tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289318982024-03-14T10:58:12.423-04:00krewechief's Early Retirement BlogUpcoming Shows: John Otway June 11 at The RivoliKrewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-5091308454067711562016-08-13T07:23:00.001-04:002016-08-13T07:23:27.283-04:00Tarry Awhile in Tara<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been three months since The Change and I never thought being semi-retired would take so much out of me.<br />
The summer has been filled with renovations at the house and a whirlwind pace of getting acclimated to our new environs.<br />
The house: a 10' X 20' deck extension with a 40' wheelchair ramp that leads to the parking pad. Or as we like to call it: freedom.<br />
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It is not a small thing. Inside we had a stair-lift installed so Cece can make use of the whole house, including a 5'X5' walk-in shower that makes even the mundane things we have to do both easier and safer.<br />
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We've painted, installed blinds, had a metal roof put on, installed a new hardwood floor in the living room and, most importantly, turned our deck into an oasis.<br />
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On both sides.<br />
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For the most part it's been sunshine and drinks.<br />
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And driving back and forth into the city.<br />
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Even with all that Cece and I have had more time together this summer than in the last 5 years combined. Cruising the rural roads is life-affirming, pastoral and quiet.<br />
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Waking up in the morning to the fresh smell of 'cow' is a reminder that things have changed.<br />
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This guy's not so pungent, he's our county mascot, Big Bruce.<br />
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We take day trips to local beaches and waterfalls, this one being Inglis Falls, just around the corner.<br />
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Cece (here with our daughter, Emily) is getting more than her required dose of sunshine.<br />
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I'm getting the odd workout in too.<br />
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This is my home town, 60 seconds from our front porch.<br />
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Walk another minute and you are on the banks of the Sauble River.<br />
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We've had visits from friends at work.<br />
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My sister and brother-in-law found their way here as well.<br />
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And Emily, with Don's assistance, is making good use of our fire permit.<br />
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All in all the transition is going well.<br />
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Today Emily gets a 3 day visit from an old friend, who is bringing along her two young children.<br />
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We may be a long way from where we were but the world got bigger for all of us.Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-17044624093142905162016-08-01T07:38:00.000-04:002016-08-01T07:38:02.213-04:00For Cecilia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A few years ago I marked November 1,2016 on my day calendar.<br />
It was to be the date I decided WHEN I was going to retire.<br />
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You know what they say about the best laid plans.<br />
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It's May 20,2016, my last full-time day at work. After 36 1/2 years with the same company I am resigning my position as VP of Operations and taking on a new job of Account Manager - Part Time. This means I am in the office 3 days a month and watching my Blackberry on other days.<br />
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Cece and I have sold our Toronto house and purchased a property in Bruce County, 2 1/2 hours northwest of Toronto. We close on Tuesday May 24,2016.<br />
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To many around us this may seem like a rash decision.<br />
Unexpected.<br />
It's anything but.<br />
It took a long time to make this choice.<br />
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The first time Cece and I seriously thought about modifying our lifestyle to accommodate our reality was in December 2008. She was diagnosed with LABC, an advanced form of breast cancer that had spread into surrounding tissue and was not even measured on the Stage 1 to 4 meter...it sucked that much. A year and a half of chemo, surgery and radiation resulted in the cancer being eradicated.<br />
Our good luck.<br />
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We had set on the path to this decision much earlier in our life. By the time I met Cece, at age 18, she had already endured most of the ravages of the Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis that has made her existence a little different from mine and yours. Over the next few years, before we got married, we discussed how this might shape our lives. I don't think we knew the half-of-it but we did know we weren't alone on the journey and we were good with that.<br />
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All the normal mileposts were achieved...kids and work, careers and travel, we did 'em all. Ups and downs abounded. Good fortune followed us along the way; support of family, support at work and some degree of financial security allowed us to make our way, doing better than the average bear.<br />
Ain't nothing to bitch about there.<br />
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The 2008/2009 cancer scare wasn't the first hurdle we had vaulted. There were many speed bumps along the way and more to come. All along, while dealing with these issues, fortune smiled on us and we were able to maximize our happiness.<br />
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The late 80's and early 90's were rough, and I ain't talking about how popular music went in the tank. The kids were doing well but Cece's knees were shot, her world was shrinking, her independence was vanishing. A double-knee replacement turned things around. Kids were in school and Cece was back at work...for awhile.<br />
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At this point I'd like to take the time to thank the criminals who ran Texaco Inc during this time period. They were found guilty of fucking with Getty Oil in some manner and were ordered to pay $13 billion dollars in reparations. They sold Texaco Canada (where Cece worked) to Imperial Oil (Esso) to raise the cash.<br />
This didn't work out so well for some, who found their jobs redundant. It did work out well for Cece though, as Imperial Oil had a 30 day grace period where all new (formerly Texaco) employees were able to sign on for full extended medical benefits without an physical exam or any bias to pre-existing conditions. She had been required to sign-off on any long-term disability benefits due to her JRA when she began full time work at Texaco. Now she was able to buy extended disability benefits. It meant less take home pay and we were living pay-check to pay-check then...but we made the right choice and signed on.<br />
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In 1995 Cece had a medical crisis related to her JRA and how the immune system works. A note on her medical chart stated her condition was "near death". Good doctoring, no praying and a what-will-be-will-be attitude resulted in recovery and Cece being placed on permanent disability. <br />
On the surface that doesn't sound good. <br />
Due to our prudent decision at the time of the Texaco/Imperial Oil deal she ended up with about 75 % of her full time income. <br />
In reality, in conjunction with the freedom I had at work to take leave when I wished, it resulted in our ability to travel the world. From Scotland to Venice to Paris (3x) and many other European destinations. We saw enough of America to allow us to wait out Trump's Presidency before we return. We spent our free time chasing live music and quirky facts about the places we went to to hear it. I wrote about most of this in<b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Dylanomaniac-Paul-Marcel-Levesque/dp/141208332X" target="_blank">Confessions of A Dylanomaniac. </a></b><br />
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Cancer 1 was followed by a broken hip and hip-replacement surgery, cancer 2 and a rapid deterioration of Cece's ankles, resulting in her being wheelchair bound since 2010. I skipped over a lot of hardship there. No need to revisit. In between we did our best; we still travelled for music, we went to Mississippi and New Orleans twice, we slowed down but we didn't stop.<br />
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Still, Cece's world was getting smaller. <br />
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We continued to do our yearly State of Our Union evaluation. Each year the choices became a little narrower and sometimes we tried too hard to do what we could do before.<br />
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In September of 2015 we took a vacation in Paris and the Black Forest. It was great but we had a bigger vision of how we would spend our time than we were able to accomplish. For the effort it took, the money it cost, it wasn't making the best use of our resources. <br />
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I haven't posted anything since that trip because we have been busy re-evaluating. <br />
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While sitting in a Rose garden off some non-descript alley in the center of Paris, Cece was talking with her sister regarding my incessant muttering about my desire to retire. Theresa told her it would happen within the year if we were discussing it. Cece said, "No Fucking Way." (ed note. You had to be leaving a concert in Pittsburgh PA on November 8th, 2002 to know how funny that was.)<br />
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But she was right.<br />
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Nothing big ever happens for one reason. It takes a convergence of seemingly unrelated events to result in transformative change . We had a handful at play. What they were are too numerous to itemize here, suffice it to say that work, family and personal desires all came into play.<br />
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When this all started to unfold in early January, following 2016's State of Our Union address, I was all..HELP!<br />
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As always, Cece was there to lend a hand.<br />
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We talked through the issues: our general aversion to change, the thought that I might be abandoning work and my Dad, the economic risk, leaving Toronto...and so much more. We are good with all that.<br />
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In the end it is a selfish decision we make together because we can.<br />
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Our choice...and trust me, we are all about choice.<br />
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Quickly I became all it's my life and I'll do what I want.<br />
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Argghhhhh! I say. Fuck ya all.<br />
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Being Canadian I say that with all due respect and a silent "sorry".<br />
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That was just me processing the guilt, the fear and the excitement of new possibilities.<br />
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I was in a whirlwind, but now I'm in a much better place.<br />
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"You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead..." <br />
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It's always been the two of us. We need extra time to get there comfortably. We need to focus on moto-vatin' when it's time to go. We've spent a lot of time doing what we had to do in order to be able to do what we want to do. Now it's time to change our priorities.<br />
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We are leaving a lot on the table, financially. Leaving the comfort of the city; hospitals and pharmacies nearby, live music just 30 minutes away, family, my daughter's world...all new things to adapt to.<br />
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It's scary...but I got a rock who will never quit her faith in me.<br />
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"Sometimes I go derailing when it's chaos in my mind/ But all in all my wheels are mainly on the track"<br />
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I haven't slept well for awhile. I am averse to change...but I'm going to adapt.<br />
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Cece and I are standing on the cusp of 60, looking back at 40+ years, smiling hard, really pleased.<br />
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We turn around, looking at the road ahead of us and we are ready to be starting over..."it's been so long since we took the time, no one's to blame, my how time flies so quickly..."<br />
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We will now measure our success in things we wouldn't be doing if we didn't make this choice.<br />
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Stay tuned.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-80191565793917198792015-10-04T15:35:00.002-04:002015-10-04T15:35:44.192-04:00European Tour Pt. 5 Germany, The Black Forest and LuxembourgSo we leave the busy city streets of Paris<br />
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for the more tranquil roads of Alsace-Lorraine.<br />
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But before we get where we are going one quick stop to honour Napoleon.<br />
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In Paris we were in the heart of the city, in Germany, not so much. We are staying outside of Horben, which is 20 minutes south of Freiburg. I know, meant nothing to me either.<br />
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It's remote, at the end of a winding one-lane road where you can meet tractors or cows.<br />
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It's a working dairy farm. Don't try to milk this guy though.<br />
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This is the tractor I was told I could use.<br />
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It was in better shape when I got it.<br />
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The farm is named Steinmuhle and if we didn't know that we would have never found it. Street names don't matter much in this part of the country but 2 out of 3 people knew the name of the dairy farm.<br />
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We settle in for the night with wine and food and rest up after 7 hours on the road. The next morning we head straight north on the autobahn where we are doing a steady 150 kph and being passed by cars that are nothing but a blur. We find our start point in Baden-Baden, a quick lunch then south along the world famous Route 500...except it's closed.<br />
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We are not 10 kilometers into our Black Forest experience when we are forced to change our route. We end up on Route 462 and now we are just hitting random towns in the Black Forest. This lands us in Forbach and Freudenstadt...instead of two other places we didn't know.<br />
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Nice fountains to be found. <br />
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And stately old building in the town square.<br />
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And art installations disguised as fountains, or the other way around.<br />
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Here they play speed-chess with a sundial.<br />
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The day ends back at our idyllic rural retreat.<br />
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Which also has a cat.<br />
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Day 2 in the Black Forest has us enjoying the winding roads...because it's raining.<br />
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Our first stop was in Feldberg, the highest point in the region. No photo ops presented themselves but the road was an event all in itself.<br />
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Our main stop was in the town for Triberg. Here we found the largest falls in the Forest.<br />
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A bit of a hike in to get to these spots, in the drizzling rain, but worth the effort.<br />
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In the hilly town of Triberg itself you come across the largest cuckoo clock on earth. We just missed the big event.<br />
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Germany has scenic vistas too. I call this one A Town from a Mountain Road.<br />
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In Luxembourg, a country I know nothing about, we see them trying to keep up with the Jones' when it comes to castles...<br />
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And obelisk's in the Old Town.<br />
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This one is called Gelle Fra and it honours, well, what else, war. The Great War. The First War to End All Wars.<br />
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Believe it or not they have a church named Notre Dame here. Instead of taking a picture of it I tried to engage these people in a theological discussion. As they turned and ran the mature penguin reached out and asked the little ones to make a rope, starting with his umbrella. <br />
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And finally, a guy on a horse.<br />
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And that's a wrap. Great trip. Paris cannot be consumed in a lifetime of visits.<br />
Great driving...if you keep out of the city centers.Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-69584766431881482922015-09-27T18:24:00.000-04:002015-09-27T18:24:18.039-04:00Paris Pt 4 The Louvre to the Arc and Miscellany From The Saddest Spot in Paris to Arthur Rimbaud When the Rains CameDay 6 We have been extremely fortunate with the weather to date...but there's a little rain on the horizon and that will modify some plans.<br />
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Now they say Paris in the rain is so romantic.<br />
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Maybe, if you've got an overcoat, an umbrella and some jump in your step.<br />
Not so much in a rain poncho with a roulant.<br />
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On or way to our first stop, we have a stop to make, because that's how it rolls.<br />
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We are at Le Tour Jean Sans Peur on Rue Etienne-Marcel. It was here that pesky Burgundian John the Fearless fled for safety after killing the Duke of Orleans in 1407. The Burgundians also turned over Joan of Arc to the British. Damn them all! Of course his death at the hands of the Dauphin in 1419 led to a brief British resurgency as the new boss was not better than the old boss.<br />
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Damn I M Pei<br />
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Down the street we come across the Louvre. This building has a storied history, progressing from a garrison to a palace to the premier museum in the world. It is a work of art in and of itself. It's too big to consume in one visit or in ten, perhaps in a hundred. And therein lies it's problem.<br />
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Most of us just head for the Venus, even though we don't know who made it.<br />
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There's a status of Athena that includes arms for no extra charge.<br />
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And Winged Victory is cool...even if it does look a little worse for wear.<br />
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Can't imagine what Winged Defeat looked like.<br />
Even the ceiling here is a work of art.<br />
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And oh ya, the reason to be here.<br />
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It's now covered in glass, behind a barrier and a lot smaller than you'd think.<br />
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Just outside the museum we find the min-Arc, the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel erected by Napoleon in the early 1800's to commemorate his military victories. All that depicted in greater detail than I can explain. Napy built this while he was waiting for the big Arc to be finished. I guess he knew it's unlikely he'd be around for that event.<br />
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We continue walking into the Jardin Tuileries built by Catherine De Medici as the gardens to the Tuileries Palace, which was burned to the ground during the Commune of 1871.<br />
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It's now just a glorious place to meander with green space and statues, like this one, Cain ruing the day he slew Abel.<br />
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The obelisk at Place de la Concorde, formerly Place de la Revolution, where over 2,600 Parisians lost their heads during the Terror. <br />
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And this shot, another one of those perspective things.<br />
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A few blocks away we come across the Chapelle Expiatoire ....saddest spot in Paris.<br />
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The entrance from the courtyard.<br />
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In honour of the King.<br />
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In honour of the Queen.<br />
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The sarcophagus that marks the spot where their bodies were unearthed.<br />
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This chapel was built by Louis XVIII during a restoration period. No other way these two would have been so honoured.<br />
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The Chapel is dedicated to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It is here their headless bodies were unceremoniously dumped among the remains of 2,600 other victims of the guillotine. They lay here for 21 years before being exhumed and sent to St Denis Basilica with the rest of the dead kings.<br />
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Here's a video from inside the chapel.<br />
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It's the other 2,598 that make it sad. Oh, wait, there was Robespierre and Danton, that brings it to 2,596...<br />
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This was a great find. While it's only a little piece of history, more people who made history ended up in this place than anywhere else.<br />
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We continue our march up the Champs, stopping to eat at George V and buy some trinkets at the Peugot store. It's an impressively wide and lively shopping street.<br />
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Do the google.<br />
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At the top, the Arc De Triomphe, in full size.<br />
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Death or glory, it's the same old story.<br />
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Since we're on major monument day let's head to Notre Dame.<br />
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Quite the architectural marvel. Statues of Saints, gargoyles galore and flying buttresses.<br />
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Oh, there was a hunchback once and probably a mass or two.<br />
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Day 7 starts with us taking a cab up to the top of Montmartre where the pasty white opulence of Sacre Coeur waits for us.<br />
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It's said that from up here, on a clear day, you can see Paris.<br />
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We will have to take their word on that.<br />
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Here's another glorious shot of that church.<br />
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It occurs to me, seeing how the sky turned a deep shade of blue from this angle, whether you should photo shop paintings by the masters?<br />
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I've been inside more churches this week than I have in the past decade. That's saying a lot, even if the count is only 4.<br />
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This is a particularly hilly area of town, virtually all the outlying arrondissments include a good deal of vertical walking. Two of our party is spending some time at the Dali Museum, which is currently inaccessible.Cece and I are wandering the side streets in search of Marcel Ayme's grave.<br />
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Ya, I know, who's that?<br />
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Found the cemetery but not the entrance. To walk around the cemetery would have meant climbing and descending the hill twice...so we rested, took in the two available sites and waited to see Marcel Ayme's master work instead.<br />
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This bar has a storied history, used to be called the Cabaret Des Assassins until artist Andre Gill painted the rabbit thing and the name morphed from Le Lapin a Gill to it's current name, Lapin Agile. Visited by the dredges of the Parisian culture and guys like Picasso and Modigliani.<br />
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Just adjacent to this bar, a small inner-city winery.<br />
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Still on top of the hill we seek out Place Marcel Aymes, where we find this work of art, Passe Muraille.<br />
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Pretty close by we see a small park dedicated to the Patron Saint of Paris, St Denis. He was decapitated right about here and chased that head to the basilica named after him, where all the Kings of Paris are buried. Well, it ain't the bible but it's a decent story.<br />
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A quick stop along the way to pick up a baguette at this award winning shop.<br />
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And a snap shot of where Vincent Van Went, 54 Rue Lepic.<br />
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For a couple of years anyway, when he was living off his brother.<br />
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We make our way slowly down the steep hills and come out facing the Moulin Rouge. Once a place where obscene things occurred onstage it currently has an almost family-friendly show but obscene prices...as in 200 to 400 euro for dinner and a show.<br />
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On Day 8 the rains came and all plans went out the window.<br />
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Our first stop is Montparnasse Cemetery.<br />
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A famous writer. A true Parnassian before his time, inspiring Rimbaud, he was instrumental in opening up the Beats to a new language. A rather nondescript family plot. Well maintained though. Charles Baudelaire.<br />
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A famous couple of writers. Sartre and De Beauvoir.<br />
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A famous singer, Serge Gainsborough, with his birth name inscribed. Subway tickets all over the place.<br />
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All their graves adorned with artifacts left behind by their fans.<br />
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Then a respite from the rain at a cafe where we decide there's not much sense in climbing the Montparnasse Tower as there is nothing but clouds to see.<br />
On our way home we catch a glimpse of this stunning statue of Louis XIV, the Sun King.<br />
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We spend the rest of this day skipping the lines at L'Orangerie and D'Orsay. <br />
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On Day 9 the rain is still with us. I start with an early morning walk in our neighbourhood where we have two ancient homes, still standing.<br />
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The first, on Rue Montmorency, is a 15th Century home, built in 1407.<br />
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Now I'm told the owner of this home, an alchemist named Nicolas Flamel, is of some interest to fans of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.<br />
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Here's a close up of the entrance.<br />
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The second, on Rue Volta, is a 12th century home, currently serving Pho cuisine.<br />
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That is some ancient timber and mortar.<br />
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Only a few doors away from our apartment we have the quiet environs of the Cat Cafe.</div>
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I put a cushion down so this guy could get comfortable on Cece's chair.<br />
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So today we are in the Centre Pompidou. I've been denigrating it all week as an architectural monstrosity.<br />
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That's because I hadn't gone inside. Shows how little I know. Because the innards are on the outside you are afforded a wonderful perspective of the city.<br />
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There's Sacre Coeur on the hill. And over a little bit...<br />
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It was a rainy day. A great view of the Tour Saint Jacques, a gothic tower built in 1509, the last remains of a church.<br />
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The Centre Pompidou is a modern art museum. Way beyond my ability to comprehend.<br />
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It's got bright displays. The one below comes with a warning that it may cause epileptic seizures if you are prone to them.<br />
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It doesn't really come across in a photo.<br />
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Here's a video of a video piece called So Much I Want To Say. Sound ON for this one.<br />
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And another video about sand.<br />
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At the exit, the OPEN video. Of course.<br />
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The museum also has stuff made with paint and brushes.<br />
Like Luxe by Matisse<br />
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And La Muse by Picasso.<br />
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And now time for a little self-indulgence.Arthur Rimbaud.<br />
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I is another.<br />
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Looking for Rimbaud's statue with the vowels got us lost early on our trip. That should have clued me in to something. The final leg of our European Tour includes a night in Luxembourg...a new country to visit. The real reason we added that is so we could be close to Rimbaud's hometown, Charleville-Mezieres, on a day other than a Monday. You see, Cece and I were in 2002 but the Rimbaud Museum is closed on Mondays. We got his boyhood home and his grave...but not the museum.<br />
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But I digress.<br />
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I came across Rimbaud through a few lines found in a Dylan song:<br />
"Situations have ended sad<br />
Relationships have all been bad<br />
Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud...."<br />
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Here's a close up of that painting we saw earlier. The older, married but questioning Verlaine on the left and the striking portrayal of a young, vibrant Rimbaud.<br />
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And off I was to do the research. Interesting stories. The most amazing thing about Rimbaud, who was muse and more to his contemporary Verlaine, who was found-again by the Beat poets and the libertines that made up the counter-culture in the '60's...is that he stopped writing poetry at age 21. Only stuff we have from him is between the ages of 15 and 21. He quit the game and made his way through the rest of his short life trading in colonial Africa. Illuminations, Season En Fer (A Season in Hell), Voyelles and La Bateaux Ivre (The Drunken Boat)...pretty well sums it up.<br />
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We did find the statue, not the best time of day for picture taking though.<br />
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If you could see more detail on this photo you would see the vowels of the alphabet that are sculpted.<br />
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In honour of Rimbaud's poem, Voyelles, where much like in his real life he tries to find another self in vowels.<br />
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Voyelles<br />
A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels<br />
Someday I’ll talk about your secret birth-cries,<br />
A, black furry corset of brilliant flies<br />
That buzz around cruel stenches,<br />
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Gulfs of shadow; E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,<br />
Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of umbel;<br />
I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips<br />
In anger or in the raptures of penitence;<br />
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U, waves, divine shudders of viridian seas,<br />
Peace of pastures dotted with animals, peace of furrows<br />
Which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads;<br />
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O, sublime Trumpet full of strange stridencies,<br />
Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels:<br />
O the Omega, violet ray of Her Eyes!<br />
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In Luxembourg our hotel bar was named La Bateaux Ivre. I found this surreptitious. <br />
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The cemetery in Charleville-Mezieres was an easy find,<br />
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his family plot still the best kept of them all.<br />
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Didn't see this post office box last time I was here.<br />
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And now it's off to the Rimbaud Museum where I hope to see a pen he used once.<br />
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It's not Monday but it's closed for renovations. Will open...wait for it...tomorrow.<br />
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In the square at the train station, a last memorial to the young poet.<br />
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Best times for me were when we found the most serene spots in a city that is in perpetual motion.<br />
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The locks on the Canal Saint Martin, the Rose Garden, the Chapelle Expiatoire, the courtyard at Musee Cluny, Anne Frank Garden, the early morning hunt for ancient houses, the Cat Cafe, the Duplex bar before the crowd showed up. There are likely a hundred of these places for every Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, Arc De Triomphe and Louvre type attraction. I wish upon you all the opportunity to seek some out.<br />
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-77299315365220611252015-09-26T07:56:00.000-04:002015-09-26T07:56:11.327-04:00European TourParis Pt 3Bridges, A Lunch Cruise and Wine TastingThe Palace of Versailles and GivernyWhere Our Party Learns to Pace Itself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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OK, this has been a hectic pace. For the next couple of days there is a little less walking and a little more...taking things in.<br />
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Day 4 starts with a walk along the Sienne to the base of the Eiffel Tower. Our lunch cruise takes off from a nearby pier. Along the way we get to take in some of the many bridges that link the right bank to the left bank via the two islands. Others connect the two sides without traversing the islands. Every one of them has a story. I'm going to diverge to share a few.<br />
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Let us start with the worst. Very close to the Cathredal of Notre Dame is this small bridge linking the tip of Ile De La Citie with the Left Bank, Pont de l'Archeveche...covered in the scourge that is an internet meme, love locks. They try to take these down but there's always someone with a master key selling locks.<br />
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Pont Au Change became our favourite. Mostly because it lead to a street named Sebastapol and from there we could get back to our apartment without maps or getting lost.<br />
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Many versions of this bridge have been built since the 12th c.The current bridge was opened in 1860, during the reign of Napoleon III, and bears his imperial insignia. From the right bank it puts you onto the main island with Notre Dame to your left, the Concergerie to your right and Saint Chappelle straight ahead. And yes that stairway is just calling out....take me to the river, put me in the water.<br />
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My sentimental favourite was Pont Neuf...the oldest bridge in Paris. It too puts you on the Ile De La Citie, at one end leaving you to walk the whole island. <br />
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Some detail on this shot. The bridge is festooned with grotesque caricatures of dentists and barbers and priests and other ghouls.<br />
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On the island a statue of King Henry IV. This man established the
absolute monarchy that the late Louis' came to represent. Victor in the
war of religions he had only one stumbling block to consolidating his
power base. He was Protestant. Upon viewing Paris he was said to have
remarked: "Paris is well worth a mass." His conversion lead to many of
the great parks and monuments we have already seen. His vision for
France gave us the rest. <br />
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Unfortunately he got caught in a traffic jam right here on the 14th of May, 1610 and was assassinated by a crazed Catholic. You're right, that might be redundant.<br />
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This led to Marie De Medici's regency until 1617 when Louis XIII took over the reigns. <br />
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A builder, with his chief financier Sully...of places and a nation.<br />
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All Kings that followed stood on his shoulders.<br />
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Speaking of Sully, we came across these jazz artists on his eponymous bridge.<br />
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz74AWTxpZo&feature=youtu.be<br />
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You might have to click through on that one or cut and paste into your browser...it's on youtube somewhere.<br />
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The most glorious bridge, if not downright ostentatious, is the Pont Alexandre III, named after a regressive Russian Czar, who nonetheless was a better friend to France than Bismark. The first stone for this was laid by Czar Nicholas II in October of 1896 when the cousins that ruled Europe were still getting along.<br />
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Here are a couple of shots that show the perspective this bridge has. One towards the Tower.<br />
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And one towards the gold dome of Les Invalides, Napoleon's hospital for his army and his final resting place.<br />
Everywhere you turn in this city, you see something else.<br />
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Not many pictures from the cruise itself. We're having a lovely lunch with a couple bottles of wine and passing landmark after landmark. The river float is to recharge the spirit, not to fill the SD card. We've booked the front of the boat so our view is unobstructed on both trips, outgoing and returning.<br />
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Here's a picture of a familiar friend.<br />
