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Tech fail, looking out the window, Rosie goes Above & Beyond & also doing a radio interview on 2RRR Thursday 30th Nov

I didn't get the Facebook thing working, trying again.

Looking out the window on the way there and back this weekend made me feel good about appreciating where we live. It takes longer and longer these days to reach the edges of the developed, yet they're still out there, great wide swathes of it.

Ran out of battery charge at various points and the photo's don't give the wonderful depth you see out there on the plains.

Until I get the FB feed wall fixed, here's a few samples - Rosie's B& W shots are awesome

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We cover some distance. It's totally worth it. Every time I look out and see where we live I feel pretty happy about it.

Big thanks to Rosie for all his help this weekend. I had a rough one, could not have made it through without his support.

We had a great night in Dubbo. Thanks to Ryan and Tony, shout outs to Melinda and Sophie, to Christian, to our visitors from Melbourne & Tamworth, and to J. for making the effort to come out after an equally rough day.

We tested out our proposed set for the festival this weekend, learned, we will tweak it a bit.

Even if I felt a bit under the weather, I can appreciate the very good bits of what we do and i have not yet ceased to be grateful to be able to do it.

Oh yeah, speaking of which, a shout out to 'X' and 'A' who are on deployment: we post these travelling pics for you and for every operator who tunes in here, we keep you in our thoughts.

Rosie on the Radio

Rosie's got an interview with our great friend CB on 2RRR, https://2rrr.org.au/ on Thursday night from 10pm, CB had his pick out of people to interview for this years Sydney Blues Festival and he picked Rosie.

Oh yeah almost forgot this one - we had a very solid set at the last gig, everyone is working hard, the setlist and the little details and thoughtfulness help to make it flow.

After the show, Christian was very complimentary of Rosie's playing, saying 'I like your guitarist mate, he's the Amish Eddie Van Halen'.

Given both his Current Beard and Everlasting Love (Rosie here ... this might be a slight overstatement! ... now back to regular programming!) of EVH, this was a worthy and well received nod.

Right. back to tech work. This facebook feed isn't going to embed itself.

Stormcellar at Brackets & Jam Kincumba Fri Dec 1 & Sydney Blues Festival, Windsor, Sat 2 Dec

Back from the trip away, will blog later.

Meanwhile, 2 of our last shows for 2017 coming up this weekend.

Friday night at Brackets & Jam Kincumba Mountain Kiosk 9:30pm and then Saturday at The Sydney Blues Festival, Windsor. Rock Stage, 6:30 to 7:15pm tickets for the festival here: http://sydneybluesandrootsfestival.com

Join us for some landscapes this weekend as we photoblog the trip to Dubbo

I really dig the country runs. I like the pics. This weekend we'll be blogging on the way to Dubbo and looking out the window.

I may even try embedding the FB here. I'll see how I go. otherwise go there cos its easier for me to update pics on the fly via FB.

Demand protection of Net Neutrality

This is a big deal.

In the US right now, the FCC is about to change the rules that make sure all internet traffic moves at the same speed, that's called 'Net Neutrality'.

Without net neutrality, Telco's, ISP's etc can turn the Internet into the Airline industry - First class travel for anyone with money, nuts to the rest.

In Portugal, ISP's are already offering pricing plans based on which websites you want to access. Great for big names, crap for everyone else.

That means, instead of coming here to read stuff, you would only be able to see what we wrote on Facebook, or Twitter.

Additionally, unless we pay, the speed could be much slower.

That is not what the internet is about.

Greed seems to overcome logic time and time again, yet you accept what you tolerate.

Access to free speech, access to each other, without the need to pay a toll, is why Net Neutrality is important.

If you're in a position to speak up about these matters, do. If you're in a position to vote, make it an issue.

This is one of those little freedoms that once gone, is hard to get back, it's the freedom to think for yourself.

Read more here : https://www.battleforthenet.com/

Stormcellar at the Old Bank Restaurant, Dubbo, Sat Nov 25

Stand by for lots of photo blogging on the social media as we do anther country run. I love'em.

This Saturday night, 25 Nov, Old Bank, Dubbo.

Today's thought on song writing influences - the genius of Get Up, Stand Up

Our friend Rick was an inspiration to me to want to write the fastest, simplest, most direct truth I could think of.

When we wrote 'we the people' we worked with the idea of simple, declarative statements of positivity.

I learned that from 'get up, stand up'.

Simple; declarative; brilliant.

I note that there's still a decent dose of Rastafarian Proselytism, which you can take or leave as you see fit, Babylon, the central message of the song is simply as well put as I think it can be done in this universe.

Get up.

Stand up.

Stand up for your rights.

Get up, stand up.

Don't give up the fight.

It feels like we're in an age where the norms of civility are challenged.

I maintain that we, individually, are not helpless. That we, individually at first , and then collectively as more of us take a stand, are capable of holding Authority to account.

It's at times like these that I believe Music has a useful role to play in making those ideas easy to communicate and transfer.

It's at times like this that we need truth more than ever.

Thank you Mr Marley, you said it as well as it can be said.

Get up. Stand up.

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