Rest in peace, Led Rhode. Great O lineman from back in the day. He was part of an outstanding line that gelled in 1970 to become one of the best in the league, and was instrumental in the 70-72 playoff run. Rhode in particular was squared off many times against Deacon Jones of the Rams, and more often than not, Jones was the one left beaten and dismayed. The team in this era was the team I grew up watching. My first game was in 1968 at Kezar, and these guys were etched in my mind as my favorites. Sure there was Brodie, Gene Washington, Ken Willard, and Bob Windsor, but Len Rhode at left tackle, Brodie’s blind side protector, center Forrest Blue, guards Woody Peoples and Randy Biesler, and RT Caz Banazek anchored the team through their agonizingly close to Super Bowl-glory days.
Dude went out at 79, and played in 208 consecutive games, so he apparently weathered his career unscathed.
“As an offensive tackle, there aren’t too many individual stats you can hang your hat on, but I guess playing in 208 games, winning the Len Eshmont, the NFC West, going to the Pro Bowl and the sack record aren’t bad.”
Not bad, indeed. A sky-point, and a drink raised in your honor . . .
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Warriors…..to step or not to step. Man Pop really went off on a nothing play. I hope SA loses each and every game. They cry like girls. A little strong play and their guy gets hurt again. He shouldn’t be playing on a bad ankle. They found out the hard way. Boo HOO! I just hate guys bringing up the past and attacking an individual player for playing hard. I hope Pop and the creeps he represents are proud of themselves. It’s so very pathetic.
Pop’s just trying to fire his team up. Bruce Bowen was coached by Pop to do just what he’s accusing Zsa Zsa of doing.
My only concern is SA cheap shotting Steph. Not that he isn’t already, but that it increases.
Football was so much different in Rhode’s time. He played on some really good Niner teams and some pretty bad ones too. But, he was like family, you knew he was gonna be there year after year. He was on some of my favorite Niners teams and played with the best and against the best. He truly was tough as nails.
Yeah football back then was worlds different. Worst thing about it was going from the grass of Kezar to the concrete of Candlestick. That field was absolutely awful. They were way ahead of the trend (thanks, OJ) to get rid of that shit.
Here’s a pic of the lime green concrete field as they were enclosing the stadium for football.
Great album from Peter Frampton (Fingerprints)
Here’s a sample…
I’ve listened to this CD two week-ends in a row. Will listen again on Saturday!
Try Riding The Blinds….
SRV & Lonnie doin’ WHAM….
One of the BEST Blues voices in music – Great tune from Paul Rodgers and Queen.
NJ- Nice to hear new stuff, I had never heard any of these before. I did have a Lonnie Mack album when I was a teenager and played the hell out of it.
Happy to share Winder
I’ve got years and years of collected tunes on my iPod that pop up from time to time that I get reminded of too.
Music is good for the soul 😀
My daughter’s boyfriend got me into these guys.
They are playing in Monterey soon.
I searched out some of their music and they do some interesting stuff. They look like they are having some fun too.
Sad day in music with the passing of Chris Cornell. Possibly a suicide?
Coroner now confirming suicide by hanging.
Damn. That really stinks.
Aww man. Wayne Walker passed away. 80 years old. He was struggling with Parkinson’s disease for the last few years but I spent most of my life listening to him. Rest in peace.
http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Walker-Walker-longtime-sports-broadcaster-dies-11159491.php
Walker was in the right place at the right time with the Niners. Wonderful broacaster and in his day a hellova football player. If memory serves he was a linebacker on the ’57’ Detroit Lions team that came back and beat us for the championship.
Don’t think he was that early, but I could be wrong. Still and all a great announcer. He wasn’t flashy like Bill king but he was concise and knew when to keep quiet.
Yeah, your right he didn’t get drafted until 1958.
Any Ian Hunter fans out there?
Oh yeah. Bastard is one of my all time faves.
Bastard IS a keeper 😀
Yeah, I like the way he did ‘once bitten twice shy.’
