Saturday Tunes - Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

 Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJsMVSFzRSc&list=RDVJsMVSFzRSc&start_radio=1

 Significant Events In Music This Week - 2.28 - 3.6

February 28th In Music

1970 - Led Zeppelin perform in Denmark as "The Nobs" after Eva von Zeppelin, a relative of the late airship designer Ferdinand von Zeppelin, threatens to sue.

1970 - The title track of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water album hits No. 1 on the Hot 100 where it remains for six weeks, longer than any other song in 1970.

Birthdays:

1942 - Brian Jones. English musician and composer, best known as the founder and original leader of The Rolling Stones. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Jones died on 7.3.1969.

1943 - Donnie Iris. American rock musician and guitarist. He was a member of Wild Cherry who had the 1976 US No. 1 & UK No. 7 single 'Play That Funky Music'.

1948 - Geoff Nicholls. British musician and keyboardist, longtime member of Black Sabbath. Nicholls played keyboards with former Sabbath singer Tony Martin, in his band Tony Martin's Headless Cross. Nicholls on 1.28.2017 aged 68.

1957 - Cindy Wilson. Singer and founding member with American new wave rock band The B-52's who had the US No. 3 single 'Love Shack'. She sang with the Ramones in the early 1980s. Born in Athens, Georgia.

February 29th In Music

1988 - Robert Plant released his fourth solo album, Now And Zen. The album peaked at No. 10 on the UK chart. The tracks Heaven Knows and Tall Cool One featured guitarist Jimmy Page.

March 1st In Music

1941 - The world's first commercial FM radio station, Nashville's W47NV, begins broadcasting.

1973 - Pink Floyd released their eighth studio album The Dark Side Of The Moon in the US. It remained in the US charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in history. After an inauspicious No. 95 start on the US charts, it moved to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006. With an estimated 45 million copies sold, it is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

1975 - The Eagles went to No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Best Of My Love', the first of five US No. 1's for the band. The song was included on their 1974 album On the Border and was released as the third single from the album.

1979 - The Coca-Cola Company introduces Mello Yello as a competitor to Pepsi's Mountain Dew in the urine-colored soda category. Donovan tries to sell them on using his song "Mellow Yellow" in their advertising, but the company declines.

Birthdays:

1942 - Jerry Fisher. American music group Blood Sweat & Tears. They scored the 1969 US No. 2 single 'Spinning Wheel', and the 1969 US No. 12 single 'You've Made Me So Very Happy'. They had a US No. 1 with their second album Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.

1944 - Roger Daltrey. English singer and actor, The Who. They scored the 1965 UK No. 2 single My Generation plus over 20 other UK hit singles, 16 US Top 40 singles, and the rock opera albums Tommy and Quadrophenia. Daltrey had the 1973 solo UK No. 5 single 'Giving It All Away'. The Who are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide. Daltrey and Pete Townshend received Kennedy Center Honors in 2008 and The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA in 2016. Born in London, England.

1944 - Mike D'Abo. From the band Manfred Mann is born in Surrey, England.

March 2nd In Music

1963 - The Four Seasons became the first group to have 3 consecutive No. 1's in the US when 'Walk Like A Man', started a three week run at the top.

1974 - Terry Jacks started a three week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'Seasons In The Sun'. The song (written in French by Belgian, Jacques Brel), had English lyrics by poet Rod McKuen.

1991 - 21 years after its first release 'All Right Now', by Free made No. 2 in the singles chart after being re-issued to coincide with its use in a Wrigley’s Chewing gum TV ad.

Birthdays:

1956 - Mark Evans. Bassist for AC/DC. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he meets his future bandmates at the city's Station Hotel in 1975.

1962 - Jon Bon Jovi. American singer-songwriter, who had the 1987 US No. 1 single 'Livin' On A Prayer'. Their 1986 US No. 1 album Slippery When Wet spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

March 3rd In Music

1965 - Eric Clapton plays his last show with The Yardbirds, leaving to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. He is replaced by Jeff Beck.

