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Crucial Track 🎵 June 16, 2026
"Pictured Within (Live)" by Jon Lord
Jon Lord was always one of my favourites. My interest in Deep Purple emerged not from Taliesyn, Fireball or even 'In Rock', but rather their first live album 'In Concert'. He never managed to repeat that within Purple - but as a solo artist - that was Jon. I THINK I have them all - I certainly know them. But out of that library how do you choose a 'track'?
Hence the choice today - and again - NOT in studio from a live album with Steve Balsamo providing the vocals to one of his 'songs' ... extending it to over 10 minutes with Orchestra. Not sure. there is a single track that epitomises Jon's range - though Jazz and Rock doesn't appear in this recording.
Rock - well - you already know that side of him.
Jazz - well a little light fun introduction to Dave Brubeck's 🔗📼 Unsquare Dance
📼🎵 May I introduce you to 🔗 Mysty Mayhem … you are going to love it. (Embed courtesy of TikTok - no account/login needed)
🖇️ Me back in 2024 - in turn referencing a post back in 2021 .. and guess what it (the use of AI in hiring) is only getting worse.
🔗📼 A short video observation on Substack explaining recent research at Stanford and why you might never be getting any response to your submissions.
🔗📼 It’s not very funny for Charlie Chaplin - but needs to be watched. (Recorded 86 years ago.)
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"Rhythm Of Life" by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Not a 'musical/show' kinda guy, and this came out before I was old enough to 'get it' - but for whatever reason since I first heard it - have always absolutely loved it.
The image comes from 🔗 The Rhythm of Life
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📼🔗 A short video about The Rhythm of Life Art Installation in Yucca.
🎛️ My second ever ‘Snicklecast’ was in 🖇️ March, 2019 and in it I defined a Snicklecast - and explained how 30 seconds came to be the maximum length of a Snicklecast.
Last night, the YouTube ‘algo’ served me 🔗📼 this last night … a short video of the street known as The Shambles in York … England.
I set the start of the video at 2 minutes and 5 seconds - just before the narrator referenced the ‘many’ Snickleways just around The Shambles.
The Coffee Yard - referenced in the Snicklecast in 2019 is not one of them. The map shows their relative positions.
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Pink Floyd has Nick’s ‘Saucerful’
Genesis has Steve’s ‘Genesis Revisited’
🔗📼🎵 Not Voyage 35 - and yet is.
It was announced a while back - but seems to beginning to take shape ….
Porcupine Tree now has Colin’s ‘Voyage 35’
🔗📼 The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum has been circulating around a number of places I tend to go, so gave it a whirl. So should you.
Of course it is about curiosity, discovery, history, inaccuracies, putting things right, timelines, typesetting, layout, design .. and more .. and you might think ‘l’m not that interested - yeah nah’. Which would be sad because it would be your loss and you would never know what a lovely man 🔗 Richard McClintock is.
Not only that, but you’d miss out on how just one dedicated person can have impact, no matter how seemingly small.
(Stick to the end to discover the deets.)
In case you were wondering where 🖇️ this quote came from …. the answer is 🔗🎵📼 Ren - he is just so good. This one is a kind of 🔗📼 Musical Gary
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An example of her work …
🔗📼 Not Made For The Cage | Kelly Boesch
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Crucial Track 🎵 May 23, 2026
"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
The live one in particular I think nails why I love Depeche Mode - 'electronica sensibility rocks out'.
Also adding this live cover by Depeche Mode of Depeche Mode - Berlin.
‘nuff said
🔗 GDS weighs in on the NHS’s decision to retreat from Open Source – Terence Eden
a meeting _without_biscuits.
💬 The UK's Civil Service
😂 Perfect - only the British.
BUT - please don’t ignore this article - particularly if you are in the UK - and as I track the latest moves in New Zealand - also there.
Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder, ‘What the hell just happened?"
💬 Carroll Bryant
It’s bad enough being in the second category, but too many people are in the third.
🔗📼 Martin Gutmann: Are we celebrating the wrong leaders?
Spoiler Alert. Yes - but that’s not an excuse not to watch it.
Twelve years ago - 🔗📼🎵 I was there. Love you man.
All my life I’ve suffered from ‘MOBS’. As the name suggests, it only affects males, and in my case is particularly severe.
So when Jax asked me last night to get her AirPods from her desk, I immediately said yes, while my internal alert system moved into overdrive.
I searched the desk, surrounding area, even where they would normally be charging, eventually returning to the kitchen, head hung low - to report an ‘F2F’ - that would be Failure to Find to you rookies.
She was quick to reply: “On the right-hand side of the desk, by the journals.”
Back upstairs I went. Nope. Not there. I searched the whole room. Nothing. Nada. Null.
Back downstairs I came.
“Still not there,” I reported.
“Good grief, do I need to go?”
“Yes,” I said. “Clearly I am incapable.”
She downed tools, walked two steps, and announced: “They’re in my pocket.”
Of course to Jax it was hilarious. Me? Still working through the emotional roller coaster that I typically ride in these situations.
MOBS? I hear you ask … Male Object Blindness Syndrome
🔗😂📼 Fridges tend to be the first experience of a man experiencing MOBS
🖋️ If POTUS Says It - Why Can't We Report It?
Don’t click through if you are easily offended. Then again - if you are easily offended stop listening to POTUS
🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.