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Labor Day Lazy

Rest Area next Exit

The end of phase one

Today finds me pulling into a rest area to stretch my legs and let the mind relax for a minute. I have completed phase one by having the ten songs I want for my vinyl and the bonus of having enough for the radio dials on my site. I have decided to leave Suno after the new updates and not because they put limits on the downloads but rather that my personas quit, leaving only instrumentals. I don’t see a way to prompt the style anymore and the support is all AI answers instead of humans, which to me are the two main reasons of paying for the subscription. I have enjoyed Suno Pro and am grateful to them for the experience.

Phase two has started modestly as I try to train my vocals and stay somewhat in tune. I didn’t add sound to the video for this reason. I have been taping my singing and the results are simple, rewind and erase, try again. I think I need to take a break for a bit before diving deep into this level of the journey. I will be posting less on this subject since I don’t think there will be much to talk about for a while.

Pigskin Progress

LSU BLOWS OUT CLEMSON! MICHIGAN STEALS A WIN!!

I enjoyed the first full Saturday of college football yesterday even though I fell asleep during the last game, which was a total blow-out. Can you say “Goodbye Dabo?

Alabama looked better than last year and might be a surprise come playoff time, only time will tell. Keelon Russell showed us why he was chosen to be the starting quarterback. I think we have some work to do to tighten up as a whole but I liked seeing the ball ran and knowing three running backs are on the injured reserve list has me feeling good about that section. “Cadillac” Ryan Williams needs to tighten up on his receiving abilities this year. He broke out in 24 but since then has ‘dropped the ball’ to many times. A great runner that can write his own ticket if he puts the gloves back on. All in all I am looking forward to another fun year.

A quick note: Oregon looked kinda rough at the beginning but did grab the win. And Michigan? I believe time ran out on the clock and they were handed a false win.

Side Stepping Challenges

My maintenance on this site has been an ongoing thing since it started but has left me dissatisfied and constantly wanting to improve it. I made some minor changes last night to the navigation bar adding a couple of previous categories back into the fold, NTT and Peaceful Challenges, also moving my ‘Who’s Dat’ page to it from the sidebar.

I will be going through my previous posts and trying to find the photos I used that have disappeared or at the least replacing them. I also want to figure out how to delete the many doubles, triples of images used and get them down to one picture used many times instead of many times adding a duplicate. This looks like a major challenge in itself. Please be patient.

Sidenotes

Kevin from Beginning at Last is slowly moving about and steadily getting better, hope to see ya back soon brother.

I sold my first copy of ‘Silent Screams’, the invoice dropping in my email box today! Thank you to whoever it was, this was truly appreciated. The book was out in April of last year but I did absolutely no marketing on it.

With the holiday here I wish you all the best and will see you in the construction zone where I will continue to weave wasted words with confusion for my enjoyment, peace out.

https://youtu.be/8RuwOtLLd2g?si=Aq1x0dEp4_yf1JLk

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“It is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended”*…

Scheduling note: as tomorrow is July 4, (Roughly) Daily will be off. Regular service will resume on July 5… and should continue uninterrupted for awhile. Meantime…

The “Great American State Fair,” ostensibly celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S., is having a rocky run. After the talent for what was presented to them as a bi-partisan event largely withdrew, the Fair’s champion, President Trump, converted the opening into an unabashed “Trump Rally.” Thereafter, sparse attendance, equipment issues, high prices, and other embarassments.

As it happens, President Trump has some historical company. 100 years ago, in Philadelphia, dicey politicians hoped to replicate the success of the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a celebration of America’s 150th birthday. Instead, the 1926 “world’s fair” lost millions of dollars, hobbling the city’s finances on the eve of the Great Depression. Meilan Solly reports…

A century ago, the first visitors to Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial International Exposition—held to mark the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding—waded through mud and wandered along unpaved sidewalks to reach the heart of the fairgrounds, only to find carpenters still at work on half-finished exhibition halls and gaping holes marking the spots where attractions had yet to be built.

Dining and shopping options were limited, and some of the few exhibits on view stretched the very definition of “entertainment.” One was a model Post Office where “you could go send yourself a letter and watch it get canceled,” says historian Thomas H. Keels, author of Sesqui! Greed, Graft and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926. “That was it.”

