David Bruce Anecdotes
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Pitchers
• Ohio farmboy Denton Tecumseh Young had a fastball so speedy that he became known as “Cyclone” Young, which later was shortened to Cy Young. He was quite a pitcher, winning 30 or more games five seasons in a row, and winning 20 or more games 14 seasons in a row. When he retired, he had won 511 games. He could still pitch extremely well, but he decided to quit because he could not field bunts — he had grown too fat!
• Bob Feller threw hard, and definitely hard enough to hurt. Early in his career he was preparing to face Lefty Gomez in the late innings of a game as the evening was growing dark. Stepping up the plate, Lefty lit a match. Umpire Bill Sommers asked, “What’s the matter, Gomez? Can’t you see Feller?” Lefty replied, “I can see him all right — I just want to make sure that he can see me.”
• Dizzy Dean was a talented pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. In the 1934 World Series, in the ninth inning of the final game of the series, the Detroit team sent the great hitter Hank Greenberg to bat against him, but Dizzy said loudly, “What’s the matter? Ain’t you people got no peench hitters?” Then Dizzy struck him out.
• The great African-American pitcher Satchel Paige sometimes would call in his outfielders and have them sit down behind the pitchers mound. He then would strike out the batters facing him. Some people considered this a kind of bragging, but Satchel always replied, “If you can do it, it ain’t bragging.”
• Robin Roberts once struck out three Pittsburgh Pirates in a row after a player hit a triple. He struck out Pete Castiglione with five pitches, Ralph Kiner with four pitches, and Joe Garagiola with three pitches. Afterward, Mr. Garagiola said, “It’s embarrassing. He should have at least worked on me.”
Practical Jokes
• Practical jokes are a part of life of minor-league baseball, with rookies often the target — and often the rookies try to get their own back. Matt Smith was the new pitcher for the Birmingham Barons, and veteran Jake Meyer dumped a bucket of ice water on him when Matt was in the shower. Jaker then said, “Welcome to the bullpen.” Another veteran, Brian West, advised Matt to throw ice water on Jake the next day at 5 p.m. when Jake would be in the shower. Matt promised to do that, and he did just that, throwing the ice water on Jake and then running out of the shower. Unfortunately, he heard a loud crash, and suddenly baseball players started screaming for the trainer. Jake came out of the shower with two players assisting him. Lots of blood was flowing down from his head, and the manager, Wally Backman, looked at him and said, “We have to get him to the hospital. We have to get him stitched up.” Then Wally asked who was responsible. Everybody pointed at Matt, who said, “Wally, I didn’t mean to do anything.” Wally chewed Matt out, and Matt was afraid that he is going to be fired. Then he noticed that Jake was furious and trying to get at him, but he couldn’t because two players were holding him back. Wally, noticing the same thing, said, “Let him go. He’s got to do what he’s got to do.” Jake came at Matt, but instead of hitting him, he put a tube of fake blood in his hand. Brian had told the entire team that Matt was going to throw ice water on Jake, and the entire team was in on the practical joke on a very relieved Matt, who admitted, “It was the most elaborate, choreographed prank I’ve heard of.”
• Fielding Yost, a football coach at the University of Michigan, took sides in the then-current controversy of who had discovered the North Pole: Doc Cook or Commodore Perry. Mr. Yost believed that Commodore Perry had discovered the North Pole, and he was ready at any time to argue the case for Perry. Knowing this, Dan McGugin, the brother-in-law of Mr. Yost and a football coach at Vanderbilt, set up a practical joke. Mr. Yost, Mr. McGugin, and a group of their friends started talking about the Cook-Perry controversy, and they took a vote to see which side everyone took in the controversy. The vote was 18 to 3 that Commodore Perry was the true discover of the North Pole. Therefore, Mr. Yost argued well and passionately in an attempt to convince the three non-believers that Commodore Perry was the true discover of the North Pole. At the end of Mr. Yost’s 40-minute speech, another vote was held. This time, with the sole exception of Mr. Yost, the vote was in favor of Doc Cook. On another occasion, Mr. Yost was scheduled to give a speech to the National Coaches Association. He believed in being prepared, so he worked hard writing and memorizing his speech, and he even practiced his speech a few times in front of Mr. McGugin, who was also attending the meeting. However, just before Mr. Yost spoke at the meeting, Mr. McGugin stood up and gave Mr. Yost’s speech, leaving him to improvise a new speech as best he could.
