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Songs from 1967
Sticking with the Sixties and in honour of Are You Experienced?, the debut album by Jimi Hendrix, which was released in the UK on this day in 1967, let's allow our wandering minds to go wafting back to the Summer of Love, of 'Strange Days' and 'Nights in White Satin'.
Genesis and Jethro Tull formed. Pink Floyd's debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, was released, as were the hit singles 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play', where Syd's star shone most brightly. David Bowie put out a first album, as did The Doors, Traffic, Velvet Underground and Leonard Cohen (just about).
It had everything we've come to expect from a prominent year in music: a celebrated festival (Monterey), something nauseating hogging the charts for several months (The Sound of Music), lots of bands with ridiculous names, and more rock and pop variants than you could wave a white bicycle at. Yes, a lot of it sounds unforgivably fey now, but what a tremendous time to love music, to follow its progress through the charts and to catch it live and on air.
I have to pick ten songs. Anything less than ten would be silly.
- The Box Tops, 'The Letter'
- Dave Davies, 'Death of a Clown'
- Donovan, 'Wear Your Love Like Heaven'
- Joni Mitchell, 'Both Sides Now'
- The Move, 'Flowers in the Rain'
- The Rolling Stones, 'She's a Rainbow'
- Small Faces, 'Itchycoo Park'
- The Tremeloes, 'Even the Bad Times are Good'
- Van Morrison, ' Brown-Eyed Girl'
- Jackie Wilson, 'Higher and Higher'
Albums, also. How could you pick out a key song from, say, Sgt Pepper's? (Oh, alright; of course it would be 'A Day in the Life' every time.)
Leaving out the most obvious and those already mentioned here, as well as Cream's Disraeli Gears, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow and A Hard Road by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, because I've lavished praise on them in previous posts and it would be nice to pick out something less predictable, here are a few more from 1967 which I'm fond of:
- The Hobbits, Down to Middle Earth
- The Kinks, Something Else by…
- Magic Sam Blues Band, West Side Soul
- Moby Grape, Moby Grape
- Skip Bifferty, Skip Bifferty
Looking forward to seeing what you've chosen.
When you're done, if you still can't get enough of 1967, here's a nice little quiz.
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Damian Cunningham Hope you enjoy this list
1.) Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
2.) Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
3.) Penny Lane – The Beatles
4.) I Heard it Through the Grapevine – Gladys Knight and the Pips
5.) San Francisco – Scott McKenzie
6.) Strange Brew – Cream
7.) Light My Fire – The Doors
8.) Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues
9.) Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson
10.) Higher and Higher – Jackie WilsonAnd knowing me, I may have some dates wrong, but all great songs and from the sixties.
Michael D One I love from '67, the year I was born!
Love's "Forever Changes."
More to follow later…
Gabrielle, Washington State Songs of Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen
The Velvet Underground & Nico, The Velvet Underground
Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi Hendrix (just had to )
Buffalo Springfield Again, Buffalo Springfield
John Wesley Harding, Bob Dylan
Mr. Fantasy, Traffic
Nina Simone Sings The Blues, Nina Simone
Sounds of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel
A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, Donovan
Wildflowers, Judy Collins
The Yardbirds Greatest Hits, The Yardbirds
Joan, Joan Baez
Pleasures of the Harbor, Phil Ochs
Absolutely Free, The Mothers of Invention
Disraeli Gears, Cream (couldn't help myself)Oh my… this has been extremely stimulating to all my senses!! I can see, smell, feel the album covers and hear the needle as it glides over the grooves of the vinyl and sends those fantastic sounds right through my being. Add to that the snapshot right-back-in-the-moment effect and it's a real trip back through time.
I won't even bother with a singles list ~ it was all about the album to me then. There was something magical about the whole process of acquiring and then listening to an album in its entirety while perusing the album art and liner notes. Ahhh, bliss!
Well, I must be going ~ T.B. Sheets by Van Morrison just started up and I think I'll call it a day. I think I'm a bit delirious… does it show?
Gabrielle -
EchoesBob 1967 Singles -
Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix Experience
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Can See For Miles – The Who (Sellout)
Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic
Let's Spend the Night Together – Stones
A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
Sunshine of Your Love – Cream
Hi Ho Silver Lining – Jeff BeckAnd of course:
Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen
Miles Smiles – Miles Davis
Axis – Bold as Love – Hendrix
Born Under a Bad Sign – Albert King
Days of Future Passed – Moody Blues
The Doors – The Doors
Straight, No Chaser – Thelonius Monk
The Grateful Dead – The Grateful Dead -
Jerry Hi David.
Happy to have found your site. I am fan from the Jersey City, Roosevelt Stadium concert of 1975. I am glad that I did get to see Pink Floyd.
My son (17) and I are currently viewing "Remember That Night". Not all youngins have querked music taste.
Thank you for a life time of wonderful music. God be with you always.
A fan, now in Tucson, AZ.
Ralph Classic Albums "Dark Side of the Moon"
Hiya FEd,
Long time no see. I'm sorry I couldn't make it to yesterday's chat.
Belgian TV station "Canvas" has Dark Side of the Moon scheduled for tonight 00:20 (GMT + 1) in the Classic Albums series. More info (in Dutch) here.
Ralph -
lorraine I decided to start at the end and work my way backwards so: 10/15 for the quiz – I'm suitably ashamed of myself.
lorraine Maybe Marvin and Stevie could just share #10, seems to be the done thing just now.
