Re: Song of the Day
 

Are the Beatles or the Stones the best? Is Zeppelin in that pantheon? I don't know. That's all subjective. But I think I know who was most important... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWq7a8Tin8g

That movie is fantastic. It does the band as I think the band would've done the band.

And apropos, sadly... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrSVSHTwHg

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

I almost worked for a referral machine years ago. The model was mass marketing, keeping choice cases (high damages, low complexity) in-house with a small staff of lawyers, and sending out all the other stuff. You're right. The guy who ran the place never practiced for real. Just monetized the license. Don't think he had private jet money, but probably close.

Re: Song of the Day
 

“Most important” is also subjective. But I tend to agree. There was a period where I felt like I heard VU influences in literally every single band that came after them. Maybe not literally. But maybe literally. Every. Single. Band. I liked that movie too.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Do you know Songs For Drella? Cale and Reed's tribute to Andy.

Fun stuff-

https://www.google.com/search?client...MEANGoNdtIAAAA

Re: Song of the Day
 

Everyone dismisses the impact the Plasmatics had....

Re: Implanting Bill Gates's Micro-chips In Brains For Over 20 Years!
 

We stood up a practice in about two weeks that would have taken years before Covid. We'll see what happens going forward as states stop with the emergency rules and have to figure out how we're going to operate.

Texas will join the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact March 1, which is a good sign. Our legislature was at war with Teledoc a few years back, and we were very restrictive.

I've had a number of OB visits via telemedicine, and it's been very nice to check in without having to deal with going to the clinic.

Re: Song of the Day
 

It is subjective. But I believe I could argue credibly that it is or ought to be objective.

Having Reed and Cale in the same band is simultaneous lottery wins, lightning strikes. Jagger/Richards, McCartney/Lennon. Okay.

But there’s something Next Level about early VU’s disregard - entirely - for song structure fused to the Cole Porter level pop tune songwriting talent of Reed. The movie’s best line is, “the heat of this band simply couldn’t survive.” It was really rare. And while I love the Doug Yule stuff, and all of Reed’s solo catalog, there’s something uniquely sticky about the first two records. WL/WH sounds like a pile of noise in parts. “Lady Godiva’s Operation” sounds like a studio throwaway. But that’s intentional. Because the song’s so carefully crafted, if you polished it up, it’d sound too perfect.

And I can get bored even from “Rock n Roll.” But I still can’t turn off “Venus in Furs” once it starts. Cale was a bigger part of the secret sauce of early VU than was ever credited. Glad he got his accolades in the movie.

Song of the Day
 

Sometimes the SOTD will have no special significance other that it is a song I happen to be listening to. This one is by Arooj Aftab, a Pakistani ex-pat living in Brooklyn. I like it because it is quiet, a little haunting, and helps me achieve a little mental peace at times when mental peace is otherwise elusive. Mohabbat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ98HX1MO8

Re: Song of the Day
 

No one should dismiss the $12 quarterly royalties.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Wakeman and Emerson almost played together. I say this today because I saw Rick Wakeman last night in a show that was both awesome (his playing of his ouvre) and sad (as he stuttered and dottered through quasi-funny stories and lame responses to audience questions). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_W...nd_joining_Yes

Re: Song of the Day
 

I'd just like the cachet of being able to say I had Jack and Cokes with Lemmy. That's some seriously rarified air. (Probably literally, as it was mostly Marlboro Red smoke.)

Re: Song of the Day
 

I don't know much about Yes or ELP. But Wakeman played on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which is the least Sabbathy but probably most creative of the early Sabbath classic LPs,* and Emerson was in ELP, which did "I Believe in Father Christmas" which is not nearly as good as the Kinks' "Father Christmas" but listening to which is a guilty pleasure in which I dabble around the holidays.

So they're all good in my mind.

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*Vol 4 may vie for this title, and it is my favorite of Sabbath's catalog, and possibly my favorite by its prolific producer, Cocaine. But SBS's use of symphonies and prog rock effects is, IMO, next level.

Re: Song of the Day
 

Not nearly as cool as knowing a Plasmatic, but my high school(s) pretended to educate two members of the Dead (years before me, duh), Stanley Jordan (cool jazz musician I briefly met once), Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind (a year before me, but the current guitarist is a tool and passing acquaintance), and the Donnas (my much younger brother knew them but couldn't get any from four girls who only sing about sex). Now, we are better known as the crucible that formed Susan Wojcicki - the CEO of YouTube (my sister says she was cool).

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I confess to loving prog rock. The first 10 Genesis albums and all Gabriel solo. Rush. King Crimson. Jethro Tull. IQ. Camel. ELP. Pink Floyd. Hawkwind (Lemmy's first band). Kansas. Saga. Early Styx. Uriah Heep. All are the tits. And, my fave, Marillion (only with Fish).

Edit - some Roger Waters solo. "These Are The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" is also the tits.

Re: Song of the Day
 

I seem to remember his recipe: You fill an Old Fashioned glass with ice and Jack; you float some Coke on the top.