I read a book about Big Star and now I can't stop listening to this record. It is amazing. Bright at times, like Thank You Friends. Dark, like in Kangaroo. Beautiful, like in Blue Moon and Nighttime. Frightening, like in Holocaust. It covers such a range of emotions. It is one of my fav records of all time. The book is good also. Listen to this record if you haven't. If you have it, t...
So, I am at a wedding on Saturday. Wendy, my fiance, is shooting the photos and I went to help. The ceremony is going and it is actually really nice. I am standing in the area between the entrance doors and the doors to the sanctuary. About two thirds of the way through a cell phone rings in the coat area. Holy Diver blasts out. Just the chorus, HOLY DIVER!!!! I do everything I can not t...
So, in my last post I mentioned Hold On Loosely and how it was stuck in my head. My friend Paul, who had the same song stuck in his head. Well, I need to go on a tangent here. I work with Paul, we work at a Tech type company and they play 'classic rock' on the in house music system. It is all they play. Some really great stuff and not so really great stuff. They do play Hold On Loosely at ...
I think we have all had this happen. Unually it is a good song, typically the last song you listened to before you started work for the day or whatever. Sometimes it is a bad one. I once had Mightnight Maniac by Krokus stuck in my head for nearly 2 weeks. It was a horrible nightmare. Sure other song would pop in there, but Krokus would soon take over. I think I heard it on one of the 'met...