Michèle See what happens when I don't cheat… 3/15 here.
Do you think I can blame Nick Clegg for that poor score?
Alessandra Apart from the ones mentioned above, here are some 1967 albums I really like.
Incredible String Band – The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion (I love its cover, too)
The Who – The Who Sell Out
Love – Forever Changes
Eric Burdon and The Animals – Winds Of Change
Kaleidoscope – Tangerine Dream
Grateful Dead – The Grateful DeadSpeaking about songs, these ones are certainly in my list of favourites.
The Byrds – My Back Pages
Aretha Franklin – Respect
Gladys Knight & the Pips – I Heard It Through The Grapevine -
Taki … I was 1 year old in '67, and looking into my album collection, I have only Jimi Hendrix (Are You Experienced) and Pink Floyd (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn).
P.S. I was rather busy, so I hadn't the time to comment on the other blog entries…
Arcangelo Hi all.
I was 4 in 1967. Let me mention
Love Me Two Times – The Doors
Back Door Man – The Doors
Break On Through (To the Other Side) – The Doors
Homburg – Procol Harum
Gimme Some Lovin' – Spencer Davis GroupMaybe the last was published the year before, but it was a hit in '67.
This is what I can add from my collection as a contribution to the topic.
Bye from Milan, Italy.
Pete - Coventry Still putting my top 10 together but I was playing Saucerful of Secrets the other evening. Had to chuckle when I got to Corporal Clegg.
Julie Davies Had to chuckle when I got to Corporal Clegg.
Funny that, Pete as I was singing yesterday, "Mrs Clegg, you must be proud of him. Mrs Clegg another drop of gin".
Anyway, I wonder if people who earn under £10k will really not have to pay tax soon.
Also I wonder if he will put his money where his mouth is when it comes to Gary McKinnon. See this.
Pete - Coventry LOL – Maybe an Xmas No.1.
Ian Pearson I can't remember the sixties. Is that good or bad?
Matt Johns Ah, 1967, a great year for music – and a year I had to catch up with tunewise as it was the year I was born… so a certain extra something there personally!
There's some corkers you've picked there, FEd. The "Missing Believed Wiped" event at the BFI in January had Dave Davies' "Death of a Clown" (in your selection) amongst the recovered gems shown, which caused quite a laugh amongst the audience. He was introduced as Ray Davies and bellowed across the BBC studio "DAVE! DAVE DAVIES!!"
To your list I'd possibly add Procol's "Whiter Shade of Pale", and the fab four's "Strawberry Fields Forever". Oh and "Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding who tragically died a month before the song was released. Album wise, there's always Love's Forever Changes, a truly great collection of songs.
Ooo this is a hard one. Far too many good songs and albums!
Bobby Skip Bifferty! Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time!
James Mickelson I LOVE music from the Sixties!!!
"Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" – Kenny Rogers
"I'm A Believer" – Monkees
"Soul Man" – Sam & Dave
"Sweet Soul Music" – Arthur Conley
"I Think We're Alone Now" – Tommy James & Shondells
"Little Ole Man" – Bill Cosby
"San Francisco, Wear A Flower In Your Hair" – Scott McKenzie
"Come Back When You Grow Up" – Bobby Vee…and the best for last!!!
"Interstellar Overdrive" – Pink Floyd
I'm a big fan of the famous but short-lived UFO Club, a UK underground club in London during 1966 and 1967, venue of performances by many of the top bands at that time, including Pink Floyd.
I highly recommend "White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s" – The Joe Boyd Story. It's available through Joe's website and includes some great tunes from the Sixties
NewYorkDan There was so much great stuff going on in music in the late 1960s. Much of my favorite music is either directly from that timeframe, or is made by people who got their start in that timeframe, or was heavily influenced by those who were there. In 1967 I was one year old (I'm dating myself now), and so therefore I don't know exactly which music came out in which year. With exceptions. Being a huge fan of anything Beatles and Floyd, for example, I know which music from those bands is from 1967. Otherwise, I shall have to write in general, and not in specifics.
It was a time when young people had something to say and the means to say it, when music was still a viable means of expression and had not yet been co-opted by corporate interests. A time when Peter Paul & Mary and Bob Dylan had forged the way for others to speak their mind via music. And there was a lot to say: about Vietnam, about social justice, about race relations, about sex. It was a time when recording techniques had advanced to where new things were possible, such as the orchestral sweep in The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" and people wanted to try new things.
And last but not least, it was a time when people's priorities moved away from making money and towards doing more important things.
Piero Hi everybody!
I want to say hello to you as I start working tonight and I won't be able to write very often until I'll have the Internet where I live, I'm in a bar at the moment… I'll be missing this wonderful blog!
I hope that David is very fine and happy as well as everyone of you…
Ciao amici!
Rob_P_From_CT A fun year… I was -2 but still scored, I think, a respectable 12/15 on the quiz.
I won't attempt an A-Z yet… maybe after some cocktails later.
Maybe some less obvious choices of mine from '67 – here are 10:
The Grass Roots: Let's Live For Today
Tom Jones: Green Green Grass of Home
Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant Massacre
Baloo the Bear & Mowgli: The Bare Necessities
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas: Tramp
Dubliners: Seven Drunken Nights
Manfred Mann: Ha! Ha! Said the Clown
The Blues Magoos: Gotta Get Away
Neil Diamond: Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon
The Music Explosion: I See The LightIt was definitely fun listening to these (and others) today to get me through the day. I think at some point this evening I'll be playing the Dubliners on a loop feed for a while.