1969 - Led Zeppelin recorded their first BBC Radio 1 'Top Gear' session during the afternoon at the Playhouse Theatre in London, England. Songs recorded were 'Dazed And Confused', 'Communication Breakdown', 'You Shook Me' and 'I Can't Quit You Baby'. Free, The Moody Blues and Deep Purple were also in session on the show.

1973 - Slade's 'Com On Feel The Noize', entered the UK at No. 1, making Slade the first act to achieve this since The Beatles.

1984 - Nena started a three week run at No. 1 on the UK singles chart with '99 Red Balloons.' Originally sung in German, '99 Luftballons' was re-recorded in English as '99 Red Balloons'. The song was a No. 2 hit in the US and the only hit for Nena making her a One Hit Wonder.

2008 - Chumbawamba break the record for longest album title with their 160-word release The Boy Bands Have Won... (Using efficient typography, the British merrymakers get the full title on the cover:
The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.

Birthdays:

1944 - Jance Garfat. Bassist, with American rock band Dr Hook who had the 1970s hits 'The Cover of Rolling Stone', 'A Little Bit More', 'When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman' and 'Sylvia's Mother'.

1948 - Terence White. Guitarist, who worked with Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd and Roger Waters. As a solo artist, he had a 1983 UK Top 10 hit single 'Bird Of Paradise'.

1966 - Antony Smith - Tone-Loc, American actor, rapper, voice actor, and producer who had the 1989 UK No. 13 single,'Funky Cold Medina' for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award. Born in Los Angeles, California.

March 4th In Music

1974 - ABBA released 'Waterloo' the first single from their second album and the first single to be credited to the group performing under the name ABBA. It later became the winning entry for Sweden in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and a No. 1 hit in several countries. It reached the US Top 10 and went on to sell nearly six million copies, making it one of the best-selling singles in history.

Birthdays:

1948 - Chris Squire. Bassist and founding member of Yes and solo, 1984 US No. 1 single 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart'. He was the only member to appear on each of their 21 studio albums, released from 1969 to 2014. Born in London, England. Squire died on 6.27.2015.

1952 - Pete Haycock. British blues rock group Climax Blues Band, who had the 1977 US No. 3 single 'Couldn't Get It Right'. Born in Stafford, Staffordshire, England.

March 5th In Music

1965 - The Yardbirds release "For Your Love" in the UK.

Birthdays:

1952 - Alan Clark. English musician who was the first and main keyboardist for the rock band Dire Straits. In 1983 he played on Bob Dylan's album Infidels and toured and recorded extensively with Eric Clapton. Clark has also played and recorded with other artists, including the Bee Gees, Billy Joel, Lou Reed, Robert Cray, Al Green, Van Morrison, Roger Daltrey, George Harrison, Elton John, Phil Collins. Born in Great Lumley, England.

March 6th In Music

1970 - Charles Manson released an album called Lie to help raise money for his defence in the Tate-LeBianca murder trial. The album jacket was made to look like a cover of Life magazine with the letter f removed from the word Life. In the mid sixties, Manson had been a wanna-be musician who befriended The Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, eventually talking the group into recording one of his songs, 'Cease To Exist'. The title was changed to 'Never Learn Not To Love' and was released as the B side of the single 'Bluebirds Over The Mountain', which eventually climbed to No. 61 in the US in early 1969.

1975 - Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album is certified Gold.

Birthdays:

1946 - David Gilmour. Guitarist, vocalist for Pink Floyd after 1968. After Roger Waters' departure in 1985, David created two further Floyd albums, A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell, with Nick Mason and Richard Wright. He was appointed a CBE in 2003 for his services to music. He released his first solo album, David Gilmour, in 1978, followed by About Face in 1984 and 2006's On An Island, which charted at No. 6 in the US. Born in Cambridge, England.

