By the time Pink Floyd was formed, The Beatles were already the biggest band in the world. In 1967, when David Gilmour joined the progressive rock group, The Beatles' fame had grown even more. Both bands even had the chance to spend time together that year while they were at Abbey Road Studios. The Fab Four were recording "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and Floyd was working on "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". Although Gilmour hadn’t joined Pink Floyd at that point, he later had the chance to meet The Beatles and even collaborated with Paul McCartney on a few projects. The band from Liverpool always was a huge inspiration for countless artists worldwide, including David Gilmour. He even revealed once, which is one of his favorite Beatles songs. The Beatles song David Gilmour said is one of his favorite ones It's not easy to pick favorite Beatles songs because it's really a hard task since they have so many incredible tracks. But in an interview with BBC Radio 2 show “Tracks Of My Years” back in 2006 (Transcribed by Rock and Roll Garage), David Gilmour chose “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” as one of his favorite ones. He also explained why he likes this specific song. “I was an absolute mad Beatles fan. ‘You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away’ is I think, John Lennon‘s first moment of being influenced by Bob Dylan. It’s very much on the Bob Dylan vein. So it’s just one example of hundreds of things I could choose. Anything by The Beatles, really. Fantastic song,” David Gilmour said. Credited to Lennon and McCartney, the track was part of the album "Help!" released in 1965 by The Beatles. Besides the four members of the band, the session musician John Scott also played on that track. He recorded tenor and alto flutes. The track wasn't released as a single but remains as one of the band's most famous ones. That album also had the famous title-track, "I Need You", "Ticket To Ride" and "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". David Gilmour's work with Paul McCartney [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVXgpLeAfAY&pp=ygUmeW91IGdvdCB0byBoaWRlIHlvdXIgbG92ZSBhd2F5IGJlYXRsZXM%3D[/embed] The Pink Floyd guitarist and singer had the chance to work with McCartney a few times. In 1979 he played in The Wings single "Rockestra Theme" and then on the album "Give My Regards to Broadstreet" (1984). He would also collaborate with the Beatle on the albums "Flowers In The Dirt" (1989) and "Run Devil Run" (1999). In 1999 Gilmour was part of McCartney's band for a special show at the historical Cavern Club in Liverpool. Besides him, were also part of the Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice, guitarist Mick Green, keyboardist Pete Wingfield and Chris Hall playing accordion. In a conversation with French Guitarist magazine (Translated by Rock and Roll Garage) back in 2002, Gilmour praised McCartney. “He is a musician in the broadest sense of the word. He can play everything: bass, guitar, piano, drums. And on all these instruments, he has a very good level." "We cannot therefore mystify him, he knows exactly what he wants. We owe him certain productions which were not of the greatest interest. But he definitely deserves the success and respect he enjoys,” David Gilmour said.The post The Beatles song David Gilmour said is one of his favorite ones appeared first on Rock And Roll Garage.

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You won't believe how well they treated him. This was back in 2015.... JOE ROGAN: “Watch this...This is literally bonkers.” BARBARA WALTERS: “Please welcome my friend, Donald Trump.” JOE ROGAN: “Watch this. Just watch this. This is nuts. We're in an alternative universe, okay? Because this is not that long ago.” The full Rogan interview is here.... https://old.bitchute.com/video/CLMKWZMpauQ7/

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The polls are showing that the presidential election is tied between Harris and Trump. According to famed pollster Nate Silver, polling data shows the race could go either way, but that Trump is slightly more likely to win on Nov. 5. He claims that the trouble with getting accurate polling data is that Trump supporters are suffering from the shy voter theory. And those left-leaning are suffering from the Bradley effect or Hillary effect (dealers choice on which one). The so-called Bradley effect — named after the former Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, who was running for California governor in 1982 and underperformed in the polls — is due to voters to answering pollsters as undecided rather than admit they wouldn’t vote for a Black candidate. Or, it could be the Hillary effect — the same principle, only substitute female for Black. However, the Bradley effect is a myth. If true, Bradley also would have underperformed in the polls during his previous five winning campaigns for mayor of Los Angeles. The reality is that Bradley “won” on election day, but ultimately lost once the avalanche of postmarked absentee ballots were counted. At the time, California had recently changed the law to allow absentee ballots for any reason. In a curious reversal from what we see now on Election Day, Democrats hadn’t adapted to the new voting options, but Republicans heavily