AND THAT WAS THE "B" SIDE!!! here is the flip side, a powerful and beautiful ditty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nace1xqUFDw john sebastian was about to leave so they let the drummer sing (i think his name was joe butler; maybe he was the bassist.

Mr. Woodcock, pretty much share your sentiments about the beatles; i'd give them their as songwriters but a rick and roll band they weren't. don't think we have ever posted from this bunch, but they were a great group, which of course means they had guitar player of note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNg7sAsgBSQ

real dave, hope you are feeling okay, and the post about the beachboys didn't give you a relapse of whatever you were ailing from (sentence ended with prepostion on porpoise). get well, stay well, be well- whatver applies.

(D)EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE: "lame duck" the phrase "lame duck" originally meant an elected official who lost a bid for re-election and had a portion of his/her term left; it certainly did not apply to cases such as obama, where he is prohibited from running for office by statute. what it has come to mean is not what the original intent was. as language evolves to meet how the common folks are using it is a reality, but for me not a pleasant one. i prefer the language to remain as it was originally intended-"where are you at?" is a lovely example of viewing the language as it shouldn't be, or stating that language morphs into how the people use it. like most things, gimme the "old school" ways. ending sentences with propositions is another example a changing language; the old line of "a preposition is a wonderful thing to end a sentence with" says it all.

before santana saw the light of day.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRu7Pt42x6Y&NR=1&feature=endscreen stevie nicks!!! christine mcvie!!! what a laugh-hardee, har, har!!!!!!!!

and in the comments, people posted that albatross was the inspiration for here comes the sun king- sounds right to me

gentlemen, a great "rock and roll group" cannot be such without a dynamic guitarist; therefore, with respects to george harrison, the beatles were not a great rock and roll band. terrific song and albums, but no touring of note and eric clapton needed to be called in when things got a little sticky for george. and anyone (Big Baby, you are the anyone) who thinks the ovarian version of fleetwood mac rates over peter green/jeremy spencer/ danny kirwan, is entitled to his opinion but has not listened to "then play on" in its entirety, probably thinking "oh well" was the craft of the pansies called aerosmith, or might even think "black magic woman" is a santana original. maybe it is time we posted this fleetwood mac gem again, i think it has been 4 years or so since last time we put it up- sit back and relax and dig on this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8scHKFwr0og

Big Baby, cream was a three man band that produced three very good albums and toured. derek and the dominoes produced what is probably the greatest guitar album in "layla and other assorted love songs". to compare a studio album with the magic of clapton and the skydog with cream is not fair. three man bands are a tough go but cream and hendrix are right at the top; i don't think that derek and the dominoes ever toured with duane allman. and in the two guitar realm it is impossible to me that any group had it over the allman bros. before they started riding thos motorcycles. hey, it is all good and whatever gets you off... but for a single guitarist my money is with michael bloomfield, OBM. ther was a guy who could play anything and everything. whoever posted "like a rolling stone" presented us with bloomfield's most famous playing, and throw in the butterfield nabd and the electric flag and my statement is presented. what a beautiful sound that man made for whoever he was associated with.

WARRIORS GIVEN LIFE BY NBA (REFS): two out of bounds calls that were visibly belonging to the spurs, one under each basket, gave the warriors the chance for an overtime. the one under the warriors basket, 100% off the hand of harrison barnes, was in typical playoff fashion absurd. as much as i root for the warriors, i don't exult in "get us a seventh game" moves by those associated with the NBA. two ridiculously easy calls, neither of which warranted going to the monitor because that would have meant spurs ball. the hack announcers are told to shut up by their employers. another few more reasons to love "nba entertainment.

FZB, nothing the beatles ever recorded comes near "gimme shelter" or "i can see for miles" or "baba o'reilly" for that matter. they didn't tour and wrote good and sometimes great POP songs, but they aren't in the top five of rock and roll groups. sorry