1947 - Kiki Dee. (Pauline Matthews) Singer and actress who had the 1976 US No. 1 single Don't Go Breaking My Heart' with Elton John. As a session singer she worked with Dusty Springfield and also became the first white British artist to be signed by Motown Records, releasing her first Motown single in 1970. Born in Little Horton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Bomb Iran - Trump And Vince Vance & The Valiants

 This was last year. Bomb Iran.

How many people thought this tune would be relevant again.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114740882500667664

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hEtI9AI0U&list=RDs8hEtI9AI0U&start_radio=1

President Trump Announces Military Actions Against Iran

 

 https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2027654336138924410

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 2.28.2026

 

SNAP Benefits Reduced AND SNAP, Pepsico Reduces Prices

Following SNAP Restrictions on Junk Food, Pepsico Cuts Prices Due to Softening Consumer Demand

Some basic economic truths are playing out in the junk food market – the market where Pepsico engages in commerce. Much of its revenue has been in the form of redistributed taxpayer money, which passes through government to the recipients of what was once called “food stamps.” The recipients of SNAP benefits (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) have historically spent considerable amounts of their federal food assistance on Doritos, Mountain Dew, and other low-nutrition foods sold by Pepsico.
But thanks to President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., that is changing, as documented in a piece of mine from early January (“Thanks to MAHA, Several States Just Implemented Bans on Using SNAP Benefits for Junk Food”) in which I wrote “the USDA granted individual states the authority to implement waivers to federal regulations, thus allowing state-level determination of food products which may be considered ineligible for federal SNAP benefits.”
It didn’t take long for Pepsico to feel the pinch. By early February, the company was finding itself needing to cut prices in response to slowing sales. 

But a few months earlier when SNAP recipients were still spending government money, Pepsico was able to steadily increase prices. Now that those same consumers are forced to buy Fritos and Cheetos using their own money, they have suddenly become price conscious.
In the media reports about Pepsico dropping prices, there is no discussion about the lost SNAP business. There is, however, an acknowledgement that the company had been very aggressive in raising prices at a rate well in excess of inflation. Suddenly, Pepsico finds itself having to cut prices by a rather significant 15%.

“PepsiCo cuts prices of Cheetos, Doritos and other snacks” [CBS News – 02/03/2026]
PepsiCo is lowering the prices of its Cheetos, Doritos, Lays and other snack brands by up to 15%, saying it wants to bring "relief" to consumers facing an affordability crunch.
CBS News - The food and beverage company said the price cuts — announced just before this weekend's Super Bowl game — are an effort to respond to the financial strain facing many consumers, who conveyed that "rising everyday costs are making their daily decisions harder."

The move comes amid a pullback in demand from consumers after PepsiCo instituted a series of price hikes. In the fourth quarter, PepsiCo increased beverage prices by 7% in North America, while its snack prices were up 1%. 


So Pepsico raised prices in the fourth quarter (October, November, December) and then in January came “a pullback in demand from consumers.” Coincidentally, this pullback in demand occurred exactly when the SNAP restrictions commenced.
Peter Schiff had an excellent post on Twitter/X last week expanding on this subject:

PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps. Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks.
Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%. The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story.
 
• Frito-SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA: 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. 
                                                                   • Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips.

The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight.
Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer.
Federal spending is nearly a quarter of the entire economy. All of it inflating prices. All of it eroding your purchasing power.


When corporations and their executives made a hard-left political turn in the early 21st century it puzzled me, because the Democrats they allied with were not the party of free enterprise. But I’ve since come to realize that much of corporate America now rejects free enterprise too, and instead wants government to act on its behalf in redistributing money from taxpayers to corporations.
Be it SNAP benefits for junk food or EV credits for auto manufacturers, the Trump administration is putting an end to the corporatist business model and its parasitic attachment to taxpayer wallets.
With “affordability” such a visible political issue, and with the Pepsico case-study showing how consumer prices can be reduced, Republicans need to aggressively focus on cutting the government subsidies that result in higher consumer prices.

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/418681.php#418681

Everything Is Being Readied For War With Iran … The Time Is Near

(I was gonna post this last night ... Perera was right.)

