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Perhaps. I would be surprised if Dylan intended anything like gematria, but who knows? Thanks.

I’m 19 years younger than Dylan but I could never do at my age what he can do at his age. Amazing.

Interesting! Thanks.

Thank you!

Thank you. The Rypdal tribute site was just a branch from my own personal website. I had the site as a support for my own musical career at the time (schedule of gigs, lessons, recording samples, etc.), and when I ended my own personal music career and switched to full-time chemistry lecturer at the local university, I decided to stop paying the $ to perpetuate my own site.....and any other site that I had branching from it (e.g., the Rypdal tribute site). Before I took the sites down, I asked everyone on my Rypdal mailing list to consider allowing me to transfer all of the files and pages that I'd created for the site to anyone who would volunteer to take over the site. No one offered, so I eventually let it all go. But I direct you to the BEST resource ever for Rypdal fans, and that is the following Facebook site maintained by Morten Mordal who was once a very active member of my Rypdal mailing list: facebook.com/groups/2502614664/ Also, yes, there were complaints by certain individuals in the music press that I had included decades-out-of-print magazine articles on the site and that they should be immediately "taken down" (i.e., people like Steve Lake who apparently preferred that his old articles remain in obscurity....which is completely his right, of course, so I complied with his demand).

Thanks!

No, James. My westerns spreadsheet is for my reference only, to help me prevent wasting time re-watching a western I didn’t like. The data on that spreadsheet should have no significant appeal or value to anyone other than me. I have learned that I have bad taste in westerns, just as I have bad taste in everything else. Haha!! (For example, I cannot stomach widely-lauded westerns such as Shane, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Wild Bunch, My Darling Clementine, and many other almost-universally-beloved westerns). See? Now you see why my westerns spreadsheet would be worthless to most fans of the genre.

I’ve told you before you underrate yourself! OK understood…

The Free Design are in a class all their own, but they were a confluence of many influences common to many other artists at the time, artists that released albums that could be grouped together under what I’ve always considered to be my overall favorite genre-category: sunshine/baroque pop. But with Enoch Light’s production prowess, The Free Design’s albums sound as crisp and perfect as a Steely Dan album. Haha!

@@CalicoSilver You’ve got an eclectic taste like me. It’s the only way to go. Keeps life fresh and engaging

Thanks Peter. I appreciate it, and I hope you are well also.

Thanks!

Thank you, Calum. Cheers! Jeff

I love the album cover for that one. And yes, James Taylor in the early '70s was quite exceptional. He stood out among all the many singer-songwriters of that era.

@@CalicoSilver The album is unlike any of his, it’s a perfect blend of pop, jazz, blues and funk. The compositions are unique. John McLaughlin plays an acoustic solo on “Someone.” The end of the album strings several short songs together similar to Abbey Road idea. His compositions after this album became homogenized with only a couple exceptions, Shower the People and Mexico.

Thank you!

Yes I was also impressed by his inclusion of less-performed songs.

Thanks, James.

Almost all of the Lou Reed albums are on my top 200 list, I love them so much. I just chose Drella to be the top one for me at this time. I have Drama and just never cared for it. Not sure why, but there it is. The only Stones album I can listen to any time in any mood is Goats Head Soup, but it didn't make my top 50. My reaction to Quadrophenia has always been very personal and subjective so I'm not exactly sure if anything that I say about it would mean anything to anyone else....but it might.....so I definitely need to try reviewing it anyway. Thanks, James.

I agree!

Haha! You can’t win sometimes.

I think you’ve obviously got it figured out, Tony. Congrats!

Men with courage are the most rare species to still barely exist….so far, anyway.

Thanks for the Whitley recommendations, Rick.

@@CalicoSilver Oh my gosh - the Jimmy Webb is so moving! His singing is top notch! Dolby is seriously awesome as well!

Yeah, good call on the Newman recordings. I never bought those even though I was tempted to, but I figured his own original recordings were “solo” enough to start with. But I should have a listen to the retrospective recordings. Thanks for the reminder.

