Ted Simons

The Dead's best song (it says here) was a Phil Lesh song. Phil Lesh, dead, at 84. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there. youtube.com/watch?v=nxjvo4…

CD6 debate tonight on AZ Horizon: Ciscomani vs. Engel. Check it out at 5pm and 10pm on the mothership, and at 7pm on 8.3 (Cox channel 88.) See ya there.

Meandering back on to Twitter to say: Best DBack win of the season. (Especially if it heralds Carroll's return to form.) Great stuff.

Read “The Alienist.” And heard of Lucien Carr through Kerouac connection. But had no idea they and so many other things crashed so hard into Caleb Carr. Unusually poignant obit: nytimes.com/2024/05/24/boo…

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We’re saddened to share that Robert MacNeil, a driving force behind the show that would become the NewsHour on PBS, died Friday at the age of 93. A lifelong lover of language, literature and the arts, MacNeil’s trade was using words. Combined with his reporter’s knack for being where the action was, he harnessed that passion to cover some of the biggest stories of his time, while his refusal to sensationalize the news sprung from respect for viewers. He was on the ground in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He interviewed Martin Luther King Jr., Ayatollah Khomeini, and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. But he had his biggest breakthrough with the 1973 gavel-to-gavel primetime coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. That Emmy-winning series of special reports was also the turning point for the future of daily news on PBS, leading to the creation of The Robert MacNeil Report, before it was renamed The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and other subsequent iterations, all the way up to the PBS NewsHour. As co-founder and anchor, he helped guide millions through extraordinary times with his intelligent, passionate and humane storytelling.

Eric Carmen died. Loved the Raspberries. Solo stuff, not so much, but the Raspberries could bring it. Fave song, “Tonight,” was like Big Star w/bigger hair. So many memories: youtube.com/watch?v=BD2o8f…

ALERT: Sen. Sinema announces she will not run for reelex, says she will leave at the end of the year.

Melanie died. "Brand New Key" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain," with the Edwin Hawkins singers, were soundtracks to such a long-ago time. Had a chance to interview her (kinda long ago) on Horizon. She was wonderful: azpbs.org/horizon/2012/0…

Tommy Smothers would regularly make a certain young kid laugh until he could hardly breathe. And I'm sure I wasn't alone. Thank you, Tommy. pbs.org/newshour/arts/…

Well whaddya know. (I'm seeing a few more than four sticks there....) nytimes.com/2023/11/08/art…

Dwight Twilley died. Power-pop personified. His 1st LP, "Sincerely," was a celebration of Merseybeat melodies by way of Tulsa energy & one of the best records not enough people heard. Played the grooves off that one. Here he is in the wild w/his near-hit: youtube.com/watch?v=vpU05H…

Never expected the Dbacks to be playing November baseball, and while it can be argued that in some respects they didn't (save Zac Gallen), it was still a great season. Hot stove league should be extra toasty this go round. Already looking forward to spring.

Rough night. Not the DBacks. Paid thru the nose for nosebleed seats & enjoyed it all except the outcome. But my childhood baseball hero, Frank Howard, has died. DC kids who grew up as suffering Senators fans loved The Gentle Giant. I sure did. Such memories. Rest easy, big man.

Can. Not. Believe it. Dbacks win the pennant! Dbacks win the pennant!

It's remarkable how much a winning team can lift the spirits. And I'm sky high after the DBacks sweep (!) of the Brewers!!

Rest well, Terry Kirkman of the Association. Such sophisticated songwriting. Remembered most for “Cherish,” but “Along Comes Mary” is so good and was all over top-40 radio. (Yes, I was there.) That’s Kirkman with the beard, beads and nehru: youtube.com/watch?v=e-U5vc…

Per previous post: apnews.com/article/robbie…

Oh my. Tremendous songwriter. Tremendous band. Remembered for "The Weight," of course, but for other gems, including personal fave, "The Shape I'm In," and "Life is a Carnival," which he co-wrote with Levon Helm and Rick Danko. All now gone.

"This old town's filled with sin/It'll swallow you in/If you've got some money to burn..." youtube.com/watch?v=UcU04N…