Yesterday, the talks with Iran fell apart. Iran’s terrorist regime would not give an inch.  They thought they were dealing with Obama or John Kerry. They learned they were not.

The Ayatollah confirmed the regime’s position from the pulpit.
Iran just closed the last door. From a pulpit. In front of God.
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami stood before Friday prayers in Tehran today and declared: the Islamic Republic has never accepted suspension of enrichment and will not accept it. Not temporarily. Not partially. Not under any conditions.
Friday prayers in Iran are not sermons. They are state policy delivered through divine authority. When a senior cleric declares enrichment non-negotiable from the minbar, he is transmitting the Supreme Leader’s final position through the only channel that outranks a diplomatic cable.
Washington’s demands in Geneva: destroy Fordow, destroy Natanz, destroy Isfahan, hand over all enriched uranium, zero enrichment permanently. Iran’s own counterproposal offered a 3-to-5 year suspension with continued enrichment rights. Today Khatami did not just reject America’s position. He rejected Iran’s own compromise. The regime publicly narrowed its own negotiating room to zero.
400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent sits in Iranian facilities right now. Enough for roughly 10 weapons if further enriched. The centrifuges at Fordow under 80 meters of granite keep spinning.
Washington says dismantle. Tehran just made “never” into a religious covenant that no negotiator can walk back without challenging God’s representatives on earth.
Now hold what happened on this single Friday, February 27.
China told its citizens to leave Iran. The country selling Iran missiles evacuated its own people. Ambassador Huckabee emailed Jerusalem staff: leave Israel today. Canada issued its strongest warning. India, Germany followed. And then Khatami stood before Friday prayers and slammed the door on the only demand Washington calls non-negotiable.
Six governments evacuated. One ayatollah spoke. The distance between America’s only acceptable outcome and Iran’s only acceptable position became infinite.
Tomorrow Oman’s Foreign Minister meets Vance in Washington carrying Tehran’s message. After today, we know what that message cannot contain. It cannot contain zero enrichment. It cannot contain permanent suspension. It cannot contain the one thing America says it must.
Diplomacy requires two open doors. Today Iran locked its from the inside and handed the key to God.
What remains is 500 aircraft, two carriers, 11 F-22s, a kamikaze drone unit, six nations evacuating, and one country that just told its people and its God it will never surrender.

https://open.substack.com/pub/shanakaanslemperera/p/the-arithmetic-of-collapse-irans?r=6p7b5o&utm_medium=ios

Everything you are about to read happened in the last 24 hours.
The USS Gerald R. Ford arrived off Israel. The USS Abraham Lincoln is conducting underway replenishment 850 kilometers from Iran, loading munitions and fuel for sustained combat operations. MizarVision satellite imagery shows four F-22 Raptors positioned on the active runway at Ovda Airbase in Israel. Not parked. Not sheltered. On the runway. That is hot-launch posture.
The US State Department ordered evacuation of non-essential employees and families from the embassy in Baghdad. Separately, the US Embassy in Jerusalem approved evacuation of non-essential staff from Israel. Two American embassies, two countries, same order, same day.
Israel began opening public bomb shelters in Beersheba, Tel Aviv, and Raanana. Hundreds of IDF reserve soldiers were called up for the air defense command. Yediot Ahronot reported the callups today. You do not activate air defense reserves unless you expect inbound missiles.
Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, America’s largest air operations center in the Middle East, is completely empty of refueling aircraft. Tankers do not vanish from their home base. They disperse to secondary locations before operations begin so a single Iranian missile strike cannot destroy the refueling fleet on the ground. Empty tarmac at Al-Udeid is not absence. It is distribution.
37 fighter jets landed at RAF Lakenheath in the last 24 hours. 12 F-35As. 12 F-15E Strike Eagles. 13 F-22 Raptors. They are expected to depart for the Middle East soon. The staging base is reloading heavier than the first wave that sent Raptors to Israel four days ago.
Two carriers in position. F-22s on hot runway. Tankers dispersed. Embassies evacuating from both sides of the theater. Bomb shelters opening in three Israeli cities. Air defense reserves activated. Strike aircraft staging in England. Supply ships topping off a carrier strike group within missile range of Iran.
This is not buildup. Buildup is what happened last week. This is final positioning. Every asset is where it needs to be for the first 72 hours of a campaign. The only thing missing is the order.
Tomorrow Oman’s Foreign Minister meets Vance carrying Tehran’s answer. After Friday’s sermon declaring enrichment sacred and six governments evacuating their people, we know what that answer contains. And we know what follows when Washington receives it.
The clock no longer reads days. It reads hours.

