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G —
I heres ya, brah.
I didn’t want to you feel neglected, so I’m giving ya a quick shout-out, with the promise of a vague and hasty and entirely unobjectively-done pseudo analysis later…
But right about now I gots stuff to do, brah!
Yours with Francona-love —
T, now with Farrell redux
HDbahn, post: 8547 wrote:Gave my giant playing card collage/request to JT to be ignored as usual by Bruce…the first show of twelve this year that I know, where he didn’t play Prairie Dog Town.Hah. You got dissed too, huh? 😆 P’raps we ought to start a “Reqs Dissed By Bruce (particular tune/s and number of times)…As for “P Dog,” is that a good thing or a bad thing? Are you counting solo gigs? He didn’t do it at Keene, but did at Rutland. Not a fan of that tune, but waddaya gonna do?
Thanks for the deets, HD —
T
Saturday night wing-ding at the ol-skool style Paramount in exciting and enervating downtown Rutland, VT —
— I met JC and S, who’d been to the Keene show as well! Pegged JC as a potential listie when I saw him clutching a pen and paper. Heh. Thought that it would’ve been too much of a coincidence and didn’t wanna be pegged as a doofus, nevermind the reality. He goes “Are you ‘Takavl?!'” Ha. Nerded out about that and embarrassed my newbie Hornsby-bud JK, but oh well. JC and S — call me.
— Met another couple who were also at the Keene show, but didn’t get their names. I might’ve irritated them by (good-humoredly) ripping on them for leaving the Fri. show before the “Candy Mtn., Show Goes>Swan” encore…
— Speaking of getting ripped and ripped on, BH was ripping on all number of peeps: One dolt kept hollering “DID YA EVAH PLAY WITH JERRRREEE?” over and over. BH sez “No, I never played with Jerry Lewis.” “NOOO, GARRSSEEAH!” BH: “Uh, only about 150 times or so…”
Some other dipshit yelled out “Arizona State!” when BH was bragging on R&KH, BH replied “Uh, what does that have to do with anything? I know you’re just trying to throw me. Well, it worked. That’s OK, keep on heckling. What, did you guys go and get hammered and decide to come yell at me? I can handle it. BTW, seems like AZ St. has had some drafting violations? I don’t know that…but I do suspect it.” Let’s see, what else…this was a good one — “Ya know, every time I see ‘VT’ I think ‘Virginia Tech’…” Audience: “Booooooo!” BH: “Ha.”— Related: BH mentioned that he loves VT and remembers every gig here…whereas the previous night in Keene (NH) a chick yelled out about some show at the Hampton Casino — BH: “We played that song? I’ll take your word for it. I don’t remember much about NH…other than the crazy-ass casino people…” Heh.
— The Rutland Paramount? Yes. A good venue with good sound, and just loud enough. Coulda been louder, but that’s me. Watch those steep as hell VT-style staircases…been here 11 years and I’m still not use to that shit…and we even have one in our house!
— If you’re ever in Rutland, go to Table 24, a bar and grille around the corner (also a sponsor of the show, unbeknownst to us at the time). Best cheeseboigah I’ve had in a while, and try the Tavish-tini if you like your cocktails with a kick.
— BH must be pissed at me for dissing his dissing of the spring scheduling so that he could chill with the skeeters and gators and neo–neo-crunchies at the Suwanee Slopfest…for I whiffed on every single reqqie, although both nights I saw him chuckling at the reqqie sheets! He was prolly laughing at himself and thinking “I’ll teach that jackass and deny him real good!” 😆 If only….ha. (For the record — “Hot House,” “Circus,” and Leon’s “Hummingbird.”)
Rocking on —
T
Bruce was probably in a bad mood. Or he was just being a smartass. Or both.
In (not)all seriousness, the state of American music these days is somewhat blech, so…?
I tried to get him to play “The Changes” Friday night, to no avail. But I know that no one cares, and really, why should they? 😆
To expound a bit further, at the Rutland show BH brought up the example of Bobby McFerrin and that most people just know him for, as BH said, a quirky “but very well-done novelty hit.” The reality of the situation is that McFerrin, like BH, is a serious student of Americana and Western Classical. The early hits were both the best and worst things to happen to both of them, and at the same time in 80’s pop history. The hits provided “capital,” so to speak, so that those resources could be used to fund other excursions. The dilemma of the pop artist in a sometimes shallow medium. (I use “pop” in its largest sense, as referring to all American popular music since the advent of jazz and all offspring not related to the Western “Classical” field. Or Indian classical, but I digress…:geek:) Wes Montgomery and George Benson decided to cover lame tunes, Quincy Jones (and Oliver Nelson) arranging for TV and film, as well as producing. Zappa just wrote more novelty tunes. Etc, etc.
