24 June 2011

Ron Diethrick, R.I.P.

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We just lost a wild and wonderful guy.
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He was my best friend from my youth. He mentored me and others on our climb to Eagle Scout. He taught many of us to truly enjoy life.
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-Zenwind.
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08 June 2011

Rock and Roll Music in Bangkok

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Last night, 7 June 8, 2011, was a great night for Rock and Roll in Bangkok. Peter Driscoll and The Cruisers played once again at the Wine Bibber Sangria, aka, Club Bibber, on Soi Thong Lor between soi 9 and 11 and across from the Pet Hospital. If I seem repetitious by mentioning Peter’s gigs many, many times over the last year, it is because I’m a major fan and this music is an invigorating experience.
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Or, as Chuck Berry put it in the definitive statement:
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“Just let me hear some of that Rock and Roll music,
Any old way you choose it,
It’s got a backbeat you can’t lose it,
Any old time you use it.
It’s gotta be Rock and Roll music
If you want to dance with me.”
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It was another night of foot-stomping Rock n Roll music, with a focus on early Rock n Roll and Rockabilly with Peter’s excellent historical comments on the songwriters and the singers who covered any one song. Because 1950s songs were of such short duration (because that was the radio norm in those days), The Cruisers play a lot of songs in one evening.
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Among the songs covered last night were ones sung by: Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Dion (“The Wanderer,” one of my personal favorites), Eddie Cochran, and many more.
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-Zenwind.
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01 June 2011

Hot

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1 June 2011: Our weather is still the transition period between the Hot season and the Rainy season. When the sun is out, it sizzles. The clouds and occasional rains are very welcome, and good breezes often catch one by surprise.
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The other day at dusk, the wind suddenly picked up dramatically and the sky got very black. As we brought in the last of the day’s laundry, it was obvious that the temperature had dropped significantly in a very short time.
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Just as it does anytime that this temperature drop happens, I thought of my father’s weather wisdom. He would say, “It feels like it has rained somewhere.” And it had. Within 40 minutes the skies opened on us with a hard rain.
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Blessed coolness,
Zen delight.
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-Zenwind.
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