Every kid learning to play the guitar back then started out with the Smoke On The Water riff.
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Secret Agent Man theme song..............that's the riff we started out with.............
Wipe Out was another one I heard quite a bit.
We discussed on football board last year. You are correct. I believe the answer is no.
Good morning from Shawanee, TN. Currently 50°F and cloudy. Today's high should reach 64°F.
Proud of those ladies on the volleyball court. National championship, baby!
I'm heading back in a few. Stopping at Cookeville, TN Cracker Barrel for a visit with my cousin who lives near Sparta. Looking at 10 or 11 pm CST arrival tonight.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Proud of those ladies on the volleyball court. National championship, baby!
I'm heading back in a few. Stopping at Cookeville, TN Cracker Barrel for a visit with my cousin who lives near Sparta. Looking at 10 or 11 pm CST arrival tonight.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Good morning! Might as well go ahead and count the 1950 football NC. It's not totally legit, but it's as legit as titles some of the big boys claim. Alabama claims one that is just as suspect and no one gives them shit about it.
Somehow I slept for about 8 hours straight last night. It's the little things...
Heard that the weather is supposed to be great this week and that's just fine and dandy. Next Saturday though, the day that I need it to be nice and Sunny, is supposed to be shitty. I want my money back.
The Derby doesn't mean as much to me as it used to, but I want it to be a nice day. They should move it to the first Saturday in June.
Somehow I slept for about 8 hours straight last night. It's the little things...
Heard that the weather is supposed to be great this week and that's just fine and dandy. Next Saturday though, the day that I need it to be nice and Sunny, is supposed to be shitty. I want my money back.
The Derby doesn't mean as much to me as it used to, but I want it to be a nice day. They should move it to the first Saturday in June.
As a drummer in bar bands through the early eighties let me just say, I HATE that @&$)(;:/- song!!!!!
I really enjoyed watching the Lady Cats win that title. It was the best I have felt about a UK team in a long, long time.
The four sports you mention are the only NCAA titles I am aware of. As mentioned the football team beat #1 Oklahoma and was declared national champion by some. And of course back before the NCAA tournament UK won the Helms National Championship in the 1932-33 season. North Carolina has won the Helms and officially counts it but I don't know if UK does. The Hall of Fame has Coach Adolph Rupp with 5 National Championships 1 Helm and 4 NCAA.
Helms was a bakery out in Los Angeles and named National Champions in many sports for about a half century. And so it goes.
I have been there too Beetle Bailey. My ole thumb got me many miles back in the day.
Depends on whether you call the 1950 delayed football ranking national championship one.
The Terrence Clarke video is now on the front page of my news feed. Police say he was doing 80mph and not wearing a seat belt. It looks to me in the video that the white suv that goes through the intersection just before him, is traveling at a faster pace. Looks to be the same model vehicle as well. I wonder who that was and if they were racing.
Morning Legionnaires!
We did not do very well in the Nationals lost 3 and only won 1. Defense was lacking badly. Most of it due to the constant drinking and partying. One guy was drinking Monster energy drinks with vodka. His wife was there so, she drove him to the Hotel they were staying in. I drove back home (obviously) and got in around 2330. Watched a couple of the ladies games in between ours because there was also a tournament going on for them as well and I must say the ladies play a better fundamentally sound game than the men. Most guys today in slow pitch are concerned only with hitting and not their defense. The ladies concentrate on it all. It was enjoyable to watch.
Pictured below is the main field at the Softball Hall of Fame fields which is where they also play the women's college World Series. Going to try and catch some games this year.
Tennessee was ranked ahead of us that year and they also won their bowl game. Odds are if the poll rankings came out after the bowls we would have at best been second place. That doesn't matter though. We have hardware in the Nutter Center.
When I saw the video the first thing i thought of was racing. I doubt he was on anything, drugs or alcohol, because he had been working out minutes before. You don't drive 80 mph in the streets of Los Angeles in broad daylight with LA traffic. We have all been to Los Angeles and know the layout.
I believe if the entire story is told someone else in another vehicle was also in a hurry. Whatever the truth is it was a very dumb mistake by a kid who used poor judgment and is only a memory today. It is a good teaching tool for parents with kids who drive. A split second can take you out of here and change the lives of everyone who loved and knew you. It is tragic but reality.
Safe travels Austin. Look out for the crazies.Good morning from Shawanee, TN. Currently 50°F and cloudy. Today's high should reach 64°F.
Proud of those ladies on the volleyball court. National championship, baby!
