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Saturday night, gotta gig with the band Playing the electric guitar Someday I'm gonna make it Gonna be a super-duper-star Get a big flashy car And a house for my Ma The big break better happen soon 'Cause I'm pushing twenty-one

I hear NASCAR is in the market for new fans. Oh, wait ... never mind.

OK, I'm guilty of just reading the thread, but even with the reporter misquote, I acknowledged that Motor wasn't being disrespectful. It was obvious last year how well the two of them got along - mutually respectful of each other - so I can't imaging him downplaying Gore's influence at all. And on the flip side, I've always had huge respect for Gore, and that was amplified when a reporter came up to him after a game and he quickly answered one question and then told the reporter, "Go talk to him," pointing to Singletary, who just had a great game. There's no doubt that Motor will remember that gesture for the rest of his life.

As I was walkin' 'round Grosvenor Square Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air From the other direction, she was calling my eye It could be an illusion, but I might as well try, might as well try She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes And I knew without askin' she was into the blues She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls

Love the comments from Motor. I agree that he should have said something like, "I learned a lot about leadership from Frank," but I don't think he was intentionally disrespectful by saying he learned "everything he needed." I'm curious as to why people who are tired of politics brought up politics in a thread that previously had nothing to do with politics. (No need to answer - it's a rhetorical curiosity.)

I like to see you boogie Right across the floor I like to do it to you 'Til you holla' for more I like to reggae But you dance too fast for me I'd like to make love to you So you can make me scream

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way The time is gone, the song is over, Thought I'd something more to say

I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner - probably because most of us think of it as one song:

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind All they are is dust in the wind

Oversimplified, yes, and I agree about other influences. But at the core, all those styles, including Appalachian, are offshoots of the blues.

Maybe the thread would be more appropriately titled, "Josh Allen or the check Down Pass." ?

She grew up in an Indiana town Had a good lookin' mama who never was around But she grew up tall and she grew up right With them Indiana boys on them Indiana nights

Every form of American music is rooted in the blues, which black people basically invented. Take a blues song and: speed it up - rock and roll use acoustic instruments - folk crank it up and add distortion - heavy metal change the emphasized beat - reggae add a southern accent and maybe a pedal steel guitar - country throw in a banjo and/or mandolin - bluegrass adjust the groove - R&B use only the "magic" I-IV-V-vi chord progression and some vapid lyrics - pop emphasize the beat and talk instead of singing - rap You can argue that the music industry didn't think much of these genres until white people started recording them, but that's just acknowledging that the industry was (and to a large extent, still is) racist.

Here are three musicians playing instruments that they're not famous for. Coincidentally, I saw them do this at a different show on the same tour.

No, but Roger could make a pre-game call to the officials. Also, I don't see Coach McD as much of a rebel.

Now known mainly as a singer, way back in the early 60s, Roger played lead guitar in the band that eventually became The Who.

Hit the road Jack and don't you come back No more, no more, no more, no more Hit the road Jack and don't you come back No more What'd you say?

'Cause it's the ocean flowing in our veins Oh, 'cause it's the salt that's in our tears Oh, 'cause we could have come so very far Oh, in at least as many years Take the highway through the Great Divide

And you may ask yourself Where is that large automobile? And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself This is not my beautiful wife!

Truckin', up to Buffalo Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow It takes time, you pick a place to go And just keep truckin' on

At the risk of interrupting these riveting condiment debates ...

John Cleese Matt Groening Stephen Colbert Seth Myers Oteil Burbridge

My uncle starts winning, the cowboys got sore, One of them called him, and then two more, Accused him of cheatin', oh no it couldn't be, I know my uncle, he's as honest as me, And I'm as honest as a Denver man can be.

"When they take off, my chest sinks, my ears pop, I pray ... I lie." - moe. ("Plane Crash")