Ty for sharing!

Actually, it's probably my favourite WZ song.

Working dogs are high on my list. We had a Cairn named Ozzie (in honour of the Cairn in Wizard of Oz). Not everyone's taste, but we loved the little ball of energy and play. We had to put him down last May, because of a list of health problems, and the fact that he had turned 16 in May. He had a great life.

There is nothing in life that is as painful as when a furkid departs for the Bridge.

I had Dobes for 30 years or so & "retired" to Shelties.fast forward to several yrs ago & Mother Nature sent a Pittie to my house. Not a breed I would ever choose, but he was heartworm + & shelters would've put him down. He's a very good boy, esp now that he's outgrown putting his head thru windows & doors. Lol

Not in a behaviour way, necessarily, but vastly more sweet and funny. Once he got past the Gnawing Puppy stage, he never did anything truly bad.

I'm afraid I have little affection for pitties, although I've heard all the arguments. I had a tenant that once had a pit, and after the dog literally tore the elderly neighbour lady's cat to pieces in a completely unprovoked attack, he tore up his owner's leg for 75 stitches. Sure, he could have been better trained, but how much training does a dog need to not attack his master? Not just snap or nip, but a full-on rage attack, dragging the idiot across the patio and down the stairs by his leg.

Well, as I said, this is not a breed I ever would have chosen. 😓

Sorry to hear about the kitty. and the owner's leg.

Less sympathy for the idiot that owned the dog. He was a maniac and a truly awful person. He once gave an attack command and loosed the dog on the next door neighbour. As it turned out, the neighbour was an expert at subduing dogs, being a trainer for TRULY attack-training dogs, and in a couple of seconds, offered the idiot a choice between taking his awful toy home, or having him break its neck.

And the offence that brought about the attack? The neighbour, who I got along with famously BTW, shooed the idiot's cat off his freshly-poured cement pad. For this egregious affront to entitlement, the idiot was prepared for the possibility of his dog killing a human being. I can't believe Keith didn't report him.

Sounds like magat mentality, or lack thereof.

What a horrid person. Did he command the dog to attack the elderly lady?

Guessing the dog was euthanized but maybe it should've been the owner?

Yes, Keith should've reported him & pressed charges!

He got a fine of about $150 (a lot more in the 80s than now, obviously, but still...) and a court order banning the dog from any residential area. Pretty weak sauce.

I hope he had to pay that poor woman's medical bills & restitution to cat's owner.

...a terrific album.
We did this tune off our pocket list. Probably did it a dozen times over the years. I played piano, but I also played the slide lead.
The guitar player took over playing a simple piano part I showed him on stage one night!
Some fancy dance steps to get me out from behind the keyboard stand while he was getting to where I was.
Was fun!

...that were never on any setlist and that we intentionally never rehearsed and just did them from time to time, just to see what would happen.
None of those songs actually fit our normal style so we'd do one on the 2nd night of a 2 nighter just to change things up.
We also might grab 2 older songs from earlier lists and the do 15 minutes of tunes that nobody heard the night before.
Also, kept us on our toes.

We rarely deviated from the script when being taped.
Two exceptions:
One New Year's Eve, a guy the guitar player knew in the 70s showed up out of the blue. He & his wife were loving everything we did, but we decided to do a song unplanned for him.
We did a very good version of Uriah Heep's "Easy Living". (We have it on tape, so I'm not being nostalgic. )
He was so happy, we later did "Stealin'" by the same band.
Two in 2 sets, unreleased, but solid.
The guitar player sang both, but any of us could have sang it because we all knew the words.
The best part was that everyone was so accustomed to their role in the harmony parts that we had 4 part harmonies without ever discussing who would sing what part. We just knew.

I can't sing for shit but I love it.

highplainsdem you are channeling me or I you. I wonder why many of us are thinking of this song and I will add Warren Zevon.

law firms and individual lawyers he's mad at could have something to do with this song coming to mind. It did for me, anyway, while I was reading something Marc Elias wrote this morning, which I posted about: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220158337

I too suspect the Judiciary will likely be our incremental shield. No wonder we are thinking about Zevon.

Very good song.