COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Saturday, March 31, 2007

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87 comments:

  1. Wow, that dude's got the chops.

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  2. Here ya go, Deuce. Let's forget the troubles of the world for a few minutes and go Wheeling with David Greer .

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  3. I think it's so good that the taliban would hate it...

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  4. That's cool; does he ever like, uh, play music, or anything?

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  6. Allen, I forgot how good earl scruggs was...

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  7. Deuce,

    How's this for nuts? It's '04 and I'm driving south through the Alps, like a bat out of hell, cranking Bocephus full tilt. Haven't listened since.

    Thanks!

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  8. Bob, that was a nice Spanish Guitar.

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  9. Rufus, one of my uncles who served in the Royal Navy, insisted that recording( on a 78) be played at his funeral. Not a dry eye in the chapel.

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  10. Moscow Junior High Student takes first at Hampton Jazz Festival

    We raise em right here.

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  11. It is crazy that you cannot find music like this on a radio anymore. nuts.

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  12. Johnny Cash - Flower Child I Saw the Light.

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  13. Have you ever been to "America?" Love me Tender

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  14. There was the Platters, and the Jordanaires, and allll them motown groups, but before them all there was The Ink Spots

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  15. 2164th: It is crazy that you cannot find music like this on a radio anymore. nuts.

    Oh, you can find it, but it's on National People's Radio after the Enya piece dedicated to the elimation of the fur trade and just before Madonna's on-air Kabbalah class.

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  16. Satchmo, and Billie

    close your eyes and you can hear Patsy

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  17. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson

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  18. Of course, in America we've always been willing to do almost anything for a buck: Merle Haggard - Makin a buck

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  19. Of course, some Americans really were "Real," Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill

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  20. Did someone say, Geetars? Eric Clapton

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  21. Boy, this silly girl can sing. Whitney

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  22. allen said...

    Orchestral Rodrigo #1

    Orchestral Rodrigo #2

    Orchestral Rodrigo #3

    Sun Apr 01, 01:02:00 AM EDT

    Your killing me! I will never get to sleep.

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  23. at your request rufus. it has been demoted.

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  24. Don't mind me, Deuce; I'm getting really, really drunk.

    Maybe, I'll share later. Probably not, though.

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  25. Close your eyes and think of Patsy Cline; I dare you. Billie - Summertime

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  26. Rat, your link didn't take.

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  27. The Platters: Tears to my eyes. Nat King Cole

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  28. It may not have been God, but I don't know what I would have done without them. Kitty Wells

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  29. You're killing me, Allen. First the Platters, and then the Supremes.

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  30. rufus,

    You're doing pretty good yourself!

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  31. What? Away Game? I guess we'll just have to sing this for a couple of hours The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

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  32. bobalharb,

    That girl wouldn't have to sing a lick; I'd pay just to watch her walk.

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  33. Let's face it guys; if you couldn't get laid in the sixties you were probably going to die a virgin. Dusty

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  34. Willie Nelson

    Ah, jumpin jack flash, that brings it back

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  35. And Then, Off to War. Remember this one, Laddies? Damn, Recon never had a song this good. Barry Sadler

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  36. Charlie probably thought this was our national anthem Boots

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  37. rufus,

    We are the most fortunate generation in the history of the world. Our prosperity and conspicuous consumption make us roundly hated and envied. As I polish off a bottle of very good French wine, in the air conditioned comfort of what would be in the rest of the world a castle, while enjoying great music, let me say, life is good!

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  38. Allen, We earned it. Fuck the ones that say otherwise.

    TWICE!

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  39. Allen, when we were sixteen we had to listen to shit like this. So, what did we do? We got drunk, got laid, and joined the Marine Corps. What else would a good Missouri boy do? The Eve of Destruction.

    Fucking lefty crocks of shit have been the same for twenty thousand years.

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  40. In ’67 while we babysat Con Thien, one of the guys had a battery powered 45 record player. This was one side of the single record he owned.

    If I Were A Carpenter

    Oh, the love of my life wrote me daily. She was a dear girl, deserving much better than the likes of me. Things were what they were. There would be no baby.

    After all these years, I have every letter she wrote.

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  41. Let the Muzzies grab ahold of this one and Growl

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  42. Allen, this desolate motherfucking Con Thien?

    I had a cup of coffee there. Man, I was glad when they cranked up the iron butterfly and we said, bye bye.

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  43. Who was that goofy broad that sang the one about the "Tallahatchie Bridge?" We used to sit out on top of the guard bunker and smoke dope and play that (and the Nancy Sinatra one) all night long.

    We must have scared Charlie to death.

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  44. rufus,

    re: Con Thien

    We operated outside the wire. It was Fun, Fun, Fun

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  45. You were Recon. Semper Fi.

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  46. rufus,

    re: National Anthem

    Look at those black girls. That’s what we are all about. Hoorah!

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  47. Good Night, all.

    It's been a great thread.

    You did good, Deuce, and Whit.

    BTW, does anyone else on the internet have these Jam sessions?

    I think not.

    hmmm

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  48. Our generation has engineered plant genetics, pharmacology, and IT, among a host of other things that have made life possible for billions of human beings, who otherwise would have perished in their ignorance. For our effort, we are daily accosted and assailed by ingrate savages. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?

    Yes, we have our flaws; but apathy isn’t one of them. Why, we could have stayed
    Our room

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  49. rufus,

    My friend, there is truth in wine. What other sites may do gives them no soul. We have lived, loved, and lost. We have been in the ring.

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