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I’ve had all good intentions of seeing Gov’t Mule for the past several years, but I’ve never been able to connect. This year at Party in the Park, I finally connected. Even though I got there a half hour into their set, I still got a two hour show in which the Mule and fearless [...]

Filed under: Music on August 18th, 2009 | Add Comment! »

Now that Facebook has hooked me up with a lot of my high school friends I’m dusting off a lot of synapses. It’s always good to reconnect synapses, especially when they’re musical memories. Each time I see old friends, I hear the music they planted in my brain forever. Thanks Everyone! I’m just going to [...]

Filed under: Music, Yesterdaze on June 23rd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

The women in my life have a big influence on what I listen to when they’re around. I have extreme tastes in music, and don’t object when the Queen of my Universe or the Cat of my Universe object to a song or two. The disadvantage that Dolly (the Cat of my Universe) has, is [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Music on February 3rd, 2009 | Add Comment! »

I was a latecomer to the Grateful Dead scene, and was by no means a serious Deadhead. I was into them in their final years, from 1987ish to 1995. During that time, when they were hot, they were smokin’, but there were a few shows I saw that never seemed to get off the ground. [...]

Filed under: Music, Yesterdaze on August 24th, 2008 | Add Comment! »

So far I’ve refused to fall into the trap of Olympic jingoism, but this time I think those godless communists have gone too far. This is just one human rights abuse too many. It seems they found the cherubic voice they needed to sing their national anthem, but the angel’s face didn’t quite meet comintern [...]

Filed under: Music, Politics on August 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I used eat, sleep and breathe REM for a period of my life. Then after the Monster CD I kind of lost track of them. I like their hits, but nothing new really tripped my trigger until the “Reveal” cd came out. That reminded of the REM I used to know, love and rock out [...]

Filed under: Music, Yesterdaze on August 10th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I think this was a line from a spaghetti western, which the Very Big Food Corporation of America co-opted into a Pizza ad. I hadn’t thought about it much until the Queen of the Universe and I took a hike to the local cemetery. There was an abolitionist guy who worked on the Underground Railroad [...]

Filed under: General Observations, Music on February 2nd, 2008 | Add Comment! »

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting from the Eagles’ new release “Long Road Out of Eden.” I was reasonably sure from the title that I would get a good dose of anti-imperialism from Don Henley, my favorite angry white California Muslim. I wanted at least a glimpse of greatness that is “Hotel California” and [...]

Filed under: Music, Politics, Reviews on November 23rd, 2007 | Add Comment! »

Songs of Mass Destruction – Annie Lennox I looked at the title and I thought this was an Anti-War album. It’s not. I guess it could be metaphorically, but it’s not. Once I got past the disappointment and expectations of that, the rest of the CD was okay. The title is apt though; it has [...]

Filed under: Music, Reviews on November 10th, 2007 | Add Comment! »

As long as there have been songs with lyrics, musicians have probably been expressing their hatred for certain people in their music. Here are my ten favorite “Hatin” on people songs, with an opera thrown in for good measure. 1. You’re so Vain – Carly Simon This song has probably inspired the most speculation as [...]

Filed under: Music on September 2nd, 2007 | Add Comment! »