This is where the boat turns back, a little artificial island, the unknown 3rd, just for this lady. And once again, in the background, this city is all about perspective.<br />
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I mean how many copies of that thing did they make?<br />
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Somewhat satiated but still on the hunt for truth through wine we disembark, head to the Eiffel Tower take this pic...<br />
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...and grab a cab into the Latin Quarter for our wine tasting.<br />
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Way too many tourists at that huge bucket of bolts.<br />
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The street our wine tasting is on was built during the last Ice Age...and no one thought to level the glacial mound we have to climb.<br />
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So we take the long way around to find a less steep incline to the entrance.<br />
We are at 14 Rue Des Boulangers and our host has welcomed us to a 'virtual' wine tour of France.<br />
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We had a full house, people from California and Georgia, our group from Canada and three from Ireland. We all did a little introduction prior to the presentation. I told them I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff...<br />
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The tour was informative, breaking down the appellations by the four major growing regions. We scooped up a half dozen bottles for each couple.<br />
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Recommended to all teachers, nurses and other lovers of wine. <br />
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On the way home we stumble across Place De La Bastille. Like many locations in Paris you go to see things that are no longer there. The fortress, cum prison, cum sanitarium for the eccentric, was torn down in 1789...and no one thought to rebuild it. The Pont De La Concorde was built using stone from the demolished building. Ironically the Colone de Juillet that stands in it's place commemorates the three days of revolt in 1830 that led to the abdication of Charles X.<br />
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Day 5 has us looking for out for our private car to Versailles as our street is blocked with construction. Cece and I have been through Paris twice and have not yet knocked this one off our list of things to do. This time we're going First Class and making a full day of it by adding an hour and a half ride out to Monet's quaint little homestead in Giverny.<br />
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Nothing much more to be said about Versailles. Louis XIV set up court here to keep away from the rabble in Paris. When they marched Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette back to Paris in 1789...the world changed. Flash forward to 1919 when the victors of The Great War split the globe and laid seed to many of the turbulent issues we face today.<br />
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Let's take a spin around the courtyard.<br />
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It's pretty ornate. Housed over 6,000 members of the court under the Sun King.<br />
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Dig the pipe organ at the back. I've got a boombox.<br />
There are more Louis' than you can count.<br />
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And all sorts of stuff with gold plating. Dig the fleur de lis.<br />
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If there is one thing wrong with all the major monuments in Paris it's that they are so packed nobody goes there anymore. (Tip of the hat to Yogi Berra)<br />
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This is the Hall of Mirrors. You should be able to reflect here in solemn wonder. When you stand facing the mirrors the courtyard outside the window is reflected. 'Course, even KimYea or KonYa, or whatever they are called, couldn't book this joint for their wedding.<br />
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It occurs to me, as we enter the next room....<br />
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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,<br />
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view<br />
A wondrous woven magic in bits of blue and gold<br />
A tapestry to feel and see, impossible to hold<br />
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And the gardens.<br />
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I make light but I loved this place. If you're depending on me to convince you to go then perhaps it's not for you.<br />
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Back into our shocking pink carriage and off to the less opulent, but no less inspiring, grounds of Giverny. The most restful part of this day has been not deciding what direction we are going in.<br />
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Claude Monet lived on these grounds, cultivated the gardens and ponds, painted more water lillies than you can shake a stick at, for over 40 years. The bridges, foliage and lily pads will be familiar to most.<br />
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We have a private tour, our host meeting us at the entrance and commencing the trek through the gardens which now sit on the opposite side of the road from the main house. Again I would guess that spring would be the best time to be here but such care was given to the development of these grounds there are blooms well into the fall.<br />
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Let's start with perspective.<br />
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This garden was built to simulate a rolling river leading up to the house through the arches. Our guide made the mistake of saying Monet was trying to provide perspective.<br />
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That lead me into a 20 minute monologue about Baron Hausmann and Napoleon III. She cut me off saying, "Hausmann, he did not invent perspective but he made good use of it."<br />
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And here's the Monet shot....water lillies. <br />
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These ones are better still.<br />
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And you might recognize this bridge from a painting or two, minus the people.<br />
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But Monet was about more than just the water stuff. He planted these bamboo, not indigenous to the area, on an island.<br />
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And other flowers.<br />
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Some gardens are even thematic, with the blooms in sequence to the colours of the rainbow. I don't have a pic of that.<br />
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Inside the house...he self decorated with family portraits.<br />
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If Monet was on Instagram he would have posted this at lunchtime. "I am having fruite et du vin, peut etre du l'eau, je sais pas."<br />
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I'm going to add a trip to L'Orangerie, which occurs on another day, to this segment so we can get all the Monet in one bag.<br />
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This museum opened in the early 1920's, hosts works by Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Renoir, Henri Rousseau, Alfred Sisley, Chaim Soutine, and Maurice Utrillo, among others.<br />
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But everyone says...show me the Monet!<br />
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In 1927 special circular rooms were built to host 8 murals of water lillies, collectively known as the Nymphéas.<br />
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It's a pretty special display. The lighting is diffuse...as Monet wanted it.<br />
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If you see enough of his paintings, against others from his time, you will come to know why this was his preference. He must have had an allergy to light or brightness.<br />
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Let us take a spin around the room.<br />
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In other parts of the museum you will find Renoir's Peaches<br />
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Another Monet<br />
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I'm going to drop a few pics from the Musee D'Orsay on this post as the next one is looking rather lengthy. Entering the museum you're greeted by Satan playing with a serpent. That has to be a good omen.<br />
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They almost tore this building down in the 60's before deciding to refurbish and rededicate it. Used to be a railway station and now it houses the biggest collection of impressionist and post-impressionistic art. I was impressed. I'm guessing we're gonna see Monet again.<br />
Whoa! There it is, a familiar bridge.<br />
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Now this was a pleasant surprise, a painting by Henri Fantin-Latour...ya, I don't know him either. It's called Coin De Table but I DO know a couple characters at the bottom left corner.<br />
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<span class="italiquenoir">"By the Table" </span>is a group portrait as
much as a testimony to the literary history of the 19th century, and the
Parnassus poetry group in particular. A group of men are gathered
around the far end of a table after a meal. Three are standing, from
left to right: Elzéar Bonnier, Emile Blémont and Jean Aicard. Five are
seated: Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, Léon Valade, Ernest d'Hervilly
and Camille Pelletan. They are all dressed in black except one, Camille
Pelletan, who is not a poet like the others but a politician. The
central place is occupied by Emile Blémont, who bought the painting and
gave it to the Louvre in 1910.<br />
At least two figures are missing:
Charles Baudelaire, to whom the painting was initially to have been a
tribute, who died in 1867 and Albert Mérat who did not want to be
painted in the company of the diabolic poets Verlaine and Rimbaud and
was reputedly replaced by a bunch of flowers. <br />
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Henri made a career out of taking selfies before the subject could be in the photo. He left us with a few pieces of historical significance.<br />
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A Studio at Les Batignolles, <i>Un atelier aux Batignolles</i>, parody, "Worshipping Manet", 1870<br />
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From left to right, we can recognise Otto Schölderer, a German painter
who had come to France to get to know Courbet's followers, a sharp-faced
Manet, sitting at his easel; Auguste Renoir, wearing a hat; Zacharie
Astruc, a sculptor and journalist; Emile Zola, the spokesman of the new
style of painting; Edmond Maître, a civil servant at the Town Hall;
Frédéric Bazille, who was killed a few months later during the 1870 war,
at the age of twenty-six; and lastly, Claude Monet. There's our buddy at the far right, looking a little out of sorts.<br />
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Here's what Cezanne had for lunch. <br />
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A statue by Rodin. We missed his museum, though we did pull up out front in the pouring rain...decided to pass on The Thinker. I'd heard the famous statue was in the courtyard of the museum. I thought that meant open to the public...but c'mon. They might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.<br />
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More perspective. Looking through the clock towards the Louvre.<br />
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Where Did Vincent Van Gough? We haven't seen much of this guy but if you have to see just one...<br />
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And a non-self portrait by Vincent.<br />
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The interior main hall littered with artifacts and people...but a moderate crowd.<br />
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Stained glass.<br />
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And the mother of us all. Isis.<br />
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Next up; The Louvre, Arc De Triomphe and the Saddest Spot in Paris. Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-76426655276327584342015-09-23T06:42:00.001-04:002015-09-23T06:42:12.082-04:00Eurpean Tour 2015Paris Part 2The Pletzl, more of The Marais and the Left BankWhere We Cover A Lot of GroundDay 2 in the afternoon starts in the Pletzl, on the Rue Des Rosiers, the last foothold of the traditional Jewish community in the heart of the Marais.<br />
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It is jam packed.<br />
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Every food outlet has a line-up. Sunday may not have been the best day to visit a community that is mostly closed on Saturday.<br />
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Paris pays respect to it's Jewish community all over the city.<br />
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They have public declarations about the complicity of Vichy France in the deportation of Jews. Plaques above schools.<br />
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Memorials in the city, like the Memorial of the Shoah, protected by the local gendarme.<br />
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The main Memorial to the Deportations adjacent to Notre Dame Cathedral.<br />
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Unfortunately, France, much like most of Europe, has had a deplorable record when it comes to the treatment of it's indigenous Jewish community, throughout its history.<br />
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Many Kings restocked the Royal Treasury at the expense of Jewish lives and fortune.<br />
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The memorials, while sobering, are at least a public testament to the desire to never forget.<br />
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Close to our apartment is the Jardin De Anne Frank.<br />
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A public park, used primarily by children, close to the Musee De La Poupee (Doll Museum), it is a tranquil place to reflect.<br />
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And, if you don't get out of control, you can quaffe a bottle of wine (or two) to the amusement of the locals. It seems like a civil way to pay respects.<br />
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Leaving the Pletzl we come across a small piece of the 12th c Phillip Auguste wall that marked the exterior fortification of Paris. It's adjacent to the St Paul and St Louis church.<br />
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Most of the artwork in this museum (and many others) was donated by the families of the artists...in lieu of inheritance tax.<br />
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This exterior wall has stood since 286 AD...I chisled a small piece off to take home.</div>
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Just next door stands the modern, almost condo-like Musee de Cluny.</div>
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It hosts tapestries but is fully inaccessible. They are working on it. Very ornate decorations on the towers.</div>
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It comes with some amenities...a Sun clock for one. So you're not late for the millenial change.</div>
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A long walk, up a long hill, gives us a chance to dodge the students outside the Sorbonne. This school, and others that followed, gave this area it's name, the Latin Quarter...the language of scholars in the day.</div>
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Speaking of scholars, at the top of the hill, we come upon the Pantheon, where France buries it's great men...and one or two women.</div>
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Our buddy Victor Hugo is here. Millions attended his funeral as he was brought through the Arc down the Champs. Marie Curie and her husband. Louie Braille. And a long list of forgotten heroes.</div>
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On your left, one of the greatest minds ever, Voltaire.</div>
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As we are leaving the area we come across the elusive Saint-Michel fountain where our day was supposed to start.</div>
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Here's a close up of the spurting lion, gargoyle thing.</div>
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And another shaky video taking a spin in the Jardin De Luxembourg.</div>
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-58273068755360593892015-09-20T11:56:00.000-04:002015-09-20T11:56:22.997-04:00European Tour 2015Part 1: Paris Where We Get Our Bearings<br />
I've struggled with selecting a format for this photo essay.<br />
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It could be done chronologically but that may become pedantic when you are spending your 12th hour with us trying to figure out which road to take out of the etoile we're standing in. Or why our upside down map and incomplete instructions aren't working.<br />
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A thematic format might be nice except you may get bored with 87 pictures of water lillies. Other items may not fit into an easy category like 'history' or 'places' or 'people'.<br />
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So I'll try to combine them both, going through the trip by days but stopping to add some detail where a subject matter was visited more than once. I'll probably throw in a totally unrelated, non-sequitor type reference as well, just because we came upon it.<br />
This will probably take 4 or 5 installments. Maybe more.<br />
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Whenever Cece and I plan these trips we list 137 things to do. We never get them all done, for reasons that will become apparent, from weather or timing or the spiteful will of whatever gods rule Charleville-Mezieres. But when we get 83 of them done...we count that as a success!<br />
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Flight out is an hour + late leaving and arriving...so we miss our limo pickup. We don't miss paying for it, that was done in advance. Thank you Air Canada.<br />
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An easy cab ride into the city, our 2 bedroom apartment in The Marais 3eme is ready and we are killing time acclimatizing ourselves to the local neighbourhood.<br />
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We're in Paris, the source of modern-day liberty, what better place to start than at Place De La Republique and the statue of Marianne.<br />
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The Statue of the Republique, depicting historical scenes on the relief panels that circle the base of the bronze lady, has stood since 14 July 1883. This one depicts the storming of the Bastille.<br />
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The square was the location of the Charlie Hebdo Shooting vigils last January. Still striving for liberty.<br />
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Leaving the square we pass the Tour De Temple, last home of King Louis XVI before he was beheaded on the 21st of January 1793, the day the world changed.<br />
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On a lighter note we also spent some time walking along the Canal Saint Martin, watching the locks in operation.<br />
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If you ever get the chance to wander the streets of Paris with nothing on your mind but walking, keep a look out for these types of non-descript openings that seem to lead to an alley.<br />
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It could open up to a covered market.<br />
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The day ends after we've stayed up enough hours to get on Paris time. But not without a quick stop by 30 Rue De Saintonge, where Maximilien de Robespierre, one nasty guy as it turns out, was living at the start of the French Revolution. Up on the third floor, on the right, I'm told. <br />
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How can you not love Paris? Look what we found just killing time in our neighbourhood.<br />
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Day 2 starts with a plan...to go off the beaten path in search of a well-hidden Rose Garden.<br />
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We are still in our local area.<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> The Marais is one
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and once was one, went from being a royal favorite under Henri IV and Louis
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<![endif]-->We are here out of season, the spring must be lovely, but the bloom is still on.</div>
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And the bloom is certainly still on this group. Cece and I accompanied by Cece's sister Theresa and her husband Paul.</div>
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I never promised her a rose garden but stuff happens.</div>
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The center piece of this morning's walk is the Places Des Vosges. Henry IV opened this square in 1612. Held a big party to celebrate the marriage of his son, Louis XIII to Anne of Austria.<br />
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The original bronze statue of Louis the XIII commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu was melted down during the Revolution. This one took its place in 1825 and has survived a few uprisings since</div>
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Besides its historical significance, Place Des Vosges is an architectural marvel. Here is your entry to the park via a portal under one of the red brick mansions that circle the square, if that's possible.</div>
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Inside the statue of Louis XIII sits in the center. Each corner has a fountain. The red brick mansions are the frame.</div>
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And at one corner, at Number 6, the home of national hero, author Victor Hugo.</div>
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Here's a relief of the plaque.</div>
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Now before we go in I want to take a moment to talk about accessibility in Paris and elsewhere. This museum is accessible to people in wheelchairs. Our party of 4 was permitted entrance free of charge. There are no building built in 1612 in Toronto but there are many buildings in Toronto we cannot access. France has a plan. This building has been modified to include a small lift in a portion of the house not accessed by the general public. </div>
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Entrance to every museum is free of charge for the person in a wheelchair and their companion. Their complete party is granted 'front of line' access to most, if not all, museums...we didn't get to everyone but due to this benefit we did get to more than I'd expected to visit. The only exception was the Dali museum. That's not bad.</div>
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Here are some shots from inside Victor Hugo's home.</div>
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This seems to be a good place to cut off the first part. Next up, The Pletzl and more.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">...and a couple other places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was in the spring of 2002, during out first visit to Europe, while driving from Bad Windsheim, Germany to Strasbourg, France, Cece and I took the first of what would be many road detours. Tiring of the pace of the autobahn we exited towards Baden-Baden and found ourselves on the <a href="http://www.ultimatedrives.net/top-10-roads/details.php?route_ID=20007" target="_blank">Schwarzwald Hochstrasse</a>, Route 500, a breath-taking road that winds straight up into the mountains. What a stroke of luck. Only thing missing was the time to enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On that same trip, returning north towards yet another Bob Dylan concert, we drove along the outskirts of Luxembourg, tempted at every bridge to cross the river into a new country. Only thing missing was the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On two different trips to Paris we failed to find a way into Versailles, the Palace where the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime" target="_blank">'ancien regime'</a> , their power solidified by victories in the Crusades, wallowed in its excesses and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles" target="_blank">leaders of the free world</a> , in 1919, set us on a path that has lead to our current world-wide crisis...Muslims vs Christians, same as it ever was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are here to right those wrongs. Not the Muslims vs. Christians thing, that will take another few hundred years. We're going to properly visit these areas...and a couple other places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and we're gonna see some dead people. Not just the big three cemetaries; Montparnasse, Montmartre and Pere Lachaise but some smaller ones like St. Vincent, Picpic, not to mention the Pantheon and Charlesville-Meziers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the index to our itinerary. If we get 80% of this done it will have been a joyously successful trip.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Table of Contents </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 1
:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday Sept 5, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 3-5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Arrive, check car
rental, local neighbourhood walk, Place de la Republique, Canal Saint-Martin</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day
2:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday Sept 6, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 6-9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk # 5 Knights
and Mansions, Musee Carnavalet(A) and Picasso Museum(A) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #7 Backstreets of
the Bastille</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day
3:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday Sept 7, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 10-13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #20 From
Romans to the Revolution </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #21 Down and
Out in Paris, The Pantheon(N)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #19 Following
the Rose Line, Shakespeare & Co Books</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day
4:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday Sept 8, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 14-17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sienne lunch
cruise</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wine tasting in
Latin Quarter</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk 9 The
Romantic Island (Ile St-louis)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day
5:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wednesday Sept 9, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Page 18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Versailles and
Giverny Tour</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Go to the Louvre.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 6:
Thursday Sept 10, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 19-23</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Louvre(A)?, Jardin
Tulieres, Place De la Concorde Champs, Arc(Semi-A), L’Orangerie(A), Saddest Place in Paris</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk 1 Ile de la
Citie, Conciergerie(N), Saint Chapelle(A </span><span lang="EN-US">Reservation
required)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, Notre Dame(S-A)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 7:
Friday Sept 11, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 24-27</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Montmartre free
form, Sacre Coeur , Espace Dali,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Centre Pompidou(A </span><span lang="EN-US">via the corner of rue Saint Merri)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Any walk we may
have missed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 8:
Saturday Sept 12, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Page 28-31</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #24 Painters’
Paris</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Montparnasse
Museum(??), Tower(N) and Cemetery(A), Musee D’Orsay(A)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 9:
Sunday Sept 13, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pages 32-37</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walk #8 Home of
the Famous Dead (Pere Lachaise)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Belleville</span></div>
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10:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Monday Sept 14, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Pages 38</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Paris to Horben
Germany</span></div>
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11:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tuesday Sept 15, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Pages 39-42</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Black Forest Part
1 Feldberg (highest peak), Triberg (Cuckoo clocks), Freiberg</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Day 12:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wednesday Sept 16, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Pages 43-44</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Black Forest Part
2 Baden-Baden</span></div>
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13:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thursday Sept 17, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Page 45-46</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Strasbourg France,
(Palais Rohan, Notre-Dame #7), Luxembourg</span></div>
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14:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Friday Sept 18, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Page 47-49</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Charlesville-Meziers,
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15:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saturday Sept 19, 2015<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Page 49</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-37656505758529773942015-06-07T17:05:00.004-04:002015-06-08T09:46:59.707-04:00Toronto Walking Tour #5 The Danforth<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">An historical walking tour of The Danforth is like an episode of The Lost Mansions. A handful of estate homes still dot the side streets around a vibrant commercial strip filled with great eateries and upscale shopping opportunities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The rest is pictures of where </span>things used to be.<br />
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We start our walk at Withrow Park.<br />
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Lots of activity in the park. Ball hockey at the rink, a soccer game on the pitch and this view of the Toronto skyline.<br />
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At the north end of the park we find the colourful public restrooms.<br />
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Leaving the park on the Logan Ave side we come across this Oak planted in memory of Jack Layton. </div>
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The first of our dirty mansions is found at 69 Hogarth Ave., the Owen Staples House.<br />
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Looks like a 16th c British home, would sit well on a lot beside Shakespeare's home. Toronto's own Renaissance Man painted, composed and researched in the first floor studios.<br />
A few doors away, looking a little worse for wear, the Hogarth house at #58. School principals did pretty well for themselves in the 1870's.<br />
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Somebody needs to take a weed wacker to this lot.<br />
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Hogarth leads us to Broadview Ave and another scenic view of the Toronto skyline. Used to watch fireworks in the spring and toboggan down the steep slopes in the winter. Don't think they do either of those things anymore.<br />
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Walking north towards The Danforth we come across 3 historic mansions.<br />
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At 646 Broadview Ave is the Harris House. James Harris was a butcher. His abattoir eventually became part of Canada Packers. Ka-ching!<br />
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Next door at 648 the Robert Powell House. He sold liquor and cigars. Today he'd be lucky to make $11.00 per hour. Back then it translated well.<br />
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Toronto's first black alderman, the son of freed Virginian slaves, lived at 660 Broadview Ave in the Hubbard House.<br />
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My favourite still standing structure is found at 55 Danforth Ave. Now hosting a French immersion program it used to be the public lavatories.<br />
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The plaque dedicating the viaduct to Prince Edward (later the guy who gave up the crown for a woman) needs to be shown a little more respect.<br />
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Looking west along the viaduct.<br />
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On the corners of Broadview and Danforth a couple formidable buildings. On the North-East corner, the medical building.<br />
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On the South-East corner the Playter Society Building. Commercial stores, bingo parlours and a dance hall kept this place busy when Loyalists weren't plotting how to get rid of the pesky peoples of Lower Canada.<br />
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A short jog north of the Danforth to 6 Hurndale Ave. Cece and I lived here in 1980, on the second floor. On the third floor lived the daughter of the homeowner who was dating Tom Cochrane of Red Ryder at the time. That's about all the name-dropping I have for this tour.<br />
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The best thing about this place was it was a mere 150 paces from The Danforth Music Hall where we saw the likes of Marianne Faithful, Rockpile, Iggy Pop and George Thorogood...to name a few. More recently we've been back to see Billy Bragg, Joan Armatradingand The Waterboys.<br />
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The historic Allen's Danforth Theater was built here in 1919. The upper facade has not changed. 'Course the upper facade is about all you can see with tonight's band unloading.<br />
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Another home of a founding family, the Player Farmhouse, is being well maintained.<br />
"The segmented arch at each window features alternate red and white brickwork. An arrow pattern white brick band circles the middle of the house and the sills of the second floor windows. The series of arrowheads meet at the central opening to the second floor veranda above the main entrance."<br />
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Looking west on Danforth.<br />
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A picture of the Danforth Baptist Church at 60 Bowden Ave. from the back.<br />
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The gates leading onto Fairview Blvd. I always thought these were strange. Gated communities are all the rage now.<br />
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Looking east on the Danforth.<br />
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The northeast corner of Logan and Danforth where the Greek community comes to remember better times.<br />
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And another homage to Alexander.<br />
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The southeast corner of Carlaw and Danforth where Sunkist Market once stood. The Badali family had the grocery business cornered in Toronto. We had one on Gerrard St. This store was the first 24 hour market in Toronto...it was easier to stay open than to bring the outside fruit displays in every night. <br />
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The magnificent Holy Name Catholic Church.<br />
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Behind this abomination that is a health club, once resided the Danforth Odeon. In the fall of 1978 it was called The Rex. That's where I saw The Clash for the first time. Before London Calling came out.<br />
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Across the street this half-shot of where The Palace Theater once stood. You can see the original facade at the top left.<br />
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The northwest corner of Pape and Danforth, the RBC building.<br />
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We walk through what used to be the Lipton Loop before they built Pape subway in 1966<br />
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To come across Cece's childhood home at 10 Eaton Ave.<br />
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Heading south on Pape Ave another building that looks like it would be at home in Stratford Upon Avon, the Pape Library.<br />
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We duck along Cavell ave for a shot of the Earl Grey Public School school yard.<br />
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Last mansion on the tour, The Bain House, which can be found at 14 Dingwall Ave. I don't know why it's not on Bain Ave. Don't even get me started about who's statue is in Trafalgar Square.<br />
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We end out walk back at the east side of Withrow Park where we find a lovely Mustang.<br />
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Next weekend: small town Ontario and more Loyalists. Kemptville, Merrickville, Smiths Falls and Perth.<br />
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Still to come: Cabbagetown including Riverdale Farm, Historic York, The Beaches, bar-hopping on Queen St West and more.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-81667687898178506562015-05-24T15:43:00.000-04:002015-05-24T15:43:19.319-04:00Toronto Walking Tour #4Leslieville and My Boyhood NeighbourhoodMay 23,2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today's walk is part "playing tourist in my home town" and part self-indulgent trip into the past.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leslieville has been gentrified. So much so that they named it Leslieville. When I was growing up, (as pointed out by my sister-in-law) it was simply The East End.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Back then it housed lower middle class and working class people with the odd well-to-do remnants of founding families thrown in for good measure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today it's got an army of well-scrubbed professionals toting about their 1.3 children on bikes that cost more than my first car. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A little bit of everything that ever was still remains...it just costs more. Now we have high-end burger joints, quaint cozy cafe's, art galleries and wall murals.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> This building on the northeast corner of Jones and Queen was George Leslie's farmhouse.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You know it's going to be a good day when you look into the window of a record store (a RECORD STORE for goodness sake, do people even know what records are anymore?) and see the visage of and artist you've captured in concert over a 150 times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No, not The Beatles, the other guy.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's the legendary Duke Tavern. Cece and I will be back here this evening to see Paul James rock the house. (ed note. He played 3 Dylan songs. The circle is unbroken.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The touristy part of our day starts at Memory Lane where the trunk of the tree that inspired the poem, The Maple Leaf Forever, stands outside the Maple Cottage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">The Maple Leaf Cottage,
62 Laing St. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;">The Silver Maple tree here was associated with “The Maple Leaf
Forever,” a song written in 1867. The tree fell in a summer storm in 2013. The
song was the unofficial national anthem for several generations of Anglo-Canadians.