Hope everyone has a great weekend – Rob_P
NewYorkDan Scientists are now saying that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is up to 14 times bigger than previously reported by BP. This would make it the largest oil spill ever, and no end in sight.
In this article, one BP official tries to downplay the disaster, saying that so much oil is small compared to the ocean that it is spilling into. Which surprises me, because I didn't know the Gulf of Mexico was an ocean. Me? I trust the words of scientists any day, over oil execs who say that the Gulf is larger than it actually is so that we'll think the spill is smaller than it actually is. Disgusting!
Pete - Coventry Crikey, I could have listed 100 here but…
The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
Mamas and Papas – Dedicated To the One I Love
Traffic – Paper Sun
Spencer Davis Group – I'm a Man
Smokey Robinson – I Second That Emotion
Dusty Springfield – Goin' Back
Procal Harum – Homburg
Simon Dupree – Kites
Flowerpot Men – Let's Go to San Francisco
Rolling Stones – Let's Spend the Night Together
Soft Machine – Love Makes Sweet Music
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit -
Penny Hey FEd!
How have you been?
I think most of favorites have been covered.
I just returned from Port Arthur, Texas, where we buried my foster mom. She was truly more than a foster mom. She was a huge part of my life. She took me in when I was about 9 years old. She kept me off the streets. I learned so much from her. If it weren't for her I would have ended up in jail or worse, dead. Though I am still grieving, I am also relieved she is gone. She was suffering greatly. It is very bittersweet.
Hope everyone has a great weekend.
P.S. Port Arthur, TX is the home of Janis Joplin. Her mom's house is just down the street from my mom's house.
Penny Thank you FEd.
Michèle - The Doors, 'The End' – 'When The Music Is Over' ("Before I sink into the big sleep I want to hear, I want to hear the scream of the butterfly")
- The Rolling Stones, 'She's a Rainbow' – '2000 Light Years From Home' (very psychedelic, I like it)
-The Beatles, 'I Am The Walrus' (for the weird lyrics)
- Leonard Cohen, 'Suzanne' – 'Sisters Of Mercy' (still don't know if the song is about nuns or prostitutes – or maybe both? )- Claude François, 'Comme d'habitude'
- Jacques Brel, 'Les vieux amants'
- Adamo, 'Inch Allah' (written when the Six-Day War broke out in June 1967 between Israel and Egypt/Syria/Jordan. Great/disturbing lyrics)1967, Summer of Love, but also Summer of War…
Thomas O'Connell Now this was a great year for songs and my first outdoor music festival which was the Monterey Pop Festival.
The songs I loved were,
Small Faces-Itchycoo Park
The Doors-Back Door Man
Moby Grape-Hey Grandma
The Byrds-My Back Pages
Love-Alone Again Or
The Yardbirds-Little Games
Buffalo Springfield-Mr. Soul
Rolling Stones-Connection
Cream-Strange Brew
The Turtles-Happy TogetherPlus I really had to add this one,
Eric Burton and The Animals-Monterey (which was written for the Monterey Pop Festival)
I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Take care, Thomas
JJ Thanks for the Magic Sam Blues Band recommendation. I like what I hear.
"A Hard Road" by John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers is one of the best albums ever.
diana Hi FEd,
Fab year 1967! Very young but very involved in the our "new" music and "beat-psychedelic world". I really love 1967 / 1983 as harmony and magic sound.
All from "The Piper" – Pink Floyd
All from "Who…" – Who
A Whiter Shade of Pale and Homburg – Procol Harum
Some Velvet Morning (I think 1967) – Vanilla Fudge
The Sound of Silence and the LP Simon and Garfunkel
San Francisco – Scott McKenzie (…in charts in Italy too, without cover-track!!!)
The Doors – Light My Fire
Penny Lane – Beatles
Yardbirds (but don't remember the LP title)Thanks for this topic FEd.
KenF Anything less than ten would be silly.
Here's 26 (A)to(Z) belatedly ruminate over…
Autumn Almanac – The Kinks
Bernadette – The Four Tops
Carrie-Anne – The Hollies
Daydream Believer – The Monkees
Excerpt from A Teenage Opera – Keith West
For What It's Worth – Buffalo Springfield
Good Times – Eric Burden & The Animals
Hello Goodbye – The Beatles
I Say A Little Prayer – Dionne Warwick
Judy In Disguise (with Glasses) – John Fred & His Playboy Band
Knock on Wood – Otis Redding
Let's Go To San Francisco – The Flower Pot Men
Mellow Yellow – Donovan
New York Mining Disaster 1941 – Bee Gees
On A Carousel – The Hollies
Pictures of Lily – The Who
(Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie – Jay & The TechniQues)
Reflections – Diana Ross & The Supremes
She'd Rather Be With Me – The Turtles
The Letter – Box Tops
Up, Up & Away – The 5th Dimension
(Martha & The Vandellas – Jimmy Mack)
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
(Show Me – Joe TeX
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman – Aretha Franklin
Zabadak – Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch-
Dr Phang I second that!!! I've played more than half of that list over the past few days…
While I was at it, I found my old friend "Jack Flanders" from the ZBS foundation…
D. Q. I loved 1967. Loved the music. Loved everything about it. One of my favorite years ever.
I was 9 and spent the summer in Austria with my sister and my little pointy nosed mother (who temporarily abandoned Papa in L.A.)–I went down the Danube river on a barge, spent a month on a farm high in the Alps. My 14 year old sister got off a street car and brought a copy of Sgt. Pepper that her boyfriend had just bought and we stared at the cover in absolute wonder. We debated whether or not the Beatles had changed their names permanently.
