{"id":109292,"date":"2021-01-11T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109292"},"modified":"2021-01-10T14:09:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T19:09:54","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past-rarities-edition-part-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109292","title":{"rendered":"A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new from DPAA this week regarding accounting for US personnel who had previously been declared MIA\/POW.  So this week you&#8217;re stuck with this instead.  Read on at your own risk.  (smile)<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just about done with a 4,500 mile trip well west of the Rio Grande and back.   I&#8217;m at the final stop now and only have one more travel day left.  And is the norm when you&#8217;re driving &#8220;sixteen hours (or so) and there&#8217;s nothing much to do&#8221;, music certainly helps pass the time.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five tunes I&#8217;ve listened to on the trip that I thought readers might enjoy.  The first two qualify IMO as rarities; the last three are simply fun.<\/p>\n<p>For the first:  remember that tune where the band Rush gave us some . . . <i>rap<\/i>?  Yes, <u>rap<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Best as I can tell, they did that on precisely <u>one<\/u> tune they ever recorded &#8211; at least for part of the song &#8211; while &#8220;having fun in the studio&#8221;.   Here&#8217;s their music video for the cut; it&#8217;s from their 1991 album of the same name, <i>Roll the Bones<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mmIynF-59YE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>FYI:  though it doesn&#8217;t sound like it, the rap segment was in fact done by Rush&#8217;s lead singer Geddy Lee.  (IMO he did a fair job of it, too.) His voice was electronically processed and significantly altered for the rap segment of the tune.  Reportedly the band considered having a female singer do the rap part instead, but decided that would be going the proverbial &#8220;bridge too far&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The second rarity is from the Who.  The Who&#8217;s Pete Townsend is generally considered among the finest rock guitarists of all time.  But on precisely one Who tune, he played . . . banjo.  Yes, you read that correctly:  banjo.<\/p>\n<p>Here ya go.  From their 1975 release &#8220;By Numbers&#8221;, <i>Squeeze Box<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4n02PD18cFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>OK, those are the two rarities.  Here are three more tunes that are simply fun.  <\/p>\n<p>First, Ray Stevens presents the story of one of the strangest &#8211; and possibly most entertaining &#8211; impromptu Revivals ever:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/K16fG1sDagU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d bet that the &#8220;naming names&#8221; part indeed got a <u>whole lot<\/u> of attention.  (smile)<\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Second:  a blast from the Big Band Era past &#8211; literally.  This cut actually made the top 40 (peaking at #30 on the Billboard Top 100) in 1975, nearly 30 years after it&#8217;s original release.  Here&#8217;s Benny Bell telling us about some, um, alternative uses for a popular male personal hygiene product  (smile):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G8ffkDf0ol4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And, finally:  why this one wasn&#8217;t ever (to my knowledge) used in the popular TV show of the same name is beyond me &#8211; &#8217;cause it seems to fit pretty well and predates it.  From 1994, here&#8217;s Joe Diffie.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vlAa0IGCXCw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>. . .<\/b><\/p>\n<p>OK, that&#8217;s all for now.   One last day on the road left before home early\/mid next week.<\/p>\n<p>And hey:  be careful out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing new from DPAA this week regarding accounting for US personnel who had previously been declared &hellip; <a title=\"A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 9\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109292\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Blast from the Past, Rarities Edition &#8211; Part 9<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109293,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109292\/revisions\/109293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}