fellers, sorry, but there are several of the boys who have rooting interests other than the dolphins or UM. i didn't grow up here, came to miami in 98 in the midst of that jimmy/danny/jimmy thing that uncle neil, RIP, used to play endlessly and watched a team that i had grown to admire under shoes in the hands of coaches who couldn't find a brighter offensive mind than kippy brown to be the OC. i guess they won a couple of playoff games while i was here the first time-98-2003 seasons- but i witnessed the firing of bill zimfer and the bringing in of the incompetetent howard david, voice of the lousy stinkin' jets. came back for the glorious 2008 season where everything went fine ubder pennington and #15 arrived. we know what has happened since. and that's on the field. now with this stadium junk and trying to blackmail the fans- no thanks. if the team were a winner the place would be fine nad fans would show; instead you have management who accede to 4:15 game times and give up the ho-hum (heat and humidity) and make it easier on the enemy. rainbow coalition ownership!! what the **** do i care if the williams sisters, gloria estefan, jason collins or anybody else owns a point or two in the team? danny thomas and joe robbie were good enough. move the team to palm beach? the poorest county in america once you get away from the ocean and start heading towards bell galde and pahokee? when i got here i really admired dolphin fans who had been with the team from the expansion days and stuck it out with #13 even though they didn't getto but one super bowl. now the fans are at the mercy of dumbo and his multi-colored coalition and i feel for the fans who tatsted sucess relatively early for an expansion team because they had shula at the helm. as stated many times, my original team was the LA rams (after a mild rooting interest in the y.a. tittle giants) and then the bengals. i rooted for the dolphins because of maddog, RIP, #15, and the many friends i havewho live and die with the locals. i am returning to the bengals along with Mr. Woodcock and if the dolphins have a great season and the gang here is ecstatic, great. but i don't have a guy on the team left who i can honestly say i really keeps me interested (well, maybe cameron wake since i saw him coming out of the CFL when most of the rest were "oh, he's from canada, forget him). well right now he is the best player the dolphins have. they open at the browns who now possess my favorite player; we'll see what he can do against the regime that cut him loose. sorry for the stream of conscienceness post, but this "new stadium or we are outta here" opens the hypothalmus. these clowns have a stadium located perfectly on the broward county line and they wanna move it up so it's a two hour drive- without the parking hassles that will come- from downtown miami? screw them! i live due east in north miami beach and can't imagine a better spot for football games for anyone living in dade, hollywood or even the wine tasters in east palm beach. if they want to improve the place, the mega-billion owners didn't need to foiust even a one penny tax on tourists- too bad that ad didn't play in the locations from which tourists come. what a bunch of rubes this group musta thought the tourists and taxpayers are- guess again chester. time to cut out for the Holy Sabbath. have a great weekend, anybody who could stick it out through this megalong post.

MILEY CYRUS!!! if that is she in that picture, she is sporting five pounds of make-up and using a "soft lens" on the camera. looks nothing like her at all-probably good. grace kelly or rita hayworth she ain't and will never be. a dogpatcher!

Jimbo, agreed totally on what the contours of women should be, which is why cambodian women rate highly- small and tea-cupped on top, with a real semblance of a caboose, unlike most other asian women, who are still pretty good. "more than a mouthful..." is still the operative concept, and those inflated jobs that start falling to earth early in life are not for me. in the meantime i am enjoying the wariors. i don't know if they are still singing nthe second of the four stanzas of the national anthem before the games, but i am hoping my HD tv with its very good sound system will be able to transport some of that smoke that gets to the rafters whenever they play at home; a long time warrior tradition at home games.

Mr. Woodcock, i can't decipher the above post, but urban weekend is two weeks away- plenty of time to book passage!! i am suburban and won't attend any of the festiviTEEEZ, but i'll let you let me know how things go. mabe they'll make charles ramsey the king mango- he certainly is king for a day!! like in rodney.couldn't figure out why a pretty lattle white girl would come running to a man of color!!! doesn't take too much study of anatomy to figure that one out, king charles.

mike1, sir alex finally stepping down, and a bidding war for jose mourinho looms between man u and chelsea. it says here that the gifted one opts for the stability of the red devils and for the fact that sir alex has always wanted him for his replacement. it is a shame man u got gipped against real madrid, because even as mourinho stated the better club lost that day, and going out on a double of the EPL and the UEFA cup would have been nice. hey, winning the premiership so comfortably is nothing to laugh at, but two pieces of hardware would have been a nicer send-off. a real genius leaving his craft that sir alex.

Big Baby, yes, nate robinson was on a plethora of NBA teams, including then warriors. i think he did best as a knick before landing in chicago. the little man hustles to no end and treats getting 10 stitches in a game as a major nothing in preventing him form getting back on the court. commendable

fellers, as dick cavett once said "politics bores my a** off", and i second that emotion.

FZB, the only people panicking are those who bet on the heat to sweep or win in 5 games. the real question is how could little nate robinson be the games leading rebounder with nine boards amongst the big men? answer- chicago effectively screened miami off the ball and the incredibly quick mr. robinson hustled for each ball on the floor.

JoJo, nate robinson ( u of washington, another good pac-? product) is a feisty little son of a gun. was it the knocks that drafted him and let him go? he is all heart and has been showing it, especially since he got to chicago. the bulls coach is a renowned defensive specialist, and holding the heat to 86 points makes it a lot easier for the walking wounded to win. taj gibson is anoter pac-10 player- hey from brooklyn to USC is the route i took- and isn't afraid to get banged around. one must admire the effort by the bulls, who are still a long way from eliminating the locals.

