Here are three clips of about two hours of holiday concert music I shot in HD at my sons' high school on Monday. It was a well attended concert with standing room only. Because I was using a tripod I was set up at the back of the hall.… Read full post »

So many of us enjoy the many holiday concerts that include choruses and orchestras performing those memorable songs and symphonies of the season.

I wanted to mention that a wonderful treat this year was trading many stories with a special Open Salon treasure of a person, Alison, aka AIM.… Read full post »

On any given day I am reading stories on Big Salon as well as on Open Salon. One feature on Big Salon is the box on the lower right hand side for Salon Personals as shown below:

As we know, Open Salon does not have this… Read full post »

Back in mid October The New York Observer had a story featuring the Occupy Wall Street protest song playlist which I have added just below my selection for a protest song.

Back On The Chain Gang, the hit song by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders has been around for many… Read full post »

The major news outlets finally got up to speed on what I reported on OS back in the fall of 2009:

Here's the repost along with the comments that are a RIOT!

I wanted OS readers to get a jump on the news that Kim Jong-il… Read full post »

As the year comes to a close the Open Salon Rock Group sends its holiday greetings to our friends on OS!

We appreciate the wonderful comments left over the past few months on various song posts and hope to bring forth more music in the new year.

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 "I'm going green this Christmas...lumps of coal are out and slivers of sustainably grown wood from Surrey are in!"

 © 2011 by B+Co., Inc.

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The winter brings wonderful opportunities to the photographer who loves to photograph scenes outdoors.

Some of you may remember how I was able to locate one of Dick Cheney's undisclosed rural locations on moving day back in January, 2009:

While I… Read full post »

I thought this op-ed from The New York Times was pertinent for the current posts about indie bookstores. Amazon is encouraging shoppers to scan bar codes of books in bookstores and receive a price quote from Amazon with an app they developed. Read below for more...

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Having been inspired in a huge way by VariousArtists who has posted many wonderful stories of concerts attended, I wanted to write about one I attended back in my younger days.

34 years and 13 days ago, I attended a super concert at the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum.… Read full post »

The Doobie Brothers' hit What A Fool Believes is a song the Open Salon Rock Group recently recorded in a studio owned by a classmate and friend of mine who lives in New Jersey and who happens to be in the music business. Peter, who played the trumpet going way… Read full post »

It was last year in a post about the summer of '72 that I included that great hit by Traffic entitled Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys as part of the music from that period. With the many songs the Open Salon Rock Group is presenting as we move… Read full post »

With some parts of the nation being served by prisons that have been privatized the Open Salon Rock Group, joined by several of our friends, put together this instrumental version of JAIL which is based on the Village People's YMCA hit from 1977.

Privatized prisons with a full occupancy rate… Read full post »

To start off the end of the work week on a musical note, the group is presenting Creation Queen based on the '80s dance hit Caribbean Queen by Billy Ocean. When it comes to creationism apparently there are many similarities between candidates Bachmann and Rick Santorum. For today's musical int… Read full post »

Word came on November 30th in the way of a letter from Salon's CEO, David Talbot, about the Salon.com meet-up on December 7th.

I had a schedule conflict but my wife who is a Salon Core Member along with moi went ahead to RSVP.

It was a rainy and chilly… Read full post »

My wife was at the Salon.com party tonight and took a number of photos which I will post tomorrow. Nikki Stern, Cranky Cuss, and Greg Correll were three OSers who were spotted along with the Salon crew, including David Talbot, Kerry, Emily, Steve Kornacki, Justin Elliott, and even Joe Conason!… Read full post »

Out of the box, The Rolling Stones hit of all times, I Can't Get No Satisfaction, seems a good fit for Mitt. Herman Cain is out of the race and now it's Newt Gingrich whose all over the news. When his father ran for president in the '60s, George… Read full post »

Herman Cain has shown it can be done...

The Open Salon Rock Group Presents:

50 Ways To Leave Your Campaign

(Many thanks to Paul Simon for the inspiration)

The problem is the Republicans she said to me
The answer is easy if you… Read full post »

With Herman Cain dropping out of the race yesterday we have shelved our plans to perform another song based on him which would have been More Than A Herman as an adaptation of The Bee Gee's More Than A Woman. The original can be seen below from Saturday… Read full post »

That's all folks!

As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” Mr. Cain said. “Because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not… Read full post »

For Part 2 of Tunes for the presidential candidates the Open Salon Rock Group, along with flutist, Claire, and fourteen of her talented friends from school, present She Blinded Me With Junk Science.

Those of you who are fans of Thomas Dolby will recognize this '80s hit right away. On… Read full post »

The field of Republican contenders for the presidency offers a special opportunity to match well known songs with each candidate. I'll be starting with Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in this first installment.

Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up seems a perfect match for Newt when cons… Read full post »

Back in February I wrote about some favorite bookstores that have now disappeared from the scene and that now includes two Borders stores that closed as a result of the company's bankruptcy.

Just two towns away from me is an independent bookstore that epitomizes all of the wonderful features o… Read full post »

It was in the fall of '72 when I first heard Van Morrison's 1970 hit Moondance. At that time I was a freshman in art school and listening to WBRU, the Brown University radio station in my dorm room on my trusty Sony radio pictured below:

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Last year at Thanksgiving I posted the following photos of the large number of wild turkeys we have in our woods:

In this photo you will see one of our cats sitting next to a tree and watching the turkeys from a… Read full post »