tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post1479147457794429884..comments2024-03-15T07:36:42.852-04:00Comments on Maxminimus: Gerry Rafferty R.I.P.ADGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-15867557114741142402011-01-07T20:29:22.743-05:002011-01-07T20:29:22.743-05:00This is really sad. I love Baker Street and Stuck ...This is really sad. I love Baker Street and Stuck in the Middle. They are part of the fabric of my life. Upward, Gerry, Upward.<br /><br />ML<br />mlanesepic.blogspot.comM.Lanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02898845239082082494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-55787371703749435152011-01-07T09:09:10.862-05:002011-01-07T09:09:10.862-05:00Amazing but when I think about it, not surprising ...Amazing but when I think about it, not surprising that the Rafferty stuff is so evocative. As the youngest child of the youngest child of ten kids, I had a zillion older cousins. And my immersion into music that my older cousins revered was huge. That's just one of the great memories I have about being amongst so many first cousins during my formative years. And that phenomenon is rekindled as I read everyone's stories connected to Rafferty's voice. I'm also reminded (again) of how sartorially absurd the seventies were.ADGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16612897500610475937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-23985955771890714872011-01-07T06:59:28.407-05:002011-01-07T06:59:28.407-05:00I'm right there with you, Reggie and James. So...I'm right there with you, Reggie and James. So sad and TRULY so young.quintessencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14484326999396839391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-4533536963694845742011-01-06T21:00:45.343-05:002011-01-06T21:00:45.343-05:00Just stumbled across your blog from someone elses....Just stumbled across your blog from someone elses...can't remember whose.<br />I wish I could say that "Baker Street" and "Stuck In The Middle" evoked some happy memories. They are, however, classics to be sure.<br />Love your blog, it's fabulous. I don't thik I've ever come across anyone who has such classic style. It's refreshing.Susan Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387510304089583710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-75579579136880473412011-01-06T13:30:07.280-05:002011-01-06T13:30:07.280-05:00Memories. I wish someone could form memory enhanci...Memories. I wish someone could form memory enhancing music for academic gain! Good music is past music more and more it seems, even so much "new" music is only reinterpreted old meanigful hits. I hope you survived your talk session. I am back at it now, with some friends in liquid and tablet form. Yeah Chemistry!Scale Wormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09583891708651272779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-87137560016249793052011-01-06T12:16:40.388-05:002011-01-06T12:16:40.388-05:00Spent many a night in 1978 cruising a desolate win...Spent many a night in 1978 cruising a desolate winter Rehoboth Beach with 'Baker Street' playingin my Dodge Dart with 4-count 'em, 4- speakers, 8 track & FM converter. RIP<br /><br />Off topic: check out the shoe/sock combos- houndstooth loafer is you, my man. <br /><br />http://www.unabashedlyprep.com/site/sock-it-to-em/MAHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11352496359242843567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-90439310521646805132011-01-05T18:55:06.159-05:002011-01-05T18:55:06.159-05:00Is that Will Ferrell on the cowbell? :)<i>Is that Will Ferrell on the cowbell?</i> :)Summer is a Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122787755561566562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-2988021958029465132011-01-05T18:21:00.802-05:002011-01-05T18:21:00.802-05:00The summer my family moved, Right Down The Line wa...The summer my family moved, Right Down The Line was a hit. That was a crummy time for us and I can remember sitting on the cream shag carpeting in my new room (wallpapered with this horrible herringbone bamboo print in white, green and blue) while this song played over the house's intercom system. Turned out to be a decent summer though because this was the advent of the "water park" era and the new one in town opened up that year.<br /><br />RHWRHWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420119697464796626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-10969518265650151712011-01-05T15:16:33.040-05:002011-01-05T15:16:33.040-05:00I remember listening to Baker Street my senior yea...I remember listening to Baker Street my senior year of high school. I frequently play it and Right down the line on my ipod. Like several have said, at the time 63 seemed so far away, so far I didn't even think about it, now it seems to be in my thoughts more and more.<br />RTSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-13023011091386962542011-01-05T12:50:16.247-05:002011-01-05T12:50:16.247-05:00So sad. I can remember every line of Baker Street,...So sad. I can remember every line of Baker Street, brings me right back to high school.Patsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840629057159581688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-61245541158519550372011-01-05T11:45:29.733-05:002011-01-05T11:45:29.733-05:00Hell, I'm TRULY an Old Fogey.
What more memor...Hell, I'm TRULY an Old Fogey.<br /><br />What more memorable to me is that "Baker Street" was an old LP of a musical that my younger brother and I used to relentlessly play when we were preteens. <br /><br />We loved Sherlock Holmes, and the play was a fanciful bit about the relationship between Holmes and the actress Irene Adler.<br /><br />He sang all the boy parts and I sang all the girl ones.<br /><br />Believe it or not, the boy is straight...CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-87708441461173624592011-01-05T11:24:05.873-05:002011-01-05T11:24:05.873-05:00"Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the righ..."Clowns to the left of me,<br />Jokers to the right, here I am,<br />Stuck in the middle with you."<br /><br />If that doesn't sum up American politics,nothing does...CeceliaMchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16017255006204800193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-69096908580470993352011-01-05T11:04:55.276-05:002011-01-05T11:04:55.276-05:00Funny how even the memory of those songs evoke the...Funny how even the memory of those songs evoke the complex moods and emotions I was feeling at the time. Often driving around in the Maverick with buddies after having burned one. And I agree that 63 is starting to look damn young. There is so much good music being made these days but it seems to me that little heard on mainstream radio will be memorable. Love the fact that there are so many niches to find your particular taste attended to but I miss that feeling of community with a mass audience. Of course, I could just be an Old Fogey (not to be confused with any Young Fogey upstarts....)<br />CHChuck Hatthttp://chuckhatt.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-29959203183014976982011-01-05T10:15:43.096-05:002011-01-05T10:15:43.096-05:00"Stuck In The Middle" - I bought the 45r..."Stuck In The Middle" - I bought the 45rpm record for that song.<br />Gold with an Orange "AM" Records and the black horn logo on the black vinyl.<br />I remember like it was yesterday, 'cept it was 1972 and I was 11.<br />Some of the most fantastic 3 minute & 23 second moments of my 11 year old preadolescent days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-72062311427613620732011-01-05T09:22:01.824-05:002011-01-05T09:22:01.824-05:00"Baker Street" was one of the songs I re..."Baker Street" was one of the songs I remember being played at Memorial Stadium during the summer of 1979, one of the Orioles' glory years. I especially remember that sax - I'd hear just a few notes and would know exactly what song was about to play.<br /><br />When I lived in London, I often walked down Baker Street and I would always remember the wonderful summer of 1979, courtesy of Gerry Rafferty.ilovelimegreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13704346108310846391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-62931765203692638052011-01-05T08:23:10.415-05:002011-01-05T08:23:10.415-05:00Reggie Darling nailed it didn't he? A time and...Reggie Darling nailed it didn't he? A time and place"long ago and far away". Oh man, time to crank up the Stones and pour a little Jack. "I know it's only Rock and Roll.........Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15005152935241167959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8818519199109196200.post-34626806070857426652011-01-05T07:39:06.311-05:002011-01-05T07:39:06.311-05:00Baker Street is one of the songs indelibly etched ...Baker Street is one of the songs indelibly etched in my brain from a time and place when 63 seemed impossibly old, and which today--like you--does no longer. Thanks. RDReggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.com