A Sense of Doubt blog post #3725 - Last Chance Texaco - The Memoir of Rickie Lee Jones - a review

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3725 - Last Chance Texaco - The Memoir of Rickie Lee Jones - a review

Let me begin this review by confessing that I am a HUGE Rickie Lee Jones fan.

A little background on that fandom: Sure, I had heard "Chuck E's in Love" when it came out and on SNL, surely. Difficult to miss it. The song was very popular. Also, I was a pretty regular viewer of Saturday Night Live when Rickie played it on April 7, 1979. It was good, but I was just starting to grow musically, and it wasn't my style. I was still in high school. My music tastes exploded in 1980-1981 as I became a DJ at the college radio station and that gig coupled with meeting so many new people, I discovered tons of new music. Her second album Pirates came out in 1981, but I didn't find it until 1982 or even 1983 in the used bin at Flipside Records in Kalamazoo. I can still see it sitting there in the bin, and I snatched it. I knew who she was and had played "Chuck E's in Love" on my show some.

I fell deeply in love with her and this album, such that in 1984, the day The Magazine (her third album) came out, my friend Evar (John) Strid was having an off-campus party (he lived in a cool apartment), and he had just bought the album. I asked if I could play it, sat down with the lyrics, told every one to leave me alone, and focused all of my attention on it. I bought the album soon after. 

Though Pirates is a great album, and possibly her masterpiece, The Magazine is my favorite, and not just because I inhaled it with mono-focus in that apartment long ago on my friend's stereo in the vintage apartment with all the cool woodwork at 214 Allen Blvd if my memory serves me.

Could have been 218 (the one on the left) or even the far one (210?); however, I think it's the middle one that's 214 Allen. I remember the pillars, but then I knew other people who lived there.

We had to wait FIVE years for the next album, Flying Cowboys, produced by Walter Becker of Steely Dan, which was fabulous, also.

My friend Julie and I almost snuck in to Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo when Rickie played it in 1984.

I would not see her until 1993 or 1994 when I went to Chicago to catch her show.

I would not get to see her again, though I have kept on her career and own all of her albums.

I did mention being a huge fan, yes?

Needless to say, when I saw that she had written a memoir, I snapped it up, eager to read it, or rather listen to the audio.

Around the same time, I bought Robbie Robertson's memoir Testimony, and so early this year, I decided to pour through that one when I learned that the Band was called the Band because they were the band supporting Bob Dylan. Yes, I did not know that. Please don't shoot me.

I adored Robbie's memoir. It's like we know them after listening to 18+ hours of their life story. Robbie's book came out before his death in 2023 from prostate cancer, which upset me so much. No one should die of prostate cancer.

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews, Robbie's memoir tracked his career that started long before he was 18 and spanned decades, though it did not contain much content past The Last Waltz concert and film as the publication of the book marked its 40th anniversary.

Still the book told the story that fans would want from it, the story of his musical development, his encounters with famous people (he was close with Edie Sedgwick; he lived at the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York), and, of course, the support of Bob Dylan on albums and tours and the rise of The Band and its signature tunes, like "The Weight," "Up On Cripple Creek," and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."

As a fan of his solo stuff, especially Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998), I wanted more of that era but the book didn't really explore it. Still, I really enjoyed it, and so I moved right on to Rickie Lee Jones' memoir Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour.

I had listened to Tracey Thorn's first book/memoir -- Bedsit Disco Queen -- last year and have the next three books queued up. Narrated by Thorn, I adored the story of her musical development and finally learned what medical crisis had befallen her EBTG (Everything But the Girl) partner and husband Ben Watts. But I loved that she narrated it, and she did a great job.

Likewise, even earlier this year, in a memoir binge, I listened to Sinéad O'Connor's memoir Rememberings, also narrated by her (RIP Sinéad O'Connor), and ADORED it. I have planned a few posts about the book, but I did write one so far:

Friday, February 7, 2025

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3643 - Blogging is My Prayer and Sinéad O'Connor

Needless to say, my expectations for Rickie's book were high when I noticed that she narrated it.

