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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: TRUMP: "Forming granting mass finger"_QM
Date: 06/20/2024 11:01 AM
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Since people have been talking about the latest brain fart by Dear Leader but no one has been able to translate him, this seems like the right forum. Tell us cultists, what is Dear Leaders saying here during his rally in Racine, Wisconsin?

TWUMP: "Joe Biden’s forming granting mass finger."

Umm, what now?

I was just in Milwaukee a few weeks ago at a Molly Tuttle concert and everyone there seemed to speak English. Maybe Trump was speaking one of those languages nobody's ever heard of that he keeps talking about.

I get that "forming" is probably supposed to be "formally" and "granting" makes sense but what is this "mass finger" of which he speaks?

Anyone?

Maybe it's time for Dear Leader to take another of his dementia screening tests because odds are he can no longer determine which one is the whale in a series of images.

Video: https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1803167598315458807
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Author: sano 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: TRUMP: "Forming granting mass finger"_QM
Date: 06/20/2024 12:06 PM
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Have a rec for the Molly Tuttle mention.

I've been following the Tuttle family since their early days, instruments bigger than they were, feet didn't reach the floor.

With AJ Lee, they played the westcoast bluegrass festivals as they grew up; proud papa Jack (instructor at Gryphon Instruments in Palo Alto)on bass looking for all the world like the cat that swallowed the canary.

And... speaking of bluegrass festivals, Happy Solstice!
Telluride Bluegrass begins today. If you've never been, it's bucket list stuff. The most beautiful concert venue imaginable. Main stage performances are live-streamed on www.koto.org beginning at about noon today.

Not to be missed: Chris Thile and Billy Strings set today. Folks may remember Chris as the sharp-witted mando-phenom who took the reins when Garrison Keeler took his leave from the Prairie Home COmpanion.

AJ Lee/Blue Summit play Friday.... Molly Tuttle/Golden Highway plays Sunday.

Great line-up every day!

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Author: commonone 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: TRUMP: "Forming granting mass finger"_QM
Date: 06/20/2024 2:29 PM
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sano: Main stage performances are live-streamed on www.koto.org beginning at about noon today.

Ah, chatting about music sounds better than chatting about politics.

T Bone Burnett is being interviewed right now. They're talking about Leon Russell, Byron Berline (who, like John Prine, died from Dementia Don's neglected pandemic disease, Covid), and Derek & The Dominos. And Vietnam. After T. Bone, Sam Bush stopped by for a chat.

As for Molly Tuttle, she's the best. Literally. Chris Thile is crazy talented too. The poor mandolin seems to be the Rodney Dangerfield of wooden instruments. Sierra Hall is another of my favorite mando-phenoms. And John Jorgenson (who, like Steve Winwood and Paul McCartney, seems to be able to play just about any instrument) plays it well. And Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange)-- seeing Watchhouse next week -- is outstanding. And Chris Hillman ain't bad.

We saw Chris Hillman before the pandemic and he told the story about his mandolin. Stills had invited Hillman to play on some sessions on a solo album in the 1970s and said to him “You know that mandolin you’ve been playing onstage? It’s really bad.”

Hillman said he knew. The sound, he confessed, was poor. Stills said, “Here, try this one,” and handed him a hard shell case. Inside was a 1923 Gibson Lloyd Loar F-5. Hillman played it and said, “Yeah, this is beautiful.” Stills said: “It's yours.” Hillman said he couldn't accept such a wildly expensive gift and Stills told him without him the Springfield would never have been the House band at The Troubadour (Hillman knew the owner and talked him into letting the Springfield audition), might never have recorded, which meant there might never have been a CSN/CSNY. In short, Stills owned much to Hillman.

A 1923 Lloyd Loar F-5 runs $125,000-$200,000 and up today.

Let me recommend someone else I just "discovered": Joshua Lee Turner. He's playing now with Allison Young as The Bygones.

Here's their cover of "Plastic Jesus": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFhy8SSoVdk

Here's Turner playing all the instruments and doing all the voices on a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKvmMRFQFj8

Lots more on YouTube.

And for anyone who doesn't know Watchhouse, here's a sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdP8S0uKP5U&t=43s


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