When I Paint My Masterpiece

Dylan's When I Paint My Masterpiece is one of my favorite songs of all time. I don't care who does it, Chris with the New Earth Mud, the Band, the Dead, Emmylou, or even Dylan, it is wonderful. It conveys a sense of travel (even the fear of travel), homecoming, the passing of time, experience, and especially hope. I think the line "Someday, everything is gonna be different, when I paint my masterpiece" applies to both life, and your creations. I still live in hope it will apply to my scale modeling... It is also interesting to see both Dylan and others play with the lyrics of this song. For the record I prefer the versions that include "Botticelli's niece" and "Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola."

Dylan and the First Rolling Thunder Review from Renaldo & Clara. Dylan masked and anonymous as usual...



Dylan and the Second Rolling Thunder Review from Hard Rain



The Sorta Band from Bobfest...it can't be the real Band without Richard Manuel... They really nailed it that night...

Tri-State Warbird Museum FG-1D Corsair Restoration

One of the most interesting displays at the Tri-State Warbird Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the Corsair restoration project based upon Goodyear built FG-1D BuNo. 92132. Now registered N3466G this Corsair, which was built in Akron, Ohio, has spent most of its life in storage. The FG did not see combat and was retained in the U.S. Post-war it was on display with the Air Museum at various California locations. In the 1970s it was sold to David Tallichet and became a television star. After being brought back to airworthy shape, it was flown for the TV show "Baa Baa Black Sheep." Once filming wrapped up, the Corsair was placed in storage first in California, and then in Illinois. A few years ago the project was placed on the market and the aircraft was purchased by the Tri-State Warbird Museum. Since that time the airplane has been under a slow but methodical restoration back to airworthy condition. As this Corsair has not been previously restored in civilian life, and as it is a complete aircraft and not a wreak, it is a unique time capsule and will one day look stunning when it takes to the air.

Restoration has focused on the wings and the tail section. The center section is on display in the Museum in its unrestored state.

Neil Young - A Day in the Life

On his recent European tour Neil Young has been closing the shows with a cover of the Beatles A Day in the Life. It pretty much sounds as you would expect a Neil cover to sound...drenched in feedback...

Azur 1/72 Fleet Finch

Because of work commitments we had to cancel our trip to Virginia Beach for the IPMS/USA National Convention earlier in the month. I did however follow the posts, discussions, and photos online as most modelers do. Little of the new stuff announced or available at the show really excited me. However, last week I got a newsletter from Greatmodels and they mention Azur is doing a Fleet Finch in 1/72. Cool!

Fleet Finch box art

I can't wait to get my hands on a couple of these. I know Planet did a resin Fleet Finch a few years ago, and I do have one in the collection, but I would rather work in plastic then resin.

The Black Crowes - Columbus, Ohio 8/8/08

What can be better then a beautiful Friday night outside under the half moon with the Black Crowes? A cover of the Bee Gee's To Love Somebody? Yep, you read that right...they covered the Bee Gees. (Well, really they covered the Flying Burrito Brothers covering the Bee Gees...but close enough...)

Here is the set:

• Move It On Down The Line
• Evergreen
• Under A Mountain
• Coming Home
• Ballad in Urgency ->
• Wiser Time
• There’s Gold in Them Hills
• To Love Somebody
• Whoa Mule
• Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
• Waiting Guilty
• Sometimes Salvation
• Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution
• Soul Singing
• Wounded Bird

- encore -

• Willin’
• Don’t Do It

It was a good show. Not nearly as magical as the '05 and '06 Columbus shows, nor the late July shows in Cleveland, but still a solid set and performance. Highlights were a personal first time heard Under A Mountain, Senor, the aforesaid To Love Somebody, Sometime Salvation, and the closing cover of Don't Do It. The solo on Sometime Salvation may be the quintessential Marc Ford solo, but Luther did better then expected. I was less thrilled about his solos during Wiser Time. This was also a night of little technical issues. Chris broke a string on Waiting Guilty, and Steve had issues with his "Stanley Cup" bongo on Whoa Mule. I was glad that Chris told us that while "the half moon is alright, the full moon is the famous one." I never knew that...

It has been a great two week run of shows. The Crowes sound really good these days, and much better then I expected. I just wish I had made it to the Pittsburgh show...that set looks spectacular...Another Roadside Tragedy, Nebakanezer, My Morning Song, Feathers, Pawnshop...wowie...

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - If I Was From Paris

One of the highlights of the Black Crowes shows last week was my introduction to the opener Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. They put on an excellent show and have won a new fan. (How rare is that these days, a new artist to get excited about.) Here is Grace and band playing a newer song If I Was From Paris from a show earlier in the year. Any girl playing a Flying V is ok by me.

Tri-State Warbird Museum - The Flyers

Back in October while attending the Cincinnati Scale Modelers' Contest and Swap Meet, Matt and I took a side trip to the Clermont County Airport to visit the Tri-State Warbird Museum. It was a little hangar of some nicely restored airplanes, though it wasn't much of a Museum. Here are a few of the flying aircraft on display. (And yes I realize it is August and I took this pics in October...I'm a little slow...)

Ex-Royal Canadian Navy TBM-3E BuNo. 53420/N420GP was forlornly stuck in the corner.
TB-25N s/n 45-8898/N898BW "Axis Nightmare."

Every Museum needs a PT-17 Stearman. This is N224DF.
The Museum flagship is P-51D N83KD "Cincinnatti Miss" with the assumed identity of s/n 44-84410.

AT-6 s/n 42-84779/N7RK masquerading as "Tweety" the SNJ-5.

Later in the week I'll post some photos of the Corsair restoration project.

Since our visit the Museum has added a Strikemaster, FW-190 recreation, and a P-40 project to the collection. I'm not sure how they fit all the new additions in the hangar.