Recent content by Fishpo31

Augie was the man..

Sitting on a beach, having dinner with my wife, and these two guys show up. Guitar/pan flute (Latino Dyan/Neil), and a harp, as in a REAL harp. They just played the living shit out of Winds of Change, twice by request. I was impressed. That is all…

Fogerty was sued for copyright infringement of “Run Through the Jungle” for this song, a song that he wrote…he sold his publishing for CCR to get out of his contract with Fantasy Records, and Saul Zaentz took him to court. Zaentz accused him of plagiarism his own shit fucko…Fogerty won, and...

My dad was on one of those ships.

Fare Thee Well…

He was the piano player on the above song, which was named in his honor. He also designed and built “the Rolling truck Stones thing” (as referenced in Smoke on the Water), a mobile recording studio…

40 years ago today, Ian Stewart died of a heart attack while waiting in an emergency room to be seen by doctors. He, along with Brian Jones, were the founders of The Rolling Stones. Considered the “sixth Stone”, Stu was their long tim road manager, and touring pianist. He also played on many...

Songs / albums more than artists, with 2 exceptions…Journey and Genesis. With the fatigue of Zeppelin, Aerosmith, U2, ZZ Top, Skynrd, Fleetwood Mac, et.al, they have a deep enough bench that I can cherry pick. I haven’t listened to Stairway / Black Dog / R&R willingly in 25 years, same with...

Speaking of Zeppelin, I just finished Cameron Crowe’s memoir “The Uncool” a couple days ago. Would recommend for the music nerds, like us…

Tangerine for me

I just meant in general, over the years it seems like that when LZ is discussed, Presence is rarely if ever in the convo…

II III Graffiti Presence often gets slagged, but it has some bangers for me

Being a tech challenged boomer… Date With an Angel, Ian McLagan and the Bump Band Dixie Chicken, Little Feat Use Me, Bill Withers Domino, Van Morrison Something’s Got a Hold on Me, Etta James

Listening to my Stax playlist currently…just got to “play it Steve!”…

I hear you,..at this point, if they are throwing around “controllable”, I am fucking out. “Controllable”, “sustainable”, for the last 20 years got them what? They have been close, but they are as close as you can get, not to the playoffs, but to having the opportunity to win it all, and there...