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1970 - War Pigs by Sabbath (at present also known as the Putin theme song)

Parsley, Sage Rosemary & Thyme - Simo & Garfunkel

I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Zuma - Neil Young

Still having issues, especially today. 404s, etc.

Michael Jackson, Prince, Tom Petty, Glenn Frey, Chris Cornell...I'm sensing a pattern. That drugs - prescribed or elicit - are a top killer of Americans, especially the young? Or general human stupidity? It's an absolute fact that some people are genetically more susceptible to addiction than others. My brother died of alcoholism at age 54. I drink very lightly, maybe 2 beers a week. We have the same parents. It ain't just stupidity and frankly IF that's the crux of your post, I don't like it one bit. I'm sorry for your family's loss. But I will say that I knowing one may be genetically more susceptible to addiction and drinking and doing drugs anyway is not very bright. I talk to my son about this all the time, as my family has a long and broad history of addictive behavior. Addiction is a combination of one's predispositions and choices, and to pretend otherwise isn't very productive in terms of breaking the cycle. When it comes to this subject, you're not very bright. Against my better judgement, I'm going to try to maybe get you to leave your typical way of thinking and see that it isn't always so black and white. Neither of my parents drink at all so my brother didn't have the opportunity to see he could be predisposed genetically. None of my 4 grandparents drank so my brother could not see he might be genetically predisposed. My mom's sister didn't drink, my dad's sister didn't drink so my brother was unable to see he might be predisposed based on family genetic factors. Apparently this goes back several generations well beyond our lifetimes. My brother started his journey like many of us, partying as young guy. Unfortunately with many addicts, while the rest of us slow down and move on, he didn't. As each year passed he drank more and more because he HAD to. I was addicted to nicotine for 32 years. I know how difficult it is to be addicted to something and get clean from it. It is by far the hardest thing I've ever done, and it's not even close. He tried, many times to get sober and was unable to do so. He was also a nicotine addict and never beat it either. I will give you that smoking cigarettes at the very beginning was a choice on both our parts and a bad one considering we knew the health repercussions. But with him and alcohol, he simply had no idea. There wasn't a choice. Continue to believe what you wish to believe. I don't think for one minute I'm ever going to turn you away from you feeling that it's at least partly a matter of personal choice even tho it goes much deeper mentally, emotionally and physiologically. But I feel better for typing this.

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic

Nice. My first thought was "so has this guy not listened to La Villa?". But it's all a matter of personal taste isn't it? It’s not a “which song is best” but his favorite. Big difference. OK I'll take your word for it but the title of the clip is "Xanadu: why this is Rush's greatest song" not why I THINK this is Rush's greatest song. Just sayin'. Just sayin’, if you’d actually watched the video you would know he said “to me”, as in that the song was his favorite. There is no such thing as best in the broader sense. OK

there are many, many gray areas

industrial disease (not the song tho)

Vertigo

Neil solo

LOVE that strip!! family circus atmosphere

astronomical

Goodbye

XXX - ZZ Top

1968 - Piggies by The Beatles (George)

1987 - Appetite For Destruction simply one of the great hard rock albums ever

Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group (with a 17 year old Steve Winwood on lead vocals...........I'm seeing him 3rd time in May and he always closes with this song)

Happy belated 50th. That's a milestone to be sure!

I don't have any sympathy for Dave when it comes to his hearing loss. He admits that he doesn't use ear monitors live, so he takes all that sound straight on. It's one thing to be young and stubborn or to damage it in random way like what happened with Pete Townshend. But to flat out refuse to do anything to protect your hearing as a major arena/stadium rock act is just plain dumb. I guess at this point it doesn't matter. He's 53 and the damage is done. Absolutely a fair post on your part.

Lem was a helluva football player.

Great post. For me the prep isn't what I hate, it's the not eating solid food for the full day before. I have a huge appetite. Your point about early detection is so right on. My mom was diagnosed with colon cancer at a relatively young age but because it was caught early, she has survived about 30 years now. She had part of the colon removed and has never had a reoccurrence. She's now 88. She's has digestive system issues as a result of losing part of her colon (can't eat nuts for example) but a small price to pay.

Okay I know I said I didn't want to speculate, but I have been thinking about this and... Everything I've read from anyone who was close with Taylor has said he's been clean of the heavy stuff for years, ever since that scary overdose in the early 00s. I know relapses happen, and I'm not an addict so I don't personally understand what it is that addicts go through, but do relapses really happen with coke and heroine and prescriptions and everything else that was in his system all at once? I'm asking honestly, because I don't want to make any assumptions about a field I know very little about. It just strikes me, a totally uneducated person on this topic, as completely out of character with everything I've heard about him in his past 20 years or so. I just don't understand what would drive someone to mix all that together in their system at once after being clean of the really bad stuff for so long. Can anyone enlighten me? Does this sort of thing happen when you're addicted? Yes, that can happen when you're an addict. Somebody can fall off the wagon hard. Just because you're sober and have been for years it never means that the addiction is behind you. There's always the shadow of it lurking. There's always the worry of having something happen that will trigger it again. Look at James Hetfield from Metallica. How many times has he been in and out of rehab for alcohol addiction over the last 25 years? I never really ends for an addict no matter how many years they may have been sober for. As for Taylor, we don't know for certain what could have triggered a relapse. The covid lockdowns had a big effect on a lot of people's physical and mental well being. It could have triggered his addictions again. Perhaps it was the bands first major tour since covid and that caused him to seriously worry and he started using again. Whatever the reasons, his death is still a tragic one. It's so sad. The other thing that I have heard happens with substance abusers is that they think they are the rare one that knows how to "handle" the substance and then something changes. Their tolerance, strength of the street drug, or even the fact that apparently fentanyl is in so many street drugs these days. This is all so sad for Hawkins' family. I believe that to be true as well. As my friend put it last night "amateur pharmacists".

Michael Jackson, Prince, Tom Petty, Glenn Frey, Chris Cornell...I'm sensing a pattern. That drugs - prescribed or elicit - are a top killer of Americans, especially the young? Or general human stupidity? It's an absolute fact that some people are genetically more susceptible to addiction than others. My brother died of alcoholism at age 54. I drink very lightly, maybe 2 beers a week. We have the same parents. It ain't just stupidity and frankly IF that's the crux of your post, I don't like it one bit.