October 22, 20214 yr On 10/19/2021 at 5:47 AM, Chock said: Flyingdale Flyer, Still one of my favorite songs: "one last game of bowls." Anderson is probably one of the best educated rockers around and I'm one of the ones that actually likes the electronic phase represented in A and even Under Wraps. I know he was involved in fish farming at some point, and assumed (incorrectly) that some of the lyrics were inspired by his country life, going all the way back to Heavy Horses. The controversy over that Grammy will probably be his lasting legacy, though. One of the few Tull albums I did not like, but Catfish Rising was one of six CDs I had in Desert Storm and I still think it's a better version of Dire Straits than most DIre Straits. My wife and I saw him on the 40th anniversary tour. It reminded me of what someone said about a dog walking on its hind legs. It's not how well it can do it, but that it can do it all. And as for Abraham Lincoln turning up in the oddest places, we were surprised to find him invoked in a plaque placed in front of a statue in Enna, Sicily, commemorating a slave uprising against the Romans: Two thousand years before Abraham Lincoln liberated the unfortunate blacks, the humble slave Euno from this Sicana Fortress, boldly launched the Act of Freedom for his companions, affirming the right of every person to be born free and also to freely die. There is a road tie-in here. Enna is a city perched on a very tall and abrupt hill whose summit is attained only by negotiating a nauseating series of switchbacks. On the way down they proved too much for one of our small twin boys, and we judged that exigent circumstances with three young siblings in the same tiny Fiat Panda required all of his clothing to be... I don't even remember. The Carabinieri had a checkpoint for some reason--maybe enforcing the car radio tax--and what a sorry spectacolo we made. He looked in the car for a minute, then shook his head and waved us on.
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