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I was a baby boy when the west coast was fully poppin'. My soon to be 43 year old ass STAYS throwin' up the W - https://youtu.be/fGeHu6f_4qc?si=sZXHqrrZK0bFXXHl

Shout-outs to Trent Reznor - https://youtu.be/PTFwQP86BRs?si=1Cgc3RW4d4cvGg8x

I'm a massive fan of Sade. She killed it throughout the entirety of the 90s, but I feel like her later shit gets completely left behind. In my opinion, this is the largest, most valuable gem in the crown of her career - https://youtu.be/DbVV9Hpj7ck?si=pAfK1-KMZIsgRbKR

If I could sum up how great 90s Hip Hop was in one track - https://youtu.be/_-YDL5bwmHQ?si=MdVKm7xhNBlAiXux

Haha, I thought you might have picked a Gang Starr song as I clicked on the link.

Lera Lynn's cover of Wolf Like Me via TV On The Radio - https://youtu.be/vwVX4cG6F9s?si=0XQeAMasSoPuKmeg

I just loves me a good cover - https://youtu.be/9_torOTK5qc?si=MJqhrYFj9G2Himbp

Such a remarkably unique take on a classic - https://youtu.be/r3SZu_KhWig?si=JLT0vcKhy0ltyiPz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmoWl0c16w
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The Rolling Stones 60 years ago doing It's All Over Now.
Is is it all over for Planet Earth and for the USA the greatest country in the world in the Milky Way the greatest Galaxy in the Universe.

This was my theme song when my daughter had cancer in 2002 and 2003. I was sure she'd die. She looked like a skeleton. If you have children, hopefully they never have a life threatening disease. She survived. Others weren't so lucky. A baby died in the pediatric cancer ward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdlJ2hkoq_M

The man simply cannot miss - https://youtu.be/m-PO1_fzxVM?si=0xm0bdpS2VGufecB

Bram this is for you
1963 boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsDKMkPCOeA

2012 boys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDAt01CuqoM

Brian Wilson the genius songwriter behind the band was put into conservatorship not long ago. His brain was too damaged to function. I'd never believe that of the 3 brothers, Brian, Carl and Dennis he would be the survivor. I remember when these guys were number 1 on the charts before the Beatles. I'm a dinosaur.

Ben Folds is not spoken about much - https://youtu.be/aCIzAXc5DpE?si=UXm9y_IeDU6qcFtR

Music in Anime will never surpass this - https://youtu.be/UFFa0QoHWvE?si=O3I0oVPHreHRKQkw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhs0jfVRB8 Chris Stapleton CMA (country music award) winner 2023

Does this remind anyone of High Tide and Green Grass by the Outlaws I heard in 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEkJFR69IXw&t=184s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6sVG7vZZ9A
I heard them a few weeks after Woodstock in 1969.

I hope and pray we are not headed to World War III.

I can't believe this is still irrelevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft0vkKCadgk

Dope reggae track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV8zrvC ... _t&index=5

I heard Alpha Blondie in concert in the late 1980s at a festival in the desert in Israel. Ziggy Marley, one of Bob Marley's children also played. More Kante was there and played this which had been a hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXxb0e2kNus


The song Bram posted reminded me of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdlJ2hkoq_M
I played it a lot when our daughter had cancer over 20 years ago. I heard Bob Marley in concert twice. He wasn't too memorable. There is a lot of music he played that I think is great. Eric Clapton had a hit with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4JQ1oyNrGo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FnjkSFwss

4 brothers originally from Mississippi whose parents were sharecroppers (worked planting cotton and other crops for white people who paid them about enough to survive) and moved the whole family (9 boys and 4 girls) to LA in the 1950s. They added an English drummer and were called the Chambers Brothers. I heard them in concert right after Woodstock in 1969. I drove with an ex-girlfriend of a high school friend.

I hadn't seen her in 3 and a half months (I had been in England, Scotland, France and Spain for over 3 months when you could actually live on about 5 dollars a day.) I guess she was my girl friend for a few days. I remember we were in bed together at her parents' home in New Jersey but didn't have sex for some reason probably because I didn't demand it or didn't like her all that much. We got pretty stoned on marijuana and I drove into Manhattan from the New Jersey turnpike with her parents' car because she didn't have one. I parked and we were relieved that I got that far. We took the subway to somewhere in Queens I think for the concert.