One version of the legend has it that Alexander Muir was walking with George
Leslie when a maple leaf floated down and landed on his sleeve – inspiring the
song. There is an historical plaque here.</span></span></span></div>
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Moving north along Leslie St we come across this sign of how much the neighbourhood has changed since I last walked these streets.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We didn't need no stinking books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">St.Joseph's Church. I used to go inside these buildings, not so much anymore unless they were built in the 1200's.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, 162 Leslie
St. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333;">Most labourers here were
Irish Catholics who came to Canada to escape the Irish Potato Famine. They
toiled for low wages in the market gardens and brickyards. To make ends meet,
they also worked cutting ice and fishing. St. Joseph’s, a combined mission
church and school, opened here in 1863. It wasn’t until 1888 that a
separate building for St. Joseph’s Church opened. . There is an
historical plaque here.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;"></span>I attended St Joseph's School for Grade 1 and 2. The first day of Grade 3 they marched those of us who lived north of Gerrard up Jones Ave to St William's. This school yard always smelled of banana sandwiches. That's my memory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A little further north we find the patrons of Leslieville Public School inviting you back next weekend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'd say Leslieville Fun is more than Fair.</span></span></div>
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Public School, 254 Leslie St. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">The log cabin school that stood here opened in 1864.
The first principal was Alexander Muir who composed “The Maple Leaf Forever”,
but who was also well-loved as an innovative teacher who taught with love and
did not strap or beat children. A new brick school was erected in
Leslieville in 1874.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And now we light upon the incredibly changed facade of Riverdale Collegiate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They won some kind of school board lottery and expanded their footprint to double it's original size. A massive pool and no more lawn greens facing Gerrard for the student to lounge on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Win some, lose some.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was open and I gravitated to that place I found myself so often.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello Mr Romney, I was sent here because....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what's a high school visit without a row of lockers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's a view of the north west corner of Gerrard and Jones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Starbucks eh?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now on to the corner of Gerrard and Marjory where, at 1020 Gerrard stood Paul's Barbershop and my boyhood home. The property to the right was Harry's Hardware and the Sushi place was Collegiate Lunch, or Marco's. Cece and I met at Marco's a month before our last year in high school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(This part is for members of my family that might see this.) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the record I don't like what they've done with the back of my boyhood home. It used to have a back yard and a fence. Now it looks like parts of rural Mississippi I've visited. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The inside looks nice, if changed. The lady here is standing in the back part that used to be my room before they took the wall down. Notice the stairs at the back that lead up and the open door to the basement.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moving on. Across the street is the old Bonita Theatre where I spent many a Saturday watching Abbott and Costello movies for 25cents. It's back in business doing some Simpson's thing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Going east on Gerrard we pass the school again and head north on Leslie to Harriet Hill.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I don't know if you can discern the grade of this hill...it's steep. Used to strike fear into the heart of every 12 year old who rode their bike down this incline.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And how did we get to Monarch Park to watch our football team. Through the underpass at the top of Woodfield Rd.</span></span><br />
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Underpass (Woodfield Rd & railway) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">From 1907 neighbours called for an underpass
under the railway. Children were endangered crossing the tracks to go to
school. Pedestrian traffic grew with the creation of Monarch Park across the
tracks. The Roden Ratepayer’s Association demanded action. In 1924 this tunnel
was built in the ravine of Ashbridge’s Creek’s west branch. The City put the
Creek underground in a large sewer pipe.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Here's the other side of the underpass.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">And looking into Monarch Park.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next stop is outside Roden School, originally built in 1907, now a cement and glass monstrosity that was the '60's architecture. They do have this funky mural of a neighbourhood map.</span></span></div>
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Hiawatha <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Roden School </span></b>In 1909 the City of Toronto annexed
Midway, the area south of the Danforth between Greenwood Ave & the Beach.
In the boom that followed developers rapidly subdivided the area. It became a
working class suburb, a Little Britain. The City built schools: the Roden
School (1907), Duke of Connaught School (1909), Bruce Junior School (1923),
& Riverdale Collegiate (1907). The Roden School was originally the Ashdale
School. It was renamed after long-time school trustee & shoemaker Ephraim
Roden.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Turning up Greenwood we come across another artifact of an early founding family</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; line-height: 107%; padding: 0cm;">Wagstaff
Brickworks(Wagstaff Rd) </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Albert Wagstaff was a city alderman and important brick manufacturer.
Around 1910 his brickyard here made about 3 million bricks a year. In 1912 one
of his Martin brick machines could turn out 85,000 brick a day. Wagstaff built
the Vera Apts, named after his only daughter. The corners are decorated with
over-baked, vitrified brick or “clinkers”. The building faces his brick plant
on Wagstaff Ave., the only brick plant remaining in Leslieville. The
Wagstaff home itself is buried behind factory additions, but can be seen from
the Vera’s front steps. On his death he left his clay pit to his gambling &
drinking buddy, Albert Harper, who turned it into Toronto’s biggest garbage
dump. In 1956 it became the Greenwood Subway Yard.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now we are in the area of one of the most peculiar streets in Toronto, Craven Rd. Notice the fencing along the west side of the street as we're looking north.</span></span></div>
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Not to mention that ominous note from JP Sartre.</div>
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Road </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">From
1900-1914 British immigrants poured in, drawn by cheap housing & jobs.
A “Shacktown” grew here just outside City limits where taxes were low; services
non-existent, regulations few. Edmund Henry Duggan bought land next door to the
Ashbridge estate. He was involved with the Toronto House Building
Association which made a profit selling land to low-income families. Duggan’s
holdings were laid out in very small lots on a narrow lane called Erie Terrace.
There were no sewers; no garbage collection; no police or fire protection. The
east side was packed with tiny houses. The west side wasn’t developed until
after 1909 when it became part of the City of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Toronto.Erie</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Terrace’s shacks were owner-built
& lacked plumbing & toilets. A 1907 advertisement captures the essence
of the street: <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">$10 A FOOT—Erie Terrace, 100 feet north of
Gerrard street cars, no money down, lumber supplied to build. David, 75
Adelaide east.</span></i>Ashdale Ave was developed for more affluent homeowners
who wanted nothing to do with Erie Terrace and cut a deal with the City. The
City took part of their backyards to widen Erie Terrace (renamed Craven Rd)
& Ashdale homeowners got a fence along the west side of Craven Rd to keep
their poorer neighbours out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">South along Coxwell we come across the remains of the Shamrock Tavern, now a fitness club and bowling alley.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Like we said at the beginning, nothing is forever.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">As we near the end of our walk we still come across a few landmarks.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">The Toronto Gospel Lighthouse at 17 Rhodes Ave </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the lot for the<b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; line-height: 107%; padding: 0cm;"> Lost Church, 1402 Queen St
E. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">The remnants of a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel,
built in 1859, are hidden here behind a 1920’s factory facade. The
church measured 40×30 feet and seated 250. From about 1830 until the building
of the chapel, the local Methodists held services in each others’ homes,
especially the Ashbridge home. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And a close up of the referenced windows.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; line-height: 107%; padding: 0cm;">Ashbridge
House, 1444 Queen St. E. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Archaeologists dug here and found artifacts and
ash pits dating to the Woodland period of First Nations history. The first
Europeans to live here were Pennsylvania Quaker Sarah Ashbridge and her
family. They arrived in Upper Canada in 1793 and built log cabins here a
year later. They farmed the land for over a century . In 1854 Jesse
Ashbridge built this house, designed by Joseph Sheard. The house was renovated
and modernized by his widow Elizabeth in 1899. The foundation of the
original log cabin became a rose garden. The ravine of Ashbridge’s Creek is
still visible in the garden. There is an historical plaque here.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">Thomas Beatty, 6 – 8
Cherry Nook Gardens </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333;">This was originally the farm
of Mary Ashbridge and her husband, Parker Mill. After they died, the
property passed to Capt. Brent Neville, except for a small area near Queen
St. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thomas Beatty bought it
and built the house of bricks he made himself. This house
originally stood at the north end of a farm lane running south down the
“Kingston trail”. Beatty, a Loyalist descendant from New Brunswick,
arrived in Toronto in 1840. He was the Ashbridge’s farm manager until 1850 when
he became a hotelkeeper. In 1859 he donated the land for the Methodist
Chapel. In 1865 he married Ella Winnett and in 1868 he “retired” and
became a jack-of-all-trades. Sadly, in 1877 two of the Beatty children
died in this house during a diphtheria epidemic that killed many children
here.</span></span></span></div>
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We missed the Coxwell Stables because we had meandered a little farther south and didn't want to go back uphill. That's for another day. On our way out we took the time to stop by Cece's (and my daughter's) first grade school.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just to even out the memory making. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Next up The Danforth and where Cece grew up.</span></span><br />
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-65989560298068350102015-05-17T10:03:00.003-04:002015-05-17T10:03:32.420-04:00Toronto Walking Tour #3 Casa Loma and Wychwood Village May 16, 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today we're in Wychwood Village, northwest of Dupont and Davenport. We find a parking spot equidistance between our starting and ending points on a quiet street off Roycroft Park on Boulton Drive. To no avail, as we will see.<br />
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Before we even get into our trip we get lost in the circular, diagonal street patters in this area and come out a little distance away from our target.<br />
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That's OK, we get to see the company my son decided to leave a couple years ago and pursue his own way.<br />
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Good choice.<br />
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Walking west along Dupont towards Spadina we come across this cozy nook filled with thinkers and drinkers. This small slice of bohemia is called Dupont by the Castle.<br />
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No sign of T.S. Eliot. We're on Dupont, not Desolation.<br />
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This might be the Captain's Tower. (ed note: google T.S. Eliot and captain's tower) <br />
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We'll climb that hill no matter how steep. When we get up to it.<br />
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But first stop is at 255 Spadina Rd where we find the closed building of the Toronto Archives. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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events and themes in the city's past. The collection has more than 1 million
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Continue north on Spadina Rd until it ends and meet the inaccessible Baldwin Steps. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This part
of Spadina Road ends at the base of a zigzagging flight of stairs that ascends
the pre-Ice Age shoreline of the ancient Lake Iroquois. A public right-of-way
that dates from the 1800s, The Baldwin Steps are a rare example in the city of
a thigh-burning incline. The panoramic views of downtown and Lake Ontario are
worth the effort. The steps are named after Robert Baldwin, a former premier of
Ontario who owned land in this well-to-do neighborhood.</span></span></div>
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Undeterred we continue west along Davenport and north along Walmer Rd. This is a steep climb that follows the outer wall of the castle. Took a couple rest stops along the way.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Sir Henry
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palaces and then gathered materials and furnishings from around the world,
bringing marble, glass, and paneling from Europe; teak from Asia; and oak and
walnut from North America. He then imported Scottish stonemasons to build the
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We are back at the top of the Baldwin Steps looking over a hazy shot of the CN Tower.<br />
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Just outside the castle you'll find<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> the
historic home of financier James Austin. It was occupied by the family for more
than 100 years, from 1866 until 1980, when it became a city-run museum. In
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It's really best to take a day off work and do this walk during the week. The Archives and Museum will be open, Castle Loma won't be so busy with busloads of people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">From here you could make your way out to St Clair Ave and do the remainder of the walk in the opposite order. This would save you one trip up the shoreline. But we don't. We head back down the steep incline of Walmer Ave, turn right at Davenport to Bathurst where you come across The Tollkeeper's Cottage. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
little home, built in 1835, is where hapless toll keepers tried to extract
pennies from passing horse-drawn traffic along Davenport Road until tolls were
abolished in 1890. It's also a rare example of vertical (rather than
horizontal) wood planking. The simple living conditions in the two-bedroom home
attest to the terms of the office: Any uncollected tariffs were deducted from
their pay. A small interpretive center, where costumed docents regale visitors
with stories of life in Muddy York, is connected to the house.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In this slightly better shot you can see the vertical planking on the actual cottage to the left.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> I was remiss in not getting a clearer shot of the actual cottage. Oh well, that's for another day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We then miss the entrance to Wychwood Park which would have been a highlight, or so the guide says.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-size: small;">Don't let
the "private" sign deter you: Step through the stone gate to enter
another world tucked into the heart of the city. The fortunate residents of
this secret enclave like to keep the wooded setting to themselves; another sign
just inside the gate -- "Danger Deep Water Quicksand" -- is merely a
ruse to deter visitors. Immediately ahead is a pond (often featuring the
resident swan) and a fork in the road. The route to the left is a little
shorter, but both are pleasant, taking you past many English-style
Arts-and-Crafts homes designed by Toronto architect Eden Smith. Marmaduke
Matthews envisioned an artist colony when he built the first home here in 1874,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-size: small;">I wasn't reading carefully enough and I did let the PRIVATE sign deter me. Oh well, that's for another day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our detour along Davenport and north on Christie did allow us to come across this wall mural with a Jane Jacob quote.</span></span></div>
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to imagine, as you come out at the top of these winding, tree-lined roads, that
a TTC streetcar repair barn operated here until the 1990s. Now, it's one of the
city's most successful transformations of industry into arts space. Artscape
Wychwood Barns opened in 2009; attractions include studios for the 2 dozen
artists-in-residence, ongoing exhibits of new work, and archival images of the
old Barns. The Stop Food Community Centre, a leading activist organization that
fights poverty and pushes political agendas on the food front, runs the food
side of the space with a bake oven, greenhouse, community kitchen, and
classroom on-site. There are lots of events to check out, from movies to fab
dinners/fundraisers. (www.thestop.org). A bustling Saturday farmers market is
complete with picnic-like prepared foods, such as butternut squash empanadas
and some of the best fish tacos anywhere. If the weather cooperates, sit
outside with a bite to eat and watch the parade of dogs, kids, farmers, and
shoppers. Kick back: You've earned it."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Following Christie St north to St Clair Ave West you light into the center of Hillcrest Village where you can find anything you need to soothe your soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A little side trip up Bathurst to visit my Grade 9 high school. St Michael's.</span></span></div>
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-8446837035197628892015-05-16T08:30:00.001-04:002015-05-17T10:06:38.907-04:00Toronto Walking Tour #2 High Park and Roncesvalles Village May 9,2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today's walk starts at High Park. This city gem has a wonderful history and I'll get into that in more detail when we revisit the park in August.<br />
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We're here to get a glimpse of the cherry blossoms in full bloom. This is our Second Annual Blossom Roll. We made it here last year on the back end of Wednesday appointment at Toronto Western.<br />
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Entered the park at the south end, hoping to park at Colborne Lodge. No such luck as the place is jam packed with cars. We circle about, head east on Queen, north on Saurenen and back west on Fern where we find a single wheelchair street parking spot only minutes from the High Park Blvd entrance.<br />
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They are a glorious, if fleeting, sight.<br />
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The park is bustling with activity as the ball field is hosting an International Little League Tournament. We were treated to a police band marshaling in the younguns'.<br />
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Up a steep, steep hill towards Bloor St.<br />
Cece thinks she smells someone doing a controlled burn in the woods.<br />
I tell her it's my thighs.<br />
This is why we're out here. I need to get in shape.<br />
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West along Bloor for a few blocks and right at Dundas West where we find the iconic Hugh's Room venue. Cece and I have spent many a dollar and a good night here; Steve Forbert was terrific. Two nights of Maria Muldaur, not a camel in sight. Two nights with Leonard Cohen's girlfriend Anjani, no Leonard though. Saw Mike Ford (formerly of Moxy Fruvous before that bands name was forever smeared by the Q guy) and most recently, Sean Cotton's Last Waltz Revue.<br />
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It didn't occur to us at those times that the place was not accessible...because we were.<br />
Looked around the side, around the back...no way in.<br />
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Not even a lift inside that side door. I called the venue later in the day and whoever was on the phone simply said they didn't have the budget. No budget?!? Have you ever dropped $300 on dinner, drinks and a show there? It's easy to do.<br />
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They are put to shame by a non-profit organization called <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://stopgapblog.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Stop Gap</a> </b></span>This organization is trying to make all of Toronto accessible. Check out their blog.<br />
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Enough advocacy for today. Let's check out The Roncy.<br />
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Roncesvalles is known for its European ambiance and small-town feel.This
neighbourhood is popular with young families who appreciate the
convenience of the location just west of downtown.The close proximity to
High Park, Toronto waterfront bicycle and walking trails, easy access
to public transit, and the Roncesvalles shops and restaurants are also good reasons to live here.<br />
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Authentic Polish butchers, bakeries and restaurants thrive among a
destination-worthy set of boutiques and indie coffee
houses. Mix in popular pubs like <a href="http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/local">The Local</a>, second-run flicks at the <a href="http://revuecinema.ca/" target="_blank">Revue Cinema</a> and late night burgers and drinks at <a href="http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/rude-boy-toronto">The Rude Boy</a> and you've got yourself a neighbourhood that's no longer one of Toronto's best kept secrets.<br />
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(ed. note: I'm stealin' stuff from the interweb to describe the neighbourhood. Check out <a href="http://www.blogto.com/roncesvalles" target="_blank">THIS BLOG)</a><br />
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Continuing south-east on Dundas West you see the expanse of Roncesvalles in front of you.<br />
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Love the external fire escape on the Belo Fashions building. Don't see much of those in Toronto, it's more a Montreal thing.<br />
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Here's the view from north of Howard Park Ave. We'll talk more about Mr. Howard on the next trip.<br />
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And a local watering hole and theater.<br />
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There are a plethora of eclectic shops.<br />
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And some hints of what the village looked like in the '60's...though they are disappearing fast.<br />
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You can sit and soak up the colours.<br />
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A little respite from the bustling streets.<br />
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Reaching the south end of Roncesvalles you could cross the street and spend some time at Sunnyside Park. That's for another day. We head east where we come across a community celebration. </div>
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More shops of every nature to be found along this strip of Parkdale West.<br />
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We end our walk at the late-night club, Not My Dog.<br />
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We'll do the other side of Parkdale as a pub crawl in July.<br />
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Happy trails.Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-61409406638155423292015-05-10T10:37:00.003-04:002015-05-17T10:07:21.166-04:00Toronto Walking Tour #1 Chinatown and Kensington Market May 2nd, 2015<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This walk
takes you through the oldest of Toronto's existing Chinatowns (the city's
original Chinatown was on York St., between King and Queen sts., but skyscrapers
replaced it long ago). Although at least four Chinatowns exist today, and most
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renovated -- by local boy Frank Gehry, who grew up around the corner -- and now
blessed with the brilliant Thomson Collection, the AGO is arguably Toronto's
best gallery. Visit for the stellar collection of paintings by Canadian legends
and European masters, the best collection of Henry Moore sculpture in the
world, the photography gallery, and much more. A recent gift from local
collector and philanthropist Dr. Ydessa Hendeles added 32 Canadian and
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't visit if you're wheelchair bound unless there's nothing on anyone would want to see. While the building is accessible, the crowds are not. We almost saw the Bowie exhibit here but couldn't get into any of the small rooms due to overcrowding and people's general ability to not see someone in a wheelchair. We've recommended they have "accessible only" times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kensington
has changed dramatically over the years. Originally a Jewish community, it then
became home to Portuguese and other European immigrants, and then changed again
as the bordering Chinatown expanded at the same time shopkeepers from the
Caribbean, the Middle East, and elsewhere arrived. There are several Asian
herbalists and grocers, as well as West Indian and Middle Eastern shops.