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Chapter 10: Heretics in Flaming Tombs (Inferno)
As Dante and Virgil walked among the flaming tombs, Dante asked, “Can the people in these tombs be seen? After all, the lids are off the tombs. And the guards are not here, but on the tower and the walls of the City of Dis.”
Virgil replied, “Right now, the tombs are open, but on Judgment Day these sinful souls will be reunited with their sinful bodies, and then the tombs will be closed forever. Here you see the part of the cemetery where Epicurus and his followers lie. They committed heresy by not believing in life after death.”
This is another example of contrapasso, Virgil thought. These heretical sinners did not believe in life after death. They believed instead that when they died they would be in a tomb forever, and that is exactly what will happen to them.
“You ask: Can you speak to these souls?” Virgil continued. “That question will be answered for you very quickly. So will the question that you want to ask me but you have not asked yet.”
“I have not yet asked it because I am afraid of talking too much,” Dante said.
Just then, a figure stood up in the tomb, which was sunken into the ground. The top of his body was visible. The sinner said, “Oh, Tuscan, because of your accent I know that you are from Florence, my own city — a city on which I was perhaps too harsh while I was alive. Talk to me.”
Dante, startled, drew closer to Virgil, who said, “Turn around and look at Farinata degli Uberti, who while he was alive was a big man in your part of the world.”
Dante turned around and looked at Farinata, who stood like a statue. His face showed his disdain for the Hell he was in.
Virgil gently pushed Dante toward Farinata, the better for Dante to speak to the sinner, but Virgil also advised Dante, “Be careful which words you speak.”
Yes, Farinata, Virgil thought. You are standing like the statue that you wish the Florentines would raise to you. You are proud, and you wish to be impressive as you stand here. But half of your body is in the tomb and half of your body is sticking out of the tomb. Although you would like to tower over Dante, Dante stands higher than you do. Although you would like to look like a dignified statue on a pedestal, you look somewhat silly.
When Dante was standing alongside the tomb in which Farinata stood, the sinner said to him with contempt, “And just who are your ancestors?”
Dante told him. Because Dante was very familiar with Farinata’s biography, which was important in the history of Florence, he knew that Farinata’s family was very high born and much classier than Dante’s own family.
Farinata listened as Dante explained who his family was, and then Farinata said, “Your family was a bitter enemy of mine and to my family and my political party. I fought against them and scattered them not just once but twice.”
This is at least partly true, Dante thought. Farinata and his family were Ghibellines, while my family consists of Guelfs. The Ghibellines exiled the Guelfs from Florence twice: in 1248 and in 1260. However, my party, the Guelfs, came back from exile twice and as we speak they are in fact still in control of Florence.
A little angry, Dante said to Farinata, “You expelled them from Florence not just once but twice, but they returned to Florence not just once but twice. Returning from exile is an art that your family has not mastered.”
Just then, another shade popped his head above the tomb that Farinata was standing in. This sinner looked around as if he expected to see someone. That someone was not present, and the sinner began to cry. The sinner then said to Dante, “If your great genius as a poet makes it possible for you to visit the Inferno although you are still alive, then why isn’t my son here with you?”
Dante recognized the sinner. He was Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, a Guelf. Farinata was a Ghibelline, so they were of opposing political parties. However, they were related by marriage — Cavalcante’s son had married Farinata’s daughter in a politically motivated marriage. This son was named Guido, and he was a poet whom Cavalcante considered to be at least the equal of Dante.
Dante replied, “Your son is not with me, but I am not alone. My guide is a poet whom Guido, your son, did not respect.”
Be careful here, Virgil thought. I see a lot of pride. Farinata is obviously proud, standing as he does in imitation of the statue he wishes the Florentines would erect to him. Cavalcante is obviously proud of his son — overly proud, in fact, since you, Dante, are much the better poet. But Dante, do you really think that your great poetic genius is the reason why you are here in the Inferno? That is not the reason. You are here because you messed up your life so badly that three Heavenly ladies are going out of their way to teach you the right way to live your life so that you may avoid being damned when you die. This trip through the Inferno is not a reward for your great genius — although you are in fact a great poet. Instead, this is a last-ditch effort to keep you from being damned to Hell when you die.
