Happy Birthday Boss!!

We here at NLTDBSSS would like to wish a very happy 61st birthday to Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen,aka BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCE!!!!

 And I thought I would share with you his acceptance speech when he was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame(and maybe a tune or two):


Bono's Induction speech




Part 1



Part 2



Thunder Road-9/19/78



Atlantic City-6/29/85



Prove It All Night-3/18/99

And finally, one of my all time fave-o-rite Bruce tunes:



The Price You Pay-8/11/2009

Happy Birthday, Hunter....

Saturday was Robert Hunter's 66th birthday.

"The Word Man" as he was called...Okay, he was never called that, I just called him that right now, perhaps for the first time ever. But, a word man, he was.

He wrote the lyrics to some(most?) of the Grateful Dead's most famous(and infamous-"Keep Your Day Job" anyone ?) songs.

Ripple

Uncle John's Band

China Cat Sunflower

Row Jimmy

Shakedown Street

Black Muddy River

Friend Of The Devil

Standing On The Moon

And, my favorite- "Box Of Rain".

I won't pretend to be some sort of expert on the man- I love his words. He is a great turner of phrases.

" Tumble down shack in BigFoot county

Snowed so hard that the roof caved in

Delilah Jones went to meet her god,

And the old man never was the same again."

"All the things I planned to do

I only did halfway

Tomorrow will be Sunday

Born of rainy Saturday"

I guess I don't have much else to add.

Happy belated birthday. Mr. Hunter.

Happy Birthday, Aoxomoxoa !!!

All songs written by Garcia and Hunter unless otherwise noted.
"St. Stephen" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 4:26
"Dupree's Diamond Blues"– 3:32
"Rosemary" – 1:58
"Doin' That Rag" – 4:41
"Mountains of the Moon" – 4:02
"China Cat Sunflower" – 3:40
"What's Become Of The Baby" – 8:12
"Cosmic Charlie" – 5:29

2003 Reissue Bonus Tracks
"Clementine Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 10:46
"Nobody's Spoonful Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 10:04
"The Eleven Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 15:00
"Cosmic Charlie" – 6:47

(track list from Wikipedia)


Aoxomoxoa is 38 years old today !!!


Happy Birthday, you deliciously palindromically titled little album !!


I've always pronounced it ox-ah-mox-ah. I think there's supposed to be an extra "oh" syllable between the mox and the final "ah", but I always leave it out. That's just how I roll, people. Deal.


Anyway, great album. St. Stephen(though the live version released on Live/Dead eclipses it in my heart), Mountains Of the Moon,China Cat Sunflower(na-na-na), Dupree's Diamond Blues, Cosmic Charlie.

I can remember playing this album the first time I ...um..."fell"?...And my friend would NOT let me hear "What's Become Of the Baby?". He said I didn't need to hear that at this particular moment, I think he was right. I have never cared much for that song since then. I don't know if it's coincidence, or if my brain has retained some distrust of hearing it, "falling" or not.

According to Wikipedia, Courtney Love(5 years old at the time) is in the picture on the back cover. I'll have to look at my vinyl copy and see if that's true.

It took me awhile to realize how "fertile" the front cover is.

I don't have much else to add, I guess.

Happy Birthday, Aoxomoxoa !!!