Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is the great Chet Atkins
performing Black Mountain Rag ¤, from his Gallopin’ Guitar
album (ca. 1955, 2:02) ~ mmm, mmm, dat’s nice!

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight, in light of the recent and seemingly endless list of bureaucratic-mandarin/internationalist/multiculturalist impositions on western culture – most severely, perhaps, in Britain – and the concomitant retreat of the citizenry, we feature a song about sort of struggle, self-defense and resistance of a sort that sadly may no longer sufficiently exist among the often shrugging and ovine western children of the enlightenment.
The song opens with a recitation of Seamus Heaney’s poem Requiem for the Croppies, which commemorates the Easter Rebellion of 1916 when a citizen army of Irish nationalists took up arms against British rule. The song itself, though, is not so much about politics as it is about tenacity, resolve, love and courage in the face of mortal threat.
Here then, without further ado, Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy stand up in a hall full of their fellow crackers to perform Makem’s stirring Four Green Fields.
The thread is open for Reader Tips.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Stéphane Grappelli
and Yehudi Menuhin performing Tango Tzigane Jalousie ¤
(3:54), by the Danish composer Jacob Thune Hansen Gade.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation & courtesy of LNR listener
Exetaz’s mail, here are Harry James and his Orchestra performing
A Taste of Honey ¤ on the Ed Sullivan Show, in 1966 (2:46).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here is our old friend the
great Vladimir Horowitz (Володимир Самійлович Горовиць)
performing Frédéric Chopin‘s Ballade in G Minor ¤, Opus 23
(10:10), in Carnegie Hall.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Erroll Garner,
Ernest McCarty, Jimmie Smith, and Jose Mangual performing
Something and That’s My Kick, in Paris, in 1972 (10:20).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eric Clapton and
Phil Collins and the boys performing I Shot the Sheriff  ¤, live
from Montreaux, in 1986 (6:59).

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Vitruvius seems to be out on the town tonight.
So you get me, and that means no fancy musical link thingie. Just a plain vanilla tips thread and skateboarding schnauzer. Though, I’m proud to say, “I knew her when”.

Here are some interesting results from Ohio State University’s Research News:

People with relatively extreme opinions may be more willing to publicly share their views than those with more moderate views, according to a new study. The key is that the extremists have to believe that more people share their views than actually do, the research found.

“When people with extreme views have this false sense that they are in the majority, they are more willing to express themselves,” said Kimberly Rios Morrison, co-author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University.

[…]

How do people with extreme views believe they are in the majority? This can happen in groups that tend to lean moderately in one direction on an issue. Those that take the extreme version of their group’s viewpoint may believe that they actually represent the true views of their group, Morrison said.

[…]

Take as an example a community that tends to be moderate politically, but leans slightly liberal. People with more extreme liberal views in the community may be more likely than others to attend publicly visible protests and display bumper stickers espousing their liberal views, because they think the community supports them.

“Everyone else sees these extreme opinions being expressed on a regular basis and they may eventually come to believe their community is more liberal than it actually is,” Morrison said. “The same process could occur in moderately conservative communities.

“You have a cycle that feeds on itself: the more you hear these extremists expressing their opinions, the more you are going to believe that those extreme beliefs are normal for your community.”

A similar process may occur in groups such as political parties. Moderately conservative people who belong to the Republican Party, for example, may believe that people with extremely conservative views represent their party, because those are the opinions they hear most often. However, that may not be true.

[…]

H/T: WUWT. Background: The Pathology of the Blogosphere™.

Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Normally we select songs that are obscure, or at least not very familiar, as opposed to mass-marketed ones. I’m going to make an exception tonight; in light of the protesters who keep showing up at G.W. Bush’s Canadian speaking engagements, this one’s just too appropriate to pass up.
Here it is, then: comedian Andy Samberg, portraying a one man army of righteous political dissent, works himself into a lather with a musical denunciation of the “system” entitled I Threw It On The Ground.
Feel free to throw down your Reader Tips in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys performing Polka On The Banjo ¤.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite
Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are John Coltrane,
McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones performing
Afro Blue ¤ on Jazz Casual in 1963 (7:08).