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Friday Night Music-The Dead

Friday, July 10, 2009

The consensus at our last Drinking Liberally was that I had never posted any videos of The Grateful Dead, a grievous oversight which I shall try to rectify today. In truth, for reasons I cannot explain, I never listened to the Dead when I was young. I never owned one of their albums, never went […]

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Friday Night Music-4th of July Special

Friday, July 3, 2009

I got a number of good ideas for this feature last night at Drinking Liberally, but I’m deferring them for now. This being 4th of July weekend, it seemed only right to try to rustle up some unobjectionable patriotic music. A harder task than you might think, but I’ve found a few and I’ve decided […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, June 26, 2009

Who else, given yesterday’s events? It’s actually hard to find good stuff on Michael Jackson. Embedding is disabled on all the music videos. There’s some concert footage from after he went totally off the deep end, or over the top, whichever you prefer. It also goes without saying that the no lip sync rule goes […]

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Friday Night Music-Marvin Gaye

Friday, June 19, 2009

As best as I can determine, I haven’t posted Marvin before. I can’t imagine why.

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Friday Night Music-All Wet Edition

Friday, June 12, 2009

No pearls of wisdom tonight, since we are committed to going somewhere. However, Friday Night Music being a sacred tradition, I had to put up something. Given the recent weather, this seemed appropriate. We’ve been slogging through rain all week. You can let it get you down, or cultivate the right attitude. Gene Kelly in […]

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A little weekend music

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Last night my wife and I went to Burke’s Tavern in Niantic to hear our fellow Liberal Drinker Atul Shah’s band, Exit 72. I took a video of a song pretty much at random, I’m not really sure what it’s called. The young girl who pops up on the left at random moments is playing […]

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Friday Night Music-Benny Goodman

Friday, June 5, 2009

This week marked Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. My wife is a big fan of Goodman’s, dating from her days as a clarinetist for the Oberlin High Marching Band. Here he is with Teddy Wilson, Tony Terran, Dick Nash, Eddie Duran, Al Obidenski and John Markham at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan, playing Sweet Georgia […]

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Friday Night Music-Radiohead

Friday, May 29, 2009

My son is staying with us for a few days, and I asked him to suggest a video, and he directed me to Radiohead’s video of “House of Cards”. It is unclear if this video breaks the no lip synching rule, since it’s somewhat sui generis. Here’s how it was made: In Radiohead’s new video […]

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Friday Night Music-Dixie Chicks

Friday, May 22, 2009

Memorial Day was originally Decoration Day, a day that the families of the fallen decorated the tombstones of the Civil War Dead. By and large it’s just another holiday now-the official beginning of summer. I tried to think of a song that both honors the soldiers and doesn’t honor war, and this one popped to […]

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Friday Night Music-A Tribute to a Fine Institution

Friday, May 15, 2009

A few weeks ago I shared my grief at the prospect of the imminent closing of the Norwich YMCA. Today, the final nail was driven in the coffin as news came that the Hail Mary fundraiser to keep it open feel far short of its goal. So the Y will remain closed, and the pool […]

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