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August Caption Contest: It’s a tie!

One of the winners and his booty.

For the first time in Jive history, two entries tied for first place. Some 70 of you voted. A few voted more than once, but we spooned them out like a fly in the soup. Because we are such a magnanimous and moneyed powerhouse, BOTH entries will get a Ball Point Pen & a 4 Dollar Bill!

THE WINNERS: “Where is Burning Man? It was here a week ago.” (from Bob Yandow of Gardnerville, NV), and, ‘Sooooo…… Where is this “Burning Man”?’ (from Rick Spencer of Bend, OR.).

We won’t publish their real names as they are each reportedly wandering the isles of their respective WalMarts wearing red baseball hats with “WPP” emblazoned on them.

Thanks much to all the entrants and voters!

That was so much fun we all want to do another. So, stay tuned (up) for the September Caption Contest picture to be published soon (before they hit the next cone…).

 

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various reminders that will help your life be better and richer and nicer

we get mail on a regular basis from folks who want to know what such and such a song was at 3:22 on a wednesday afternoon, and the truth is……this data is not easy to retrieve.  you know what is much better?  if you have the SHAZAM APP on your phone.  it’s free, it’s simple, avail for both apple and android, and IT WORKS.  that is, it will identify song and artist for you just by holding the phone up to the speaker while the song in question is playing.  it’s uncanny.  Shazam will give you song title, artist, album, and maybe even a pic or two.  and even with our wide open playlist, it is successful about 80-85% of the time.  SHAZAM. all the Jivest JiveRadio listeners have it….and use it!


And you know that tribute button on our home page?  those are all the tribute shows we’ve cranked out in the last few years to many of the important music folks who have shed this mortal coil.  these retrospectives are there for your listening convenience and enjoyment.  Bruce has done tribs to Dr John, Tom Petty, Mose Allison, Walter Becker, Chuck Berry, ELP, Leonard Cohen, Leon Russell, Prince, Paul Kantner, Glenn Frey, and David Bowie.  (jeez, somehow, i forgot to do Col. Bruce Hampton, Gregg Allman, and Roky Erickson.  my bad!)  Jeff did tributes to Dan Hicks and Larry Hosford, Hayseed Don fired up a nice one for Guy Clark, and my kid Catie did a super cool one for Bowie.  so there ya go!
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when it all gets so heh heh HEAVY……..

oh, it was a heavy monday morning.  the news was heavy.  the emails were heavy.  the Facebook posts were heavy.  the dumbells were…….well, you get the idea.  it was all a little TOO heavy.  how to lighten things up just a bit?

you know where i’m gonna go.  it was time for some stone cold JIVE.  i’m tellin’ ya…..it always works.  a nice half hour or more of good ole JIVE RADIO will ALWAYS help your head in some unforeseen way…..and maybe in a foreseen way, too!  as dave crosby once said, Music is Love.  we good with that.  think of Jive Radio as one of those big water trucks that soaks dirt roads to keep the dust down……The Jive Radio Truck is filled with musical love, sprayin’ it all over the dang desert, so just behind it once in a while and soak up that good, nourishing spray for a part of your day.  it will do you no harm…….

(so i click on the Jive and what’s the first song i hear?  Death Sound Blues, by Country Joe and The Fish!  what can I say…..it was just a HEAVY MONDAY!)