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The band that defined "Americana" - The Band (although four of them were Canadians). Sadly, only one of them is still alive, Garth Hudson (organ, accordion, sax), the oldest member of the band. In the beginning (1961) Garth was paid $10 more per week for giving music lessons to the other band members. Supposedly, this was done to satisfy his parents, who could claim their son was a music teacher instead of a member of a rock'n'roll band.

This morning my wife sends me a text message saying: "There are geese in our front yard, enjoying the sprinklers." Canada and Cackling Geese are nothing special in our suburban neighborhood. Thus, I did not bother to have a look and stayed in bed. A few minutes later a pic arrives, and it turns out the "geese" are... Turkeys. I would have loved to see them and add them to my "yard list". The "geese"...

Did you watch him play or are you just going by statistics? Just have a look at a few Longhorn games.

Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade. While this does not qualify as entry in the "best all-star" thread, it would contribute to a "kids of all-stars" thread: Sean Ono Lennon on guitar and Harry Waters (son of Roger) on keyboards.

What do you think this reason might be? Both my kids went to UT, and my son even played in the Longhorn band. Thus, I have watched every one of their games in recent seasons. And Worthy was not only fast, but won most of the fights with defenders over contested balls. Interestingly, Mel Kiper has him going to ... the Chiefs. I think he would be an excellent choice.

"The Guns Of Brixton" is my favorite Clash song. Here are two interesting covers by Lisa Oliferova... ...and by Rupa & The April Fishes.

I always found Magma highly overrated (although I admit that their album title "Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh" easily beats "Häagen-Dazs" and "Blue Öyster Cult" in the odd spelling competition). However, I like Gong's "camembert electrique". My favorite song: "Tropical Fish: Selene".

David Bowie (also on sax), Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson, and 3/4 of Queen at the Freddy Mercury Tribute Concert

Completely agreed re Nicky Hopkins. After listening to some of his stuff, it is interesting to detect similarities in completely different songs. Compare e.g. the piano parts in "She's A Rainbow" by the Stones and "Hey Fredrick" by Jefferson Airplane, and you know it is Hopkins.

I just posted this on the "Share some music" thread... And here some jam 1970 sessions of a true SF all-star line-up. Jerry Garcia (GD), Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Papa John Creach (all JA), David Freiberg (QMS/JA), John Cipollina, Nicky Hopkins (both QMS).

And here some jam 1970 sessions of a true SF all-star line-up. Jerry Garcia (GD), Jack Casady, Jorma Kaukonen, Papa John Creach (all JA), David Freiberg (QMS/JA), John Cipollina, Nicky Hopkins (both QMS). There seems to be a question about the identity of the drummer; possibly, it is Mickey Hart (GD).

The other San Francisco band from the late 60s/early 70s: Quicksilver Messenger Service If you only have time or patience for one song, try ""Worryin' Shoes" (starting at 44:55; the given time stamps are a bit off). The interplay between both guitarists, John Cipollina and Gary Duncan, is fascinating.

Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) joined by their ex-Jefferson Airplane band mate Paul Kantner.

An interesting math tidbit: If you add a second dimension to a line, you get a square. If you add a third dimension to square, you get a cube. Now, what do you get upon adding a forth dimension to a cube? Well, it is a tesseract. Googling "tesseract" also resulted in a band of this name (once mentioned before in this thread by Pine Barrens Mafia - I have no idea how I can alert him to this thread), and I quite like what they are doing. My daughter's comment when I told her the story, "They must be nerds".

The French always had a fondness of the psychedelics; anyone remember Gong? Here "arte", a French TV channel, presents a concert by Austin's (TX) finest, the Black Angels, in St Malo.

The Prisoner (1967/8) They made only 17 episodes - but it had so much potential.

As far as Pop-Rock bands go, "The Sparks" had a very unique sound. In this clip, the usually very stoic brother, Ron Mael (keyboards), actually smiles and (pretends to) play guitar.

3/4 Camper Van Beethoven, 1/4 Counting Crows - The Monks Of Doom. After 2 intriguing albums in the beginning of the 1990s, they came out with their next set of original songs more than 25 years later in "The Bronte Pin", many of them featured here.

Guitarist Mick Abrahams left Jethro Tull after their first album and formed together with Jack Lancaster (sax; sometimes two at the same time - see clip) his own band. Whatever you think of their music (I like them very much), you have to admit that their band name is way cooler than "Jethro Tull": "Blodwyn Pig".

Another fan of science fiction, especially the classics (Philip Dick, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke - "The Star" is my favorite short story). Not very well known in the West, but very much worth a try: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Soviet-Russian brothers who always wrote together. My favorite Strugatsky novel: "Roadside Picnic". Also excellent: "Hard To Be A God". I also like authors with humor, such as Vonnegut or Carl Hiaasen. The two books I have read most frequently both fall in the "hilarious" category. I loved both already before I had kids, and then had to read them numerous times to the kids when they were between 6 and 10 or so. "The Last Man Alive" by A.S. Neill (the German translation has very funny cartoon illustrations), and "Memoiren eines mittelmaessigen Schuelers" by A. Spoerl ("Memoirs Of A Mediocre Student"; however, to my knowledge, no English translation has ever been published).

A bunch of Canadians from Saskatchewan playing Appalachian folk - The Dead South

"Dark Star", John Carpenter's directorial debut, supposedly cost only $60,000 (1974).

One of the most fun bands I ever heard - Camper Van Beethoven

When I am wearing my "stealth" Bills T-shirt with the Josh Allen "potato" logo, some people here in West Texas make the connection between the drawing and the Bills. Most do not know the story behind it, but are very amused when I explain it. I should add that within the last year or two, the number of questions/comments has increased tremendously, reflecting an increasing interest in the Bills even here deep in Cowboys country.