Ted Simons
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Host of Arizona Horizon, the nightly public affairs show on AZPBS...
Joined January 2018
The Dead's best song (it says here) was a Phil Lesh song. Phil Lesh, dead, at 84. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there.
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CD6 debate tonight on AZ Horizon: Ciscomani vs. Engel. Check it out at 5pm and 10pm on the mothership, and at 7pm on 8.3 (Cox channel 88.) See ya there.
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Meandering back on to Twitter to say: Best DBack win of the season. (Especially if it heralds Carroll's return to form.) Great stuff.
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Read “The Alienist.” And heard of Lucien Carr through Kerouac connection. But had no idea they and so many other things crashed so hard into Caleb Carr. Unusually poignant obit:
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Eric Carmen died. Loved the Raspberries. Solo stuff, not so much, but the Raspberries could bring it. Fave song, “Tonight,” was like Big Star w/bigger hair. So many memories:
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RT @LisaDNews: ALERT: Sen. Sinema announces she will not run for reelex, says she will leave at the end of the year.
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Melanie died. "Brand New Key" and "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain," with the Edwin Hawkins singers, were soundtracks to such a long-ago time. Had a chance to interview her (kinda long ago) on Horizon. She was wonderful:
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Tommy Smothers would regularly make a certain young kid laugh until he could hardly breathe. And I'm sure I wasn't alone. Thank you, Tommy.
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Well whaddya know. (I'm seeing a few more than four sticks there....)
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Dwight Twilley died. Power-pop personified. His 1st LP, "Sincerely," was a celebration of Merseybeat melodies by way of Tulsa energy & one of the best records not enough people heard. Played the grooves off that one. Here he is in the wild w/his near-hit:
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Never expected the Dbacks to be playing November baseball, and while it can be argued that in some respects they didn't (save Zac Gallen), it was still a great season. Hot stove league should be extra toasty this go round. Already looking forward to spring.
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Rough night. Not the DBacks. Paid thru the nose for nosebleed seats & enjoyed it all except the outcome. But my childhood baseball hero, Frank Howard, has died. DC kids who grew up as suffering Senators fans loved The Gentle Giant. I sure did. Such memories. Rest easy, big man.
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Can. Not. Believe it. Dbacks win the pennant! Dbacks win the pennant!
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It's remarkable how much a winning team can lift the spirits. And I'm sky high after the DBacks sweep (!) of the Brewers!!
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Rest well, Terry Kirkman of the Association. Such sophisticated songwriting. Remembered most for “Cherish,” but “Along Comes Mary” is so good and was all over top-40 radio. (Yes, I was there.) That’s Kirkman with the beard, beads and nehru:
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Oh my. Tremendous songwriter. Tremendous band. Remembered for "The Weight," of course, but for other gems, including personal fave, "The Shape I'm In," and "Life is a Carnival," which he co-wrote with Levon Helm and Rick Danko. All now gone.
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