OC Dolphin, i was very disappointed to see that the warriors lost on a last second shot, even though ginobli was one of thoase guys way back that caught me attention at first glance. home court advantage is something that needs expplaining to me- does it ean a team is supposed to win evry home game, or that they have the advantage in that home games are won at a much higher percentage than those on the road? i amtempted to go with option number two, because if i had the statistics in front of me i would probabaly be looking at 10% of seven game series in the NBA or stanley cup where the home tome won every game at home and lost every on on the road. let's see- last year the heat threwin a semi-clunker and lost at home, then went to OKC and won both games there. if you goy's the stats, let me know. have a blessed day

RE: mvp voting i guess we have short memories as the vilification of the one writer whose OPINION was that carmelo anthony was the most valuable player is unwarranted and un-american.how about that fellow who cast his ballot for alabama all year while everyone was voting for UM? he was getting hammered all year but when the sugar bowl came around, george teague and friends whupped the U badly, to say the least. OPINIONS, men!! while it may not be popular around these parts that lebron james didn't get every first place vote, it is very easy to see the fellow's point in casting the sole vote for carmelo anthony. lebron james gets his trophy and the fact that it wasn't unanimous is no big deal, at least to me. lebron james besides being the current holder of best basketballer alive, is a decent fellow and bright guy; i would be very surprised to find him engaged in a rant over the missing vote. i also heard about the year shaq didn't get every vote in garnering his MVP, 1999 is the year in question i believe (the shadow was in the Holy Land). there is always gonna be a dissenter and most times a dissenter with good reason. alabama proved their man right against UM. take it from a guy who was screaming VILLANOVA in the college basketball year of 84/85 while everyone conceded the trophy to the hoyas. things worked out perfectly for the wildcats- they got memphis state in the semis while a st. john's team that handled them all year in the big east was ousted by the hoyas. in the title game everything went right fore villanova, sinking almost every shot and still they barely got by ewing and company. a year later and the game is played with a shot clock and the wildcats would probably lose by 20, same as NC state would never have gotten close to houston had there been a time clock. you just never know, and as the paltitude goes "that's why they play the games." in the instance of an MVP vote, there is no game of H-O-R-S-E to determine the outcome. lebron james will be happier with trophy number two than with MVP #4, guaranteed. if he lost one bead of sweat over not getting every vote i'd be surprised. this is a man/ballplayer/man who after losing to dallas the year before went on a mission and completed it. he went "magic johnson" and decided there were parts of his game that needed further refinement. he is always dropping in his assist totals when asked about his scoring. youngest player to hit 20,000 points and he is talking about his assists!! while mt favorite team is golden state, and my favorite player is kawhi leonard, it is impossible for me- not a fan of LBJ from the get go- not to admire his incredible skills. forgettingf the "old schoolers"- there will never be another wilt- it is my opinion that LBJ, kobe bryant and #23 for the bulls are the mountaintop of players of the post magic/bird years, and of the three LBJ is the most decent human being. the talk of whether he is better than the other two will go on- and anyone whose OPINION opts for jordan or bryant is entitled to that view. these three are in the rarefied air of NBA eliteness and picking one from between the three is anybody's right. i'll take the guy wearing #6 for the locals and would understand anyone who opted for the laker or the bull.

A 5-1 FAVORITE TAKES DERBY!! avery good price for two bucks on orb. great for his connections who had to suffer when easy goer was ridden by the worst jockey in the world, pat day-dumb as dirt- who let sunday silence pin him on the rail in the derby and preakness and then the breeders' cup (UCCHH to that whole concept). easy goer romped in the belmont over sinday silence; both weere great horses with easy goer having the bloodlines, while sunday silence was just a smarter animal with a better rider: much like affirmed and alydar.

MIKE GRAVEL? HOW ABOUT JIMMY (the arabist) CARTER!!! the peanut farmer from plains, georgia claimed to have seen a UFO in 1973/74, and was elected to the presidency!! no lousy stinkin' 1/100 senators, but the big, boss man- and worst president of the 20th century by a country mile!! and moonbat brother and mother along for the ride! plus that homely daughter amy!! unlike susan ford, no rumors amy was ballin' rod stewart in the white house.

UGGGGHHHHH!!!! the caricature of tim tebow in davone bess' dolphin jersey/uniform-PUKE CITY

Mr. Woodcock, has AARP hounded you into joining up yet? they start when a person is 50 to get into their "cub scouts" and then near 60 they waste half a ton of paper to get a guy in. i was curious after the deluge of mailings so i signed up for a year. i will say they have an interesting magazine but i don't need their life insurance, medical and pharmaceutical help, or their discounts at retail outlets (yet). my year will be up and that'll be the last AARP sees of the ole shadow. again, wishes for many,many happy and healthy years