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Paul Desmond, alto sax player with Dave Brubeck Quartet and author of Take Five. “The qualities in music which I considered most important—and still do—were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.”

Found on VIMEO: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/terrydownsmusic

In 1970 minimum wage was $1.60 and median annual income about $9,900.

This is new, and very good. SF Bay Area band.

At an art space. Fun crowd. I played a PRS SE II Soapbar into a Joyo American Sound into a Custom Vibrolux Reverb augmented with an Eminence Delta Pro in a 1x12 cab.

Eva came into our life 2/25/21, born 12/31/20. Cuteness devolved into carnage.

Fascinating history and construction of minstrel banjos - gut strings, no frets - plus Rhiannon Giddens. Familiar headstock shape on an early banjo. Her interview by Steve Earle piqued my interest.

From Los Angeles country music television show Town Hall Party, broadcast from Compton. Eddie does his hits and more and is interviewed by Johnny Bond.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/the-market-for-musical-gear-is-amping-up-like-never-before/ar-BB1eFBCy?ocid=uxbndlbing

Yesterday afternoon my wife and I were reading and having a coffee in our living room. There was a thump, we looked up and a bird had struck the glass patio sliding door and was holding on by its claws to the screen. There was a flash of dark wings, and in an instant the bird was gone, yanked...

Eva joined the family last Wednesday night. She was born 12/31/20, and we were told she is Shepherd, Boxer, Pittie, and more. She is alert, playful, vocal and learning the ropes. She had her first walk on a leash yesterday to the mailbox and got nervous about a passing delivery truck. A couple...

I have been cleaning, dusting and checking over my '70s vintage home stereo system: Marantz 2275 receiver and JBL L36 Decade and L77 Lancer speakers. As an exercise I decided to look up the original list prices of the system components, their value in 2021 dollars and current sales prices...

Feliz Navidad...

Dream Syndicate:

My wife and I just got off a road trip to Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. Last Friday night about 6 pm driving in Salina, Utah - about 3,000 population - we saw two teenage girls in their cheerleading uniforms in front of the local drive-in. Friday night, high school football. Good to see, and...

The other night my wife and I hosted another couple for dinner. They are both about 20 years younger, involved in the same industry we have an interest in, and are involved in cutting-edge projects and play piano. Good dinner conversation about politics - far differing opinions, music, books...