Cavalcante jumped up in the tomb and said, “You say that he did not respect your guide? Do you mean that my son is dead?”
Dante was surprised. The sinners were aware of the past, and he had heard them prophesy, so they knew the future. Why wouldn’t the sinners also know what was happening in the present? Because of his shock, he did not answer Cavalcante quickly, and the sinner disappeared back down in the tomb.
Farinata completely ignored Cavalcante. Instead, he started talking to Dante as if they had not been interrupted: “If they did not master the art of returning from exile, that causes me more pain than my damnation. But you yourself will learn within 50 months how hard such an art is to master. But tell me, why is your political party so hard on my family? Why won’t your political party allow my family to return to Florence?”
“Your question is easy to answer,” Dante replied. “It is because of the blood that stained the Arbia River red.”
Yes, Dante thought, we Florentines remember that battle well. The Arbia River flows by the hill named Montaperti. In 1260, five years before I was born, you and the Ghibellines, including Ghibellines you had recruited from Siena, fought the Battle of Montaperti. You Ghibellines defeated the Guelfs and stained the Arbia River red with Guelf blood. But the Guelfs later regained control of Florence. In 1280, many Ghibellines were allowed to return to Florence; however, your family — the Uberti family — was not allowed to return to Florence. Why not? Because you got so many Florentines killed.
Farinata sighed and said, “I was not the only one fighting in the battle. But after the battle, when everyone else was thinking of destroying Florence, I was the only one who opposed the city’s destruction.”
Yes, you did, Virgil thought, but why did you do that? You fought against the Guelfs because you wanted political power in Florence. If Florence were totally destroyed, you would not be able to have power there. Like the other sinners in the Inferno, you are self-serving. You don’t want to take full responsibility for the blood shed in the Battle of Montaperti, and you do want to take full credit for saving the city of Florence when actually you wanted to save Florence just so you could rule it.
“Can you answer a question for me?” Dante asked. “I have been wondering for a while and have refrained from asking my guide how it is that you and the others here know the future but do not seem to have knowledge of the present.”
“We in Hell have faulty vision,” Farinata replied. “We do see the future, but we do not know what is happening in the Land of the Living at the present time. Only when a new sinner arrives here do we get news of present events in the Land of the Living. When Judgment Day comes and the tombs are closed forever, we will have no knowledge at all.”
This is true, Virgil thought. After Judgment Day, no future events will occur. Every soul will be in its proper place, enjoying bliss eternally or suffering torment eternally.
Dante then requested, “Will you tell Cavalcanti that his son is still alive? I did not answer him earlier because I was surprised that sinners here could have knowledge of the future and yet not have knowledge of the present.”
Dante, you are still naïve, Virgil thought. Do you think that Farinata will ever acknowledge the existence of Cavalcante, even though Cavalcante’s son married his daughter? They will be tombmates forever, and they will not acknowledge each other’s existence forever. Farinata is not going to deliver your message.
Also, note that Cavalcante misunderstood you. He thought that you were saying that his son is dead, but you were not saying that. Heretics misunderstand God and religion.
Also, note that the sinners in the Inferno have faulty vision. They certainly had faulty vision when it came to the Supreme Emperor.
Finally, note the interruptions that we have seen here. Farinata interrupted you and me as we were talking, and Cavalcante interrupted you and Farinata as you two were talking. Obviously, we have people not communicating well here. People who oppose each other do not communicate well with each other — and sometimes they do not communicate at all.
Virgil then called to Dante to come — they must continue their journey. Still, Dante asked one more question of Farinata: “With whom do you share your tomb?”
Farinata replied, “More than a thousand souls are here, including Emperor Frederick II and Cardinal Ottaviano degli Ubaldini. The others I shall not mention.”
You are still proud, even in Hell, Virgil thought. You mention the names of two VIPs, but not the names of your other tombmates. Pride is a deadly sin, and look where it got you.
Dante looked troubled as he remembered what Farinata had said about him — “you yourself will learn within 50 months how hard such an art is to master” — and Virgil said to him, “You have heard a prophecy of your future life. Remember it. Later, you will meet one who will clearly explain your future to you.”
The two continued their journey.
