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I obtained the reel back nearly 5 decades ago when I worked for a record company. The company at the time was cleaning up ~stuff~ and that reel of tape was destined for the trash. The reel was in an odd place in the building, I was curious about it. So I asked the appropriate Manager if I could have it. He said,, "take it."

As I said, I have no idea of what may be on that reel of audio tape, but it was from a major record label back then.

I have no means to listen to that tape, as my tape players were all 1/4 inch consumer types.

Oh well...

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 07:36 PM

lemme just drop this performance here:

www.youtube.com

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-25 08:09 PM

" I have no means to listen to that tape"

Find one. Call local (old) recording studios to see if they have the equipment, and if not, who they think might. Failing that, try to buy a player on FB Marketplace, and use the tape for the test run.

And please let us know the outcome.

#10 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-07-25 08:11 PM

@#10 ... Find one ...

I did that with a similarly-attained 1/2 inch 7 inch reel of tape.

Back then, I knew someone in the industry.

Turns out, the tape was a video recording of an old Johnny Cash concert.

So, I contacted the Johnny Cash Museum and asked them if they wanted the donation ...

Yeah, I may start down that path again ...

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 08:20 PM

Back to tunes ...

Head And The Heart - Arrow (Lyric Video) (2024)
www.youtube.com

And the original, non-lyrics video

Head And The Heart - Arrow (2024)
www.youtube.com

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 08:31 PM

Here's to lfthndtard and other folk like him...

www.youtube.com

#13 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-07-25 08:45 PM

Five for Fighting - Easy Tonight (2001)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
You were wrong
You were right
And you are gone
Tonight

You were free
So alive
You were wrong
You were right

And you were down
You could see
And you wore hearts
For me

And you were sharp
Sharp as knives
You were wrong
You were right
...

(I did not know, before i heard this tune, that "five for fighting" was an ice hockey term.)

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 09:03 PM

Ernest Ranglin
www.youtube.com

"Internacional Rhumba"
www.youtube.com

Afrocubism
www.youtube.com

Mdou Moctar
www.youtube.com

#15 | Posted by morris at 2025-07-25 09:32 PM

Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky (Austin City Limits)

www.youtube.com

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-25 11:48 PM

OK, one from left field ...

Focus - Hocus Pocus (1976)
www.youtube.com

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-25 11:59 PM

@#16 ... (Austin City Limits) ...

An amazing music show.

I've been enjoying it for decades.

Here's another tune for that show ...

Shins- Simple Song (2013)
www.youtube.com

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:07 AM

@#18 ... An amazing music show. ...

I did not know ...

Austin City Limits
en.wikipedia.org

... Austin City Limits is an American live music television program recorded and produced by Austin PBS.

The show helped Austin become widely known in the United States as the "Live Music Capital of the World",[1] and is the only television show to receive the National Medal of Arts, which it was awarded in 2003.[2]

It also won a rare institutional Peabody Award in 2011 "for its more than three decades of presenting and preserving eclectic American musical genres".[3] ...

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:09 AM

But, back to the tunes ...

Bleachers - Modern Girl (2023)
www.youtube.com

And, if I may add, the lead singer of the Bleachers was a member of the band Fun which appeared on an Austin City Limits show in January of 2014.

Lemme see if I can find it ...

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:25 AM

@#20

OK, PBS now seems to be only offering a couple minute "preview" of that amazing show, instead of the full show they used to offer.

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:31 AM

Muse - Uprising (2009)
www.youtube.com

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 12:42 AM

You don't know Austin City Limits?

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-26 12:44 AM

@#23 ... You don't know Austin City Limits? ...

As I stated in #18 ...

I've been enjoying that show for decades.

What I did not know was the accolades that the show has earned.

And, imo, rightfully so.

Now, let's get back to the tunes ...

#24 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 02:06 AM

One you do not hear often (if ever) on streaming ...

Payola$ - Where Is This Love (1983)
www.youtube.com

#25 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-26 02:12 AM

Focus 3 (not the frantic mess that is Hocus Pocus)
www.youtube.com

Got to see these guys a couple of times when Hocus Pocus was charting.
Jan Akkerman remains one of the best guitarists I ever saw.

#26 | Posted by morris at 2025-07-26 07:36 AM

Mad World by Puddles Pity Party

www.youtube.com

#27 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-07-26 03:26 PM

Jackson Browne with David Lindley - Call It A Loan

www.youtube.com

full concert

Jackson Browne David Lindley, Philadelphia Folk Festival, 2006

www.youtube.com

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-26 04:34 PM

Lives in the Balance - Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, David Lindley (on the oud, a Bronze Age Persian/Iranian string instrument)

www.youtube.com

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear

You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the TV
You hear one thing again and again
How the USA stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend

But who are the ones that we call our friends?
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
(There are) and there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
We can't even say the names

They sell us the President, the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing, from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars

I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
(There are) and there is blood on the wire

Songwriters: Jackson Browne (1986)

Things staying the same.

#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-26 08:34 PM

My favorite Jackson Browne song

"Doctor My Eyes" (1972)

youtu.be

#30 | Posted by shane at 2025-07-27 10:02 AM

@#26 ... Focus 3 (not the frantic mess that is Hocus Pocus) ...

I do not disagree.

Hocus Pocus, from their second album ("Hocus Pocus II", better know as "Moving Waves" internationally (see Wikipedia link below) was an interesting one.

Yeah, that tune ...

Moving Waves
en.wikipedia.org

... "Hocus Pocus" is a rock song that features van Leer yodelling, eefing, scat singing, and whistling.

The song was written as a rock parody, and it was recorded for the album as it lacked any "outright rock" tracks at that point.

The group wanted to incorporate an element of humour in the track because they felt it was missing in the rock genre.[6] ...

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 08:10 PM

Fun tune ...

Dickies - Killer Klowns (From Outer Space) (1988)
www.youtube.com

That's the title song of the movie of the same name.

The movie is, I'll be kind, not a Grade A movie. But, imo, it is a fun, albeit odd, one to watch.

Fun stuff.

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 10:06 PM

Xymox - Imagination (1988)
www.youtube.com

#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 10:21 PM

Chris Rea - The Road To Hell (parts 1 & 2) (1989) (full length, rarely heard version)
www.youtube.com

#34 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 10:40 PM

Helen Schneider with The Kick - Weekend (1983)
www.youtube.com