From the Road
I’m back on the road again for a bit. So that means you all get lucky – articles from me may be somewhat limited for the next 2 or 3 weeks. (smile)
Someone asked me if I’d be playing Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” during the trip. Probably not; I never was a huge Willie Nelson fan. My taste in music tends rock vice country.
But this tune did hit the stereo already. Kinda apropos, IMO.
One problem: it was kinda hard to keep from pressing down a bit too much on the accelerator while that was playing. (smile)
The band did some good work in the 1980s. For representative selection of their best work during that decade, give a listen to their 1990 hits album Standards. Several tracks there are excellent – especially tracks 11(“Sold Me Down the River”) and 12 (“Devolution Workin’ Man Blues”).
Y’all take care.
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
There was a great disturbance in the Force as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced yesterday when Hondo stopped by the TAH Headquarters.
That wasn’t Hondo, it was a body double.
Did you take a picture of him?
😉
I just figured it out! Hondo is Col Flagg!
😀😁😂🤣😅😆!!!
Please. The DRG says he is a Navy Captain. Case closed.
Evidently, the DRG was never in the Navy. For that matter, neither was I was I… but my little brother was. He retired as Senior Chief. Is that an E-7 or E-8? He was an IDC, the boy’s a damned genius when it comes to diagnostics.
Yeah, from back in the day when MASH was still funny. That psychiatrist guy, Sidney may have been his name, was pretty good, too.
I was stationed at WRMC at the time and learned to appreciate humor when the context was not particularly amusing Flagg was one of my favorites
Sidney was one of my favorite characters. Also the Father (can’t remember how to spell his name right now).
As the resident TAH M*A*S*H-aholoic, it’s Dr. (Major) Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist, Best quote “Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice – pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”
The good Father, was John Patrick Francis Mulcahy later changed to Francis John Patrick Mulcahy, was a Lt. 0-2 for much of the series and a plot line about how difficult it was for him to ever get promoted, when finally late in the series, he is promoted to Captain, 0-3.
My favorite show and scene was Alcoholics Unanimous. Frank declares Prohibition. Father Mulcahy is asked to give a temperance lecture and he has a packed house; naturally, he is a bit nervous. Klinger suggests a “bracer” that will take the good priest there and back again. He does a few shots and then while giving said sermon, says, (In the Mess tent)” Radar, it’s a little warm in here, would you open one of the stained glass windows?” and it disintegrates from there into chaos.
😀 😀 😀
Leastways in my day, most of the chaplains I met couldn’t stand Father Mulcahy’s character… they thought he gave chaplains a bad, weak, name.
Did he come, bearing cigars and rum?
No, coffee.
Coffee, rum and cigars. What else should I bring? Oh, I have it: cheese and crackers, the really expensive stuff.
I got stopped speeding one really early morning on the way to drill. The patrolman checked my registration/license etc. and chatted a bit about the service. When he mentioned my speeding, I confessed that I probably was moving a bit too fast because I was playing an upbeat Pointer Sisters (remember them?) tape (yes, it was awhile ago). He paused a moment, returned my documents, told me he was not going to issue a ticket, and told me to put on a Sinatra tape.
Drive safely.
Did you? Frank HAD the voice and knew how to deliver a song. These days, there are quite a few singers with Frank’s ability. Michael Buble lacks for nothing
Sure did. Still made it to drill on time.
Frank is still the best.
Hondo sells Generac propane powered generators, he has busy in Houston, Key West, PR and USVI.
He sold me one last month at my new pad just north of Key West.
Run and purrs like a kitten.
I guess even a retired army general needs to supplement his pension.
Did you get the transfer switch and sub-panel?
One of these days I am going to learn to understand how the square wave inverter works as compared to the usual analog sine wave.
Probably something to do with capacitors chopping off the top of the wave sine to square off the peaks.
There sure are a lot of smart folks in the world, despite Bernath and the DRG derivatives
Ask Hondo.
But the system he sold me is full auto, you loose power generator turns on and stays on ’til power is restored.
It does have a ATS.
Simple, just like Hondo.
Simple, but not cheap.
I used to work for Onan (now owned by, spit, Cummins)and Genercrap was our arch enemy.
I believe it still is.
Hondo, the last time I saw Willie Nelson was at the Pozo Saloon in California. Even if you’re the most heavy metal fan of rock ‘n’ roll, you can still like Willie…
There was a bar, probably on Fenton Avenue, in Silver Spring, MD that featured a lot of Willie. It was in the 70’s and Whisky River was pretty popular
Without his sister, the piano player and arranger of his good stuff, Willie may have been relegated to the great guys who never were.
Thank God for Patsy Cline!
Goodbye, Hondo. It was swell, while it lasted. I’ll miss you.
My Woman From Tokyo.
if you need road songs: The Road GoesOn Forever, bu The Party Never Ends – REK
One of my favorites. Was playing it yesterday. Included it in a Birthday wish to one of our commenters.
Magic Carpet Ride!
Radar Love!
Be safe, Hondo!
In my book, Willie is rock in a cowboy hat, but whatever. Safe journey and get back here soon.
Some of us remember the “button down look” Willie.
Just shows what happened in those days if you started hanging out at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin.
Personally, I’d be tempted to vote for Beer For My Horses as the TAH theme song if somebody caught me in the right mood…
I second the motion.
Willie, Waylon and the boys in Austin really took it out of Nashville and the suits’ demands on what they played and wore. Outlaw Country was some good stuff – and it served the suits right that they lost out on a good deal of high-dollar country music.
Johnny Cash had managed to break free from the suits by virtue of his popularity, but a lot of the others were being stifled.
Radar Love….but it may result in speeding tickets
Can’t believe none of yoy have posted this yet.
https://youtu.be/qRKNw477onU
That was on a “Road Songs” CD that Cracker Barrel sold some years ago. Included all kinds of good road music, and used to start every road trip we made. Alas, no CD player in the new wheels.
Outrun the Cops!!!