SOME FUN STUFF

OK I hope this tab works in the blog posting or we’re pretty much dead meat. The first section is FAMOUS ROCK AND ROLL LAST HITS. We have our rules. Usually it’s a song to get action on the charts and the name of the group actually has to be on the record (we aren’t going for solo carriers) however we make one notable exception

GROUP SONG

Monkees ------Valerie

Paul Revere & the Raiders ------Cherokee People

Marvolettes ------Don’t Mess With Bill

Donavin-----The Ballad of Atlantis

Chuck Berry ------My Dingaling

Ricky Nelson ------Garden Party

Gary US Bonds ------Twist, Twist, Senior

Them ----Brown Eyed Girl

Hermans Hermits -------No Milk Today

Standels ------Try It

Elvis Presley -------Burning Love

Gary Lewis & the Playboys -------Green Grass on my Window

Beatles ------Long, Winding Road

Jimi Hendrix ------Dolly Dagger

Cream ------Badge

Jefferson Airplane ------Milk Train

Doors --On a Tight Rope Ride

Aritha Franklin ------That’s What I’m Gona Do

Queen------- Under Pressure

Deep Purple --------Burn!

The Animals -------You Better Get Straight

Three Dog Night -------I Must Let the Show Go On

Herb Albert & TJ Brass -----This Guy’s In Love with You

Dave Clark Five -------You Got What It Takes

Loving Spoonfulls -----Six O Clock

Mamas & Papas ------Twelve Thirty

Supremes -------You’ve Been Gone Too Long

Fifth Dimension - - - - I Couldn't Get to Sleep

Procol Herum - - - - Pandora's Box

Jim Croce - - - - I Have To Say I Love You In A Song

Tom Petti - - - - The Last D J

Neil Young - - - - Rocking In The Free World

George Thorogood - - - - Get A Haircut

Roy Orbeson - - - You Got It

George Harrison - - - - You Can Lead A Horse To Water

B '52's - - - - Love Shack

Temptations------ Papa Was a Rolling Stone

Led Zeppelin ------Double D

Alice Cooper ------Poison

Judas Priest -----Pain Killer

The Seeds -----The Wind Blows Your Hair

The Kinks -----Come Dancing

Styx ----Mr. Roboto

The Police -----Murder by Numbers

Canned Heat -----Lot’s Work Together

Leslie Gore----- Sunshine, Lollypops

Credence Clearwater ----Sweet Hitchhiker

Beach Boys ----Kokomo

FOR OUR NEXT SECTION WE ARE DOING GROUPS THAT SOUND SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE OTHER GROUPS. SEE WHAT YOU THINK