Didn't Waterloo Sunset come out that summer/year? I remember being enchanted transported by it. What a really fantastic song. One of the best ever. I still listen to it every month or two. (That angelic choir boy falsetto voice in the background is Ray Davies's first wife's. She was a gorgeous, beaming, young blonde. I always wonder what happened to her.) GOD that song is good. I feel like I'm in a wonderful dream whenever I hear it. Or Day in the Life. Or Lighter Shade of Pale. Or Piper at the Gates (God, wasn't the deluxe set great?). Or anything by Mr. Gilmour, or by the Floyd. How blest we all are to be living in such an age of great music and musicians.
God Bless you David G. (And please please finish up that great lost Pink Floyd song, Syd's "She Was a Millionaire." You are the only one who can finish it.)
P.S. I'm pretty sure that "She Was a Millionaire" was 1967, wasn't it? The quote, unquote, "number one Pink Floyd single that got away?" –according to one book I read. God, I hope at least one or two Syd songs that Mr. Gilmour has said he might rework or finish end up on David's next solo album. And I hope he makes us one more little gem with tapes he has of Richard W. too. How I miss him.
Dr Phang Hello all!!!
Lists, lists, lists… Would you be an accountant by any chance, FEd???
D.C.B.A.-25 – Jefferson Airplane
Love Or Confusion – Jimi Hendrix
Incense And Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
See Emily Play – Pink Floyd
Penny Lane – The Beatles
Tales Of Brave Ulysses – Cream
All Tomorrow's Parties – Velvet Underground
People Are Strange – The Doors
Chain Of Fools – Aretha Franklin
Up, Up And Away – 5th DimensionAnd for a little extra bit of fun… ENJOY!!! Up, up and away!!! You just don't get emotions like that anymore… Love it!!!
Sharon Woods Tales of Braves Ulysses:
I'm ashamed to say I've never heard this before, fantastic! We love all things Odysseus, thanks again!
Dr Phang Don't be ashamed, just give Disraeli Gears a good "spin"… I think you'll love it, it's quite an "odyssey"…
Beppo the Mime Oy… FEd… how could you forget the classic Who Sell Out?
Sharon Woods Slip Inside This House, and She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) from the Easter Everywhere album: the 13th Floor Elevators in 1967! Their music was so incredible!
Roky Erikson and Syd Barrett had much in common. Check him out on Wikipedia and YouTube. Texas psychedelia at its best.
Roky Erikson is back to performing, I saw him on Austin City Limits recently.
Michèle Is it true that in the US most tall buildings (particularly hotels) don't have a 13th floor?
And I've read that in some Asian countries, buildings don't have floors that end with a 4…
Help! My black cat crossed my path today…
Dr Phang "Slip Inside This House" rocks… I'll have to dig the LP out and give it a spin…
Sharon Woods Black cat's something I can't explain!
Dr Phang A "bakers dozen" of albums from 1967 that I've found to be "indispensible" over the years… No particular order…except for Piper.
Piper At The Gates Of Dawn – The Pink Floyd
Axis: Bold As Love – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Doors – The Doors
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
Miles Smiles – Miles Davis
Surrealistic Pillow – The Jefferson Airplane
Chelsea Girl – The Nico
Disraeli Gears – Cream
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Younger Than Yesterday – The Byrds
Easter Everywhere – 13th Floor Elevators
Green Grass Of Home – Tom Jones
Expression – John Coltrane -
Sharon Woods 'I'm Allergic to Flowers', 1967, the Jefferson Handkerchief.
This is a novelty song I've carried around for years! Has anyone else heard of it?
Peter Oh yeah… songs…
I love to sing "Respect" of Aretha Franklin, "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane.
List of songs I like from 1967:
Reflections – Diana Ross and The Supremes
On a Carousel – Hollies
There's a Kind of Hush – Herman's Hermits
Thank the Lord for the Night Time – Neil Diamond
The Letter – Box Tops
Happy Together – Turtles
I'm a Believer – The MonkeesPeter
Rachell The 60s, when the Motown Sound was formed.
This period of music history is probably the greatest that African Americans have known. In a world today where gangster rap and rude lyrics receive all the hype and attention of the younger generation, it is wonderful to take a look back to times where themes of love and relationships were at the heart of the music.
Cassidy The music of the 60s was definitely some of the best ever! I would include the following greats in my favorites list:
The Letter – Box Tops
Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix
Penny Lane – The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon — Neil Diamond
Let's Spend the Night Together – Rolling Stones
I Say A Little Prayer — Dionne Warwick…Just to name a few.


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Michigan Wolverines Vs. Northwestern Wildcats
11/10/12 Steve's Free College Football Pick Against the Spread
The Northwestern Wildcats will have their work cut out for them this weekend as Northwestern heads to Ann Arbor to face off against the Michigan Wolverines.
