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  • KristineD
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    I miss WXRT, Chicago's Finest Rock. At one time, you could have heard any and all of these tunes in a day's mix from the old 'XRT. The Dead Hour on weekends, the Sunday-night Un-Concert. The award-winning News at Noon. Ken Nordine's Word Jazz, for goodness sakes. They played anything -- absolutely anything that was interesting. Even if it was CRAP, you didn't really care, because they never, ever played the same song twice in one day, sometimes not in the same week or month. Who cares if they played Linda Ronstadt or Spandeux Ballet, as long as they followed it with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Little Feat or the Cure, eh? (No disrespect to Ms. Ronstadt -- a fine set of pipes if there ever was, so sad to see her lose her voice.) I wouldn't know what the heck a Wild Tchoupitoulas was without WXRT. Then, Westinghouse bought them. Then, CBS bought them. *sigh* The worst part is that it's still the best radio station in Chicago. Great connection to local and live music, but oh, the play list gets old nowadays. Good new stuff (can 'ya say Shakey Graves?) An occasional nugget, but mostly corporate crap, played six or seven times a day. Even great new stuff, like that new Beck tune, is overplayed and old in a week. Most days I don't even bother to turn it on.
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    Ain't no use to keep taking abuseFrom a friend who isn't kind A friend in need or a friend that you need Who can help you through the troubled times So reach on out and take a hold of my hand And let me know that your ready to go There ain't no dues and you can leave your blues behind And have a little peace peace of mind Give me some peace, Peace of Mind There comes a time when your friends go blind And thier words become diseased They threaten your life with the blade of a knife And set you down upon your needs Make no mistake for your very own sake Heres a little word for now Take off your shoes and let your thoughts be kind And have a little peace, peace of mind Peace Peace of Mind... make us feel better Some folks you find speak a mighty good line They charm you all the way They take you along on a sweet sweet song Then they steal your heart away But blessed be the one who can understand why People have to act that way Cause if I knew I wouldn't even want to say But have a little peace, peace of mind Give me some peace, Peace of Mind Everybody wants Peace, Peace of mind Peace Peace of mind All we need is some... Peace...peace of mind...
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    Yes KDED...but for real on the air, like pirate radio or Mexican Radio If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old-time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three-way script Enter number two A movie queen to play the scene Of bringing all the good things out in me But for now love, let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old-time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet But stories always end And if you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand The feelings that you lack I never thought I could feel this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
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    We already do.....K DED is communal...... You meet someone.....stops you DEAD in your tracks.... Just saying.....hit it Sarge...... Don't misunderstand me, though I know that I've been mean Woman can't you see that I'm in need Although we may be far apart In heart and soul we're near My body aches for you to just be here You are every woman in the world to me And every season I go through You are every woman in the world to me Especially when I'm making love to you Like a falling tear drop You can wipe away my blues Live honey you can make the bitter sweet You're a child, a girl, a woman You are everything I'd choose That's why I sing this song to you That's why I sing this song to you
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    We should have our own radio station... I think I may have missed my true calling. Only you know and I know All the love we've got to show So don't refuse to believe it By reading too many meanings 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Now if I sing to mislead you It's just my craziness comin' through But when it comes down to just two I ain't no crazier than you 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Yeah, yeah, yeah, appear to be pleasin' Oh no, no, not deceivin' But it's hard to believe it When you been so mistreated 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Only you know and I know Only you know and I know, oh yeah
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    sorry.....ok after this done with EC.....not you, it's me...... Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road, Baby, just you wait and see. You gotta reap just what you sow; That old saying is true. You gotta reap just what you sow; That old saying is true. Just like you mistreat someone, Someone's gonna mistreat you. You been laughing, pretty baby, Someday you're gonna be crying. You been laughing, pretty baby, Someday you're gonna be crying. Further on up the road You'll find out I wasn't lying. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road, Baby, just you wait and see.
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    Blasphemy...really Damn music snobs Well she's walking through the clouds With a circus mind that's running 'round. Butterflies and zebras, fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about. When I'm sad she comes to me With a thousand smiles she gives to me free. Said, "It's all right, take anything you want, Anything you want, anything." First Verse Second Verse Fly on, little wing.
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    ....for awhile......then he found a better way....blasphemy here but Derek n the Dominos.....Layla and other assorted Love Songs is my favorite album of all tiime..... and the song I resonate with......to this day..... Have you ever loved a woman So much you tremble in pain? Have you ever loved a woman So much you tremble in pain? And all the time you know She bears another man's name. But you just love that woman So much it's a shame and a sin. You just love that woman So much it's a shame and a sin. But all the time you know She belongs to your very best friend. Have you ever loved a woman And you know you can't leave her alone? Have you ever loved a woman And you know you can't leave her alone? Something deep inside of you Won't let you wreck your best friend's home.
