Parallel 49 is both Canadian and American. Ameradian?

United We Rock!

First up, an analysis video by Fil from Wings of Pegasus analyzing Neil Young's performance of Old Man when Neil was about 26 years old.

After Neil wrote Heart of Gold he was soon a rich hippie for the first time. And, so, he bought a ranch in California and he still lived there at least through 2005. And there was an old couple living there who were the caretakers - Luis Avala and his wife, Clara. One day, Luis took Neil for a ride in a blue jeep up to the top of the place where there was a lake that fed all the pastures below.

Luis asked Neil, so how does a young man like yourself have enough money to buy a place like this?

Neil replied, "Well, I'm just lucky, Louie, I'm just lucky."

Luis answered, "Well, that's the darnedest thing I ever heard."

And, Neil wrote 'Old Man' for him.

Here is Fil, analyzing the live performance of Old Man ...

And, here is Neil performing Old Man.

Hallelujah

"... but, you don't really care for music, do ya?"

Over to you, my dear Caddy!

It's my theme song, you know. :(

It has been covered by April Wine who made it their own.

But, the cover I am waiting for will be by Parallel 49 - I know if Rod Raslack does it, it will be as close to Ron Tabak's soaring vocals as is humanly possible!

Ahem.

Here's a big favourite Jim Vallance (aka Rodney Higgs) tune off the big debut album ...

Vladivostok

Turn it up loud!

Leonard Cohen - Suzanne - Live in London

Vallance wrote the signature PRiSM tune, Spaceship Superstaaaaaaaaar, along with It's Over, Vladivostok and Take Me To The Kaptin, among others, all off of the eponymous debut album, released in 1977.

Here is another incredible cover by Parallel 49 of Take Me To The Kaptin

They wrote my favourite Bryan Adams tune, Lonely Nights - among many others - and tonight I would like to play for you a phenomenal cover of this song by one of my favourite bands, Parallel 49 - United We Rock! with Rod Raslack on lead vocals ...

Lonely Nights - Parallel 49

Undun and a little trip down memory lane

American Woman was born right here in Kitchener and was the first song by a Canadian band to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart!

American Woman - LIVE

Blue

Have a listen to her full album, Evermore, written and produced by Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner and Antonoff.

Love this video with Neil singing on stage in a bar while he walks in with his wife, at the time, Pegi and they start dancing with a couple of Neil/Pegi look-a-likes there, too.

Well, here's a favourite Neil Young tune that isn't on that playlist ...

Helpless

"here's how it works, i've got these faces
you give them names and i won't deport you."

Hey, I'm listing to that playlist right now!

If Ever I Would Leave You

GRACELAND
Paul Simon

Simon and Garfunkel
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

Welcome, one and all to our little end-of-week shindig!

Tonight we're featuring the works of our favourite songwriters, songwriting teams, lyricists, composers, arrangers, mixers and the whole she-bang.

Who will go first ...er, second!?

We're focusing on songwriters a little later tonight so bring your favourites...

isn't it a bit early in the afternoon to be quite so "salient?" try pie instead.

Tomorrow please tell me about the ballistics reports.

Yeah, I wonder about "one shooter only" JKF kill but not so much about Bobby's. He was in the middle of a large, random crowd -- even without social media there were way too many witnesses present to cover up a second shooter.

As far as Sirhan Sirhan, the human brain is a funny thing and I can believe that he didn't remember doing the deed.

I say, let him go. As much as American history could have turned out so much better with Bobby, which really pains me, the guy has a stellar prison record and by all accounts is a different, better man.

When in doubt I lean towards mercy and I wouldn't be surprised if Bobby would agree with me.

What say you Re. the possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan.

I remember watching a fairly in-depth interview of him by a Canadian reporter many years ago and can remember that it sounded an awful lot like he was being truthful when he said he didn't remember shooting at anyone. And, of course, there are the balistic reports that indicate two shooters involved in the RFK assassination ...

Nicely done, good trickle. Of course, after JFK, Robert and Martin I've no actual stomach for just killing them.

Trump must live. He must endure the criminal and civil processes of America cleaning up the mess. Putting will have him killed in the end (aka he'll "Epstein" Trump) so he doesn't reveal the deep Russian connection.

I always thought political assassination was what you did to terminate a politician... ala Kerry, Guillam, Sanford, dude in an Idaho airport bathroom stall. You get the drift... No gun play involved.

Assassination on the other hand, totally for the gun freaks, and at it's most basic street level is just one ass taking care of another ass... it's right the in the word. I suppose it could be good for the nation or it could just be bad depending. It could also be a bad redneck rap song Ass Ass I Nation.

The only reason Texans and other rednecks want guns in plain sight is to keep the fetuses in plain sight.

As to Afghanistan( which, contrary to some in these here parts, the war is still going on for Afghani's... you would see that if you are paying attention to the news. Our hot involvement is over but...) Only time will tell if it is a winning strategy. I look at it in terms of we are finally doing it right, we are using Panda strategy (What does a panda do on a one night stand? Eats, shoots, and leaves.), which we should have done from the start.

Political Assassination should appeal to the Repugs who don't mind gun violence so long as there's nary a fetus in sight.
Ahem.

Hosanna, Queen of Snark!
How was that on the
Sacred Snark-o-meter? A 7 or an 8?