Actually we even share the same anniversary year, Matt. Our 40th is “in the upcoming year”, or 2025. So we are basically the same person. Except I have much worse taste in music. 😉👍😂

@@CalicoSilver ah so you’re in 1985 as well!! Nice! We match again! Only difference is you like the “intelligent” music and I’m the “goofy” music guy! 🎼 🎶 ha ha! 😂

The '60s Beach Boys albums (which are the only albums I've heard by them) have a few songs on each of them that are unbelievably perfect, but they also have songs that are embarrassingly corny. Not even their heralded masterpiece "Pet Sounds" is immune from this. So I have never recommended The Beach Boys to anyone; instead, I simply acknowledge that Brian Wilson has written some of the most beautiful and ingenious pop songs of the 20th century.....and some of the corniest derivative drivel also. I find this to be typical of most geniuses. Haha!

I can't figure out what my wife sees in me either. Even I can readily conclude that my list of cons far exceeds my list of pros, yet she is still here with me. And yes, she hates my music taste too. Haha!

Yes I love the blend of Santana's and McLaughlin's styles. They are two artists I really enjoyed deeply back in the '70s and still do, so I do love that album.....about half the time.....sometimes I just can't stomach that cheesy fakey religious component.....even the cover of the album makes me roll my eyes. I understand and appreciate their desire to "seek higher" than the merely earthly-vulgar and selfish world around us, but the way they so cheesily do so just comes across as vacuous hoity-toity posturing to me. And I'm pretty sure that they have both benefited greatly from the very earthly/selfish aspects of luxury that they claim to eschew, all the while wearing their virginal white duds and speaking with their soothing sage-vocal tones, haha! Great talents, yes, but so unintentionally and humorously transparent. And again, I say all of this as a huge fan of their music.

A song I really like from this period is 'Tatters'. I still haven't heard The Raven.

Lou is by far the most indefensible artistic enthusiasm I've ever had. Even I can't quite understand why I love the guy's music so much. It is clearly not for everyone....I'd go so far as to say that it is not for hardly anyone at all. I used to think that that was a major contributor in how much I liked certain unorthodox artists (their unpopularity with the masses) but I no longer think that. I sincerely love this guy's work, period, and I even love what little I know of the man himself.

Good song, yes. I just heard the Ecstasy album a few days ago and Tatters was one of the songs that especially got my attention....again. That whole album is SO good.

Indeed. I truly believe that the only things that really matter in life are the simple things that people were aware of millenia ago. Nothing has changed in that regard. All the other stuff we pile on ourselves in the name of progress and "enhancing our standard of living" are nothing compared to those few simple truths that have been with us as far back as we could look.

I love that Prefab Sprout album (produced by Dolby of course) but have not heard the bonus CD version! Thanks for letting me know about it.

Wow, I wasn't aware of that. I knew that it never seemed to pop up on any of their setlists over the years. I wonder if that had something to do with Lesh not wanting to sing it live or something? (I am a Dead dummy.....other than enjoying their music I know diddly squat about the history or inside scoop of the band itself)

I think yeah it’s mainly because Phil didn’t sing lead much. I guess in 95 they said “hey this is a good one!”

I find that if we just give them time (sans our stupid knee-jerk "corrective" input....i.e., opening our foolish mouths), they will eventually realize on their own if they are right or wrong. Our problem as partners is plunging headlong into the situation with our vocal "correction" before they've been given time to do it themselves. This holds true for most people, but especially for our loved ones. It comes across as being disrespectful (even when it is well-intended) and women understandably recoil at what they perceive to be disrespect from men. A measure of stoic patience always pays off, I find. (But I struggle constantly to adhere to this....I even have a sign on the wall where I'll see it everyday that says "shut up")

Amen, Mike. I even have a sign on the wall in a place where I'll see it everyday that says "shut up" just to remind me.

Haha! Good plan of action!

Too late.