When my friend and I were at the bar before the show, a couple of ladies our age sat down and we talked about Bruce — they were just going for something to do, they wanted to know what our favorite songs were (chuckle), and they couldn’t remember any BH tunes, they “just like his music.” Yes, that’s what they said. 🙄
T
Good show last night at the ol’ Colonial in the thriving downtown metropolis of lovely Keene, NH.
JC has posted the setlist, beating me to it by a few hours. (I’d actually written one up this morning when I got home but the site must’ve logged me out; when I re-signed in, the entry was gone and my screen was blank…no, I didn’t black out! )A few mildly amusing anecdotes, as well as random and very subjective observationes —
— First time I’d been to a BH show where the shouted reqs of “Way” and “Rain” and “Jack Straw!” started to become annoying. Imagine how BH feels…That said, I didn’t catch many audience members getting impatient with the more atonal, out-there venturings (“Catenaires,” “Charlie, Woody…,” etc) of our beloved Bruce. Also — first time I’ve had seats on the left side of BH (and relatively close, 3rd row) so I was VERY ABLE to see all of the spider fingerings. Wow.
— He played “Anna Lee” on dulcimer, as noted by JC. Never heard the tune before, but it’s from Helm’s last solo album “Dirt Farmer.” Bruce mentioned that he was practicing on us as he’ll be doing the song at the Helm benefit/memorial show in Joisey this Wednesday.
— I think that BH was using a Steinway loaner; a truck from a Stnwy. dealer from White River Junction (directly up Interstate 91, across the CT River from Dartmouth, NH) was parked outside the venue. I’d wondered how he was gonna do that. This particular piano had a Moog Piano Bar, which enabled BH to get the choral synth washes without his regular kybd. laying on top. Is this something he does now (every show I’d seen his synth would be up top) or just when he’s traveling solo and it’s more convenient to get a piano with embedded tech?
— First time, believe it or not, I’ve seen a show with an intermission!
— Seemed to be quite the townie thing to do; despite it being a semi-hometown show for your humble narrator, my bud and I recognized only two people. Nothing else to do in Keene on a rainy Friday night, so why not? Either that, and/or there were many peeps from the outlying NH/MA/VT areas. Also, during the intermission, they (the townies) just STAND THERE. They don’t move, they carry on chatting in the aisles and walkways, they throng the entryway buying overpriced boxed white wine 😆 and they ignore you when you say “Uh, excuse me…trying to get thru, here…” etc, etc. Ugh, I’ve been here too long. 👿
— The Colonial needs to invest in a renovated sound system, or maybe just TURN IT UP. It’s a concert, people, not a social gathering with background noise…
— A seemingly booze-enhanced shout-out of what sounded like “Booilll Radley!” led to BH ripping on the guy thusly — “What’s that, you wanna hear a tune about Bill Bradley?”
— Was it just me, or did BH seem to be a bit tired? Maybe the constant heavy New England misting outside was bumming him out? Maybe it’s me carping and there were a few too many ballads for my taste, not enough rollicking good timey-tunes. Not to mention that BH spent the second half of the show overly concerned with two lil’ chirruns in the front row, aka the Gold Member section. Also, this show was the first time I’d submitted a setlist and whiffed on the whole thang (for the record, here were the reqqies: “Parisian Thoroughfare,” “King of The Hill,” “The Changes,” “Swing Street”) — maybe I should’ve brought my boys? I know, I know….waaaaaaaaaaah. 😆 Oh well, waddaya gonna do?
On to Rutland, VT for tonight’s festivities!
T
Takavl, post: 8511 wrote:Too busy stalking Joe Maddon again? LOLActually, he’s probably hunting down Sandy A. Jr. to get some cards signed…
T
Okay people, anybody else gonna be there?
………..crickets chirping……….
