Met up with Old Goat,  JEvil and K2 at Granville.

Wound around the (very wet) forest for 12-miles of enjoyment.

Having been born in 1962, and liking and listening to music from the early sixties onward, I thought it might be fun to attempt a listing of my favorite albums each year since birth.

The initial post for this series of ideas began on December 26th, 2023.  You can look it up....

This time, I present my favorite albums of 1965...

Albums released 1965

  1.    Jackson C. Frank                             Jackson C. Frank

  2.    The Fugs                             The Fugs First Album

  3.    John Fahey                              The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death

  4.    The Who                              My Generation

  5.    Them                             The Angry Young Them (US)

  6.    The Sonics                              Here Are The Sonics

  7.    Bob Dylan                              Bringing It All Back Home

  8.    The Pretty Things                             The Pretty Things

  9.    The Kinks                              Kinkdom (US)

10.    Fred Neil                             Bleecker & MacDougal

Honorable Mentions (11 thru 20)

11.    The Yardbirds                             Having a Rave Up with The Yardbirds (US)

12.     The Kinks                             The Kink Kontroversy

13.     Bert Jansch                             Bert Jansch

14.     Bob Dylan                             Highway 61 Revisited

15.     Vince Guaraldi                             A Charlie Brown Christmas

16.     The Zombies                             Begin Here

17.     The Animals                             Animal Tracks (US)

18.     Beatles                                     Rubber Soul

19.     The Rolling Stones                     Out of Our Heads

20.     The Pretty Things                             Get the Picture?

Honorable Mentions (21 thru 33)

21.     Richard Farina and Mimi Farina     Celebrations For a Grey Day 

22.     The Beau Brummels             Introducing The Beau Brummels

23.     Beatles                                     Help!

24.     The Rolling Stones                     December's Children (And Everybody's (US)

25.     The Paul Butterfield Blues Band     The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

26.     The Byrds                     Mr. Tambourine Man

27.     Donovan                     Fairytale

28.     Beau Brummels                     The Beau Brummels, Volume 2

29.     The Yardbirds                     For Your Love

30.     The Hollies                     Hollies

31.     The Byrds                     Turn! Turn! Turn!

32.     Donovan                     What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid

33.     The Lovin' Spoonful             Do You Believe in Magic

Jazz Albums released 1965 (coming soon)

Jazz Honorable Mentions (coming soon)

Exited work early enough to drive to Granville and manage a decent 8.7-miles.

I tried to explore a bit off Old Westfield Road, exploring the Tillotson Brook basin up toward Tice Hollow Road and the intersection with Sullivan Road 

A magnificent Waterfall revealed itself on Tillotson, along with some interesting stonework..

 

Cowles Park at 5:30 p.m. for 3.4-miles.

Third meeting with our Financial Advisor / Fiduciary, continued planning of our future. 

DL and I took a mid-morning drive to Whately.  

We assisted with the Hay Delivery at auction with my folks. 

Once finished at auction, we stopped at Yankee Candle and did a bit of browsing (and shopping).

Later, I explored 5-miles in Granville, from Holden Hill area into Phelon Forest and back.

Negotiations at work.  Longish session with some ideas to sort through.

Met up with J Evil and K2 in Granville.  

Weather mentioned clearing by 9:30 a.m. and it was splendid.

50-degrees and very sunny.

7.8-miles, with a stumble upon a little loop of a new trail being worked on.

8.8-miles in Granville, nice sunny day with several new paths to explore. 

Prior to work, I managed a decently steady ramble on the Metacomet from Route 20 to the Notch.

Total of 5.8-miles, with a mix of cloudy and sun, fifties. 

High sixties temperature today, drove out to Cowles around 5 p.m. for a 3.4-mile run. 

The Return of a great big Black Bear to our patio around 11:30 p.m. tonight.

The Beast spent some time tearing up an empty birdseed bag.

Bands and Live Performances I've been a part of:

#15.

Primitives, Private House Party (Burlingame), late summer 1984 (another guess).

Stick a fork in us, we were done.  

LM was unable to drum, Wheatbread attempted to.  

Mike G tried to sing.  Al didn't.

Vango played a bit.

It was over.

"Non" Black Lizard / Vintage Crime #10 for 2024...

"The Devil Knows You're Dead " written by Lawrence Block, first published in 1993.

This is book eleven of the Mathew Scudder Series.

Joined the gang for a run from Crow Hill in Stafford, with aspirations to hit a turnaround point at The Trustee's of Reservations "Peaked Mountain" site.

Old Goat and I managed 5.6-miles, and a successful finding of Peaked's Peak.

K2 & JF got close to "Rattlesnake" Peak, with a nice effort at the finish.