The Michigan Wolverines improved to 6-3 overall and 4-1 in the Big Ten conference this past weekend as the Wolverines took care of business against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. The Wolverines were without the services of DeNard Robinson this past weekend, and in his place Michigan started Devin Gardner. Gardner isn't as dynamic of a player as Robinson, but still the Wolverine signal caller had a solid day against the Gophers with 234 yards through the air and two scores. The Wolverines missed the ground game production from Robinson, but Toussaint was solid in his absence, rushing for 70 yards and one score to lead the Wolverines on the day. Defensively Michigan held the Gopher offense to just 275 total yards. The Wolverines are giving up just over 3.5 yards per rush this season, and with the Wildcats keeping the ball on the ground nearly 60 percent of the time, this front seven for Michigan will be tested this Saturday.
The Northwestern Wildcats had the week off this past Saturday to savor their win against the Iowa Hawkeyes the previous Saturday, giving Northwestern and impressive 7-2 record on the season. The Wildcats looked to have things rapped up early against Iowa as the Hawkeyes were unable to move the ball at all against the Wildcat defense, but Northwestern did bend a little bit late, letting the Iowa Hawkeyes back into things. It was far too little too late for Iowa though as Northwestern clearly showed they were the better team. The Wildcats set out to physically dominate the Iowa defense as Northwestern kept the ball on the ground against the Hawkeyes, recording 49 rushing attempts against just ten attempts through the air. Kain Colter is one of the more dangerous dual (triple if you count when he lines up as a receiver) threats in the nation as Colter threw for 80 yards and a score, while gaining 166 yards on the ground while scoring three times against the Hawkeye defense. Look for more of the same this weekend against the Wolverines as Colter is sure to be the fixture of the Northwestern offense against Michigan.
The Wildcats are a crazy 8-1 against the spread this season, while the Wolverines are 4-5 against the spread. Northwestern is 2-1 against the spread in their last three road games, while the Michigan Wolverines are 2-2 against the spread in their last four games at home.
DeNard Robinson is listed as probable for the Wolverines this weekend, and even though Gardener was solid for Michigan against the Gophers, that has to be welcome news for Wolverine fans. I'm expecting a lower scoring game here as I think the Wildcats will try to keep things close to the vest on the road. The under may end up being the play and is something to consider once the total is out, but for a side I'm going to have to take the points with the Wildcats. Northwestern just doesn't hurt themselves, and while Michigan does have offensive firepower, this is just too many points to be giving this Northwestern team.
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Obama played at the Floridian yacht and golf club, where he spent Presidents Day weekend, with departing U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the president's Chicago pal Eric Whitaker and White House aide Marvin Nicholson, the White House said.
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We've written here many times before that the obvious route out of the Western world's current crisis is a lengthy period of financial repression - ie one in which inflation is high, interest rates are low, and states assert their sovereignty to lift money from the private sector to help finance their debts.
This is clearly a process that is well underway all over the place: witness the rising tax burden and negative real interest rates we have been forced to put up with for the last few years. However, a proposal from what the WSJ refers to as a "leading German economics research institute" has taken things a little further than most have so far been prepared to.
According to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), a large part of the solution is for those with high incomes to pay more on their wealth in one way or another. This makes sense, says DIW, because while national debts might have soared "we also have very high amounts of private assets that, taken together, considerably exceed the total national debts" of most countries." So why not "go after those private assets"?
The report suggests giving people an allowance of €250,000 and then taking 10% of all other wealth. That 10% could be removed either as a "one off levy" or as a "forced loan" that might later be paid back "depending on the progress" of any one country in dealing with its debt. In Germany ,this measure would raise something in the region of €230bn, or a whopping 9% of GDP, and so could bring Germany's national debt as a percentage of GDP down to more like 70% than its current 80%.
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It is hard, obviously, to know where to start with this one. I'll leave you all to put your personal objections to it below, but it is worth pointing out that while the German finance ministry has rejected the notion out of hand for Germany, a spokesman also said that it might be "interesting" for some of the other eurozone states. So it isn't an idea that is going to go away.
However, the odd thing about all the current enthusiasm for taxing the rich is that it ignores how most of them got rich in the first place; and it ignores the real rich - the world's big corporations.
Andrew Smithers of Smithers & Co constantly points out, as I do here, that the profit margins of our huge companies have never been higher - and nor have their cash piles. Short-term shareholder capitalism (as discussed here and in my editor's letter in the magazine) has made large companies and their managers rich, and all too many other people poor.
So, given that the cash piles of the top 1,000 or so companies around the world make even the richest individuals in the world look a little short, we shouldn't be surprised if Governments soon start looking to them rather than focusing endlessly on the semi-rich and rich (who already contribute the bulk of our tax revenues and could contribute a lot more if we stopped letting them avoid our existing taxes).
Earlier this week, I interviewed CLSA's Russell Napier, who is something of expert on financial repression, and I asked him about this. His view? It won't be that long until governments do just that: "if some corporate bond yields are below the yields of their sovereign, these merely indicate that the sovereigns have not yet asserted their sovereign rights." But if they don't want to go bust, they will. You can read my full interview with Russell in the magazine next week. If you're not already a subscriber, get your first three copies free here.
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(13 July 2012, 10:45AM) Complain about this comment
FTSE100 companies might be sitting on massive cash piles but this money doesn't belong to Vodafone or Unilever or Tesco it belongs to these companies shareholders. In other words most of "us", through our pension funds and ISAs. So all you are doing is suggesting another tax on the "semi-rich" who already provide most of the state's tax revenues.