(I figure if I work hard and get a couple lucky breaks in twenty years I can maybe be the King of Snark.)

You see, I'm a big fan of Historian Charles "Follow the Money" Beard. A later reviewer summed him uprather well,

The suggestion that the Constitution had been a successful attempt to restrain excessive democracy, that it had been a triumph for property (and) big business seemed blasphemy to many and an act of near treason in the dangerous crisis [the Cold War] through which American political faith and practice were passing.

So I agree with the Bernies and Kuciniches, Nader and Don Harrises.

YOU'VE been on a real tear lately, bapping out tons of quality content and simply nailing your FTPs.

Hafta tellya, my fave is #1.

*who is thinking about it. But this sets the narrative for later when more and more people start paying attention.

You're right, of course. But timing is everything.

I think this is a card that should be being prepared, like, yesterday but I think it a card best deployed months closer to the election. Remember, we're all suffering post-Trump burnout so folks don't want to pay nearly as much attention now as they will in, say, November or December. I'd have the boots on the ground along with a simultaneous massive ad blitz. Just in time for holiday donations, in fact.

That flushing sound you hear is the Supreme Court's credibility, on the move.

FIRST
Either lowering the age of eligibility and/or offering the Public Option (that "Hope and Change" wussed on.)

SECOND
'Murica will NOT want to give these We the 90% bennies, paving the way for...

THIRD
If not full-on MFA then a basic plan that covers well the, well, basics. Private insurers could offer the extras. And...

FOURTH
Instant
Socialist
Dystopia
Bwahahahaha!

C'mon, Don. I don't understand why you don't realize that equating Dens and Repugs equally undermines you credibility. Don't you think most of us Weigantians wanted Medicare for All decades ago? Freshen up your material if you're serious about winning hearts and minds, okay?

Here are a couple salient reasons that there's a manifest difference,

1- Stimulus money, and impending better quality of life for We the 90%. Different from the 10% Repugs, no?

2- Biden got us finally out of Afghanistan. Oh sure, we'll still "launch Special Forces at them and send in the drones" -- not a typo but perhaps this was our winning military strategy in Afghanistan. Heh. But Joe didn't send one more candidate to be the "last man to die for a mistake." BIG difference from Repugs, eh?

3- Undoing Repug's trashing of the environment, dealing competently with disasters (remember Puerto Rico) and going agro on climate change.

Need I go on?

In fact, I'd actually be in favor of legal retroactive abortion for certain folks who managed to get born but never should have been permitted to, perhaps somebody like the ornage moron.

We have another phrase for that and as luck would have it it's an American tradition of sorts. It's called,

Political Assassination

And therefore this law is a form of class warfare, and should be assailed. If you agree that pointing this out helps unify the electorate, white* and non-white alike, by CLASS (We the 90% outnumber the Democrats) rather than RACE (there's still a lot of crackers in 'Murica, of which some yet resist our demographic inevitabilities, so why not focus them on how the top 10% is screwing them?)

So I'd have phrased the last of it,

They don't care about any of that -- all they care about is forcing their extreme religious views on EVERYONE that doesn't have the means to get around them.

* For the record I disagree about capitalizing "black" and "white" et al.

A Liberal as I am, I hate political correctness and IMO capitalization is taking ourselves (at least way too seriously. So I refuse to play by that rule, harumph.

Don't you agree that we must lower the temperature if we're to have improved race relations? Wouldn't you agree that lightening up is
a facilitator, no?

CW was referring to the supreme court. that part is a done deal. yes, voting drives can have an impact in the long term, but for now the country's court system has been fully subverted by the anti-abortion crusade. you're right that hopelessness and griping won't fix the problem. however, we still need to start from where we are, and that's where we are.

JL

Absolutely untrue. Stacey Abrams SHOWED Democrats what to do. On January 7th, 2021 - when both U. S. Senators from Georgia 'turned blue' - in every Red State, an affiliate of the Fair Fight Action should have been established. Eight months later, Republicans in every one of those states SHOULD be quaking in their boots at the massive voter registration and 'Blue enthusiasm' that these grassroots organizations were accomplishing.

Instead, my progressive friends in Arkansas and Florida, shrug their shoulders and complain on social media about how unfair the Republicans are. And I have no doubt the Democrats living safely in their 'bubble' in Austin and Houston, Texas, are NOT doing anything to increase voter turnout in 2022, either.

OK, sick joke. Actually I'm 100% in favor of legal abortion. I'm the grandpa of an aborted 'trisomic' grandbaby. In fact, I'd actually be in favor of legal retroactive abortion for certain folks who managed to get born but never should have been permitted to, perhaps somebody like the ornage moron.

As to No. 6, once again the urge to call out the bad guys as hypocrites simply begs the question of which side the good guys believe in. No, public health restrictions on personal freedom have nothing to do with abortion restrictions. The two aren't comparable. How do I know? Because Democrats are for the former, but against the latter, and the Democrats would not concede that they are being hypocritical. They'd say it's an apples-and-oranges comparison. Because it is.

But wait now. Since the Republicans are against both of these two forms of government regulation/nonregulation, it follows absolutely that the Republicans are no more hypocritical than the Dems are. They might be wrong (a Democrat will argue) but they are perfectly consistent in their wrongness - because it's apples-and-oranges on their end also.