In the mid-seventies my first rock concert was a headliner by Ten Years After at the Boston Garden. Alvin Lee toiled in the spotlight and on the margins. He will be missed.
Notes and observations. Diversions and digressions. All done far too infrequently.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
An absolutely delightful musical experience: PFM live with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull
I've been a fan since the age of 14 by way of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. This Italian band is very easy on the ears. Phenomenal stuff. Ian Anderson joins in.
Saturday, November 02, 2013
Can someone name this tune?
Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists in at about 0:40 of this clip.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
Rare Greg Lake version of King Crimson's Cadence and Cascade
Soothing and wonderful. That's Greg Lake's voice at the beginning of his prime on an out-take from In the Wake of Poseidon (You Tube version here.)
Labels:
Greg Lake,
King Crimson,
Progressive music
Friday, June 07, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Another loss for zealot U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz
Federal judge comes to the rescue in property rights case. Carmen Ortiz should have known better.
Jon Chesto of the Boston Business Journal has the details.
Thank goodness for the Institute for Justice. The government was out to seize owner Russ Caswell's motel in Tewksbury because several unaffiliated drug deals took place. A federal Magistrate Judge, Judith Dein, thought otherwise.
Jon Chesto of the Boston Business Journal has the details.
Thank goodness for the Institute for Justice. The government was out to seize owner Russ Caswell's motel in Tewksbury because several unaffiliated drug deals took place. A federal Magistrate Judge, Judith Dein, thought otherwise.
Dein’s ruling today pointed to several reasons why prosecutors didn’t have the right to seize the Motel Caswell:Amusing.
Prosecutors had been tipped off about the motel by a federal agent whose primary job was to identify properties for forfeiture. But prosecutors maintained that this wasn’t about raising money for the government, and was instead about helping local police crack down on the drug trade.
- The government had identified only a limited number of qualified drug-related incidents, spread out over a 15-year period. None of the incidents — law enforcement officials eventually named 15 of them — involved Caswell or his employees, or even people that Caswell was familiar with.
- There were essentially no efforts to work with Caswell to reduce drug crimes at the property before prosecutors moved ahead with forfeiture proceedings in 2009
- There was no warning given to Caswell that the possibility of a property seizure even existed.
- Caswell, who lives next door to the motel with his family, and his employees took reasonable steps to secure the property and cooperate with police.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Stunningly beautiful in all its range, Bruckner's Symphony No.8, Karajan conducting
Bruckner's Symphony No.8 w/Karajan conducting "live" in St. Florian (1979)
My favorite Bruckner Symphony, No. 8 here from St. Florian. Bruckner was no "mere country bumpkin." He was a genius who created music that gave us a glimpse of how God roars. Amazing music. It's an honor to be the 38,270th viewer of this performance.
My favorite Bruckner Symphony, No. 8 here from St. Florian. Bruckner was no "mere country bumpkin." He was a genius who created music that gave us a glimpse of how God roars. Amazing music. It's an honor to be the 38,270th viewer of this performance.
Monday, January 14, 2013
R.I.P. James Buchanan, 1986 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science. A great man!
Economist Richard McKenzie writes a tribute to his teacher James Buchanan
"Today, I am pleased to call James Buchanan my professor for pressing on me a remarkably simple but important point that escapes so many colleagues across the country: Being a professor is a privileged position. It demands scholarship, but it also demands that you give of yourself in ways that will never show up on your resume, or in your obituary."
Bravo.
"Today, I am pleased to call James Buchanan my professor for pressing on me a remarkably simple but important point that escapes so many colleagues across the country: Being a professor is a privileged position. It demands scholarship, but it also demands that you give of yourself in ways that will never show up on your resume, or in your obituary."
Bravo.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
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