OT: The Music Thread: Part X

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One of my all-time favorites.

But I tracked back to it after purchasing "Mars Needs Guitars!" in '85 after "Death Defying" charmed the pants off of me upon hearing on BCN (sic).

I like a lot of stuff on 1987's Blow Your Cool," but that was their last gasp for me.

If pressed, I would select "MNG!" as my favorite Gurus album.

Will post that or those soon,


We put on a Gurus show at UMass in 1987. Sat with them at dinner. Amazing experience. One of my favorite bands and phenomenally cool people.
 
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We put on a Gurus show at UMass in 1987. Sat with them at dinner. Amazing experience. One of my favorite bands and phenomenally cool people.
That's great. Were the Bangles there to sing backing vocals on one of my favorites, "Times We Had"? 🤔

Was Dave Faulkner cool to you?

You probably know that the song "Arthur," from "Stone Age Romeos," is a true story about one of their friends. A musician and, I believe, their roadie,

 
That's great. Were the Bangles there to sing backing vocals on one of my favorites, "Times We Had"? 🤔

Was Dave Faulkner cool to you?

You probably know that the song "Arthur," from "Stone Age Romeos," is a true story about one of their friends. A musician and, I believe, their roadie,


Faulkner was hilarious and very gracious. Mark Kingsmill and Brad Shepard also chatty. Clyde Bramley might’ve said five words, but he seemed to just be a quiet guy. No Bangles, but I probably would’ve been awkward and weird meeting Vicki Peterson, on whom I was celebrity crushing hard.
 
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Faulkner was hilarious and very gracious. Mark Kingsmill and Brad Shepard also chatty. Clyde Bramley might’ve said five words, but he seemed to just be a quiet guy. No Bangles, but I probably would’ve been awkward and weird meeting Vicki Peterson, on whom I was celebrity crushing hard.



Doubtless you are aware that there was, shall we say, an "alternative" song title & set of lyrics going round at the time,

 
Because it is my 72d birthday.





As you may or may not know, I am not a fan of Joni Mitchell's singing voice, in the same way I am not a fan of Joan Baez.

Nonetheless I respect the talent of both.

(By the way, it's fair to say that without Joan Baez as sponsor, the world might never have discovered the genius of Bob Dylan.)

"Circle Game" is a sad, impossibly wistful song from a master songwriter.

I know very little, save by respect and reputation, of Joni Mitchell's work.

Posted previously, Neil Diamond (no songwriting slouch himself) records "Both Sides Now," another sad, impossibly wistful song.

I loved it from the first time I heard it.

I think I was seven or eight, and this was the front album art (sic),



 
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