portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Some Random notes from the t'interweb




 "There is a moment when you realise that Jim Morrison loved Pink Floyd and even got to see them play live but never got to hear Dark Side of The Moon!

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'You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems, but if for my gifts I brought you silence “for I know silence” you would say : This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me.'


Leonard Cohen  from “The Spice-Box of Earth” 


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Someone posted this on social media:

“A friend of mine posted a photo of a euphonium he's about to repair and restore... Check out the lost and found address on the case!”


You have a friend who repairs euphoniums!

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A sixth of all Beatles songs reference the weather!



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Early shots of the Gibson factory in Kalamazoo Michigan.


My Kalamazoo guitar was made around 1936 when they first started making the  budget end Gibson acoustics mine is a KG14


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Joe Strummer 1974 then known as Woody Mellor
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Greg and Duane Allman and their Grandma

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I love this picture of Paul and Heather. 
(not credited where I found it but almost certainly taken by Linda)

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