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1 posted on 01/13/2018 9:46:22 AM PST by SamAdams76
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXaOUTKa0wU


142 posted on 01/13/2018 12:22:45 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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If those granola-eating liberals would just stick to eating granola, and leave the rest of us alone...


143 posted on 01/13/2018 12:26:12 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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John Denver—could he be related to Jim Denver, the Mexican War and Civil War veteran and politician for whom a city was named?


151 posted on 01/13/2018 1:38:40 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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I always loved his work and when mom passed I inherited her collection. (Yanni, too, but pfft. LOL)


152 posted on 01/13/2018 1:39:44 PM PST by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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He was on a tv show with Frank Sinatra. He was about to sing a Sinatra song and Frank said to him “don’t hurt yourself”.


154 posted on 01/13/2018 1:58:35 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I have Grandma's Feather Bed in my music playlist on my phone.

John Denver had some good tunes.

155 posted on 01/13/2018 2:01:03 PM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Sessions couldn't find his own ass if Al Franken was grabbing it at the time ))))
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I saw him in concert in 1984. I just uncovered the t-shirt a few days ago, still wearable (it fits again).


157 posted on 01/13/2018 2:11:30 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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I recently read something about him, written by the friend who played a part in his death through no fault of his own. Apparently, Denver was out flying his plane one day over California and decided on a whim to buzz the friend’s home further out on the coast, completely forgetting to check his fuel level. He crashed the plane on his return flight when he ran out of fuel. How this was known to the friend who wrote about the incident escapes me now. This friend was a conservative and I was a little surprised to learn they were friends. Who the friend was also escapes me.


165 posted on 01/13/2018 4:07:21 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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I have wondered how many thousands of people that “Rocky Mountain High” added to the permanent population of Colorado.
Growing up in Iowa in the 70’s; it seemed like Colorado was everyone’s favorite place to go.
It is mine now.
Back then the guys who went out would bring back some of that exotic nectar called Coors!
You couldn’t get it in many places then; it was pretty special to see it.


167 posted on 01/13/2018 4:25:49 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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His Dad flew a B-58 and held several world speed records in them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-58_Hustler

The night before he crashed, a bunch of friends and I were singing Karaoke. I did Rocky Mountain High. I won’t sing Karaoke again.


168 posted on 01/13/2018 4:53:31 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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Wild cover of "I'm a Country Boy" by the Avett Brothers
174 posted on 01/13/2018 8:56:46 PM PST by firebrand
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There is a fantastic exhibit of his life works in the Denver International Airport....very extensive.

There is a plaque on the beach in Pacific Grove memorializing his death.

Guy deserves a statue.......


175 posted on 01/13/2018 9:08:26 PM PST by scfirewall
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“Oh God” was one of the few movies that I would watch again.


176 posted on 01/13/2018 10:10:28 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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He became big when I was in Junior High School. I was a fan.

Just yesterday, SiriusXM 70s reran an old American Top 40 from back January 1973. Among the Top 40 that week was “Rocky Mountain High.” I was reminded what an excellent song that is.

He was a likable, talented fellow who, like all of us, had some issues. He later got into some New Agey stuff, but he seemed a sincere, down to earth guy.


178 posted on 01/14/2018 7:07:06 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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It's just weird that he dropped off the face of the earth.

Poor choice of words dude........

180 posted on 01/14/2018 4:05:47 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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