The 200,000-plus Shriners in town for their fraternal organization’s national convention realized that their parades and rallies were the main events planned for these early days of the fair. Many went home disappointed, telling family and friends that the exposition wasn’t worth visiting…

Held in Philadelphia between May 31 and December 31, 1926, the fair—referred to as the Sesqui—celebrated the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding. Little remembered today, the event was a financial failure that Varietydeemed “America’s greatest flop.” Exact figures are hard to come by, but Keels suggests that the fair lost the equivalent of more than $410 million in today’s dollars, effectively bankrupting the city of Philadelphia.

The exposition was America’s main celebration of the sesquicentennial. Congress authorized the fair and provided limited funding for it, in addition to issuing commemorative coins and encouraging local celebrations, but the scale of federal participation paled in comparison with that of the 1976 bicentennial and this year’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Attendance at the Sesquicentennial Exposition also failed to match the numbers of Philadelphia’s 1876 centennial celebration, which attracted roughly 20 percent of the country’s population in an era when planes, cars and luxury liners had yet to make long-distance travel more accessible. Organizers predicted that 30 million people would visit the 1926 fair; ultimately, fewer than five million paid to attend. [For comparison, more than 44 million people visited the “World of Tomorrow” at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. Two and a half decades later, 51 million visitors flocked to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair.]

What doomed the sesquicentennial? Poor planning and lukewarm reviews by the fair’s early visitors contributed to the disastrous outcome. So, too, did the streak of bad weather that plagued Philadelphia during the exposition’s run, with rain falling on more than half of the days the fair was open to the public.

Although some observers considered the lackluster public response a sign that the golden age of world’s fairs had come to an end, Chicago’s 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition proved this prediction wrong, drawing more visitors than any of its predecessors. Overall, Keels attributes the 1926 fair’s failure to its “association with what was being viewed as an increasingly corrupt political machine,” headed by Pennsylvania Republican William Scott Vare.

After the fair incurred “nationwide ridicule,” Keels tells Smithsonian magazine, Vare and other local politicians were eager to move on from the endeavor, selling off leftover structures piecemeal “for pennies on the hundreds of dollars.” This push to forget the sesquicentennial has reverberated into the present: Just one building constructed for the 1926 fair stands in Philadelphia today…

More of the macabre story: “America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?” from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.

Apposite: “America Is Trapped in the Grossest Pool Party of All Time.”

* John Steinbeck

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As we rethink recreation, we might celebrate one of the great “public parties” of all time, recalling that it was on this date in 1970 that the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival opened in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Running officially through the 5th (but actually ending around dawn on the 6th), 500-600,000 folks attended a festival designed to foster a sense of community that transcended race, region, and social class. And while the weather was boiling (local farmers brought watermelons and cantaloupes to help attendees), and there were reports of occasional nudity and recreational drug use, the three days were essentially trouble free… and a blast.

Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, the Chambers Brothers, Richie Havens, Grand Funk Railroad, It’s a Beautiful Day, B.B. King, Lee Michaels, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, Poco, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, John Sebastian, the Bob Seger System, Spirit, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter– and the Jimi Hendrix Experience who, at midnight on this date in 1970, played his rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” for nearly 500,000 people—the largest crowd of Hendrix’s career.

Georgia’s “colorful” governor at the time, Lester Maddox, who had tried repeatedly to prevent the festival from taking place, vowed that he would do whatever it took to block any similar event in the future. The state legislature willingly complied and enacted sufficient restrictions to make it much more difficult for anyone to organize another rock festival in the state. A third Atlanta Pop Festival never took place.

Georgia’s loss. As “Abraham Lincoln” said (in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), “Be excellent to each other. And… PARTY ON, DUDES!”

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♬〜 The Allman Brothers Band - No One to Run With 💿Where It All Begins
#SouthernRock #WarrenHaynes #Epic #AllmanBrothers #SongsThatMimicLife #NowPlaying

After stenciling the road cases himself with "The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East", legendary photographer, Jim Marshall had the roadies stack the cases, then put the band⁣ in front of them.

