Feelin’ Alright, Paleo Style
Now how damn long do you think I had to search to bring this to you cavemen & cavewomen? Hah! I’m proud of at this point. If you check out some of their other UTube selections, you’ll see they perform shirtless often. And even rock stars today are lean. (Can you be a fat Rock Star, or is that what’s coming next?). Here you go, new study: "Lean Rock Stars associated with regular consumption of drugs & alcohol."
Written by Dave Mason, made most popular by Joe Cocker…but Grand Funk Railroad did it best, in my view. I just love the blues-i-ness of it. You know, the roots of rock & roll are in the blues, just like the roots of country are to be found in folk. I’m not a big country fan, and hence, I’ll take Dylan any day.
Alright, with that Dylan reference, let me toss up another one, altogether different, the Traveling Wilburys, Handle With Care. Watch George Harrison and especially, Roy Orbison, steal the show. This one’s in a link, cause the embedable one was shit.
There, I got off cuss word. I contemplated a birthday dispensation f-bomb, but I’ve successfully resisted.
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I like it. Good band, for sure.
Richard, I’m loving these videos! You always get my Saturday morning started off on just the right mood. These two are my favorite yet. Love the Wilbury’s! Here’s some HQ live Roy Orbison (ACL – 1982):
What a great voice.
Richard, congratulations on sticking with your new policies:
HFCS (He Frigging Ceased Swearing)
BPA (Beats Profanity Anyday)
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One of the premier rock bands in the history of the world. (Yet still unknown to most.) Brewer and Farner are hometown daddies. My mother found this album and took it from me because of the nudity! She also despised the cover of my album, Aerosmith, “Get Your Wings,” because Steven Tyler had that prominent bulge showing………prude!
She’d a flipped over Sticky Fingers. eh?
Agreed about GFR. One of the best rock bands ever and so under appreciated.
“Lean Rock Stars associated with regular consumption of drugs & alcohol.”
Hate to spoil the theory but, Elton John, Meatloaf, Elvis & Jack Black to name a few?
Jack Black? or do you mean Frank Black? The latter is more of a rocker – and pretty good in my estimation. The former is chubby too, but more of an actor?
Keith Richards is a tribute to the resilience of the human body.
John Popper and Mama Cass also come to mind….but certainly these are exceptions.
Feelin’ Alright—a very good song. Dave Mason, Grand Funk Railroad, and Joe Cocker all good. Don’t forget Traffic and the Black Crowes’s versions also.
I cleaned Terry Knight’s (GFR’s manager) teeth once, about 20 years ago, when I was a new dental tech. He had a serious cross-bite, but was a great patient. He kept *me* laughing the whole time, even though I was causing him some pain with my poking and prodding! I guess that’s neither here nor there, but it’s my one brush with fame, ha ha.
I once saw a VH1 bit on GFR, and they said the 1971 Shea Stadium concert was nearly halted because there was so much jumping and stomping in unison that NYC authorities feared that the sympathetic waves would collapse the stadium. Dude, THAT rocks!
Richard, sorry for going off topic, but I believe you mentioned vitamin D supplementation in a previous post.
I did some digging, and it seems that our body’s design strongly favors sunlight exposure, due to the long half-life of vitamin D and a few other related biofeedback mechanisms. I added a post with more details here:
healthcorrelator.blogspot.com/2010/01/vitamin-d-deficiency-seasonal.html
Maybe you could explore this issue in a future post. I think it is important for various reasons. For example, some of the paleo diet problems reported recently here might possibly be seasonal, related to vitamin D deficiency in the winter.