JSS-- Just Some Stuff
1. GAZEBO-- I'm sitting in the gazebo right now and two-fingered-typing away. Hot day, but not bad out here with the breezes. Plus, in the shade I can see the screen.
2. LABOR DAY WEEKEND 1968-- Yesterday, I recorded Bob Stroud's final installment of his Rock and Roll Roots Time Warp back to the Summer of 1968 in the Donovan's motel room. He was playing what we were listening to on our Chicago radio (that would be WLS and WCFL, both AM stations) 40 years ago.
"Do It Again" by the Beach Boys just started and the last song was "Back in Love Again" by the Buckinghams. Go ahead, take me back.
He also played my favorite Band song, "The Weight." Gads!! Right now it is "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. Man, they played that song to death and if one has ever qualified for the Song That Wouldn't End Award, this would be one. Come on now, everybody sing, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, Hey Jude forever and ever and ever. And, let's hear Sir Paul bump into and step on things and make animal noises.
Sitting in the gazebo and thinking back to the days of a 17 year-old.
3. CASSETTE TAPE-- I recorded the show on my cassette recorder. That's right, cassette recorder. I still use and PREFER cassette tapes, but know it won't be too long before I won't be able to buy cassettes any more. I was one of the first to get cassette recorder and player, come to think of it, about, I got it about 40 years ago. Either that or in 1969.
4. HURRICANE GUSTAV-- Sad to see it going ashore earlier today. This is just what the Gulf Coast doesn't need as they are still recovering from Katrina, about three years ago to the date. We were on the Mississippi Coast this past February, and there is still a lot of rebuilding.
Called our friends Gail and Jim (Cajun) who are from Houma, Louisiana, where the storm went inland. They said their family members had all managed to go elsewhere.
5. DROUGHT HERE-- We sure need some rain. We have several threatening days, but nothing much came of it. I'm watering the flower beds and trees, but the grass has to take care of itself. Except, that is, the grass above the septic field. It has just now come back after the big drought we had three years ago.
Just Some Things Going On. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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