Sadly, my expectations were dashed, which is why I make such a point of emphasizing what a huge fan of hers I am.

The narration had a listless quality. Her sentences trailed off. The rhythms of speech needed to hold my attention were flattened and dull. When she sings, she's amazing. When she's reading her text, she could have been better.

And then the content. I wanted the full musical career. I wanted to finally understand her relationship with Tom Waits. I wanted to know more about her drug habits and how she kicked them. There wasn't enough of that content.

I was with fine with family history. That's standard in memoirs. Some authors dole it all out in chunks rather than front loading it all. Much of what Rickie shared was clearly relevant and fascinating, such as what happened to her brother, her prescience about that accident and other things, her early musical explorations and contact with the manager of the Monkees, and other things. However, there were a lot of stories that just seemed like ones she wanted to remember, and they did not add anything to what readers like me would want to know that would inform what we know and love about her and her music.

Just those two things, really.

Once, she started running away from home, using drugs, finding her voice, launching her music career, I was better hooked, even though the narration still did not live up to expectations.

Sorry Rickie. I still loved the book overall and adore you and your music. My fandom has not wavered.

Thanks for all the years of amazing music. Such a gift.

I also appreciate that the memoir was titled Last Chance Texaco, a song from Rickie's first album, and one I have shared with students for years when it is time for final grade call, time for those last chance submissions.

Of course, I posted that song to my blog, so I am reprinting it here below. Also, included is my link to my Rickie mix.

Have to reprint the Texaco post because this review has to have at least one song in it by the great Rickie Lee Jones!!

Thanks for tuning in.

My Rickie Lee Jones mix:

Edited today!

Monday, November 5, 2018

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1354 - So Long My Sad-Eyed Sinatras - Musical Monday Mix for 1811.05

Original link to the post I am reprinting below:

Monday, April 10, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2974 - "Last Chance Texaco" by Rickie Lee Jones - Music Monday for 2304.10

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2974 - "Last Chance Texaco" by Rickie Lee Jones - Music Monday for 2304.10

This was going to be part of the music week that I did a little while ago, but I postponed it.

Great song.

Thanks for tuning in.

I use this song a lot in my classes to tell students it's their last chance for submitting work.

The Last Chance Texaco.

Last gas station for 500 miles.

The Last Chance Texaco, Rickie Lee Jones

Michael Clinton

 Sep 23, 2017

I love the song by Rickie Lee Jones  and these images, including stills from the film "The Misfits" of Marilyn and Monty , all of which I borrowed from the net and tried to put together,  music and photos,  in a meaningful way.       

A long stretch of headlights

Bends into I-9

Tiptoe into truck stops

And sleepy diesel eyes

Volcanoes rumble in the taxi

And glow in the dark

Camels in the driver's seat

A slow, easy mark

But you ran out of gas

Down the road a piece

Then the battery went dead

And now the cable won't reach...

It's your last chance

To check under the hood

Last chance

She ain't soundin' too good,

Your last chance

To trust the man with the star

You've found the last chance Texaco

Well, he tried to be Standard

He tries to be Mobil

He tried living in a world

And in a shell

There was this block-busted blonde

He loved her - free parts and labor

But she broke down and died

And threw all the rods he gave her

But this one ain't fuel-injected

Her plug's disconnected

She gets scared and she stalls

She just needs a man, that's all

It's her last chance

Her timing's all wrong

Her last chance

She can't idle this long

Her last chance

Turn her over and go

Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco

The last chance

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- Days ago: MOM = 3590 days ago & DAD = 245 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3724 - Dubs win Game Four of Round One; Why I now Like Jimmy Butler; NBA 24-25 Season

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3724 - Dubs win Game Four of Round One; Why I now Like Jimmy Butler; NBA 24-25 Season

I have two favorite basketball teams: the Detroit Pistons and the Golden State Warriors.

Opposite trajectories.

My most beloved Detroit Pistons have been fighting the New York Knicks in the first round. They are struggling even though the games are incredibly close. They are currently down 1-3 in a best of seven.