funded an absentee ballot drive. The defective statewide Field Poll not only missed the impact of minor party candidates on the race, but even more importantly it did not poll absentee ballot voters. Therefore, Bradley did’t lose because he was Black. He lost because the Republicans had a better campaign strategy and the pollsters did not incorporate the absentee voters into their metrics. The Bradley or Hillary Effect in the 2024 Presidential Election There are a number of characteristics about a candidate that help to decide votes — not just race or gender. In the 2012 presidential race, far more Americans found Mitt Romney’s Mormon religion a deal breaker than Barack Obama’s Black status. Given the victimhood ethos now, if Trump wins, Harris supporters will cite her gender as being the reason. This will be even more ironic considering her supporters cannot define a woman. Or, they will claim she lost because she is Black — though more Americans voted for Obama because he is Black than voted against him because of his race. Hillary Clinton did not lose to Donald Trump because she is a woman. She lost because she is Hillary. Her hubris led her campaign in the final weeks to stop polling and limited spending in battleground states. On the other side, Trump’s campaign, in a final Hail Mary play, heavily funded efforts in those states that resulted in narrow victories and all of their electoral votes. If Harris loses, the complicit media will not blame her, but men — white, black, and Hispanic. Kamala might blame Doug’s nanny, who he impregnated, or his former girlfriend, who he accused of having slapped in public. Unlike a former drug addict who knows when he reaches rock bottom, “Because I ran out of people to blame,” there are a myriad of people to blame for her potential loss. Back in 2020, Harris was the first to drop out of the Democratic primary. Back then, just as now, no party delegate ever voted for her nomination to be the Democrat presidential candidate. Contrary to what Michelle Obama recently claimed at a campaign stop in Michigan, Kamala Harris is not being held to a higher standard, but a lower one. She has not earned her nomination through the support and endorsement of her fellow Democrats. She was crowned as the party’s nominee because she is a Black woman. Does anyone really think that if her running mate, Tim Walz, were Biden’s vice president that he would be the party’s nominee? There Are No “Undecideds” This Election We’re always told that whoever can get enough of their supporters off the couch and into the voting booth will decide the election — and those undecided will remain home. Now, there are few, if any, undecided voters. Even reluctant voters have reacted to the cognitive dissonance occurring in this presidential election. Trump “lost” the presidential debate to Harris, but also “won.” Harris came across as scripted, slick, and inauthentic, the debate a precursor to the Saturday Night Live parody of her trademark nonresponse, “I come from the middle class.” But, as one Politico headline read, “Trump’s Improv Stood No Chance Against Harris’ Coached Attacks.” (READ MORE: A Memo to Donald Trump Before the Debate) In the past, the old ACLU would have criticized the egregious prosecutorial overreach being executed against Trump. This lawfare onslaught against Trump should have doomed him. Instead, that first debate doomed Biden. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and their co-conspirators who prate about democracy, seamlessly replaced the sitting president in a weekend coup. But the resulting media spin enabled Harris to morph from a giggling political hack to the candidate of “joy.” Can you be the candidate for “joy” if your administration’s legacy contains neither peace nor prosperity, elements necessary for joy? Trump may have credibility problems, but Harris has her own. She has constantly extolled the efficacy of “Bidenomics,” but everyday consumers see with their own eyes the price going up on everything — from food stuffs to insurance. Her numerous policy flip-flop schtick — delivered through surrogates — worked, until it didn’t. And chronic giggler Harris now faults Trump as the “unserious” one. (RELATED: Kamala Harris Flunked the Job Interviews) Two-thirds of all voters say the country is on the wrong track. Almost every citizen has been forced into support for one candidate or the other based on the things they see in their daily lives or on their screens. As it now stands, neither Trump nor Harris seek to persuade the few remaining undecided voters; instead, they are focusing on getting their believers to the polls. Subtle Clues of Uncertainty Meanwhile, the continued blatant media drive to gut Trump offends viewers. CNN is still pealing the bell about the Trump impeachments and the supposed Jan. 6 insurrection — giving a platform for the faux Republican Liz Cheney, who hopes for a political resurrection in a Harris cabinet. In my area, the Los Angeles Times, formerly a newspaper but now an anti-Trump newsletter, nonetheless makes no endorsement. Its owner deems Harris insufficiently solicitous of Hamas. And if Trump is so dangerous, why does the Washington Post not endorse? Voters seem to interpret the serial persecutions of Trump as a Stalinist crusade. The superfluous indictments coated Trump with teflon. And