April 5-6, 1971 Macon Georgia across the street from Capricorn Studio
#allmanbrothers #albumcovers

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

🎡 The wheel woke up choosing vibe.

Episode 176 of Rock Roulette sends us south as the wheel lands on The Allman Brothers Band – Idlewild South 🌴

Twin guitars doing twin guitar things, jams that stretch like they’ve got nowhere to be, and enough groove to make the wheel forget it ever picked thrash metal.

Is this peak Allmans?
Did the wheel finally make a mature decision?

Or is it just in a good mood?

Drop the needle and ride with us 🎧 https://zurl.co/ZoV3M
#rockroulettepod #allmanbrothers #70srock #classicrock

Duane Allman’s opinion on Eric Clapton

https://rockandrollgarage.com/duane-allmans-opinion-on-eric-clapton/

#duaneallman #allmanbrothers #ericclapton #clapton #rock #blues #music

Cameron Crowe remembers wild times as a teen journalist with Led Zeppelin, Allmans, Bowie

Cameron Crowe doesn’t traffic in regrets, except maybe one. He almost cast David Bowie in “Almost Famous” —…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #AllmanBrothers #Books #CA #CameronCrowe #Canada #DavidBowie #Entertainment #greggallman #LedZeppelin #loureed #rockandroll #rollingstonemagazine
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/242105/

Cameron Crowe remembers wild times as a teen journalist with Led Zeppelin, Allmans, Bowie

Cameron Crowe doesn’t traffic in regrets, except maybe one. He almost cast David Bowie in “Almost Famous” —…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Music #allmanbrothers #Books #CameronCrowe #DavidBowie #Entertainment #GreggAllman #LedZeppelin #loureed #rockandroll #rollingstonemagazine
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/252687/

I prefer this Melissa to the one that could change course to be near the Gulf of Mexico:

https://youtu.be/71xvwVQABvw

#AllmanBrothers #Music #m_music

Eric Clapton’s opinion on Allman Brothers Band and Duane

https://rockandrollgarage.com/eric-clapton-opinion-on-allman-brothers-band-and-duane/

#ericclapton #blues #rock #classicrock #Music #allmanbrothers #article

Isn't it fun to stand outside or hang outside a window and eat a peach with the juices just dreching your hand and pouring out of your mouth?? Damn that was good!! 🍑🍑🍑

#EatAPeach #peaches #AllmanBrothers

https://archive.org/details/AllmanBrothersBand1994-07-23-morst

Just uploaded after all these years

#AllmanBrothers #LiveConcert #LiveRecording #PrimarySource #AllenWoody #WarrenHaynes #GreggAllman #HORDE #Outdoor #Outdoors #Cassette #Microphones #PressureZoneMicrophone #PZM

Saturday -
#BearlyDead w/ #ABandOfBrothers (#AllmanBrothers tribute)
https://bearlydead.bandcamp.com
https://crossroadspresents.com/pages/more-info-event?eventid=vv1AvZkFtGkeX7S-u
#SnowPatrol https://crossroadspresents.com/pages/more-info-event?eventid=vv1AvZk7YGkduInKK
11 piece orchestra #LanaDelRey tribute https://www.crystalballroomboston.com/events/niki-luparelli-presents-the-born-to-die-orchestra-a-tribute-to-lana-del-rey/
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 6/x

How the Allman Brothers Band Helped Make Jimmy Carter President 🎸

The Georgia-based group provided crucial early support for his 1976 White House run, creating a bond that lasted for decades

The governor greeted Allman, “Come on in. I got some new Elmore James albums we can listen to.” As they walked inside, Mr. Carter praised Allman’s songwriting and started “rattling off the lyrics” to his songs.

@WSJ

🎁🔗:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-allman-brothers-band-helped-make-jimmy-carter-president-e7a576c6?st=DYSZtv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#JimmyCarter #AllmanBrothers #Music #USPol

The Allman Brothers Band, Eat a Peach, 1972 on Capricorn

Third studio album from the Allman Brothers Band, with a mixture of live and studio recordings, including some from the Fillmore East performances in 1971. Released after Duane Allman died in a motorcycle crash in Macon Georgia. The extended “Mountain Jam” is spread across two sides, B and D.

