ROCK AND ROLL'S BEST KEPT SECRET....'THE WRECKING CREW'

NO THIS IS NOT 'LITTLE RED' IT'S 'CHIPPY' THE CHIPMUNK

I am very much liking our cooler morning bug free air.  A few touches of color here and there hint at the approaching profusion of Autumn colors.  Colors soon to sweep over the landscape like an artist's palette in search of freedom having carefully slipped from it's easel and run happily over hill and dale setting forests ablaze with it's free and fanciful colors.  

THE HORSES WERE EAGERLY EATING BREAKFAST WHILE THE COWS....NOT SO MUCH

BEAN FIELDS ARE TURNING COLOR

Clouds hung in the air as Pheebs and I made our way slowly along half a dozen country roads north of Clinton this morning.  Brushing by the Hullett Marsh I realized after awhile we were following the same route we had driven the previous Sunday just seven days before.  It was a cloudy morning that day too.  We stayed on that route and after awhile it led us back to where we had started out our day.  Minutes after arriving home clouds parted and the land was once again bathed in sunshine.  Another nice day to again spend leisurely time outside comfortably doing whatever it was I felt like doing.  I don't consider washing windows leisurely so I didn't do that.

JUST A FEW PASSING SEAGULLS  CROSSING OUR PATH ALONG THE WAY

FIELD DRAINAGE IS IMPORTANT HERE IN FARM COUNTRY AND THIS FIELD IS ABOUT TO HAVE A DRAINAGE SYSTEM PUT IN

LARGE ROLES OF PLASTIC DRAINAGE PIPE WAIT TO BE UNFURLED AND PLACED IN THE GROUND

AND I BELIEVE THIS BIG MACHINE PLOWS IN THE LONG DRAINAGE LINES

Taking a break from my many World War 2 aircraft and pilot oriented books I once again turned to the world of music and am now reading another very enlightening book about one of the best kept secrets in the rock and roll era many years ago.  I had heard some rumors about it now and again over recent years but never knew too much about it.  The book is called The Wrecking Crew and I'm sure anyone with any knowledge and interest in music from back in that era knows the truth about this small group of highly trained professional studio musicians in Los Angeles, California.  Glen Campbell is well known for his excellent guitar playing and he was one of them.  Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys used these musicians as did Phil Specter and his 'Wall Of Sound'.  And they were only two of many record producers who turned their hit songs over to the Wrecking Crew.  The music going public never knew that many records of that era were not the original band members playing on the record.  It was the professional studio musicians we hear on a lot of those tracks.  The book by Kent Hartman is well written and traces each member of the crew from their early beginnings telling how they struggled up through the ranks to rise above their fellow musicians and become the best of the best.  And I like how he weaves all the many well known musicians through the Wrecking Crews history. It's fascinating to read about how so many songs we all grew up with and loved were not being played by who we thought they were being played by.  If your a music buff you will love this book and the true mysteries it solves after all these years of unknowing.  For instance, only one original member of the Byrds actually played on their debut hit, Mr. Tambourine Man'.  Everything else you hear on that record was done in the studio by 'The Wrecking Crew.'

TURKEY VULTURES ON A NEIGHBOR'S CHICKEN BARN ROOF

DRYING THEIR WINGS IN MORNING'S COOLAIR

Our day turned out to be kind of a lazy one but I guess that is what Sunday's are for.  If I'm going to have a day of doing nothing I like it to be Sunday.  I am only one of countless others who have been programed that way since childhood.  And that's quite Okay with me.

THOSE CHEEK POUCHES ARE LOOKING PRETTY FULL

GROANER'S CORNER:(( The husband and wife were playing on the ninth green when she collapsed from a heart attack. "Please dear, I need help." she said. The husband ran off saying "I'll go get some help." A little while later he returned, picked up his club and began to line up his shot on the green. His wife, on the ground, raised up her head and said, "I may be dying and you're putting?" "Don't worry dear. I found a doctor on the second hole who said he would come and help." "The second hole??? When the hell is he coming???" "Hey! I told ya not to worry, everyone's already agreed to let him play through."
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A truckload of tortoises crashed into a trainload of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.-------------------------

You might be a redneck if::
You watch "The Dukes Of Hazzard" and have to find someone to explain it to you.
When your wife walks in front of you it looks like two pigs fighting in a gunny sack.
Your only excuse for smelling bad is it runs in the family.
Your favorite fruit is chicken.
You think those yellow traffic signs that say "Slow children at play" means the kids in the area are not too bright.
You've ever used a hangnail as a tooth pick.
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