OLD GROUP - - - - NEW GROUP

Vogues -----Fortunes

Drifters -----Corsairs

Beach Boys -----Trade Winds

Bruce and Terry -----Sun Rays

The Ripcords----Ronnie & the Daytonas

Jan and Dean -----Yellow Balloon

The American Breed ---- Boyce & Hart

Vanity Fair -----The Partrage Family

Ides of March -----Bill Chase

Wings -----Pilot

Castaways -----The Five Americans

Four Seasons -----The Wonder-who

Tommy James -----Alive & Kicking

Led Zeppelin -----The Honey Drippers

Nepolian XIV -----“King Herod” song

The B ‘52s -----Killer Pussy

Question Mark & the Mysterians----- Lee Michaels

Fontilla Bass -----Aritha Franklin

Caesar & Cleo -----Sunny and Cher

Weird Al Yankivic -----The Tunes

The Ohio Players--- Wild Cherry

SECTION THREE – NAME THAT INSTRUMENT

1. This instrument is used on four songs on the Beatles first British album and also used on their first three British singles, though an American DJ didn’t like it.
2. This instrument was used in a brief solo on their first album but used much more frequently throughout the rest of the Beatles carrier
3. This instrument was first heard by me on a Beatles song in August of 1965 but there was also a version of this song floating around without it. This instrument is used more effectively on at least four tracks on Magical Mystery Tour
4. This instrument was most family employed on Elvis’ 2^nd single 45 release after getting out of the army. This instrument is used in a number of “Who” songs and is most famously employed in a love ballod on “A Hard Days Night”
5. This instrument is found on “Look at me Now” by E L O, which is a strange song, and used on an alternate version of “Penny Lane” on Anthology, and can also be heard in several places in “Revolution No. 9”.
6. This instrument is one of the few credited instruments, used on a song on Revolver, but is more commonly found on songs by The Who, and Jan & Dean.
7. This instrument is used on four rock songs, “Under My Thumb”, “You Don’t Own Me”, “It’s In His Kiss” and also in “I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind”.
8. The Beatles criticized the use of this instrument in an Elvis song, but it’s used on the album version of “Mother Nature’s Son” and a few other Beatle songs.
9. This instrument was first used on a Rubber Soul song recorded in late June of 1965 and was employed frequently on Rubber Soul, and the Revolver albums, but after this was pretty much dropped.
10. This instrument wasn’t used much by the Beatles. It wasn’t used till Sergeant Pepper, and then it was used on the White Album, and can also be heard fleetingly in Revolution 9 and also on the B side of their final British 45.
11. This instrument was used on “Paint It Black” and might even appear on “Shapes” by the Yardbirds. It’s used on Rubber Soul for what people thought was fir the first time, but on a vinyl American Beatles album it’s heard earlier.
12. This instrument was used for the first time on track thirteen of the Revolver album and is employed frequently on Magical Mystery Tour and the Yellow Submarine albums. I used to have a copy of “Martha My Dear” without it, however.
13. This instrument was first used on the Beatle’s fourth album, and also on the same track on Capitol’s fourth release, but is not a real common Beatle instrument.
14. This instrument developed a “comb-back” on pop songs after being employed on a Drifters song in August 1959 to render them a number one hit.
15. This instrument was on one track on "Help" one track on "Revolver", three tracks on "Sgt. Pepper, and on a lot of tracks on "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Yellow Submarine" but is omitted from the versions of "Glass Onion" on the Anthology.
16. "Fixing a Hole", "Piggies", "Not Guilty" etcetra, etcetra.
17. "Ticket To Ride" kicked off extensive use of this Beatle instrument for songs recorded in the year 1965. "Bad Boy", "We Can Work it Out", "Day Tripper" and "Run for your Life" are some prime examples of its use.

18. CLOSING CREDITS We would at this time like to extend acknowledgements to our extensive behind the scenes production staff, Semore Butts (author of “Under the Grandstands”), Pussy Galore (author of “The Long Canal”), I. P. Freely (author of “Yellow River”) Hugh Jass, Ms Beatrice (Bea) O Problem, Ivanna Tinkle, Ali Tabooger, Amanda Huginkiss, Jaque Strap, Peter Leaky, Reggie Mentor, Buzz Hedgecock, Blaze Tannenbaum (our Holidays consultant), Link Wiener, Dick Wanker, Levi Stubbs, Oliver Klozov, I. M. Spazzy, Harry Beaver, Ophilia Balls, Rod Boehner, Uri Nader, and lastly to Master Bator, who just became Batman’s new boy wonder assistant.

WILL UNREST IN MIDEAST BRING ABOUT DESIRED REFORMS?

The latest news is that Quadafi is talking about being martyred on Egyptian soil and not leaving. This indicates that he expects eventually to fail in his quest to hold on to power and that the many forces arrayed against him will do him in shortly. How he's seeking help from the leader of Italy to hire mercenaries. People in western Libya are fleeing to Tunesia. Apparently eastern Libya is held by the rebels. All the world community seems intent on doing is issuing trade sanctions, which could take forever, and we all agree that sanctions were of no use in hastening Saddam Hussein's fall from power in 2003. Obviously Quadafy is becoming mentally unhinged, and for this reason his own officers will likely end up doing him in. Many people have defected from his cabinet and air force pilots have defected and refused to fire on their own people. George Washington's blog maintains that this whole protest wave sweeping the mideast is a game changing world event herolding Democracy and all that. I wish I could be that sure. I think a lot of us are still expecting some cinnister force to come out of nowhere and take over. It it isn't the Moslem Brotherhood, it will be somebody else. Obviously these mideast countries, even in Iran, have a lot of westernized, educated upper middle class people. We would all like to think the technological age of cell phones and face book will win the day. But I can't help but think that these mideastern people have a slave mentality going back thousands of years. They see submission to authority as a sign of piety and perhaps even a guarentor of a good after-life. I know that many conservatives, even when when elections were taking place in Iraq in 2005 were saying "these Arab peoples aren't ready for democracy". Neo cons appear to care a lot less about things like liberty and freedom for everyone, and a lot more about preserving their corporate power structure and control of commerce and money, and restricting the availability of inexpensive energy. They may say they don't want gasoline at five dollars a gallon, but they don't want to explore alternative energy sources either. And besides the way they figure it, if we have a resurgence of inflation, they'll just blame President Obama for the whole thing. I would say the same thing to Thom Hartman, who has expressed sentaments five dollar a gallon gasoline would not be a bad thing. Yes it would. It would be disasterous. Also any new energy taxes would be a disaster. Give this economy time to climb out of the grave it has dug for itself.

