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Thsi is one of the songs that started off the whole musical journey for me - and one of the bands...lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXTnYCg8v8o

I found this version - really love the pictures and videos.

A bit more up to date - this is just crazy guitar playing and singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZZp76M4NGc

"There will be future historical revelations about Bill's character and behavior in recovery that will be interpreted, by some, as direct attacks on the very foundation of AA. Bill often wished he could be just another AA member with no trace of notoriety. But such revelations will, in the end, only reinforce Bill's humanness and, most important, the extent to which Bill acted to the best of his ability to protect AA from himself.

Bill W., My First 40 Years, "William G. Wilson" (posthumously ghost-written by Hazelden staff), Hazelden, page 170."

I found this article - it was quite fun. It seems the guy is an AA, or ex-AA and he has a lot of salient points. This paragraph caught my eye.

It's all been a bit serious this week - let's find some funny songs.

This is fun, but not for the squeemish...lol. If you have a taste for the taboo, click on this...lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk3Dt9HVDac

I've noticed from the posts of a certain pro-AA blogger that she can't seem to write a paragraph without using the word "I" or "IMHO" or the such. I've not noticed the same trait from any other blogger - pro or anti. The same blogger complains repeatedly that people are making threads about her. This may not be relevant because she says everything repeatedly - ad nauseum.

Maybe a good time to do a Forum Inventory?...lol

What's good? What's not so good? How has it been in the first year?

It seems to be getting stronger every month. What's it going to be like in another year?

Old habits really - can't let a birthday go by without a party...lol

We\'ve missed a couple of weeks and I\'ve found it fun listening to what others like (and also getting a break from the trolls...lol)

I was doing the washing-up yesterday and I thought of this song I hadn\'t heard in at least 20 years. Got the album somewhere - God knows where though. Those were the (acid) days - a bit of slide guitar swapping from speaker to speaker - always popular.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTSFeWCvjU

During recent threads a number of questions have been posed and the answers given by the faithful usually consisted of stating that the AA position is.... and the quoting an AA approved piece of literature. Because of the ambiguous nature of most of the crap AA pumps out, these threads have gone on and on and not really got anywhere.

Just for a bit of fun I thought we could compile a list of all of the different Higher Powers that people have heard of in meetings. This is no contest. There are no prizes. I think this will be one area where the truth will be funnier than anything someone can make up.

Just an idea that came up in another thread. I get the idea that virtually no-one on this forum actually goes to any kind of meeting voluntarily. I may be wrong, but I thought it could be of interest to find out. Personally, I've not been to AA since December 2010. I did go to one SMART meeting last August (my first).

No pressure to 'fess up but recent threads have been getting bogged down with talk of alternatives etc, I thought it would be interesting to find out if any of the alternatives were being used at all.