Kensington Avenue has the greatest concentration of vintage clothing stores in
the city as well as some good grub and excellent cafes for refueling.</span></span></div>
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From here you don't need any directions. Head west along Baldwin St., south along Kensington, west on Dundas, north on Augusta...and continue. More shops than you can shake a stick at; clothes, food, and whatnot. Don't miss out on the buskers.<br />
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Now you should be very close to Bellevue Park where you will find a bronze statue of the King of Kensington, Al Waxman. For you youngsters out there, he was Toronto's Ambassador before Drake went to Degrassi High.<br />
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A gentleman at the park directed me to the Star of David lapel pin and Al's statue.<br />
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And that he's looking directly at the synagogue opposite the park.<br />
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A little homage to the history of the area.<br />
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From here you can continue north to College St and walk east. More Kensington Market bohemia represented by bikes, (you can take your car there but there's no place to park it), the Clock Tower and the status of Christ outside St Stephens in the field.<br />
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That it coincided with the coldest Toronto winter in 37 years was just an added bonus.<br />
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Day 0<br />
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We set up at the airport Sheraton the night before our flight to mitigate any issues with bad weather and rush hour traffic. We leave our winter coats in the car and transfer from the hotel to the airport without going outside.<br />
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Day 1<br />
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Unofficial Motto of Cozumel:<br />
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veni, vidi, velcro (translates loosely to I came, I saw, I stuck around)<br />
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A hassle free start as our flight lands 15 minutes early and West Jet's excellent customer service transports us comfortably to the sweltering tarmac in San Miguel de Cozumel...it's mid-afternoon and it's another world.<br />
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Within a half hour of landing we're in our rental vehicle heading south on Ave 8 Octobre towards Ave Andres Quintana Roo. Quintana Roo is the province we are in as well. It includes the Yucatan peninsula on the mainland where we will visit Chichen Itza in a few days. It's Mexico-light, far removed from the beach scene on the Pacific Coast and the narco issues in the central and northern provinces. While Cozumel is a magnet for cruise ships and divers we managed to find more than a few things to occupy our time and nurture our spirit.<br />
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Did I mention it was sweltering?<br />
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In honour of leaving -30 degree weather behind in Toronto we change into appropriate clothing and begin to drink.<br />
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We are being hosted by Theresa and Paul. They're down here for a month of diving and have rented a wonderful 3 bedroom casa with a warm, clear pool and a wonderful outdoor deck that provides cover and a reason to kick back, converse and imbibe.<br />
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Morning coffee on the deck. Our hosts have had their diving cancelled due to inclement weather. Don't worry, it's still 28 degrees C, it's just really windy. A good day to circumnavigate the island. Cozumel is a very easy place to get around.Calle's go one direction, Avenues the other. Even numbers on the north, odd numbers on the south. Street numbers go up in units of 2 on the Calle's and 5 on the Avenues.<br />
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Once in awhile they rename a numbered street but keep the sequence going in a pattern of either 2 or 5 unit increments. Except for the 'Salas rule' where it's between 1 and 3 but it's not 2.<br />
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We head towards the eastern beaches and the only thing we have to do is find the Tranversal. But we don't. A small misreading of our surroundings finds us on winding unpaved roads leading in no consistent direction though most of us voted on south-east. After about 20 minutes we turn around and do it right.<br />
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The first turn off is to visit the Mayan ruins at <b><a href="http://www.cozumel-tours.com/san-gervasio.htm">San Gervasio</a></b> .These are the most extensive ruins on the island. Stone pillars where a market used to be.<br />
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And smaller buildings where old white guys can pose, forgetting to take off their camera bag.<br />
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Remnants of the road that lead into the village via this archway.<br />
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At the north-east point of civilized Cozumel we find ourselves sitting for lunch at Senor Iguana's hut,<br />
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overlooking the sea, watching the wind-whipped waves crash on the shores.<br />
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We continue south along the eastern seaboard, on the inland road, passing beaches, mopeds and dune buggies along the way. We turn at the lighthouse and head back north towards town where the cruise ships docked two deep on the shore, wait for us to pass.<br />
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But first we take the only interior road available when circling the island and find ourselves at <b><a href="http://www.cozumel-tours.com/el-cedral.htm">El Cedral</a></b>
home of the oldest, and perhaps smallest, Mayan ruin on the island.<br />
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Next to it, it's antecedent, a small church. Didn't see any Jesuits but
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We're out early, heading for <b><a href="http://www.cozumelparks.com/eng/punta_sur.cfm">Punta Sur Eco Beach and Lighthouse</a>.</b> <br />
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This 250 acre park contains nesting grounds for sea turtles, a crocodile swamp, sand and coral beaches as well as the lighthouse and attached museum. And it's own Mayan Ruin.<br />
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After lunch we park the car and head out on the streets of San Miguel. Our target is the Atlantis Submarine location, to check on availability this week. It was a lot farther away than we thought. After walking the ocean sidewalk for about 45 minutes we decide to turn back. This is not a hardship, the water is a glorious blue, the sun is, well let's stick with sweltering, and once in awhile a breeze makes it just like heaven. Or just like heaven is purported to be.<br />
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We stop at Alberto's where the sign says they have the best tail in town. We opt for Marguerita's and Sol.<br />
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Today we visit <b><a href="http://www.cozumelparks.com/eng/chankanaab.cfm">Chakanaab National Park</a> </b>for some sand and snorkeling. <br />
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Cece doesn't get to sandy beaches much anymore. We're not really beach-type reposers in any case but it's hard to resist the white sands and blue green waters. This place has a beach wheelchair that made navigating the dunes effortless.<br />
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If it had a motor it would have been dangerous.<br />
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Theresa and Paul join us in the early afternoon. It's time for some water. I was in about 1 minute without a life vest before I headed back to shore for some assistance in buoyancy. Much better...now I could just float. With the help of my experienced companion, Paul, I was able to find out the names of most creatures I viewed while they were still in my view. For a small offshore and very public snorkeling area there were a large variety of fish. Parrot fish, some small and one huge Rainbow parrot. Chubs galore. A battalion of Sergeant-At-Arms, colourful fish, and not afraid of close contact. Paul pointed out a small barracuda I followed for a short while and we came across some small squid, a rarity I'm told. There was a moray eel poking his head out of the sand bottom and a peculiar floater called a triggerfish.<br />
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Off for dinner and a tequila tour. We choose Mi Mexico Lindo where our host Manny regales us with stories of blue and green agave and why his is the best in the land. His was damn fine. We bought two bottles of the premium stuff.<br />
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Special treat at dinner...Sopo de Lima. I'm making some this weekend. <br />
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Stay close to the casa in the morning, waiting on the noon departure of the <b><a href="http://www.atlantissubmarines.travel/">Atlantis Submarine</a></b> .<br />
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Safety talk before we head under water. Life vests and masks to help you breath if there is an onboard fire. The Captain assures us that in 20 years they've never had to resort to these emergency tools. In fact, he's not even sure they work. I was a little anxious but a 7 year old local girl sang me some narco-ballads to calm me down.<br />
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We spend some time around 60' feet down, where the colours are still bright and the fish are plentiful before our guide asks if we'd like to go deeper. Si! is the response and we dive to 110', about as deep as most divers can go and at that depth they can only stay for 5 to 10 minutes. Here you lose some of the spectrum. Red doesn't exist anymore but the white sands reflect enough light to allow us to see.<br />
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At this point we are at the continental shelf, staring down into 2000' of blackness. The guide asks if we'd like to go deeper yet and gets another positive response. Alas, we had to pass, as it would be a one-way trip in the vessel we are in.<br />
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This was a journey well worth taking. No real need to bring your camera though...just not enough light. You can get the odd picture if something swims buy your porthole but it's best you just relax and watch this strange unseen world pass by. <br />
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It's another glorious day, some would say sweltering, so I decide to walk back to the casa at #258 Calle 11 Sur, stopping on the ocean road for the early afternoon happy hour. 2 Sol por favor.<br />
From here I wind through the side streets enjoying the pastels.<br />
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Late afternoon new guests arrive. Jeff and Sheila summer in Tobermory and winter in Florida, a mere skip away from this island paradise. Avid divers as well they are here to enjoy the local waters. And other liquids, the ones you can drink.<br />
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We head out for dinner, no destination in mind, skip by the garish display that is Jimmy Buffet's Margarita-ville franchise restaurant and find ourselves taking seats at Alberto's. Service was great, food was too and the drinks were cold and plentiful. Not much more you can ask.<br />
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Up real early...5 am. On a ferry across the waters to Playa Del Carmen, the Niagara Falls of the Yucatan Peninsula, the demarcation point for a day tour to the massive Mayan ruins at <b><a href="http://www.chichenitza.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=8">Chichen Itza, a wonder of the world.</a></b><br />
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Beginning to wonder if there's anything the Mayans didn't ruin.<br />
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The ladies and gentlemen on the crew of our ferry help us on and off the boat without issue. Very accommodating of people needing assistance over here. We disembark in front of a Senor Frogs (see Jimmy Buffet's Margarita-ville above, but in Spanish) Our intrepid guide for the day, Juan, loads us into his van for the 2 hour 45 minute trip. Along the road we pass a high-security prison. Juan tells us it's the islands only all-inclusive resort. You get all your food and drinks provided. Clothing too. They even have an exercise regime and a welcome massage. You can find love there, we're told, but it's optional. <br />
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The rest of the ride takes us through a number of small villages; all sorts of stuff for sale from trinkets to blankets to sombrero's. Open kitchens and fruit markets. Dusty little town after town.<br />
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It's warm today. The grounds are huge. It's said you can't cover it in a single day and we are not here to dispel any myths. Tons of shade though and well travelled gravel paths make it very accessible.<br />
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Read stuff on plaques that tell us about the edifices or walls we are photographing. You'll have to go to Wiki for the low down.<br />
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And the birth of X and O's (O won).<br />
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And the new King of the Mayan Ruins.<br />
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On the way back to Cozumel we stop at one of those open kitchens in a nearby town. They graciously setup a roadside table for us. A whole chicken, split and grilled, on a bed of rice with vegetables. the ever-present tortilla's and salsa. Oh, and a tomato-pasta soup trying to emulate vichyssoise. (We'll get to that in September) Only 130 pesos per chicken. Do the math, it ain't much.<br />
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We have a cooking class booked for this afternoon. Theresa, Paul, Jeff and Sheila are off for their morning dive. Cece and I take another round of the island in the car...just because we can. Glorious blue sky, crystalline waters, white sand and warm breezes accompany us.<br />
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In town we hit the Mega mall for some luggage...can't lose that tequila.<br />
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At 2:30 PM we are settled in at 465 Calle 3 Sur, home of Josephina's cooking class. Our late start means we're not hitting the market but that's not a great loss because it's sweltering outside. Josephina's team has picked up all the provisions we will require. What they didn't buy is growing in the garden outside.<br />
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We are served a tasty Hibiscus Iced tea. This I'll make once I find those flowers. <br />
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Not a lot of 'hands on' cooking, we help mostly with the preparation as we're told about the different elements of the meal we are creating.<br />
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It does cover a lot; making tortilla's from scratch, preparing a pumpkin seed sauce for the squash salad, de-thorning a cactus for a salad with local cheeses. Learning how to use lard again. And not that PC vegetable lard stuff, this is pork lard, bacon fat, adds the flavour to the re-fried beans recipe.<br />
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Make a margeurita.<br />
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We got her ebook recipe pdf as soon as we got home. The cooking class was something a little outside the box and very enjoyable. Think I'll look for one in Paris this fall.<br />
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Day 8 Relax and leave.<br />
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-85650597804665482112015-02-01T13:08:00.001-05:002015-02-01T14:18:08.155-05:00Shadows in the Night Bob Dylan Sings Sinatra<div style="text-align: center;">
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Bob Dylan's new album, <b>Shadows in the Night</b>, is being released on February 3rd. Good thing it wasn't a day earlier or we'd be asking what we have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice. </div>
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In fairness I will play it twice because I'm sure I slept through part of the first play. </div>
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An album full of songs covered (to say 'made famous' would be hyperbole) by Frank Sinatra, arguably the greatest voice of our generation...or our parents'. Sung by a man who was the voice of our generation yet has never been confused with Caruso outside of an early breath-holding challenge they had back in the East Village.<br />
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Somewhere in the missing John Bucklen Tapes there's a snippet of Bob, after he'd finished denigrating Johnny Cash, telling John that if he ever became as big as Elvis he will blow everyone's mind by releasing an album of Sinatra covers. This is followed by two 15 years old kids ROFL.</div>
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He doesn't stretch too far with an exception or two or three. </div>
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He croons instead of growling. </div>
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He keeps his voice low on the register. </div>
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It's relatively inoffensive and would be well suited to being background music at a wine and chesser.</div>
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The record is under 40 minutes long.</div>
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Pedal steel. </div>
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Almost all the arrangements. </div>
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Most of the songs. </div>
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He doesn't come close to challenging the listener.</div>
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Adjectives that apply: somnambulant, dirge, jeremiad, waltz, monody, hymn, boring, sleep-aids.</div>
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OK, just finished the second listen. The AARP crowd is going to love this. Bob's always been at least 10 years ahead of me. Maybe when I'm 70. What we have here is an artist of the greatest stature amusing himself, while doing the best in years with his declining skills. <br />
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There are better singers doing better interpretations of better songs on the shelf at Walmart.</div>
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Now opinions are like assholes; everyone has one. I don't have to show my Bob bonafides, I am after all the KreweChief of the "I Love Bobby More Than You Do Krewe". </div>
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I've been struggling since June 25,2005. </div>
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In 2013 I attended the first concert for which I never obtained a copy. </div>
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Didn't tape it, didn't download it. </div>
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In the near future I hope to not attend a show in my city. </div>
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Bit by bit I am controlling the obsession to get Bob-stuff. </div>
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This is the first album I won't own. </div>
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I listened to a pirated version which I will now delete.</div>
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/kljqzex" target="_blank">From The Telegraph- UK "mesmerizingly moving"</a><br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ot3syan" target="_blank">From The Irish Times "A Sonic Masterclass"</a><br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/nvk6mpn" target="_blank">From the LA Times "SITN" Illuminates American Standards"</a><br />
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-56857306795673693392014-12-31T06:42:00.000-05:002014-12-31T06:42:45.644-05:00Top 100 78 RPM's Countdown - 2014OK, I've finished flipping through the 20,000+ 78 RPMS's I bought in 2013. I will likely not have another 100 discs for next year...perhaps 2015 will mark the year of QUALITY over QUANTITY. The 78 RPM Experiment is over. I'm just a collector now. I made all my money back, plus a couple grand. Still have over 600 records, 100 + of which are in steady rotation on the turntable. Some day I will catalogue the rest and get to eBay.<br />
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Speaking of quality; no <b>Robert Johnson</b> this year. You gotta budget for those. My personal favorite record of the year is<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> at the bottom of this blog.</span></span><br />
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But for now there's more music I've never heard before and some nice reminders about music I grew up with.<br />
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<b>Hank Williams </b>leads the pack this year with 4 appearances, two as <b>Luke the Drifter</b>, a country-blues-talkin' man with tales of woe and warnings for all of us. <b>Fats Domino</b> is back with three songs this year. I recommend <i>Bo Weevil</i> , I would have been hard-pressed to identify the artist if I heard it on the radio. Also showing up 3 times; <b>Pearl Bailey, Ethel Waters, Tommy McClennan </b>and the silky smooth voice of <b>Big Bill Broonzy</b>.<br />
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There are a few novelty songs which may be of interest to those who like their music on the bizarre side. <b>"Whispering" Ed</b> takes us on a journey through the vegetable patch in <i>She Likes Her Onions</i>.<b> Nan Blakstone </b>(or Nan Blackstone) has a torch song that defies description. If<b> Frank Zappa and the Mothers</b> existed in the 1940's they would have been <b>Count Jim Moriarty</b> and his crazy collection of friends who make <i>You Gotta Say OWW!</i> come alive. <br />
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<b>Lead Belly</b>'s change of pace in<i> Rock Island Line </i>just makes me go WOW!<br />
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We have a return of the sassy ladies: check out <b>Bessie Smith</b>'s <i>I've Got To Get Me Some</i>, or<span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: black;"><b>Memphis Minnie</b>'s <i>Bumble Bee</i></span></span> for some back-alley raunch.<br />
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The usual rock-n-roll and pop culprits from the well known to the lesser known. <b>Dion and the Belmonts </b>lead us off, <b>Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers </b>drop their biggest hit. <b>Bill Haley and His Comets </b>almost break the Top 10 and we have a former Catwoman in <b>Eartha Kitt. </b>Some much bigger stars find their way in as well some lesser knowns.<br />
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Found a few jazz tracks to my interest. It's hard to separate jazz and blues when the whole thing got rolling. I recommend a listen to <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Joe Lutcher's Jump Band</b> or <b>Bumble Bee Slim </b>or<b> Louis Armstrong</b> for some cross-over stuff.</span></span><br />
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Old-time delta or country blues? These things cost money and are not as easy to come by. You can find some authenticity in <b>Willie Smith and the Cubs </b>version of <i>Blues Why Don't You Let Me Alone</i>. Willie didn't record much and he's really a band leader, not a blues performer but he did play piano on <b>Mamie Smith</b>'s 1920 <i>Crazy Blues</i>; the first blues recorded by a woman. <b>Little Brother, Blind Johnny Davis, Monkey Joe</b> add to the mix. We have the ladies of course, the "That's All" girl, <b>Annette Hanshaw</b>, <b>Rosetta Howard, Pearl Bailey, </b>join monster stars <b>Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters and Memphis Minnie.</b><br />
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Enjoy the list. The quality varies from G (lots of surface noise), to VG (very listenable), to E (you can't complain, it's at least 60 years old). This is very subjective. Some sellers have what they call a "Pre-War" grading which gives a little latitude for the age of the record and the materials used to create the disc. Some record companies are always poor quality (KING comes to mind, I've got lots of great country-blues on KING but they all have noise). Unfortunately the more obscure blues records seem to be the most battered. It is, what it is. <br />
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Oldest song: <i>Back to the Caroline You Love</i> by <b>Al Jolson</b>, 1914.<br />
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January 28, 1929. Composed by Arthur Sizemore & Bernie Grossman." After some sleuthing it turns out he's not so anonymous: "Just found out that the singer is Norman Clark...now does anyone know the guitarist?" He only recorded four sides for Columbia under this name. I'm just a sucker for songs about the river.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/78bdu1" target="_blank">#94 Jack Shea, Lovesick Blues, (Vocalion 14333, 1922)</a> </b>Covered later by Hank Williams. Dig the red shellac. Early blues, more like crooning blues. Lovesick Blues is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded by the popular contralto Elsie Clark. Later that year, it was recorded by Jack Shea (not the 1932 Olympic medalist speed skater) on Vocalion 14333. This recording contains a verse that no later versions include<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/x6wtqs" target="_blank">#93 "Hot Lips" Page I've Got the World On A String (Melrose 1402, 1946)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/z5yt72" target="_blank">#91 Nan Blakstone, Blakstone's Torch Song (Hush Hush HH3, 1927)</a></b><br />
A sassy lady. Jazzy and salacious novelty song.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/br86o1" target="_blank">#90 Joe Lutcher's Jump Band, Be Bop Blues, (Capitol Americana 40071, 1947)</a></b> A fixture on the LA jazz club circuit in the 1940's supporting Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr and the Mills Bros. In 1953 he got religion and quit the game. <br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/fkh5x1" target="_blank">#89 Kate Smith, River, Stay 'Way From My Door (Clarion, 5423-C, 1931)</a></b> This is way different than the gig she had with the Flyers. <br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/fr963j" target="_blank">#88 Pearl Bailey and Hot Lips Page, The Hucklebuck (Harmony, 1049,1949)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/r3uq0r" target="_blank">#87 Billy Murray, The Alcoholic Blues (Columbia, A2702, 1919)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/1lj51r" target="_blank">#78 Annette Hanshaw, Nobody Cares If I'm Blue (Velvet Tone 2196, 1930)</a></b><br />
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You have to listen only because of the bands name. This is Spike Milligan in character as Count Jim Moriarty of The House of Roland from the 1950's BBC comedy, The Goon Show.<br />
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This is a 13 year old kid out of Brooklyn. After reaching #74 with his initial release (White Bucks and Saddle Shoes) this song failed to make it into the Top 100. That's about as rare as they come. Had a Lieber and Stoller song though. Rockabilly.<b> </b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/edfyna" target="_blank">#72 Luther & Little Eva, Ain't Got No Home (Regency 570, 1957) </a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/nw92v6" target="_blank">#69 Big Bill Broonzy, You're In The Army Now ( Okeh 06601, 1941)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/r086je" target="_blank">#66 Robin Luke, Susie Darlin' (Dot 15781, 1957) </a></b><br />
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A true one-hit wonder, although he kept recording until 1962 when a little ditty called "Foggin' Up the Windows with My Guy" ended his recording career. A little ahead of his time.<br />
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Amos Easton was born in Brunswick GA in 1905, and he soon picked up the local Piedmont style of guitar playing that would serve him well throughout his wanderings. Joining a travelling tent show as a teenager, Amos worked all over the south in circuses and vaudeville acts until he made his home in Indianapolis in the late 20s. Arriving in Chicago in 1931, Amos made the acquaintance of Tampa Red, Memphis Minnie and Big Bill Broonzy, and soon his first records began appearing on the Bluebird label, with his new friends backing him up. His nickname probably came from a recording he did of Memphis Minnie's song. (See #9)<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ze63z2" target="_blank">#59 Wilbert Harrison, Don't Drop It, (Quality 1307, 1958)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/tafztz" target="_blank">#49 Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, Ballad of A Teenage Queen (Quality 1692, 1958)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/gaqv70" target="_blank">#48 Nervous Norvus, Transfusion (Dot 15470, 1956) </a></b><br />
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Before Dead Mans Curve, Last Kiss, Tell Laura I Love Her and Warm Leatherette there was Transfusion!<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/nnvegy" target="_blank">#47 Big Bill Broonzy, Keep Your Hand On Your Heart (Vocalion ??, 1942)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/sh8pjy" target="_blank">#46 Louis Armstrong, All of Me (Okeh 3125,1932)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/cl2pek" target="_blank">#45 Billy Ford and the Thunderbirds, The Monster (Quality 1855, 1958)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/7dxqkl" target="_blank">#44 The Midnighters (formerly The Royals with Hank Ballard), Sexy Ways (Federal 12184, 1954) </a></b><br />
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This was before Hank Ballard, writer of the Chubby Checkers career, The Twist, had his name in front of the bands. First black rock n roller, precedes Little Richard. This was banned in Boston.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/83pwn9" target="_blank">#43 The Drifters, Honey Love (Quality 1076, 1954) </a></b><br />
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Early version of The Drifters with Clyde McPhatter (Lover Please) on vocals.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/achbzw" target="_blank">#42 Lizzie Miles, He May Be Your Man (But he Comes To See me Sometimes) (Okeh 8037, 1932) </a></b><br />
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We had this song on last years list, by Annette Hanshaw. Lizzie has the same kind of 'flapper' voice and affectations. <br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/j71phs" target="_blank">#41 Sonny Terry, Harmonica Blues, (Vocalion 05453, 1940)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ujr25f" target="_blank">#40 Ethel Waters, Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor, (Columbia 14125D, 1926)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/nfzf87" target="_blank">#39 Buddy Holly, Everyday (Coral 61885, 1957)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/w0wlse" target="_blank">#38 Luke the Drifter, Be Careful of Stones You May Throw (MGM 11309,1952)</a></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/csllsk" target="_blank"><b>#37 Clara Smith, Deep Blue Sea Blues (Columbia 14034D, 1924)</b> </a><br />
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Out of South Carolina she worked in NYC in the early '20's. No relation to Mamie or Bessie. Queen of the Moaners she recorded 122 songs for Columbia's race label and died too young at the age of 41 in 1935.<br />
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Now this guy had an interesting life. Long time friend of Little Richard, was instrumental in getting him to quit drugs, after pulling a gun on Richard over a drug debt. He penned some great hits, including my favorite Beatles tune, Bad Boy. Also on his list; Bony Maronie, Slow Down and Dizzy Miss Lizzy. Apparently Lennon was very fond of him. Couldn't escape the drugs though and was found dead, shot in the head in 1980.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jya2bk" target="_blank">#34 Tommy McClennan, Whiskey Headed Woman (Bluebird B-8373, 1939) </a></b><br />
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The real deal. Delta blues.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4tw8p6" target="_blank">#33 Tommy Edwards, It's All In The Game (MGM 12688, 1958)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/7uy0ja" target="_blank">#32 Blind Johnny Davis, No Mail Today (MGM 10574, 1949) </a></b><br />
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BJD was born in Hattiesburg MS in 1913. His family moved to Chicago when he was 2...well before the Northern Migration of 1940 that followed International Harvesters exhibition of their cotton picking machine at the Hopson Plantation. No Mail Today was a minor hit for the man who spent much of his career providing boogie-woogie piano for the likes of Lonnie Johnson, Tampa Red and Big Bill Broonzy, with whom he toured Europe in 1952. He continued to perform into the 1980's.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/c7ankg" target="_blank">#31 Fats Domino, Blue Monday (Imperial 5417, 1956)</a></b><br />
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Fats Domino's refurbished home in the lower 9th ward, New Orleans.<br />
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The original Columbia race label designation...the suffix D. <br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/0yz64l" target="_blank">#27 Monkey Joe, Taxes on MY Pole (Vocalion 04471,1938)</a></b><br />
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Jesse Coleman was most likely born in Mississippi, and though the year of birth is not known, he was probably born around 1906.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AMG_1-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Joe#cite_note-AMG-1">[1]</a></sup> He worked locally in Jackson, Mississippi in juke joints in the 1930s, and recorded with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_Montgomery" title="Little Brother Montgomery">Little Brother Montgomery</a> in 1935 on Bluebird Records. He began using the moniker "Monkey Joe" in that decade. Late in the 1930s he worked as a session musician for Lester Melrose, and recorded under his own name with Charlie McCoy, Fred Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, and Buster Bennett as backing musicians. Coleman also appears to have worked under several other names, such as "Jack Newman" at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocalion_Records" title="Vocalion Records">Vocalion Records</a> and "George Jefferson" as an accompanist on recordings for Lulu Scott. He also recorded on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okeh_Records" title="Okeh Records">Okeh Records</a> for a time.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/2ff9w2" target="_blank">#26 Tennessee Ernie Ford, Sixteen Tons (Capitol 3262, 1955) </a></b><br />
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Great voice. The booming baritone voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford was best known for this cover of Merle Travis' grim coal-mining song "Sixteen Tons," watered down by the syrupy strains of a Hollywood studio orchestra but retaining its innate seriousness thanks to the sheer power of Ford's singing.<br />
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booming baritone voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford was best known for his
1955 cover of Merle Travis' grim coal-mining song "Sixteen Tons,"
watered down by the dulcet strains of a Hollywood studio orchestra but
retaining its innate seriousness thanks to the sheer power of Ford's
singing. - See more at:
http://www.1061wngc.com/lsp/a2372/#sthash.Y7pqEKHd.dpuf</div>
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booming baritone voice of Tennessee Ernie Ford was best known for his
1955 cover of Merle Travis' grim coal-mining song "Sixteen Tons,"
watered down by the dulcet strains of a Hollywood studio orchestra but
retaining its innate seriousness thanks to the sheer power of Ford's
singing. - See more at:
http://www.1061wngc.com/lsp/a2372/#sthash.Y7pqEKHd.dpuf</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5kax9x" target="_blank">#24 Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys, This World Can't Stand Long (Columbia 20454,1947)</a> </b><br />
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Born as the result of a rape, married to an abusive husband at 13 yrs old, working for $4.75 a week at the age of 15, she went on to star at the Cotton Club, where, according to her autobiography, she "sang 'Stormy Weather' from the depths of the private hell in which I was being crushed and suffocated."<b> </b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ux3tcu" target="_blank">#22 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Gee1802, 1956)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/alpz0z" target="_blank">#21 Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ninety-Nine (Checker 883, 1957)</a></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/cse5kn" target="_blank">#20 T-Bone Walker, Mean Old World (Capitol Criterion 10033,1941)</a></b><br />
