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[kpop-z-tuzexu]

[nikkiruncks]

The Gang at 56, inspired by this post for @einsteinsugly's verse and with the reddit thread

Donna: Married to Eric for 36 years, have two children: Leia (36) & Mia (20), & three granddaughters: Margie (17), Anne-Marie (17), & Lizzie (17). Still a news reporter and author. She no longer lives in Chicago, but in Kenosha now with Eric. So she can be closer to both her kids and her dad.

Eric: Married to Donna for 36 years, two children, & three granddaughters. He no longer teaches History in Chicago High School but in KTEC High School. He doesn't go as hard as he did in his 20s, but does still work hard.

Jackie: Married to Hyde for 36 years, has twins: Reggie (20) & Kat (20). She still lives in Milwaukee and works as a hair and makeup stylist. She has a heart time dealing with her kids growing up, especially Reggie. It also doesn't help that she gets threatened by Mia, his then girlfriend now wife. She's still not completely understanding Kat, but they have made more progress compared to when she was in high school.

Hyde: Married to Jackie for 36 years, has twins. Still successfully running Grooves and living in Milwaukee. Unlike Jackie, Hyde is easily able to adapt to the twins growing up. And he's 100% happy with Reggie & Mia as a couple. He actually predicted they'd get together (he saw his own relationship with Jackie in Reggie and Mia). It's still hard for him to come to terms with Kat growing up, but he tries his best to stand by her no matter what.

Kelso: Married to Brooke for 36 years, three children: Betsy (36), Jay (35), & Oak (34) & three granddaughters. He's still working as a Police Officer and living in Point Place. The grandkids visit every day, which makes him feel less alone.

Fez: Married to Rhonda, two children: Rose (20) & June (17). He still works as a hairstylist so he can help support his kid in college and his other kid about to go to college haha. I'd like to think he prides himself on having the youngest kids out of the gang. And that that makes him "younger" than everyone else haha.

[allisa-finance]

KTEC (Asia ETF)

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[theghostpinesmusic]

I've been pretty obsessively watching Goose livestreams and archived concert videos since late 2019, but never really share much online about my enthusiasm for the band. Unless you know me in person or have listened to my currently-on-hiatus KTEC radio show in the past, you likely have no sense of how fully this band has completely taken over the Phish-shaped space in my brain over the last four years. And...maybe that's a good thing for you?

Part of the reason I don't post much about the band specifically (or the music I listen to in general) is that most people I know don't get the overwhelming level of joy out of live music that I do. Which is, obviously, fine. Different strokes for different folks and all that. The other part is that even those who like live music don't often go in for jam band music. There tends not to be a lot of actual crossover in the potential Venn diagram of people who freak out over getting to be in the stadium for one night of a Taylor Swift tour and people who freak out because this third version of "Arcadia" the band has played on this tour is *definitely* the best jam from the six shows they've attended over the last seven nights.

I mean, there's not *no* overlap, but...let's just say jam band fandom is kind of its own thing. It's sort of like being a baseball fan, but somehow nerdier. And your team never actually loses.

Anyway, long story short: I just happened upon this YouTube channel that posts webcast excerpts from Goose shows, which means I can write about and share some of my favorite recent performances without constantly dropping three hour long full-show videos that nobody is going to realistically watch into my feed.

Of course, it's possible that nobody is realistically going to watch a twenty-four minute video either, but shh...

I'm just finishing up catching up on the band's recent European tour, so I'm starting with this video, of "Madhuvan" from the opening show of the tour, which took place in Paris.

"Madhuvan" has long been one of my favorite Goose songs, partially because it's both a fun and interesting song musically and partially because I like the lyrics a lot as they speak to (as many of the band's songs do in some form) the transitory nature of life and the value of focusing on the present moment instead of on wealth, fame, popularity, or other similar things. If you're interested, the lyrics are here.

The "formal," composed part of the song in this video runs up through 6:50 and feels a bit more raw and rock-and-roll than usual. Either it's just my imagination, or it's the fact that the band was touring in smaller venues than usual throughout Europe and were all playing with at least somewhat stripped-down gear. Maybe it's both?! It's probably both.

Either way, after Rick's initial, brief guitar solo, we're off into the improvisatory part. Lately, it's felt to me like the band is deconstructing each version of "Madhuvan" that they play, trying to get more and more minimalist at the beginning of the jam and seeing what they can build up and into from (nearly) nothing. This version's no different in that regard.

The first little bit is what I often noncanonically think of as a space jam: there's no real melody or beat to follow, and everyone is just sort of chaotically throwing noises around to see what happens. This sort of thing can get kind of boring to me if it goes on for minutes at a time (The Grateful Dead's "Drums/Space" sequences have a mixed reputation for this reason), but here it's just brief bit of casting about and it's fun to be along for the ride. Then, around 8:30, a catchy riff that Peter is somehow playing both on his keyboard and guitar at the same time emerges and everyone else falls in musically around it.

This riff and Trevor's basslines lead the band along through a few minutes of this really unique musical space that, during my watch of the entire show a few weeks ago I thought of as "Evil Salsa." Like most jam bands, the "up front" melody instruments (guitars and keys) tend to overshadow the rhythm instruments in the mix during most of Goose's jams, and I'm a big fan of this section of this "Madhuvan" specifically because the percussion and bass are way more upfront than usual. I'm pretty much always going to enjoy hearing Trevor drive things.

The jam starts to metamorphose a bit around 13:00, as Rick starts chording a little more aggressively and Peter joins in shortly after. We're in a little bit more standard blues territory here, but the percussion stays in backbeat mode for a minute, producing some neat tension.