I'm heading back in a few. Stopping at Cookeville, TN Cracker Barrel for a visit with my cousin who lives near Sparta. Looking at 10 or 11 pm CST arrival tonight.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
If the weather is great there will be no grass left on your golf course! 😁
I haven't played since Friday and won't play again until this coming Monday. I guess you could call it "tomorrow". Then I won't play again until Tuesday and Wednesday. Might play Thursday but I'm not playing on Friday because I'll be here watching Oaks Day with my wife. Plenty of time for the grass to grow back.
Fascinating story Bernie. First, as Colonel says, I should note the times medical professionals have done good things for people I know and love. Once my wife changed careers after our kids were born and became an RN, I learned even more about the good doctors do.
All that said, I've had two near misses with being carved by a surgeon.
When I was about 22, I was dealing with a lot of stomach issues, having to do with stress and diet. But one day in the middle of watching a movie I got really sick, was passing blood, etc., and my girlfriend drove me to a hospital. A doctor checked me out, labled it acute appendicitis and started prepping me for surgery. Apparently, he wasn't an actual surgeon, because when that guy came in, he started pushing around on my lower abdomen, and I guess when I didn't howl from the pain or based on what he could feel, says, "you don't have a swollen appendix" and walked out. I got put on prescription strength Tagamet for awhile and I was fine.
When I was in my early 40s, my left knee suddenly swelled until I could barely hobble around and after an MRI another doctor swore I needed a knee replacement ASAP. I jt had a feeling that might be premature, and I sought out a second opinion. That guy said, "you have some arthritis in your knee dating back to sports injuries. But the swelling will go down and you could be good for decades."
Bottom line: I still have my appendix and my left knee.
Good morning D-League. Still getting deep into classic country music on my long walks.
Here's a great song co-written by the legendary pedal steel guitar player Ralph Mooney, and recorded by Ray Price in the late 1950s:
Here's a great song co-written by the legendary pedal steel guitar player Ralph Mooney, and recorded by Ray Price in the late 1950s:
With all of the talk of Cinnamon, if find myself sitting here waxing nostalgic while kicking out my Sunday morning chores. <-Filling my old-man pill boxes for the week and paying bills.
Anyway:
Another similarity, much like the drummer for Def Leppard, I ended up one-handing it in the end.
I will show myself out.
- Fond memories of Cinnamon
- Our song = Pour some sugar on me <- she must have chosen this one due to the lower blood sugar properties of Cinnamon
- Whenever it was Ladies Choice, she wanted me to get the DJ to play that one for us. Damn, that was an expensive DJ. He must have been top in his field.
- I know she was only working there to get through college.
- I am sure she is at least a Ph.D. by now.
- I think she was specializing in the textile industry.
- The reason being, she was always talking to some guy at the bar and giving him money. I am pretty sure he did double duty at the university as a career counselor and financial specialist.
- I remember them talking about how successful she was at Fleecing. So it had to be something in textiles, right?
Anyway:
Another similarity, much like the drummer for Def Leppard, I ended up one-handing it in the end.
I will show myself out.
Keep those classics coming. It is the only way you can stay sane in this mixed up world.
When Papa Played The Dobro
We were just talking about Thursday night how you never see hitchhikers anymore. I imagine the state of the nation these days...crazies, etc....has something to do with it.
Or, has most states outlawed it? Don't know.
It certainly has changed over the years. I remember as a boy I would visit grandpa in Kentucky and that was the only way to get to town. Grandpa did not own a car. He lived up at the head of Pond Creek and the closest town was Williamson, West Virginia about 15 miles down the creek.
Another way to get to town was only available at 6:00 in the evening. That is when the train, loaded with coal pulled out on its journey, probably to the Ohio River to be loaded on barges. It had to pass through Williamson and if you knew the brakeman he would let you grab a hold of a coal car and hitch a ride. But you had to hitch a ride on a car or pickup back up the creek because no trains were coming that way until early in the morning.
And you ask why would a Pike County boy want to go to Williamson, WV. Because Pike was dry and West Virginia was wet.
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I think this one is Classic Country in spirit, if not age.
I do like some KRD
I do like some KRD
I remember in the early seventies, not sure on the exact year as I was 8 or 9 probably, our car broke down. Dad actually hitchhiked from Augusta (KY) to the Enquirer building in Cincinnati to work. This went on for a least a few weeks.
I remember him dressing really nice and leaving early. He worked in the evenings at the time, so he was traveling there mid-day. He told me that if you looked good and walked with a purpose, you would get a ride pretty easily.
I cannot imagine anyone doing that today.
