Feb 182012
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
In this week’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In your host, Mr. Moderator, celebrates the working men and women of Rock Town Hall, hits on a few thoughts related to his upcoming trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and threatens to share the story of a fight he broke up between his sons over a Styx song. You know how it goes.
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I guess it’ll be impossible to convince you of the virtues (they are really there) of Gabriel-era Genesis, but I give you big points for “One More Red Nightmare”. This song is proof that King Crimson at their best was anything but airy-fairy arty foofery. This song rocks with Fripp’s power chording, Bruford’s inventive and playful drum fills, Wetton’s manly rock vocals, Ian McDonald’s searing sax work (not seen on KC since “21st Century Schizoid Man”), and those weird extended breaks that oddly combine 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures yet still work. Bill Bruford once said he liked playing with Crimson because he could play in 13/8 and 17/8 yet still stay in nice hotels. The album Red also contains “Starless”, perhaps the most beautiful and sonically spectacular extended epic work that Crimson ever managed.
Ralph Garr!! Friggin’ Ralph Garr!!! Where’s MY love?
Signed,
Don Kessinger
Great glove, not much stick! My memories of Kessinger with the Cubs trailed off abruptly, as memories of ’70s baseball players rarely do. I just looked him up and completely forgot that he was traded to the Cardinals and then finished his career as baseball’s last (to date) player-manager for the White Sox, managing the team on the night of baseball’s biggest (lone?) tie-in to the music world: Disco Demolition Night! Thank you for making me relive the Kessinger Experience. Always preferred that guy to Larry Bowa’s other contenders for Best Old School Weak-Hitting Shortstop. Bowa and Kessinger, by the way, are NOT in the Hall of Fame:)
My link to the Rock Town Hall feed doesn’t work. Could you post the URL?
I’ll try to get that for you later today, if possible. Im on the road today. If someone else can post it first i’d appreciate it. Thanks.
I too was a Bowa guy but gave proper due to DConcepcion and rooted for #11 Ivaaaan DeJEsuus out of loyalty.
As I grade-schooler I saw several of those P/M Kessinger Sox games. I remember showing my Dad his card and also commenting on the dearth of power, and Dad telling me to check out the doubles. True that, Dad! Until Cal Jr, was there such thing as a heavy-hitting SS?
RP “Black Jack” McDowell had a band that played Chicagoland during his 90s hey-day. Is that a thread, rocker-athletes?
Actor Michael Clarke Duncan stormed the field at Disco Demolition.
Damn. All these Chicago memories…and just yesterday I listened to “Paradise Theater,” side2 only!
aloha
LD
Frog-rock…I approve.
The Hank Aaron exhibit reminded me that Hank was a shortstop when he was signed! No, power-hitting SSs did not exist. Darrell Chaney somehow hit a bunch for the Braves one year, but he committed 40 errors. Chris Speier hit 20 ine year, i think, but he also was light in the leather dept.
We may have dine a musical athlete thread once, kicked off with a Tony Conigliaro song.
Does this work?
https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php/feed/
I get in Chrome: “This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.” followed by a whole bunch of ugly HTML. I’ve never been able to get SNS to play in WinAmp, either.
We will have to figure this out. I had no idea. This is must be corrected before our next guest appears. Thanks for your patience. Anyone who understands this feed business feel free to teach me.
Chaney??? I looked it up: he hit 14 lifetime. Who was I thinking of, Davey Johnson’s HR spree at that time?
I’ll try it later. Thanks.
I liked that song, Tony, this is my first hearing of it that I can remember. I’ve not gotten around to checking out pre-Belew King Crimson other than skimming the previews on Amazon and iTunes, which failed to pique my interest. On the basis of this song, I guess I’ll have to extend my KC familiarity back in time one more album to Red….
D’accord.
This reminds me of an old quote I remember from childhood:
Larry Bowa on Dave Concepcion: “I always thought his first name was Elmer because every time I look at the box score it says E Concepcion”.
H. Munster, I’m back home and beginning to look into this. For some reason the RSS and Atom feeds, which I’ve never completely understood but once did work for me, are not functioning as expected. We do have an icon on the left margin for loading episodes into iTunes. I’ve copied it here, too, if you use that software:
itpc://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php/feed/
I’ll let you know if we get all expected feeds working to suit most software/players. Thanks.
Thank you
Um, Pete Rose managed a bit…Speaking of White Sox, I hope Robin Ventura gets pissed off at his team this summer, and activates himself onto the roster for one AB. He better watch out for that owner’s box in Texas though.
There were a ton of those guys in the early 70s, patterned after the Orioles’ Mark Belanger or something. Concepcion always got props as being able to hit for average at all, even though he had to bounce the damned ball to first on the turf. I don’t really remember much offense at that spot, I mean, my Yankees featured guys like Gene Michael and Jim Mason. Bucky Dent looked like a batting champ when he came over from those same White Sox!
That’s true about Rose. Maybe the Wiki page said Kessinger was the last AL player-manager? It can’t be that Wikipedia was wrong, can it?
You’re right, Bucky Dent was another relative slugger at the SS position. Conception was a good hitter, but I couldn’t stand him, mostly because he’d always edge out Bowa for Gold Gloves and All-Star starts.
Belanger, Bud Harrelson, Gene Alley and the Hispanic guy (Hernandez?) who platooned for the early ’70s Pirates…
Was Gary Templeton the first shortstop in the ’70s who could really sting the ball? He batted in the .300s when he came up with the Cardinals, but his power was limited to doubles. He’d only hit 5-8 HR per year.
Being an AL guy growing up, the only SS who could hit homers I can think of were Toby Harrah, and then Roy Smalley later on – BOTH of those guys ended up on the mid-80s Yankees teams that couldn’t pitch, and made me eat so much Boston crap in various drinking venues.
YES – Toby Harrah, the guy whose baseball card taught me the meaning of the word “palindrome!” I remember Smalley too.
Yeah, Templeton was definitely an offense first guy, like a lot of those 70s Cardinals, but he flamed out pretty fast. That was my National League team to root for until the Nats came to town. Ted Simmons would be in my personal hall of fame. I think he got away with hippie hair for a good period of time until Vern Rapp came along as the hard ass to shape up that team after taking over for the beloved Schoendienst. Man, whatever happened to last names like that? All the krauts have left the game.
Simmons was one of my favorite hippie players too.