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Keyboardist, musician, singer, songwriter, Pink Floyd member Rick Wright could celebrate his 83rd birthday today

— Happy birthday, Richard! 🩶

#Pink Floyd #Rick Wright #endearing shenanigans #he’s so silly in half these pics

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Richard Wright *July 28, 1943

#Pink Floyd #Rick Wright #happy eternal birthday

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Learning some very interesting Split Enz lore in the Spellbound documentary

#Split Enz #this clip never ceases to crack me up #Neil Finn #Tim Finn #Eddie Rayner #Noel Crombie #Nigel Griggs #paper airplanes and darts and twisted towel one for one -oh my!#endearing shenanigans

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On July 26th, 1968, the Moody Blues answered the question, “can they do it again, but this time without an orchestra?” decisively in the affirmative. Buoyed along by Mike’s mellotron, the Moodies and a pile of instruments went on a many-splendored journey of discovery. Happy 50th anniversary to this wondrous album, truly a trip worth taking.

The pages above are scanned from a 1960s “In Search of the Lost Chord” sheet music book.

#The Moody Blues #late at night because I almost forgot…#but happy In Search of the Lost Chord day #one of my no skip albums of all time!

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#Dokken #Don Dokken

This is one of many Dokken pictures in my photo hoard that despite all my efforts, I have not been able to find without a watermark, and it’s on a site where watermark removers are not working… so after 3 years of trying, I’m conceding it’s going up as is!

#Dokken #Jeff Pilson #George Lynch #and there will be more someday with these watermarks

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#Winger #Kip Winger #Reb Beach #Paul Taylor

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Cinderella, 1986.

#Cinderella #Jeff LaBar #Eric Brittingham #Tom Keifer #Fred Coury

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adrenalize/retro active era

#Def Leppard #Phil Collen #Rick Savage #Joe Elliott #Vivian Campbell #Rick Allen

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When was the last time you were at the hospital

* I’m at the hospital right now

* I went to the hospital today

* I went to the hospital within the past few days

* I went to the hospital this week

* I went to the hospital within the past few weeks

* I went to the hospital this month

* I went to the hospital within the past few months

* I went to the hospital this year

* it’s been over a year since I’ve been to the hospital

* I’ve never been to the hospital

* it’s complicated

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Not limited to treatment; work, volunteering, visiting, and transporting others count as well

When was the last time you were at the hospital?

I’m at the hospital right now

I went to the hospital today

I went to the hospital within the past few days

I went to the hospital this week

I went to the hospital within the past few weeks

I went to the hospital this month

I went to the hospital within the past few months

I went to the hospital this year

it’s been over a year since I’ve been to the hospital

I’ve never been to the hospital

it’s complicated

see results

Remaining time: 3 days 10 hours

Not limited to treatment; work, volunteering, visiting, and transporting others count as well

#random poll #if a veterinary hospital counts… I literally *just* got home from a late evening into night shift #if it has to be human hospital then it was in January visiting my grandmother before going back to school …and for the last time ever

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getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

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one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

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My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

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For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish

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also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.

also worth noting that who you are to them doesn’t matter. they’ll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. they’re just Like That.

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More from the notes:

#random reblog #this is so off from what I typically reblog but my Italian extended family is all up in Boston and this is so true #except they actually are nice (and yelling from Italians is not actually yelling most of the time)#but this post cracked me up #and *holy crap* have a GPS because there are some areas where you’ll drive five blocks before finding a sign to know what street you’re on #how’d my family and I get lost when we went there on a trip? …we were pretty much doomed to with written instructions #can’t follow those if the streets aren’t labeled!

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From the Supertramp: The Story So Far documentary. Rick can’t contain his snarky humor over the “Brother Where You Bound” music video and all of the hijinks that went down during the filming of it, and how Russ Curry from A&M reacted to the final form.

Special thanks to @crimeofthecentury for finding the elusive full-length video to this a few months back when I couldn’t find it!

#Supertramp #Rick Davies #my gifs #shameless self reblog #one of the most endearing Supertramp moments there ever was