I greatly enjoy listening to high quality music, especially when it is profoundly chosen, profoundly performed and profoundly delivered by the surround sound system my husband installed in my musiclaundritorium, where my oak writing desk sits diangle to the piano across from the laundry table and washer and dryer in the basement on the opposite end of the basement from the mancave and exercise gym.
Diangle’s a word. My aunt invented it.
This video is spectacular. If I could get this band to do harmony with my cousin and I when we sing together next, I would.
Who knows? Stranger shit has happened.
Their version of Sound of Silence is worth a listen, in my opinion, as well. At least once a day.
Oh… I ran into this five-footer in Paradise today while running barbed wire for the goats. Someone should have just mentioned the fact that there are snakes everywhere to Eve.
Even in Paradise. Is why I pack more under my vest than duct tape.
Black snakes eat lots of mice & other varmints. They get very large too. I saw one on a dirt road in PA that I thought was a good sized tree limb blocking the road until I got out to move it.
1. funny how all the shows and lists of ‘the most deadly creatures on earth!’ never include the animal who is BY FAR the most deadly: human beans… the critters are FAR MORE afraid (and rightfully) so of random violence by nekkid apes than vice versa…
2. snakes are people too ! ! ! see snakes all the time around our rural property, dogs bark them up (and suitably wary of them), we stumble upon them on walks, coral snakes, black snakes, hog-nosed snakes, garter snakes, rattlers (saw the HUGEST one I have seen in my life -head as big as my fist, thick as my calf- a while back, we decided to go back on the trail rather than jump over it like the dogs!), all kinds of snakes… you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you…
3. however, bushy-tailed rats (you call them squirrels), and bob-tailed rats (bunny wabbits) are a scourge upon civilization and gardens and should be shot on sight…
4. in case you didn’t know, the ‘deadliest’ (non-human) animal on the planet, is bambi ! ! ! that is right, cute little bambi kicks the shit out of and gores and kills more people than any other ‘dangerous’ animal… as garden destroyers, they should be shot, too…
snakes ? not so much…
We had a blue indigo (black snake) 6-7 footer for a couple of years that lived down near the roots of one of our big mesquite trees. We didn’t mind him wondering around at all….. They KILL rattlers.
Yes, around these parts, our black snakes help keep the copperhead population down ( not to mention moles-the bane of my yard.)
They do indeed. I would never harm a snake that helps kill vermin. And, honestly, I don’t kill the others unless it is between them and me. I’ve only killed one snake (a moccasin) since we’ve been here. Oh, and a baby copperhead that was in a big mound of earthworms I was moving to my garden. They look almost like an earthworm except they have a real head. I have pictures, but why bother. LOL
I did take a couple of shots at a rattling I heard when I was in the woods. I did not want to find out whether it was the wind or a big rattler. Sometimes warning shots are the best defense.
Very nice M G.
I’m working on my comment for Mary’s brave post now. Dredging it up from somewhere around here.
Shhhh…. here it is. NO need to comment or dredge it up from the boneyard.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2019/05/11/motherhood-abandoned-part-2-the-fallout/#comment-1760594
Cottonmouth snakes are quite poisonous, very aggressive, and can swim really well. Had a thick and angry six footer chase me around a pool once. The kids were instructed to throw a shovel into the patio enclosure as the skimmer was not going to get the job done, and was able to smash its head in.
Any herpetologist worth their salt will tell you that the “snakes” to be found in Washington D.C., Wall Street, and Hollyweird are much more poisonous and wicked.
However, it is the Evil Fucker snakes that are truly Satan incarnate.
Any herpetologist worth their salt? Hyperbole much?
I realized later you might be talking about the political breed of snakes. I apologize for jumping the gun. It was just that I got in an argument with a guy about whether the freaking timber rattler was more poisonous than a black mamba and my final answer was that you would be a dead motherfucker if either bit you so even though we all know the Aussie snakes are worse than other snakes, we have to avoid the snakes we are forced to live around.
So, I apologize for assuming you were proclaiming the snakes in your neck of the woods to be worse than mine.
They are all loathesome creatures, especially the CongressCreature kind.
No worries, no apologies required, and certainly no “mights” about it.
As dangerous as slithering pit vipers, cobras, and constrictors are, they are just reptiles. We don’t have to like them but rather they are deserving of respect and to be left alone. They are integral parts of the natural world and help maintain ecological systems.
The quadruped snakes, on the other hand, are the most terrible; wreaking suffering, death and destruction wherever they practice their venomous trade.
Bipedal snakes. BIPEDAL.
(No more tequila shooters for breakfast for at least a little while.)
Incredible talents.
My first concert was Styx at the Stanley theater in Pittsburgh. Opening act caught everyone off guard. An a cappella group “24 Karat Soul”. 6(?) young black men just blew our socks off. Left to a full house standing O.
Black snake story on fire road out from lodge at Blackwater Falls SP, WV. Wife and I mtb and see 4-5 Ft branch laying in road. About 5yrds away, it starts moving. Brake check!