Dante, I don’t think that you learned what you should have learned here, Virgil thought. Whenever you speak to a sinner, you have something that you should learn. Here you talked to two sinners who are guilty of heresy. You are not a heretic, and so you did not speak specifically about heresy here, but about something that is related to heresy: factionalism — specifically factionalism in politics and in poetry. Factionalism, or parties battling each other, can be seen in politics, in religion, and even in art, including poetry. Obviously, factionalism exists in politics, as we see with the Ghibellines and the Guelfs, and with the White Guelfs and the Black Guelfs. Extreme factionalism can be very bad, indeed. When a new faction comes into power in Florence, it bans the opposing faction, exiling them from Florence. Although factionalism can be seen in politics, as in the struggle between the Ghibellines and the Guelfs, or between the White Guelfs and the Black Guelfs, we also see factionalism in other areas. For example, we can see factionalism in religion, as when we see the heretics being combated by those who have the true beliefs concerning religion and God. Factionalism can also exist in poetry. A new kind of poetry can replace the old style of poetry. A modern poet can disrespect an ancient poet.
Dante, what you should have learned here is to avoid extreme factionalism. I hope that you will learn that lesson as we continue our journey. I don’t think you have learned that lesson yet. Instead, you and Farinata were battling each other verbally. Farinata pointed out that he had exiled your political party twice, then you pointed out that your political party had returned from exile twice but that his family had not returned from exile, and then Farinata prophesied that you would be sent into exile. Instead of your learning to avoid extreme factionalism, you and Farinata were engaging in it. Instead of talking together as citizens of the same city, you and Farinata were battling each other verbally. Farinata engaged in extreme factionalism during his life, and he ended up in the Inferno. Dante, unless you learn to avoid extreme factionalism, you may end up in the Inferno.
MUSWELL VILLEBILLIES
David Vaubel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@davidvaubel
“Australia” by The Muswell Villebillies (Kinks tribute) at Natalie’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhOlRNHBV8
“Waterloo Sunset” by The Muswell Villebillies (Kinks tribute) at Natalie’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsM5OYZ5bWk
THE CAFÉ RANDYS
The Cafe Randys – “Eh, La Bas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzMWiXiqlmY
CAFÉ RANDIES CONCERT
THE RANDYS
The Randys – Alabam (Live at Dick’s Den)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqqxC2qoSQ
The Randys – Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy (Live at Dick’s Den)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGBfhYXkDoY
The Randys – Winterlude (Live at Dick’s Den)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqqxC2qoSQ
THE RANDYS BANDMEMBERS
David Vaubel – Guitar/Vocals
Canaan Faulkner -Bass/Vocals
Brian Jones – Drums/Vocals
Jon Beard – Keys/Accordion/Ukulele/Vocals
Derek DiCenzo – Guitar/Vocals
BRUCE DALZELL
BRUCE DALZELL AMAZON
Austin Sessions
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CT5YY18/
Kiss of the Muse
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0B8WCSLV1
Live From Home
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3S7VLVJ/
My Athens Past
https://www.amazon.com/My-Athens-Past-Bruce-Dalzell/dp/B004IXI62O/
The Song of Flying
https://www.amazon.com/Song-Flying-Bruce-Dalzell/dp/B073FGSCDF/
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Singer-Songwriter Circle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGJ0maiJtw
Dalzell on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/search/bruce%20dalzell
Dalzell on Spotify #2
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sYDpj0RF3MAmHluwz8I0w
Bruce Dalzell TOPIC
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQDeJcuvWusrxDdtmjlGMKw
Bruce Dalzell: What Have You Done to Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrMjOfxSyr4
Bruce Dalzell: You Always Make Me Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq0JGVj9qgA
Bruce Dalzell: My Baby Scares Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UCtkhAfrdE
Bruce Dalzell | Patriarch of Athens Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5AbuuAg50
The Artist’s Ego (Brucie’s Three Steps to Creative Happiness)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGlIpZ63MWg
Bruce Dalzell at the Front Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NONY5fAyNg
Bruce Dalzell: “The Last Time I Saw You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCYKfrnvGE
Bruce Dalzell: “Local Boys”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CtO1KIfxw
Bruce Dalzell: Open Mic — Homecoming 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICQtoUPyl8c
Bruce Dalzell: A Little Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXPzXrczCqg
Bruce Dalzell: Dream a Little Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgcHCmOVdk
Bruce Dalzell: Gifts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmYGDuVtOU
Bruce Dalzell: Grampa (Life Doesn’t Rhyme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMU4N4tN4sY
Bruce Dalzell: I Cannot Look Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ageZxNizOoI
Bruce Dalzell: It’s Not New Year’s Yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muffnh7QH0o
Bruce Dalzell: Madeleine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DDLq8BLmI
Bruce Dalzell: Mimi’s Mandolin (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1yf16MSsI
Bruce Dalzell: The Restless Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST9-VImPE4c
Bruce Dalzell: The Run (She’s Leaving Now)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrIM9gM0Gi4