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One of Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. Born in Texas, learned his chops in LA and by 1942, with his second album release, Walker's new-found musical maturity and ability had advanced to the point that <i>Rolling Stone</i> claimed that he "shocked everyone" with his newly developed distinctive sound upon the release of his first single "Mean Old World", on the Capitol Records label.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RS_greatest_guitarists_3-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker#cite_note-RS_greatest_guitarists-3"></a></sup> <b> </b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/6t6swx" target="_blank">#19 Sonny Boy Williamson II, I Don't Know (Checker 864,1957)</a></b><br />
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Sonny Boy II wall mural in Tutwiler, MS.<br />
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Straight out of the heart of the Mississippi Delta, Friar's Point, where Muddy Waters remembered seeing Robert Johnson playing outside Hirsberg's Drugstore...Country Music Hall of Famer, Conway Twitty.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4h2zmm" target="_blank">#16 Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boys Cold Chills (RCA Victor 20-2184,1947) </a></b><br />
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Wicked song. I got coooollllllddddd chills, runnin' all over me. Buried in a small town in the hills of Eastern Mississippi, he was outshone by the bombastic harp player who stole his monicker, but he was the real deal. Mississippi blues.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hj879i" target="_blank">#15 Pearl Bailey, 15 years (and I'm Still Serving Time) (Columbia 3687, 1945)</a></b><br />
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Love this song. So much joy. Highly recommended. While she's known mostly for her stage and TV work and reviled for her politics, before all that she could sing a song.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hbrvx9" target="_blank">#14 Bessie Smith, You've Got To Give Me Some (Columbia 14427-D, 1929)</a></b><br />
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Visited Hank's grave in Montgomery AL.<br />
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<b><a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/mn8qq9" target="_blank">#12 Little Rita Faye, Wait A Little Bit Longer, (MGM 11505,1953)</a></b><br />
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Minnie's record is on the wall. Only a G sound rating but still a special disc of shellac.<br />
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Have been by Minnie's grave outside Walls, MS.<br />
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This one's for Mary Jane. A lesser know artist, most of her career was spent in Chicago. This is a great song more swing than blues but it'll please you.<br />
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Certainly wish I had a better copy of this record. For now it's a place-holder.<br />
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Quality records in Canada released the SUN catalogue.<br />
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Having us a bit of a run on SUN recording artists, not done yet.<br />
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Straight outa Memphis. Sounds terrific.<br />
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The second part of the Holy Trinity of Blues. Got my RJ, still looking out for a Charley Patton record. This is a vinyl 78, released in the early '80's during some retro phase. It captures Son House's recording in the '40's for the Library. <br />
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Sonny Boy has vaulted to the top of my playlist this year. Robert Johnson is still the King but this guy has a ton of great songs. On the day I retire I will be playing this song in my head.<br />
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Here's a picture I took of Alec Miller's grave outside Tutwiler MS<br />
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Now let's recap.<br />
While there may have been songs on this list you checked out because you were familiar with the artist or their place in The Tower of Song, I've got some recommendations in case you skipped by them. <br />
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Maggie Jones Good Time Flat Blues...defines an era and a genre. <br />
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Pearl Bailey and Hot Lips Page, Baby It's Cold Outside...great chemistry. <br />
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Tommy McClennan, Whiskey Headed Woman...delta blues blues. <br />
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T-Bone Walker, Mean Old World...the guitar will make you cry. <br />
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Sonny Boy Williamson I, Sonny Boys Cold Chills...more authentic delta blues blues. <br />
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Pearl Bailey, 15 Years (and I'm Still Serving Time)...a heartwarming love song. <br />
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Rosetta Howard, If You're A Viper...stoner music for a distant generation of libertines.<br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00:00:00-05:00&max-results=20" target="_blank"><b>Top 100 78 RPM's of 2013</b></a> in case you missed it.<br />
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Time to get out a bit before the winter brings out our cocooning instinct.We filled November with two plays and a hand-full of concerts. Also slid in 3 family dental appts and a couple visits to the doctors...it's all good.<br />
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I'm adding the Accessibility Ratings for the venues Cece and I visit in case anyone googles that...we always do.<br />
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Gonna cheat a little and start my November in October because C R Avery is in Southern Ontario with a new show. Well, I’m hittin' the white lines to see a concert starring CR Avery, yeah, but you know it’s not the one that I had in mind. He’s got a new one out now, I don’t even know what it’s about, but I’ll see him in anything so I hit the white lines.<br />
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He's touring his new book of poetry, Some Birds Walk For The Hell of It. I love that cover, the original 26X30" oil on canvas portrait is hanging in my Blues Room. Had the good fortune of purchasing this before it was selected to be the cover. When that happened See Are dropped me text to say: "Boss, you're painting just got picked for the cover of my new book. Doubled in value. BAM!" He talks that way.<br />
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You can see Man at Bar and his other works in this quick video.<br />
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Hip-hop, beat box, blues singing, spoken-word, painter CR Avery felt he didn't have enough descriptors in front of his name. This year he adds carnival barker, stand-up comic, strip-tease dancin' Master of Ceremonies.<br />
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In Toronto he had three young members of the Toronto Dead Poets Society...or something. Kids with a great command of the language and a keen interest in contemporary issues. In Ottawa we had the more mature PruFrock opening. I've seen this guy before and he is a captivating artist. I didn't tape the kids in TO or any of the Ottawa show so you can find more on <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/prufrock" target="_blank">PrufRock</a> here. Under the link you just passed.<br />
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So what's CR up to? Semi-naked girls, that's what. In the east end of Vancouver there's been a marriage of the spoken-word and burlesque communities. I suspect Lola Frost has something to do with it but we haven't seen her in Central Canada yet.<br />
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This year's show is moving into performance art with the burlesque accompaniment, dance routines and even some comedy in the persona of hipster-hickster from the 'Schwa. <br />
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Show opens with CR standing in the middle of the audience doing his acoustic homage to Amy Winehouse, Israel's Saviour and Queen. A lot of the rest of the evening is canned music and a single lead guitar...but it's primarily about the poems.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/kfpmf0" target="_blank">Lunch Pick-Up Poem</a><br />
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Accessibility Rating: D. You can't get in if you're not walking due to a couple steps at the entrance. All it would take is a portable ramp and a little help, not a lot of effort.<br />
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For the "hittin' the road" part Cece and I are off to Ottawa for a second show. Pretty much the same as the pace of the show is driven by the pre-recorded music and video vignettes that open each segment. A little bit of everything in this years incarnation of CR Avery.<br />
In Ottawa we were at The Hub. A kind of community center/drop in center for those who miss the halcyon days of hippie-dom.<br />
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Accessibility Rating: A. Venue is on the sixth floor but there's an elevator and helpful staff.<br />
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We also got to see some kids in Hallowe'en costumes when we visited with dear friends Ryan and Teri and their almost 2 year old son, Watson. Watson was hosting other friends and cousins for their first Hallowe'en.<br />
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The morning after we took some time to visit the War Memorial where a young soldier, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, was gunned down in a tragic act.<br />
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Wicked was wrapping up it's second run in Toronto. November 2nd marked the last day for the Broadway crew's road stand. And my 58th birthday. We had a stand-in for Glinda (the 'ga' is silent), the not-so-good witch, as it turns out. Didn't matter. Couldn't tell. Great production, great story, you'll never watch the original the same way.<br />
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Accessibility Rating: A very good experience. The wheel in from the cross-street parking lot is a little hairy as the roads are in terrible shape and there are street-car tracks, but that's a City issue, not a venue issue. <a href="http://www.mirvish.com/accessibility" target="_blank">The Ed Mirvish Theater</a> has a wheelchair lift at the Victoria St entrance. There is no automatic door entry but the ushers are present and they will treat you very well. Inside the venue an usher pointed out where the accessible washrooms
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Rating: A- The lack of an automatic door opener means you struggle with the chair and door if the usher is otherwise detained and makes it an obstacle to people with no companion present. The lobby is very crowded before and after the show because it's small. Doesn't really allow you to go to the merch table or concessions stand very easily. The only things that kept this from being an A+<br />
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From the big stage to the small time, where art thrives on love, not dreams of fortune or fame. Our friend, Toronto Troubadour Corin Raymond, has a song that champions the 'small time'; clubs where artists perform for hat-money, community theaters, street corner busking, all the places where the chance to practice the art is worth more than the compensation. The Durham Shoestring Performers "The Phoenix Lottery", at over two hours live running time for a mere $13.00 per person, is bang for your entertainment buck. It takes 3 months to prepare for 6 shows...and almost all the players have day jobs.<br />
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Cece and I were out here to see an old high-school friend, Boyd Tattrie, who spends his spare time working the community theaters in the small towns east of Toronto. We had become reacquainted this past year through a Facebook page and a Riverdale Collegiate reunion dinner. In fact we'd seen him in a Whitby Community Theater production of Cabaret just prior to the reunion. That dinner had Cece and I meet up with the person who introduced us to each other at a Food Truck Fair. We also found time to hook up with another comrade who had grown up to enjoy the same type of roots music we did...in two cities neither of us live in. Gotta love the interweb.<br />
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<a href="http://mansfieldreviews.blogspot.ca/2014/11/review-phoenix-lottery-durham.html" target="_blank">Follow this link to a friendly and accurate review.</a><br />
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Accessibility Rating: A Parking close to the entrance, elevator to the venue and a front row seat. Small lobby.<br />
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November 12th <br />
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Back at the Tranzac where in November of 2012 we witnessed the live recording sessions that became Paper Nickels. I didn't write a blog about it because it was supposed to be a surprise. This year we are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Corin Raymond's first CD, Record Lonesome Night. The deluxe package comes with a t-shirt, poster, book and the record. So I went for it.<br />
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The celebratory concert comes with a bindle full of opening acts and a special guest.<br />
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First up is the Steven Wright of folk-music, <a href="http://www.smallbirdsongs.com/" target="_blank">Jack Breakfast . </a><br />
Think of early Simon and Garfunkel on 'ludes.<br />
Here's a taste of the sardonic wit, a song about every young man's dream a woefully alcoholic girlfriend. While Jack's intro says this song is unrecorded, I beg to differ.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/i28yld" target="_blank">LCBO</a><br />
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Jack's followed by country songstress <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AngieGunnMusic" target="_blank">Angie Gunn</a><br />
She's got an old-time country voice that makes you want to keep on listening. She performs at The Local fairly regularly and looks to be filling a couple of Corin's 6pm Thursday slots at The Cameron, at least December 4th. Here she is channeling Jimmie Rodgers.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/mexe96" target="_blank">(I Can't Give Up) My Good Ole Ramblin Ways</a><br />
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Next up <a href="http://declanodonovan.com/" target="_blank">Declan O'Donovan</a>, who is doing a Wednesday 6PM residency at the Cameron House this December while visiting from the Yukon. An aggressive and talented piano player, he has a commanding stage presence and some captivating songs.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uaap6f" target="_blank">Here he is singing a Song Loosely Based on A Story He Heard about Hank Williams. </a><br />
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Evalyn Parry has been called the "female C R Avery", and I'm not sure that can be done. A multi-talented artist she is wrapping up a year-long tour of her stage show, SPIN. After some brief technical difficulties, which were gloriously covered up by a rendition of <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8wy74l" target="_blank">Bucket of Time</a>, we were treated to a musical bicycle and some suffragette history.<br />
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It occurs to me that I'm beginning to collect a few artists performing the songs that Corin covered on Paper Nickels; Corin's 2 songs ,obviously but also Raghu Loganathan singing Sugar Candy Mountian, Scott Cook performing The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away) and Evalyn Parry doing Bucket of Time. I know John Borra (Blues Mama) is playing around Toronto. I've heard even Doug Norquay (Cruel, Cruel Town) is onstage once in awhile. I've seen Max Metraux (Anastasia) at The Cameron, at the bar...perhaps he can be enticed onstage. But I digress.<br />
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Here's a video of She Rides from SPIN<br />
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The Tranzac is filled to capacity on this chilly mid-week November night. 10 years ago, to the day, that Record Lonesome Night was released.<br />
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Corin opens his set with a 15 minute spoken-word piece about the making of RNL. Not the recording of the songs, that was simply the moment it was put down. It took a lifetime to get to that first record and it contains a lifetime of hurts and hopes. Besides being Toronto's Troubadour you can see that Corin has a future in just talking to us.<br />
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His crack band runs through the complete album, with special guest Sean Cotton (of The Undesirables) making an appearance on One Fine Day.<br />
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The evening is filled out with songs that will be making their way to next years album, Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams. Hard On Things, Morning Glories and Rain Bed are going to be highlights.<br />
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Which is why there's no recording of this night. Get thee to The Cameron House most Thursday nights between 6 and 8 to get your fix. <br />
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Accessibility Rating: A. You have to walk through an alleyway from the parking lot if you don't get a spot right on Brunswick but that's not too big a deal. The venue is on the main floor so if somebody gets a door for you, you're good to go.<br />
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November 17th <br />
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No it's not the return of Vincent Price. Bob Dylan's back in town. Which is where he has to be for me to see him nowadays. At 150+ shows I've lost the urge to travel. The cowboy band and static set list makes it easy to stay home.<br />
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Now for those of you who haven't been keeping up, here's something you won't see at a Dylan show anymore.<br />
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He plays piano or he stands center stage with mic and harps.<br />
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I haven't been too enamoured with Dylan's band since Larry Campbell left back in another lifetime, one of toil and blood. Truth is, they are superb. The arrangements are lush and intricate, if a little slow overall.<br />
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The show has a strange configuration with 9 songs (50 minutes) followed by a half-hour intermission then 10 songs, including the encore, (58 minutes) to close the show. The band probably only requires a 15 minute nap but the audience needs the extra time to return to their seats with double-fisted drinks.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Toronto, Ontario</b></span><b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sony Centre For The Performing Arts</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">November 17, 2014</span></b><br />
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<td><b>Things Have Changed</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>She Belongs To Me</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on pedal steel) </span></td>
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<td><b>Beyond Here Lies Nothin'</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob on piano, Donnie on electric mandolin, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>4.</b></td>
<td><b>Workingman's Blues #2</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>5.</b></td>
<td><b>Waiting For You</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic, Tony on standup bass with bow) </span></td>
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<td><b>6.</b></td>
<td><b>Duquesne Whistle</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob on piano, Donny on lap steel, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>7.</b></td>
<td><b>Pay In Blood</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>8.</b></td>
<td><b>Tangled Up In Blue</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage with harp then on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>9.</b></td>
<td><b>Love Sick</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob center stage, Donnie on electric mandolin) </span></td>
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<td><b>(Intermission)</b></td>
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<td><b>10.</b></td>
<td><b>High Water (For Charley Patton)</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage, Donnie on banjo, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>11.</b></td>
<td><b>Simple Twist Of Fate</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>12.</b></td>
<td><b>Early Roman Kings</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel, Stu on acoustic, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>13.</b></td>
<td><b>Forgetful Heart</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage with harp, Donnie on viola, Stu on acoustic, Tony on standup bass with bow) </span></td>
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<td><b>14.</b></td>
<td><b>Spirit On The Water</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>15.</b></td>
<td><b>Scarlet Town</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage, Donnie on banjo, Stu on acoustic, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>Soon After Midnight</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><b>Long And Wasted Years</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Stu on acoustic) </span></td>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">(encore)</span></td>
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<td><b>18.</b></td>
<td><b>Blowin' In The Wind</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /> (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin, Stu on acoustic, Tony on standup bass) </span></td>
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<td><b>19.</b></td>
<td><b>Stay With Me</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (song by Jerome Moross and Carolyn Leigh)<br />(Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass) </span></td></tr>
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Bob opens with his Oscar winning song, <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/u3vg95" target="_blank">Things Have Changed</a>. It's a primer for those who were looking for the blue jeans, acoustic guitar and harp halo.<br />
He follows with a '60's classic,<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/9w3pq6" target="_blank"> She Belongs to Me</a>. It used to go like that, now it goes like this. Bob gets to exercise his lungs with a couple harp solos. He's as warmed up as he is going to get.<br />
With Bob you can never know what he means in his songs but perhaps <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/lbv5gb" target="_blank">Beyond Here Lies Nothing</a> should be later in the set. Unless of course he's being sarcastic, in which case it may be time to start paying attention. Co-penned by Robert Hunter, from Together Through Life, or To Get Her Through Life, as you wish.<br />
I suspect the girl in She Belongs to Me, from Bringing It All Back Home, is not the same one he paid tribute to in the previous song. Sounds a little more high-maintenance.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/n99hc2" target="_blank">Workingman's Blues #2</a> is epic. It's The Times They Are A-Changin' of it's day...or maybe the Desolation Row, or Only A Pawn in Their Game. I mean the third line is "the buying power of the proletariat's gone down". It's the story of where we are and why we're fucked. This one is worth annotation.<br />
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You can get the official lyrics here http://www.bobdylan.com/us/songs/workingmans-blues-2 but that's not how he did it on the 17th.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/opxhog" target="_blank">Waiting For You</a> has most of the audience wondering where this song came from. It's another sound-track release, it was in Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood. It's a waltz. No more need be said, break out the skates.<br />
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The band hits its highest speed in a rocking <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jekvsm" target="_blank">Duquesne Whistle</a> which takes on a bit of the power that used to reside in Summer Days and Thunder on the Mountain.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/c3mgls" target="_blank">Pay In Blood</a> doesn't reach the apocalyptic heights of the recorded version. It's a big mood song and the mood isn't quite achieved. <i>"I got something in my pocket make your eyeballs swim/I got dogs could tear you limb from limb"</i><br />
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Bob throws the crowd a bone with <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/t786uz" target="_blank">Tangled Up In Blue.</a> Once he reaches the refrain the audience recognizes it's hearing a song it knows.<br />
Set closes with <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/226lg3" target="_blank">Love Sick</a> . No Soy Bomb but a new arrangement with Charlie laying blues lines all around Bob's vocals, a little reminiscent of Freddy's quieter moments..<br />
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Then we get an Intermission. WTF?!? This is a ridiculous addition to the show. <br />
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A banjo version of <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4zfgh4" target="_blank">High Water (for Charley Patton)</a> opens the second set. While this song has rocked over the years I prefer the banjo in it, because I was there in 2001 when it first came out..<br />
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Then we get, with the exception of the aforementioned Workingman's Blues #2 and the last three songs to come, the best Bob-moment of the night in <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/sjbhqc" target="_blank">Simple Twist of Fate</a>. A bit of upsinging appears but a wonderful turn of a couplet saves the song and makes it smile-inducing.<br />
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I like <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s6r94c" target="_blank">Early Roman Kings</a>. It's not epic but it has a great pace.<br />
<i>They're peddlers and they're meddlers<br />
They buy and they sell<br />
They destroyed your city<br />
They'll destroy you as well<br />
They're lecherous and treacherous<br />
Hell-bent for leather<br />
Each of 'em bigger<br />
Than all them put together<br />
Sluggers and muggers<br />
Wearing fancy gold rings<br />
All the women goin' crazy<br />
For the early Roman kings</i><br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/tdzw09" target="_blank">Forgetful Heart</a> has people swoooooooning every where it's played. I say, ehhh. Way too, oh, I don't know, emotional, maybe maudlin. Not emotional in a way that you can see a happy resolution, more in the way of ... we're never getting out of this dark tunnel of love are we? <br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ait1gv" target="_blank">Spirit on the Water</a> will not leave this set list soon it seems. A dark song hidden behind a light, waltz-like melody. Not a highlight of the show for me but when Bob growls <i>You think I'm over the hill, You think I'm past my prime, Let me see what you got, We can have a whoppin' good time" </i>you know he has to be smiling a little bit inside.<br />
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Another moody song, <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4uelxm" target="_blank">Scarlet Town</a>, really hits its mark.<br />
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And one more waltz because we all know you can't get enough of them. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/x5esi0" target="_blank">Soon After Midnight</a>.<br />
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The last three songs really elevate the show. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/zw6zae" target="_blank">Long and Wasted Years</a>, cousin to the rambling Brownsville Girl, just has a magical allure.<br />
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Usually Blowin' sucks but this version has a little juice running down its leg. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/37jd2p" target="_blank">Blowin' In the Wind 2014</a> is closer to the Basement Tapes version than anything else you might remember.<br />
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We close with a Frank Sinatra cover. Really? Perhaps a portent of things to come on the 2015 album. Will it be all Frank all the time or will it be standards done by various artists? One thing's for sure, no Bob songs. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jvtr8i" target="_blank">Stay With Me</a> is really glorious though.<br />
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Remember Hermans Hermits Henry the VIII ? Well this is like that; second verse, same as the first. I'm tempted to mash the two nights together, left-channel 17, right channel 18, just to see how much variance there is. Very little I suspect but Bob's often dropping little lines or interjections when least expected, so it may be a project for a snow-bound weekend.<br />
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Not unlike reading this post. When will it ever end? Well, not tonight and not here.<br />
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Some of my opinions of the quality of these songs may be wrong. Check 'em out yourself.<br />
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Accessibility Rating: A+ You even get to park in the front driveway if you reserve a month before the show. <br />
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4-6-3, an X, an O, can't think of a better way to end the day.<br />
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It's white-rapper month and Buck 65 is Canada's contribution to the genre. He's had a rough go of it the past couple years. Changed his life, then changed his wife. Some things were his choice, others were not. His stint as the afternoon show jock on Radio CBC 2 has limited his touring in the past few years. Seems he's decided the changes weren't all he hoped they would be and he's back on the road, ending a worldwide tour in Southern Ontario.<br />
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We're at the wonderful Danforth Music Hall where they've recently taken out the floor seats for Standing Room GA...on a severe slant. Really works your calves, never mind your bucks. My son and I spend the opening set in the balcony seats and good thing too as Buck 65 puts on a two-hour show. With NO intermission. (see above)<br />
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Lots of stuff from recently released records and yet to be released records. Neverlove, due out right now, is Buck's divorce album, his Blood on the Tracks, if you will. I like his early stuff...and we get a sprinkling of those with new arrangements.<br />
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<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dbdhh2" target="_blank">FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! Open the Gates of Hell</a> for sure. Buck opens with a song that threatens to blow his throat in a few short minutes. It's an invitation to an evening with a guy riding the subway naked.<br />
<i>"we'll know we found a perfect beat when everyone is speechless" </i><br />
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D1T02 Zombie Delight<br />
D1T03 Buck talks<br />
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Ballad time with eerie Kate Bush like wailing from the back up singer. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/g35opt" target="_blank">Roses in the Rain</a> tells the story of the moment the love was finished.<br />
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"In cold and blinding silence<br />
Doesn't want to<br />
Leave the house<br />
He's in divine defiance<br />
Harmonizing unbeknown<br />
Studying the ceiling<br />
They're running for the last room everybody and concealing "<br />
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D1T05 Shutterbuggin'/Only War<br />
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I like it when Buck is subtle, witty and sly. <a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/l6m10q" target="_blank">Love Will Fuck You Up</a> is not one of those times but he has a story to tell.<br />
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D1T09 Band intro<br />
D1T10 All There Is To Say About Love<br />
D1T11 ??/Bandits/??/Indestructible Sam(medley)<br />
D1T12 Laundromat?<br />
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A medley featuring side boob/<a href="https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/txfmtn" target="_blank">Roses and Blue Jays</a>/September She Comes/Poland/Bachelor of Science<br />
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D2T01 So Fresh (Laundromat Boogie, 2014)<br />
D2T02 Heart of Stone/Pants on Fire/Stella<br />
D2T03 Paper Airplane<br />
D2T04 A Case For Us<br />
D2T05 Buck talks<br />
D2T06 Centaur<br />
D2T07 Dang/NSFW Music Video<br />
D2T08 Full Moon (Bike For Three)<br />
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D2T10 Buck talks<br />
D2T11 Superhero In My Heart<br />
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D2T14 Super Pretty Naughty<br />
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Accessibility Rating: B You can get in but the GA isn't conducive to a good view. <br />
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A November to remember is a wrap. <br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-31462779925130850782014-08-10T10:01:00.000-04:002014-08-10T10:01:44.738-04:00A Mini-StaycationEcho Beach<>BMO FieldKitchener Blues FestWow, this weekend came upon us suddenly. Didn't even know we had plans.<br />
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The Offspring is bringing the Summer Nationals back to Toronto. The 20th year anniversary of their break-out tour with three other Orange County acts: The Vandals, Pennywise and Bad Religion.<br />
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I may be getting too old for this shit.<br />
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I've got both my kids in tow, each of them with a date. It was back in 1997 I had a 14 year old Emily and 12 year old Michael on the rail at the Warehouse for The Offspring's Ixnay on the Hombre tour. Somehow this makes sense.<br />
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Boy the punks are getting old. And we're talking Third Wave punk. Of course with Joe Strummer gone and all the Ramones passing on, the First Wave isn't fairing so well either.<br />
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But you gotta love the sound. Three minute pieces at full throttle and all the anti-authority rants you can handle for someone looking ahead to collecting their pension.<br />
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This may not be an accurate set list but it's pretty close. Lots of crowd favourites in here. <br />
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Pennywise hit the stage with a lovely anniversary banner (it's their 25th) and more power-punk, a notch up in intensity. I was up on the rail for these two bands. The mosh-pit continued to grow and get a little more rambunctious but they kept a tight circle and there was plenty of space for those who just wanted to watch and listen.</div>
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Pennywise<br />
Rules<br />
My Own Country<br />
Same Old Story<br />
My Own Way<br />
Restless Time<br />
Minor Threat<br />
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Unknown Road<br />
Perfect People<br />
Fuck Authority<br />
Society<br />
Yesterdays<br />
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Here's a picture my daughter took from the soundboard, with the CN Tower in the background so we will always know where it came from. <br />
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I thought they had the opening bands in the wrong order. Bad Religion's set was a little muddier, moodier and less fun. Of course my son and 8,000 other fans begged to differ. </div>
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Stranger Than Fiction<br />
New America<br />
21st Century (Digital Boy)<br />
Fuck You<br />
Struck a Nerve<br />
Skyscraper<br />
Sorrow<br />
No Direction<br />
Only Rain<br />
True North<br />
You Are (The Government)<br />
