One of the folks I follow on Twitter is a smart guy named Jamie O'Grady who comments on many different subjects and yesterday he responded to a question thrown out by the BBC. “Whats the strongest run of three songs in a row on an album? Hmm…O'Grady's suggestions were: The Song Remains the Same, The Rain Song & Over the Hills And Far Away from Led Zeppelin or “Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”. Without thinking about it for too long I came up with: Introduction, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is and Beginnings from Chicago Transit Authority, or Black Cow, Aja, Deacon Blues from the Aja LP Steely Dan or maybe “Like a Rolling Stone, Tombstone Blues & It Takes Alot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry from Hwy 61 Revisited. Some other strong suggestions I saw included “After The Goldrush, Only Love Can Break Your Heart & Southern Man from the Neil Young Lp “After The Goldrush”. If you start thinking about and researching this be aware you are heading down a rabbit hole and will get no work done today. It does get you remembering some really good records. There are as many choices as there are people in the world. So, what makes an LP classic for you?
Happy Birthday to “Dr Johnny Fever aka actor Howard Hesseman who turns 78 today
Metallica is coming to Wisconsin. Their fall tour will get underway in Madison September 2 at the Kohl Center. They will also play the Target Center in Minneapolis on Sept 4 and the new Wisconsin Entertainment and Sport Center in Milwaukee on Oct 16th.
Joan Baez is the latest to announce a final tour. She will hit the road for 27 dates this fall to support her first new LP since 2008. The closest to us will be Oct 5 at the Chicago Theater and Oct 6th at the State Theater in Minneapolis. The LP will include some tasty covers including the title track (a Tom Waits song). I'm listening to Joan Baez tunes while I write this…a nice mellow start to the day.
The UWSP mens basketball team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA D-3 Tournament by winning the WIAC tournament over the weekend. The Pointers will head to Collegeville Minnesota on Friday and face North Central of Illinois.
I'll be in Marshfield tonight at the high school basketball tournament gets underway. The Wausau East Lumberjacks will take on Marshfield in a D-2 regional at 7pm on Foxsports Radio AM1390 & FM 93.9 and later posted as a podcast at everythinglumberjacks.com.
Quotes Of The Day
“”If the administration operation seems to be getting more chaotic and incompetent by the day, it is because decisions early in the presidency are now coming home to roost”-Kyle Griffin
“I think it;s weird that we've completely accepted a situation in which trade groups, foreign governments, wealthy individuals and lobbyists with favors to seek from the government can and do pay cash bribes to the president via his clubs and hotels”- Matthew Yglesias
“I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon”-Donald Trump
“DC area man with five draft deferments who mocked tortured war hero John McCain for being captured says he believes he would confront an active shooter -with an AR-15 assualt weapon–unarmed”-Brian Klaas
“He's afraid to do a press conference, but he'll “run” to stop an AR-15 wielding maniac. While unarmed. Got it”-Jamie O'Grady
“I think we need a little less tweeting and more listening”- Washington Gov Jay Inslee speaking to Trump while he was in the room
“I don't care about college players getting paid. I care about them raping and beating their fellow students and getting away with it. I don't care aboutr coaches paying players. I care about them ignoring and covering up their players crimes”-Brenda Tracy
“Mueller is the best of America, Trump is the worst. All you need to know about the diseased state of todays Republican Party is that it reviles Mueller”- Max Boot
Songs Of The Day