Cold weather sure is in the news a lot more than it used to be. I think a lot of the increased coverage is the desire to put on info-tainment and give the people exciting video to look at. Now they are talking about wide spread freakish winds over a line of a thousand or more miles. You heard about the "White House Christmas tree" coming down. In the west they are talking about snow in San Francisco and even snow around the Hollywood sign. They say the snow level will drop to five hundred feet in the LA area. It hasn't happened yet. Last night they were talking about a huge new storm swooping in from the Gulf of Alaska making its way down the central California coast. But today so far seems dry and sunny and a little warmer. But all in all it does seem as if the US has been getting colder winters the past few years.

Apparently the Republicans will win the day merely by failing to fund needed bills such as the Health Care bill. Now they are saying law enforcement of and prosecution for security's fraud will languish, as the guilty get off Scott free. We need massive prosecutions of higher ups in the financial community. Personally I think impeachment charges should be brought against Justice Thomas, and perhaps Roberts and a couple of others. It says in the constitution that they shall remain in power for life but only "during good behavior". I think it can be argued that in the case of Thomas and others they have hopelessly conflicted interests, being associated with activist conservative organizations. The last two Justices were given thumbs up by congress because they promised to respect "settled law" and merely were in the business of "calling balls and strikes". Clearly we need a Presidential candidate next year that will stand up to the increasingly powerful forces of the Right, which Obama refuses too. The President will not even make a trip to Wisconsin to lend the protesters there a little moral support, because he doesn't want to be seen as "too political" and lose this elusive "independent voter" support.

I would like to comment just a little more about this whole God and deism thing. You know that Walter Martin talks about "anthropomorphisms" of God. For instance scripture speaks of the eyes of God and the mouth of God and the hands and arms of God. But also scripture attributes to God the saying that "God repented that he had ever made man". Also at one point scripture says that "the anger of the Lord was kindled against the People and he said to Moses, "step aside while I wipe out this rebellious people, and of you I will build a great nation". Obviously this is something God decided not to do. Does God change his mind. In Genisis it says that God had a discussion with himself, "Let us go down to Sodom and Gamorah and see whether it be as depraved as the reports that have come to me, and if not, I will know it". Also in 2nd. Peter it ways that "God is not slow to keep his promises, but God is long suffering not willing that any should perish but that all come to be saved". If there is one thing that has been established, from a personal letter from a prominent church pastor to me is that "Nothing happens unless God wills it, and if God wills it, it will happen". So as you can see the Bible apparently anthropomorphizes a lot of emotions of God. Does it anthropomorphize the emotion of Love? Scripture says "When thy own father and mother abandon thee I will take up your cause". But James Dobson says that the love of God is merely some projection of the love we get from other places like our parents and our families, and that if this is lacking, then God can't help. The asshole from El Paso has intoned similar sentaments. Also hasn't it ever intrigued you that on all these soap operas when the young woman goes to a priest and says "I know God is punishing me for having that abortion five years ago, and now I can't get pregnent", and the priest invariably responds, "God doesn't deal with people that way". Again, what if the Priest is speaking the truth about God, but perhaps not quite how he meant it. Many holy rollers hate the concept of "earning your way to heaven through good works". They will say "There is nothing you can do to improve your holy standing with God". If they really believed this then they would not be constantly pointing the finger of shame against the unholy and unchurched among us. Or in the words of Bob Dylan in the song "Ramona" it goes "I've heard you say many times that you're better than no one and no one is better than you. If you really believe that then you know you have nothing to win and nothing to lose". Just think about that one a while. What if this whole idea of trying to "win God's favor" is silly because he doesn't even interact with human beings in a way we humans can identify with? Suppose God has his own pre-set agenda that might by all rights be considered quite A-moral by "normal" human standards?

