Thanks Ed

Yes, from the stories I’ve heard this week, he was a stellar young man with a bright future. Not only did he show his cattle at the fairs, he won the blue ribbon at the State Fair last year. I think he had a passion for life.

Most all of the schools in Wisconsin had a moment of silence for him at their games Friday night. Many of…

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Doug

That happens on this side of the state too. I see it most often during Homecoming week. On Fridays there is a Homecoming parade and football game and dance at the school and the Homecoming King and Queen are crowned. The weekdays leading up to Homecoming you can find a few T.P’ed trees in the yards of athletes parents or selected teachers.…

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The 60’s also gave us the greatest car chase scene in automotive history. It features 3 great cars, yes 3! The green 68 Mustang GT 390 Fastback, black Dodge Charger, and a green VW Beetle that reappears many times in the scene.

Paul

I like this video of Canned Heat, On the Road Again the best.

https://youtu.be/B-CXyhrZVcA?si=9b8VwCPS6yDAO4bR

Howard

In an interview or Q&A a while back Lisa mentioned Cat Steven’s Sad Lisa was her mum’s favourite song. So that’s why she was named Lisa, or Leezza.

Hi Bud

April in Paris is just wonderful. I’ve always enjoyed some jazz, and the ones you shared with me and CDs you left us the last time you came up. MJ is a big jazz fan, so I’ve heard many different jazz artists she likes with the biggest one being Michael Buble we went to see play live in Vancouver. Michael Buble is from…

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Thanks Paul, I have another Highway Song that I love by Southern Rock band Blackfoot.

https://youtu.be/PbNrJWgG_24?si=nO9AHWc-CiHK49G1

Howard

YouTube pushed this out to me the other day, I thought you might enjoy. Great singers and musicians they were.

https://youtu.be/opPTLxkR22Q?si=RuCI8xeaAJU_99Wd

Howard

Yes, our cherished albums are like time capsules, all those emotions we once felt from our past precious moments captured with all the passion and longing intact. It’s magic.

You and I definitely on the same page when it comes to this subject. Actually, I think most of the world is except for those in power to actually do something.

Dan wrote this nearly 40 years ago….. he definitely had a good sense of what was going on!!

Take Care Bud!

I posted this Nancy Sinatra song recently on the “vehicles” thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbTlsVCg7rA&list=RDhbTlsVCg7rA&start_radio=1

And someone called Kat Hasty, who I’ve never come across before, also released this song called “The Highway Song”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX5ZqzYElFw&list=RDkX5ZqzYElFw&start_radio=1

And Roy Wood came up with this “road” song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0ACgDjJSk&list=RDHY0ACgDjJSk&start_radio=1

This “road” song from Reg has a link to The Wizzard of Oz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ7IF03jrd0&list=RDpJ7IF03jrd0&start_radio=1

Then, there’s this great one from Canned Heat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRKNw477onU&list=RDqRKNw477onU&start_radio=1

How about this “road” clasic from Ray Charles?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I&list=RDQ8Tiz6INF7I&start_radio=1

Yeah, sure, there is no global warming! Man is not causing pollution. What a hoax! I like to get myself energized each morning by breathing into an auto exhaust pipe while the car is running. I Love that smell! So healthy! I don’t believe what 97% of scientists say about the doom and gloom of climate change! They’re only in it for…

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Techno?…Music?…depends on who you ask. lol.

I like your description of the club’s music preferences with MLT being at the center. Very true. While we all expand outward a little differently, there are also many similarities.

As far as Techno….. I don’t even know what that is…. is that a music genre?

Thanks Howard, that was nice to hear.

I’ve told the story many times about how my tastes went from rock, to blues, and then I kind of followed Jeff Beck from those to jazz-rock fusion, and then into other kinds of jazz. That’s an oversimplification, still, but there’s a lot of music that I like, and I always am ready to listen to more, and…

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As long as we’re doing “road” songs, I’ve got to throw in the opening track from Davy Jones’ 1971 solo album. Not that I would recommend listening to it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdDYsQ9aYfc

I had never heard that before……. ironically, they use the word “groovy” in the lyrics…. LOL.

This is another reminder to me how my taste in music has expanded since joining this club. I admit, I rarely listened to Jazz and yet I’ve spent many years in New Orleans both in my youth and up until I retired. It was almost fitting that my last project was in New Orleans. I also didn’t really listen much to Dan’s Jazz albums. I guess I…

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In the late 70s, the Beach Boys were still making original albums, so in 1977 when this came out I had to buy it, and I couldn’t wait to get home to listen to some brand new never heard before Beach Boys songs.

One of those on the album was this one. I didn’t know any Mona’s then, but I do now, so this one is very special! Now they should…

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Here’s another one Jurgen that comes to mind, a late Beach Boys car song.

https://youtu.be/AHVCfj6WHXw?si=6QuUMmC0ZvxPwaLe

It’s not easy to find an album that’s not on YouTube, but here’s a song from one. I have this on CD, and I think it’s a great album. There’s only a couple cuts from it that I’ve been able to find in YTland.

