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2000... never seen this before...
 
or this one...
 
 
and a short clip in here.. from To Find A Friend
 

Yeah, sure is unreal.. seem so.. not real.

Yeah.. no matter the times, no matter how to make money off of your music.. or not... Neil is the man! He seem to record more than is ready to be recorded from time to time.. but again, in terms of being prolific and generous and keeping his less than straight mind straight.. Neil Young is the man. That is not to say he's the best artistically or musically.. but he's up there, among them.. and compared to him, most the others  just use their lyrics as an alibi for being greedy, their management and mansions as a "home base" from which they can pose being humbled and easy going, generous everyday people with their multi million agendas.. Someone gotta keep it simple and down to earth, and I'm kinda glad it's Neil. Everybody else is just to darn busy thinking about how things "have to be done" these days, to unreflective and willing to be used.  Good for Neil! If you can afford it, that's the way to go. Like the music or not, the idea of it is admirable.

Woke up this morning at 5am with the sounds of myself playing drums to "I Am The Walrus" by The Beatles floating around in my head. I don't remember dreaming of anything before waking, so I have no idea how that popped into my head. After waking and making coffee, I sat here and checked the PC for news, sports and whatnot. I noticed a story about The Beatles and clicked on it. To my surprise, it was about the lyrics to "I Am The Walrus",  from Atlantic Magazine. I'm posting this under "Creative Corner" because what could be more creative than Lennon writing lyrics? Click the link below to read the article and one man's thoughts of what it all means. I myself disagree with 1 or 2 claims.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/i-am-the-walrus-50-years-later/546698/?ref=yfp

It's not like I was ever going to meet him, but I just liked knowing that his spirit was alive somewhere out there, working away in his studio or getting ready for a tour, or coming down after a show, pacing around or whatever.. It's such a shame he's not around anymore. Also, he was one of the last of the dying old-school breed and every time one of those ones dies, the world becomes a slightly less interesting place (in my mind)

Yeah, sure is unreal.. seem so.. not real.

Another great day for the rich and reckless. As always it's democratic passivity of the many that allow the greedy and ignorant few to ruin society and the planet forever, all in the name of their own super comfort and short sightedness. One step at the time, the bar are lowered for morals and decency. ...... To let it happen is to make it happen.

Don't think I've seen/heard this one around...
 
 

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-leadon-mudcrutch-tom-petty-my-best-old-friend/

Don't think I've seen/heard this one around...
 
 

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/i-egne-oeyne/fuha04008489/21-07-1989#
Never saw this before. 37 min Interview for Norway TV (on english)
 
 

From TomPetty.com
 
We wanted to share a cool opportunity from SiriusXM, longtime presenters of Tom Petty's Buried Treasure and Tom Petty Radio.
Through November 27, SiriusXM is activating all radios, including those of current non-subscribers, so that anyone with a satellite radio can listen free to 100 channels, including Tom Petty Radio. Head to siriusxm.com/freelistening for details.
Enjoy and spread the word!

http://www.noise11.com/news/benmont-tench-and-mike-campbell-thank-fans-for-support-following-death-of-tom-petty-20171123

Happy birthday!!

Good question! I'd say that if he was to make an interdimensional chart of
1) Tom Petty songs that he actually knows in enough detail to consider making a rendition,
2) songs that his audience may actually know and appreciate as being a fairly obvious Tom Petty tribute and
3) songs that suit the occasion in terms of general existential character rather than topical or specific themed songs (story songs or songs about love, divorce, greed or what have you)
4) songs that suit his general abilities as a performer (granted he is a genius and can do anything, a rendition still needs to be within certain borders in order for above no 2) to still be an active premise),
Well, if he did make such a chart, then one of the points where it would all allign, where all the dimensions meet if you will, would be Learning To Fly, I'm sure. Seems an obvious pick to me. Even more so, when hearing it. I guess another one that Bob might've considered (perhaps deemed too obvious, considering how everybody is doing it already, too boring) would be I Won't Back Down. Had he wanted to make a bit of a "deeper" statement with his tribute, I suppose perhaps "Southern Accents" would have checked most boxes too. 
Now I can imagine Bob:yfied versions of Free Fallin, American Girl or Refugee, You Don't Know How it Feels or even Runnin Down a Dream too, perhaps Don't Come Around Here No More... yeah, indeed most of the "core" hits. But, those wouldn't likely have been as effective in this case - and most of them not as good, I guess - for various reasons stated above. On the other hand, countless lesser known songs of Tom's would probably be very well suited for Bob to rework on this occasion - some of which he may even know in some detail, who knows - but most of those would be songs - while a dream for someone like me, to hear him do* - would not be as obvious to his audience.
 
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* I would love to hear Bob do No Second Thoughts, Letting You Go, Walls, Dreamville, I Forgive It All... perhaps.. Can't Stop The Sun, Good Enough.. among many others... Songs like Dark of The Sun, Echo, Lost Children, Saving Grace or Even The Losers would be great with Bob, if not necessarily in a heartfelt context like this tribute. On the other hand, Bob is known to have played "Restelss Farewell" on Frank Sinatra's 80s birthday, so decorum is always relative to creativity and.. well.. jocularity.. when it comes to Bob.
 

I already have most of Neil's material, but not everything.  I hope there are some new things in there.  I keep waiting for the "Time Fades Away" stuff to be re-released.  I have a needle-drop recording from vinyl, but I'd love a pristine new copy.  
Neil Young is absolutely one of the greatest artists of our lifetime.  Period.

Review of Benmont's show in NYC
http://bestclassicbands.com/benmont-tench-concert-review-11-11-17/
 

Is it too early to look for signs of spring?

For now I've asked Amazon to remove the book from their catalog and if they comply I might just leave it at that.

I'm blue from holding my breath...

A word from Norm at Norm's Rare Guitars.
 

Btw, that live version of SOAD was from one of the Bridge School Benefits! That was really neat.
I kinda of gave em' hell on their Facebook page because when they first announced they were going to do a tribute to Tom, it seemed like they were only going to do maybe one album. I told them they could do better than that because they constantly do huge marathons and tributes to several different artists for their drives to raise money for the station (again it's a public funded station). One money drive they did was they did a tribute to the Band and played every song from their catalog. Another time they did the top 100 Neil Young songs etc. You get the idea. So I mentioned how a station that takes pride in playing the roots of rock, Americana, folk, alt country should do a bigger tribute to one of rock's most underrated artists who loved radio and got black listed because of it. They didn't disappoint lol.

oh.. shit.. another really good one: