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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Dec 31 2008, 09:58 PM
Melanie had her heart in the right place back in 1969. Most people are "beautiful," especially if you just give them a chance. Sometimes you just have to reach out to them. The trouble is, most often, we just don't take the time.
Beautiful People - Melanie Safka
Beautiful people
You live in the same world as I do
But somehow I never noticed
You before today
I'm ashamed to say
Beautiful people
We share the same back door
And it isn't right
We never met before
But then
We may never meet again
If I weren't afraid you'd laugh at me
I would run and take all your hands
And I'd gather everyone together for a day
And when we gather'd
I'll pass buttons out that say
Beautiful people
Then you'd never have to be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in everything you do.
Beautiful people
You ride the same subway
As I do ev'ry morning
That's got to tell you something
We've got so much in common
I go the same direction that you do
So if you take care of me
Maybe I'll take care of you
Beautiful people
You look like friends of mine
And it's about time
That someone said it here and now
I make a vow that some time, somehow
I'll have a meeting
Invite ev'ryone you know
I'll pass out buttons to
The ones who come to show
Beautiful people
Never have to be alone
'Cause there'll always be someone
With the same button on as you
Include him in ev'rything you do
He may be sitting right next to you
He may be beautiful people too
And if you take care of him
Maybe I'll take care of you
And if you take care of him
Maybe I'll take care of you...
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Nov 25 2008, 09:20 PM
1964 Chevy Impala Coupe Low Rider
Wired brings you Autopia’s 10 Best Songs About Cars. But before you go there to see their choices, you need to listen to one they left off their list of top 10 (they put it as honorable mention).
How can you leave War’s 1975 Low Rider out of the top 10 when you are showing off music about cars? Even if, according to Autopia, everyone says it's one of their favorites? I want to hear it.And now, drive off to Wired for their 10 Best Songs About Cars…maybe you’ll agree, maybe not.
But their #1 is one of my favorites!
HERE
What are your choices?
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Nov 17 2008, 11:58 AM
Wasn’t that what the Beatles were in the first place?
Avant-garde?
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band? Magical Mystery Tour? Abbey Road? Not avant-garde?
I can’t wait to hear “Carnival of Light.” Just some warming up of instruments perhaps?
Paul…we liked you…just the way you were. Just tell us you found a jam session.
"I said it would be great to put this on because it would show we were working with really avant-garde stuff," McCartney told Radio 4's Front Row culture show in an interview to be broadcast on Thursday.
[...]
"Hit a drum then wander on to the piano, hit a few notes, just wander around. So that's what we did and then put a bit of an echo on it. It's very free."
Read the complete article HERE
Looks like the divorce and the economy may have given McCartney a reason to need a few bucks.
I call this avant-garde...
The Beatles ~ I Am The Walrus
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Oct 24 2008, 10:41 PM
By Janet Evans
Friday, Oct 17 2008, 10:28 PM
By Janet Evans
Saturday, Sep 13 2008, 09:03 PM
What can I say…I’m having a bit of a science day on both of my blogs…
In a Burst of Light Gamma rays produce flashes that are brighter than a billion suns yet last only a few milliseconds and have been simply too fast to catch... until now. The artist's concept above depicts the sequence of events as a black hole devours a neutron star, producing gamma-ray bursts as it does so. Using data from the Swift observatory, scientists have gleaned tantalizing evidence of a black hole eating a neutron star--first stretching the neutron star into a crescent, swallowing it, and then gulping up crumbs of the broken star in the minutes and hours that followed.
Image Credit: NASA/Dana Berry
"NASA's Swift satellite detected the explosion - formally named GRB 080319B - at 2:13 a.m. EDT and pinpointed its position in the constellation Bootes. The event, called a gamma-ray burst, became bright enough for human eyes to see. Observations of the event are giving astronomers the most detailed portrait of a burst ever recorded.
"Swift was designed to find unusual bursts," said Swift principal investigator Neil Gehrels at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "We really hit the jackpot with this one."
[…]
In a paper to appear in Thursday's issue of Nature, Judith Racusin of Penn State University and a team of 92 coauthors report on observations across the spectrum that began 30 minutes before the explosion and followed its afterglow for months. The team concludes the burst's extraordinary brightness arose from a jet that shot material directly toward Earth at 99.99995 percent the speed of light.
