FIRST NOTABLE SOLAR FLARE OF 2015

BRRRRRRRRRRRR

JAN.15, 2015 11:15 AM Boy, sure looks chilly, and look at that snow cover. Glad I live in Florida!

RIP: RAY FALL

 Thanks for starting it all, Ray.

Ray McFall outside the Cavern Club

The Cavern Club’s legendary owner Ray McFall who first booked the Beatles has died.

Mr McFall, a legend of the British music scene, first bought the club in October 1959 from Alan Sytner and set about transforming it from a jazz club to the mecca of British rock and roll.

Buying the Cavern for the tidy sum of £2,750, Mr McFall owned and operated theMathew Street venue throughout the 60s- booking a young Ringo Star in his first band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

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Under Mr McFall, many more legends from the Who to the Kinks performed at the Cavern, and he first booked the Beatles for a lunch-hour appearance on February 21, 1961.

The Beatles’ first evening appearance followed a month later, the beginning of 292 Cavern Club dates by August 3, 1963, earning roughly 25 shillings per performance.

(With thanks to the Liverpool Echo)

NATIONAL BOBBLEHEAD DAY

 Happy #BobbleDay! It's a great day to support the Kickstarter to create the @BobbleheadHall bit.ly/bobblehof

BEER QUOTE

“I will legitimately miss Miller High Life Light. I know. It's the Brüt of the Champagne of Beers. I can't help myself. I might be drinking one right now on my day off. Rick Wolfe, who run the Brewer's Tasting Room in Pinellas, told me one of the hardest things to do in brewing is a beer like the High Life. "They found a way to strip out all the color and all the taste," he told me while we discussed the #2015LocalBeerYear project. "That's hard to do."”

Chris Wilkerson

Deputy Editor-

Tampa Bay Business Journal

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL & SUNDRY!

THE CLOCK IS TICKING...

RIP: JOE COCKER

And only 70! Sorry to see him go, and way too young..let's just leave you with a performance from Woodstock...

KEEP YOUR MICROBES TO YOURSELF

The microbes in an average human body can weigh as much as 3#, or about the same as a human brain. They outnumber your body cells by 10-to-1.

(Don’t you feel itchy all over…you know you do.)

BEER #1218

And what a mouthful it is: 5 Rabbit 5 Lizard Latin-style Witbier with coriander, lime peel, and passion fruit. Whew! And a supremely drinkable beer. This beer is brewed in Illinois, and apparently is owned by South Americans, hence the Latin-style part of the beer. And I’ll tell you, there’s no mistaking the passion fruit in this beer. We have a passion fruit vine in the back yard, grows all over the place like crazy. And every once in a while it actually bears some fruit, which is fairly difficult to process, but when mixed with ice cream gives it a nice sharp tangy flavor. And apparently it does the same to beer. Even with the coriander and the lime peel flavors, the pre-eminent mouthfeel is the passion fruit.

 Actually sorry I only bought one bottle from Lakeland Beer Revolution store, but will definitely pick up a sixer next time I’m there. And hopefully Mike will have some of their other ‘Latin-style’ beers to try.  Lakeland Beer Revolution

So ask for it and give it a shot, if they don’t carry it, pester your local beer store, it’s worth it.