Game Three should have had a late back court violation called on the Knicks, which may have changed the two point loss for the Pistons. Game Four was even worse. In the final seconds, Tim Hardaway Jr. was fouled on a three point attempt with time expiring DOWN BY ONE. The NBA has since ruled that the officials indeed missed the foul call, which would have probably resulted in a Pistons win if Hardaway makes 2-3 free throws.

Sure, one can argue that if the Pistons play better, they have a bigger lead at the end, and these things fail to be issues.

But the Knicks are a good team. And even, though I think the Pistons are the better team, the games have all been razor thin, excluding the first game that was close until the Pistons collapsed at the end and let the Knicks go on a 21-0 run.

In opposite universe, the Dubs -- Golden State Warriors -- are up 3-1 in a best of seven battle with second seeded Houston.

There's a battle there, too, and the Dubs are winning.

So... earlier this season, the Dubs traded for Jimmy Butler.

I saw the sense in this trade, but I was sad to see players exit, especially Andrew Wiggins.

I had always had issues with Butler, but I could never argue his talent.

With his exit from Miami though, I hated how it was playing out. Granted, I am outside looking in, but it did not seem as if he was handling it professionally.

Maybe that's how he needed to handle it, though, to get the trade he demanded. Who knows all the toxic BS going on there.

But I was very sour and salty. I didn't really like Jimmy Butler based on what I saw.

With is quote below, he has won my heart!

"No, we're not having fun," Butler said. "Get me on the record with this: I don't like Dillon Brooks. We're never having fun. I'm a fierce competitor. He's a fierce competitor. There ain't nothing fun about that."

I may have been sour on Jimmy Butler, but I HATE Dillon Brooks.

He's an asshole.

Granted, he's trying to be an asshole to win games and get in the heads of his opponents.

Doesn't make him less of an asshole that he is taking the role of an asshole.

Maybe he's a sweet guy at heart. I don't know him.

From what I see, I can't stand him.

So when Butler publicly goes on record saying he does not like Brooks.

LOVE IT.

I cannot deny what Butler has done for the Dubs. They would not be here in the playoffs if not for the impact he has had since the trade.

Steph Curry and Draymond Green are my two favorite currently playing basketball players (sorry Pistons), but without Butler, they are not in the playoffs.

It was impressive in many ways that they won game three without him. Not that Curry and Green and others are not talented, but the Rockets are a physically punishing, disruptive, annoying team.

Game Five back in Houston tomorrow night. Dubs win the series if they win it. I hope they do, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the Rockets get at least one more before it's closed out.

Pistons play Game Five tonight. They need to win three in a row -- two in New York -- to win the series. They did not win either game at home. It's possible to win three in a row, but I am not holding my breath.

Below the recap of last night's Dubs game are the final NBA standings of the 24-25 season and the playoff bracket as it stands today.

Wishing great things for my teams!

Thanks for tuning in.

highlight video link





https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44912704/jimmy-butler-plays-pain-delivers-late-help-warriors-win-game-4-take-3-1-series-lead-rockets

Warriors praise ailing Butler's 'humongous' effort in Game 4 win

SAN FRANCISCO -- For the first three quarters of Game 4, Draymond Green thought Jimmy Butler couldn't move due to the pelvic and deep gluteal muscle contusion injury that kept him out of Game 3.

But in a tense fourth quarter, Butler got loose and delivered 14 of his 27 points while also grabbing a massive defensive rebound from three Rockets to help the Golden State Warriors put the Houston Rockets on the brink with a 109-106 win in Game 4.

Butler still looked like he was in pain from his scary fall on his tailbone in the first quarter of Game 2 last Wednesday. But his return from a one-game absence pushed the Warriors to within one win of advancing to the Western Conference semis.

"He played through the injury," Green said. "Was beautiful. But what his presence does for this team is humongous. The first three quarters, he couldn't move. Not sure how he started moving in the fourth quarter, but he never complained. He stuck with it.

"I think what was most important, when the time was right, everybody on our side looked to get him the ball. When you get him the ball, he made great things happen for himself or for others. It was huge. I think my favorite play was the last rebound. I looked up, I thought it was [young and athletic Jonathan] Kuminga out there flying. It was Jimmy."