At the same moment Swift saw the burst, the Russian KONUS instrument on NASA's Wind satellite also sensed the gamma rays and provided a wide view of their spectral structure. A robotic wide-field optical camera called "Pi of the Sky" in Chile simultaneously captured the burst's first visible light. The system is operated by institutions from Poland.
Within the next 15 seconds, the burst brightened enough to be visible in a dark sky to human eyes. It briefly crested at a magnitude of 5.3 on the astronomical brightness scale. Incredibly, the dying star was 7.5 billion light-years away."
Read more at NASA:
"Naked-Eye" Gamma-Ray Burst Was Aimed Squarely At Earth"
Okay...I'll get a little less scientific... after all, it is Saturday night...
Gamma Ray ~ Beck
Gamma Ray
If I could hold
Hold out for now
With these icecaps melting down
With the transistor sound
And my Chevrolet terraplane
Going around around around
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your brains are bored like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the heat wave's calling your name
She's got a cactus crown
With a dot dot dot on her brow
And she speaks inside a cloud
With her countenance turning around
It hit me like a gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
I'm pulling out thorns
Smokestack lightning out my window
I want to know what I've lost today
Come on little gamma ray
Standing in a hurricane
Your body's bored
Like a refugee from a house that's burning
And the backwater's calling your name
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 29 2008, 07:05 PM
This was edited with captions as a birthday gift greeting for someone named April. So, it's a joke.
I always liked Joe Cocker; he's an original, alright.
I thought he was much harder to understand when he was younger, but it didn't matter so much to me when I used to listen to him a lot back in the early 70s.
But after seeing this video I just have to laugh.
I didn't realize it was that bad!
All I can say is, WoW!
Joe Cocker, "With a Little Help From My Friends." Woodstock
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jun 13 2008, 06:20 PM
Alice Cooper Says....School's Out
"School's Out" is a 1972 title track single released on Alice Cooper's fifth album. It is arguably Alice Cooper's most well-known song. Cooper has said he was inspired to write the song when answering the question, "What's the greatest three minutes of your life?". Says Cooper: "There's two times during the year. One is Christmas morning, when you're just getting ready to open the presents. The greed factor is right there. The next one is the last three minutes of the last day of school when you're sitting there and it's like a slow fuse burning. I said, 'If we can catch that three minutes in a song, it's going to be so big.'"
from Wikipedia
But, seriously…Do watch out for children staying out later at night now, and walking on the streets in the dark. Now that they don’t have to get up early for school, they will be staying out later.
Enjoy your summer!
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 01:00 AM
The Beatles – Rain 1966
When Ringo was asked which song featured his best drumming, he said “Rain."
Rain (Lennon/McCartney)
If the rain comes they run and hide their heads
They might as well be dead
If the rain comes, if the rain comes
When the sun shines they slip into the shade
(When the sun shines down)
And drink their lemonade
(When the sun shines down)
When the sun shines, when the sun shines
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
I can show you that when it starts to rain
(When the rain comes down)
Everything's the same
(When the rain comes down)
I can show you, I can show you
Rain, I don't mind
Shine, the weather's fine
Can you hear me, that when it rains and shines
(When it rains and shines)
It's just a state of mind?
(When it rains and shines)
Can you hear me, can you hear me?
Sdaeh rieht edih dna nur yeht semoc niar eht fI
(Rain)
naiR
(Rain)
enihsnuS. Gene Kelly in “Singing In The Rain." 1952
Neil Sedaka sings “Laughter In The Rain. 1975
The Everly Brothers – Cryin’ In The Rain 1962
Tina Turner - I Can't Stand The Rain 1973
Early Morning Rain – Peter, Paul & Mary 1965
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jun 1 2008, 10:04 PM
Rolling Stone did a fantastic piece on rock 'n roll guitar sound and what has made it great through the years. You just have to check this out. Below I have samples of three of their selections…Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, who's featured twice (how could he not be...could anyone play the guitar like Hendrix?) and The Rolling Stones.
Rolling Stone says, “This is what makes a great rock & roll guitar sound: an irresistible riff; a solo or jam that takes you higher every time you hear it; the final power chord that pins you to the wall and makes you hit "play" again and again."
I remember seeing Chuck Berry in concert, in Florida, in 1972 singing Johnny Be Good. He was much older than in the video below, but he sounded just the same. Check out the videos on this page (and the Go-Go dancers in Berry's video) and then go to Rolling Stone and enjoy the 40 pages of great sound and memories.
