Chance Meeting
Friday January 8th, 2021 with Heavy Ben
Watergate Blues and being doomed to repeat history
Chance Meeting on a chameleon's birthday of an emperor and a crook
Pictured: a CONservative who abused his power, lied, got caught, was threatened with impeachment, resigned, then was nepotistically pardoned. It's like déjà vu all over again.
| Mini-Bits 1 Dave Gunter - Synthesizer Themes - Parry Music Library - 1978 
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| Aerial View Paul Kass (Johnny Hawksworth) - Landscapes - Parry Music Library - 1985
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| The self-proclaimed "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" died January 8, 1880. Joshua Abraham Norton held no actual position of power but was well liked enough in San Francisco to get away with it.
Based in Los Angeles, the short-lived Emperor Norton label released many excellent electronic and soundtrack recordings. |
| Take Me Higher Mellow feat. Alison David - CQ Motion Picture Soundtrack - Emperor Norton - 2002 |
| Neon Lights (Cha-Cha-Chá) (Senor) Señor Coconut Y Su Conjunto [orig. Kraftwerk] - El Baile Alemán - Emperor Norton - 1999 |
| Autopilot Golden Boy With Miss Kittin - Or - Emperor Norton - 2002 |
| Mudra Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson - The Way-Out Record For Children / Listen Compute Rock Home (The Best Of Dimension 5) - Dimension 5 / Emperor Norton - 1968 / 1999
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| Playground Love (Vibraphone Version) Air - The Virgin Suicides OST - Emperor Norton - 2000 |
| Prairielands Paul Kass (Johnny Hawksworth) - Landscapes - Parry Music Library - 1985
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| David Bowie was born today in 1947 and died two days after his 69th birthday. He is joined on this recording by Iggy Pop and Brian Eno. |
| What In The World David Bowie - Low - RCA - 1977 |
| On this day in 1973, the trial began of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate in Washington DC. It's been almost 50 years and the same tricks are being pulled by this generation of CONs.
Where have you gone, Gil Scott-Heron? Our nations turn its lonely eyes to you |
| Rockin' Funky Watergate Fred Wesley & The New JB's - Breakin' Bread - People - 1974 |
| Watergrate Dickie Goodman - 7" - Rainy Wednesday - 1973 |
| Watergate---Don't Bug Me! Weldon Irvine - Time Capsule - Nodlew Music - 1973 |
| Watergate Conclusion The Right Attitudes - 7" - Rare - circa. 1974
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| Funky Drive Frances Ruffino - Rhythmic Patterns - Parry Music Library - 1980
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| H2Ogate Blues Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Winter In America - Strata-East - 1974 |
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Loved hearing that Haack & Nelson track! Fantastic!
10:08 AM, January 6th, 2021