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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...

Their value is in their affordability…

Dip knows the clock is ticking on the window. They have a log jam of prospects in the middle infield, outfield, and catcher. Keep the top MIF prospect to replace JP in a couple years, and the top 2 OFs. Trade prospects for Skooby, then trade Castillo mid-season to shore up what is needed...

I’ve always preferred spring training to “conference games”, although last tim I went, the prices were getting comparable…

John Johnson