BOTB RESULTS: OCT. 1, 2024 (Or, TOM WAITS Versus DAVID & DAVID)

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If that picture is a mystery to you, then I recommend you return to my Oct. 1st Battle Of The Bands post HERE and read the comment exchanges between Pooh Lynth and myself. That'll explain the history behind that photo. 

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We're all familiar with the saying "A 2 at Ten is a 10 at Two". Well, at 824 Bay Street in the very early '80s, the saying was: "A heavy drinker at Ten wears a chair at Two".

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Anonymous partier at 824 Bay Street, after passing out and getting "the business", circa 1982.

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This installment of BOTB's Battle Of The Booze was between Tom Waits ("bourbon") and David & David ("Jack Daniel's"), and I very sincerely appreciate everyone who came by and participated in the voting. Just to illustrate how wrong I can be, I'll confess that, while constructing this last Battle, I was of the belief that Tom Waits would win it by a comfortable margin. Uhp! I'm an idiot!! 

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In my Battle post, I mentioned how 1986 was a tough year for me, due in large part to the suicide of my great friend Kelly. 

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Skydiving Kelly & his pal Mr. Coors.

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In 1986, David & David's only album, 'Boomtown', really spoke to me, conveying many of the thoughts and feelings I was experiencing at the time. Rarely, if ever, had I been as personally connected to a collection of songs.

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Although I have 'Boomtown' on CD today, and can't imagine not owning it, I rarely play it anymore. The songs are unique & quite good but, happily, those themes and emotions are in my distant past. Today, I have a great deal more inner peace.

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So, how did I vote in this BOTB installment? Like most teenagers at the time, when I was a teen I loved the sound of loud electric guitars. Scott Gorham, Michael Schenker, Buck Dharma - I thought those guys were the cat's meow and the dog's bark! 

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In the late '80s, after getting heavily into Jazz, the tenor saxophone became my favorite musical instrument. But then sometime in the early to mid-'90s I came to realize that no instrument rocks my world quite like the electric organ. Man, lay down some seriously charged organ on a track and I am guaranteed to dig it big time! 

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Well, the heavy bass & orgasmic organ on the Tom Waits song 'Little Boy Blue' is definitely my cup of tea mug of beer! I find that combo extremely exciting (plus, I dig the lyrics also). So, despite all of my personal history with the David & David songs, my vote for Tom Waits was never in question. Nevertheless, this contest was a blowout:

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FINAL TALLY: 

Tom Waits = 3 votes 

David & David = 8 votes 

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My thanks again to everyone who contributed, and I hope you'll return for my next installment of BOTB's BOTB on October 15th. 

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~ STMcC