The Warriors trailed by four 4:20 remaining after Fred VanVleet hit one of his eight 3-pointers. Alperen Sengun also took advantage of Green being in foul trouble. In a chippy game, Green picked up his fifth personal foul with 8:06 remaining in the third quarter. He did not return until 7:51 left in the fourth. While Sengun finished with 31 points and 10 rebounds, the Rockets center was held to four points in the final 7:50 of the game. The Rockets were 3-of-16 with Green as their primary defender in Game 4, including Sengun shooting 2-of-11 against the Warriors' stopper.

One of those missed shots came with 6.4 seconds remaining. The Warriors were clinging to a one-point lead when they went to Sengun in the middle of the floor on Green, who came up with the game-saving stop that was rebounded by Butler.

"Why him?" asked Brandin Podziemski, who hit six 3-pointers and had 26 points. "I don't know why you'd go after the Defensive Player of the Year."

Butler, who had hit three big free throws with 58.7 seconds left to break a 104-104 tie after a foul on Dillon Brooks, sealed the game with two more free throws with four seconds to go.

Afterward, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said if this were the regular season, Butler would "probably miss another week or two."

"But it's the playoffs," Kerr said. "He's Jimmy Butler, so this is what he does. The rebound at the end was just incredible, the elevation, the force. Then, of course, knocking down the free throws to clinch it. Jimmy was just amazing."

Butler admitted he was hurting.

"A lot of pain," Butler said.

But he said "it was winning time" in the fourth quarter. And he also says he got a boost from some talking from Brooks.

"Your body starts to warm up, you start to match a little bit better, you gain confidence," Butler said. "People start talking to you. Then good things happen."

Butler was later asked about how he and Brooks got into it and looked like they were having fun.

"No, we're not having fun," Butler said. "Get me on the record with this: I don't like Dillon Brooks. We're never having fun. I'm a fierce competitor. He's a fierce competitor. There ain't nothing fun about that."

The Warriors had a lot of fun at the end of this game as Butler and Green let out primal screams following Green's stop on Sengun and Butler's rebound. And Stephen Curry, who was held to 17 points after having 36 in Game 3, shouted in celebration at both Butler and Green after the buzzer.

Now Golden State looks to close the Rockets out in Game 5 in Houston on Wednesday.

"They're always the hardest ones," Kerr said of a close-out game. "Every team that's in the playoffs, especially a team like Houston, 2 seed, 52 wins, big-time team. They got a lot of pride, great coach. They're going to be ready. We got a long way to go. We know Game 5 will be the toughest one yet."

"The first three quarters, he couldn't move," Draymond Green said of Jimmy Butler. "Not sure how he started moving in the fourth quarter, but first three quarters he couldn't move. Yet he never complained. He stuck with it." Kelley L Cox/Imagn Images

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2504.29 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3589 days ago & DAD = 244 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3723 - FOR DAD - Seven Months On - SoD Reprint of 2996 from 2021 - "The Great Gig in the Sky" - Music Monday for 2504.28

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3723 - FOR DAD - Seven Months On - SoD Reprint of 2996 from 2021 - "The Great Gig in the Sky" - Music Monday for 2504.28

SEVEN MONTHS ago, Dad died at the time this post is published -- 13:40 hours on August 28th, 2024.

I published this post at 13:40 for Dad.

I know you do not know what happens behind the scenes, and you may not care.

I have told you before that I map out a lot of the posts months ahead.

Farthest date out on my lists is July 13th.

I do not have all the dates from now until July 13th filled in, but I plan ahead for some posts, especially the bigger and complex ones on which I have been working for a long time, in some cases, years.

I had another post scheduled for today, one I have delayed multiple times, but not only is it not ready yet, which is the main reason I postpone, but it seemed too happy for today's seven months since I held my Dad's hand as he took his last breath.

So, I decided to stay in reprint mode, but what reprint to use?

