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Post by scotbrit on Jan 26, 2007 19:32:31 GMT -5
I don't know what you are listening to but all I get is Katherine Jenkins!
I reckon that they identify your ip and just play what you ask for! I am probably the only one to have asked for her and I get nothing but her. Or did I find something different in pandora's box?
Penny dropped. I hadn't subscribed, I took advantage of the first free request and that's what they played. Now if I want to hear, I need to subscribe.
I've got too many subscriptions already to deal with.
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Post by booklady on Jan 26, 2007 19:37:38 GMT -5
Ha! Got you at your own trick. I dunno how it works. I put in Bob Dylan, got two of his songs in the first three that they played, and they haven't played another one yet (an hour or so). The poop heads. I've heard more Phil Ochs than Bob.
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Post by doctork on Jan 26, 2007 22:29:25 GMT -5
Dr.K, where did you find their top ten stations? I was just roaming the site, clicked on an arrow, and there were the top ten. I didn't actually check it out, to see if it would play all Bob Dylan, or if it was "genomically similar" artists, who weren't necessarily the real Bobby. We will just have to keep exploring this site - it is way cool. The Jazz Fest schedule looks fantastic indeed. We should be considering a road trip for sure. Last year, I almost went to Jazz Fest at the last minute, when they confirmed that "Mr. Fats" (Fats Domino) would be playing. I just couldn't make the trip work - and then Fats cancelled just before the show. I was still sorry I missed it.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 10:11:21 GMT -5
doc, I wasn't crabbing at you. Just wanted my Bob!
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Post by slb2 on Jan 27, 2007 11:29:57 GMT -5
you know, bookie, my avatar is cuter than your avatar. And I think the prototype for my avatar is cuter than your Bobby-babe, too. But as far as music acumen, I'd say that our avatars (aka-heartthrobs) are on equal footing. Although I'd suspect you'd beg to differ.
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Post by scotbrit on Jan 27, 2007 11:36:43 GMT -5
I can't get my avatar to function, no matter how clearly it has been explained.
We have a little brother who hath no avatar. What shall we do for our little brother who hath no avatar?
Can it be within my basic settings? I hate trying to change anything in case I change the wrong thing and can't get back to where I was.
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Post by slb2 on Jan 27, 2007 11:59:04 GMT -5
Brit, I monkeyed with my avatar for a couple hours on different days. Thomas even tried to assist me. What finally worked was following sisterbeer's instructions (I think they're in the Rowdy Girl thread) and just trying over and over with little adjustments.
Maybe, if you're concerned about messing with your settings, pull up that page, then copy it by hitting control + the letter "N". So, now you have two of the same page. Manipulate one page setting and if you mess up, close it and return to your unchanged page.
Did I make sense? this probably isn't the right place for these instruction, but then, I often do my schtick in the wrong place.
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Post by scotbrit on Jan 27, 2007 12:19:26 GMT -5
For the life of me, I can't find Rowdy Girls Thread. Isn't that on another short-lived site?
I can't remember the url and I have examined my list of "favourites" [aka bookmarks] to no avail.
My flummox has never been so discombobulated.
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Post by Trusty on Jan 27, 2007 12:36:56 GMT -5
For the life of me, I can't find Rowdy Girls Thread. Isn't that on another short-lived site? I can't remember the url and I have examined my list of "favourites" [aka bookmarks] to no avail. My flummox has never been so discombobulated. Click on the flummoxed face.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 12:49:13 GMT -5
you know, bookie, my avatar is cuter than your avatar. And I think the prototype for my avatar is cuter than your Bobby-babe, too. But as far as music acumen, I'd say that our avatars (aka-heartthrobs) are on equal footing. Although I'd suspect you'd beg to differ. Put 'em up. Gorgeous Bob is much cuter and more musically geniusy than monkeldoucet. Knockout!!
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 12:56:04 GMT -5
you know, bookie, my avatar is cuter than your avatar. And I think the prototype for my avatar is cuter than your Bobby-babe, too. But as far as music acumen, I'd say that our avatars (aka-heartthrobs) are on equal footing. Although I'd suspect you'd beg to differ. I made sure my husband gave me Clinton Heylin's Behind the Shades Revisted for Christmas. This is much more in depth (about 800 pages) than Down the Highway which I read last fall. I'm in his 1968 chapter(s) right now. It's incredible to think I lived through a revolution I really had no clue was taking place. It's all right, though, because if I'd known about it then, I wouldn't be having the joy of discovering it now that I'm old enough to get it.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 12:57:46 GMT -5
Trusty, how about trying again to get Sisterbeer to return? I was thinking about her just this morning for some reason while making a pot of coffee.