then, given Trump’s gutsy reaction to an assassination attempt that drew blood, the previously unsympathetic Trump is seen as a heroic Rocky who — despite a deck stacked against him — can triumph. Americans go for the underdog. For the majority of the electorate, the true definition of fascism remains a mystery. Few voters understand that the Nazi acronym stands for national socialist. They don’t realize that the current regulatory state is more closely related to fascism than the guy with orange hair. Along her campaign stops, Harris moves from the “politics of joy” to screeching that Trump is a fascist because he held a rally in Madison Square Garden?!? The hyperbole, red meat for her base, could backfire. Trump is attacked and name-called so much, so often, with the proverbial “everything but the kitchen sink,” that many voters tune out — especially to the hysteria. (RELATED: Whoever Yells ‘Fascist’ First Loses) Trump’s flaws are known and exposed and long baked in the minds of the voters. They’ve digested and reconciled themselves to these oft repeated defects. For her part, Harris couldn’t figure out who she was and tried to pander to everyone. She started out thinking she had to show loyalty to Biden, but this only resonated with the choir of her Democrat Trump-hating base. She needed to throw Biden under the bus to convince the undecided. She never was able to articulate how she differed from Biden, other than gender. And, in her political party, even that is up for debate. The lingering undercurrent of her campaign is Biden’s dysfunction, if not actual dementia. What did she know and when did she know it? Her team prepared her for esoteric but not basic questions. She could not articulate why she is running and what her first actions would be as president. She is not deft enough to thread the needle on foreign policy either. Although she claims to back Israel, she supported direct and indirect funding and aid for Iran, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas. Privately and publicly, she has worked to undermine Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israel Defense Forces. Though she implicitly, if not explicitly, accuses Israel of genocide, that’s not enough for the antisemites in Michigan. As a result, Harris has lost voter support among Jews and Arabs. The strategy of haranguing your traditional Democrat base isn’t working either. Obama, who wanted Biden replaced but not with Harris and thus was last on board for her, now reprimands Black males that support Trump. This strategy is backfiring since it is patronizing. Kamala and her surrogates all come across as angry. The strident and desperate Harris now speaks and acts unhinged — that was supposed to be Trump’s defining characteristic. Expect a reversal in demeanor again before November 5. She will close out the race in positive “vision” mode. Voters are already dizzy. Early Voting and the Polls Another positive indication for Trump — his voters are voting early, in contrast to 2020 when he imprudently urged his voters to wait. Current pollsters do not separately poll those who voted absentee or otherwise early and then extrapolate these numbers into an updated voter model. If that were the case, such polling would also indicate the actual loyalty rates among Republicans and defection rates among Democrats. It would also disclose how the pivotal independent voters are trending.  I have found a few things in recent polling that look good for a Trump win: National and battleground polls confirm a close race with movement toward Trump. Apples-and-apples comparisons confirm this trend because, regardless of methodology, each pollster’s modus operandi is constant. The national polls show Harris and Trump roughly even. We would need to see a 2- to 4-point lead for Harris to imply an Electoral College victory, because national polling is weighted toward the large electoral states — California and New York. The Harris favorable/unfavorable rating no longer tops Trump’s rating. If a voter switches, it’s more likely Harris to Trump than Trump to Harris. Third-party candidates are more likely to cut into Harris than Trump. Some U.S. Senate Democrat candidates in key states are now straying from Harris because their own polls likely show Trump gaining. Don’t be seduced by the margin of error. Assuming a properly drawn and executed sample, the probability is higher that the results are correct than that they are off by the margin of error. That’s a statistical measure often less important than non-sampling error. Critical is the definition of the voter universe, which often relies partly on past voter behavior. But the Trump strategy targets an enlarged universe of low-propensity voters and new voters. All of this is encouraging because if you are, say a Black male pondering whether to vote for Trump, and polls show Black males moving toward Trump with even CNN explaining why, it’s then OK for you to vote Trump. More generally, the published polls showing Trump gaining can become a self-fulfilling prophecy — giving permission and encouragement for wavering or lean-Trump voters to turn out to the polling stations for him. Trump, in national and battleground state polling, has consistently polled ahead of his numbers at the same point in 2016 and 2020. And Trump usually outperforms polling in part due to the shy voter theory — his voters not responding at all to pollsters or simply stating they are “undecided.” A Trump victory is hardly certain, especially if Harris, with a big money advantage, diverts her redundant advertising spending to voter turnout. But if Trump merely approaches parity in the popular vote, he could run the Electoral College table in the battleground states, creating an electoral landslide. 