Pop pearls fall out of Andy Partridge’s brain like rain from the sky youtu.be/Ahf7rRW-8Pg

HBD to Peter The Great! youtube.com/watch?v=Z-QV-9…

RIP Rick Buckler - whose stickwork drove The Jam so rhythmically like on this one (terrific interlocking here with Foxton’s bass) youtu.be/vI8AOkbfgNE?si…

Happy Friday! youtu.be/46hfIVG1LCE?si…

RIP Roberta Flack - what a voice. Before she hit it big in the 70s she was discovered by Les McCann - here’s an early live recording of her singing in a jazzier style with a brief interview intro by Les describing how he discovered her youtu.be/e_GVkLgA-kg?si…

RIP and good vibes to the great Roy Ayres. Here’s the first cut off his first album as leader way back in 1963 - a more straight ahead jazz finger-popper well before he entered his trailblazing funkier phase m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLfVg…

RIP Slick Watts…fond memories of watching you live as a young lad. You brought so much to Seattle sports - well beyond your Super time with the Sonics

Go Ladydawgs!

Key graphic courtesy of The Athletic: Most starters added through the portal in 2024 from the P4. UW in top 5 = 40 percent of their total signed.

Watch this amazing tracking shot to the end of- it’s incredible (from “Soy Cuba” - 1964) instagram.com/reel/DG8_qdaNm…

Happy Birthday Eric Idle - we share the same birth date!

Fave Beach Boys memory: We rented a place in the Andalusian foothills in Spain. One evening opened a bottle and danced our heads off to The Beach Boys - was pure, unfettered fun. And that's what Brian Wilson and The Boys brought - joy and sunshine to our souls. RIP to a genius.

A Cannonball Adderley morn up in the treehouse with this live recording in Tokyo with his classic group including his brother Nat on the cornet; Yusef Lateef on every woodwind you can imagine including oboe; a young Joe Zawinul (Weather Report) on piano youtu.be/ke3oUxbevp0?si…

RIP Rick Davies. I saw the Breakfast in America tour in ‘79. He was the lower-register singer/songwriter to Rodger Hodgson’s high tenor - they made some great music together. Rick was from Swindon, England in Wiltshire where the XTC boys are from. youtube.com/watch?v=uHM88m…

RIP to an Icon

RIP to the hugely talented, funny Catherine O'hara....there's a lot to choose from in her career, including all of those great Christopher Guest mockumentaries...

Snowfall at the Husky Stadium ❄️