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Post by scotbrit on Jan 27, 2007 13:08:10 GMT -5
I think there are some people who need to show a little more contrition for sisterbeer to consider returning.
I miss her contributions.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 13:12:49 GMT -5
If "some people" were contrite, how would she know so she could consider coming back?
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Post by scotbrit on Jan 27, 2007 13:34:33 GMT -5
I dunno, I was simply speculating that sisterbeer might be a silent onlooker on occasions.
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Post by juliastar on Jan 27, 2007 14:27:26 GMT -5
you know, bookie, my avatar is cuter than your avatar. And I think the prototype for my avatar is cuter than your Bobby-babe, too. But as far as music acumen, I'd say that our avatars (aka-heartthrobs) are on equal footing. Although I'd suspect you'd beg to differ. Put 'em up. Gorgeous Bob is much cuter and more musically geniusy than monkeldoucet. Knockout!! LOL. That's one cat fight I will definitely be staying out of except I hate to break it to you both, but neither one of them got where they are on account of their good looks.
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Post by slb2 on Jan 27, 2007 14:51:28 GMT -5
Put 'em up. Gorgeous Bob is much cuter and more musically geniusy than monkeldoucet. Knockout!! LOL. That's one cat fight I will definitely be staying out of except I hate to break it to you both, but neither one of them got where they are on account of their good looks. Juliastar, you are absolutely right about that. Neither Bob nor Michael got to where they are on looks. And while I can see how Dylan could be considered more masterful in music, imo, it's because the music he chose to glorify was/is the popular music of the masses rather than a more obscure, traditional genre such as Cajun/Acadian that really, only a handful of people ever appreciated. But it's these folk musicians who lay down the foundation for the popular musicians to walk on. And a house is only as strong as it's foundation. I think it's telling that the National Endowment of the Arts honored Doucet in 2005 with an award making him a national treasure. I'll never stop revering traditional arts. I think Dylan is amazing, but my adoration belongs elsewhere. It's one thing I love about attending a BeauSoleil show. I love watching the musicians playing their music. Michael, especially, pours in heart into it and lets the audience see that. For me, it's transporting. When I listen and watch and dance, completely focused on the music, it's as if I've transported onto that same musical plane with him/them. This is one of my favorite threads because I can legitimately rave on and on about my passion ofr music and no one can say, "shush."
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Post by juliastar on Jan 27, 2007 15:55:35 GMT -5
Juliastar, you are absolutely right about that. Neither Bob nor Michael got to where they are on looks. And while I can see how Dylan could be considered more masterful in music, imo, it's because the music he chose to glorify was/is the popular music of the masses rather than a more obscure, traditional genre such as Cajun/Acadian that really, only a handful of people ever appreciated. But it's these folk musicians who lay down the foundation for the popular musicians to walk on. And a house is only as strong as it's foundation. I think it's telling that the National Endowment of the Arts honored Doucet in 2005 with an award making him a national treasure. I'll never stop revering traditional arts. I think Dylan is amazing, but my adoration belongs elsewhere. It's one thing I love about attending a BeauSoleil show. I love watching the musicians playing their music. Michael, especially, pours in heart into it and lets the audience see that. For me, it's transporting. When I listen and watch and dance, completely focused on the music, it's as if I've transported onto that same musical plane with him/them. This is one of my favorite threads because I can legitimately rave on and on about my passion ofr music and no one can say, "shush." Dylan is hard to know because he has had so much commercial success, but Doucet I definitely admire not only because I enjoy the soul of his music, but I appreciate that he does it seemingly for its own sake, not any promise of huge fame and glory. Don't hit me BL, but some of Dylan's stuff is pure magic and other pieces seem to be stringing nonsensical phrases together because it creates a rhythm and rhyme, not because it achieves any great meaning or insight. IMHO. If he weren't Bob Dylan, I think he'd be booed off the stage at times. And then he strikes gold with something that is piercing in its honesty and perception.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 17:05:58 GMT -5
Well, J*, you're way wrong ( )on his looks, but I give it to you about the sometimes crazy lyrics. Still, he moves my middle-age heart. slb, look what I got when I googled "bob dylan and michael doucet": For more than two decades, Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet has been a leader in the renaissance of Cajun music. With his band, Beausoleil, he has given a new sound to Cajun music and has become one of the best-known Cajun musicians in the world.