Well now Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is in real trouble. The editor of the Buffalo Beast or whatever gave him a prank call where he pretended to be David Koch. I don’t know how Walker fell for the scam but he did. Governor Walker has refused to take calls from Democrats or Union members but a rich guy gets right through and them talk amicably for twenty minutes. Both men used the term “bastards” a lot. It was proposed that David Koch hire outside agitators to cause chaos in the crowds. The governor responds “I thought about that but I think it would backfire because the people of Wisconsin would turn against me and declare it was time to negotiate. It was also proposed that the Democratic senators be invited back to the state “to talk” and the Governor would be happy to “talk” with them, but not to negotiate. In the mean time the legislature would be convened and technically those democrats would constitute a quarum being back in the State. Then the nineteen republicans could get on with their business. Apparently the governor of Indiana eliminated the right to collective bargaining with state employees with the stroke of a pen in 2005. Now that governor wants to eliminate private unions too, and to turn Indiana into a “right to work” state, like Alabama. So really we’ve got two mad dictators to deal with- - one in Wisconsin and the other in Libya. President Obama has spoken up on behalf of the state workers but does not want to do more such as visit the state because he appears a political backlash and losing his “neutral” supporters. What the state employees are complaining about is that they voluntarily agreed to “deferred compensation” or whatever Mom talks about, and so have paid in their money. States make deals with employees to pay them less money now to improve their balance sheet, on the condition that they will receive benefits later that they’ve paid into. Governor Walker demands a renegotiation, and the state employees are going along with that. But Governor Walker wants to break the union so he will be a hero to his tea party supporters. It’s the tea party right that has hired all of these outside protestors. For this reason I think President Obama should become more directly involved to kind of even up the balance of things.

President Quadafy is holding on to power in Libya by bombing his people back to the stone age (which is probably a short trip) But not military officers and the captain of a battleship have refused to fire on their own people, and various cabinent ministers have defected. So Quadafy is now hiring outside mercenaries from Sudan and Chad or whatever. Meanwhile the Glen Beck right seems to be against all democratic uprisings these days. I see why they backed Mubarek but why are they so suddenly fond of Quadafy? If you will remember Quadafy bombed a Munich disco where US servicemen go and so Reagan bombed Quadafy’s personal residence. Quadafy responded by taking down the Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerby, Scotland in December of 1988. It would seem as if Quadafy got the better of that exchange in hostilities. Reagan referred to Quadafy as the mad dog of the mideast but George W regards Quadafy as his good buddy now they have worked out oil interests. People like Larry Elder don’t believe in war to further the cause of liberty or humanitarian concerns, such as genocide in Bosmia in the nineties- - the only time Larry Elder approves of going to war is to insure that the oil keeps flowing through those pipelines. People refer to Quadafy as a “quirky” kind of guy. They won’t say that he’s an insane despot along the lines of Kim Jung Ill. It would seem as this point that Quadafy’s days are numbered. Our President says “the world will be taking decisive steps soon” such as trade sanctions. I think that shall we say, “stronger measures are called for”. I think Quadafy knows what the world will let him get away with. I’ve heard that eastern Libya is in the hands of the rebels now. One individual around here, who surprised me by his remark, said “You know, don’t you, that all these mideast protests are being orchestrated by Al Qaeda”. No I didn’t, and that’s because they aren’t. They are motivated by young college educated and professional people. I think the President is losing a political opportunity if he doesn’t get out front on this issue and show some real leadership, like he hasn’t on so many other things. Some have said that the people of the mideast weren’t perswaded by our bombs, but because of the President’s speech in Cairo in 2009. I don’t know about that because it’s a speech I wouldn’t have made because he said so many things were America’s fault. That’s not my idea of inspiring leadership. Why not rather declare that because America is a morally good and just nation that for that reason alone we cannot keep silent on this issue.