I had recently reprinted the "grief songs":

Monday, March 31, 2025

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3695 - SoD Reprint of #1572 from 2019 - Seven Songs for Singing in the Car when Grieving - Music Monday for 2503.31

So, what to share here?

Not a mix, so a single song.

I have a category for that: "music song-by-song."

I scrolled through the choices, and when I saw this one, I knew I had it.

And not to rely solely on a reprint, I added content.

I miss you, Dad.

I miss you every day. I think about you every day. I miss Mom, too, but the grief of losing you is still somewhat fresh. though it also feels like I have lived a lifetime.

Cheers.

Here's one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite albums.

Thanks for tuning in.


Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2296 - "The Great Gig In the Sky" - Live - Musical Monday on Tuesday for 2106.01

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/pink-floyd-the-great-gig-in-the-sky-clare-torry

The story of The Great Gig In The Sky and the best £30 Pink Floyd ever spent

By Fraser Lewry ( Classic Rock ) published 20 April 2023

One of the highlights of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Clare Torry's vocal on The Great Gig In The Sky lifted the song to celestial heights

Pink Floyd first played The Great Gig in the Sky – then titled The Mortality Sequence – at the Brighton Dome in January 1972, more than a year before it was finally released on The Dark Side Of The Moon, and getting the song to the finish line was quite the journey. 

Built around a Richard  Wright piano solo, The Great Gig in the Sky was originally embellished by a reading of The Lord’s Prayer and a recording of author and satirist Malcolm Muggeridge pontificating. Work on the studio version began at Abbey Road as the middle of the year approached, but touring, holidays and other commitments kept the band distracted.

Eventually Roger Waters completed work on the song – a typically sensitive contemplation of death – which began with Wright's solemn keyboards and gave the unsuspecting listener little indication of the wild ride they were about to enjoy. And what a ride it was: one of The Dark Side Of The Moon's most memorable sections, provided by someone who wasn't even in the band.

25-year-old singer Clare Torry was working as a staff songwriter for EMI when the call came. She wasn't a big Pink Floyd fan, but engineer Alan Parsons had worked with her before, having originally heard her sing on a Pick Of The Pops covers album, and brought her into the studio on January 21, 1973, to see what she might bring to the track. 

"When I arrived they explained the concept of the album to me and played me Rick Wright’s chord sequence," said Torry. "They said: 'We want some singing on it,' but didn’t know what they wanted. So I suggested going out into the studio and trying a few things. I started off using words, but they said: 'Oh no, we don’t want any words.' So the only thing I could think of was to make myself sound like an instrument, a guitar or whatever, and not to think like a vocalist. I did that and they loved it.

"I did three or four takes very quickly, it was left totally up to me, and they said: 'Thank you very much.' In fact, other than Dave Gilmour, I had the impression that they were infinitely bored with the whole thing, and when I left I remember thinking to myself: 'That will never see the light of day.'" 

Torry was wrong, of course, and the band knew they'd captured the purest of magic. The vocal you hear on the album was stitched together from those takes, and the result was a jaw-dropping wail that elevated the track to near-celestial heights.

“We wanted to put a girl on there, screaming orgasmically," Gilmour recalled. "Alan had worked with her previously, so we gave her try. And she was fantastic. We had to encourage her a little bit, we gave her some dynamic hints: ‘Maybe you’d like to do this piece quietly, and this piece louder.’"

Torry was paid a £30 session fee, double the usual rate because it was recorded on a Sunday, and only became aware her parts were used when she saw the album at a local record shop and spotted her name in the credits. "If I’d known then what I know now I would have done something about organising copyright or publishing," she told Mojo in 1998. "I would be a wealthy woman now."

It's possible Clare Torry may well be a wealthy woman now. Six years after that interview she sued Pink Floyd – while remaining on good terms with the band – arguing that her contribution to The Great Gig in the Sky constituted co-authorship. She petitioned the High Court for royalties she believed were due, a half-share of copyright ownership, and a 50% share of past and future income. The band and record company EMI settled out of court – although details of the out-of-court settlement were never disclosed – and the song is now credited to both Wright and Torry. 

And that's gotta be a nice little earner. 