1000 More Fools<br />
Best for You<br />
Do What You Want<br />
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Ahh, The Offspring. Always a good time. Have had my son beside me all 4 times we've seen them, it's a family tradition. This year they are playing their hit album SMASH in it's entirety, in order.</div>
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We're out of the park, everyone in a good mood, stuck in the horrific traffic jam that is Construction Season in Toronto. Day 1 down.<br />
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Day 2 starts with the car in the shop and the utility company replacing our water meter. Than another horrific traffic jam entering the park.<br />
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We were watching the World Cup awhile ago and saw the advert for the Women's Under 20 World Cup being hosted by Canada. There's something about International amateur events that allows me to overlook the Roman Empire elements of our sporting culture. It's even easier when it's the women who are sharing the spotlight. Sport is purer.<br />
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Our girls are not expected to win this event but they have a chance of getting out of the group round with a victory tonight. After losing the opening game to Ghana by a score of 1-0 it's imperative we beat Finland. Of course 'beat' sounds harsh when you look on the field and see 16 year olds playing at a superb level.<br />
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The opening game tonight has third rated PRK (People's Republic of Korea, you know they have property in the far east, on the bad side of the wall) against Ghana, both victors in their opening matches. The game is filled with yellow cards and hard tackles. Even the referee was sent off due to injury. In the end PRK won 3-0 but the lasting memories are of the boisterous Ghana fans who beat drums and sang throughout the match.<br />
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When it was over they switched to Canadian flags and broke into a rendition of our National Anthem.<br />
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Our girls fell behind early even though they were dominating the possession stats. A couple of defensive lapses resulted in a half-time deficit of 2-0. It seemed insurmountable.<br />
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In the second half we made a couple key substitutions, adding some fresh legs up front. Two goals a minute and a half apart evened up the score early. We then netted a third at the 80 minute mark to seal the victory and keep hope alive.<br />
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Day 3 starts a little more leisurely with a late breakfast and a short drive to nearby Kitchener for their wonderful, free Bluesfest.<br />
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Buddy Guy and Quinn Sullivan opened the festival on Thursday night with a headliner show at the Clocktower Stage in Victoria Park. We're here today to see two artists we've seen previously.<br />
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At 3:15 PM we get the Alexis P Suter Band. We saw Alexis back in 2006 when she was a steady opener at the Levon Helm Rambles held in Woodstock NY. She was impressive then, she's a force of nature now.<br />
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Soulful blues is what she delivers. Powerful voice. A lotta woman. She's sassy and frisky, just like Big Mamma Thornton but she brings the house down when she pours her emotions into Let It Be. Goosebump time.<br />
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She also dedicated a song to Levon Helm, a rendition of Dylan's Knockin' On Heaven's Door that closed many a Ramble.<br />
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And she had her own songs too. From her newest release she gave us You Don't Move Me No More and Shake Your Hips and a few more. Included in the set was her signature song, Built For Comfort, Not For Speed. Great set.<br />
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Junior Brown I missed in 2006 when he opened the early portion of Dylan's Ballpark Summer tour but I caught up with him later at the Ottawa Blues Fest and have been a fan ever since. Even made a trip out to Ann Arbor to see him because he doesn't bring his brand of Tex-Mex guitar to Canada very often.<br />
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His set list hasn't changed too much, did hear 2 or 3 new songs, one of which was a ballad that replaced my favourite song...but you can't always get what you want. His set was marred a little by muddy sound making it difficult to capture the lyrics on some songs where Junior's baritone voice is the instrument. Impressive guitar playing all the way through...that you always get.<br />
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Junior dedicated a song to the Johnny Winter who passed away last month. It occurs to me we're going to see a lot of these dedications if we continue to see these artists who have had long careers.<br />
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We have shared many a miles and hotel rooms chasing Dylan around North America. Also saw a high-school friend, James, who was in town from Massachusetts for a neice's wedding. A little bit of everything this weekend. The kids, the wife, music, sports, more music, friends and plenty of summer sun.<br />
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OH, and here's the Junior Brown song I wished he'd played.<br />
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Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-86267575958801598502014-08-03T11:09:00.000-04:002014-08-03T11:09:52.959-04:00A Tale of Two Artists Corin Raymond at the Cameron HouseJack White at the ACCJuly 31,2014A nice double-header of sorts. With Jack White playing the ACC on a Thursday night I'm able to head to The Cameron House for Corin Raymond's twilight set behind the red velvet curtains. Somebody is opening for Jack but they won't be better than this.<br />
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Cece and I try to see Corin Raymond as often as possible. It's good for the soul. In a small, dark club on Queen St West, you step between the red velvet curtains, wait for your eyes to adjust to the darkness, find a spot on a worn bench, get a drink and sit back to enjoy Toronto's Troubadour and whatever band he's assembled. The Sundowners usually consist of guitar wizard and local producer David Baxter, bass player extraordinaire Brian Kobayakowa, currently backing Serena Ryder on her year long break out tour, and multi-instrumentalist, Juno award nominee, Treasa Levasseur. You get almost two hours of this for a Pay What You Can ticket price. Tonight Treasa is not available and our guest piano player is Mike Evans, in town to record a new record and do a spot at the venerable Hugh's Room. <br />
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Corin's onstage, plugging in and setting levels, as the place begins to fill up. He's holding 3 conversations with people spread throughout the room. His mind is on a Nick Cave concert he's attending a little later and his upcoming vacation/working break, that will take him from Winnipeg to central BC in August with a stop at Wabigoon Lake on the way out.<br />
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He's focused when he takes the stage. Opens with a Doug Norquay word-painting of a bar on the outskirts of Hades, where people with no feet will get you drunk and steal your shoes.<br />
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"By the light of day salvation's face<br />
Looks like a couple piss holes in the snow,<br />
Bury me in the devil's bourbon glass, <br />
Kill me if Ethel's Lounge is closed."<br />
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Bet it on the dogs, for sure.<br />
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Get happy! Ridin' West on Dundas is a setting sun, smoke on your mind, ride through Kensington Market in the twilight of an April day. Foot stompin' music.<br />
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That's enough of that stuff, let's get blue.<br />
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John Borra's Blues Mama (or Blue Yodel #127 as I like to call it) opens a tri-pack of songs about lost love, lost love and lost love. Sometimes it's her (Blues Mama), sometimes it's you (Hard On Things) and sometimes it's just the situation (The Law and the Lonesome). It's always something.<br />
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Maybe it's because Corin's going to be gone for a month but he's playing SONGS tonight, not just songs.<br />
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Next up a ballad about, well, lost love, but also about snow in Nashville. If Wishes Were Horses is perpetually fighting for the favorite song of the week spot in my mind.<br />
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Our hero, the protagonist in every Corin Raymond song, has had a pretty tough day so far. You'd think he'd be ready to pack it in. Not quite. Take Me To The Mountain (But Not Yet) is a revival-tinged shout out to the master for just one more chance at life's bucket list. A plea for more time to enjoy the simple joys that cross our paths...pickin' a horse or bedding a girl.<br />
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Ridley Bent's upbeat story about, well, love lost and misplaced vinyl, the raucous Nine Inch Nails leads off the tri-pack of songs that end the first set.<br />
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"The breakup was a rough one,<br />
She pulled out a shot gun,<br />
We worked it out,<br />
She got it all and a matching couch..."<br />
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Stealin' My Heart and 3000 Miles lift the spirit of the crowd as the hat gets passed and we take a quick break before the truncated second set.<br />
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The crowd is much noisier as the second set opens with a brand new song about our outdoor-friends that we pass but don't always see. These characters our found in Toronto's Kensington Market, an area made famous by Al Waxman. It's an urban ode.<br />
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The next tri-pack of songs features tunes from Corin's recent Paper Nickels release. More Doug Norquay with Cruel Cruel Town. It's followed by a cover of Evelyn Parry's Bucket of Time and closes with Ole Fort Mac, a real depressing song about the prices paid for our oil, yet it's also a celebratory anthem. A little cognitive dissonance is needed to joyously sing this song but that's how it has to be done.<br />
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The next tri-pack finds another favorite ballad about well, lost love, Wish I Was In Love, and a wonderful ballad called Blue Mermaid Dress closes it, that song is about, well, lost love. In between we don't have to wonder why the singer drinks just a little bit too much.<br />
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Show closes with an anthem for all present tonight, the fans and the artists.<br />
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Corin Raymond - vocals, guitar<br />
Dave Baxter - guitar, mandolin, backing vox<br />
Brian Kobayakowa - bass<br />
Mike Evans - piano, backing vox<br />
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Set 1<br />
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Ethel's Lounge<br />
Ridin' West on Dundas<br />
Blues Mama<br />
Hard On Things<br />
The Law and the Lonesome<br />
If Wishes Were Horses<br />
Take Me To the Mountain<br />
Nine Inch Nails<br />
Stealin' My Heart<br />
3000 Miles<br />
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Set 2<br />
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Sweetest On The Vine (Kensington Market Song)<br />
Cruel Cruel Town<br />
Bucket of Time<br />
Ole Fort Mac<br />
Wish I Was In Love<br />
I Only Drink A Little (Too Much)<br />
Blue Mermaid Dress<br />
There Will Always Be A Small Time<br />
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And here's an extra fun video from Corin. My son was one of the videographers:)<br />
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From the small times to the big times, Jack White doing his first solo arena show. <br />
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I wasn't even going to review this show until I read a critics recap in The Toronto Sun. Jan Stephenson was definitely at the same concert, she just heard something different than I did. She loved the 'sing-a-longs' and the 'mega-hits' with extended guitar solos. She hated the piano ballads. Thought I'd set the record straight, as I see it anyway.<br />
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I hope I don't have to defend my Jack White credentials. He is the only rock-god out there now. Miles beyond anyone, including the self-deprecating Kanye West, in talent and vision. Doesn't mean he's perfect.<br />
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Actually it's less a case of perfection, more a case of things have changed. He's changed. I've changed. My tolerance for the face-clawing element of Jack's set is not growing. It's interesting too because Jack seems to feel he can't control his fans either. There's a pre-show announcement with the dim hope that you can convince the audience to not spend the night viewing the show through the glare of their cell phones, yet he invokes the audience to sing-a-long or chant...which is fine if I thought I'd pay for any of them to perform the songs. The ballads seemed to be a signal for people on dates to pick up their dinner conversation. The new songs were met well, I'll say that.<br />
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It doesn't matter if I get it all, there's no denying that Jack is mastering a new element of live theater; conducting a band. Every song is a vehicle for one of the members. Usually it's Jacks guitar but an energetic drummer, pixie fiddle player, bass player and someone on the theramin, all get their time in the spotlight. (As a sidebar the theramin has now made an appearance at 4 shows I've attended this year.)<br />
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It opened well enough with Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, reworked but still the same at heart. The next 12 minutes and 31 seconds will seem like an eternity. <br />
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The low-light of the show was Lazaretto followed by the instrumental High Ball Stepper. Yawn. First off Lazaretto was butchered. He dropped TWO excellent verses and a couple lines at the end of other verses. The song goes on for over 4 minutes but the last minute and a half are an instrumental jam that leads into High Ball Stepper...which goes on for an excruciating 7 minutes and 8 seconds including the feed-back droning.<br />
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Here's my breakdown of the poorly treated Lazaretto.<br />
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* sung<br />
**mumbled<br />
***missed<br />
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*My veins are blue and connected<br />
*And every single bone in my brain is electric<br />
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*But I dig ditches like the best of 'em<br />
*Yo trabajo duro<br />
*Como en madera y yeso<br />
*Como en madera y yeso<br />
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**And even God herself<br />
*Has fewer plans than me<br />
*But she never helps me out with my scams for free,<br />
*though she grabs a stick and then she points it at me<br />
*When I say nothing, I say everything<br />
***Yeah when I say nothing, I say everything<br />
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<span style="color: red;">***They threw me down in the lazaretto<br />***Born rottin', bored rotten<br />***Makin' models of people I used to know<br />***Out of coffee and cotton<br /><br />***And all of my illegitimate kids have begotten<br />***Thrown down to the wolves, made feral for nothin'<br />***Quarantine on the Isle of Man and I'm trying to escape any way that I can, oh<br />***Any way that I can, oh</span><br />
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*I have no time left<br />
*Time is lost, no time at all, throw it in a garbage can<br />
*And I shake God's hand<br />
*I jump up and let her know when I can<br />
***This is how I'm gonna do it<br />
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*They wanna blow down in prison<br />
*They're lighting fires with the cast of the masses<br />
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*And like the dough I don't fall down<br />
*I'm so Detroit, I make it rise from the ashes<br />
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Fortunately the WTF spell was broken by a lovely countrified version of Hotel Yorba, dedicated to Stompin' Tom Connors and slightly marred by the dropped lines that Jack had the audience fill in. More on that habit later. Great fiddle work in this song.<br />
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Jack hits his stride with the triumvirate of songs that follow; Temporary Ground, Weep Themselves to Sleep and Missing Pieces. This is new Jack White at his best. Great songs well delivered. Missing Pieces included a brief part of Howlin' Wolfs' I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline).<br />
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Jack moves to the piano for Apple Blossom but once again lets the audience fill in some lines. Look, Bruce was doing this back in 1975. We know you're famous and cool because the fans can fill in all the gaps but I ain't bought one of their records, nor attended one of their shows. There's a reason for that. Jack's vocal delivery is wonderful, all tremelo and whatnot. The piano didn't suck either. This is followed by what is the highlight of the show for me tonight, a tender reading of the Danger Mouse song, The Rose With the Broken Neck. It's a song that must be heard, can't be described.<br />
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The two song acoustic revery is broken by the familiar and welcome chords of Cannon. This marks the "every non-Racs or Dead Weather Jack show I've attended" number of times I've got this song in concert.(Somewhere over 20 but under 30). It's not a show without a Cannon medley. He adds a stunning guitar solo, a Hendrix cover a snippet of Hear My Train A-Comin', Astro and an unidentified lyric to it tonight.<br />
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Another great song from the new record, Just One Drink gives us a few minutes of mindless joy before we head into the tri-pack of monster songs that leads to the encore.<br />
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Two White Stripes anthems wrapped around a Raconteurs rarity. A bouncy You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told) is fleshed out by less minimalist drumming than Meg brought to the song. Jack's solo is rippin' too. Top Yourself is the vehicle for band introductions and solo's including a lovely refrain from Lillie Mae on the fiddle and a shout out to Geddy Lee during the bass solo.<br />
That extravaganza consumed 10 minutes and 35 seconds before Jack goes into I'm Slowly Turning Into You for the set closer. He graciously tosses in a couple versions of his take on Tampa Red's You Can't Get That Stuff No More.<br />
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At this point I should have turned off my rig. The 6-plus minutes of audience noise during the encore is about how much of Seven Nation Army I was going to miss when the batteries on my recorder died. It's been a long night and there's 10 songs left.<br />
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Two hard rockin' blues tunes to open the encore; the manic Icky Thump followed by the majestic sounds of Ball and Biscuit.<br />
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If that Danger Mouse cover was the single highlight of the night then next segment, three acoustic songs, with silver stand-up bass and the entire band in a tight circle at center stage, was the visual sweet-spot of this show. The wonderful Alone in My Home with the haunting "becoming a ghost" refrain is another testament to the quality of the new songs on the Laz record.<br />
A long instrumental noodle as the band is taking position and Jack is picking the next song leads into a lovely rendition of We Are Going to Be Friends...with the ever-present audience participation.<br />
Love Interruption gets the acoustic treatment with an unrecognized riff tacked onto the end.<br />
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Steady As She Goes ratchets up the volume before Jack breaks into the bombastic Hello Operator...again marred by dropping key lines for the audience to sing. With the rest of the songs I could take it...but Hello Operator? HELLO!?!?!?!?!<br />
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Two more songs from what I now realize is a terrific album. Would You Fight For My Love? Lovely piano piece with jungle drums and ethereal violins. Great vocals. That Black Bat Licorice may not have the weight of the previous song but it rocks us into the final anthem of the night...the head-bangers delight that is Seven Nation Army.<br />
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I got a little bit to say about Seven Nation Army and the shit that was going down in the mosh-pit during the recognizable Stripes songs. The live experience at a Jack show changed with this song. It marked the moment when the Stripes lost their innocence, through no fault of their own. It's become such a well-know 'rock classic' that it attracts an element more interested in head-banging than in respecting the art of the show. 15 minutes before Jack takes the stage we get a PSA on cell-phones and how viewing a concert through the hazy blue screen (not to be confused with the hazy blue stage but that's a subject for another rant) is not the best way to enjoy the live experience. I concur. I would just like to add that dodging elbows in a vicious slam-dance fest or being groped and thrown over the stage security fence at the end of an abusive crowd surf isn't conducive to it either.<br />
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Intro<br />
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground<br />
Lazaretto<br />
High Ball Stepper<br />
Hotel Yorba<br />
Temporary Ground<br />
Weep Themselves to Sleep<br />
Missing Pieces/I Asked For Water(She Gave Me Gasoline)(H.Wolf)<br />
Apple Blossom<br />
The Rose With the Broken Neck<br />
(Danger Mouse cover)<br />
Cannon/Hear My Train a Comin'(Jimi Hendrix cover)/Astro/unidentified riff and lyric<br />
Just One Drink<br />
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)<br />
Top Yourself<br />
I'm Slowly Turning Into You/You Can't Get That Stuff No More (Tampa Red)<br />
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Encore:<br />
Icky Thump<br />
Ball and Biscuit<br />
Alone in My Home<br />
We're Going to Be Friends<br />
Love Interruption<br />
Steady, As She Goes<br />
Hello Operator<br />
Would You Fight for My Love?<br />
That Black Bat Licorice<br />
Seven Nation Army(incomplete)<br />
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Jack's Glastonbury set on YouTube<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Y_8CIdatM1A" width="560"></iframe> Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-55030088374538536592014-02-14T06:44:00.002-05:002014-02-14T06:45:19.186-05:00The Beatles, Shakespeare John Otway, John Cooper Clarke UK Road Trip Pics and Ruminations February 2 -10, 2014We headed into this trip with a little trepidation. It was the first time we had flown with the wheelchair and we are back in the UK where cobblestone streets reign supreme.<br />
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We needn't have worried. What a terrific vacation. Good fortune followed us everywhere ... except when we were driving. And understand, this is no fault of Cece's. She is a supreme navigator and what we found was all her doing. Any issues with getting lost really came down to a quick-trigger finger on the driver who just couldn't seem to wait for the right exit on the round to come around...or, keep going around if you're not sure.<br />
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Here's Cece giving me instructions: "Honey, go straight for .8 miles then at the round take the third exit towards A5080 Liverpool."<br />
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Here's how I react: When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again Look out Helter skelter, helter skelter<br />
Helter skelter.<br />
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But we found Liverpool and so much more.<br />
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One small mishap with the wheelchair transfer. There was some confusion as to whether it would be brought to the plane or we were to pick it up at the baggage carousel. Baggage carousel it is...but no chair. Luckily Cece spotted the gentleman who grabbed it at the plane door as he was being wheeled by her. We recovered ours and were on our way.<br />
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To our second travel lesson. Watch out for the car rental upgrade scheme. No matter what you order online they will try to slyly move you up a notch or two for another £15 a day extra...though the 'extra' part was not crystal clear. I declined and tried to pay in Canadian dollars. She hit me with a chorus of "You never give me your money...You only give me your funny paper and in the middle of negotiations, you break down."<br />
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So we're on the long and winding road and we're so tired. The only way to do Europe is stay up as late as you can that first day. So we head off to find all the Beatle related historical sites we could locate.<br />
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First stop, St. Peter's Church in Woolton, appropriately it's on Church Road.<br />
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It's here, on July 6, 1957 that Paul McCartney remembers first meeting John Lennon as he relates on tape in a display at The Beatles Story.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.beatlesbible.com/1957/07/06/john-lennon-meets-paul-mccartney/" target="_blank">Follow this link to The Beatles Bible for a great retelling of that day</a> </b><br />
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History, being a thing that always changes, has recently been revised, as told to me by Tim Swaddling on Facebook: "<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">As
revealed in Lewisohn's new book, Paul first met John on a bus. Lennon
didn't remember the encounter later but Paul did, as Paul was aware of
John previous to that as someone he found interesting. John's reputation
preceded him. </span><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">It is, of course, where they established the friendship and musical interests."</span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">Just to the left of the church is a graveyard where Eleanor Rigby rests.</span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">Paul says his song has no relation to this marker. So that's TWO myths blown to hell and we've only made one stop. </span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0"><br /></span></span></span>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">Suffice it to say this much is indisputable. St. Peter's Church is the starting point of the Beatles Story.</span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0"><br /></span></span></span>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3v.1:3:1:$comment10201482478684113_51183499:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$2:0">And John was the Quarryman. The Man from Mendips.</span></span></span><br />
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over the years. The red iron gates have recently been replaced by replicas. Unlike The Beatles.</span><br />
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Speaking of A Hard Days Night, our cab driver dropped us off in front of that very spot to begin our second day in Liverpool.<br />
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It's right outside the Cavern Quarters at Matthew Street, a pedestrian mall dedicated to the memory of The Beatles in these alleys.<br />
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These dark and narrow roads lead into a huge, bright, pedestrian mall called Liverpool 1. A marvelous 2 square mile shopping heaven. It was packed, even before the mid-day break made it too congested.<br />
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We circumnavigate the mall a couple times then make our way to Albert Docks for a trip back in time via The Beatles Story Museum. The first part of the exhibit is housed in the glorious brick buildings of the Docks.<br />
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Out on the street for a one mile walk to the newer confines of the second part of The Beatles Story. This building contains the Fab 4D experience, Elvis and Us and the Hidden Photos exhibit. No photos allowed at the Elvis and Us exhibit, Graceland rules. The most distressing part of the story, the day the Beatles met Elvis, was that Col Parker and Epstein made sure there were no recordings of the impromptu jam. Not very forward thinking of them.<br />
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The road out of Liverpool actually has us braving the deep interior of the city again as I was not able to get that haircut the first time we happened by the barbershop on Penny Lane. Also forgot to get the Eleanor Rigby headstone. Still didn't find Ringo's house. If it was there.<br />
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We made it to Royal Leamington Spa in good time but did get lost along the way. Ended up in Stratford-Upon-Avon a day before we wanted to be visiting. After we found our hotel we decided not to head out in the evening to a town we had not yet visited to catch a play. Ate the tickets. Got acclimatized to our host city for the next few days. Gives us a reason to go back. <br />
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The next morning has us venturing back to Shakespeare's hometown. We can't find it. Right away. But we do. Another town with a large pedestrian mall making it easy to see the buildings.<br />
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Here's Shakespeare's birthplace. It's old.<br />
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And Hope House where he died.<br />
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Beside his wife, Anne.<br />
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Housed inside Holy Trinity Church.<br />
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Day out in Leamington Spa, another shopping/walking town...but with a hill. Easy enough to get around...a little to boutique for my liking. Met a nice 'outdoor friend', they are always there for conversation if you have an eye that actually sees them.<br />
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We are outside the Leamington Assembly early enough to chat up some other OCD patrons who think 7 o'clock doors means being there at 6:30 PM. Nice marquee here; Stiff Little Fingers, The Stranglers, Buzzcocks and Joan Armatrading coming soon. We'd made some arrangements to make sure we could access the venue in comfort and Mr Paul Hannon took great care of us as he wheeled us to the rail before the main doors opened. Now for a high quality recording I should have stepped back about 30' or so...but it's the rail, so I'm not leaving.<br />
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In the bar I run into John Otway and grab his arm as he's reaching for his wallet. In retrospect that might have been a touch fresh. "In Canada the artists don't pay for their beer, they get paid in beer. Put you wallet away sir." "But I'm buying for the whole band," he replies. Once we ascertain he's not travelling with the London Philharmonic I agree to buy the entire band a round. Cost only £22. Got 15 minutes of conversation out it, well worth the price. John and the boys will be in Canada in May. I will be there buying another round.<br />
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I won't got into too much detail about Otway, or tomorrow's show with John Cooper Clarke. Suffice it to say that Cece and I flew to England to see them and built the rest of the trip around these two nights.And we don't just go anywhere to see anybody...OK, maybe we go everywhere to see everybody, but this one is real special. It's too late to turn you on to them but I was so happy in the moment that it made this trip more than worthwhile.<br />
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As one of the band members said when I related seeing Otway in 1979 and 1980. "Well then, same show, same gags, you will be right at home." For the most part he was right...on both counts.<br />
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John opens with two punk-paced early hits; 'Cor Baby That's Really Free and Beware of the Flowers ('Cause I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You Ya) and I'm smiling cheek-to-cheek. These are from 1977 but they are not his first release...that is yet to come.<br />
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Next up is a wonderful cover that makes you see a classic song in a different light. More of that to come as well. <span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dx063x" target="_blank">Otway tears into the 'i felt the spoon in my hand' version of Tom Jones' Delilah.</a></b></span><br />
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Next a 'new' song (ie. it was released after 1981) called Enjoy, It Won't Last Long, a heartfelt ballad. John does ballad and bedlam.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/gnk504" target="_blank">Louisa On An Horse is bedlam at it's finest.</a></b></span> John's a visual artist. The first two songs tonight were accompanied by running-cross-stage-somersaults. Dangerous for anyone, never mind someone collecting their pension. This one has John making a neck-brace for his mic with a coat hanger. 'Cause he's ridin' you see. On an horse.<br />
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First set closes with two more punk-speed pop tunes, Lets Pogo and We Rock.<br />
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Second set. More mayhem.<br />
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Opens with his second, if fabricated hit, Bunsen Burner. Do the google, or not, there's better stuff to come.<br />
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Another new fast paced song, Crazy Horses, is followed by a wonderful ballad, Josephine. We wanted Geneve in this spot but you can't have everything. It's followed by another newer song, Oh My Body Is Making Me. Not Bodytalk, that would have been cool.<br />
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Back into ballad mode for Best Dream I've Ever Had and then the money shot.<br />
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Back to back.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/928ukv" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The extremely rare, Birthday Boy.</b></span> </a>I've taken liberty with this edit. Before the show a couple showed up with some birthday cakes meant for a post-show celebration. The owner of the venue is celebrating his 112th, or something. After the third song I shouted out... "Who's the lucky birthday boy", but it was a little premature. So I've edited that cry and put it at the beginning of this song. Nothing is real.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/vajdfr" target="_blank">And then...Cheryl's Goin' Home. It's John's Let It Be or his Like A Rolling Stone or his Terraplane Blues...the best he's ever done. </a></b></span>I've got a video of my 3 year old son playing air-guitar to this song. It's pretty precious.<br />
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Show closes with When We Were Two.<br />
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Our driving difficulties convinced us to book a hotel in Northampton for the John Cooper Clarke show rather than risk driving back an hour after the show. Good choice. Cece found us another hotel that was walking distance to the venue. You know what that means, right? Pre-drinking!<br />
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We're up front again tonight. JCC is breaking himself up. Makes it a little hard to follow but once again I am so in-the-moment I'm just lapping it up. We get a lot of familiar stuff and some new tomes that were pretty funny.<br />
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Show opens with a piece on the rhyming names of the inhabitants of Northampton.<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/vqmonk" target="_blank">It's followed by Hire Car, which is what we're driving, but I'm taking much better care of it than John would.</a></b></span><br />
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John goes off on tangents. They don't translate well to tape but they are fun to watch and listen to.<br />
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On the last Sunday we head to Talke to spend some time with some friends and their growing family.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-73710650115776857892014-02-02T06:53:00.001-05:002014-02-02T06:53:25.289-05:00Road Trip: UK Style Mersey Beat to Mancusian Punk Poetry with some insanity in Leamington SpaFebruary 2014 OK, so back in November I said to Cece, "I've got good news and bad news." "The good news is I want to go somewhere warmer in February. The bad news is, it's Manchester."<br />