Great Rock & Roll Guitar Sound
Rolling Stone ç here
Chuck Berry Photo: Getty
1 "Johnny B. Goode"
Chuck Berry (1958)
"If you want to play rock & roll," Joe Perry told Rolling Stone in 2004, "you have to start here." Recorded 50 years ago, on January 6th, 1958, at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" was the first great record about the joys and rewards of playing rock & roll guitar. It also has the single greatest rock & roll intro: a thrilling blast of high twang driven by Berry's spearing notes, followed by a rhythm part that translates a boogie-woogie piano riff for the guitar. "He could play the guitar just like a-ringing a bell," Berry sings in the first verse — a perfect description of his sound and the reverberations still running through every style of rock guitar, from the Beatles and the Stones on down. "It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection," Keith Richards has said of Berry's playing. "He is rhythm man supreme." Berry wrote often about rock & roll and why it's good for you — "Roll Over Beethoven" in 1956, "Rock and Roll Music" in '57 — but never better than in "Johnny B. Goode," a true story about how playing music on a guitar can change your life forever.
2 "Purple Haze"
The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
The riff is pure blues — the same kind of guitar figure Hendrix played nightly back on the R&B-club grind, as a sideman for Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. But in "Purple Haze," Hendrix's second British single and the first track on the U.S. version of his debut album, he declared himself a free man — "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" — and unveiled a new guitar language charged with spiritual hunger and the poetry possible in electricity and studio technology. "Guitar — you can play it or transcend it," said Neil Young when he inducted Hendrix into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. "Jimi showed me that. I heard it, felt it and wanted to do it." Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze" backstage at a London nightclub in December 1966 and recorded basic tracks with his band, the Experience, two weeks later. But the galactic travel came in overdubs recorded on February 3rd, 1967: Hendrix's solos, swimming in echo and sparkling with harmonics, were put through an octave-boosting effect and played back at twice the speed. In less than three minutes, Hendrix opened a new age of expression on his instrument.
5 "Brown Sugar"
The Rolling Stones (1971)
"Satisfaction" may be the Rolling Stones' most recognizable riff, but this Sticky Fingers hit — based on a gutbucket guitar part devised by Mick Jagger — is the band's raunchy guitar pinnacle. Keith Richards' secret weapon: He's playing a guitar that's missing its lowest string.
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By Janet Evans
Friday, May 2 2008, 06:05 PM
By Janet Evans
Friday, Apr 18 2008, 11:45 PM
You Don't Own Me - Bette Midler
You don't own me
I'm not just one of your little toys
You don't own me
Don't say I can't go with other boys
And don't tell me what to do
And don't tell me what to say
And when I go out with you
Don't put me on display
You don't own me
Don't try to change me in anyway
You don't own me
Don't tie me down, cos I'll never stay
I don't tell you what to say
I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you
I'm young, (I'm young) and
I love to be young
I'm free, (so free) and I love to be free
To live my life the way that I want
To say and do whatever I please
You Don't Own Me
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Apr 11 2008, 07:35 PM
Laurie Anderson…O Superman (1981)
Here is some Wikipedia info regarding O Superman....
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Apr 4 2008, 06:15 AM
By Janet Evans
Sunday, Mar 30 2008, 10:37 PM
By Janet Evans
Friday, Mar 21 2008, 06:05 PM
of all of the Barack Obama coverage that's been going on…..
Wave your hands in the air like you don't care....
Maybe it will stay out of the news....
Maybe it will just all go away.....
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Mar 20 2008, 11:00 PM
The Jeremiah Wright debacle has had a huge impact on the primary campaign, to the detriment of Barack Obama. Real Clear Politics looks at the damage done so far, although the polling was prior to Obama’s speech in defense of his relationship with Rev. Wright. The results may give Hillary Clinton something to use as ammunition for her argument to super delegates:
Ohio: For Obama, it’s a 17-point swing against him since the last SurveyUSA poll taken just three weeks ago, going up from up ten on McCain to down seven. Clinton has slipped four points over the same period but still leads McCain by six.
Missouri: Obama’s support dropped three points in Missouri while McCain’s rose five, giving McCain a substantial 14-point lead. Over the same period Clinton picked up four points on McCain according to the SUSA survey.
