posted November 20, 2013 03:45 PM            

We saw Dave Mason's band at the Dakota. It is a pretty classy place. I had an eight-dollar 1919 root beer float, which was accompanied with a fancy root beer float cookie. It tasted like an $8.00 root beer float!

The wait staff at the Dakota have a unique color-coded system for customers to indicate whether or not they need a waiter or waitress.

On every table there is a coaster. One side of the coaster is RED, but the other side of the coaster is GREEN. You keep the RED side of the coaster up if you are all good, but if you need service you turn the coaster over so then the GREEN side up.

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A friendly word of advice: Don't run Red Lights -- ever. However, if you're ever motioned to pull over by an officer of the law who accuses you of running a Red Light, confess immediately and contritely that youdid run the light (if you did) -- or tell him courteously and add earnestly that you don't believe you're guilty (if you didn't run the light).

It wouldn't be wise to explain to him that you can't be held fully responsible for following your subconscious urgings just because the people who created traffic lights were metaphysically color blind, unless you want a swift ticket and perhaps also a sanity hearing or sobriety test (unless the officer is a Pisces).

You may be personally enlightened, but that doesn't mean the whole world is equally as illuminated, in particular the Police Department. Cripple Creek's former Police Chief Dale Simpson (see Chapter 1) is one of the few men in blue who would accept such an explanation, and it's not likely you'll be running any Red Lights there. Cripple Creek doesn't even have any Red Lights. Everything there is Green . . . and laid back.

LINDA GOODMAN'S STAR SIGNS - FORGOTTEN RAINBOWS

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Sitting in the stand of the sports arena, waiting for the show to begin.

Red Lights, Green Lights, strawberry wine,
A GOOD friend of mine, follows the stars,
Venus and Mars are alright tonight.

posted November 22, 2013 01:16 PM            

Here's an old one though...from when he was here with Jim Capaldi before he died.

posted October 17, 2014 01:53 AM            

You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
even if we're just dancing in the dark

Message keeps getting clearer
radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain't getting nowhere
I'm just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
baby I just know that there is

You can't start a fire
you can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
even if we're just dancing in the dark

You sit around getting older
there's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders
come on baby this laugh's on me

Stay on the streets of this town
and they'll be carving you up alright
They say you gotta stay hungry
hey baby I'm just about starving tonight

I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book...
I need a love reaction
come on now baby gimme just one look."

Dancing In The Dark ~ Bruce Springsteen

(*bumpin* with The Boss)

posted February 22, 2016 01:38 AM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:
This looks like a good place to put merry-go-round music.

Here is the making of the song "Up On Cripple Creek." Pay special attention at 3:00-3:20 to hear the merry-go-round/carousel music...

The Band - The Making of "Up On Cripple Creek"

When I get off of this mountain, you know where I want to go?
Straight down the Mississippi river, to the Gulf of Mexico
To Lake Charles, Louisiana, little Bessie, girl that I once knew
She told me just to come on by, if there's anything she could do

Refrain:
A
Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
D
If I spring a leak she mends me
E
I don't have to speak, she defends me
F#m G
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
Good luck had just stung me, to the race track I did go
She bet on one horse to win and I bet on another to show
The odds were in my favor, I had 'em five to one
When that nag to win came around the track, sure enough she had won

(refrain)

I took up all of my winnings, and I gave my little Bessie half
And she tore it up and threw it in my face, just for a laugh
Now there's one thing in the whole wide world, I sure would like to SEE
That's when that little love of mine, dips her doughnut in my tea
[Sign Language - 'donut in my tea']
(refrain)

Now me and my mate were back at the shack, we had Spike Jones on the box
She said, "I can't take the way he sings, but I love to hear him talk"
Now that just gave my heart a throb, to the bottom of my Feet
And I swore and I took another pull, my Bessie can't be beat

(refrain)

Now there's a flood out in California and up north it's freezing cold
And this living on the road is getting pretty old
So I guess I'll call up my big mama, tell her I'll be rolling in
But you know, deep down, I'm kind of tempted
To go and see my Bessie again.

(refrain)

LOve & LIght ,
HRH
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In Memoriam LEVON HELM May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012

He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day,
When The New York Times
Said, "God is dead, and war's begun,
And Alvin Tostig has a son today."

And he shall be Levon,
And he shall be
A GOODMAN,
And he shall be
Levon,
In tradition with
The family plan,
And he shall be
Levon,
And he shall
Be a GOODMAN,
He shall be
Levon.

Levon - Elton John/Bernie Taupin[/b]

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LEVON plays drums on and sings the song "Up On Cripple Creek"...

"Up on Cripple Creek she sends me
If I spring a leak she mends me
I don't have to speak, she defends me
A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one"

(btw. Pisces presides over springs, leaks, drunkards, and dreams.)

The Band - The Making of "Up On Cripple Creek"