Mike Huckabee, the man Donald Trump personally appointed to represent America in Israel, sent an email to every embassy employee in Jerusalem telling them that anyone wishing to depart should book “any available flight” and leave Israeli soil before the day ends.

https://joehoft.com/breaking-all-signs-indicate-war-is-coming-iran/

I have posted the first post in a thread that can be found in the original article by Shanaka Anslem Perera. In the comments, there are people who disagree totally and agree totally. You decide for yourself but I read the entire thread back for several days. I think the man has some very good insight, knowledge, or connections.

Friday Rides - The Good - The Bad - And The Ugly

 1959 Chevrolet 3100 Apache Fleetside Deluxe NAPCO Pickup Truck

 
Chassis no. 3A59J105986

Rare NAPCO 4-Wheel-Drive Model 23 transfer case
235.5ci Thriftmaster inline six-cylinder
Four-speed manual transmission
Top of the line model, fully optioned
Prize-winning, stunning restoration
Featured in 2013 Hemmings Calendar

While well-equipped 4-wheel-drive trucks from major manufacturers are not only commonplace but have been among the best selling vehicles in the US for decades. This hasn't always been the case, there was a time when if GM wanted to sell a go-anywhere utility, they had to turn to an outside supplier to make it a reality. In 1942, NAPCO, the Northwestern Auto Parts Company of Minneapolis, MN, began selling their "Powr-Pak" 4x4 Conversion to owners of GMC and Chevrolet pickups as well as other brands. With their rugged drive technology proven in WWII, by 1956 GM began to offer the NAPCO drive as a regular production option (RPO). However, 1959 was to be the final year of this arrangement, as a redesign of the suspension for 1960 meant that GM would market its own system and the NAPCO equipment was no longer compatible.

There are a few more pictures at the link below. I couldn't get the website to let me enlarge them. Could be due to my very old computer. IDK.

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/20582/lot/363/1959-chevrolet-3100-apache-fleetside-deluxe-napco-pickup-truck-chassis-no-3a59j105986/

Random Political Memes/Cartoons Dump - 2.27.2027

Random Political Social Media Posts - 2.27.2026

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2027042236894994500

 

Imagine that ... the WEF.

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/2027042236894994500

 

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2026802738097459213 

It's gonna take a LOOONG time for the Canadian media and blue-haired septum people to get over US taking the GOLD in what they claim is their game.

https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/2026710649993052231

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2026778801745563759

 

 

"Blu Zeke" Daly

 

 

 

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2026844198549196826

 

The cover below is the one that should have been used.

Impertinent Jackasses aka Impractical Jokers

If you're a fan of the asinine show called "Impractical Jokers" I hope you get stuck in one of their stupid f*cking jerkoff episodes.

I've seen the commercials. I knew it wasn't a show that I would ever give a shit about. Last night I fell asleep on the couch and I woke up and an episode of that shit was on. Before I sat up, I heard this stupid fake laugh about every 20 seconds and I guess they think if they laugh every 20 seconds, you might get sucked in and if you're a low IQ person, maybe you'll want to watch. I was sitting there getting my stuff together, so I paid attention just because it was on.

That is some pathetic shit, my friends. Damn, I hope none of you that I think well of say you like this show. Sad, boring, sometimes gayish, waste of time and oxygen ... I was not impressed ... I didn't think one thing they did even rose to the point of a giggle ... nothing.