At about 14:00, the transition into the next stage of the jam is complete, and now we're in much more bread-and-butter territory for Goose: a major-key blissful gallop with Rick's guitar taking the lead. This is great, but it just kinda rolls along in the same vein for a bit, so I'll skip over picking through every detail...

It's at about 18:45 when Rick interrupts the gallop the band has going by holding on to a particularly grungy chord for a bit. The rest of the band immediately adjusts to reform the music around this move (this is the stuff I absolutely love hearing bands like this one do), and then shortly after we're off on another upbeat section of the jam that nonetheless has a bit of a noisier and messier inflection than the previous few minutes.

This bit roils along for a few minutes before Rick breaks the tension at 21:15 right after throwing a look at Trevor to warn him a key change is coming. This change resolves the tension of the previous jam space, making you feel suddenly relieved and happy even if you know literally nothing about music theory. If you're an absolute dork like me, you'll notice at this point that they're back in the key that "Madhuvan" starts in, which usually means it's about time to wrap things up.

There's a little more fun breakdown/tension action happening at 22:00, but we're otherwise locked in to the rush toward the song's composed conclusion at this point, so everyone's having a good time. The last minute or so is the song's typical ending.

I've really been enjoying watching the videos from the band's Europe tour, and this version of "Madhuvan" was probably the top highlight of the first night for me. For me, it's a song that a) is fun and well-written from a songwriter's standpoint as well as b) one that the band almost always seems to take as an opportunity to improvise outside of the kind of playing I usually hear from them. There's a lot of that in the first few minutes of the jam here, and then a lot more of that in the version of "Red Bird" that follows. I guess my only complaint about this video is that it's not the full Madhuvan > Red Bird combo from the Paris show :)

I'll be back before too long with some words (fewer than this time, most likely!) on the version of "Hot Tea" from the band's next night in Germany! Thanks for reading.

[ktectours]

Happy Holi,🇮🇳🙂 (at KTEC Tours Pvt. Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CphshPTseh6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dailydank714]

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[lights-of-le]

Heute gibt es mal wieder nen sportlichen Sonntagsgruß an die Jungs von @ksportgermany, welche diesen wie ich finde echt schicken GT86 individualisiert haben. #mtsbnr #matthiasbinner #automotive #photography #leipzig #ktec #ksportsgermany #toyota #gt86 #nature #car #sportscar #picoftheday #instagood #instacar #stance (hier: Leipzig, Germany)

[mucinmanhtaicom]

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[alexbellux]

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[theghostpinesmusic]

Fun music news (via Facebook)! So, since I'm on sabbatical this year, I've stopped going up to KTEC to do my radio show from 6pm-8pm on Thursdays, which in some ways has been a bit sad, but in other ways has been nice…namely, I have more free time. Mostly what I've been doing with that free time is just playing guitar more, so I thought it might be fun to start planning to do a livestream each week, predictably, at a set time, as a sort of "make up" for a lack of new episodes of The Good Place. For those of you who enjoy the radio show and have told me you miss hearing it, this isn't exactly a perfect replacement (for one thing, my songs aren't as good as the ones on the radio), but I thought it might be fun to try for at least a few months. So, first, before I bury the lede too much: starting Thursday, I'll be livestreaming from the studio from 6pm-8pm every week, at least for awhile. I've had some issues with Instagram as a platform in the past, but I'm going to at least start there. So if you're interested in tuning in, just follow me there (@theghostpines) and you'll be good to go. Second, I recorded a "non-live" set yesterday just to test out my recording setup (new phone and new tripod since my last livestream a year or so ago) and thought it came out well enough to post the whole thing to YouTube. Setlist and notes below, if you're interested: Jam > Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)@ Idyll*? Not California She and Me California*! -> Molly Hospitals and Jails (Mason Jennings)& I Still Miss Someone (Johnny Cash)* Jezebel Tumble (Goose)& > Palace -> Jam+% > Palace What Light (Wilco)&^

@ Slow version * Fast version ? Molly teases ! w/ Rolling Jam outro & First time played + Cannonball (The Breeders) tease % Twist (Phish) teases ^ Idyll tease

[ktectours]

Happy Makar Sankranti 2023. #makarsankranti #festivals #bihar #ktectours #bihartrips #bodhgaya (at KTEC Tours Pvt. Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnYY2hsyPV5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lights-of-le]

Und noch ein Popser zum Sonntagabend. GT86 by K-Tec. #mtsbnr #matthiasbinner #automotive #photography #leipzig #toyota #gt #86 #toyotagt86 #ktec #ksports #nature #car #racecar #stance #instagood #instacar #picoftheday #caroftheday (hier: Leipzig, Germany)

[alexbellux]

ALONE 👤 #renault #renaultrs #renaultsport #renaultmegane #meganesport #megane #megane225 #meganers #rs #rs225 #belluxproduction #sport #situazionetrackdayitalia #lagodorta #relax #race #racing #instarenault #meganers225 #rs2 #turbo #brembo #recaro #ktec #ktecracing #french #frenchcar #frenchcars #frenchpride #mottarone

[theghostpinesmusic]

I miss DJing my KTEC radio show.

So, for now, while I wait for that golden day when it will be safe to spin the wheels of steel again, I'm curating two Spotify playlists.

ApocaMix will be a collection of single songs, and Albumocalypse will be a collection of full albums.I hope you like them and they are good to listen to.

If you want the full-albums playlist instead, it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13LzjKsrxFY0VQSO90FFKT?si=Xbq8vZo5TLq_TD3XOF-oKQ

[ktectours]

TripAdvisor Reviews. #tripadvisorcertificateofexcellence #tripadvisor #bodhgaya #ktectours @bihartrips #bihartrips #bodhgayatouristtaxi #bodhgayatravels (at KTEC Tours Pvt. Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnTelvZS1YP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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