Fraser Lewry

Online Editor, Classic Rock

Online Editor at Louder/Classic Rock magazine since 2014. 39 years in music industry, online for 26. Also bylines for: Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine, The Word Magazine, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Saga, Music365. Former Head of Music at Xfm Radio, A&R at Fiction Records, early blogger, ex-roadie, published author. Once appeared in a Cure video dressed as a cowboy, and thinks any situation can be improved by the introduction of cats. Favourite Serbian trumpeter: Dejan Petrović.

https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/dark-side-moon-clare-torrys-great-gig-sky

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2296 - "The Great Gig In the Sky" - Live - Musical Monday on Tuesday for 2106.01

So, I took the day off from work COMPLETELY on Sunday and I only worked about a half day yesterday (Memorial Day). I am proud of these decisions. I also stopped doing computer things at night and just watched TV. We're watching the new HBO MAX series The Outsider, based on the Stephen King novel.

I read some more of Brian Eno's diary from 1995, re-released as a 25th anniversary edition last year, which I have written about here (or rather shared about):

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2211 - Various links raided from ENO - MUSICAL MONDAY for 2103.08

Specifically, this share:

https://medium.com/the-homesick-society/brian-eno-for-bibliophiles-9e35f93563fa

So, I was thinking about his diary thing, and considering starting a similar thing for a year on July 6th (as my current blog year cycle goes from July 6th - July 5th).

But then I am not sure I want to abandon my features entirely. AND I can easily do what I am doing right here. I can diary/journal everyday on what I did the previous day whether I make it the lone feature or not.

Still, I had a nice day reading and thinking about Eno's life.

But today is not really about Eno, it's about PINK FLOYD and specifically "The Great Gig in the Sky" from The Dark Side of the Moon and the amazing Clare Torry.

So fucking amazing.

Enjoy today's musical selection.

Take some time for yourself.

Listen to some great music, take a walk, read a book, eat some great food, tell the people you love that you love them.

And watch that great gig in the sky...

I love PINK FLOYD, as seen here in T-shirt #133 and this mix 

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #699 - The Dark Road - One of These Days - Musical Monday for 1706.05.

and this mix

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1361 - Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the InDiscipline Way mix for Musical Monday for 1811.12

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky 

(Live at Knebworth 1990)

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Pink Floyd Live At Knebworth 1990 released for the first time on CD, double vinyl LP, and digital platforms. Click here to buy https://PinkFloyd.lnk.to/knebworth

LIVE AT KNEBWORTH

The concert was part of the star-studded 1990 Silver Clef Award Winners performance at Knebworth House, in Hertfordshire, England, headlined by Pink Floyd.

The concert, in front of around 120,000 fans, was a fundraiser for the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Charity, and also included Paul McCartney, Genesis, Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Cliff Richard & The Shadows, Elton John, Status Quo, Tears For Fears, and Robert Plant & Jimmy Page.

The Floyd set was performed by the touring line-up of the late 1980s, with a slight change to the vocalists - joining Durga McBroom was Sam Brown, her mother Vicki, and Clare Torry (original vocalist for The Great Gig In The Sky). Saxophonist Candy Dulfer and keyboard player Michael Kamen also joined the band for this one-off show. The audio has been remixed by David Gilmour and Andy Jackson, and following its appearance in 2019's The Later Years box set, is now available on CD or double vinyl for the first time as a standalone album.

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THE LATER YEARS

Included on ‘The Later Years’, a 18-disc box set (5xCDs, 6xBlu-Rays, 5xDVDs,2x7”) covering the material created by David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright from 1987 onwards, with unreleased audio and audiovisual material, including the 1989 Venice and 1990 Knebworth concerts, as well as updated, restored and remixed audio and video, 2 x 7” singles, 60-page hardback Photo Book, 40-page hardback Credits Book, Lyrics Book, 3 x reproduction tour programmes, card envelope containing collectible memorabilia, plus Blu-rays and DVDs in individual wallets.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2106.01 - 10:10

- Days ago = 2160 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2504.28 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3588 days ago & DAD = 243 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.