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A Good Cause

Aug 23

Posted by Kevin Murphy in Fun | No Comments

It’s not too late to help out — you can still donate to Charles Austin’s Muscular Distrophy appeal. While I’ve contributed already, I had been planning on swooping down and being the one whose contribution put him over the top, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. Charles has threatened to stop blogging (again), so don’t blame me if he falls silent (again).

While you’re there, don’t forget the 70’s lyric contest — I think he made them harder this time. Now that I’ve finally gotten the lyrics to Lay Down by the Strawbs out of my head, I think I can get some.

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Viva La Strawbs, Viva L’iTunes!

Aug 8

Posted by Kevin Murphy in Music | 1 Comment

I’m a big fan of iTunes. I’ve been recreating my old music library song by song. Not everything is on iTunes (yet), but they keep adding to it. So there is a bit of a race between my failing memory and the additions, and this weekend the additions won a battle as a couple of Strawbs greatest hits albums are now available. Growing up my brother and I had Hero and Heroine in our collection (OK, I think it was in his part because I can’t remember seeing it in a very long time). So once again I can hear Dave Cousins voice from yesteryear with such favorites as Lay Down or the un-Strawbs like but very fun Part of the Union til the day I die.

One of the great things is, especially as they add more of the old obscure music of my youth, I can buy exactly what I want. Some groups only had one or two good songs on an album, so now I can buy just those. The hard part is remembering the old obscure music of my youth.

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