Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Open Thread

Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son (live) 
(Thanks Betamax for the tip)
 
bagoh20 said...
 
"When I was a teen, my friends and I were into drinking tall boys and consuming virtually anything else intoxicating and driving around the hills of western Pennsylvania with music blasting and smoke billowing. One of the eclectic mix of music we were into included Kansas. 70's kids loved their Prog Rock.
In about 2 weeks I'm gong back to Pittsburgh to hook up with about 30 friends from back then, including some I've not seen for 30 years, best friends, old girlfriends, the whole mess. We're having a party, renting a bus, and all going together to a Kansas reunion concert. These people still love to party. I hope I don't die....kinda."

37 comments:

betamax3001 said...

Lem, My Lighter is in the Air....

Trooper York said...

Lem can you put up a "More Fighting, Less Math" thread.

You know for the non-nerdy types to wallow in.

Should be good for a bunch of comments.

Just a thought.

Thanks.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

You must have missed this post.

Rabel said...

I found this through Lem's Amazon link.

Might be worth a try.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I knew you be here to remind me we lost. lousy base running. again.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Wow Rabel!

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I wrote the wrong word didn't I?

I meant to express approval.

I should have said alright!

maybe.

Rabel said...

I'm good either way Lem.

Trooper York said...

That's what she said.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Good.

chickelit said...

A photo I took of Jim Morrison's grave with the profound Kansas wisdom "All We Are Is Dust In The Wind": see yellow arrow

Priceless

chickelit said...

Trooper York said...
Lem can you put up a "More Fighting, Less Math" thread.

I never got my requests granted at Troop's.

Trooper York said...

Not true Chickie. I posted a photo of Donna Douglas in the sixties.

That was one of my first posts as a matter of fact.

chickelit said...

No Troop. That was the second one. The first was a request for more Lisa Todd & Gunilla Hutton, and you gave me Barbie Benton.

Trooper York said...

True.

But who would complain about Barbie Benton.

chickelit said...

But who would complain about Barbie Benton.

Hugh Hefner?

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Ok, the text color on the main page should be darker now.

Thanks Chip!

chickelit said...

Lem has mastured chiaroscuro!

Trooper York said...

He only does doing the Red Sox games. Into a Red Sox. It can stand up by itself in the corner.

(He doesn't like to talk about it so mums the word)

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I give Chip all the credit.

He trusted that I wouldn't screw it up.

Will work on the font size next. but i'm getting ahead of myself. all work and no play... yadi yada.



bagoh20 said...

When I was a teen, my friends and I were into drinking tall boys and consuming virtually anything else intoxicating and driving around the hills of western Pennsylvania with music blasting and smoke billowing. One of the eclectic mix of music we were into included Kansas. 70's kids loved their Prog Rock.

In about 2 weeks I'm gong back to Pittsburgh to hook up with about 30 friends from back then, including some I've not seen for 30 years, best friends, old girlfriends, the whole mess. We're having a party, renting a bus, and all going together to a Kansas reunion concert. These people still love to party. I hope I don't die....kinda.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I have done a few weddings in Pittsburgh and Altoona.

Good times, good times.

JAL said...

We hope you don't die either, bag0.

And not just kinda.

One of my friends grew up in Pittsburgh. Proabably your age. I'll have to ask her if she knew you ;;- )

Chip Ahoy said...

Ace! Lem, that looks great.

The two breaths thing worked, din nit?

Synova said...

My 30th high school reunion is at the end of August.

I don't think that's possible.

Revenant said...

For some reason the "don't you cry no more" line always annoyed me. Maybe because it is oddly ungrammatical and the rest of the song isn't.

Darcy said...

Haha, Revenant.

I think this was my favorite Kansas song. I really got to hating Dust in the Wind because it was overplayed. But Come Sail Away....still can't wait to sing parts at the top of my lungs.

Bagoh, your trip sounds so fun. But then I'm having my second childhood, I think...hehehe...seriously, I'm jealous. =)

Darcy said...

Well, crap. Come Sail Away was Styx, eh?

Hahaha. I am so bad at band names. And car models. Somebody asked me what model Cruze I have. "Huh? I don't know."

It's a car.

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

What? No Foghat?

And I would have expected Lem to listen to Boston...

Anonymous said...

I never got much into big seventies groups like Kansas, Styx, Boston, Toto etc. I didn't mind them. They were OK to hear on the radio. Their songs were obviously well-crafted in terms of melody and musicianship. They just didn't speak to me.

I wanted to hear a more personal or quirky voice, so I was listening to singer-songwriters (broadly) which for me included Springsteen, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello, as well as Joni Mitchell. I never caught fire with Jackson Browne though.

Ah well. One's choice of music is such an oddly important business in the teens and twenties. Aside from music's obvious appeals, I think it's because you're just starting to weave together an identity out of practically nothing at that age -- you have almost no achievements, few significant relationships, little money, and not much experience at anything. Music is a cheap, available way to express who you are, or think you might be, and bond with others.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Kansas was one of those rock bands from the 70's where you had to feel sorry for the recording engineers who had to sit there at the mixing board and wear headphones and actually pay close attention to those screechy male vocals.

Of course, they were all stoned so that probably helped some.

JAL said...

I am not even going to divulge which high school reunion is coming up.

Talk about impossible.

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

Kansas was never one of my favorites. I did own one of their albums simply because I had choices to waste when joining the Columbia record club. Maybe more cowbell would have helped.

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Anonymous said...

One of the cheerleaders organized my class's 20th reunion. I didn't attend. Few did. Only about a dozen classmates showed up.

The cheerleader had a nervous breakdown. I would say "literally" except I don't know what a nervous breakdown is, but I was assured she experienced a considerable emotional disturbance.

She got over it though. She got in on the Florida real estate boom early and became one of the wealthiest members of my high school class.

Anonymous said...

David Bowie was big in the seventies. My UK friend tells me that Bowie was even bigger over there. He and Led Zeppelin owned the British radio waves back then.

I'm only now starting to listen to Bowie. I can see why I didn't like him when I was young. It wasn't just the genderbending. Bowie didn't seem to have any core at all and I like to feel a personal connection to artists, even though I realize it's one-sided.

I still don't get Bowie. I don't question his musical talent. His longevity is amazing. But I wonder why so many people were into him. Are there that many sexually ambiguous people out there? Or so many who find a reptilian, space-alien persona appealing? Or is his music as music that compelling?

It seems to be a blind spot on my part.

Whatever the case may be, Bowie is arguably the most influential pop star of the seventies.

Mitch H. said...

When I was a kid, I liked Kansas more than Styx. Today, I think I'd reverse the comparison. But they're still both kind of doofy - like Rush minus thirty IQ points and twenty decibels.