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Voter registration in Pennsylvania for the upcoming general election has closed and Republicans have hit a historic milestone. For the first time in 52 years, the statewide voter registration advantage held by Democrats has fallen below 300,000 registered voters — specifically to 297,824 voters. This remarkable shift holds potential major national ramifications for which party’s nominee wins the White House on Nov. 5. For context, Democrats in Penn’s woods once enjoyed a 1.1 million voter registration advantage, but that margin has consistently declined, with the drop accelerating this year. Not only did the GOP out-register Democrats in new voters, but also held an almost two to one advantage in party switches.  Democrats performed better following the coup that replaced President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris, but the resultant “joy” failed to slow the Republican voter registration trend. The GOP continued to steadily make gains up to the Oct. 21 voter registration deadline. (RELATED: Report From Pennsylvania: Part Two) In 2020, Democrats held a 685,818 voter registration advantage over Republicans. President Joe Biden carried Pennsylvania and won its 19 Electoral College votes by just 81,660 ballots. The GOP has cut the Democrats’ voter registration lead by 387,994 voters in the intervening four years. Pennsylvania polling has consistently shown the race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris to be a dead heat. In just the past week, two polls have shown Republican challenger David McCormick slightly edging incumbent U.S. Senator Robert P. Casey Jr., prompting the Cook Political Report to move the race from “lean Democrat” to “toss up.” A McCormick victory over Casey could be critical to Republicans securing a Senate majority. Drilling down into the voter registration numbers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we find three counties have flipped from blue to red in recent months. No counties flipped red to blue. Bucks County is one of the four so-called “collar counties” outside of Philadelphia that in recent decades have gone from being solidly Republican to heavily Democrat. These counties, along with Philadelphia and Allegheny counties (home counties of the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh), are the most populous counties in the state and propelled the Biden win in 2020. That Republicans have reclaimed their registration lead in Bucks County is a major reversal of the recent Democratic trend. Likewise, Luzerne County in northwestern Pennsylvania is a bellwether county that for decades was solidly Democrat. Located near Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Luzerne County has been trending Republican in recent years and completed the journey to a Republican majority county just last month. Also continuing this Republican trend, this time in southwestern Pennsylvania, is Beaver County, which lies just northwest of Pittsburgh. A longtime heart and symbol of steel country and the Rustbelt, Beaver follows former Democrat bastions Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette, and Greene counties in moving into the Republican column. All of those counties (all in southwestern Pennsylvania) experienced an upsurge in Republican registration this year. Then there is Allegheny County, which includes the city of Pittsburgh. In the last week of the registration period, Allegheny County had the single largest total Republican increase of the voter registration period, followed by Philadelphia and Montgomery counties in southeastern Pennsylvania.  Voter registration is a leading indicator of trends and momentum. Another indicator is mail-in ballot requests. In that category as well, Democrats are falling behind. In both 2020 and 2022, Democrats far outpaced Republicans in mail-in voting. This year, however, the number of Democrat mail-in ballot requests significantly lags the number of requests at this point four years ago. (RELATED: Report From Pennsylvania: Part One) Republicans opposed mail-in voting in 2020, but this time they have made a major push for mail-in votes, especially from low-propensity voters. As a result, while Democrats still lead in mail-in ballot requests, the margin between the two competing parties has been substantially reduced. With polls virtually tied for Trump versus Harris, voter turnout will be the key to victory. The GOP in Pennsylvania has succeeded in becoming more competitive in both voter registration and mail-in voting. The question now is whether those gains translate into victory for Republicans on November 5. Lowman S. Henry is Chairman & CEO of the Lincoln Institute and host of the weekly American Radio Journal and Lincoln Radio Journal. His e-mail address is lhenry@lincolninstitute.org. READ MORE from Lowman S. 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