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    You were saying EC was the king... Bell bottom blues, you made me cry. I don't want to lose this feeling. And if I could choose a place to die It would be in your arms. Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back? I'd gladly do it because I don't want to fade away. Give me one more day, please. I don't want to fade away. In your heart I want to stay. It's all wrong, but it's all right. The way that you treat me baby. Once I was strong but I lost the fight. You won't find a better loser. [Chorus 2x] Bell bottom blues, don't say goodbye. I'm sure we're gonna meet again, And if we do, don't you be surprised If you find me with another lover. [Chorus] I don't want to fade away. Give me one more day please. I don't want to fade away. In your heart I long to stay.
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    All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be Deep in the valley, people got to be free You should see what a lovely, lovely world this'd be Everyone learned to live together Seems to me such an itty bitty thing should be Why can't you and me learn to love one another? All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free I can't understand it, so simple to me People everywhere just got to be free If there's a man who is down and needs a helpin' hand All it takes is you to understand and to pull him through Seems to me we got to solve it individually And I'll do unto you what you do to me Shout it from the mountain on out to the sea No two ways about it, people have to be free Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be Nat'ral situation for a man to be free Git right on board now Oh, what a feelin's just come over me Love can move a mountain, make a blind man see Everybody sing it now come on let's go see Deep in the valley now, we ought to be free See that train over there? That's the train of freedom It's about to 'rrive any minute, now You know it's been'a long, long overdue Look out 'cause it's a'comin' right on through
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Just sold, 3-day obstructed view pass for $900. Not sure if it was a legit ticket or not, but none-the-less prices are still dropping.
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Hi you all, I am here, I am reading but every time I go to post I start to ramble, then I wander and then I get distracted so I come back to an hour old post and I never click "post" So this will be short yet hopefully I will actually post it :-) I love the rggrrrr suppers ready stuff, makes me want to go see Steve Hackett from Genesis. Phil is playing with my favorite non-hippie guitarist Bill Frissel on April 22 or something. Bill Frisell is really something he plays big fat melodic notes and makes great use of pauses and space. Check him out, my favorite is "good dog happy man" but his John Lennon tribute is pretty wonderful. If I lived in Cali (hint hint to Klang, I would go to that show at TRX) I nearly went for it myself, the flight was $350, the car rental out of SFO would be brutal, and to visit Marin, or point Reyes or drive through Napa would be wonderful. My patient wife could only make a 3 day trip out of it, so the 10 hours or more in travel each way made the trip seem way to brutal. You do not rush a visit to Marin. Madness and adventure is fine, but it is way more relaxing when you have all the time in the world with no pressure except the next show. Anyhow, I am trying to quit obsessing on this thing and enjoy the spring. Things will most certainly work out. I am lucky that the experience of tour has helped create the courage in me to follow a path that has led me to an opportunity to do at least some of this 50 year celebration. Whatever burdens I have taken on they seem to be out of my way for a stretch of time. woo Hoo for that !!! So with a positive vibe I may try to spend less than 2 hours a day searching for tickets, hoping for news and all of that. See some of you at Dear Jerry.. Yeow!!!! -- Tom
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With the gods of Magog... In unison... So glad you made it!!!! Welcome!!!
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Hey you...yeah you stop swarming around...back on the path.... Ya know Fred...gotta keep them on the path! At a honky tonk...guess Jerry was wrong...found one open on Palm Sunday Rock on children
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Rggggrrrr and tfonts are good at keeping things on the path. That is good.. I like that path. the thing about 9/8 is it is impossible to march to, and that is what I like about it. Keeps you moving, but not in a very regimented way.. Everyone else excuse the madness, or get used to it.. it is all good madness.
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Saw a pair of 3 days for 6 and change. Had them in the freakin cart. Gone before I could process my card. Please tell me one of us got them!
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Welcome to the working week! Grab some coffee, Tim Horton dark roast freshly ground.... Again some tea available... Freshly made oatmeal brown sugar pancakes with strawberries n peaches as well.... Off to the salt mines.... Ready Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, I mean Fred, and oh yeah, anybody see my little red rooster.... ;-)
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You gave me no warning... Insubordinate and churlish... Back on the path.... Ba dah ba dah!!! Morning Kyle!!!!
