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Category Archives: rock
2024 Top Ten
2025 already! That’s a good opportunity to post my favourite 10 photos from 2024. Some car racing, some equestrian pursuits, and a whole lot of concerts. Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in acrobat, autosport, car racing, concert photography, country and western, equestrian, fair, fall fair, festival, Hobbies, horse show, motorsport, Music, music festival, musicians, Photography, pop, pop-punk, racing, rock, rock and roll, rodeo, show jumping, sports photography, Western, winter fair
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Hocus Pocus
Greetings, Pop Pickers. Music fans of a certain vintage will recall with a wry smile the tune Hocus Pocus by the Dutch prog rock band Focus, in which the inspired lunacy of organist, vocalist and flautist Thijs van Leer met the … Continue reading Continue reading
Posted in Focus, G&T, Hocus Pocus, Jan Akkerman, Music, rock, Silliness, Thijs van Leer
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Light Fighting
One advantage of working more-or-less right downtown in Toronto is that it’s possible, on occasion, to make time during the day to catch some interesting things going on. I’ve spent some time recently wearing my official photographer’s hat for the … Continue reading
Posted in blues, Colin James, f-stop, First Canadian Place, Hobbies, Music, Photography, rock, Toronto
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Music
It will not have escaped the notice of either of my readers that I have been somewhat absent of late. Absent in more than one sense, as I have been fighting off a rather vicious episode of depression caused mainly … Continue reading
Posted in chthonic, citalopram, deep purple, depression, eldritch, erumpent, excuse me madam but does this bus go to the station, mirtazapine, Music, oh L I'm fifty, release of calcium from intracellular stores, rock, sertraline, stealer, sycorax, zither
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