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  1. So my father died in September of ‘22, after a two-year battle with metastatic prostate cancer. My younger brother had a heart attack last July, at the age of 38. He has a pacemaker and he’s all right, though.

     

    Then his mother, my stepmother, passed died suddenly at the end of October.

     

    But what’s gotten to me the most is that my younger son, almost 17, was diagnosed with severe depression a few months ago, also. He’s cut himself a couple of times…goes back and forth between being ‘better’, glimmers of hope for the future, etc., and then terrible fits of anger and depression just keep coming back.

     

    In 20 years of being a parent, this is the most difficult time I’ve ever had. I believe he absolutely can come through all of this. But every day is a challenge. And even the smallest of victories mean everything.

  2. On 1/30/2024 at 7:55 PM, Principled Man said:

    Just found out that my longtime friend, Diane, lost her firstborn, Jeffrey (41 years old). 

     

    DRUGS ruined his life for the past 20 years or more, and now they finally got the best of him.   :sad:  


    I’m so sorry to hear this. I’ve known that plenty of people who have gone too soon due to drugs, and I’ve been very close to some of them.

     

    :rose:

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  3. Not really into posting pics of myself online, but I’ll just say that since I’m white, and my hair has gotten closer and closer to white, I’m pretty much an apparition at this point. I barely appear in photographs. Just a blurry wisp of white.

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  4. As much as I love both A Passion Play and the Chateau D’Herouville sessions (and I still can’t listen to it without thinking about what the band members have said about how awful the circumstances were- but the music is brilliant)…I won’t be buying the vinyl, though. 
     

    I’ve bought some vinyl lately, and I haven’t even cracked the shrink wrap on them, still sealed. Maybe they’ll be worth more to someone in the future than what I paid for them today.

     

    Critique Oblique is unbelievable, natch.

     

    Along with so many others from those sessions; a great album unto itself.

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  5. On 1/25/2024 at 8:23 AM, pjbear05 said:

    Meh, Bob Dylan cranking back up, opening with two in Ft. Lauderdale March 1-2.

    Ah, nope.

    You’ve gotta give it to him, though, at nearly 83 years old, still out there and doing it.

  6. I saw Terry Bozzio perform with Jeff Beck on Beck’s Guitar Shop tour, 1989- incredible drummer. (And who I really went to that show to see was Stevie Ray Vaughan- blew me away).

     

    Missing Persons? Not so much. 

  7. 5 hours ago, 78jazz said:

    A partial video exists.

     

    I am sorry you only saw them once, but at least you saw them!

    Video, really? I did not know that at all! Would you send me a PM with a tip as to where I can find that? YouTube?

     

    Also- I said it was the only time I saw them on the CA tour. It was not the only Rush show I ever attended. The Presto tour was my first, all the way up to R40. Been a fan since 1980 (but I was too young to start going to shows then).

  8. I don’t know if I’m missing something, or if there’s a subsection of the forum that isn’t here anymore. But I’m wondering about live recordings, of the unofficial variety…

     

    Today is the 10th anniversary of the only show I saw on the Clockwork Angels tour- 2 July 2013, in Cincinnati. And I’ve never found a live recording of it, anywhere. 
     

    Ahem, ahem. Please and thank you in advance, if you have any leads.

  9. Oh god, I had no idea that he had passed…in addition to being a part of arguably the best band that Miles Davis ever fronted (his quintet of 1965-‘68), he played with my favorite jazz trumpeter on Earth, Lee Morgan, for several sessions…he played with Joni Mitchell in the mid-to-late 1990s, along with drummers Brian Blade and Vinnie Colaiuta…and by the way, he had a hell of a solo career as well. Every one of his solo albums from 1964-‘67 is essential, IMO. (And by the way, that’s eight albums as a leader, in four years. In addition to several more that he did in Miles’s group- not to mention live dates all over the US, UK and Europe).

     

    A monumental talent.

     

    🌹 

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