The Hammock Papers: Toto

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01 April 2024

Happy Birthday, Porcaro

Jeff Porcaro was born on this day in 1954.

Toto, live at the Agora in Cleveland, from 1979 (you'll need an extra side of ranch for these chicken nachos) ...

21 October 2023

Happy Birthday, Lukather

Steve Lukather was born on this day in 1957.

"Georgy Porgey" ..

You can just tell ... all those guys, crowd included, got their hair cut at California Concept.

Order an extra side of ranch.

18 May 2023

11 March 2023

Always.

It's always five plays for a dollar. You'll need schooners of Wiedemann for these.

Sing along loudly with your eyes tightly closed for dramatic effect ...

"Georgy Porgy"

"St. George and the Dragon"

"99"

"All Us Boys"

"Goodbye Elenore"

05 March 2023

Toto, "Live for Today"

The hollandaise fountain has returned for brunch and schooners of Moosehead are two-for-one from one until two ... if you're wearing Clark's Wallabees.

21 October 2022

Happy Birthday, Lukather

Steve Lukather was born on this day in 1957.

"Hold the Line" with Toto ...

10 September 2022

09 July 2022

Always.

The soup is French Onion, Long Islands are the happy-hour special, and it's always five plays for a buck ...

Wings, "Junior's Farm"

Toto, "Manuela Run"

Supertramp, "It's Raining Again"

Poco, "Heart of the Night"

America, "Tin Man"

30 April 2022

Toto, "St. George and the Dragon"

More Coors Light!

More nachos! More ranch!

Five plays for a dollar,

Then get up and dance!

The first cut on the Cowbell Culture Mix.

01 April 2022

Happy Birthday, Porcaro

Jeff Porcaro was born on this day in 1954.

Toto, "Girl Goodbye" ... (DO NOT listen to this song without first ordering chicken nachos and tall Coors Light)

23 October 2021

Toto, "Live for Today"

Game day specials ...

Schooners of Wiedemann for $1.75
Fried mushrooms and nachos are half price until 7:00.
We've also added bar cheese and rye toast to the salad bar.

As always, five plays for a buck on the jukebox ...

15 October 2021

Released.

Toto released their self-titled debut on this day in 1978.

And you think it's real
But it's just another future deal
And you know you're right
'Cause you've waited for it all night
Then you find yourself
Sitting on a little shelf
Whoa-oh-oh

David Paich, from "Rockmaker"

25 June 2021

Happy Birthday, Paiche

David Paiche was born on this day in 1954.

I'm grateful to Kurt for many things, among them, introducing me (probably on the same day) to chicken nachos and Toto.

"Rockmaker" recorded live at Cork 'n Cleaver ...

01 April 2021

Happy Birthday, Porcaro

Jeff Porcaro was born on this day in 1954.

A Chicken Nachos classic, Toto's "Rockmaker", recorded live at the Cork & Cleaver ...

09 July 2020

Toto, "Rockmaker'

Chicken nachos and Coors Light. Repeat as needed ...

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."