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’09 Countdown

Well we are 13.5 away from ’09. What a year huh? We have seen history made this year as well as seen the economy tank. So what are your hopes and dreams for the New Year? Also how are we going to make this year better than the last?. ( Hey it’s not easy coming […]

Run, Hide, I’m Coming

It’s time for my semi annual visit to the Great White MR Central NW division. I will be in country 10 Dec thru 14 Dec I look forward to seeing Jek and Tarn and Meeting the rest of you. Hope to be at Jek’s lair on the 12th or 13th with spot inspections through out. […]

NEWS FLASH

While noodling with friends MR was pulled under buy a large catfish. When asked to hold up one finger if he needed help, two if he was OK, MR held up his middle finger which was his last sighting.

THE LAST EXPERIENCE

Mitch Mitchell, drummer for Hendrix, found dead I feel like the official “rock coroner” of MR Central. Nov. 12, 2008, 8:24 PM EST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mitch Mitchell, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s and the group’s last surviving member, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday. He […]

PHI ZAPPA KRAPPA ALUMNI

The list goes on: Geez some of us must be getting old LONDON – Jimmy Carl Black, who went from drummer in Frank Zappa’s avant-garde Mothers of Invention to doughnut shop worker and house painter, has died at age 70. Black died Saturday of cancer in Siegsdorf, Germany, said Roddie Gilliard, a British musician who […]

Enjoy While You Still Can………..Exxon

Unbelievable. Exxon Mobil just reported the biggest profit ever for a U.S. company. It raked in a billion dollars a week in pure profit in the July-September period, 58% more than a year ago. I don’t know whether to admire the accomplishment or hurl. Crude prices hit an all-time high during the quarter, which helped […]

BUDDY HOLLY TINKER SESSIONS VERIFIED

I had heard this in the late sixties, but had never heard anything about since…….until now. This is from the News.OK website: A rock-and-roll mystery has finally been solved. For years, record album liners noted Buddy Holly and The Crickets recorded four songs at the Officers Club at Tinker Air Force Base — including the […]

How To Write A Blues Song

For all you blues aficiandos: http://bluesexcuse.southburnett.com.au/blueswayoflife.htm

Who’s Next

Richard Wright: Wish You Were Here Posted Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:40pm PDT by Billy Altman in Stop The Presses! The news that founding Pink Floyd member Richard Wright has passed away from cancer at age 65 will no doubt bring a barrage of stories detailing the assorted onstage/offstage twists and turns of the group’s […]

This is the guilty pleasure thread

I have plenty of others, like The Jim Rome Show, but I mean musically. What may be “guilty” or embarrassing to one may not be to another. You don’t have to list them all at once, but I’ll get the ball rolling…. The Very Best of Hall and Oates has been getting a lot of […]

DID YOU KNOW……I didn't think so. Wind Egg

Wind Egg. “An egg without a shell. Dr. Johnson’s notion that the wind egg does not contain the principle of life is no more correct than the superstition that the hen that lays it was impregnated, like ‘Thracian mares,’ by the wind. The usual cause of such eggs is that the hen is too fat.” […]

Railcar Graffiti

I was going over to a friend’s house to other day to work on some of the new music we’ve been working on lately and was stopped at a railroad crossing…… While watching the many RR cars going by (we have L-o-n-g trains here), one went by with the following painted on it – “An […]

Howdy Everyone

Hey everybody, Hope all of all of you are doing well. I just thought I would check in and see what all in the community are up to. We have been busy down here in the Dust Bowl. I am changing companies next week, hope to be home more. MR and I have been busy […]

Happy 4th 2008

Have a happy 4th everyone. By the Way, Where is everyone? Anybody Home?

RIP. George Carlin

We have just learned of the passing of George Carlin on Sat the 21st. Goodbye Professor George, we hardly knew you.