Category Archives: Music

Pandora’s Music Box

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Terry Taylor

As I type this, I am listening to some cool music from the Music Genome Project. Went to Pandora.com (thanks Jeff) and typed in what I wanted and they loaded me up with that and everything like it. You want … Continue reading →

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Ridin’ With Jimmy and The Boss

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you haven’t read “Hammer of the Gods,” the seminal and raunchy history of Led Zeppelin by Stephen Davis, don’t worry, you have a couple of chances to get a close-up feel for the senior citizen gods of rock at … Continue reading →

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Profits After Death

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Go to the Pearly Gates, take a left, and there beside the guy with the harp on Cloud Nine, is St. Peter’s Investments, Inc. The First National Bank Of The Great Beyond is down to your right. Can’t miss it. … Continue reading →

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T-Boned in Opp

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I can’t remember why we went to Opp, Alabama that day in my mom’s 1969 Impala. There wasn’t much in Opp back then and there’s even less there now. I do remember this: Mom’s Impala didn’t come back. Tweet This … Continue reading →

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Yasgur’s Farm Forty Years Later

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, Tell where are you going? This he told me Said, I’m going down to Yasgur’s Farm, Gonna join in a rock and … Continue reading →

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Skydog

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you are too young to remember what Duane Allman could do to a guitar, forgive me for saying that you are not a complete human being. Rolling Stone ranks Duane as the number two best guitarist ever, behind Jimi … Continue reading →

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The Big Bam Show and My Small Bam Date

Posted on June 6, 2007 by Terry Taylor

It was about 1970, maybe 1971. I was in the eighth grade and the Big Bam Show was my first live concert and my first official date with a female human. The show was great. The date was not – … Continue reading →

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Three Things

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Selling Out, Up, Down & Dirty Worm poop is hip. Just ask TerraCycle, Inc magazine’s 2006 “The Coolest Little Start Up In America.” Started by a Princeton dropout (who found that worm droppings helped “certain” kind of plants to grow … Continue reading →

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Album Slinging

Posted on March 16, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you are old enough to have listened to an album, then you may have participated in this form of entertainment: Album Slinging. I’ve done my share; more than my share. My friends and I had it down to an … Continue reading →

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Joost Me Back to the Future

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Terry Taylor

From the guys who brought us Kazaa (one of the first music sharing networks) and Skype (the first large-scale Internet phone service) now comes Joost. If you think YouTube is big, you’re five minutes late. Tweet This Post

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AM In The Dark

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I can still feel the cold, damp, February air shoving hard against the windshield of Lewis’s blue Gremlin as we drive around Andalusia for the thirtieth time in the dark. We see some of our friends cars go past up … Continue reading →

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Selling to Mmmy Gggeneration.

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Terry Taylor

I am not yet 50, but I got the letter already – the solicitation from AARP. Tossed it as fast as I could. But now I’m finding out just what being a member of the Biggest Generation really means. It … Continue reading →

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My Chemical Romance at Starbucks

Posted on October 24, 2006 by Terry Taylor

If my graying friends are listening to a band from New Jersey, Springsteen’s probably hunched front and center, screaming the everyday lyrics of a tortured life. Some may even admit to an affection for Bon Jovi. So why am I … Continue reading →

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“It’s a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford. Not exactly.”

Posted on May 19, 2006 by Terry Taylor

It all started for real in 1972. It took that long for 1968 to reach South Alabama. “Long-haired hippie freaks!” “Hey girl! You sure got a purty mouth!” Ah, rednecks, white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer. The summer of love … Continue reading →

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I’ve Got An Audiobook Jones

Posted on March 17, 2006 by Terry Taylor

“I like to dream, yeah, yeah, right between my sound machine.” The shiny discs sliding into the thin slot, disappearing into the void with its siblings only to return to me as a story. “You don’t know what we can … Continue reading →

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