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April 02, 2016
Happy 71st birthday, Eric Patrick Clapton.
Happy (Belated) 71st Birthday Eric Patrick "God" Clapton (b. March 30 1945). I first heard you on Yardbirds tracks I started collecting at 13 but 2 weeks after my 15th birthday on March 10, 1968 you played a live version of Crossroads lasting 4:16 in the first show at Bill Graham's boomer cathedral called the Fillmore West which made it on to Wheels of Fire album and changed the way I heard rock forever. I've heard it hundreds of times and get chills down my spine when I listen as I must a few times every year. It's fitting there is no videotape of what happened; it's never bothered me. That day, Eric Clapton, you earned your nickname, made me believe in magic and blew my tubes out. You were out of your head, more than usual with your two co-genius band mates. Only God-turned-Banshee can play like that. You know it I know it. They don't know what love is, sir.
Cream - Crossroads (Live At The Fillmore... by creamuploader
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Happy Saturday, campers. Still on Maggie's Farm?
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more. No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more. Well, she talks to all the servants about man and God and law. and everybody says she's the brains behind pa. She's sixty-eight, but she says she's twenty-four. No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.
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March 29, 2016
Anna Marie Duke (1946-2016)
Today we lost someone authentic and great. Patty Duke, 69, was way more than an Oscar winner, television icon and child film star. Gifted, hardworking, prolific, smart, tough, brave. First-rate stage and movie actress her whole life. She could sing, too. Survivor, endurer, winner. Real class with no apologies. And too young. This news bothered me.
Patty Duke & Helen Keller circa 1960. Photo: Nina Leen. Thanks Charles Lieurance, Betsy Munnell
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March 27, 2016
Easter?
Today is a day of Renewal and Rebirth in several traditions and cultures. Today is a day when every home should have women, children, dogs, cats, new music, old books, laughter and enough on-hand cash to alter outcomes in several Chicago elections. Happy Easter, everyone.
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