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I am a subscriber to Moneyweek and have recently renewed but it was a difficult decision. Bill Bonner, and some of the other writers really understand the free market and capitalism and the true underlying causes of our current problems. However I am growing weary of the constant socialist nonsense coming from Merryn, no understanding at all, and one wonders how an editor with this mindset can continue here
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"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose" - Janis JoplinLooks like governments around the world are deeply committed to making us much freer then...
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Shinsei and Patrick. Please don't think for a second i am recommending this. Of course I am not! Regular readers will know that our solution to the crisis is pretty straightforward - cut the size of the state and let capitalism work! The point is that the government is showing no signs of taking this route and so we need to be ready for repression - and the risks it brings to those of us investing in cash rich defensives. Crisis almost always brings an expansion of the state whether we want it or not...
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2 - Patrick P - You rather loosely throw around terms like free market, capitalism and socialism and then appear to believe that your interpretation of these concepts is THE correct one. A larger state is not in itself a definition of socialism; just as the EU is not the epitome of a free market.
(13 July 2012, 06:33PM) Complain about this comment
Technology/investment makes companies more profitable but also put people out of work. Less money paid in wages results in less money for consumers to buy whatever the company may produce, thereby lessening the market size for the company. The system shuffles money into the hands of the rich and stagnates the economy. I realise this is a contrarian view and I don't support abandoning technological development or free market competition. These are the cornerstones of modern society. But something must compensate for this effect. The rich hoard wealth which stagnates economic activity. They do so by not engaging in real entrepreneurial enterprises but rather outsourcing their money management to hedge fund managers who engage in a great poker game involving 'technical analysis'.
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Have you noticed that despite 'the rise in tax burden and negative real interest rates we have been forced to put up with over the past few years ' the National Debt and Budget Deficit are getting larger? Financial repression appears not to be showing any signs of achieving its supposed goals, rather it is harassing achievement of those goals. Furthermore, it is doing absolutely nothing to redressing the most important imbalance - that of the Balance of Payments Deficit.Whilever we have a Balance of Payments Deficit the UK is losing wealth. This loss of wealth will ensue whilstever we, as a whole, continue to live beyond our means; whilstever money out of the UK exceeds money in. We've maxed out the UK's credit card, sold off most of its 'family silver' and are now plundering the wealth of its private pensioners and savers. At this rate the only repression that will succeed will be that of the middle classes. But maybe that IS the desired goal.
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A relative has a small business in S England with 2 owner-directors and 4 staff. Here are the company business costs per week in £ on turnover of 16 to 20K/weekWarehouse rent 240Business Rates 300Road Tax vehicles 30Operators Licence 35Operators Licence vehicle checks 80Vehicle Insurance 75Public Liability Insurance etc 50Waste disposal 25PAYE Taxes 250National Insurance 500VAT 1000Heating 50Electricity 10Water 10Telephone 25Accountant 70Bank charges 2 % of turnover = 320Overdraft facility fees 1.5 to 2.5 % = 200Credit card facility 25Corporation Tax 23% = 690Not included is the VAT, council and other taxes directors and staff pay from their wages.The business pays out £3985 per week before it makes a penny for itself. Typically 70% of profitability goes to the Government. Who are the rich? Only the Government. Businessmen, like the unemployed, are beginning to think work doesn't pay. Close down. Solution?Eat The Government!
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#8 JAW Despite your griping the business cited is making £156,000pa of taxable Corporate profits, on your figures, almost 20% of turnover. What strikes me as odd is how the 6 people employed here pay less than £13,000 in PAYE between them. Suggests a very low average wage of under £19k. Perhaps if they can afford to make a £156k profit they could pay the workers a bit more or create another job.Still at least the accountant gets £3,700 a year for drawing up simple accounts that take about one day's work.
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Interesting article Merryn. Another timely warning! Thank you. Given these companies are in may cases already avoiding tax, no doubt they will find ways to avoid the latest suggestions. Unless governments find ways of forcing them to domicile their businesses or sections of their businesses in each government's own juristiction, with tighter accounting and taxation rules, it will be another tax easily avoided by the biggest and richest.
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#10 Daisy. Apparently the uber rich are hiding $21 trillion offshore. that is 24% of the World's wealth. Perhaps the UN should form a World taxation authority. Take say 20% of the money from the havens (at gun point if necessary) and dole it back to nations according to population/GDP.
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The Federal Reserve usually lowers interest rates to stimulate the economy, but rates can't go much lower, raising questions about what to do next.
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Get ready to hear this arcane economic term in the months ahead: liquidity trap. That's when monetary policy becomes ineffective because interest rates cannot go below zero, trapping the economy in a no growth/slow growth malaise.
This is roughly the same situation Japan found itself in when its real estate bubble burst in the late 1980s. Despite repeated attempts by Japanese monetary experts to stimulate the economy then, Japan slowly slipped into a deflationary spiral that produced a "lost decade" for the Japanese economy.
The Federal Reserve is increasingly worried about the pace of the U.S. recovery and continues acting to keep the economy from slipping lower. At the last Open Market Committee meeting earlier this month, the Fed said "the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months." The Fed also said it would buy Treasury bills in an effort to keep the economic recovery on a positive track. That is classic Fed policy — buy to expand, sell to contract.