Well, see you there, then! LOL
T
Yo G —
I presume that your “detailed review” is on its way, having sprung from your fingers feverishly typing away at the keys…what’s that? Too busy stalking Joe Maddon again? LOL
Good setlist, I’m gonna try and give ol’ BH a couple of challenges or three…started writing them down already.
I guess you won’t be joining me for the Friday Keene show and/or the Sat. Rutland show, huh? SiTwi had also threatened but I’ve heard nothing from him, either.
Oh well, waddaya gonna do.
Back to topic — details and gossip, please!
T
A-HAAA!
Great pic, great pick? 😆 Looks like a sharpened Crayola brown if you just glance at it.
Oh yeah, “Cherokee” —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHoQkxQuHFY
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:I read the other night on the Ratdog.org board about a few ‘deadheads’ whining about Bruce ‘talking down’ to the crowds at the ‘Alone & Together’ shows he did with Bobby Weir. I laughed my ass off when I read what these guys were complaining about.
You can sorta hear it in the recordings but still funny to me because even though I am a huge deadhead I still think that it is the most pretentious crowd and I gotta feeling Bruce may feel the same way at times….especially when the hetty request of Jack Straw is yelled constantly at his shows by the peeps there for the wrong reasons.All in all…I enjoyed the previous random observations and comments…especially that T character’s what you thought I retired from the board.
Okay, one question answered! I’ll have to take a look at the Ratdog forum for some late-night giggles.
Retired? No, I just thought that you were celebrating Maddon’s Mashers… 🙄
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:I was a little disappointed in Bruce’s setlists. I wish he would have busted out his best stuff seeing that he was playing for a mostly GD crowd. I read a lot of heavily criticized whining off another message board about Bruce’s performance and comments from these two shows.
I do love the Bruce/Bobby together part of the show…that Lady with a Fan > Dark Star > The Other One was sweet. I also love that Bobby busted out a solo My Brother Esau.C’mon brah, don’t leave us hangin’! 😆 What do you consider his best stuff? Which site featured the whining?
I didn’t know you were such a tease. 🙄
I liked “Esau” as well, but the version of “Lady/Dark/Other” revealed (IMHO) how much better BH’s voice is than Bob’s. Another interesting facet of the recordings was Bob’s guitar stylings in a solo environment, i.e. no Jerry. I was surprised that when he played blues-style (“Hell,” “Esau” for two exs.) he sounded good, but in a more poppish format he came off as not so “there.” IMHO, you know.
Your Rays are on top of the world, broheim…my Bobby V crew not so much. 🙄 I attribute it to The Curse of The Epstein. 😆
T Mang
si_twining wrote:Well, I can help with Swing Street, as it appeared as a dose from a show last summer. I think I was sent it as a one one file (which explains why I don’t have the setlist).Try the Dose archive page:
https://bruuuce.com/2011/08/05/doses/?dl_page=2
As for Barren Ground and Holy Trinity, leave it with me…
Leave it to SiTwi to come up with a “one and done” from lovely Englewood.
Thanks, Si — you’re the best, and you know it —
T
Bounty8111 wrote:Bruce just cracks me up when people request stuff that obviously either drives him nuts or he obviously can’t stand or really doesn’t want to play anymore. He’s usually funny about it thought and sometimes will give in. I remember a solo-show he did in Redding, CA a few years ago where an audience member were heckling him with “Every Little Kiss” requests every other song break, and he retorted that he doesn’t do that anymore because it’s too “Mushy”. Then he turned around and freestyled a portion of it into the next song he did just to be nice.Limited sample I know, but the shows I’ve seen (Lowell, Foxwoods, Berklee, Albany for 4 NOT 5 as stated prev.) have not featured BH (audibly or visibly) humorously song-blocking anyone’s reqqie. Maybe I should take it as yet another example of NE/left-coast jadedness that not too many peeps have written or shouted something he didn’t wanna do…too much. I do recall that the Berklee Perf. Center had great acoustics, as such rendering any hollered-out song title very perceptible. Not to mention that any shout-out for “Jack Straw” I just took as an in-joke. Could be wrong about that.
Ya never know — I might get to hear BH ripping on a lame request this fall at the Keene & Rutland make-ups…
T
JF1 wrote:They actually played Swing Street on the last tour, September 30th, in Englewood, NJ (A few shows after I requested it in Los Angeles 😡 )Well, I guess you told me! 😆 Good that he’ll trot it out every once in while, it’s too good not to be.
