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Jimi Hendrix explains what it's like growing up as a young up-and-coming musician.

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“I still believe that love is all you need,” Paul McCartney continues to proclaim, “I don’t know a better message than that.” And yet John Lennon took that love-uber-alles ethos to such an extreme in the 1970s that even his old rose-tinted mate was retorting, “Too many people preaching practices.” So it’s no surprise that the sardonic duo in Steely Dan rolled their eyes when they heard the ‘Smart One’s’ prayer for peace with ‘Imagine’ and a string of pious talk show appearances in the early 1970s. Steely Dan’s bold response to Lennon’s all-white evangelism signified that the prominent days...

..Welcome to the weekend gotta get "love" into the music. The governments spend more money, borrow more money from China, the countries become more like China. Which country gave us the first concentration camps any with some bad consequences for the country that was hurt by the concentration camps their own racist era followed by a left-wing one party dominated which is what South Africa is today? The country that erected the first concentration camps where thousands died (and gassed its enemies in World War One wounding Corporal Hitler among others) went on a downward spiral... Newsdump Update: Joe Biden...

Ben Wattenberg died this week at the age of 81. He gave me my first job in Washington, as his research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank. (I returned to AEI as a fellow a few years ago, my office just a few doors down from where Ben used to work.) Ben was one of the last star pundits of what might be called the Old Order, before cable news and the Internet transformed the landscape. When everyone was rushing to CNN to shout at each other on "Crossfire," he launched a PBS show called "Think...

"By the way, you made me realize right now what it is about Sarah Palin. She seems to have no first language," former American talk show host Dick Cavett said on Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's Hardball. This elicited a laugh from host Chris Matthews. VIDEO at link.

J.I. Rodale, the godfather of the locavore trend, was a paranoid anti-vaxxer, tooOn June 7, 1971, Jerome Irving Rodale appeared on "The Dick Cavett Show." The elder statesman of a growing organic food trend, he gushed about the health benefits of his diet, boasting that he “never felt better” and that he “decided to live to a hundred.” But after a commercial break, as Cavett interviewed his second guest, what sounded like a loud snore rose from Rodale’s end of the couch. The audience twittered, thinking that he was pulling a prank. But Cavett knew. When he looked over at...

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. When he died, it never occurred to me not to go to his funeral. Until my wife pointed it out afterward, it also never occurred to me that I had “crashed” it. Standing in the sunshine in a long line in front of St. John the Divine with “ordinary people” I was spotted and we were ushered down front among family and colleagues. My first mourner encounter was with the great Dominic Chianese, (Uncle Junior). We embraced. The procedure, repeated over and over, while the church filled, was to come...

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days. Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will get only Sarah Palin.

FReepers have helped me out in the past when I asked about the Frugivores (which I had begun to think only I had ever heard of). Now I'm hoping someone can satisfy my curiosity on a topic both fascinating and gross. Perhaps you remember the old half hour PBS Dick Cavett Show. This is the show where he would spend the time chatting with some intellectual cult figure (eg, Norman Mailer, Richard Gilman, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, etc.). Back in the old days of Carson and Letterman (when he was really funny) I used to stay up later than I...

There’s something about General Petraeus that brings out the most quotable in liberals. Most recently it was LA Times wine critic Matthew DeBord who must have been auditioning for a fashion column as he critiqued Petraeus’s uniform and, especially, his many tacky, tacky medals awarded for service to his country. Righteous indignation about that from Uncle Jimbo, hilarious sarcasm at Iowahawk. Take your pick. That was yesterday. Today it’s talk show host Dick Cavett, who I’m glad to learn is still alive, getting all hot and bothered about General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker in the New York Times. Petraeus commits...

If John Kerry had been elected President of the United States in November 2004, especially with the incoming majority Democrat Congress, it is highly likely that Iraq would be in the midst of a civil war, Iran’s regional influence would have increased, Israel would be in more jeopardy than it is now, two Supreme Court seats would be occupied by clones of John Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg instead of by John Roberts and Samuel Alito, judicial decisions would have given even more “rights” to enemy combatants, domestic entitlements and earmarks would have skyrocketed, the Bush tax cuts would be...

I had a thought the other day which rocked me. There are so many words being slung around these days in the presidential race. Accusations, claims of this and that, attack, defense, truth, partial truths, lies. So much hot air and blather. But then I was listening to Sean Hannity the other day, and he was talking about Kerry's testimony before congress, and his interview on the Dick Cavett show. Before congress Kerry said that soldiers: "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads . . . razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan." and then on the...

Democratic hysteria over Sen. Zell Miller's Wednesday night keynote address to the GOP convention continues to escalate, with Kerry defenders now trying to label him "a Klansman." "Zell Miller looks like a Klansman," media has-been Dick Cavett groused to radio host Don Imus on Friday. When Imus objected to the characterization, Cavett joked, "You didn't think I meant the Ku Klux Klan, did you?." He then added in the next breath, "You would cast him as that in a movie." Cavett was apparently picking up a riff first road tested on Thursday by pro-Kerry Republican David Gergen, who complained that...

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: In 1971, John Kerry appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” to debate Vietnam with John O‘Neill. Tonight: Thirty years later, the debate rages on. We‘ll talk about the origins of the political firestorm with Dick Cavett and Pat Buchanan. Plus, President Bush denounces all attack ads by outside groups and calls for a halt to the practice. The latest on the swift boat ad wars and the big question: Can the political wounds over Vietnam ever heal? And could John Kerry‘s presidential campaign be that war‘s latest casualties? Good evening. I‘m Chris Matthews. In recent weeks, the...

Thanks to everyone who helped me figure out how to download the Swiftvets ad's to a disk earlier today. Now for my NEXT project...the Dick Cavett interview. I know that the Swift Vets site has the transcript of it on their site, but is there anywhere that you can get an actual copy of the show? I think that what Kerry says about HIMSELF in that interview, and the similarity between his views then and now make him unfit to be a citizen, much less a commander in chief. He has spit on the memory of 58,000 Americans that gave...

---------- The following transcript is taken from ABC's special June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," during which former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry represented Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He was opposed by fellow Navy veteran John O'Neill, representing Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. ---------- MR. CAVETT: The fact is I don't have an opening monologue tonight because the subject of the show is quite serious, and I figured why make it more serious with one of my monologues, so I thought I would just start in. You know, I guess, who my two guests are tonight:...

I was on Mr. Kerry's boat in Vietnam. He doesn't deserve to be commander in chief.

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2004 VOTE John Kerry in 1971 TV Debate; From the June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," John Kerry debates John O'Neill on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. SUN.Aug. 15,2004, C-SPAN, 6PM ET & 9PM ET