Right in the heart of Oakland. Was a shame to see the Stanley Theater torn down. Right next to soldiers and Sailors.
my brother went to see donnie iris at the stanley back in the early eighties. the opening act was bon jovi.
shame the stanley is gone. i also miss old syria mosque. saw some great shows there: alice cooper (twice), jimmie page, deep purple, frank zappa, and more…
Those old theaters were marvelous. I’ve only seen them in pictures and movies but aren’t they just spectacular indeed.
Poppa G said he and “Ma” and Richie and Dee (his brother and sister-in-law… Italians do travel in packs, you know) would go see Jerry and the boys when they were in town.
Richie was President of the Steel Workers Union around Cleveland for a while. And, we will leave it at that.
I adored Poppa Grooch. And he me. He called me Daughter.
Weren’t those old theaters spectacular?
https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/venues/stanley-theater–benedum-centerter
My Poppa Grooch told me stories about taking Momma Grooch to see Jerry Vale at the Cleveland Round Theater. I have the stories digitally recorded and one day soon I will set his wonderful voice onto a soundtrack with all the photos of all the memories.
Nick was holding Poppa’s hand when he died. He swears to me this was the song playing on the CD player I’d hooked up to play Jerry Vale music n0nstop. He could not travel to Momma Grooch’s funeral. It was heartbreaking. All of it.
My first was Strawberry Alarm Clock followed by Steppenwolf. 1968, KY Fair and Expo center.
Stopped the video as soon as they flashed their LGTB sign.
Same here…..
I stopped when I realized it was Lennon’s Marxist anthem “imagine.”
Most people do. I almost did.
Then, I caught myself. Something about publicans and sinners.
I would listen to VH, Doobies, BTO or Molly Hatchet on a transistor over just about anything post 1985.
Takin’ it to the Streets. I saw Doobie Bros perform at Scope Auditorium in Norfolk, Va., in 1977.
My brother was stationed in the US Navy (USS Forestall) there and one of my adventures while on the road with my artistic auntie was to get to see a real rock and roll concert.
Doobies backed up by a “hometown” band my brother liked. REO Speedwagon, when they were still playing music.
My Aunt Martha was eclectic too. She wasn’t the first one. Old letters from Brown’s Cove Virginia in family archives suggest a lot of my ancestresses were a bit odd.
Glad I’m normal.
https://www.sevenvenues.com/venues/detail/scope-arena
Boston and the Doobie Brothers in Boulder, 1979. Ahhh, yea.
Join the discussion…Danny Joe Brown, the singer of Molly Hatchet died last week. My wife was friends with him from high school and we had him and his wife over ( with several others) for a crab feast at our house a few summers ago.
I miss the great Southern Rock bands from the 70’s-80’s also.
One of my all time fav tunes is Gator country but I swap out the word gator for tornado for I live in the middle of the country.
I was on-air at a mighty Rock FM Radio station WPFM in Panama City Beach when Skynard’s plane went down. Listeners were jamming the phone lines, totally freaked out; just couldn’t believe it. Their “Street Survivor’s” album was just out with the band in foreground and a wall of flames in the background (see link below). Record company immediately pulled that version and replaced it with one sans flames. A footnote…the plane ran out of gas and the pilot (also charter plane owner) flew past at least two airports where he could have landed and fueled. He thought they could make it….
https://youtu.be/PhrRCgsEyCA
You know, you got that right.
Band members used to just be real people.
Oh, the sweet sound of cluelessness. It rocks my tiny brain.
Imagine a world where there is war.
A lady at my favorite watering hole told me this was the best love song ever.
Was that a dude or chick that flashed the LGBTQIXYZ sign?! Quit watching at that point.
If you like A Capella you’ll love Home Free.
Years ago while fishing I stepped over a log and got bit by a black snake. Hurt like hell but I didn’t kill it.Had tears in my eyes for a moment though .
I also miss those the rock bands of the 70s . God just doesn’t make them anymore. You can see or listen to most of them on YouTube.
The black snake bites do hurt but they bleed out clean usually and don’t swell. That’s what the mint oil I carry is for.
I was at the flea market today in lieu of church and had a wonderful conversation with three very old men who know everything about everything. Vietnam, Korea and Desert Storm too. The youngest was 64, two years older than my husband, who stood duty for 90 days as Deployed First Shirt when I was a new mother, just out of the service. The Air Force basically gave me a medical separation when they saw I wasn’t gonna be worth a shit after having that baby. For many reasons. Mostly because I wasn’t gonna leave him. That’s Dad’s job.
One of those old guys said he killed a 43 inch copperhead two weeks ago. Beautiful ugly beasts. I picture the Serpent in the Garden with the head of a copperhead. Dad taught us to freeze and not breathe if they were coiled to strike. Freezing confuses them and they will pause the strike. I’ve seen it and survived it.
https://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/agkcon.htm
The other claimed his son-in-law killed a 74 timber rattler near the Castor River at Marquand, which is why I take Thumper and the Sacred Rock when I go there. And, of course, Lt. Beretta.
See? Snakes all over the place in Paradise. C’mon Eve. Grow a pair. Oh, wait… you had them surgically implanted, didn’t you?
Maggie, I hope your memories of Papa Gooch are good and loving. You’ve mentioned him many times before and expressed your love. Hope the memories don’t hurt to much.