Born near Lafayette in 1951, Michael Doucet grew up with a variety of musical influences. The first one he recalls is his uncle, Will Knight, who played Cajun music on the fiddle, banjo, and bass. Inspired by Knight, Doucet began playing the banjo at the age of six and the guitar at eight. Many other styles of music influenced Doucet's music including artists such as Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. Doucet says he learned from cousins, aunts, uncles, and from classical musicians to rock-and-roll musicians to Cajun musicians. "I heard a gamut of sounds back then and went with the flow."....continued here... www.nsula.edu/folklife/database/biography/doucetM.html (and there's a photo, too, and you are right! He's pretty cute. Maybe I'll pick up one of his CDs.
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Post by booklady on Jan 27, 2007 18:15:53 GMT -5
I came across these Bob lyrics in my reading last night, and thought some of you might appreciate the prophecy. Read carefully.
Clothes Line First Release
The Basement Tapes 1975
After a while we took in the clothes, Nobody said very much. Just some old wild shirts and a couple pairs of pants Which nobody really wanted to touch. Mama come in and picked up a book An' Papa asked her what it was. Someone else asked, "What do you care?" Papa said, "Well, just because." Then they started to take back their clothes, Hang 'em on the line. It was January the thirtieth And everybody was feelin' fine.
The next day everybody got up Seein' if the clothes were dry. The dogs were barking, a neighbor passed, Mama, of course, she said, "Hi!" "Have you heard the news?" he said, with a grin, "The Vice-President's gone mad!" "Where?" "Downtown." "When?" "Last night." "Hmm, say, that's too bad!" "Well, there's nothin' we can do about it," said the neighbor, "It's just somethin' we're gonna have to forget." "Yes, I guess so," said Ma, Then she asked me if the clothes was still wet.
I reached up, touched my shirt, And the neighbor said, "Are those clothes yours?" I said, "Some of 'em, not all of 'em." He said, "Ya always help out around here with the chores?" I said, "Sometime, not all the time." Then my neighbor, he blew his nose Just as papa yelled outside, "Mama wants you t' come back in the house and bring them clothes." Well, I just do what I'm told, So, I did it, of course. I went back in the house and Mama met me And then I shut all the doors.
Copyright © 1969; renewed 1997 Dwarf Music
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Post by Tillie on Jan 27, 2007 20:28:27 GMT -5
'Make it sweet Make it soft Make it low Ohhh tell 'em Irma Make it sweeeeet Make it sofffffffft Make it, oh, sooo, loooooow. . .'
Miss Irma Thomas Sings the blues in AFTER THE RAIN
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Post by slb2 on Jan 27, 2007 21:57:57 GMT -5
Well, J*, you're way wrong ( )on his looks, but I give it to you about the sometimes crazy lyrics. Still, he moves my middle-age heart. slb, look what I got when I googled "bob dylan and michael doucet": continued here... www.nsula.edu/folklife/database/biography/doucetM.html (and there's a photo, too, and you are right! He's pretty cute. Maybe I'll pick up one of his CDs. Ugh. I think that photo is actually kinda scary. Here's one with his wife that's very nice: www.gumbopages.com/festivaltours/mikesharon.html So, I wonder if Bob ever credits Michael with some inspiration? I meant to say to j* that while Michael may not have gotten where he is by his looks, he's so charming and adorable, they sure didn't hurt him any. Oh man. I'd better shush myself!!
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Post by joew on Jan 28, 2007 15:09:53 GMT -5
you know, bookie, my avatar is cuter than your avatar. And I think the prototype for my avatar is cuter than your Bobby-babe, too. That's not Bobby, it's Barbra. Didn't you notice when I pointed that out when bl put her there in place of Julia Child?
