Thread: Sandy

Wind is gusting here in Boston, but not too much. However, it looks like it is picking up from the last hour. (Goodbye to the little fall foliage remaining. )

My company was kind enough to let us work from home.

Originally Posted by Ray

Hmmm, how do you feel about Bobby Keys sax work with the Stones? I loved most of it. And I loved the old King Curtis stuff, which was Clarence's primary influence? You just can't listen to it with jazz ears - it was never meant to do the same thing. I had some jazz sax playing friends who always dissed Clarence, but I think they were missing the point. No, he was never Coltrane or Bird, but he was never trying to be. In any case, I like Bruce's early stuff better than his later stuff (the first four albums, through Darkness, where he really started turning dark, are all classics to me), but I pretty much like it all. But then I came up with that early stuff. I was a little young when the great 60's bands were at their early '70's peaks, but Bruce, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Tom Petty, early Talking Heads (saw them in a tiny bar in Tucson in '77 when their first album was just out - had no idea who they were) were all making some of their best music when I was coming of age (the Stones were still really high on my list too, but this was after their '68-'72 output that I don't think anyone will ever top) and was a decent transition between the great '60s stuff and the punk / new wave stuff that followed. So early Bruce was kind of my TIME. Which matters a lot in how we form our tastes.

I feel for folks on the sea-ward side of Jersey - I think they're just getting pounded by this storm. We should be OK this far inland after whatever level of inconvenience, but it could get really dangerous out there...

-Ray

I've always like The Boss, but really it's his early stuff that hits home the most with me...I guess it's because of my age. When you grow up hearing music, it seems to live inside you... Just hearing certain songs is like taking a trip to another time and place. Gosh, I sound like a 1960's-70's version of "Joe Franklin"...for those of you who know who he was. Joe Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Glad to hear you're at home up there outside of Bean Town, Herbert - but it is sad about the leaves.

Originally Posted by Ray

... This is a wonderful song - my first serious girlfriend's name was Sandy and I got serious about her and Bruce at about the same time in the mid-70s. She didn't last - he did... -Ray

Sandy (1970-ish)

Originally Posted by Hyubie

Wind is gusting here in Boston, but not too much. However, it looks like it is picking up from the last hour. (Goodbye to the little fall foliage remaining. )

My company was kind enough to let us work from home.

Mine too but I came in anyway. Work is less than 2 miles from home and I bike it, so with rain gear it's easy and fun. Gusts up to 50 now, so maybe I'll go home after lunch.

Originally Posted by KillRamsey

Mine too but I came in anyway. Work is less than 2 miles from home and I bike it, so with rain gear it's easy and fun. Gusts up to 50 now, so maybe I'll go home after lunch.

I didn't want to bet on the MBTA operating throughout the day so I decided to stay at home, even before reading the morning email that folks can work from home. Sure enough, the MBTA is cancelling all operations by 2 pm.

It's windy in western VA, but it's supposed to get worse as the day wears on. We had a bad power outage this summer via the infamous derecho, so we're hoping to be missed this time. Geez, but this thing is big. The weather map has a warning from Roanoke in SW VA up through Maine. That's a good 700 miles.

Everyone affected be safe!

5 minutes ago a tree fell, just missed a car that I'm planning to cannibalize...

The tree almost beat you to it.

Originally Posted by drd1135

The tree almost beat you to it.