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Should be a LITTLE warmer anyway. No beaches though.<br />
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John Otway AND John Cooper Clarke; this double-header has been on my bucket list since it's inception back in 2001. In the early 1980's we had the pleasure of seeing both these marginal British 'new wave' artists in Toronto.<br />
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Otway accompanied by Wild Willy Barrett played in a basement room with a capacity of 50 and a stage that was about 8' X 4'. That was two shows at The Hotel Isabella on Sherbourne Street. Headbutts and somersaults, riding an horse and that train, that train, going choo-choo-choo down the track. He brought it all and left behind blood, sweat and tears of laughter.<br />
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Cooper-Clarke was a different scene altogether. The hardcore punks were out in force at The Voodoo Lounge on St Joseph's street. We didn't know what we were getting. The alt-radio success of Beasley St. was not representative of this man's oeuvre. What we got was machine-gun fast heavily accented spoken word. And no band. It was terrific. The crowd was growing restless but JCC shut them down with this admonition; "If you want the fuckin' music, buy the fuckin' album."<br />
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In the intervening decades life happened to all involved but I've never forgotten the joy of those three sweaty evenings at the peak of the last great wave of rock n roll. I had the good fortune of seeing the likes of The Clash (before the release of London Calling), The Ramones, Rockpile, Elvis Costello and a list of other artists who crossed the ocean (mostly) or came north from Rockaway Beach. With the exception of Elvis what these two have on the rest is ... they are still playing. That I find serendipitous. 'Cause I'm still movin'.<br />
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In 2005 we visited the UK and Liverpool was on the agenda. Car troubles cost us most of our allotted visiting time. This year we're going to spend 3 days in Merseyside and see all there is to see. Or all we care to see, at the least. It'll be the usual; looking for childhood homes, dead people and places known in songs. The Albert Docks looks like a good place to spend a day.<br />
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Just the two of us. We have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead...but it doesn't mean we have to stop making them.<br />
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We are then going to set up camp in Leamington Spa for four nights. From here we can spend a couple of evenings in Stratford-Upon_Avon diving into the Shakespeare mythology.<br />
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Perhaps even catch a play or two at The Globe.<br />
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Then it's the double-header of Otway/Clarke and a day visit with a long-time dylanpool friend and his family near Manchester.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-77443326090258929792013-12-27T14:10:00.001-05:002013-12-27T14:10:48.931-05:00Top 100 78 RPM's Countdown OK, so this is the result of almost a year of rummaging through cases of 78 RPM's.<br />
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A couple warnings before you move ahead:<br />
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Most of these records are over 55 years old. Some are over 90 years old. The quality varies from 'noisy' (#87 Roy Acuff, Rate G+) to excellent (#3 Buddy Holly, Rate VG+) to almost pristine (#36 Sonny BoyWilliamson I, Rate E or Elvis Presley's Hound Dog, Rate E-).<br />
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In the 78 RPM community a record with lots of background static noise, where you can still hear the instruments and vocals above that noise, is rated a V. That's on a scale of "P" (poor, something to hang on your wall) through "G" (barely listenable),"V" (wish I had a better copy but I'll play it), "VG" (also VG+. VG++), "E" and "M" (Mint, never played).<br />
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Also, most everything before 1935 was recorded 'acoustically'...it's quieter. From '35-50 the recording quality varies from very good to hot. With the advent of rock n roll someone turned the knob to 11 and those records were often recorded hot (much like CD ROMS who simulate 'quality' by simply increasing the volume). If you're inclined to save any of these mp3's I would order them by date to eliminate the shift from soft-to-loud. <br />
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Pay no real heed to the order of these songs. It's just a riff. Could have had 8 more <b>Hank Williams</b> and 8 more <b>Bessie Smith</b> songs on this list... but we want to represent. In the end I decided to throw up some "B Sides" to improve the overall sound quality.<br />
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These songs are also a testament to the fact you don't need more than 3 minutes to tell a story. <br />
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<b>My Top 5 Recommendations of artists you may not have heard that will prove to be interesting :</b><br />
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<b>#96 Jack Scott, Geraldine (Carlton 483, 1958) Rockabilly, good beat, you can dance to it. I give it a 72.</b><br />
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<b>#65 Unknown Artist - Boogie Woogie Beat (Presto home recording) This came on a 'field recording' disc with no artist listed. It jumps. If you like Bette Midler, you will like this.</b><br />
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<b> #37 Lucille Hegamin, He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometime) (Cameo 287, January 1923) Early blues singer, bit of a hold-over from vaudeville, a flapper girl. </b><br />
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<b>#28 International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Jump Children (Guild 141, 1945) More jumping jazz/blues. Sassy. Perhaps a rare alternate version.</b><br />
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<b>#5 Tommy Mc Lennan, Bottle It Up and Go. Delta back-alley blues.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/c7yalo" target="_blank">#100 Pine Top Smith, Jump Steady Blues (Brunswick 80009, January 1929)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Clarence "Pine Top" Smith </b>was one of the earliest pianists to recorded a boogie-woogie piano solo. His 1928 tune "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" was the first recording to be labeled as such and and had a great deal of influence on all future pieces in that style. Pine Top toured the minstrel and vaudeville circuits throughout the 1920s performing with <b>Mamie Smith</b> and <b>Butter Beans and Susie</b> and other vaudeville acts. He was also a frequent solo performer at rent parties, taverns and whorehouses. Smith was accidently shot to death at a dance in Chicago in 1929.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/oiqm3u" target="_blank">#98 Hoagy Carmichael, Am I Blue (ARA 128,October 1945)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/zlbpee" target="_blank">#97 Josh White, Uncle Sam Says (Keynote 514, 1941)</a></b></span><br />
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A little known, or lesser known, black folk protest singer...years before <b>Bob Dylan</b>.<br />
White grew up in the Jim Crow South. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a prominent race records artist, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs. In 1931, White moved to New York, and within a decade his fame had spread widely; his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, traditional folk songs, and political protest songs. He soon was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film.<br />
White also became the closest African-American friend and confidant to president <b>Franklin D. Roosevelt</b>. However, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies resulted in the McCarthyites assuming him to be a Communist. Accordingly, from 1947 through the mid-1960s, White became caught up in the anti-Communist Red Scare, and combined with the resulting attempt to clear his name, his career was damaged.<br />
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More on White and Roosevelt:"After that first White House Command Performance ended, the Roosevelts invited White up to their private chambers, where they spent more than three hours talking about White's life story of growing up in Jim Crow South, listening to his songs written about those experiences, and drinking Café Royale (coffee and brandy). At one point during that evening, the President said to White, "You know, Josh, when I first heard your song 'Uncle Sam Says,' I thought you were referring to me as Uncle Sam....Am I right?" White responded, "Yes, Mr. President, I wrote that song to you after seeing how my brother was treated in the segregated section of Fort Dix army camp.... However that wasn't the first song I wrote to you.... In 1933, I wrote and recorded a song called 'Low Cotton,' about the plight of Negro cotton pickers down South, and in the lyrics I made an appeal directly to you to help their situation." The President, interested and impressed at the candor of his response, then asked White to sing those songs to him again. A friendship developed, five more Command Performances would follow, in addition to two appearances at the Inaugurations of 1941 and 1945; and the White family would spend many Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with the Roosevelts at their Hyde Park, New York mansion (now the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum)."<br />
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A Canadian-born, Detroit based, rockabilly artist. <br />
<b>Jack Scott </b>had more U.S. singles (19), in a shorter period of time (41 months), than any other recording artist – with the exception of <b>The Beatles</b>. Scott wrote all of his own hits, except one: "Burning Bridges."<br />
His legacy ranks him with the top legends of rock and roll. It has been said that "with the exception of <b>Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley</b>, no white rock and roller of the time ever developed a finer voice with a better range than Jack Scott, or cut a more convincing body of work in Rockabilly, Rock and Roll, Country-Soul, Gospel or Blues". This was his last hit, reaching #96 on the charts.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/dnxfet" target="_blank">#94 The Blues Man, Kansas City Boogie (Juke Box UR101, August 1944)</a></b></span><br />
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the <b>Sepia Tones</b>, a small group that fit into his budget. During his research he
had noticed that an inordinate number of successful records had the word
"boogie" in the title, jukebox operators were the biggest customers for these
race records and also acted as wholesalers for small independent companies. Boogie #1 was
the first release on his Juke Box label. It sold 70,000 copies and enabled Rupe to record
<b>Marion Abernathy "The Blues Woman,"</b> <b>Roosevelt Sykes "The Blues Man,"</b>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uni5ao" target="_blank">#90 Vernon Dalhart, Wreck of the Old '97 (HMV Victor 19427, 1924)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Vernon Dalhart </b>might have recorded more songs than anyone except <b>Bing Crosby</b>. (Bing didn't make the list even though I must have 200 + records of his) Vernon likes the rail wrecks too. And the odd sinking ocean liner. This guy could sing any style, started recording on Edison discs doing classical, operas and dance-band vocals. He's best known as a country performer.<br />
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Bob Dylan covered this song on his first album back when he wasn't sure if he wanted to be a blues singer or a hillbilly. He settled on Voice of A Generation.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/9cx7ac" target="_blank">#85 Billie Holiday, My Mother's Son-In-Law (Special Editions 5009 re-release of Columbia 2856-D, November 1933)</a></span></b><br />
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This is <b>Billie Holiday'</b>s first recording. The only song to come out of this session. She's backed by<b> Benny Goodman</b>'s combo, with<b> Gene Krupa</b> on drums and<b> Jack Teagarden</b>
on trombone.She is 18 years old at the time of recording. She's come a
long way in her four years in New York City, which began with a stint in
jail at the age of 14 on prostitution charges. This song sold 300
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/w3sucy" target="_blank">#84 Connie Francis, Who's Sorry Now (MGM 12588,1958)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"I'm full of cherry soda<br />
And potato chips<br />
But now I wanna get a taste<br />
Of your sweet lips" Dim Dim the Lights</i><br />
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<i>"Well grandpa done got rhythm and he threw his crutches down<br />
Well the old boy done got rhythm & blues and he threw that crutches down<br />
Grandma he ain't trifling well the old boy?s rhythm bound<br />
Well all them cats are bopping the blues it must be going round<br />
All my friends are bopping the blues it must be going round<br />
I love you baby but I must be rhythm bound<br />
Bop cat bop..."</i> <br />
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<b>Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas</b> and fellow “Grand Ole Opry” stars <b>Patsy Cline</b> and <b>Hawkshaw Hawkins</b> were passengers on a doomed plane piloted by Randy Hughes, who was Cline’s manager, a talented musician and stage performer and the husband of Copas’ daughter, Kathy. Around 7 p.m. on March 5, 1963 Hughes’ plane dove into the hard, cold winter woods near Camden, Tenn., 85 miles west of Nashville. The plane’s impact was like an egg hurled to the ground. No survivors. No chance.<br />
“When that plane went down, Copas was the biggest star onboard,” Cline’s widower, Charlie Dick, told “Opry” announcer, country music historian and WSM air personality Eddie Stubbs over the WSM airwaves.<br />
“Usually, today, Patsy seems to get top billing,” says Dick in a Tennessean interview, “But Patsy was a big fan of Copas and Hawk, and they were stars. Everybody on that plane was important to the music business. And all of them were top dogs.” <br />
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<i>"Young hearts can be foolish and make a mistake<br />
If they're not forgiven young hearts can break<br />
So kiss me my darling hold me tight young lips make everything right" Young Hearts</i><br />
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<b>Lonnie Johnson</b> was a pioneering Blues and Jazz guitarist and banjoist. He started playing in cafes in New Orleans and in 1917 he traveled in Europe, playing in revues and briefly with <b>Will Marion Cook's</b> Southern Syncopated Orchestra. When he returned home to New Orleans in 1918 he discovered that his entire family had been killed by a flu epidemic except for one brother. He and his surviving brother, <b>James "Steady Roll" Johnson </b>moved to St. Louis in 1920. In 1925 Johnson married Blues singer <b>Mary Johnson</b> and won a Blues contest sponsored by the Okeh record company. Part of the prize was a recording deal with the company. Throughout the rest of the 1920s he recorded with a variety of bands and musicians, including <b>Eddie Lang, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.</b> In the 1930s Johnson moved to Cleveland, Ohio and worked with the <b>Putney Dandridge Orchestra</b>, and then in a tire factory and steel mill. In 1937 he moved back to Chicago and played with <b>Johnny Dodds</b>, and <b>Jimmie Noone. Johnson</b> continued to play for the rest of his life, but was often forced to leave the music business for periods to make a living. In 1963 he once again appeared briefly with Duke Ellington.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5lk8h2" target="_blank">#73 Amos Milburn and his Aladdin Chickenshackers, The Glory of Love (Aladdin 3248, June 1954)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"You've got to win a little, lose a little,<br />
yes, and always have the blues a little.<br />
That's the story of, that's the glory of love.<br />
That's the story of, that's the glory of love."</i>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ifgp7f" target="_blank">#72 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, I Want You To Be My Girl (GEE 1012, January 1957)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Frankie Lymon</b>, a tragic figure, was an accidental pop-star. The lead singer of <b>The Teenagers</b> was late showing up to the recording session for <i>Why Do Fools Fall In Love? </i>and Frankie stepped up. The rest, as they say, is history. He was 13 when they recorded their first hit. 25 when he died of an heroin overdose.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/lpgvjc" target="_blank">#71 Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Johnson and Turner Blues (National 9011, February 1945)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Big Joe Turner</b>'s partnership with boogie-woogie pianist <b>Pete Johnson</b> proved fruitful. Together they went to New York City during 1936, where they appeared on a playbill with <b>Benny Goodman</b>, but as Turner recounts, "After our show with Goodman, we auditioned at several places, but New York wasn't ready for us yet, so we headed back to K.C.". Eventually they were witnessed by the talent scout, <b>John H. Hammond</b> during 1938, who invited them back to New York to appear in one of his "From Spirituals to Swing" concerts at Carnegie Hall, which were instrumental in introducing jazz and blues to a wider American audience.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/60mvqt" target="_blank">#70 The Chordettes, Mr Sandman (Apex 76047, 1954)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s21guj" target="_blank">#69 Memphis Minnie, Me and My Chauffeur (Okeh 06288, May 1941)</a></b></span><br />
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<i> "Won't you be my chauffeur </i><br />
<i>Won't you be my chauffeur </i><br />
<i>I wants him to drive me </i><br />
<i>I wants him to drive me downtown </i><br />
<i>Yes he drives so easy, I can't turn him down </i><br />
<i>But I don't want him </i><br />
<i>But I don't want him </i><br />
<i>To be ridin' these girls </i><br />
<i>To be ridin' these girls around </i><br />
<i>So I'm gonna steal me a pistol, shoot my chauffeur down"</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/bixuwa" target="_blank">#68 Lucille Hegamin, The Land of Cotton Blues (Cameo 407, August 1923)</a></b></span><br />
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Using Stephen Foster's melody from Swanee River. More on Lucille below.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/xvzeoa" target="_blank">#67 The Crew Cuts, Sh-Boom (Mercury 70404, 1954)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>Victoria Spivey in the studio. On the left, a young Bob Dylan. On the right John Hammond and Big Joe Williams.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/azisxp" target="_blank">#62 Victoria Spivey, Black Snake Swing (Decca 7203,July 1936)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>B.B. King wall mural in Leland, MS. visited May 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/h4u7he" target="_blank">#59 Bessie Smith, Gimme A Pigfoot (UHCA 49, 1934)</a></b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b>"</span>Oh Hannah Brown from way cross town<br />Gets full of coin and starts breaking 'em down<br />And at the break of day<br />You can hear ol' Hannah say<br />'Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.<br />Send me again.I don't care.<br />I feel just like I wanna clown."</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/rzjhad" target="_blank">#58 The Dells, Zing Zing Zing (Vee-Jay 166, September 1955)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uer7zb" target="_blank">#57 Jack Guthrie, Oklahoma Hills (Capitol 201, 1945)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Jack Guthrie</b> was a songwriter and performer whose rewritten version of his cousin <b>Woody Guthrie'</b>s song "Oklahoma Hills" was a number 1 hit in 1945. Guthrie's style was influenced by Jimmie Rodgers and adapted to fit his cowboy image. Although the labels listed Jack Guthrie and His Oklahomans as the artist, in reality Guthrie had no band. The studio brought in some of its better musicians to back Guthrie. Many of them, <b>Porky Freeman, Red Murrell, Cliffie Stone, and Billy Hughes</b> among them, were stars in their own right.<br />
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<i>The Yellow Brick Road at Land of Oz, Beech Mtn NC visited October 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/kzm2cr" target="_blank">#56 Judy Garland, Over the Rainbow (Decca 2672, July 1939)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/6qnth0" target="_blank">#55 Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers, The A B C's of Love (GEE 1022, October 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/aghn7f" target="_blank">#54 Elvis Presley Dont' Be Cruel (RCA Victor 20-6604, 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/iyewzi" target="_blank">#52 Hank Williams, Moanin' the Blues (MGM 10832, August 1950)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5apfgu" target="_blank">#50 Shirley and Lee, Let the Good Times Roll (Aladdin 3325, 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>New Orleans visited 2003.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ptatbd" target="_blank">#49 Huey "Piano" Smith, Don't You Just Know It (REO 8229, 1958)</a></b></span><br />
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His piano playing incorporated the boogie styles of <b>Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons</b>; the jazz style of <b>Jelly Roll Morton</b> and the piano playing of <b>Fats Domino</b>. Allmusic journalist, Steve Huey, also noted "At the peak of his game, Smith epitomized New Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic signature tune, "Don't You Just Know It." <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/678jfj" target="_blank">#48 Karen Chandler, Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me ( Coral 60831, 1952)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>Grave near Tutwiler MS visited May 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/6gt5cd" target="_blank">#47 Sonny Boy Williamson II, All My Love In Vain (Checker 824, August 1955)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"I`d rather be tied out on the desert<br />
Right out in the falling rain<br />
Tied out on the desert<br />
Right out in the falling rain<br />
Than to lose my baby<br />
She is the glory of a man" All My Love In Vain</i><br />
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<i>Fats' home in the 9th ward, refurbished by Tipitina's visited April 2010.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/b15z26" target="_blank">#45 Duane Eddy, Ramrod (REO 8280, 1958)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uc06uy" target="_blank">#44 Bessie Smith, One and Two Blues (Columbia 14172-D, October 1926)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8fgs59" target="_blank">#43 Hank Williams, Love Sick Blues (MGM 10352, December 1948)</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s1brnn" target="_blank">#42 Nicholas Lowe Go `Way Hound Dog (YepRock Yep-2252, 2011)</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/tt1ed0" target="_blank">#41 The Crew Cuts, Earth Angel (Mercury 70529, 1955)</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/40i15w" target="_blank">#40 The Platters, The Great Pretender (Mercury 70753, September 1955)</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/68wrsi" target="_blank">#39 Sanford Clark, The Fool (Dot 15481, 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5vs23z" target="_blank">#38 Little Richard, Heebie Jeebies (Specialty 584, July 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/6snbsi" target="_blank">#37 Lucille Hegamin, He May Be Your Man (But He Comes to See Me Sometime) (Cameo 287, January 1923)</a></b></span><br />
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<b>Lucille Hegamin </b>was the second African-American Blues singer to release a record in 1920, just few months after <b>Mamie Smith'</b>s groundbreaking success with "Crazy Blues". She and her husband formed the <b>Blue Flame Syncopators</b>
who supported her on all of her Arto records and toured the vaudeville
circuit throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio with her. When
Arto went bankrupt in 1923, Hegamin signed with Cameo and eventually
became known as the <b>Cameo Girl</b>. She had another big hit with the
risqué Blues song, <b>"He May Be Your Man, But He Comes to See Me
Sometime</b>" which was widely covered by other Classic Blues singers and
Jazz bands of the 1920s. Throughout the rest the 1920's and early
1930's, Lucille continued to sing and perform in musical revues. When
the Blues craze died out in the mid-1930s she left show biz and became a
registered nurse, but continued to perform and record from time to
time. In the early l960s, Hegamin returned to recording and released
records with <b>Willie "The Lion" Smith</b> and <b>Victoria Spivey</b>. After 1964,
Lucille did little performing due to illness. She died March 1, 1970.<br />
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<i>Road marker just inside Mississippi border visited May 2013.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/rhek6r" target="_blank">#36 Sonny Boy Williamson I, Hoodoo Man Blues (RCA Victor 20-2184, 1947)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/iagof1" target="_blank">#35 Ethel Merman, Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend (Brunswick 05154, 1953)</a></b></span><br />
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You may remember Marilyn Monroe's insipid (or syrupy) version of this song from the movie but this one has a little heart. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/3yrym8" target="_blank">#34 Ethel Waters, Loud Speakin' Papa (You'd Better Speak Easy to Me (Columbia 472-D, August 1925)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"<span style="font-family: Palatino;">Lucy Lee from Tennessee,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">Went and bought a radio set;</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">She also had a household pet,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">The loudest-speakin' papa I've
heard yet;</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">He talked tough, acted rough,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">And he strutted terribly proud,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">He'd rave and shout out loud;</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">He always sounded like a crowd;</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">One night he bawled her out about
her radio,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">This made Miss Lucy angry and she
told him so.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">She said:</span></i>
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<i><span style="font-family: Palatino;">Loud-speakin' papa, you better speak
easy to me;</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">Someday you'll shout and then no
doubt,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">I'm gonna turn your dial and tune
you out,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">'Cause I don't have to listen to
your noise and din.</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">There's plenty other stations I
can tune right in,</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">So loud-speakin' papa, you better
speak easy to me!</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">Get what I'm saying:</span>
<br /><span style="font-family: Palatino;">You better speak easy to me!"</span></i>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/r2usfx" target="_blank">#33 Jimmie Rodgers, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (Apex 76207,1957)</a></span></b><br />
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<i>"Well now that I'm old and I'm a'ready to go<br />I get to thinkin' what happened a long time ago<br />Had a lot of kids, a lot of trouble and pain<br />But then, whoops oh lordy, well I'd do it all again</i><br />
<i>Because she had kisses sweeter than wine<br />She had, mmm…kisses…sweeter…than…wine"</i> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/nom3a5" target="_blank">#32 Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog (Peacock 1612,1952)</a></b></span><br />
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When you want to know what something is about, you go to the source. Eventually overshadowed by Elvis' version. She was working in the studio with <b>Leiber, Stoller and Johnny Otis</b>. Otis loses credit by the time Elvis is doing this song. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ab72af" target="_blank">#31 Champion Jack Dupree Orch, Drinkin' Little Woman (Derby 770, 1951)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/xbo2bu" target="_blank">#30 Hank Williams, Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (MGM 11283, June 1952)</a></b></span><i><br /></i>
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<i>"Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'<br />
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen<br />
Dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh<br />
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou"</i><br />
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This song has a special place in our family. When my father was a young man (21 years old) he was in a hospital on the East Coast having a kidney removed. In 1950 that meant a year in convalescence.It was during this time he met my mother. The hospital, to entertain the patients, had phonographs and records which could be brought to a patient's room. Mom brought it by one day and it was over this song they first came to know each other.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/eedp9p" target="_blank">#29 Big Bill Broonzy, Just A Dream (Vocalion 4706, February 1939)</a></b></span> <br />
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Love this man's voice. Hot off his 1938 appearance at <b>John Hammond's</b> <i>From Spirituals To Swing</i> extravaganza where he filled in for the recently departed <b>Robert Johnson</b>. This song is a dream.<br />
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<i>"It was a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind<br />
It was a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind<br />
Now, and when I woke up, baby, not a thing there could I find<br />
I dreamed I went out with an angel, and had a good time<br />
I dreamed I was satisfied, and nothin' to worry my mind<br />
But that was just a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind,<br />
Now, and when I woke up, baby, not an angel could I find<br />
I dreamed I caught the horses, and caught the number too<br />
I dreamed I won so much money, I didn't know what to do<br />
But that was just a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind,<br />
Now, and when I woke up, baby, not a penny there could I find<br />
Dreamed I was in the White House, sittin' in the president's chair<br />
I dreamed he's shaking my hand, and he said "Bill, I'm so glad you're here"<br />
But that was just a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind<br />
Now, and when I woke up, baby, not a chair there could I find<br />
I dreamed I got married, and started me a family<br />
I dreamed I had ten children, and they all looked just like me<br />
But that was just a dream, Lord, what a dream I had on my mind<br />
Now, and when I woke up, baby, not a child there looked like mine"</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/optf1i" target="_blank">#28 International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Jump (Guild 141, 1945)</a></b></span><br />
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Alternate version of Jump Children with <b>Tiny Davis</b> on vocal. <br />
I suspect "Tiny" was a nickname as the verse that's changed in here goes:<br />
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<i>I may be big, but baby have no fear,<br />I may be big, but baby have no fear,<br />I can climb a hill without shifting gears.</i><br />
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The <b>International Sweethearts of Rhythm,</b> the first racially-integrated "all-girl" jazz band in the country. Named by Down Beat magazine as America's #1 All-Girl Orchestra in 1944, they enjoyed an enormous following performing on the black theater circuit, including the Apollo in New York, the Paradise in Detroit and the Howard in Washington, D.C. The Sweethearts played battle-of-the-bands concerts against jazz orchestras led by <b>Fletcher Henderson</b> and <b>Earl Hines</b>.<br />
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The song above is an alternate to this version you will find on youtube.<br />
I believe we have <b>Anna Mae Winburn</b> on lead vocals here:<br />
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<i>When you're feel'n low and you don't know what to do,<br />When you're feel'n low and you don't know what to do,<br />Just stay in the groove;<br />Let nothing bother you.<br /><br />I may be small, but baby have no fear,<br />I may be small, but baby have no fear,<br />I can climb a hill without shifting gears.<br /><br />I ain't good look'n and I don't have waist long hair,<br />I ain't good look'n and I don't have waist long hair,<br />But my momma gave something that will take me anywhere;<br /><br />A rock'n chair to rock,<br />A rubber ball to roll,<br />Takes a long tall daddy ta satisfy my soul,<br /><br />Baby rock me with that jelly roll,<br />My baby rocks me, with that jelly roll. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/103l9e" target="_blank">#27 Little Richard, She's Got It (Specialty 584, September 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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Found this one in some records I picked up from Maryland. Bonus.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jgl0f0" target="_blank">#26 The Cadillacs, Speedo (REO 8071, 1955)</a></b></span><br />
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You might recognize this from a<b> Paul Simon </b>song.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/g5l9fk" target="_blank">#25 Jimmie Rodgers, Honeycomb (Roulette 4051, 1957)</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/oogos8" target="_blank">#24 Louis Armstrong, Mack The Knife(Phillips B 21776, 1956)</a></span></b><br />
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This recording precedes<b> Bobby Darin'</b>s by a year. Punchy version and you can just see those puffy cheeks and broad smile as <b>Satchmo</b> belts this one out. Pay your accolades, <i>the line forms on the right</i>, as they say.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>#23 Robert A<span></span>llan Zimmerman VD City (Home Tapes 1961)</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">In an effort not to antagonize the copyright gods at SONY you will have to contact me for this song. I've owned a copy from the Beecher (Minnesota Hotel Tapes) set for decades but it has recently been copyrighted. I know a guy, who knows a girl, who knows a server in Sweden that is hosting this song. Send me an email and I'll put you in touch with her, or him</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/83dspz" target="_blank">#22 Ma Rainey, See See Rider Blues (Ampersand R101, 1925)</a></b></span><br />
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You'll notice <b>Louis Armstrong</b> making his third appearance. He was on <b>Bertha "Chippie" Hill's</b> <i>Pratt City Blues</i> a little farther up the list. But on to <b>Ma Rainey</b>. True pioneer. A giant. A libertine and mentor to some of the best, <b>Bessie Smith </b>being the most prominent. She was <i>The Mother of the Blues</i>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ad64kt" target="_blank">#21 Buddy Holly, Peggy Sue (Coral 61885, 1957)</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/zfam6i" target="_blank">#20 The Monotones, Book of Love (REO 8235, 1958)</a></span></b><br />
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True one-hit wonders from Newark, New Jersey. Song immortalized in <b>Don McLean</b>'s <i>American Pie</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>#19 Woodrow Wilson Guthrie The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (WGARP-1)</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is part of a limited edition, not yet sold out, Rounder set. Being copyright safe. I
know a guy, who knows a girl, who knows a server in Sweden that is
hosting this song. Send me an email and I'll put you in touch with her,
