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What's this seeming obsession with 9 Cards lately?!

It's reminiscent of that old, 1968 Beatles Song, "Revolution 9," whose lyrics go: "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine..."

Oh, we spot a FLUSH in there, as well. The plot doth thicken.

The problem here is that if we do not Keep (2c 3c 5c 9c) and Toss (9 9), what, pray tell, do we do?

What Cut Card does NOT help the FLUSH? That's an exercise for the reader. Meanwhile, I'll Toss (9 9) in less than a heartbeat.

Since we have a Fender Bass in our little group here, today's musical selection harkens back to my teenage 'daze' of listening to the Jeff Beck Group and classic albums like "Truth" and one later released in 1972 now known as The Orange Album, with blues classics on it such as "Going Down."

One of Beck's classic songs from a later album titled "Blow by Blow" is a song 'in the key of love and lamenting,' C-minor, which was composed originally by Stevie Wonder and somewhat inauspiciously called, "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" in 1974. Wonder's former wife, Syreeta Wright, even performed the song with the original lyrics in 1974. Jeff Beck released "Blow by Blow" and stripped the song of its lyrics, and recorded "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" with a credit to his friend, Stevie, just a year later, in 1975. Syreeta died at age fifty-seven in 2004. The song lives on.

About three decades and one year later after "Blow by Blow," perhaps in an effort to see just how much guitar talent a single stage could support, Jeff Beck invited an Australian Sensation, a young (barely age twenty-one at the time) guitar player and singer, Tal Wilkenfeld, to join him and play live in concert, including the very difficult and critically-important bass guitar solo section of this now-classic song. (That's a little bit like allowing a Little League star female player to pitch several innings of a World Series Playoff Game!) At this time, Tal had been concentrating all of her effort on the bass guitar, and for fewer than five years!

And yet she was more than up to the task.

Entire performances with Tal, and the original "Blow by Blow" album with all of its songs, are all easily found online; and both the new and old, it's ALL material very much worth listening to and watching today.

The video of this particular song performance itself appears to have been superbly reprocessed and rendered in order to almost appear as if it's in high-definition, which was not even available at the time, as I believe it was in 2008 when this was recorded. The older, grainier version has over 8 million views, but I like how the video was improved in this more-recently posted version.

We can only imagine the discussion the smiling, young, effervescent, curly-haired Aussie girl's parents had with their then twenty-one-year-old daughter, who years earlier had dropped out of high school at age fourteen, in order to concentrate on learning to better play the guitar: "Did you say he was forty-two?" and then, as she prepared to leave the Australian Continent, she must have replied, "No, mom, he's forty-two years OLDER than I am."

If you enjoy instrumental rock guitar music with a jazz-fusion synthesis, and if you've not seen this performance before, you're in for a real treat: https://youtu.be/25q8nWZQGaQ

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