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  1. April 09, 2004

    The students, members of the nonviolent activist group Food Not Bombs, are in violation of a city ordinance banning the distribution of free food in public places without a permit, according to Captain Bob Guidara, spokesman for the Tampa Police Department.

    Date could be better changed to: April 09, 1964

    back 40 years ago, history repeats itself and so are the social standards.

    Ps: they weren't distributing 'space-cake' I guess. :smokin:

  2. Yes another great album. I even bought a second vinyl copy of this album, because the shape of the first one, was too bad to listen to anymore. Still have them both and the cd. Still listening to it once a month or so, never bouring!!

    Have still one wish though: to see CSN&Y live on stage.

  3. My first taste of the music of Yes was: Yours Is No Disgrace on this album.

    This song gave me the goosebumps then and it still does now, in positive sense!

    :rotfl:

    Tracks:

    1. Yours Is No Disgrace

    2. The Clap

    3. Starship Trooper: a. Life Seeker

    b. Disillusion

    c. Würm

    4. I've Seen All Good People: a. Your Move

    b. All Good People

    5. A Venture

    6. Perpetual Change

    Members: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye and Bill Bruford

    For a review go to:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/rev...d=42304&cf=1527

  4. The greatest singer/songwriter of the 90s, to me is: Luka Bloom.

    Besides his strong lyrics and great acoustic guitar playing, is he a wonderful performer. I saw the guy about 11 times. never a dull concert.

    Up to now he has 9 albums out, 2 of them are only available at his website and are not for sale in common stores. ( The Barry Moore Years & Before Sleep Comes)

    http://www.lukabloom.com/

    I found a Rolling Stone review of Luka's debut album: Riverside

    Enjoy!!

    Rolling Stone - March 1990

    * * * *

    Riverside

    Reprise Records

    "I was brought up near the riverside/In a quiet Irish town/An eighteen-month-old baby/The night they laid my Daddy down.... My home was filled with sorrow then, too much for me to tell," sings Luka Bloom on "The Man Is Alive", a sharp lament gracing his soaring major-label debut album, "Riverside". Swirling toward a wisdom that sees all dead fathers as living in their children, the song echoes James Joyce's elegiac short story The Dead in its passionate acceptance - and in its tight-lipped euphoria nearly too strong for words.

    The Joycean note isn't casual or contrived. Bloom took his name from the long-suffering Leopold Bloom, the hero of Joyce's Ulysses, and he's also the inheritor of a particularly Irish mix of mysticism and moonshine, a carousing spirituality that marks musicians as distinct as Van Morrison and U2.

    Bloom's first name, Luka, from Suzanne Vega's song about domestic brutality, targets the folk vanguard (Vega, Tracy Chapman, Michelle Shocked) of which he aims to be a part. The singer and acoustic guitarist - a brother of the Irish folksinger Christy Moore - arrived in the United States two years ago, gathered a reputation for his electrifying live shows, sang backup on the Indigo Girls' "Closer to Fine" and honed his own brand of contemporary Celtic soul.

    As much Leonard Cohen as Woody Guthrie, however, Bloom is a decidedly artful musician. A literary lyricist - "Nighthawks swagger in front of me/Sirens punctuate your symphony" - he draws his material less from the overt politics and proletarian grit of much traditional folk than from states of lovers' ecstasy and private revelation. "Gone to Pablo" captures his narrative gift most subtly; commemorating the love suicide of Picasso's second wife, the song paints death sadly but elegantly, with an almost pre-Raphaelite beauty.

    Backed mainly by smoky, minimal percussion and his own deft guitar, Bloom's singing is distinctive for its clarity and conviction. Not one of folk's eccentric voices, he's a more tender deliverer; a touch of rough brogue coarsens - and personalizes - his bell-like style. It's a voice sutied to love songs, and fittingly, the best works on Riverside are ballads. On "This Is for Life", a tale of lovers separated by English prison bars, Bloom outright keens the chorus, his longing achieving a haunting, erotic strain.

    There are shortcomings to Riverside. Some of the blarney humor of "An Irishman in Chinatown" is coy; the lyrics of "The One" verge on both the portentous and the trite. But Bloom's failings are lapses of an overheated ambition, and, in these days of lazy radio formula, trying too hard is a forgivable offense.

    Celebrating warm flesh and spiritual fire, "Riverside" is a dazzling entrance. Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Jesse Winchester's first album and Robbie Robertson's glorious ballads delimit the ground Bloom examines. It's a brave territory - one Bloom has proven himself able and worthy to travel. (RS 573)

    Paul Evans

    www.rollingstone.com

  5. 60s

    The Beatles - I Want You

    Status Quo - Pictures Of Matchstick Man

    The Outsiders - Monkey On Your Back

    Brainbox - Down Man

    Brainbox - Summertime

    Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne

    Pink Floyd - See Emely Play

    Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

    Kinks - Lola

    Herd - From The Underworld

    70s

    Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe

    CSN&Y - Almost Cut My Hair

    Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

    John Miles - Music

    The Doors - Love Her Madly

    John Lennon - Imagine

    Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

    America - Horse With No Name

    Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

    Deep Purple - Child In Time

    Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water

    Johnny Rivers - John Lee Hooker

    Status Quo - Roll Over Lay Down

    CCR - Suzie Q

    :wacko: makes me very confusing ! :rotfl:

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