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And after they ate all of that beef, they barbecued all of our dogs and cats. 🤡

Stanley Clarke playing electric bass

Stanley Clarke band. Players from left to right: reeds, guitars, SC, violin, percussion

Stanley playing upright bass

Stanley speaking to the audience.

Wonderful show by Stanley Clarke and his band of young guns in Mesa, AZ last night. Some RTF classics, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, and super interplay in stretched out improvs. The man has an amazing touch!
#jazz #jazzfusion #livemusic

Album cover of Mingus at Monterey, depicting a rocky Monterey coast. Turntable spinning album in the background.

Going to see the legend that is Stanley Clarke tonight, so doing some warm up with another bass legend.

Charles Mingus - Mingus at Monterey (RSD 2025)

#NowSpinning #VinylCommunity #vinyl #MusicSky #jazz

No more South African lentils.

Whoa!! Amazing stuff and "new" TG! Incredible, man. Thanks for sharing.

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4x8 ceramic dish filled with peeled red, orange, and yellow cherry tomatoes covered in oil with shallots and herbs. Baked at 225F convection (107C fan) for 1 hr.

Quarter sheet pan with dehydrated tomato peels.

Doing a bit of dinner prep and made Dominque Crenn's confit tomato. (I've been watching cooking Masterclass vids while on the treadmill.) What does one do with all of the tomato peels? Why dehydrate them, of course, to use as garnish (or grind for tomato powder).
#homecooking

Album cover of LoVE Forever Changes depicting colorful sketches of the band member faces. Spinning turntable in the background.

#NowSpinning This album is so good. LoVE Forever Changes.
2012 remaster by Bernie Grundman (Elektra, German pressing)
#vinyl #VinylCommunity #ArthurLee #LaurelCanyon

Brown ceramic tea mug with a blue tag hanging over the left side. Tag says "Fortnum & Mason, Famous Tea, Earl Grey classic"

#TeaTime Going posh today with Earl Grey from Fortnum & Mason. Lovely sip!
#tea

And when Saruman (and Wormtongue) tried to take over the Shire as a dictator with his ruffians, the Hobbits came to realize that they had strength in numbers and chased his ass out of there at the Battle of Bywater. (And then Wormtongue killed him). Be a Hobbit!

5 musicians. 3 wearing lab coats. Two guitarists, two percussionist, one keyboard. With Peavey and SG amps.

Black and white of similar photo as first shown as the backing of a cassette disk. With the title Architectural Metaphor debut show, 1984 Allston MA

A music industry friend is blogging on space rock cassette tapes and is highlighting a compilation that Architectural Metaphor appeared on. It was our 1st show, at an industrial music record shop in Allston MA in 1984. That is me in the front with guitar on lap and a theremin at the ready.

Yum! We make them every Christmas season. Those look great (albeit non-porcine). 🐖

Never fails that they all hit at once!

Excellent story, man! And kudos to Dr Doux for the research!
One of Whitey's bars (Triple O's) in S Boston (where I always was told to walk across the street, eyes forward, keep moving) is now an excellent restaurant run by Karen Akunowicz. No Flemmi posters!

I've heard a similar refrain from a dear departed friend of mine regarding the relationship between peppers and the Philly cheese steak. Enjoy it with gusto but just call it something else.

Nico used to come calling on Jackson when he was living in Billy James' (Dylan's 1st publicist) laundry room in Laurel Canyon. (According to Billy's son, Mark). Interesting times.

They were also doing practicing video shoots that were then aired on Don Kirchner's Rock Concert.
On the last night, the crew guys come out to us and said "you ready?" and up goes the hanger doors and the band in full gear is playing Hard Luck Woman. Kill me now. Best night ever. /end

Night after night we were there. The 2nd night one of the road crew came over to us but he was chill and let us hang out as long as we didn't go in. Now we were legal!! 3/

Word got out that they were there, they were spotted walked around my town of 25,000 people in MA.
A group of friends decided we had to see them, so at night we dug a hole under the fence and crept outside the quonset hut that they were practicing in. We sat in the shadows, in awe 2/

My Ace / KISS story. I was a huge KISS fan starting around 1973. In 1976, KISS was going on tour for Rock and Roll Over and prior to the tour they did some dress rehearsals at Camp Curtis Guild, an Army Reserve base about a mile from my house. 1/x

Nice! Thanks, man.

Album cover of Ace Frehley's solo album showing Ace in Space Ace makeup.

Damn.

Rest well, Space Ace

#AceFrehley #KISS #KissArmy
#NowSpinning #vinyl #VinylCommunity

Album cover with a slightly blurry image of Sonny Rollins from his right side playing his sax. Turntable spinning in the background.

#NowSpinning
Sonny Rollins On Impulse!

2019 Vital Vinyl series from Impulse. Nice clean copy with very good dynamics.

#VinylCommunity #albums #jazz

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge

Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...

Jeff Beck leaning back, turned to his right side, playing a white Strat with Anika Nilles behind her drumkit in the background.

Close up of Anika Nilles from her left side, behind her drumkit, with her blond hair blowing all over.

Another closeup of Anika behind her drumkit from her left side.

Anika in the background behind a red Tama kit. In the foreground are Jeff Beck (left) and Johnny Depp (right).

I didn't know anything about Anika Nilles before seeing her in Jeff Beck's last tour in 2022. She was a true powerhouse during that show & she also formed a super tight pocket (w Rhonda Smith on bass) for Beck to do his thing. I can't wait to see what she does with Alex and Geddy.
#Rush #livemusic

Album cover with a joyous Linus and skeptical looking Sally in a pumpkin patch awaiting The Great Pumpkin with a shadow of Snoopy against a full moon. Turntable with album in the background.

#NowSpinning It's that time of year for It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
2022 Craft, cut at 45rpm by Kevin Gray
#vinyl #VinylCommunity #Peanuts #Halloween #TricksOrTreats #guaraldi

Colored clay coffee cup of blue, yellow, and orange in the foreground with some flowering desert shrubs, rain causing ripples in a pool, and a grey cloudy sky.

Enjoying some coffee and a rare cool, rainy morning in the desert.

They picked a super drummer to join them too.

So many rooms with so many masterpieces. Love that place, and ya, Bartlett Gallery is no slouch.

Fetterman is useless and Murkowski only votes with Dems when she knows her vote won't be the swing vote. She is horrid as well.