Do you happen to have the setlist? It’s not listed here, unless I’m mistaken.
The Goon started a thread a while back about tunes we’d most like to hear that we haven’t; “Swing Street” is definitely one of my top five…
— Swing
— Hot House Ball
— Stander
— The Changes
— Mirror (electric, not hillbilly…sorry )T
Bounty8111 wrote:-Bruce shared with the audience in Medford that “Stranger” had a reading a couple weeks ago with some “Executives” and that it went horribly. He seemed to be serious and ended by saying it’ll probably be a “very long time” before anyone ever sees the play come to life again.-“I Can’t make you love me” is definitely a staple of his now, being played at every show I saw except Oakland. He went into detail in Medford about how it was written by an ex-football player and how he was “afraid he’d beat my ass” if he changed it around too much, but that in the end he was very proud of contributing to the song.
-Each show had a section of songs dedicated to the play, and the audience was really eating it up each time he did this. “Where’s the Bat” and “Holy Trinity” were the clear favorites at every show he did them.
-I certainly had more Marijuana smoke blown in my face in Oakland than i’ve probably ever experienced before at a Hornsby show, so that was interesting and slightly different. Still a great show, worth it alone for “Most of the time” with Bruce on Piano.
-I had the VIP experience for the Bend show but I ended up getting a phone call from rocknroll tshirts.com earlier this week informing me that they had to cancel it due to the venue being “Unable to accommodate it”….which royally disappointed me. Judging from the audio quality of the show, seems as if they didn’t do a sound check at all.
-Bruce acknowledged an audience member’s request for “Swing Street” at the Bend show and responded by saying “Come see the band play that. I can’t do that right now, because I would just suck at it. That’s a great, obscure request though, and we don’t do that song often enough”
-At the Bend show, an audience member yells “Barren Ground!” repeatedly in between songs, and finally Bruce looks straight down at where she’s sitting and says in a completely deadpan tone, “I forgot it”
Bounty —
Fab review, lots of juicy tidbits. Thanks for taking the time.
— “Stranger”: I noticed that (at least on the first Weir show) BH was still referring to the play as “SCKBSTD.” I wondered if that was telling in any fashion. Also, I seem to recall BH noting (perhaps on the solo Bend dld. from ’07) vis a vis “Don of Dons” that some Bdwy. peeps had heard “What Hap’d,” “Heir G,” “Hooray” and this led to him considering his musical, followed by him stating that “the streets are littered with pop stars who’ve stiffed on Bdwy.” or something like…
— “Make You Love” by Reid/Shamblin, with as Wikipedia states “interpolations by Hornsby.” Hmm. Didn’t know that.
— “Bat” and “Trinity”: Heard “Bat” on the Weir share, haven’t heard the latter yet. “Bat” I did like a bit better than some of the show tunes put on “Levitate.”
— “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” Sorry, have to chuckle: “Whoa, DUDE…HOW many hands does Bruce have? Hey, have you ever really looked at your hand…” 😆
— Sorry to hear about your VIP experience…or lack thereof. You did get a refund, yes?
— Come and see the band play “Swing Street”? I’ve seen BH and the NMs 5 times and asked for it 3 times, still haven’t heard it. In fact, from browsing the setlists here I think the last time they played it might’ve been ’02, or possibly ’04. Which leads us to…
— “Barren Ground” which they played (according to setlist here) at last year’s Mountain Winery (w/Shawn C). So he forgot it between then and now? 😮
Again, cool review and write-up. The hardcore appreciate it, at least I know I do. The gossip was good, too… 😆
T
si_twining wrote:Great read – thanks for sharing this.Quote:-Bruce LOVES telling the bit about Jimmy Martin’s “King of Bluegrass” front gate.?! Not sure that I know the story!
SiTwi —
What?! You haven’t listened to the first BH/Weir show? 😮
I’m marginally certain that BH tells the Martin story in a somewhat ironic fashion — what else is new, right? 😆 My interp: Jimmy Martin, bluegrass musician, resident of Nashville, apparently had a large sign attached to his front gate which read “Home of Jimmy Martin, King of Bluegrass.” The humor that I took from the anecdote was that perhaps he wasn’t worthy of the self-appended title?