Kentucky: McCain’s support jumped 10 points and Obama’s dropped five in three weeks. Clinton’s support remained steady, though she trails McCain by 10.
Both McCain and Clinton have gained in the same period in which Obama dropped in these key states. Ohio’s results will make the strongest argument for Clinton.
These polls will set the question up for the super delegates. The next round of polling will show whether they need to make a decision to drop Obama on an electability argument. If the polling continues to slide for Obama in Ohio and Missouri, and if McCain continues to do well in Michigan and Pennsylvania, the Democrats can't afford to nominate Obama. That is the purpose of the super delegates.
There are rumors of Gore stepping back into the race if things get worse for Obama.
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jan 22 2008, 08:15 AM
With my friend Kevin Fischer announcing it was my exciting day yesterday (thanks, Kevin!), I thought I would ponder the question....
Do people still ask, "What's your sign?"
You know, like a guy in a bar using it as a conversation ice breaker?
Are there those of you out there who look at your horoscope everyday?
Do some of you really live by those words?
When I was a teenager, which according to Kevin wasn't that long ago (thanks again, Kevin, I'm flattered) I did have an interest in that kind of thing. I even went so far as to learn how to map out a horoscope (took a class). Just a fun thing to at the time. I can't remember how to do it now.
I'm an Aquarius...the Water bearer:
Aquarians basically possess strong and attractive personalities. They fall into two principle types: one shy, sensitive, gentle and patient; the other exuberant, lively and exhibitionist, sometimes hiding the considerable depths of their character under a cloak of frivolity. Both types are strong willed and forceful in their different ways and have strong convictions, though as they seek truth above all things, they are usually honest enough to change their opinions, however firmly held, if evidence comes to light which persuades them that they have been mistaken. They have a breadth of vision that brings diverse factors into a whole, and can see both sides of an argument without shilly-shallying as to which side to take. Consequently they are unprejudiced and tolerant of other points of view. This is because they can see the validity of the argument, even if they do not accept it themselves. They are prepared to learn from everyone.
Both types are humane, frank, serious minded, genial, refined, sometimes ethereal, and idealistic, though this last quality is tempered with a sensible practicality. They are quick, active and persevering without being self-assertive, and express themselves with reason, moderation and sometimes, a dry humor.They are nearly always intelligent, concise, clear and logical. Many are strongly imaginative and psychically intuitive. When some cause or work of philanthropy inspires them, they are capable of such devotion to it that they may drive themselves to the point of exhaustion and even risk injuring their health.They need to retire from the world at times and to become temporary loners. Even in company they are fiercely independent, refusing to follow the crowd. They dislike interference by others, however helpfully intended, and will accept it only on their own terms. In spite of the often intensely magnetic, forthcoming and open personality of the more extrovert kind of Aquarian, and of their desire to help humanity, neither type makes friends easily. They do not give themselves easily - perhaps their judgment of human nature is too good for that - and are sometimes accounted cold. But once they decide that someone is worthy of their friendship or love, they can exert an almost hypnotic and irresistible mental attraction on them and will themselves become tenacious friends or lovers.
Aquarians work best in group projects, provided that they are recognized as having a leading part in them.
Okay…I can live with that.
I think most of it rings true.
How about yours?
Check out your Sign
Sun Sign Characteristics ç here
I always wondered what it would be like to put a room full of one "sign" together.
Have they ever tried that at an Astrology convention?
Separate "sun signs" in each conference room for Be Heard! sessions.
This room is all Taurus ..... a whole room full of stubborn people.
That would have to make for interesting conversation.
Video Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine and variety of other songs - The Fifth Dimension - 1971
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Dec 31 2007, 11:45 AM
This is just so appropriate for all of us in Franklin as January 1st is upon us.
Enjoy the year 2008...and pay your taxes!
Taxman (The Beatles - Revolver/Harrison) 1966
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me.
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Dec 30 2007, 04:01 PM
Continuing with my birthday bash of the number 21....
Though Eddie Cochran was only twenty-one when he died, he left a lasting mark as a rock and roll pioneer. Cochran zeroed in on teenage angst and desire with such classics as "C'mon Everybody," "Something Else," "Twenty Flight Rock" and "Summertime Blues." A flashy stage dresser with a tough-sounding voice, Cochran epitomized the sound and the stance of the Fifties rebel rocker.
Happy 21st, Greg
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