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I saw the Cream reunion tour here at Madison Square Garden and that they were great. They were not going to go out there and embarrass themselves. Opening with 'I'm So Glad" they tore it up. Ginger and Jack brought great emotion with their playing and Clapton was his typical stoic self, little to no interaction with the audience with note perfect playing. Live Cream Vol. 2 was one of the first 5 albums I bought with money from my paper route, so I have been listening to them for a long time.

Pretty sure it was back in 1996 after the settlement of his legal squabbles with Fantasy records and he was finally able to play his Creedence material after nearly 2 decades. Opened with Born On The Bayou, track one of the first album I ever bought. Ran through all of his CCR hits and worked in songs from Centerfield, etc. The crowd was pumped, folks singing along and he did several encores. Great band with Kenny Aranoff on drums. As of now there are only a few artists of that generation I would still go to see. For most the ship has sailed and their talents with it. Not to single them out, but why go see half the Who? McCartney's voice is shot, so I am glad I saw these guys when they still had it. It's like when the great drummer Bill Bruford, (Yes, King Crimson, etc), retired at age 60. He stated he did not want to embarrass himself by making the mistakes that come naturally with age. We have all seen our sports heroes linger on the field too long, same thing with musicians. Only a handful can still bring it in their later years.

Sorry but I wouldn't go if you paid me. The last one (25?) turned into a shid show with several rapes and assaults. Filthy animals, no thanks. PS: John Fogerty was one of the best 10 concerts I have seen.

My father was a tail gunner on a Martin Marauder B-26 bomber during WW2. He was shot down on his 21st mission while over Italy. He never said much about his combat experiences, limiting his stories to funny occurences etc. When asked how he was awarded 2 Purple Hearts, his answer was, I got shot and I took some shrapnel. His medals he arranged in a frame prior to his death and my brother allowed me to take them and display them in our house. A few years back I put them in a new frame and they look great again. My brother wisely gathered all of the papers concerning our father's military service and had them reproduced on acid free paper and gave me a copy. He also forwarded a copy to the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans. They contained all of his Red Cross correspondance while he was a POW, letters to his folks etc. We found out through his records that he weighed 96 pounds when he was liberated by the British Army in May of '45. American POWs were not immediatly repatriated back to the States, as the military did not want their families to see them until they had put on some weight. According to dad POWs kept their long hair so that folks would know to give them some extra food from the little bit they had. When Americans were captured their names would be read over the German radio. A fellow soldier in England heard my father's name and recognized it from their neighborhood in Brooklyn. He wrote his folks and his mother knocked on my grandparents door to tell them their son had been captured. Up until that time they had only been informed that his plane had been shot down.

Sometimes that is all you need, some music and a loved one nearby. What's not to like?

Nice to hear some good news for a change, I am happy for both you and your brother Big Stew Man. I for one oppose the ban and wish you would stop by more frequently to fill us in on how things are going for you. Take care of your brother and yourself.

Happy birthday Thaddeus, I wish you many more.

One of the best things i have done with the house, rip out all of the wood decking and put in the Timbertech. I have not been to the lumber yard since!

RPLACE, nice deck, looks like mine, Timbertech?

It doesn't get much better than a free pair of Klipsch speakers, enjoy them and welcome.

Moses: The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these 15...Oy!Ten! Ten Commandments for all to obey! A classic Mel Brooks scene.

That's more than I paid for mine NEW!

I grabbed a couple of floor mats/runners from Home Depot, cheap and works fine for me.

Not for nothing RPlace, but that sure as hell doesn't look like the upper west side! Enjoy your new toys.

I remember when Hurricane Irma slammed into Savannah, Georgia in 2017. My aunt's house took a hit and by the time she called for repairs to her roof she was told that there were over 50,000 repair orders on the books in the city and surrounding area already. Sometimes the scale of the damage needs to be put in perspective. From what I saw from news reports it looked like some areas of the Panhandle were scrubbed right down to the sand.

Pretty sure I will be laid off before that. I am caring less and less with each passing day. I can file for SS in 2 1/2 years, that will be game over for me.

and we are still jealous.....

No dealers within 100 miles of NYC, closest is outside of Philly.

That is an impressive lineup, I have seen: Clapton, Derek Trucks, Jeff Beck, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Los Lobos, Robert Cray & Sonny Landreth. This show would be right up my alley. Los Lobos put on an amazing show, you never know what they will play and Sonny Landreth is a Monster slide player. Enjoy if you go.

Seizures like this give you some idea of the scale of the drug problem in this country. If this is what was caught you can only imagine what is making it through. We have no one to blame for this problem but ourselves.

To tell you the truth this has been one of the most boring NCAA tourneys in history. There have been some great individual efforts and the spotlight on some very good players not usually seen on national tv, but no major upsets. I don't think the whitewash of Wisconsin would count. If Duke had lost that really would have wiped out most of the brackets in the country, but thanks to a bum call, they skated through. No Cindarellas makes for a dull March. Hopefully things pick up this weekend.

That Nutwood could improve the sound of a Grateful Dead bootleg......maybe not.

Thank heavens I am broke, those are in magnificent shape and the one pair of Klipsch speakers I have always wanted to own. GLWTS.

I don't find having to drop a cd into my player to be a terrible inconvenience. If I plan an extended listening session, as when guests are over, I drop 5 into my changer. I also have the capability of streaming from my Icloud library through my Ipad mini into a USB port on one of my amps. (using the DAC within said amp.) I think it sounds fine. To my ear, cds sound best to me. Down the road, it is inevitable to integrate a computer into my rig, but for now I am fine with the way things are.

I had close to 1,000 cassettes at my peak and even after giving away armloads of them I still have several hundred. I was a dedicated Maxell fan, XL II S, TDK SA in a pinch. I am lucky enough to own a Nakamichi Dragon and even though it needs a service call it still sounds great. I own a large collection of bootlegs and radio broadcasts on cassette and have converted a couple of them to cd. My goal is to burn the higher quality ones to cd and then chuck the garbage. Since my car still has a deck in it, I still routinely listen to cassettes, and they still sound good.