It looks like I have some things in common with 'The Man in Black". I too was in the Air Force and stationed in Germany. I also intercepted Russian transmissions, but was a Russian linguist.
It looks like I have some things in common with 'The Man in Black". I too was in the Air Force and stationed in Germany. I also intercepted Russian transmissions, but was a Russian linguist.
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“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.
Ky Fried Redleg (04-10-2026)
Thanks for your service, TDave. I knew you would gobble this one up like a big ol' slab of Montgomery ribs.Originally Posted by texasdave
Can you sing ?
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
146. Johnny Cash had a number of crossover hits, songs that were hits on both the country and pop charts.. What was his biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100 ? It peaked at #2 . It was recorded live at San Quentin and hit #1 on the country charts.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
A funny, funny song.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.
I wrote signal processing software on an array processor analyzing Russian radar systems for the CIA.
Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
DAMN! You and TDave were some serious dudes.
I kissed a Russian girl once...
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
147. One of my favorite songs. Period. Features one of the coolest, most iconic guitar riffs of the 1970's. Song has been misinterpreted by many to be a suicide anthem. It was not meant to be that. The band's guitarist and the song's writer was contemplating his own mortality and was thinking about his wife as he constructed a song about a love affair that transcends death. So, it's really a song about love living on in the after-life, rather than a romanticization of suicide.
The second verse is where the controversy arose. "Valentine" is a metaphor for mortal love. Romeo & Juliet was chosen as an example of a couple who had faith to take their love elsewhere when they weren't permitted to love here and now. The 40,000 number reference was just pulled out of thin air as an estimate of the number of people who died everyday worldwide. It had nothing to do with the number of suicides.
Stephen King was heavily inspired by the song. He liked it so much that he quoted lyrics in his novel, The Stand. Actually, he MISQUOTED the lyrics. King said, "Come on, Mary... " when it should have been , "Come on, baby... " . King also included the song in the soundtrack of his miniseries of The Stand.
King wasn't the only one inspired by this 70's classic. Convicted killer Garry Gilmore said that it was a favorite song of his. In fact, the song peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 just a couple of months before Gilmore was executed by a five-man firing squad at the Utah State prison. It was the highest charting single of just two top 40 hits the band had.
So, now you see why The Big Lebowski termed me "The Oracle of the Sublime and the Macabre." This song has always spoken to me. Is there anyone else besides me , Stephen King , and Mr. Gilmore that fancy this song?
What is the title of this classic tune from the 70's?
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
You win.
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I think Katy Perry kissed that same girl.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.
My favorite guitarist of all time. Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser. Blue Oyster Cult is also one of my favorite bands. Buck Dharma didn't go off on many wild solos like in this song, but his guitar licks always moved the song forward. I read an article once that his solo on 'Don't Fear the Reaper' was rated the 40th-best guitar solo of the 1970's. Balderdash, I say! Only one thing could have lifted that song to #! on the charts - More Cowbell!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/chziyjhqMgY
Two BOC classics (of which there were many).
Last edited by texasdave; 04-11-2026 at 06:57 AM.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.
Revering4Blue (04-11-2026)
One of the greatest rock songs ever.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
goreds2 (04-12-2026),Revering4Blue (04-11-2026),texasdave (04-11-2026)
Two criminally underrated guitarists, in my mind, are Buck Dharma and Lindsey Buckingham. Those are two guys who can hold my attention for the entire 4 or 5 minute solo. Dharma's extended solo on "Astronomy" and Buckingham on "I'm So Afraid" leave me hanging on every chord, with great phrasing, incredible storytelling, and magnificent improvisation. It's easy to get bored with a long guitar solo but not with those two guys.
"Astronomy" :
"I'm So Afraid" live from Boston :
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
texasdave (04-11-2026)
It was just another system to implement. I never saw live data. You can speak Russian. That’s something.
Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
There are just certain songs I never get tired of hearing. EVER. As big of a Elton John fan I am, and I am a huge fan, when "Your Song,"or "Bennie & the Jets" come on the radio, I am apt to change the change the channel. Not that those aren't terrific songs, because they are, but because I've heard them a million times each and have grown somewhat tired of them. But I have NEVER, EVER changed the channel when "Don't Fear the Reaper comes on. I've never grown tired of that song, even after a million listens. Are there songs like that for you? Songs you never get tired of hearing?
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" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
texasdave (04-12-2026)
Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band
KISS an Angel Good Morning - Charlie Pride
* Attended the 1990 and 2010 Reds Division clinchers *
Go 76ers, Go Steelers and Go Bucks
Love it ! Thanks, gr2. I like both of those. I don't think I've ever turned the channel when either of those were playing. "Kiss an Angel..." was one of those songs that played frequently on the jukebox at the little diner downtown where I played pinball all the time as a kid. Great song! Charlie came through our area all the time to play Tombstone Junction in the 70's and Renfro Valley in the 80's and after. He dropped by Cracker Barrel last time he was in the area , back in the 2010's. Fine gentleman.
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" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
goreds2 (04-12-2026)
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