It's hard to believe I lived this. It seems like someone else’s life. I had just turned 20 about ten days before. We were both really frightened on the turnpike. Probably of being arrested by the police (we had no drugs on us but the cops could plant them on you and you'd go to jail) or of me crashing the car cause I was pretty high before we got to hear the Chambers Brothers and another band called Poco. Neither was too good. I drove back to her parents’ without an accident. Spent another day or so with her. I went to Madison Wisconsin a few weeks later to be with her. We broke up very quickly.

I got a much prettier girlfriend (she really looked great) who was 18 and one evening called up her father and said, “Dad I’ve been smoking marijuana and am living with my boyfriend.” I thought she was insane. Her parents liked me well enough to let us sleep together in their Staten Island home probably because I had gone to Columbia University for over a year and had transferred to UW Madison where I majored in math and refused to have sex with her until she got birth control. Unlike a friend of mine who told me one extremely cold Madison winter night at the laundromat where he used about 8 washing machines (that’s right - maybe it was 6) that he and Laurie had spent 10 days in bed together. I couldn’t believe what he told me, “After a girl has slept with 8 or 10 guys she starts to feel used and wants a boyfriend.” I couldn’t imagine that but I met two when I was in my 30s who admitted to fucking 35 guys, and I was flabbergasted and thought there aren’t 35 good men in the whole world.

I asked him if they were using birth control. No was the answer. “What could go wrong?” he proclaimed. I blurted out, “You’re crazy. I am not having sex with Debbie until she gets birth control.” His girlfriend who was very sexy (I was not and am not attracted to women who are overtly sexy) had an abortion. A few years later he said, “Laurie had such a great body until she had 2 abortions.”

I did some research when my wife (we are still together I suppose after 38 years) was having trouble getting pregnant with our first child. Having an abortion makes it harder to get pregnant as do venereal diseases. What can I say.

Laurie’s boyfriend had been the stage manager at the venue where we saw the Chambers Brothers. He told me the week after Led Zeppelin played and it was a nightmare. Somebody overdosed on heroin and almost died. I heard Led Zeppelin at the Bath Festival in Bath, England in 1969. I was grossed out, really disgusted by them. Jimmy Page the guitarist played one song and acted like he was masturbating the neck of the guitar. They had one album out which was OK. I never would have believed they’d become so popular.

Here is Frank Zappa’s version of their song Stairway to Heaven https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35HoabXm41E
which I never heard before and assume the few people reading this have heard Led Zep’s version which they took part of a from a band called Spirit who had this number one song in the summer of 1969 around the time of Woodstock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnrt6ykm6Do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JFwmc3vio&t=86s

I never listened to all the words to this song or most any song until a couple years ago. This was written in the wake of the Chicago 8 conspiracy tria of 1968 thru 1970
I could put up a lot of links to explain the song that almost no one would read. You had to have lived through the era to have a sense of what this meant.
I haven't had hope in decades that the world could get better. I do now for a lot of reasons.

I was in Madison as a student when the soldiers came in with gas masks, bayonettes and threw tear gas at us. You can see them in this short clip from the movie which was made in 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY-OlxLpclo&t=3s

I am really grateful my girlfriend, at the time was not there. it was terrifying. I came at night (I lived a few miles from campus) and when the tear gas came flying I fled and somehow ended up in one of the main streets of town around 7PM. it was deserted. i had never seen the 6 lane road empty of cars and people at that hour. I was walking and there were a couple other students I caught up to. A cop car pulled up and the officer asked,"What are you doing?" With one exception in protest demonstrations I have always been polite to the police. "I'm walking home," was my reply. That satisfied him and the other officer in the car and they drove off. About 15 seconds later, another cop car pulled up almost directly opposite me on the other side of the 6 lane road and threw a tear gas cannister at point blank range at some students. I didn't stay around to find out how badly they were fucked up. From what I know now, it could have resulted in significant eye damage, vision loss and who knows what else. Stay safe if you can. There's a force in the universe, I could call it a lot of things, God, Ain Sof, in the Jewish mystical tradition, a Hebrew term not found in the Bible that could be translated as that which has no end that has kept me in this life. Why? I don't know. I have to keep on truckin as the Grateful Dead sang a long time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VXJaGa8pzU