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Thank you my brother !! Make it a great week !!
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was that varmint stew road kill, or did you waste a bullet? and is there any left? I'm hungry
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Still serving up breakfast, tip jar in corner, I'd appreciate it, been slaving in this hot virtual kitchen, a Canadian chick offered to throw something in the jar but when I realized what the exchange rate was I gave it back along with $2 out of own pocket.... ;-) Sabres Leafs tomorrow night... I speak for all Buffalo hockey fans when I say go Leafs go we lose the last 6 we get the first draft pick.... every time I watch a game this year, I start humming... If I had a gun for every Ace I've drawn.... check back around 4:30 est, should have an idea worked out for shrimp and scallop stir fry....if you don't dig seafood, brother Louie has some falafel wraps with tahini....
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I just saw a list of all the after shows and before shows,and then I got an email for a steve kimock Jerry tribute at house of blues. Chicago is going to be a total flashback freak scene.. Totally neat...
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the sabers are up to it, no problem. I can see why you returned the loonies, eh, can you even exchange them for Molson's anymore? RIT lost last night in the hockey version of the eliete eight after dispatching #1 the day before, it is tough being a sports fan in WNY...still hunting tickets, if I enconter any varmint, I'll bag em for lunch tomorrow.
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Answer to your question, Totem found a dead squirrel Saturday and fed exed it to me... gotta save my bullets for wabbit season!
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Remember boo boo got to keep the loonies on the path....
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just heard your tip jar klang, but it was just some clown goofing off...
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Hoooooooohah!
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on my Wavelength....ohhh mama oooh mama oooh mama.... God I love Van Morrison.....1978 release for those who don't know... Tonight it's scallop n shrimp stir fry with peppers asparagus and noodles with a soy sauce and ginger base... No other options, sake on me, Totem brought some Kirin and phantom of the opera will be giving the blessing for the feast... 6 pm est....kitties... Please....Stay on the path.... Cuz Supper will be ready children! Of that I'm sure... Footnote.....if you don't get it.....not my problem yo...... rrrrrgrrrrr Hey T..... somebody get me a doctor.....David Lee Roth reference..... Out....
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...as Jerry most succinctly put it... Let it be known there is a fountain, That was not made by the hands of men.... We do pause before this meal to give thanks for all that is right with the world, to ask protection to all who feel threatened, to ask for strength for all who feel weak and to ask for success for all searching for tickets or their way... ...above all, we pause to give thanks for our family, friends, and din-din's everywhere.... So Be it, and Let's Eat.
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Thanks for the all you can eat asian style stir fry Uncle Rich! Im coming hungry. I will Share this quote first: "I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one"-Paul Simon AMEN.
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Thanks for the all you can eat asian style stir fry Uncle Rich! Im coming hungry. I will Share this quote first: "I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one"-Paul Simon AMEN.
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grab a plate
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....rolling loaded dice....but we and I mean we are gonna let it slide... enjoy what you got of yours...cuz we done shared all of mine.... happy to have you here.... peace brothers and sisters... Watching the Martha Stewart channel.... Need a new recipe... Damn, you people can eat... and Tami...keep the change.... Go Leafs go! ....walking across the sitting room, I turn the television on, need to know the weather..... Play on words....hey foghorn...how sharp are they?
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Beautiful Blessing So grateful I may break bread with friends
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Boy...I say now boy....You, I say you about as sharp as a bowling ball, boy.
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aka Sandra....if my memory serves..... So glad you made it soul sister.....you come highly recommended and feel free now that you've acknowledged our blessing to partake.... The stir fry is exceptional....in addition to Kirin and sake' We have some green tea and fortune cookies.... Found them in the back of the drawer but they're like twinkies...good for years.... eat drink and be Jerry folks.....
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God is great, god is good. Let us thank him for our food. Amen. Scary how etched in one's brain that childhood stuff gets. Steak & taters here tonight. Blessing all!
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Kristine D - one can NEVER to wrong with steak & taters. Yum. But were the taters "tots?" Me? Typical guy - will eat anything. Thank God my wife cooks and feeds me. We had a nice home made shrimp salad with avocado, roasted nuts, cucumbers, tomatoes, and who knows what else in there...some blue cheese dressing and a few Club crackers - BINGO !! Still though, no tots...
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Welcome....feel free to bring your own, just make sure there's enough to pass... Foghorns got the cannoli, freshly made right brah? We have Pinot noir merlot and a semi dry Riesling for later..... Just remember Kristine....please stay on the path..... Got to keep them on the path right Foggy?
