The Beer Blog!!!

I Love, love, love LOOOOOOOVE the beer off season
if you thought I loved to drink during the year, spend an evening with me during the beer off season

I'm a different animal

so in honor of Beer Off season kicking off , here's my toast to beer

Steve give me a hell yeah

Mr. President?

Homer give me a hell yeah!!!

Let's see if Hilary will give me a hell yeah?

Hell yeah!!

Cool, Obama gave me a second hell yeah

Ok a third...

Mr. Most Interesting Man in the World?

You know what, Mr. Man you aint got to do nuttin cept stay black and die

Ok I got another hell yeah, um you might want to slow down there

Oh hey, it's big B again

Ok I'm gonna have to cut him off

how do I do that?

let's check on the Prez

aww he's sleeping

anyway long live the Beer Off!!

The Slowhand Sessions I- The Allman Brothers

Do me a favor, play this and then read


1970- Eric Clapton was yet again involved in another "super group"

now as folklore has it, there are various stories behind the name of the group,"Derek and the Dominoes"

I'm partial to this one, shortly after the Clapton is God photo (google it)

EC wanted to play small venues but became God

and seeing as God is pretty hard to hide, EC took on the alias Derek so he could continue to play smaller venues

so, "Derek" and the Dominoes set out to record an album

Clapton has free rein and chooses songs he's always wanted to cover mixed with songs he writes

Tom Dowd was the producer of that album and was also the producer for the Allman Brothers

on night off, Dowd brings Clapton and crew to come see the Allman Bros Band

this is from wikipedia- the first meeting between Duane Allman (which if you don't know him, look into him) and EC

“

Duane was in the middle of a solo; he opens his eyes and looks down, does a dead stare, and stops playing. Dickey Betts is chugging along, see Duane's stopped playing, and figures he'd better cover, that Duane must've broken a string or something. Then Dickey looks down, sees Eric, and turns his back. That was how they first saw each other.[9]

”

Formal introductions were made after the show. Eric invited the entire band to Criteria Studios for a jam. After the concert was over, they all came back to the studio and jammed until approximately 6:00 the next night, Dowd remembered. "They were trading licks. They were swapping guitars. They were talking shop and information and having a ball no holds barred, just admiration for each other's technique and facility. There was no control. We turned the tapes on and they went on for 15 to 18 hours like that. You just kept the machines rolling. I went through two or three sets of engineers. It was a wonderful experience."^[

Clapton invited Duane to join the Dominoes but Duane declined out of loyalty to his own family band

Duane however lent his skills to the tracks on the album and wrote the guitar intro to Laya

one of the other songs on the album is my 4th favorite Clapton song, "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad."

1971-Duane Allman dies in a motorcycle accident

Clapton begins to spiral down with a heroin addiction

1974-Yours truly is born and Ec kicks his habit

1979- Derek Trucks is born

although not an Allman, Trucks is related to a founded member of the Allman Brothers Band

his name came from Eric's alias

he studied the greats and grew up listening to legends

1999- Derek Trucks is made an official member of the Allman Brothers Band

2007- Clapton invites Derek to tour with him, including a stop during the Crossroads festival where they performed, "Why Does Love Got to be So Sad."

sadly it was not included in the final DVD as the audio cut out of Clapton's guitar toward the end

it's still a jewel tho

enjoy

p.s. Derek is the cat with the long blonde hair

It's Funny What Rolling a Stop Sign Makes You Think of...

I often roll stop signs

this story is what I always think of whenever I do that

so a few years ago, I was on a road trip to San Marcos

the guy I was riding with was especially paranoid on this trip because he had missed a few paments on a dui he had

a few days ago he went to jail because he drove off and forgot to put his headlights on

and was taken to jail because that missed payment showed up on his record

now he had his license revoked

but he still insisted in not only coming with me out of town but he wanted to drive in his car

so we get to San Marcos and take a pitstop at a gas station

now, I had promised to stay out of trouble but I did not promise to not drink

so at the store I bought an 18 pack of Bud

somehow I was able to buy, and put the 18 pack in the backseat behind my passenger seat without this guy seeing this

so we take off and come to a stop sign

the guy rolls the stop sign and boom, a cop shows up

we pull over and wait for the cop to come up to the window

the guy is freaking out and is telling me not to start anything

the cop comes up to the window,says u guys rolled the stop sign, where you headed, where you from? blah blah blah

he takes the license and insurance and goes back to his car

my friend is freaking out

he's just waiting for a hit on his license

since it's been revoked

the cop comes back and asks where we're going again

my friend says, "We're going to a friend's house."

the cop asks, "you guys gonna do some drinking?"

he says, "no sir, just hanging out."

cop asks, "well what's the 18 pack for?"

my friend looks at the back seat behind me

stares at the 18 pack

then stares at me

and he had to have seen something like this when he looked at me

I am honestly laughing in the passenger seat

my friend says, "I didn't know that was back there."

the cop stares at me and smiles

he tells us not to run stop signs anymore and to be careful
"Yes sir yes sir!"

my friend probably sweated away 5 pounds

and I got a pretty funny story to think about whenever I roll stop signs