I only say this from my own familiarity with bluegrass as a pop American idiom, as well as my upbringing — where I grew up just north of Tampa, FL was, believe it or not, somewhat of a bluegrass oasis with several touring bands residing therein. My guitar teacher was a gun for hire with a couple of said family outfits and as such would disabuse me (as a scoffing young metal/proghead with r&b flirtings) of any notion of bluegrass being “crap.” 😆 So I would hear lots about Nitty Gritty, Ralph Stanley, Monroe, etc….
I found the story funny, Si, ‘cuz I never heard of the guy and yet he had a “King” placard in front of his house. But then again, I could still be a dumb kid from FL. 🙄
T
Hey, I just posted the link! But…you’re welcome!
All shows are from the board, pro-master and picked by Hornsby…same as Hornsby Live, just not his actual page and etc. I thought that the site used to state something about the shows being recorded by Wayne “Dagle” Pooley, but I could be wrong. Hard to imagine that someone else did it, though…
There are some good shows to be had…
T
JF1 wrote:Where did you download these shows from? I don’t see them on the site.From —
https://www.munckmusic.com/wms/hornsby/index.html
The bit up top about “this site is closing soon” has been up for at least 6 months, so who knows…
: 🙄In mid-February I had to snag some of the same ones I dl’d a couple of years ago due to a memory zap and all of my hardcops being scratched to hell. That sucked, BTW 👿 I hope that BH gets a good cut and not just the Munck dipshits — let’s just say that their “customer service” is sporadic, at best. 😆 And watch out for the dreaded “links that don’t work.” 😡
But they do have some good shows…3 of which you can get at the new live site — Boston, Chicago, and NC (all ’04 I believe).
T
I haven’t been too crazy about the Dagle comps or the shorter shows from last summer; the shows from ’09 were rifled through to collect material for “Bride,” so I didn’t get any of those.
BUT (and a big “but” indeed), I’ve got most of the Muncks, with my favorites being:
— Aladdin ’04
— O Zoo ’05
— Anaheim ’05
— Woodinville ’06And SLC ’05 comes close. As does the Bend solo show. Not to mention that ’07 freebie, which I managed to snag apparently, literally, no joke, MINUTES before it got yanked. Whew! 😆
Ha! All West Coast shows (exception: freebie). A coincidence, I’m sure.
: 🙄 T
Can we go with 5? Can I get a 5? 1 just doesn’t seem like enough…
1) Big Rumble
I just can’t do it. Every time that tune comes around — SKIP! 😆
4 honorable mentions, thanks for humoring me…the following are also skipped:
2) Preacher 1 & 2 (derivative, somewhat uninspired)
3) Levitate (I know that boomers love “Shawshank,” but seriously BH…plus, the melody’s lacking)
4) Harbor Lights (I dig the chords, can’t stand the lyrics…)
5) Space Is The Place (Sorry, Sonny and JV. Lame funk with more of EC’s pouty-face 3- and 4-note Strat squigglies makes me
wanna hurl.)That’s really about it, which is pretty good (I think) considering the depth of BH’s catalog. I also considered the Skaggs/BH and BH/McBride/Jack DeJ platters but I like all the BH originals contained therein. I didn’t count the live rekkids, nor did I figure in the “Greatest” or “Intersections” although I suppose you could make an argument for inclusion of the latter. Oh, and just now realized that I didn’t take into account the Henley or Raitt collabs. Oh well.
That leaves us with 11 studio albums (by my count) with an average of about 11 tunes per disc with (again, my count) 126 total songs, minus let’s say 10 for non-originals to end up at 116. I don’t like 5 songs out of 116 for a percentage of about 95, so that’s pretty damn good, unless my just-commenced St. Patty’s day celeb has impaired my math. I know that BH is relieved…………… 😆 🙄
T
JF1 —
I could be mistaken, but “Every Little Kiss” isn’t on my copy of “Bride.” Nor is it listed here —
http://www.allmusic.com/album/bride-of- … s-r2188156
I know that there was at least one different release of the album, as an Amazon download I believe, that had “Mandolin Rain.” Do you have an import with different extra tracks?