or him.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/evjku7" target="_blank">#18 Chuck Berry, No Money Down (Chess 1615,1955)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/4fytg9" target="_blank">#17 Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes (Sun 234, 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/7c3ahf" target="_blank">#16 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, My Mama Don't Allow Me (RCA Victor, 20-2509, April 1942)</a></b></span><br />
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Before Elvis made a career out of taking this music to a new audience it was being done like this.<br />
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<i>"My mama don't 'llow me<br />
Stay out all night long<br />
My mama don't 'llow me<br />
Stay out all night long<br />
I ain't nothin' but a playboy<br />
Hoo, Lord, some woman done me wrong </i>
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Now, I had my catfish, swimmin' in the sea<br />
I had all thee women, now fishin' after me</i>
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'Cause mama don't 'llow me<br />
Stay out all night long<br />
I ain't nothin' but a playboy<br />
Hoo, Lord some woman done me wrong"</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/il3258" target="_blank">#15 Bo Diddley, Before You Accuse Me (REO 8202, 1957)</a></b></span><br />
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Loved this song for years ... the <b>CCR</b> version on <b>Cosmo's Factory</b>. This was a big surprise. None of that ever-present Bo Diddly riff we are used to hearing. This is done straight-up and it's good. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8ngok9" target="_blank">#14 The Everly Brothers, Bird Dog (Apex 76335, 1958)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"He even made the teacher let him sit next to my baby [he's a bird dog]"</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/smgf16" target="_blank">#13 Leadbelly, Bourgeois Blues (Musicraft 227, April 1939)</a></b></span><br />
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Huddie was apparently done with playing nice.<br />
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<i>"Me and my wife went all over town <br />
And everywhere we went people turned us down <br />
Lord, in a bourgeois town <br />
It's a bourgeois town <br />
I got the bourgeois blues <br />
Gonna spread the news all around<br />
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Well, me and my wife we were standing upstairs <br />
We heard the white man say'n I don't want no niggers up there <br />
Lord, in a bourgeois town <br />
Uhm, bourgeois town <br />
I got the bourgeois blues <br />
Gonna spread the news all around <br />
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Home of the brave, land of the free <br />
I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie <br />
Lord, in a bourgeois town <br />
Uhm, the bourgeois town <br />
I got the bourgeois blues <br />
Gonna spread the news all around <br />
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Well, them white folks in Washington they know how <br />
To call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow <br />
Lord, it's a bourgeois town <br />
Uhm, the bourgeois town <br />
I got the bourgeois blues <br />
Gonna spread the news all around <br />
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I tell all the colored folks to listen to me <br />
Don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC <br />
'Cause it's a bourgeois town <br />
Uhm, the bourgeois town <br />
I got the bourgeois blues <br />
Gonna spread the news all around"</i> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/s8kb3g" target="_blank">#12 Elvis Presley Hound Dog (RCA Victor 20-6604, 1956)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>Outside Walls MS visited May 2013.</i><br />
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Born June 3, 1897, in Algiers, Louisiana, <b>Lizzie Douglas</b> was raised on a farm before moving in 1904 to Walls in northern Mississippi. The following year Douglas was given a guitar for her birthday and quickly learned to play. <br />
During the 1910s and early 1920s, Douglas adopted the handle of <b>Memphis Minnie</b> and toured the South, playing tent shows with the Ringling Brothers Circus.<br />
During the late 1920s Minnie began playing guitar with a variety of ad hoc jug bands during Memphis's jug band craze. Minnie also began a common law marriage with <b>Kansas Joe McCoy</b>, a musician with whom she had begun playing and would soon record. Within a year of her first recording date, Minnie had logged a half-dozen more sessions. <b>Bukka White</b> claimed that Minnie sang backup on his 1930 gospel recordings. By the time the effects of the Great Depression had shackled the recording industry, Minnie had recorded fifty sides that showcased her powerful voice and energetic guitar picking. She affected wealth as her idol <b>Ma Rainey</b> had done, traveling to shows in luxury cars and wearing bracelets made of silver dollars on her wrists.<br />
During the 1930s, Minnie moved to Chicago where she set the musical style by taking up bass and drum accompaniment, anticipating the sound of the 1950s Chicago blues. <br />
<b>Memphis Minnie</b> was the greatest female country blues singer, and the popularity of her songs made her one of the blues most influential artists.<br />
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<i>In Moorhead MS visited May 2013.</i><br />
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This W C Handy song marks the beginning of commercial blues.<br />
<i> "Oh, you easy rider's got to stay away<br />
She had to vamp it but the hike ain't far<br />
He's gone where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog"</i> <br />
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<i>Hank Williams family plot in Montgomery AL visited April 2010.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/u5vkfx" target="_blank">#5 Tommy McLennan, Bottle It Up and Go (Bluebird B-8373, November 1939)</a></b></span><br />
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A gravel-throated back-country blues growler from the Mississippi Delta, <b>Tommy McClennan </b>was part of the last wave of down-home blues guitarists to record for the major labels in Chicago. His rawboned 1939-1942 Bluebird recordings were no-frills excursions into the blues bottoms. He left a powerful legacy that included "Bottle It Up and Go," "Cross Cut Saw Blues," "Deep Blue Sea Blues" (aka "Catfish Blues"), and others whose lasting power has been evidenced through the repertoires and re-recordings of other artists. McClennan never recorded again and reportedly died a destitute alcoholic; McClennan died of bronchopneumonia in Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 1961.<br />
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<i>Wall mural in Tutwiler MS visited May 2013.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/bc6ldd" target="_blank">#4 Sonny Boy Williamson II, Don't Start Me Talking (Checker 824, August 1955)</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/wff2gy" target="_blank">#3 Buddy Holly, Rave On (Coral 61985, January 1958)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/d30rqn" target="_blank">#2 Robert Johnson, Kind Hearted Woman Blues (Vocalion 03416, November 1936)</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ulqld9" target="_blank">#1 Robert Johnson, Terraplane Blues (Vocalion 03416, November 1936)</a></b></span><br />
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<i>"Now, you know the coils ain't even buzzin'<br />
Little generator won't get the spark<br />
Motor's in a bad condition<br />
You gotta have these batteries charged<br />
But I'm cryin', please, please don't do me wrong<br />
Who been drivin' my Terraplane<br />
Now for you since I been gone<br />
Mr. Highway Man, please don't block the road<br />
Please, please don't block the road" Terraplane Blues</i> Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-28782969261833763572013-10-30T07:31:00.000-04:002013-10-30T07:31:20.182-04:00Road Trip 9 Days, 4,500 km, 8 States Beech Mtn NC to Montauk LIA wonderfully uneventful Day 1 of travel. The border was kind, traffic was sane and we were only a little non-plussed by the signs on 'no other way but this way' US Route 19 in West Virginia that were warning us the highway was closed at the bridge. It was our good fortune we didn't need to pass it today and it would be open tomorrow. This became a lesson in how you may come across the unexpected no matter how well you plan.<br />
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What was happening here was a yearly event called <b> <a href="http://www.officialbridgeday.com/west-virginia" target="_blank">Bridge Day</a></b> <br />
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Base jumping heaven. Tens of thousands of people attend this event each year. Had we been planning on driving only a half-hour longer on Day 1 we would have encountered a disruptive obstacle. As fate would have it, that was a few days away.<br />
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Day 2 finds us climbing 5,506' to the peak of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina. I've done my share of treacherous roads from the Black Forest in Germany, the climb to Lake Tahoe in California , an unnamed natures death-trap in British Columbia and parts of the Italian Alps...this one was long, fast and steep, makes your heart race a little. As long as your car holds the road, that's a good thing.<br />
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Three-quarters the way up the hill we run into a traffic jam at the only stop light we've seen for miles. The town of <b><a href="http://www.woollyworm.com/" target="_blank">Banner Elk is celebrating the Wooly Worm</a></b> this weekend. Seems to be a popular event. Lesson #2 in coming across the unexpected.<br />
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In due time we pull up to our quaint abode, Dorothy's House, in the Land of Oz.<br />
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It's got hokey artifacts all around the house. <br />
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Memorabilia of the Oz variety. <br />
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It's got three bedrooms including this spacious uploft with a king bed.<br />
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The basement is dark, with a long ramp leading past eerie wall coverings<br />
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To the living quarters of Auntie Em during the cyclone.<br />
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Outside the back entrance is the Yellow Brick Road.<br />
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Past the remnants of the Wicked Witch. <br />
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Leading us through Munchkin Land.<br />
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Through the Enchanted Forest.<br />
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Past the witches castle.<br />
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And on to the gates to OZ.<br />
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Where the Big Man runs the machine.<br />
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And finally, the balloon ride home, for Oz.<br />
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You would think all that and resting atop a mountain with no phone connection made for a rather restful weekend ... but you try walking mountain roads one mile up. It's work. Nice scenery though. Lots of deer, though none stopped to pose...and those that were doing the road-side pose you don't wanna see.<br />
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Day 5 has us driving down Beech Mountain in a with the howling wind and blowing sleet. Very slowly down the mountain we go, pulling over at every bulge in the road to allow the more daring to pass us by. I did not have "pull the car out of the ditch" on my itinerary. Once we are out of the mountains the drive to Huntington WV is in a steady downpour. Got a conference call at work in during the trip though.<br />
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On September 3,1972 I saw my first rock concert. <b>Alice Cooper</b> at Toronto's Varsity Stadium. It was an outdoor show and the skies favoured us with a lightning backdrop to Alice's eerie shenanigans onstage. Quite the experience. You would have won the bet, if we'd placed one, that I would be seeing him in the US 41 years later. But here we are.<br />
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The Underture<br />
Hello Hooray<br />
House of Fire<br />
No More Mr. Nice Guy<br />
Under My Wheels<br />
I'll Bite Your Face Off<br />
Billion Dollar Babies<br />
Caffeine<br />
Department of Youth<br />
Hey Stoopid<br />
Dirty Diamonds<br />
Welcome to My Nightmare<br />
Go to Hell<br />
He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)<br />
Feed My Frankenstein<br />
Ballad of Dwight Fry<br />
Killer<br />
I Love the Dead<br />
Under the Bed<br />
"Raise the Dead" Introduction<br />
<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/rg7d6y" target="_blank">Break On Through (to the Other Side)</a><br />
(The Doors cover, Jim Morrison)<br />
<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ajbkrw" target="_blank">Revolution</a><br />
(The Beatles cover, John Lennon)<br />
<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5ma1a5" target="_blank">Foxy Lady</a><br />
(The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover, Jimi Hendrix)<br />
<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/0tzym4" target="_blank">My Generation</a><br />
(The Who cover, Keith Moon)<br />
I'm Eighteen<br />
Poison<br />
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School's Out<br />
(With "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2" by Pink Floyd snippet)<br />
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I have no complaints about that set list. Click on the covers for an mp3. (Note: These versions are not from Huntington, just presented in case anyone is interested)<br />
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Day 6 finds us heading due east to visit our dylanpool friend, zepat in Harpers Ferry WV. Cece and I have enjoyed many a show with this guy, we even enticed him to cross the borderline into Canada for the only time in his life. That was back in '03. Time does fly. He did me the favour of picking up about 700 78 RPM's from a seller in Maryland. I'm stopping by today to select about a hundred of them to bring home and add to my already too large collection. Did find some prime stuff; Little Richard, Bill Haley and His Comets, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers...and more. <br />
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<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/9uyluw" target="_blank">Little Richard She's Got It</a></b><br />
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But the real reason we came over here was to see Christopher play live at the Bluesgate Jam, held every Thursday night at Longshot Billiard's in Charles Town WV. Got in early enough for dinner, tunes on the juke box and to watch set up.<br />
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Day 7 is a big one. Longest drive since Day 1. We are waking up in West Virginia and will pass through 6 states on our way to the end of Long Island NY. On the road at 5:50 AM and we made great time through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey. We arrive at the south side of Long Island well ahead of schedule. I have a 1PM deadline and should be there by Noon. Until we hit Unexpected Diversion #3...the SO Parkway is CLOSED. We are stopped a solid 2 hours with no movement. A quick phone call and we have rescheduled the pick up to 6pm. Check-in and head out to the end of Long Island to view the Montauk Lighthouse.<br />
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Long Island is ... well, long. Takes quite awhile to get out to the point. We head into Sag Harbor for a quick bite then I'm finally in the living room on Main St North taking possession of this:<br />
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Mission accomplished!<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/oenyj4" target="_blank">Robert Johnson Kind Hearted Woman's Blues</a> </b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/i0y1i0" target="_blank">Robert Johnson Terraplane Blues</a> </b><br />
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Day 8 finds us in another traffic jam, as the Geo Wash Bridge is under construction. A mere 40 minute delay here. Kids stuff. We roll into the Woodstock area from the south to find the commemorative sign on the road leading in to Tinker St.<br />
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We meet up with our friend and perennial Woodstock tour guide, JS, at The Bear Cafe. From there we switch into one car to do what we always do on these road trips; see dead people.<br />
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The Danko family plot is the final resting place of Eli Damien, Rick's 18 year old son from his first marriage who passed in 1989. Rick was interred in 1999 and his second wife, Elizabeth just this year.<br />
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Levon's marker is currently a non-descript plaque<br />
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Set against a musical wall backdrop.<br />
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One final destination, just checking.<br />
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It's still Big. It's still Pink. Ground Zero.<br />
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Day 9 and we head straight for the Canadian border crossing at Hill Island into Kingston and on home.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-71737150621519415812013-10-17T09:38:00.000-04:002013-10-17T14:36:53.058-04:00We Are Off to See The Wizard and so much moreFall 2013 Road TripIt's always been our way to plan more than we can comfortably accomplish...we have reasons for that and those reasons don't seem to be abating.<br />
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So we are back on the road to ... it doesn't really matter where as long as you are on it.<br />
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What started as a quick-hit extended-weekend getaway in the Blue Ridge Mountains has morphed into a nine-day-meet-old-friends marathon. I like it like that.<br />
Date of Departure : Saturday October 19.<br />
Date of Return : Sunday October 27.<br />
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Day one will be a breeze, since the American Government is back at work. Nothing but black-top until we rest in <b>Summersville WV</b> on Rural Route 19. That should be 8-10 road hours later.<br />
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A mere four hours on the road today and we are rewarded with 3 restful days at the top of <b>Beech Mountain in North Carolina </b> at the <b><a href="http://www.emeraldmtn.com/LandofOz/landofoz.html" target="_blank">Land of Oz</a></b><br />
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We will stay in Dorothy's House close to the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kqbtdaj" target="_blank">75th Anniversary of the release of the movie</a>.<br />
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And take the yellow brick road to where it leads.<br />
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Wednesday October 23. Five road hours today as we continue the Hallowe'en theme and head to <b>Huntington WV</b> for <b><a href="http://alicecooper.com/tour-terror" target="_blank">Alice Cooper's Tour of Terror on Wednesday night.</a></b><br />
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Thursday October 24. Six hours on the road today get us to <b>Harper's Ferry WV</b> to visit our friend who did me the favour of picking up 9 milk crates of 78 RPM discs I bought off some guy in Maryland.<br />
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A couple hours of picking will be followed by a short jaunt to <b>Charles Town WV</b> where Christopher will be playing at the Longshot Billiards Room Bluesgate Jam..<br />
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Friday October 25. Seven more road hours on Friday will find us driving to the end of Long Island, Sag Harbor to be precise. This extension was added last Sunday when I won an auction on eBay. I don't want this record put in the mail if I could avoid it and I just happen to be in the area. If your area is the east coast.<br />
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<b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/n7ccegg" target="_blank">Link to Robert Johnson auction</a> </b><br />
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Sometime around mid-day on Saturday we will be in <b>Woodstock NY</b> to visit the final resting place of <b>Levon Helm</b> and <b>Rick Danko</b> and to spend some time with good company. While we're there we might as well see <b>Big Pink</b>, visit the site of <b>Dylan's</b> 66 bike crash and get some sustenance at The Bear.<br />
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Sunday sees us with seven more road hours and we are home, with a quick stop in <b>Western New York</b> to see some friends.<br />
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<br />Krewe Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11326384568417830612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28931898.post-5995546760883811382013-10-06T20:57:00.000-04:002013-10-06T20:57:16.677-04:00CR Avery Can't Get Any Better w/ The Weber Brothers Special Guest, DJ PrufRock The Pearl in Hamilton 2013-10-05<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b> CR Avery</b> is a chameleon.<br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2008/06/billy-bragg-with-cr-avery-opening-2008.html" target="_blank">He can come out into the night as a solo artist opening for the "voice of his generation in a confined geographic location that is the UK and a bit of Europe", Billy Bragg.</a><br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2009/02/cr-avery-and-friends-rivoli-toronto-on.html" target="_blank">Next time you see him he's a solo headliner packing The Rivoli with a circus troupe of friends.</a><br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2009/07/cr-avery-vs-dead-weather-round-1-perth.html" target="_blank">Give him a few months off and he's backed by a Gospel band.</a><br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2009/07/dead-weather-vs-cr-avery-round-2-tango.html" target="_blank">Then onstage for a roof raising set at The Rivoli with a string band. </a><br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2010/11/cr-avery-and-special-interest-group_10.html" target="_blank">He's most explosive when backed by a rocking band like The Special Interest Group.</a><br />
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<a href="http://dylanomaniac.blogspot.ca/2012/11/c-r-avery-and-madison-22-review-3.html" target="_blank">He has even come through town with a burlesque review.</a><br />
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And all those words don't even tell half the story. Those shows have taken place in sweaty bars, open fields, family festivals, underground hangouts and concert halls. The audience is always challenged and they never fail to rise to the occasion.<br />
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Tonight we find the Bard of East Van pushing the envelope again.<br />
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I'm not prone to hyperbole (that may be an understatement), but something is happening here and I don't know what it is.<br />
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Went to a rock concert and got historied. The history of hip-hop and protest. Saw the best minds of this generation trying to right the wrong that is the Right. Expect every show I go to will be the one where I shrug and say; "Seen that before," and leave every night knowing it will be the next one...or will it?<br />
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It's T minus10 minutes and the assembled are watching something they've yet to see at a <b>CR Avery</b> show. Standing onstage, fiddling with plugs and cords, is<b> <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/prufrock" target="_blank"> hip-hop spoken word artist, DJ PrufRock</a></b>, checking his two turntables and a microphone. Some in the audience are murmuring, doing their best Mr Jones. I have faith in the art of the show.<br />
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Tonight we have a seven-piece band. <b>CR</b> on harp and mic. <b>PrufRock</b> with the scratch.<b> <a href="http://www.weberbrothers.com/" target="_blank">The Weber Brothers</a></b>, <b>Sam</b> on lead and <b>Ryan</b> on bass, supplemented by<b> Shai “Cookie” Peer</b> on the keys, multi-instrumentalist<b> Rico Browne</b> and <b>Marcus Browne</b> on drums.<br />
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Show starts:<br />
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0:00<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/vfiyvb" target="_blank">Track 01 Dylan Dub</a></b><br />
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The familiar voice of a young <b>Bob Dylan</b> begins to waft out of the PA system. <i>The Times They Are A-Changing</i> foreshadows what's about to come as this set will touch on significant sign-posts along our shared journey.<br />
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0:21 <br />
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The band kicks in with a smoky, bluesy back beat...<br />
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1:00<br />
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Bob is back, <b>PrufRock</b> is scratching and the two bands meld into one funky riff.<br />
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1:44<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/eaa7pb" target="_blank">Track 02 Street Poet Obscene</a></b><br />
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Theme from MGM productions.<br />
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Piano drops and CR is into a new hip-hop, beat-box piece <i>Street Poet Obscene</i>, a bombastic, biographical journey through airports and seedy bars and back seats of cabs. CR is out in the audience, working them into a hand-clapping, chanting chorus.<br />
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11:10<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/mkm3s8" target="_blank">Track 03 Door By The River</a></b><br />
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Harp blast and in the background,<b> Martin Luther King Jr</b> speaking at the Washington Monument. I have been to the mountain. We are still in '63... still hoping. CR's promised land is found in his uplifting<i> Door By the River</i>. <br />
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19:06 <b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/y9t2ph" target="_blank">Track 04 DJ PrufRock song</a></b><br />
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Mournful horn. Something new. CR calls up<b> PrufRock</b> for short piece, a word-dance...<i> Know the world is listening, say something famous...</i><br />
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21.24 <b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/kaav7c" target="_blank">Track 05 My Bad</a></b><br />
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Band picks up the rhythm for the hilarious <i>My Bad</i>, totally reworked into a funky rap with explosive punctuation at the chorus. The song is filled out with band solos and a break-dancing exhibition from the drummer. It closes with the the four-armed horn and bass solo...for some of this you just had to be there.<br />
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31:48 <b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/0rizje" target="_blank">Track 06 Dungeon of Love</a></b><br />
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Had enough of hip-hop? <b>DJ PrufRock</b> checks in with some disco, <b>Bonnie Tyler'</b>s<i> I Need A Hero</i>, complete with three white men vamping Ronettes style, rocking neon sunglasses. (See point above about having to be there.)<br />
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32:44<br />
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Machine-gun fast word bullets spew out leading us into a scratch-laden version of <i>The Dungeon of Love. </i><br />
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39:15<br />
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<b>The Isley Brothers</b> are on the turntable...<i>you know you make me wanna shout!</i> and the ensemble is dancing around waving their hands in their best Carla-from-Cheers imitation.<br />
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And this is where<i> Dungeon of Love</i> finishes. <br />
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42:09 <b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/0jrnv9" target="_blank">Track 07 New Stanzas For Amazing Grace</a></b><br />
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Harp. The mournful <i>New Stanzas for Amazing Grace </i>by <b>Ginsberg</b>. Three part, a-capella harmony. Whew, needed that break.<br />
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44:43 <b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/c9kdto" target="_blank">Track 08 The Weber Brothers Jam</a></b><br />
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<b>PrufRock</b> scratches as the band picks up the beat for an extended jam that leads into a long improvisational piece that must be called, <i>Madison 22 Review</i>. This is the group of ladies that CR came through town with last time out. A risque show, fun times and I got to chauffeur the girls.<br />
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47:20 <b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jzxw2g" target="_blank">Track 09 Madison 22</a></b><br />
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Story telling time about the <b>Pope</b> and <b>Elvis</b>.<br />
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Madison 22 chorus.<br />
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51:13 <br />
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Auto-biographical story about an ADD afflicted youth who grew up to write a book of poems called <b>38 Bar Blues</b> that is on the curriculum at York University. The moral of the story is you don't have to be a martyr to peoples classification, you don't have to be <b>Christ</b> on a cross, you can be <b>Johnny Cash</b> giving the world the finger.<br />
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Madison 22 chorus and extended instrumental jam.<br />
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56:03<br />
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Harp lead-in to harp-duet. <br />
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58:04<br />
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Underdog story and <b>Ronnie Hawkins</b> lesson followed by great story about how a cat comes to own you.<br />
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1:02:06<br />
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Madison 22 chorus and a final inappropriate joke involving <b>Willie Nelson</b>.<br />
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1:03:55<br />
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Madison outro.<br />
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That was a 20 minute theater piece.<br />
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1:04:09<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/v9kh8y" target="_blank">Track 10 Money Changes Everything</a></b><br />
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<i>Theme from Hockey Night in Canada</i> (the real one, not the current one) mashed with a quote from <b>Ani DiFranco</b>'s <i>Self-Evident</i>. You don't come across that every night.<br />
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1:04:42<br />
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Band intro over a <b>Lou Reed</b> type bass riff. CR introduces a piece that was commissioned by the <b>Sierra Club</b> to help fight the Northern Gateway, wrapped inside <i>Money Changes Everything</i>..<br />
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The show has come full circle. Back to protest. The soul of Dylan, King Jr, Ginsberg...all morphing in this lengthy eco-lesson.<br />
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1:05:39 Pierre Eliot Trudeau is name-checked.<br />
1:06:53 Rubin Hurricane Carter checks in<br />
1:07:25 LL Cool J's mom.<br />
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1:08:39<br />
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Money Changes Everything chorus<br />
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1:09:27 More eco-lessons...the blue-collar and bar-stool pundits get climate change.<br />
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1:10:13<br />
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Money Changes Everything chorus<br />
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1:11:06 Billion year old carbon. Everything is broken on this slippery slope.<br />
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1:12:29<br />
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Money Changes Everything chorus<br />
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1:13:06 More complexities layered into the problem. <br />
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1:14:43 <i>Fight the Power</i> mashup, with <b>Woody Guthries'</b> <i>This Land</i> and <b>Dead Prez</b> hip-hop-hip-hop-hip, <b>Dylan'</b>s <i>Hurricane</i>, <b>Cohen</b>'s <i>Democracy</i> and <b>Holiday</b>'s <i>Strange Fruit</i>. DJ PrufRock struttin' his stuff.<br />
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1:15:59 Piano intro to cover of <b>Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five's</b> <i>The Message</i>. We are still moving ahead in time, still protesting the social injustice, illustrating the frustration of a lost generation, giving re-birth to this anthem in our First Nations. And giving warning.<br />
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<i>"Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge..."</i><br />
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1:17:10 <i>Every Canadian say...don't push me</i>... CR delves into a sell-out rant.<br />
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1:17:57 We get a visit from <b>The Clash</b>, <i>White Riot</i>, with Stand-Your-ground lunacy rant.<br />
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1:19:15 <b>PrufRock</b> brings in his friend <b>Beethoven</b>, with <i>Ode to Joy</i>. CR's invocation to action.<br />
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1:20:03<br />
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Money Changes Everything outro with crowd.<br />
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1:23:16 Spoken word close.<br />
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1:24:10 Encore break. <b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/be1dcx" target="_blank">Track 11 Encore break with sweaty stage talk</a></b><br />
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Let's take a minute to recap while the band wipes down the sweat.<br />
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That was another 20 minute piece of rock n roll theater.<br />
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1:25:43<b> <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/2az6bd" target="_blank">Track 12 Piano Ballad</a></b><br />
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CR chats to quite the crowd and introduce a ballad.<br />
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1:24:40<br />
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Solo piano...he goes all boozy, bluesy on us for a story about finding yourself in your music. <br />
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1:32:24 <b><a href="http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/5qvmh1" target="_blank">Track 13 Improvisation and Sgt Peppers Outro</a></b><br />
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PrufRock brings in <b>The Staples Singers</b> for a soulful interlude, <i>I'll Take You There</i> mashed with "<i>damn I wish I wasn't such a wimp</i>" from <b>The Pharcydes</b> <i>Passin' Me By</i>, provides the melody behind another spoken word piece. PrufRock checks in with an improvisational couple of verses, while CR moves back and takes over the turntables. Even with the repeated "wimp" refrain CR is unable to entice anyone to come up from the audience and take over the mic. <br />
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1:41:50<br />
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Show closes with <b>The Weber Brothers</b> taking us out singing <i>Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band</i>. <br />
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1:43:48 Dirty jokes, dirty politics and almost two hours of musical genius.<br />
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How insane was that?<br />
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Nights like this I am OK with<b> James Brown'</b>s passing. It wouldn't be right to see him lose his crown.<br />
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The hardest working man in show business... <b>C R Avery</b>.<br />
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He can't get any better.<br />
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Or can he? <br />
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