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    17 hours ago, Figster said:

    Enjoyed this song/story

     

    Thanks

    The guy is a great writer and storyteller.  Pick a random topic (maybe anything other than sci-fi) and I’ll. Bet I can link a great song.  Go.

    Favorite Cover Songs?

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    On 5/1/2025 at 9:16 AM, BritBill said:

     

    The original is and all time great.  Saw MK play it live in 2015 and my jaw was on the floor.  He has a great band.  He’s done some work the the artist who made the remake below.  This is one I think is better than the original.

     

     

    Was there ever a sport you tried you weren’t good at?

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    Mine was probably basketball because I wasn't able to get much better despite playing pretty frequently.  I was good with effort which allowed me to be useful defending and rebounding.  Beyond that and brief spurts of hitting jumpers for a two minute span (with a three week wait in between spurts), I wasn't good.

     

    I was worse at tennis but at least have the excuse of not playing a lot.  I could never get the hang of serving. 

     

    Is pool a sport?  If it is, that would be my worst.  We had a nice table in my college apartment and decided to keep standings.  There were four of us and we decided to play each other thirty three times each to end up with ninety nine games each.  Is 2-97 a good record?  I had one legitimate win and another time when my opponent scratched on the 8 ball.  My roommates were all good players but 2-97 is 2-97.

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    This song drove me crazy because they played it so much (and because it’s terrible) that I actually called a radio station to request that they NOT play it.

     

     

     

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    I took the wife to see this trio in November.  Regardless of what type of music you like, don’t miss a chance to see them if you get one.  There were ten jaw dropping moments because of their sheer singing talent.  They sang the song below.  I knew a lot of their music but not this one. It’s a cover of the last song Warren Zevon wrote (he knew he was dying).  It’s sad enough on its own but we had just put our dog to sleep.  There is a line that says I’m tied to you like the buttons on your blouse which couldn’t be a more perfect description of how that dog looked at my wife.  I couldn’t look over at her or I’d have lost it.

     


     

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    Have you ever quit following a sports team?

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    I grew up a big Yankees fan but quit them at about fifteen for what are probably unusual reasons.  The Yankees had just begun to win World Series’ but a lot of my favorite players were not prominent and were replaced by more expensive guys.  Fred Stanley, their shortstop, really contributed to their 1977 championship.  He was my favorite player and was rewarded by being ditched for Bucky Dent.  I hated Dent more than Red Sox fans did.  Roy White got shoved aside.  There were others too so I quit.  The wins felt more like relief than excitement.
     

    I picked the Padres in part because the Buffalo Braves had moved to San Diego so I had two teams in each city.  Then they lost Dave Winfield to the Yankees so I actually hated the Yankees for a while.  I’m Yankee neutral now and have been for a long time but the Padres were solidified as my favorite team for good once the incomparable (player and person) Tony Gwynn came along.

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    EPL equivalent of the Bills

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    56 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    The crowds are great and Blaydon Races is the best song in the Premier League. But it is about an old race track in County Durham and the references in it are very particular to that part of the world. Not sure it can be picked up and used anywhere else. 

     

    Best ground and best football city in England though IMO. It feels like what football used to be (the Bills probably has a bit of that vibe in the NFL). It is a one club city and the ground is up on the hill and looks down on everything around it. People walking up the hill on match day is like a pilgimage. Love it. 

    I was referencing Going Home (Local Hero) by the great Geordie Mark Knopfler.

    EPL equivalent of the Bills

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    16 hours ago, TheMightyMaxio said:

    I would say Newcastle...we were really good a long time ago...then we were middling...then good again. Then disappeared for a large chunk...and now we are back and we aren't great but we are up there...and we boast some of the games all-time greats however our trophy case is largely "meh". (Some div titles, some AFC titles but no SB's obviously)

    I’ll go with Newcastle because they have an awesome intro song which the Bills should borrow.  Their crowds always look great.

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    I just heard a song from Knopfler's new album.  Rather than a Youtube link I'll paste the lyrics.  The song is about a historical event (I knew nothing about it).  Like many of Knopfler's songs you could practically make a movie from it.  The movie The Founder was from a book but only because one of the writers or producers heard "Boom Like That" and decided it needed to be a movie.  There are quotes in the movie taken directly from the song.

     

    I'm only posting the lyrics to this song because when I read the last two lines, it just blew me away with respect to what a talented songwriter he must be.  The song is called Tunnel 13

     

    In the Siskiyou Mountains, the old railroad winds
    Through the golds of the maples and the green of the pines
    Up to Tunnel 13, the Southern she climbs
    And three bandits waiting with evil in mind

    The D'Autremont brothers had chosen their road
    Chosen to live by a criminal code
    Word was the mail car was loaded with gold
    The brothers had heard it, or had maybe been told

    They wanted no witnesses, that was a fact
    The brothers were bent on a barbarous act
    Gold there was none, only sadness and tears
    And the law coming after them year after year

    Three bandits, hearts filled with resentment and hate
    Killed mail clerk Elvyn Daugherty, engineer Sydney Bates
    With shotgun and pistols, they were panicking when
    They killed brakeman Coyle Johnson and fireman Marvin Seng

    Robbing and looting is as old as the hills
    They're still jumping freight trains with crowbars and drills
    A hundred years later in Downtown LA
    They rob the Union Pacific damn near every day

    Four good men lay murdered in the dogwoods and pines
    Leaving widows and children and heartbreak behind
    Tunnel 13 is the place in the song
    Where the beautiful redwood for my guitar came from

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    This is a charity benefit song for teen cancer.  If you're not familiar with the song, it is from the soundtrack to Local Hero and Knopfler often plays it as the final encore in his concerts.  I think the list of contributors qualifies as impressive.

     

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    Full list of contributors: Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Glenn Worf, Zucchero.

     

    And, in a great honour, the track opens with Jeff Beck’s final recording.

     

     

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    For those too young to have had the opportunity to see 1980's concerts, here is one to show you what they were like.  A lot of depth.  They even have a little game of Name That Tune worked in from 1:27 until 3:23.

     

     

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    I swear the songs that don't quite make the cut on a Mark Knopfler album other than as bonus tracks are still some of the most well written and played songs to be heard.  I just stumbled across another one.

     

     

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