The song “One Way Out” is actually by Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson – I didn’t even know that was its actual title (“‘Cause there’s a man down there, might be your man I don’t know.”).

Famous cover by W. David Powell and J.F. Holmes from Wonder Graphics out of Georgia – with no album title appearing on the cover (apparently it was still being decided upon when the graphics were finalized).

My copy via Vinyl Destination (RIP) in Lowell, MA.

#1970s #1972 #AllmanBrothers #Capricorn #DuaneAllman #LowellMA #vinyl #VinylDestination #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WonderGraphics

One of my very favourite tunes...

#music #AllmanBrothers

https://youtu.be/FUvxRjYqjEQ

Will have to read if just for the Allman Brothers' interview and Rolling Stone piece. Seems like a good, alternate "Almost Famous" source material.

'Splendor in the Short Grass': Romancing the Stoned

"[T]he best of the New Journalism is still bracing -- for its flair but also for its earnest presumption and for its access to what people, high and low, were actually up to."

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/splendor-in-the-short-grass-romancing-the-stoned.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8E0.AUR5.VYdT9AyHkYos&smid=url-share

#AlmostFamous #AllmanBrothers #GroverLewis #Texas

The Allman Brothers Band w/ Eric Clapton - 3/20/2009 - Beacon - Complete Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr_-eZd8g8Y

#NowPlaying #AllmanBrothers #EricClapton

Duane Allman - An Anthology LP Vinyl Record For Sale https://recordsalbums.com/allman-brothers-vinyl-records-albums-lps/4081-duane-allman-an-anthology-lp-vinyl-record-for-sale.html #Allman #DuaneAllman #AllmanBrothers #TheAllmanBrothers #AllmanBros #TheAllmanBros #Anthology #DuaneAllmanVinyl #DuaneAllmanVinylRecords #DuaneAllmanRecords #DuaneAllmanAlbums #DuaneAllmanLPs #lps #vinyl #records #albums #vinylrecords #recordalbums #SouthernRock #SouthernRockLPs

@pfrazee.com There's only one Blue Sky that matters.
#AllmanBrothers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UToUzWgHGyQ

The #AllmanBrothers recently released this 4/7/72 show recorded only months after Duane's death. So it's unique in that Dicky Betts is the sole guitarist. But it sounds great and I've never heard Berry Oakley's bass so high in the mix. You can really focus in on his playing and what made him so great.

https://open.spotify.com/album/05Wtpe1XAUjUixN8spSj9a?si=w0SRMiEgS2aGS17RrK2hSw

#AlternateFridayMusic
Apr 26 2024
The prompt is Idle
The Allman Brothers Band, “Idlewild South” 1970

The #AllmanBrothers' second album was reissued with their first eponymous album as the double album Beginnings after their bar-raising live album “At Fillmore East” and the popular success of “Eat a Peach.”

I know what you’re thinking: #SouthernRock, rednecks with guitars, but while they arguably launched that genre, let’s remember their jazzy, dare I say, #JamBand side, and two drummers - TWO DRUMMERS - that drove songs like pile drivers, not to mention #GreggAllman's world-worn vocals and those two lead guitars. OK, the guitar thing became a southern rock cliche, but when you have musician's musician #DuaneAllman on slide, it’s a whole different animal.

Tragedy and excess would reduce the band to a less adventurous shadow of its former self, but their first two albums are a gumbo of #BluesRock weight, instrumental finesse, southern soul, and inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SZlz9WKccE

Dickey Betts, cofounder of the Allman Brothers Band, died last week. In this essay for Paste, Matt Mitchell remembers his work on "Eat a Peach" and "Brothers and Sisters." "I contend that, between February 1972 and August 1973, there was no greater rocker walking among us than Dickey Betts," Mitchell writes. "Most musicians would kill to write 'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica' and 'Ramblin’ Man' over the course of a long career; Betts did it in just 16 months’ time, a creative peak few musicians of his caliber, genre and longevity have ever paralleled."

https://flip.it/WQkHSQ

#Music #DickeyBetts #AllmanBrothers #RIP #InMemoriam #Essay