The Last Bass Outpost

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The uploader hasn't made the second video available in the USA. 

I prefer brunettes. Especially dark brown hair. Always have.

I have a friend who is obsessed with blondes.  He kept assuming I was the same way.  Finally, it dawned on him what was happening.  That I felt about brunettes the way he felt about blondes.  The difference being he has a true obsession with blondes and I have a preference, not an obsession, for brunettes.   

Mary Weiss was talented, unique, and adorable.  RIP. 

Underrated Canadian guitarist Frank Marino.  Unfortunately, Marino is too ill to play in public anymore.

Here are live and studio versions of the song. 

From Jim Peterik:

"There was a lot of resentment that I was writing songs not only for Survivor, but I was writing them with .38 Special too. I'm talking about resentment from my own band, Survivor. What I tried to explain to them, which fell on deaf ears, was that the .38 songs would never have been right for Survivor. They came from another place in me and were very much a product of the synergy of Don Barnes, Jim Peterik and Jeff Carlisi. All they could see was competition on the charts from someone who wrote the songs for both bands. When .38 Special came in to write for the next record, I was kind of sneaking around. Survivor didn't even know .38 Special was in town. We had to find places to write songs. We couldn't go to the band house, and at my house, what if one of the guys stopped over? So we went to my mother's house and wrote in the basement. We were writing 'Caught Up In You' in this gloomy room in my mother's basement all dark and dank, and we're writing this hit song. I was feeling like the bad kid playing hooky or something." (Jim is author of the book Songwriting For Dummies.)

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Personally, I've got to say I'm not much of a fan of Survivor and really not much of 38 Special, either.  But I do very much like "Caught Up in You."  I guess the video to it is okay, but kind of out-of-place in today's world.  But that particular song always resonated with me a lot. 

Not to pick on TB, but that is a place where many impatient young people with little interest in history show up.

The discussions about the impact of the Beatles there reveal a surprising number of people who think they were just some old band that was nothing special. It does boggle the mind of those who lived through that era and know how much they influenced the direction of popular music.

That said,  I remember that nearly 20 years ago one of my friends related overhearing a conversation between two teenagers.  His ears perked when the Beatles were mentioned. The pivotal comments were these:

"...the Beatles? Who are they?

"Aw, that was McCartney's band before he formed Wings."

My friend was still reeling when he told me of that exchange.

Or even if they have heard of the Beatles, they just don't like them at all.  I've mentioned it in prior posts, but this definitely applied to one of my younger relatives who hated them with a passion.  Or maybe, like you were indicating, some people just misjudge the impact the Beatles had.  Like one guy who started a discussion on how the Beatles were so hyped by the media.  According to him, the main reason people liked them was because the media told them to.  No independent initiative on the part of the fans was ever used.  People just did as they were told. 

It's perfectly okay to like or dislike any band.  But when people start trying to tell me they understand what I'm thinking even more than I do, I have to say that is just ludicrous.  Yet there are people out there who inaccuately second-guess other people all the time.  It seems to be a hobby for some people. 

The most obscure thing to me about Woodstock is that Sha Na Na played there.

This particular documentary had a number of clips I had never seen.  Overall, though, I think there were a number of misconceptions about Woodstock.  One was that Hendrix's performance was supposed to be great.  It wasn't, IMO.  Like the Isle of Wight concert, it pretty much sucked.  Hendrix thought so, too, from what I can gather.  In general, Woodstock was overrated.  Right now, however, I'm just unhappy that Melanie has died. 

To be fair, the lackluster performance at Woodstock really wasn't Hendrix's fault.  That Gypsy Sun and Rainbows band temporarily put together for Woodstock just didn't make the grade, period.