On the Beetle Baily strip. I was stationed in Portugal from 88-91; on the weekends, you would see many Portuguese soldiers hitchhiking home for the weekend and back again.
Portugal had conscription at the time, and those young men made barely minimum wage at best if I remember correctly.
It was my understanding that the Portuguese people always gave them rides. It would have been bad form to not, and you had the room.
Thanks Sawnee. That old Johnny Cash song brings back memories. Pretty sure my parents had that album, among the country records that were my first introduction to music, along with the country-western AM stations we listened to on the long drives into Central Kentucky to visit my grandparents.
Yeah, he's got the spirit. As someone said on a country music history podcast I listen to, "There's no such thing as authenticity. There's only sincerity." I think that was adapted from something Hank Sr. said...
Saw/heard a Johnny Cash story from a TV evangelist just yesterday. The evangelist, wife, and a couple friends went to see Johnny in Branson. Someone came up to them before the show and asked if they were the preachers on TV. They said 'yes'. Guy asked if they could come backstage...and he took them to Johnny's dressing room. They walked in...Johnny didn't say 'hi' or anything, just told them that his knee(s?) were hurting so bad he didn't know if he could do the show and asked if they could/would lay hands on them and pray for him. So they did. So, they returned to the theater and the guy who first came up to them gave them seats in the middle of the front row.
Said Johnny put on a great show. No sign of pain. When he came back out on stage for the last curtain call, he said Johnny came to the very front of the stage, leaned down with his knees bent, put his hands on both knees, and gave them a thumbs up with a big smile.
Said Johnny put on a great show. No sign of pain. When he came back out on stage for the last curtain call, he said Johnny came to the very front of the stage, leaned down with his knees bent, put his hands on both knees, and gave them a thumbs up with a big smile.
Another Johnny Cash story. Probably in the late 80s I was in Nashville on business. Use to go to the old The Nashville Network...TNN... quite often. Started talking to a guy and he turned out to be in Johnny's band. He talked about what a nice, but quiet guy Johnny was. But lamented on the fact that they weren't touring much anymore and that they couldn't get concert/gig dates. At that time, Johnny's career had stagnated as so many older entertainers do. But seemed to pick up later in life.
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The Director makes fantastic zucchini bread.....my personal favorite is blueberry/walnut.....Good morning from Shawanee, TN. Currently 50°F and cloudy. Today's high should reach 64°F.
Proud of those ladies on the volleyball court. National championship, baby!
I'm heading back in a few. Stopping at Cookeville, TN Cracker Barrel for a visit with my cousin who lives near Sparta. Looking at 10 or 11 pm CST arrival tonight.
Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.
Good Morning D-League.......today is the first race of the season..........liberator over slept.........he didn't turn the birds loose at Columbia, TN....until...........10:15AM.........they would have been to Smith's Grove if the guy hadn't overslept.......Fly baby fly............
Johnny Cash actually had two careers. One in his early life and later as he had aged. I became a fan of his in 1956 when he first released I Walk The Line. I saved my money and bought his first record album, released in 1957. I was attracted to his music because I could relate to it. He was singing about my heritage and my people, Southern, dirt farmers and hard times. Times I may not have experienced but my grandparents and parents did and the stories on the front porch were those sung by Johnny Cash and other country singers of the time. But Johnny Cash was different because he could tell a story like none other.
Kind of like the gut wrenching feeling I get when someone comes up and request that I play Rocky Top on the banjo........I hate that damn song........But if I get my banjo out there will be a dozen people request it.......
When I was in high school I often diddled around in the mornings and missed the school bus. I would then hitchhike to school. I can't recall ever arriving late to school. Everybody knew everybody in the area.
"Play Rocky Top" is a running joke with the older musicians in the Bracken, Mason, Fleming County area.... Well, they (I do not really consider myself a musician) were young when it started. But YEP!
There are quite a few songs in what I call the 4000 Club. Once you hear or play a song 4000 times, it loses its luster.
- Wipe Out
- Old Time Rock and Roll
- MUSTANG FREAKING SALLY!!!!!!!!
- Rocky Top
- Sweet Home
- Friends in Low Places
Much like the road, the list goes on forever.
I have hitchhiked from my foster folks place on Lower Hunter's Trace in Louisville to his father's farm on KY 222 where it crosses the WK Parkway........when I would go down I usually had a grocery sack with clothes, my guitar and my .22 single shot rifle.......then when I came home they would put me on the bus in E-town.....I did that several times......and people picked me up..........only thing that would pick me up now........would be the police....
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