Pick your fights

...and the right tool for the job:



A scimitar? Ain't nobody got time for that ----.

Forgiveness

A dear lady who frequents my workplace brought me a copy of White Chapel UMC's 2019 Lenten Devotional Battle Tested.  I am enjoying it thoroughly, although I have a tendency to want to read ahead a few days.




"There are people in your life, who've come and gone.
They let you down, you know they've hurt your pride.
You better put it all behind you, baby, 'cause life goes on.
You keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside."

These guys are not hosers, or poseurs

Fred Turner can still bravely belt it out.  I've always thought this was underrated in BTO's canon:



Bonus points for recognizing the keyboard player...

This is a Big Thing

Well, more correctly, it's Chicago.  The classic lineup, with Bobby Lamm on lead vocals, Terry and Peter backing, and Lee Loughnane's soaring trumpet solo.

Oh where art thou, Bill Safire?¹

Presenting the natteringest nabob of, like, ever...you know?



Not quite the pinnacle of elucidation.

¹ Sadly, Mr. Safire passed away in 2009

Just chillin'

Settle in with a snifter of Courvoisier.

To be...or not

I'm not the huge LZ fan - some of their canon strikes me as more collages of sonic textures than music - but there's still much to like.  Because I'm not a Zep purist, my favorite LP is In Through the Out Door, which featured relatively less input from Jimmy Page than had earlier albums.

This is an alternate take/remix from the band's second LP: