How hot is it?

It's so hot even my dog thinks it's too hot:

She's a good dog. Now she is inside in the conditioned air and chillin'. She was born on a farm 10 years ago and was given to me when she was 4 months old. 

The woman who owned her mother dog once helped me build a solar wood drying kiln in my back yard. I taught her what I could about construction but she never learned to be careful or very particular when it came to how to keep the surfaces of a building blemish-free. She was a mess, is what I am saying.

This is a picture of the drying shed and my old dog making sure the stacked slabs of wood were safe.

But for all of her carelessness she (the woman, not the dog) did teach me one thing, and that was how to properly tie a running knot in long extension cords:

So there you have it - I can now keep my power cords tidy and readily accessible, I got a great dog out of the deal (although that happened years later and in a round-about way) then the woman went crazy and moved to upstate New York - which, from what I hear, is a thing.

I saw this group play at Shady Grove in '66. My excuse is that I was young.

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That's Jimmy Page playing guitar on Donovan's 1966 song. Trippy visuals. Don't stare at it 'cause it might induce seizures.

h/t: "House" Words And Deeds

lyrics after the jump

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My folks had that 45 rpm when I was a kid. I think my brother has it now. I haven't listened to it in maybe 40 years.  I vaguely recall it had something appropriate for Memorial Day and sure enough, Wiki delivered:

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret US Army Specialist 5 James Gabriel, Jr., the first native Hawaiian to die in Vietnam, who was killed by Viet Cong gunfire while on a training mission on April 8, 1962. One verse mentioned Gabriel by name, but it wasn't included in the recorded version. link

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Compiled from my iTunes according to my "played" metric which spans a number of years. Number 10 is least played; number 1 has the most plays:

10. Mama, You've Been On My Mind by Rod Stewart from his 1972 LP "Never A Dull Moment."

9. The Mighty Quinn (The Eskimo) by Manfred Mann and his Earth Band (1968).

8. All I Really Want To Do by The Byrds (1965).  I have three Byrds songs in my top ten so there is something special about them. I suppose it's their sound. They really did invent a new sound as I described here.

7. Don't Think Twice by Mike Ness (1999)

6. All Along The Watchtower by The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1968)

5. My Back Pages by The Byrds (1967)

4. It's All Over Now Baby Blue by Them (that's Van Morrison in disguise, 1966). I probably under-counted this version and it should be ranked higher. But the song only recently became available on iTunes.

3. Mr. Tambourine Man, The Byrds (1965)

2. Changing Of The Guards Patti Smith (2007)

1. I Believe In You Cat Power (2008). The original is from Dylan's "Slow Train Coming," the LP some Dylan fans still love to forget. But the song works well at a non-religious level too, in my opinion.
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So what did I leave out?  What would you add or subtract?

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Jimmy Page played guitar on Donovan's 1966 homage to the witch:

Ever notice how all the key players in the ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal are women? Here's a candid shot of a Planned Parenthood exec relaxing at home in the kitchen:

Notice how every one of the women so far caught on video tries to look good on the outside: designer scarves, coifed hair etc. There is something uniquely evil about such women--especially middle aged women -- who carry out such banal evils while trying to "look good." As if any layer of costume can mask their venality. I can see their inner hag.

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Children behave...

Related:

Tommy James (b. 1947) recorded his first hit, "Hanky Panky," 50 years ago. The song was a local hit but otherwise died from lack of exposure. James and his bandmates finished high school and moved on. Two years later and hard up for cash, James released the original recording to better distribution and it climbed to #1 in the US charts in 1966.

Hanky Panky belongs to that pre-Beatles, American garage band tradition -- sort of like "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen discussed back here.

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Them cover Dylan in 1966, the best year for pop music:

Stray thoughts:

The song starts out sounding like the opening to Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" (1961) but then it hits a sour note to distinguish it.

I knew that Beck had stolen that sound for his song "Jack-Ass" -- I just couldn't place it in my past.  Then I googled -- duh!

Why wasn't this the parting song for Walter White in "Breaking Bad"?

Why doesn't iTunes sell this version of this song?

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Despite the snide lyrical digs towards British bands at that time (1966), these guys were pure American Yankees from Provincetown, Mass.

Mitt Romney was pranking fellow students around that time over hairdos too. Imagine that: Mitt Romney and guys from P-town sharing sentiments.

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It's just so cool. "Spoonful" was on Cream's 1966 debut album and it's another Willie Dixon original, first recorded by Howlin' Wolf.

Spillover From Trooper York

The first rule of Trooper York is "what happens at TY stays at TY"

I would never violate that.

However, I wanted to share a playlist on iTunes that I put together years ago and never did anything with: a list of bands who played the Whisky-a-Go-Go in L.A. in 1966:

   Mr. Tambourine Man    The Byrds
   Good Lovin'                 The Rascals
   East West                    The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
   Let's Live for Today      The Grass Roots
   For What It's Worth       The Buffalo Springfield
   The End                       The Doors
   White Rabbit               The Jefferson Airplane
   Happy Together            The Turtles
   Time Has Come Today  The Chambers Brothers
   Iron Butterfly Theme     Iron Butterfly
   Manic Depression         The Jimi Hendrix Experience
   Get Together              The Youngbloods
   I Got A Line On You       Spirit
   Summertime Blues         Blue Cheer

Can you imagine?

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The Doors first released "Indian Summer" on their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel, but that song -- or part of it -- was already 4 years old.* "Indian Summer" sounds out of place amid the raucous strut and swagger of "Roadhouse Blues" and the others. Only "Blue Sunday" -- inseparable from the cynical "Peace Frog" -- echoed a message of love. But those two entwined songs juxtaposed where The Doors were in 1970 and not four years earlier.