When the Federal Reserve buys Treasuries, it pushes money into the economy. Banks, supposedly, then have more funds on hand than needed to meet reserve requirements and so are more willing to lend that money out. Interest rates fall and the economy expands.
When the Fed sells its Treasury investments, the opposite should happen. Remember the Fed always gets its price and never is refused on either side of the equation. So when it sells Treasuries, it takes money out of the economy and most large commercial banks must buy them, reducing their funds on hand. Interest rates rise, banks are less willing to lend and the economy cools.
But what happens when interest rates are already effectively at zero? T-bills sold in the last auction (Aug. 12) at a discount rate of 0.145 percent. Factor in the modest inflation existing now and the rates are at zero.
In Japan, the burst of the real estate bubble — the palace grounds in Tokyo reportedly were once valued at more than all the real estate in California — led to a deflationary spiral. Real estate and stock prices plummeted. Prices for consumer goods dropped, and shoppers stopped buying because they expected prices to go even lower. Production slowed and wages dropped, further reducing spending power. The Japanese economy entered a long malaise.
Is the U.S. headed in the same direction? Could be. Core inflation — prices for everything except the volatile food and energy sectors — was up 0.9% year-over-year in June, the slowest rate of increase in 44 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Another measure, called the GDP deflator, also showed low inflation. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents, increased 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Excluding food and energy prices, the index increased 0.9 percent. The GDP inflation figure is often regarded as more reliable because it is based on actual purchases vs. the survey that is used for the Consumer Price Index.
How do Washington state and the Seattle area fit into all this? New figures released today for unemployment in July tell a very similar story to the national picture. The state had lost 2,300 jobs between June and July, again primarily due to declining government jobs, which more than offset growth in the private sector.
The unemployment rate stood at 8.9 percent, down slightly from the June rate of 9 percent. The June rate was revised upward in the report today from 8.9 percent and, more importantly, the number of jobs lost in June was revised to more than 5,000.
Government shed 5,400 jobs in July, while the private sector added 3,100, led by 1,000 in transportation, warehousing and utilities. Construction and education and health services grew by 900 jobs over the month.
The unemployment rate in the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett metropolitan area actually rose to 8.4 percent from 8.3 percent in June. The number of unemployed increased slightly as well to 124,900 from 124,400 in June. Snohomish County was at 9.4 percent vs. 9.7 percent in June. Tacoma was at 9 percent vs. 9.1 percent. The highest rate was in the Clark County/Vancouver area at 13.3 percent; the lowest was San Juan County at 5.1 percent.
"It's tepid growth," said David Wallace, chief economist for the state Employment Security Department. He said it might be too early to tell if the numbers reflect a stall in the economy. The unemployment rate, however, was the lowest in more than a year.
Wallace said it is more important to focus on the job creation aspects of the report and there the situation is less positive.
Economic statistics can be confusing at times. Take the recent report on Gross Domestic Product. The headlines focused on the fact that GDP growth declined to 2.4 percent in the second quarter from 3.7 percent in the first quarter.
One of the reasons for the slower growth was that imports picked up, growing nearly 30 percent from the previous quarter. Imports are deducted from GDP figures because the goods were made elsewhere — they were not part of the total of goods and services produced in the U.S., the definition of GDP.
But a surge in imports has been good for the Port of Seattle with a sharp increase in the number of containers unloaded at the port. That translates into jobs for longshoremen, truck drivers, and others. Today's report showed an increase of 1,000 jobs in the transportation/warehousing sector, an increase Wallace called surprising. It is also positive in the sense that it means retail businesses expect sales to pick up, so they are stocking up with additional products.
So here, a decline in the growth of GDP is a positive even though it may be a negative elsewhere.
But the state does reflect the national employment picture, where the "jobless recovery" still is in full force. The economic recovery that was supposed to be gaining ground this summer and fall has begun to falter, a fact likely to have an impact on elections this November should it continue to slip.
The numbers are not good. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in early August that total nonfarm payroll employment declined by 131,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.5 percent. Federal government employment fell as the 2010 Census work was completed, while the private sector posted a paltry gain of 71,000 jobs.
The number of unemployed persons, at 14.6 million, remained unchanged. The unemployment rates among major worker groups are interesting: adult men, 9.7 percent; adult women, 7.9 percent; teenagers, 26.1 percent; white people, 8.6 percent; black people, 15.6 percent; Hispanics, 12.1 percent; and Asians, 8.2 percent.
Another disturbing part of the report is that the labor force participation rate has dropped six-tenths of a percentage point since April, representing people who have just dropped out of the labor force. Taking this into account, the unemployment rate really would be in double digits at 10.1 percent, below the peak unemployment earlier this year of 10.6 percent but still higher than most believe.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also tried to measure other factors that affect the work force. Using one measure that includes all unemployed workers plus those marginally attached, plus those employed part-time for economic reasons, Washington's unemployment rate reached 17.4 percent for the period from the third quarter of 2009 through the second quarter of 2010.
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A "jobless recovery" is an oxymoron for someone like me who has been out of work for several months. The situation is particularly dire for some groups. For those with only a high school education or less, or who have been in prison (Crosscut had a good article on that subject a while ago), finding a job is near hopeless. For recent college grads with no work experience, there is little hope of finding a job in the field for which they spent four years and accumulated tens of thousands of dollars of debt to train. If the job market improves--and I find myself increasingly saying "if" instead of "when"--many will have been out of work for so long as to render their degrees useless. At the other end of the career spectrum, there are those who are in their 50's and got laid off. Particularly those in Seattle who may have lost their jobs because of the misguided decisions made by their employers (see e.g. Washington Mutual). With the work experience to command a high salary, many will find themselves unable to compete with workers a decade or two younger, but also too far along to move toward another career.
