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Location: Midland, MI | Cliff's comment about 'the grape' for some reason sparked a neuron:
Grapes have a very high content of rhodium and iridium. A typical 4oz glass of COncord grape juice made from frozen concentrate contains ~127mg of rhodium and ~48mg of iridium (they're of the light platinum family, if I recall my periodic table correctly), which is significantly more than any other food product (in similar quantity). The interesting thing is that the human brain contains approximately 5%, by dry weight, rhodium and iridium. The last paper I read on it proposed that the two metals, being found in high concentration in dendrites and neurons, are fundamental to proper brain functioning.
A complete and total digression/stream of consciousness post, but hey, it makes for a good excuse when I go for that third glass of cab. Oh, fermentation doesn't reduce the levels of the two metals, only concentrates them. :) |
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Location: NJ | ". . Oh, fermentation doesn't reduce the levels of the two metals, only concentrates them . ."
Well then, . . . . . there ya' GO!!!!! ;) |
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Location: Midland, MI | Hey, there, cliffster, I didn't say I bought into all that. I just recognize that the pseudo-scientific sounding words makes it a good excuse. :) |
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Location: NJ | Crusty;
There's no excuse like a "good excuse" ;) |
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Location: south east Michigan | I burned a disc with.....
I'll Be Back (Beatles)
Happy Together
The Weight
Heart of Gold
Up On Cripple Creek
Sunshine Superman
Ticket To Ride
I Feel Fine
Tequila Sunrise |
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Location: south of munich, Germany | my favourites the last week:
Robben Ford - Blue Line
Robben Ford & Jimmy Witherspoon - Live at Notodden Blues Festival
Jeff Beck - Who else
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan - Selfportrait
Dr. John - Trippin' Live
Blood Sweat & Tears - Live |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Cliff Funny you should bring up Serge. I'm listening to him right now too. What an incredible player he is. If anyone hasn't heard him Buy his CD at Amazon.com. You will not be sorry.
Besides Sergio Lara today i'm listening to
Chet Atkins CGP
America Encore:More Greatest Hits
The Beatles Number ones
James Taylors Greatest Hits
Jim Croce Photographs and memories
Lionel Richie:Just for You
Toby Keith:Shock n Yall
I know..I have Eclectic Taste but I can't help it!
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Location: south east Michigan | Steve,
Eclectic is nothing to apologize for. One of my favorite discs is the soundtrack to "The Nightmare Before Christmas", by Danny Elfman |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | I hate it when things get back on topic. Has anyone tried Fat Bastard merlot. I'm working on a bottle as I type and try to learn the harmony for tomorrow morning. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by willard:
I hate it when things get back on topic. Has anyone tried Fat Bastard merlot. I'm working on a bottle as I type and try to learn the harmony for tomorrow morning.
If it says 'Get in muh belly' anywhere on the label, I'd probably be too afraid to try it. :) |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I compare today's box wines to the country wines of France Hemingway praised so much in "A Moveable Feast". You can drink above average varietals and burgundies for around $2.00 a liter, and if you want to emulate the Hemingway Spanish adventures, pull out the bag and pretend it's a goatskin. Starving artists don't have to drink Gallo and puke all night, the box wines are very quality controlled and you don't get an undrinkable schlock one time and a barely drinkable wine another. Some vintners are now thinking of putting some top drawer in boxes, as it is a way to serve wine where it doesn't oxidize after opening.
One of my favorite musicians died in the last few years, Mickey Newberry, his "Frisco Mabel Joy" album and CD is one I play frequently when I am sampling my country wine. He wrote "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" that Jerry Lee Lewis did okay with.
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Location: Houston, TX | Man...too much to respond to!
Joyful Noise: I'm in Houston, love the Jayhawks and the Allman Brothers. You mentioned Eric Taylor is married to Nancy Griffith - is that the Eric Taylor from Anderson Fair that hooked up with Lyle Lovett about a million years ago?
OK, next...on topic about the current artist selection. (Side note, Russ - did you just know from memry what was in your jukebox or were you TQ'd up enough to go on a mission and catalog the whole damn thing?!) My list certainly demonstrates my musical schizophrenia, I think, but I could be wrong if purple equals dawn eggs.
Paul Simon - Collection
Jayhawks - Smile (Trouble - great song)
Thin Lizzy
Steely Dan - Aja
Dio
Maiden
Kelly Joe Phelps
Stephen Stills - Stills Alone
Floyd - Meddle
Dead - I'm no deadhead, but I inadvertantly groove on Box of Rain, Sugar Magnolia, Attics, et al...
Steve Morse - underrated and unknown except by players
That's all I can think of yestermorrow. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Originally posted by intermetroman:
Joyful Noise: I'm in Houston, love the Jayhawks and the Allman Brothers. You mentioned Eric Taylor is married to Nancy Griffith - is that the Eric Taylor from Anderson Fair that hooked up with Lyle Lovett about a million years ago?
I'm sure it probably is, although I'm unaware of him ever joining up with Lyle Lovett. Actually his marriage to Nanci Griffith only lasted about a year or so. He's pretty talented in his own right. Lyle Lovett used to play there all the time and that was back before he was nationally known as well.
As a side note, I have a copy of an LP by Steve Morse titled "Stand Up" from 1985 with guest musicians Peter Frampton, Eric Johnson, Albert Lee, Alex Ligertwood (was with Carlos Santana for a while), among others. Ovation is mentioned in the credits, so I assume he plays them at least occasionally. Hmm, I'll have to dust off the turntable and give this a listen today.
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Location: Midland, MI | OK, no comments on wine this time, but my CD player has a new load out:
All eight discs of 'Miles Davis - The Complete Prestige Recordings' and 'Miles Davis and Gil Evans - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings - Disc 1 (Miles Ahead)'.
W00T! Man, he was smokin'. The first introduction I had to Davis was 'Bitches Brew,' but I have to say that I prefer the more straight ahead stuff. |
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Location: Canada | Hmmm lets have a look...
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rush - Moving Pictures
Johnny Cash - 1985-1996
...A stack of Neil Young. |
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