"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die." Bob Dylan

"My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering."

BOB DYLAN 

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Song of the Day - Must Have Been the Roses - Grateful Dead (1976)

Song of the Day - Nirvana - Dive (1992)

Song of the Day - Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man (1964)

Song of the Day - What is it About Men - Amy Winehouse (2004)

"Ten years the waves roll the ships home from the sea,

Thinkin' well how it may blow in all good company,

If I tell another what your own lips told to me,

Let me lay 'neath the roses, till my eyes no longer see."

GRATEFUL DEAD 

written by ROBERT HUNTER

Song of the Day - Don't Think Twice (It's Alright) Bob Dylan (1965)

Song of the Day - Love is a Laserquest - Alex Turner (2011)

Song of the Day - Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead (1977)

Happy New Year!

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Song of the Day - Jack Straw - The Grateful Dead (1977)

"You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul."

BOB DYLAN 

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"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them."- Etta James
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"I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry." - Amy Winehouse
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"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Ludwig van Beethoven

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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -Berthold Auerbach

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This Day in Music History: NOVEMBER 3RD

1990 25 years after their version was recorded, The Righteous Brothers went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Unchained Melody'. The track had been featured in the Patrick Swayze film 'Ghost.' Written by Alex North and Hy Zaret, 'Unchained Melody is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages. SOURCE

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A.J.W from Halftime

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This Day in Music History: OCTOBER 30TH

1970 Jim Morrison of The Doors was fined and sentenced to six months in jail after being found guilty of exposing himself during a gig in Miami.

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