Bruce Dalzell: Bruce Dalzell: Simple As I Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQE-EoLQhZk
Bruce Dalzell: The Space You Left Behind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9i6fF3VreE
Bruce Dalzell: Taking the Long Way Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBxHrEdQqL8
Bruce Dalzell: Trimble Two-Step (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOI-rfKFrg
Bruce Dalzell: Waltz for Kelee (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8yxDc2QMNc
Bruce Dalzell: You Always Make Me Smile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq0JGVj9qgA
Bruce Dalzell: When You Wish Upon a Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6bqEQs59MM
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Bruce Dalzell: The Last Time I Saw You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQCYKfrnvGE
Bruce Dalzell: ASTRONOMIC PRINCIPLE or WHEN YOU COME HOME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-MN1LSbC0
Bruce Dalzell: APPROACH TO SONGWRITING
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTZSwSdkV8M
BRUCE DALZELL THINKS OF SONGS AS PRAYERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tah9kaOFREM
OPEN MIC NIGHT’S BRUCE DALZELL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfV60wxLbE
TUESDAY NIGHT SONGWRITER CIRCLE.
When Ohio University is open for classes, meets Tuesdays 7pm in the 1804 Room of Baker Center at Ohio University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGJ0maiJtw
Ohio University Singer-Songwriter Circle On Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/292522938273094225/
LIVE FROM HOME: ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS
(All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love.)
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
Bruce Dalzell’s album LIVE FROM HOME is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3S7VLVJ/
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Eric Gnezda: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Annalee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfIV13letIk
Kim Richey: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Visit”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BPWKgada4
Liz Woolley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Madeleine”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOrrMtOEPJY
Megan Bee: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Cannot Look Away”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frS-AXopsnQ
Megan Wren: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The COVID Waltz”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2-2wAFDWg
Nathan Zangmeister: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Taking the Long Way Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2CHeFb_Kw
Nick Vandenberg: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Astronomic Principle, or When You Come Home”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJBLap2HcCw
Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of “My Neighborhood,” previously recorded by Peter Mealy and Laurie Rose Griffith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzcuXJdIeoA
Rachel Figley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Trick of the Light”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXqHfxpRYY
Rachel Mousie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Late November”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHh1S9-waY
Scott Minar: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Sorrows of Late Day”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY8XRA9PUmg
Steve Zarate: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Early September”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqVY6t5zZmM
Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGPI43gjqQ
Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRD1DKnRk3Q
William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcmUVpjVhk
Bruce Dalzell: “Grain of Salt”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ozZ5fBtD0
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Tony Xenos – Four Miles Around (feat. Bruce Dalzell & Billy Rhinehart)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N8rwjpM9ZY
DONNA MOGAVERO
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END OF THE DRIVE
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OUT OF THE NEST
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Donna Mogavero: “End of the Drive”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537-C7NZiFM
Donna Mogavero: “A Little Something”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmKqjSJd05w
Donna Mogavero Band: “Like A Hurricane” — Neil Young Tribute at Rambling House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbc-Q9GT4TA
Donna Mogavero Band: “Harvest Moon” — Neil Young Tribute at Rambling House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8u7twawop0
Donna Mogavero and Her Mighty Band with Chris Rockwell: “Come Together”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67mWLAZV5fQ
Donna Mogavero and Her Mighty Band: “Losing My Religion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWLya-tgvA
Donna Mogavero Live — “Apart Together”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B49TfyYdrcg
Donna Mogavero and Her Mighty Band: “Let It Rain”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOB7PlMB-cY
Donna Mogavero: “The Streets Where I Live”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxlp7mhY7Lw
Donna Mogavero and Her Mighty Band: “Haven”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYF5sNG2apM
Donna Mogavero Band: “Charlemagne”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROjR0yIqBw
Donna Mogavero ComFest 2000 GaZebo Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc2_LaGSHGs
ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS BANDCAMP EMBEDDED ALBUMS
All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love. And as is well known, Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee are very large suburbs of Athens, Ohio.
