Music

Thanks Keltin.. I'm a rocker, no question about it.
My music tastes are pretty wide and varied, but for the most part I dig 60s to the present rock.
 
Lefty said:
Etta James - At Last
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There are only a handful of songs that go beyond the normal limits of music and truly stand the test of time. This is one of them.

Me? I'm listening to Witches in Bikinis, "Party like a chimpanzee". What the hell, I yam what I yam!
 
Have I posted this one before? A fav! Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie

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The Steve Miller Band - be patient....

I played piano a couple of times in a high school rock band. Jim Cooke was the lead guitar. Jim, Paul Youngberg, and I used to hang out at the local pool hall. Then I sang and played guitar with the Canterburys, my U of Wis. band in the early to mid sixties. "Canterburys" LOL How English. That's how I made my beer money. It was the new age of the Beatles, Stones, Dave Clark Five, and Herman and The Hermits. Steve Miller lived in the frat house next door to mine and he invited Boz Skaggs to come up from Texas and join up with him to play rhythm guitar. Cookie was playing bar gigs in Madison and there was another guy, a drummer headlining as Tim Davis and The Chordaires.

Honest, this all comes together. :blush:

One warm Spring Saturday afternoon we had a dance party on the open air top of our frat boathouse (it was located on Lake Mendota) and Miller was the entertainment. I sat in with his band for a couple songs. There you have it, my retrospective claim to fame in the music world. None of us knew what our futures would bring but Steve wasn't about to leave music.

After college Miller played with a few different people although the time line has long left my memory bank. He was involved with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band for awhile and played with Buddy Guy among others. Later on he formed the Steve Miller Band. At the time, Jim Cooke, soon to become James "Curley" Cooke, was playing guitar, Tim Davis was the drummer, and Paul Youngberg was the equipment manager. I have an old LP of the whole group of them backing Chuck Berry before Miller became famous in his own right.

Eventually Paul toasted himself dead with hard dope, Tim returned to Madison to start a new band, and Jim headed out on his own. He played the Hilton in Seoul, Korea for quite awhile and later settled with his Korean wife in Seattle.

Miller wouldn't remember me as we weren't friends. The closet connection we have is that one of his fraternity brothers eventually married my ex wife. Thank you thank you thank you so much for ending my alimony payments. :yum: Cooke, Davis, and I were buddies though, and used to meet at The Pub on State St. on a regular basis.

I don't think Steve ever wrote a song I didn't like.

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Here's Jim playing "Windy And Warm", one of the standard Travis picking songs I used to play way back when.

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