Today I'm going to teach
WordLand how to manage a
linkblog. Before doing that I tried to figure out what a linkblog is. I have been using various homebrew linkblogging tools which I have shared with others, but none of them became popular products. I wrote a
summary to help guide the development work I have planned.
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I was lucky to grow up in NYC, and had to commute from Queens to the Bronx every day to go to school. Some days I took the
Q44 bus over the
Whitestone Bridge, and other days I took the
Q16 to the
7 train through Manhattan, and then the
4 or
D trains up to 205th St in the Bronx. Took the same amount of time either way. So at age 15 I was able to go see the Grateful Dead after school at the
Fillmore East on April 27, 1971. Midway through the set, a special guest band who they didn't introduce started tuning up on stage. We all wondered who they were. I now know the history thanks to the
500 Songs podcast, and this was the return of a band that had fallen out of favor, a band whose hits we all heard on
WABC and
WNEW-FM. When they started playing one of their biggest hits,
Good Vibrations, the audience erupted in ecstasy.
The Beach Boys now looking a lot different, but playing the same wonderful California music from the 60s. They couldn't be more different from the Dead, but there they were up on stage together. They were back, this time for good. This is a recording of the whole concert, the link
points to the beginning of Good Vibrations. You can hear the gasp of recognition, and the bands recognition of the recognition, and from their it was a party in a party, including a
sing-along part -- "gotta keep those a lovin' good vibrations happening with you." We were all growing up very quickly, but we had a moment when we could return to a more innocent time. Lovely the way music pulls you back in time.
Brian Wilson wasn't there that night but his music certainly was.
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