As for why he’s not keen on playing EVK, it’s either because the tune is old or too sappy (your “love song” explanation)…something along those lines. At one point, I think a while back, the estate of Charles Ives initiated legal action for appropriating/”paying homage to” Ives’ “Concord Sonata — The Alcotts,” which is the first 2 or 3 measures of EVK…I wonder if he has to chip in a % every time he plays the tune for a paying public…? Hasn’t stopped him from using other Ives bits, like the chromatic sequence in “Charlie, Woody, n’ You.” But Ives is credited on that one…
Maybe he just doesn’t like the tune anymore.
T
si_twining wrote:Two shows in two days can’t be a bad thing – it’ll be worth the wait!If I can get the cash together…
I’m good with the wait, delayed gratification and all. Not to mention that if there are any more “scheduling slip-ups” they certainly ought to be ironed out by then. Okay, I’ll let it go…
If you find that you do have the wherewithal, SiTwi, lemme know. It’ll be interesting to see how many of the board’s NE denizens make it — sometimes peeps in the NY/NJ/New Eng. area hear “VT or NH” and immediately picture the Quebec border. It ain’t like that, dontcha know; Keene is about 2 hours from Beantown and roughly 2.5 hrs. from Hartford, with Rutland being about 1.5 from Albany. All in all, not that bad and no one needs a passport…at least not yet. 😆
T
MVF wrote:I ONCE heard Bruce play Free Bird/The Way It Is (to the music of FB)/The Way It Is (played the RIGHT way) followed by “There, are you happy, Miss Virginia Former?!?! 😮 😆Ha. So he actually let fly with “Free Bird”? 😆 Yes, pun intended. Sorry.
It would be interesting to plot out when and where yelling “Free Bird” became one very large in-group joke of a cliche/cliche of a joke. The joke itself has gone from funny to tiresome back to funny ad infinitum. So BH uses it as a segue…hilarious.
And of course now I can only think of one other example where I heard some comedian request the Skynyrd tune, with it seeming VERY incongruous — on a live King Crimson cd that I’ve got somewhere; Adrian Belew pauses and has some witty quip, and then the concert goes on.
T
wo-oh wo-oh wo-oh yeah-eah…Wow.
Si posted the sets from London and Glasgow.
Here’s G:
01/30/12 Royal Concert Hall – Glasgow, UK
Set One: (Shostakovich) > China Doll, Lost in the Snow, Sad Moon, Song C > Sad Moon, Lost Soul, Heir Gordon, (Schoenberg), Neighbourhood Watch, (Don of Dons), Soon Enough, Mandolin Rain
Set Two: Valley Road > (Life of the Party), The Road Not Taken > (Hole in My Bucket) > (Working in a Coalmine), End of the Innocence, 20/20 Vision, I Can’t Make You Me, The Way It Is
Encore: What the Hell Happened, Spider Fingers > (Questions and Answers)That’s what the gripers were griping about? 😆
L:
01/28/12 Shepherds Bush Empire – London, UK
Set One: (Shostakovich) > The Road Not Taken, Valley Road, Black Rats of London, Don of Dons, Soon Enough, Where’s the Bat, 20/20 Vision > Night on the Town, Catenaires > Talk of the Town > Charlie Woody and You, I Can’t Make You Love Me
Set Two: Country Doctor, Dreaded Spoon, Crown of Jewels, End of the Innocence, (new song from Red Hook Summer), Spider Fingers > Questions and Answers, The Way It Is, Fortunate Son, Mandolin Rain
Encore: What the Hell Happened
Encore 2: Standing on the Moon > Halcyon DaysLooks good, what’s the prob? Oh, right…”dire” first set, indulgence…I surprised I didn’t see the fab Brit word “muso.” There’s still time, I suppose.
T
GuinnessGoon wrote:It would be sweet if all the shows from the past tours became available as there are so many shows from 2001 – 2005 that I would love to have the soundboard of. I already have all the ones he let out but so many better shows weren’t made available from those tours.Yeah mang, I wholeheartedly agree…although our chances of that are slim, even if just due to human error, recording difficulties, BH being unhappy with a perf. where he’s “sucking,” etc.
Just from perusing the lists here, there are many shows (particularly between ’04 and ’07, with a great many in ’05) that I’d LOVE to have a crack at…
T
JC has posted the setlist, beating me to it by a few hours. (I’d actually written one up this morning when I got home but the site must’ve logged me out; when I re-signed in, the entry was gone and my screen was blank…no, I didn’t black out! )
: 🙄