The financial ruin that can accompany job loss and extended unemployment is only part of the picture--the psychological trauma of having one's dreams shattered, the anxiety about the future, and the loss of one's source of dignity are not well reflected by the statistics.
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Regarding Deathwatch stormbolter and/or a Dark Heresy double barrelled semi automatic pistol (like the Arsenal Arms http://www.arsenalfirearms.com/products/af-2011-a1-double-barrel-pistol)
Wouldn't any Storm design weapon automatically get the results of "Dual Shot" talent? It seems that the storm bolter or other similar weapon should have the target toughness only count once.
Also, if the firer also have two of the same weapons AND the "Dual Shot" talent, the four hits should probably only get one toughness bonus for all four hits also.
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Hum. An interesting point. Ask Your GM - does he want the character to remove 3 or 6 points of damage using his toughness? (assuming he's rolling for a mook.) Otherwise I'd personally say as a GM… No, Dual shot is dual shot, the bonus should only apply when that skill is used, not every time Storm is involved. The Character paid EXP for the skill that he earned shooting other mooks.
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What you're looking for is Twin Linked, not Storm.
Storm should not intrinisicly give the benefit of Dual Shot.
As far as dual wielding Storm/Twin Linked weapons with Full Auto and their interaction with Dual Shot - I'm not sure. Don't have my book with me. I'm not even sure you can use Dual Shot with a rate of fire greater than single shot. If it does work, I would be extremely cautious about how it interacts with Storm/Twin Linked.
Dual Shot is for single-shot attacks only.
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I would call it storm actually; the firearm is one solid block of a weapon, is it not 2 different weapons connected to a single firing mechanism.
You press the trigger the gun fires 2 shots=storm
You press the trigger, 2 weapons fires at the same target=twin-linked.
This pistol (which is badass by the way) is basically a storm stub automatic.
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Ok, But, would the Storm quality in a weapon, automatically, give it a Dual Shot effect by its very nature? For Example: a character opens up in a semi automatic fashion with a single storm stub automatic. Should each hit from the roll give the dual shot effect since it is being fired at the same time at the same target and hitting in virtually the same spot?
And/or, if one has the Dual Shot talent, would shooting a Storm quality weapon then give the effects of Dual Shot, as in the above example.
And/or if the firer had the talent dual shot and fired a single shot from two weapons gunslinger style, would only the second weapon's hits be subject to negate the target's Toughness bonus?
So many barrels, so little time…
No, Storm does not inherently give the Dual Shot effect.
You gotta realize, Dual Shot is closer to an action type. It has a very specifc set of requirements to perform, and is a very specific combat action.
Dual shot quite specificly requires a single shot attack (because it breaks the game on higher RoFs).
Storm, at least going off the OW beta rules (the only rules I have readily available to me at the moment), clearly states that it applies to the full automatic firing mode. You should check to see if the Storm rules you are using have a similar requirement. In other words, if not firing in Full Auto, you only fire a single shot.
Fortunately, this does simplify things. It means that whenever you are firing single shot, you are not actually benefitting from Storm. So the Dual Shot question doesn't come up unless you're dual wielding. In which case it still is only one shot fired from either weapon.
Let me put it another way, The talent Dual Shot and a double barrel weapon acheive the same effect through different ways. One by having the weapon fire two shots at the same time to the same virtual location, the other by using two separate weapons fired at the same time to the same relative location.
The same action should yield the same results. The rules seem to be inconsistant. I think that the Dual Shot talent is a bad idea and should probably go away.
Strom gives you 2 hits by degree of success when firing in full auto, multiplying the chance to hit your ennemy and make damage, but bullets do not aim to the same place, your gun hace recoil and even if lots of bullets hits none is going exactly where the other go.
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Dual shot make you shoot with to single shot weapon at the same location to the millimeter, that why it reduce the ennemy capacity to reduce damage, second bullets use the same entry point that the first.
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They are not the same effect or action and then do not gives you the same bonus.
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Thebigul hit exactly what I was going to say on the head.
The double barrelled notion does not achieve the same angles a 2 gun solution can.
As far as Dual Shot being bad… its hard to say. It takes the right setup. Still, you gotta realize you're essentially asking to break the rules in a fairly serious way, and attempting to justify it with a questionable interpretation of mechanics.
Dual Shot is intended for single shot firing modes. Storm only applies to Full Auto. Therefore, the two mechanics will never interact. Storm and Dual Shot combined together would actually make a frighteningly impressive weapon, while not achieving that technically advanced of a feat (a double barreled stub automatic would be more impressive than a plasma pistol due to sheer base damage and extra d10s rolled on damage).
So a Dual Shot is a Robin Hood splitting of arrows type shot only in a combat situation. Sound highly improbable, compared to a simple double barrel solution. I still think Dual Shot should probably go away.
However, on a different note, image an machinepistol (Uzi) double barrel/Storm quality. I think wielding two of those would be fun. I would name one SUzi(Storm Uzi), and the other DUzi(Double barreled Uzi).
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