Wow! This song has really stood up well to time....only just realizing after several listens, it's from 1969!!! I thought it was much more current. It's pretty darn nice to be able to say this was before my time --I hardly ever get to do that anymore; made my day :)

rdo wrote:
Take is somewhere else boys.

Music is the topic.

.....MORE cymbals!!...........(just kidding - they do kinda stick out like cowbells, though) I do love this song just the way it is.

I absolutely Love this song!!!!!!!! Hard to listen to it is so good, almost too perfect.

I'm going home soon after many years!

yah man DAMALS toll

Nice!

Byronape , what I have said is really beyond dispute. If you don't know this, then you're not looking very closely. Universities are notoriously hostile to conservatives, and hiring conservatives, for example. I'll also just give a couple non-ideological examples, but I could give hundreds: Larry Summers comments about women and mathematics that were uncontroversial and that caused a national uproar and nearly lost him his job; E.O. Wilson's writings about evolutionary biology that were met with near-violent protests. My main point though, which you seem to agree on, is that we can no longer even talk about race. We’re all too scared to open our mouths! PC-ness is harmful to the people it’s meant to help. BTW, you get no argument from me as to your assessment of the Juan Williams case. I don't care about bias at NPR so much, that was not really my point. He should not have been fired. He is a good man, a good liberal. I have no problem with what he said that got him fired. I watched that episode live, BTW, and I thought nothing of it at the time. He's right!

rdo wrote:
Juan Williams was fired from NPR for appearing on The O'Riley Factor and saying "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

NPR released a statement saying that his comments were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."

If you are referring to claims of bias, those have come in from both sides. There have been a little bit of adjustment in the upper management in an attempted to enforce impartiality, but by and large the only people that still scream bias are the people on the outsides of each group. 45 seconds on a highly cited Wikipedia page brought up this little gem. Surveys and follow-up focus groups conducted by the Tarrance Group and Lake Snell Perry & Associates have indicated that, "The majority of the U.S. adult population does not believe that the news and information programming on public broadcasting is biased. The plurality of Americans indicate that there is no apparent bias one way or the other, while approximately one-in-five detect a liberal bias and approximately one-in-ten detect a conservative bias."

How is it that Academia has shown hostile to "free expression and diversity of thought"? Free expression can be taken too far if it slanders someone or contains factual inaccuracies. How has Academia negatively impacted diversity of thought? That's kinda running counter to the whole point of academic studies.

As for your comment on political correctness, I actually kinda agree. Political correctness can be (and frequently is) taken too far. However, there is no way to enforce a common sense way of communicating so there have to have been some rules created. As I said before, free expression can be taken to an extreme and can infringe on my rights not to be publicly mocked or singled out due to some kind of difference.

jberko wrote:
Yes, good music always ages well. Hope your situation gets better soon.

iTuner wrote:
As for David, he'd only need an itty bitty little cover-up.

Nice Monday Morning Song, Thanks Bill !

mandolin wrote:
If we don't stand up for our rights, then pretty soon we won't be able to open our mouths at all with-out the thought police tapping us on the shoulder and hauling us into the klink. Political correctness was just a very bad idea, and now it is out of control. What little good comes from it is far out-weighed by the harm it does. It's sad that Academia, the institution that is most entrusted to defend our rights, and promote diversity of thought, is the most hostile to free expression and diversity of thought. Look up Juan Williams and the numerous abuses of NPR. There's a conspiracy for all the nut-jobs who love to trash private enterprise and commercial enterprise. Read about the foibles of NPR in the last few years.

One of the fist songs, I learned on guitar.

i remember the first time i heard this song. it broke my heart. i still feel a sting when i hear it...so beautiful.

gypsyman wrote:
I just finished reading Clapton's autobiog and there was controversy when the album cover was released. Saying that, from a personal point of view, I like neither the cover nor the track.

I never really liked or understood the cover, but I never spent a lot of of time analyzing/worrying about it, and never really had any energy to direct at it. I liked the music.

I dont mind the cover. But i really think the song sounds horrible. The cymbal crash sounds ... weird - and a whining singer.

Kokoloco53 wrote:
Give me a break. Let's go back and change history. I went to Florence Italy and asked them to cover up the statue of David.

Don't like the cover, close your eyes and listen to the great song.

Just watched a documentary on Netflix about this great band. I didn't make the end—interesting, for sure, but very dry, very little music, and a big disappointment. Maybe they just couldn't secure the footage. But this music takes me back to high school! I love this album!