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Post by booklady on Jan 28, 2007 16:10:19 GMT -5
Why did my Minnesota friends not post this for me?!! Dylan: Still one of us? The Bob Dylan exhibit comes to the Weisman next week. How Minnesotan is the Duluth native nowadays? By Jon Bream and Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune Last update: January 28, 2007 – 1:29 AM Dylan on display Jim Gehrz, Star Tribune When his kids were young, he was often spotted at Little League games or the corner bar. Someone even spied him once on a riding lawn mower, shrouded in a hooded sweatshirt on a hot summer day. Ever elusive, Bob Dylan has quietly maintained a Twin Cities-area residence for 33 years, a fact unknown even to many of his devoted fans — though not to his neighbors. “Everyone knows he lives across the river,” said Mark Goss, a mechanic who hangs out at the watering hole near the 100-acre farm Dylan and his family own on the Crow River in northwestern Hennepin County. “People don’t gush or [go] 'Oh! Ah!’ It’s just one of those things. Being from Minnesota, he can’t be famous if he’s from here.” But how truly Minnesotan is he? It’s long been a debate, with many claiming the Duluth-born, Hibbing-bred Dylan as their own. Others say he kissed off the state 45 years ago after dropping out of the University of Minnesota. An exhibit opening Saturday at the U’s Weisman Art Museum, “Bob Dylan’s American Journey 1956-66,” focuses extensively on his Minnesota youth, but it doesn’t note that he still spends a few weeks here each year. In fact, the playful mythmaker who told early interviewers he was an orphan from New Mexico now sounds like a WCCO hometown booster on his weekly XM satellite-radio show. He talks about the Twins, plugs Gopher State natives Judy Garland and Prince and has spun a 10,000 Lakes version of Jerry Lee Lewis’ “High School Confidential.” And what could be more Minnesotan than reading recipes on the radio or dedicating an entire program — his first one, in fact — to weather? Now enjoying a career resurgence that landed him his first No. 1 album in 30 years, Dylan spoke fondly of his formative years on the Iron Range in his 2004 memoir, “Chronicles Volume One.” He boasted how Hwy. 61 (“the main thoroughfare of the country blues”) and the Mississippi River (“the bloodstream of the blues”) both start in “my neck of the woods. “It was my place in the universe, always felt like it was in my blood.” Reclusive but visible The farm that Dylan bought in 1974 was where his five children spent the summers of their youth after he and his first wife, Sara, split up. His only sibling, David Zimmerman, also raised his two sons in one of five houses on the land, which is about 40 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. Dylan and the kids went to the State Fair, Twins games, concerts at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis (which he once owned) and their grandma’s house in St. Paul’s Highland Park. The boys played Little League baseball with their two cousins. “My mother-in-law saw him at a game once, years ago,” said one of his neighbors, Belinda Mahler. “He just kept to himself. That’s how he’s always been around here, very reclusive.” His youngest son, Jakob Dylan, spoke of his Minnesota roots in a 2000 interview with the Star Tribune: “I’ve spent most of my time in Los Angeles, but it’s not a hometown for anybody. Minnesota, I’ve spent a lot of time there. It’s close to roots that I have. I’ve gone there almost every year since I was 3 or 4.” The elder Dylan long has had homes in California and New York and reportedly just bought a castle in Scotland. Still, he echoed his son’s comments in a 1978 interview with the Minneapolis Star: “I feel Minnesota more than I feel New York or L.A. My work reflects thoughts I had as a little kid that have become superdeveloped. … That’s where I feel rooted, you know. I feel more familiar with the landscape, the people and the earth, I think. I feel more at home there.” At his Minnesota farm, which houses a recording studio, Dylan wrote the bulk of his landmark 1975 divorce album “Blood on the Tracks” and later worked on 1983’s “Infidels.” He spent more time there in the 1980s and ’90s, when his mother lived in St. Paul. “It’s a place where he could go just to be left alone,” said Clarence Spartz, who did construction and caretaker work on the property for 30 years. “At the time, it was far away from everything.” Spartz recounted scenes of Bob and his family hanging out by the swimming pool, digging in the garden and chopping firewood. While the Dylans typically flew into the Twin Cities on a private jet, they never arrived in a limo or drove in anything flashy, aside from a pair of vintage Thunderbirds that neighbors recall. “They really were the nicest family to work for, from the kids on up to Beatty [Rutman, Dylan’s mother], who I really got along with,” said Spartz, 84, who worked on the property until 2000, the year Beatty passed away. “When his mom was still alive, [Dylan] was out there a lot.” Since then, he has spent