits!" Both Captain Velcro and I were traumatized. RIP mighty Captain.
  17. I saw REO on the 9 Lives tour in 1979. I had 4 tickets and had to give the other 3 away because no one left in my little shit-hole town knew who they wear. But I conned Chuck, Daryl and Brandon in to going with me. I think tickets were $9. I found out about REO at a keg party my sophomore year in 1977 when David Cope had the 8 track of the 1977 live album blaring from his silver, 1972 Hurst Edition 442. Jensens and a Pioneer Super Fucking Tuner. Young, little Hulla, standing by a burn barrel and keg, just soaking in the magic of the older girls, the music, weed and general atmosphere. Yep...that night made a mark on my musical bearings and if I could transport back, I'd be gone right now.
  18. @Buzzrock We put a humidifier on our HVAC a few years ago for other reasons but after that, I was able to leave my acoustics out during the summer. Before that, I to store the Taylor and one other acoustic in a case with a humidifier in the sound hole, but now I can leave them out. They can only put them on the ground floor unit (my upstairs is in the attic/ground floor in the basement) but it really helped, even with the humidity upstairs. My guitars mainly stay in a room in the basement. The ONLY problem I've had with a humidifier is the female of the species. EVERY FUCKING SEASON CHANGE, TWICE A GOTDAMN YEAR, "don't we need to turn on the humidifier?" Or, dead of fucking winter, she goes to the basement and turns on the DEhumidifier. I even hid that motherfucker behind some boxes and unplugged it and she dug it out and turned it one. I'm just glad I didn't removed the drain hose from the pump or she would have flooded the place. FUCK sorry...I feel better now.
  19. Gary Richrath was such a FUN guitarist, especially before Cronin ruined them. And this may show it better than anything.
  20. And coming in 3rd. Newly minted guitar hotshot and songwriter, Steve Gaines was about to change the face of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Just some great juke joint rock.
  21. And this one... Those twin leads. Fuck....greatest sound in guitar history IMHO. Nothing makes me smile more.
  22. This is damn near the top of my list.
  23. Just a reminder that we are still thinking about you and your family @immortal13
  24. Good Lord, those pictures of Buddy are making my heart smile. Thanks for sharing those. And @Buzzrock Hope the hound gets better.
  25. @AnotherUTFan Peebles Prom? Love that. I have a friend who was in a band called His Boy Elroy. They played the theme song to the Jetson's going into and coming back from a break.
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