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Aka is correct! Indeed I'm looking forward to tasty wine & good company!
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welcome to our virtual world...we are one in spirit and direction. It's easy to get lost and go astray, we have no shepherds here only guides, and even the guides wander off at times. It will all become clear to us all as we go a little Furthur....cuz we ALL want to get here together, where you ask? Don't, even the most seasoned travelers are unclear....one thing is for sure....if you can see a path, stay as close to it as possible, For aI'm done herding sheep...or kittens or heads, getting too old for that gig, but if you see a buss top, stay near by or remember where it is...cause there's quite a trip to be had.... Hey I think I hear Eric Burdon....spill the wine.... Don't worry there's plenty more where that came from..... Check out the boys singing round the fire..... Off to get some shut eye.....working on the breakfast menu for tomorrow, Recommendations graciously accepted....
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go-live day (at risk of jinx, went off w/o a freakin' hitch!!), so my wonderful hubby cooked for me. Medium rare NY strip on the grill. Creamy, buttery mashed w/sautéed 'shrooms & gravy. Corn and salad. A nice, big busty red. There are some things in the universe that are perfect. I am almost always on the path right foggy ...
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You and only you will know if the path is correct, all that's required is that we all go in the same general direction....Foghorn...a little help please????!!!!! While you're waiting partake in the wine.... Cheese and crackers courtesy of geomeister....
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To all who keep the home-hearths burning, while I go out to hunt *and* gather. Proud and grateful traveler here! ***
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have a cup of hot coffee, tea or cocoa... we have eggs with chicken sausage or Canadian bacon... Have a Grate day... We had some snow last night, I gotta go and shovel the path to help you find your way in.... ;-)
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KristineD - Great job on the go-live ... CONGRATS !!! ALL - multiple updates and announcements in your in-boxes this morning. March concludes today and the jesters will be in full force tomorrow !!! Have a grateful day everyone !!!!
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94 days until show time. Patch those sails. It's gonna be a wild ride!
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Tickets will get cheaper by the dozen, don’t succumb to these scalper scumbags. Stub Hub Quick Analysis Notes I hand wrote down on each date: Mar 7 Mar 31 Friday 1611 1769 Saturday 1578 1786 Sunday 1407 1620 3 Day 829 847 Total 5425 6022 That is 597 more tickets now which is an 11% increase in the past 23 days. I honestly thought the number would have gone down in this time frame when I first wrote down the number back on March 7. I have also seen for example 2x3 day passes directly behind the stage go from over $3000 on 3 occasions several weeks back, to many now selling well below $2000. Lowest sold for $1615. 2 such passes end today in 14 hours from now and both have highest bid less than $1250 right now. Don’t sweat getting tickets, they will be plentiful and much cheaper as time passes. All tickets, not just behind the stage will drop!! Cheers Greg
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Have a cup of Joe... And I second that emotion...scalper prices will drop... BTW peeps...Stones US tour dates announced....left coast in SD right coast Buffalo and points in between
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Let's keep the party going. July 11 in Buffalo. I'll bring pecan pie. It'll be a gas, gas, gas.
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To all tax paying citizens, green card carrying folk and those two living in the cardboard box under the trestle. I hereby welcome to the Land of the Lost, aka Sunshine Daydreamers aka the place that houses Dead Space..... KLANGSTONE.... where are you? drumroll... Ahh, crap, I gotta go if anyone sees a clown around these parts wearing a Giants cap....you know how to reach me.....
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You know you are getting old when.. Club seats with an obstructed view sound great because they have padded seats ! Behind the stage looks great because it will not be crowded !! The hilton seems like a nice place to end the day, instead of the days of not letting the day end at all. You plan a picnic instead of a party ;-) Enough for me.. time for nap :-) -- Tom
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Call Me T: misses T The dinner torch has been passed to me tonight by uncle rich who is off to see Zappa. He won't be making it to the table but we will keep his place. Tonght on the menu: grilled Atlantic salmon Glazed in garlic and maple syrup. Bulgar and brown rice pilaf with wild mushrooms, and green beans and almond slivers. yummers if I do at so meself. Please SD-ers stop by if yer hungry but Mind your ps and qs, there are youngings here. Games of cards and charades in the parlor to follow.
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Hey now Miss T - that's sounds five star delicious !!! Any beverage to compliment that fine meal? And btw, gang, this is our 300th post !! And be careful tomorrow - you know what day it is.... CHEERS !!