Mick Ronson was great . . .
Good combo here – Mayer and Gary Clark Jr doing Born under a bad sign…
This one is fun too…
Good jam here too – JB and Warren –
Anyone care? The Circus is closing after 146 years. Times are changing. Barnum and Bailey be damned.
I wonder what will happen to all the animals. To bad for the kids they will miss out, but then again there is always u tube.
The circus? We are living it every day. Barnum & Bailey is an anachronism compared to what is going on now.
Old Rock-n-Rollers ….They improve with age 😀
fucking great
Going to see Robin Trower on Thursday in Petaluma.
Can’t wait.
Last time I saw him was a day on the green. Everyone is really getting old.
Wore holes in the vinyl copy of Trowers’ Bridge of Sighs album back in the day.
Never saw him Live, I’m sure it’ll be a good event, enjoy 😀
One of the best lines in music ever done –
“Takers get the honey, Givers sing the Blues”
Another guy I wished I could have seen before he left us –
Might have shared this one already but….it’s worth another listen 😀
What is scary/freaky/awesome is there’s a Trower Winterland show from 1975 floating around on youtube. My 14 year old self was there. Always dug James Dewar’s singing/bass.
Music keeps us young Chuck – Never too old to R-n-R 😀
I’m actually thinking about going back to vinyl just to hear some of my favorite music that was only available that way as a kid.
Sound equipment has gotten so much better over the years that I’m tempted to spring for a new turntable and a venture into the attic to see if my vinyl collection is still intact.
I envision a couple of milk crates full of my stuff turned into cubes of melted plastic though. Haven’t laid eyes on them in 35-40 years. Buried and out of sight by years of life’s junk and what not.
Might be worth the effort one of these days?
Here’s another voice that hits the sweet spot – Beth Hart smokes
This young lady is extremely talented as well – Tal Wilkenfeld –
Plays a MEAN Bass guitar too 😀
And now….Back to the old guys 😀
Put this on the same shelf with Tina Turner – Kicks A$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ –
NJ, i did the same thing during our last move. I opened the one remaining box containing my albums (2 others were lost in a basement flood [waaah!]) and found a Japanese import Hendrix record, in purple vinyl, still wrapped, from Rod’s Used Records in San Carlos. No recollection of buying it. But it must have been around 1979.
Twinfan gave me a USB turntable a few years back, and I recorded some stuff with it (early Stones and Traffic) but I haven’t opened that Hendrix album. I’m hoping to find my old ZZ Top records that the band ruined by remixing ALL the drum tracks in the 80s.
Lol, I don’t have one decent record left. They are all beat up and pretty much useless. But I sure did enjoy them for awhile. Kinda like my old baseball cards, when I was a kid I used them for BB gun practice. I especially liked the Pete Rose rookie card because there were three different heads on it. Life goes on.
Joe Montana’s dad past away, RIP Joe SR
Joe Sr. was a class guy all around if you read the stories. LaVar Ball could learn a thing or 500 about being a father to an athlete.
I’ll throw another curveball into the mix for some variety – Big James –
Any Cosmic Slop fans…?
Gotta love the stage wear if nothing else 😀
Funk was always about having fun and telling it like it is. Nice guitar in this one.
Try a little Blues from Spain while you’re at it – Vargas Blues Band kicks some A$$$$ –
Give a listen to the Texas Tango from this list –
Wild West Blues rocks too – Nary a bad option IMO 😀
Can you smell the Funk?
It would appear that there’s trouble in paradise and has been for a while:
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19446657/seattle-seahawks-cornerback-richard-sherman-let-go-problem-nfl-2017
Sherman will always be my most hated Seahawk.
I can’t stand him either but the problem is is that he is still a really good player. I am hoping they pick up kap too.
His goodness as a player is part of the reason I can’t stand him (and his mouth). If he sucked, it wouldn’t much matter. It’s just interesting to read about the crap that’s been going on in the Seahawk’s locker room.