Michael was invited to the Detroit International Jazz Festival in 2006. That was the year after Katrina devastated New Orleans, and…

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An interesting version from this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-9y48Yor4&list=RDBo-9y48Yor4&start_radio=1

Jung,

I believe the 3rd one on the motorcycle is Papa Rudi……! — Bud

And a not particularly well-known ballady single by Leo Sayer which I rather like called “Orchard Road”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWKclBxgF4&list=RD9CWKclBxgF4&start_radio=1

“Road Ode”, which is a lovely Carpenters album track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG5uy_dyVR4&list=RDlG5uy_dyVR4&start_radio=1

“The Long and Winding Road”, covered here by Scottish songstress Barbara Dickson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwBW6EXArG0&list=RDmwBW6EXArG0&start_radio=1

How about a few “road” songs? My personal favourite is probably this one from Manfred Mann’s Earth Band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMycPXJ8Bc&list=RDuYMycPXJ8Bc&start_radio=1

Jürge, I fully understand your comment regading the music, but the lyrics are definitely about a highway. It’s just a nice jolly little ditty which may have only have been released as a single in the UK, which explains why you may not have heard it before.

Yes, but on this occasion it was certainly accidental!

Jürgen, I’ve never heard the song “The Last Uniciorn” before, but looking at America’s Wikipedia entry, it seems that it may only have been issued as a single in Germany for some reason, as it never charted elsewhere. I think that the band America put out a lot of good songs, including “Horse With No Name”, but my own personal favourite song…

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Guns n’ Roses debut album „Appetite for Destruction“ needs no explanation. You either like it or you don’t, there is no middle ground. The song “Nightrain” certainly isn’t the strongest track on the album, but its title makes it interesting for this thread.

The song title contains a little play on words that initially caused me a bit of…

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“Bad Boys Blue” is a pop music group founded in 1984 that was among the most successful representatives of the Euro Disco genre in the second half of the 1980s (referring to Wikipedia).

Music so creamy, soft and sweet, they could have turned it into a chocolate bar.

“A train to nowhere” by Bad Boys Blue

https://youtu.be/hTemgSZINks?si=-rZsVIV8KIMH-H-x

Paul, completely unknown to me. Nice song with a lovely chorus. When I close my eyes and follow the music, I see beaches, maybe a few coconut palms swaying in the wind, but somehow no highway 😀.

That is so respectful of them to do that….. but when you’re as great as Dolly, so down to earth and such a great example of humanity….. absolutely!! People like that transcend borders.

Tom,

People talk about the Fermi Paradox. With so many stars and planets in the universe, and so many billions of years that it has existed, and at least on earth, we’re made out of pretty ordinary stuff. No shortage of water in the universe. So where is everybody? Why haven’t we actually found any aliens?

I’m guessing that AI is easier to…

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Don’t we always come up with new ideas when we step off the beaten path of thought? 🤔

Paul, you have no idea of all the things I watched when I was young. Yes, “Musikladen” was on my list, even though I didn’t really get into the music back then. I don’t know when I heard this song for the first time, but I know it and it’s a lovely song. America might be less well-known here. “A Horse with No Name” and “The Last Unicorn” are…

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And lastly “Roll On Down The Highway” by the excellent Canadian rock band BTO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oUBxyXxyFo&list=RD2oUBxyXxyFo&start_radio=1

Secondly, this one from Nancy Sinatra called “The Highway Song”, which I remember my sister buying and which reached the top 30 in the UK but may not have been released as a single in the States, as Wikipedia tells me that it never charted there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RZYUZ8pcRE&list=RD4RZYUZ8pcRE&start_radio=1

Wow, Thanks David that’s really cool. I never knew she recorded a record that early.

Here are a few more “highway” songs. Firstly, a song called “Ventura Highway” by a 70s (and early 80s) US band who I always thought were rather underrated, namely America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-BaXyirqi4&list=RDE-BaXyirqi4&start_radio=1

I note that this was from a German music TV programme. Would you perhaps have been watching it when…

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Jürgen, I wouldn’t have called it my “idea”. It was more a matter of inadvertently going slightly off topic and then realising it!!

Jürgen, alternatively, a quicker option may be to use the site’s search facility, via the magifying glass at the top right hand side of the page.

Hi Chris,

thanks for writing.

There are groups of academics attempting to constrain AI development but they are not in control.

I don’t think anything stops AI/ML other than a global truce and an end to the competition.

You know – sort of like World Peace.

From the little reading i have done we have …

1) There is nothing to worry about. AI will…

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Well they left out Jerry & Jimmy.

But it’s a great image anyway

Here’s my take on a great album that is woefully underappreciated, yet it’s message is as relevant as is was when it was written. This album was released 36 years ago. Dan was a strong voice for protecting Mother Earth and her natural resources….. unfortunately, these words have fallen on deaf ears for those in power. I’m hesitating to post…

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