ADAM REMNANT: Sourwood
ALBERT ROUZIE: Late for the War
ANGELA PERLEY: 4:10
ANGIE HEIMANN: Edge of East
THE APPALUCIANS (with Angie Heimann): Bright Hills
ATTILA HORVATH: Bike Rock
BEN DAVIS, JR.: The Day Before Payday
THE BLUSHIN’ ROULETTES (with Angie Heimann): Live at Farmstead
BURGER BIG: “Long Song of the Law”
CAITLIN KRAUS: What Rises
CARRIE ELKIN: “We Became Cups”
CORBIN MARSH: Hammer & Spark
CORBIN MARSH: Wheel Spinning ’Round
CORBIN MARSH: The Corbin Marsh Band EP
DALLAS CRAFT: Demos Vol. 2
DANNY SCHMIDT: The 2020 Singles (EP)
DAVE “HEDGEHOG” MASON: Streetside Balladeer
FATHERS OF THE REVOLUTION: Underground People
JESSE REMNANT: Another Freak of the Flood
FATHERS OF THE REVOLUTION
FATHERS OF THE REVOLUTION: LIVE FROM STUDIO A
JORDAN TICE: Yesteryears
KIM RICHEY: A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer
LARRY ELEFANTE: King Cake
LIZ WOOLLEY: Do Love
THE LIZ WOOLLEY BAND: Something I Can Feel
LOST ORCHARDS (RON FREEMAN): Crushing Heart EP
MEGAN BEE: Cottonwood
MICHAEL RINALDI-EICHENBERG: clocksyellow#9
MIKE RATLIFF: “Easier Said Than Done”
NICK VANDENBERG: ONE HORSE PONY
NO STARS: “A Good Thing”
PETE ANDERSON: LIVE AT OHIO UNIVERSITY
RACHEL MOUSIE: Talk to Your Babies
RUSTY SMITH: Rusty Smith and Friends
SAMUEL BARTLETT, with MARK HELLENBERG (DRUMMER): dance-a-rama
SHRIEK IF YOU KNOW WHAT I DID LAST FRIDAY THE 13th:
Shrieker Stomp”
SNEAKTHIEF: Postcards
SOUTHEAST ENGINE (with ADAM REMNANT)
STEVE ZARATE: Patchwork of Light
SUPERNOBODY (WITH MATT BOX): Ancient Cosmic Tones
TODD BURGE: Imitation Life (Produced by Tim O’Brian)
VINCENT TROCCHIA: “Hearing Things” (DEMO)
WILLIAM MATHENY: That Grand, Old Feeling
WOLFMEN: In a Quiet Place
WOODY PINES: Woody Pines
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Sejanus’ Fall: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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ANECDOTE COLLECTIONS
250 Anecdotes About Opera
250 Anecdotes About Religion
250 Anecdotes About Religion: Volume 2
250 Music Anecdotes
Be a Work of Art: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
The Coolest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in the Arts: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
The Coolest People in Comedy: 250 Anecdotes
Create, Then Take a Break: 250 Anecdotes
Don’t Fear the Reaper: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Art: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Books, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Comedy: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Dance: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 4: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 5: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Families, Volume 6: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Movies: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Music, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Neighborhoods: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Relationships: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Sports, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Television and Radio: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People in Theater: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People Who Live Life: 250 Anecdotes
The Funniest People Who Live Life, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
Maximum Cool: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Movies: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Religion: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People in Sports: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People Who Live Life: 250 Anecdotes
The Most Interesting People Who Live Life, Volume 2: 250 Anecdotes
Reality is Fabulous: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
Resist Psychic Death: 250 Anecdotes
Seize the Day: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
Kindest People Series
The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 1
The Kindest People Who Do Good Deeds: Volume 2
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Philosophy for the Masses: Ethics
Philosophy for the Masses: Metaphysics and More
Philosophy for the Masses: Religion
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GEORGE ORWELL: 1984
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
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