half of each year on tour, retreating to the Minnesota compound three or four times a year, a week or two at a time. His brother’s family still lives there. The houses are not easily seen from the road or the river, and there are no names on the mailboxes. One neighbor has the misfortune of sharing the family’s last name. “We used to have hippies who’d camp out in our front yard with guitars thinking they were at Bob’s house,” said Randy Zimmerman, whose late father farmed some of the land owned by the more famous Zimmermans. “It hasn’t been a problem lately. Most folks not from around here don’t even know he’s out here.” Gopher booster Minnesota has always shown up in Dylan’s work, beyond the obvious references in such songs as “Girl of the North Country.” His onetime boss, pop star Bobby Vee, said Dylan’s “On a Night Like This” is his “favorite frozen-north love song. 'The air is so cold and the snow so deep’ — he didn’t learn that in California. Pure Iron Range. You have to live it!” When Dylan received a rousing response to “Tangled Up in Blue” at a 1997 concert in St. Paul, he told the crowd: “You can’t sing and play like that unless you come from around here somewhere.” The music icon seems to have a permanent scowl on his face, but St. Louis Park singer-songwriter Dan Israel insists that he’s Minnesota Nice, “not in the silly 'Fargo’ sense, but rather in terms of compassion, empathy and heart-on-the-sleeve pain that comes through in classic songs.” When he was young, however, Dylan eschewed his Gopher background. “If anything, obscuring his past because he thought Minnesota wasn’t cool enough — that is so Minnesotan,” said Colleen Sheehy, curator of the Weisman exhibit. In his hometown, a few folks thought Dylan got too big for his boots. When he attended his 10th high school reunion in 1969, he was supposedly insulted by some classmates after they had a few drinks. Thereafter, the hero pretty much didn’t go home again. He made a rare return to Hibbing in 2004 for the funeral of his brother David’s mother-in-law. “He was sitting at the pew at the church and I put my arm around him and said hello,” said B.J. Rolfzen, Dylan’s high-school English teacher and former neighbor. “We talked a bit. When he left, he said to me: 'You taught me a lot.’ He didn’t have to do that. He was a gentleman always. He would be, because he came from a wonderful family.” At heart, “he’s a Ranger,” said Karal Ann Marling, American studies professor at the U of M. “Obdurate like rocks, deep as ore, an old soul.” Jon Bream • 612-673-1719 Chris Riemenschneider • 612-673-4658
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Post by booklady on Jan 28, 2007 16:30:39 GMT -5
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Post by slb2 on Jan 28, 2007 18:20:29 GMT -5
Cupcake, if you're thinking of coming out to see it, why not over spring break? Er, when is your spring break? I'm still lusting after New Orleans over the first weekend in May. I'm sure your break isn't that late. OTOH, I'm pining for Amherst, Mass on March 27th.
So let's play hostest to one another. Deal?
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Post by booklady on Jan 29, 2007 6:00:04 GMT -5
My spring break is, I think, the third week in April. I don't know the dates off the top of my head. On the Bob slide show I think I noticed that the exhibit runs until some time in April.
What's Minneapolis like in April? I know we've had tremendous snow storms on occasion during the first 10 days of the month -- once about two feet fell on April Fool's Day. Anyway, we should explore the possibilities here, slb. I'd love to play hostess, that is, if you're willing to be hosted in the smallest, clutteriest house on Cape Cod. ;D (I'd dust for you, honey!)
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Post by Trusty on Jan 29, 2007 23:19:40 GMT -5
Oh, my; 30 seconds is just too short! But it's better than nuthin' CLICK HERE for samples that will get you dancin'. They give you the first 30 sec - you make up the rest - from Madame Bozo to Hot Chili Mama!
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Post by slb2 on Jan 30, 2007 0:35:12 GMT -5
help me here, trusty. I'm over at that site you mentioned above. So, I can download an entire album for less than 3 bucks? I download it for an MP3, say?
Okay, but why's it cost $15 at the CD store? Does BeauSoleil receive the same amount of money regardless if I buy it off of this site or from a retail store?
And if I don't have an MP3 player? Or an iPod?
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Post by slb2 on Jan 30, 2007 1:11:07 GMT -5
And I fail to see the compassion of pointing out some of the albums that I don't already own. I do own L'echo, L'amour Ou La Folie, and Bayou Boogie. But my copy of Le Danse de la Vie was ruined and I've not found Hot Chili Mama in any stores around here.
So now I've listened to 30-second tracks of all those chansons I don't yet own and must lie awake all night thinking of being MD's hot chili mama.
Plllbtttt!
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