Hey the Giants still suck……..especially in Chicago. Three straight limp efforts. Changes have to be made in that pathetic hitting lineup. Somebody has to walk the plank for this.
anybody (NJ/BERGER) have any insights on our big NT prospect DJ Jones ?
Did we hire a disc jockey?
DJ Jones is a NT we took in the 6th rd. He’s supposed to be a high motor guy which is good because most 6th rd NTs are suspect in the high motor category. He’s 320 lbs and can one gap. I’m sure at that weight the team is hoping he’ll be a good two gapper in a year or two. I’ve seen some hi-lites and he looked good. I’ll watch some game film soon and get back to you with more.
I watched some film on DJ. It was all hi-lite so it didn’t show many weaknesses. The hi-lite reel is impressive. I only got one view of him taking on a double team. It looked OK but it was not a good angle. What was impressive is he was pushing the double team back, that wasn’t the impressive part because it was a screen pass. What he did was sniff it out and run laterally to make the tackle for a minimal gain. He really gets to the action.
The guy is really quick for a 320 pound man. He plays way too high but what college player doesn’t. When he hits people they fly backwards. He also wraps up well. What I noticed the most were his quickness and good instincts for the game as it unfolded around him. He is a lot like Anthony Adams and Ian Williams but bigger and more instinctive.
If he can learn to take on double teams well we might have something special. He definitely has the size for that. I like the pick. Hard to believe we got him with a 6th rd pick.
I always said Harbaugh ran a college offense and didn’t have much of a clue for the passing game. Here is a former player agreeing with some details. Jacobs was a disgruntled player but he still identifies some reasons our passing game sucked. The cancer blog that idolizes Harby will shit their pants and deny. NJ49er used to say we are playing checkers while they are playing chess. Here are some examples. Jacobs is quoted as saying:
“Going somewhere where they don’t have route conversions into certain coverages was just absurd,” Jacobs said. “They’re just running routes in the defense, getting people killed. Size and strength is what they had, and that’s why they won. Let’s be real. They had great assistant coaches, but Jim didn’t know what he was doing. Jim had no idea. Jim is throwing slants into Cover-2 safeties, getting people hurt. That guy knew nothing, man.”
Last night Cain did his job but alas……..Giants offense was MIA.
R.I.P. Gregg 😦
Used to blast this tune on the deck to annoy a former nosy neighbor who couldn’t find a life of her own to be involved in. B!TCH…
Tried to isolate Neighbor, Neighbor – Let me try again. Apologies….
There we go…
Here’s the song that got me into the Allman Brothers. They are my all time favorite American Band. Sometimes I go with ZZ Top but when asked I usually say Allman Brothers.
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One more try
Wore that album bald Berger. That was the album to memorialize Duane Allman having been killed by the farmer driving the peach truck.
Warren Haynes kept them going as the stand in for Duane for a number if years too.
Always loved this song too, which Haynes does extremely well to this day.
Back in college in Daytona Beach I was sitting in a A1A honky-tonk with several friends, listening to an Allman Bros tribute band.
During one of sets the band stopped in the middle of a song and, the lead guitarist took the guitar off his shoulder and offered to a guy in the audience, suggesting ‘I’m not worthy, please do it justice’.
We see this cowboy hat pop up from the crowd near the front.
None other than Dickey Betts was watching the band with us.
Did a free version of In Memory of Elizabeth Reed for us.
Brought the house down 😀
Memorial Day……..does anyone give a damn? A poll somewhere came out and most Americans don’t know much about this holiday.
This one still means a lot to me. I always thought it was one of the better holidays that we have. What I don’t like is that they move it around, it should be on the 31st.
Giants brawl was more entertaining than yesterday’s game. I was watching the game on TV bored out of my mind and then it all happened quickly. Strickland and Harper put on a good show. Of course this was silly and stupid but it was entertaining while the actual game was not.
New therereas is up.