Wacky Friday Fotos

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1. You must believe in both or none. It all or nothing with these two.

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2. Coming Back to Me _ Jefferson Airplane

   I am a big fan of this band. Note, this isn’t Jefferson Starship, or Starship. This is the great folk movement progenitors of the San Francisco sound. Also, they were neighbors, of the Grateful Dead. Yeah, Jerry produced their first album. Go pick up a copy of Surrealistic Pillow sometime. It has their super hits; White Rabbit, and Someone to Love… and so much more. This song isn’t from there, though. It is from a box set I have. I am such a dork, I have two box sets from this amazing group.

   Can’t get enough _ Bad Company

   ok, not a great song. however, this is a great band. Like the Doobies, Bad Company was the quintessential 70s band. This is from their greatest hits cd ‘10 from 6′. I highly recommend it. also, if you can find the CD, it’s probably only like $4 in the bargain bin.

   You’re Missing _ Bruce Springsteen and the E St Band

   I don’t even know this song. However, this album is totally awesome. It’s the Rising, Springsteen’s answer to 9/11. Totally a very good album. Oh wait, now I remember this song, it’s depressing. I put ‘the Rising’ (the song, not the disc) up there with ‘Born to Run’ (the song, not the disc). It’s that good. As far as the disc, I find the Rising more listenable than Born to Run. Sorry Roy. Know that Bruce Springsteen is the boss, understood? See him in concert and you will.

   Juke Box Hero _ Foreigner

   this is a single i just downloaded (and paid for, thank you!) a couple of weeks ago. It is the only Foreigner song on my player. This is a really great song. A classic stadium arena rocker. Find it, listen to it, love it! It has strong good memories from my childhood.

   Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat _ Bob Dylan

   This is a perfect example of Dylan’s middle period (I just made that term up). It is a 7 or 8 minute jam of silliness and frustration. It’s off 1965’s epic double album ‘Blonde on Blonde’. It is basically Dylan’s first foree into electric and full band compositions. He hit a home run, though.

   This disc includes epic songs such as “Rainy Day Women #12 and #35″ (better known as Everybody Must get Stoned). Not my favorite song, though. The best on the album, to me, is ‘Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues again’. Think that’s a long title? The song has about ten verses, all Dylan songs do.

   let’s just keep going, eh?

   March of the Wooden Dolls _ Joe Myers

   amazingly talented and awesome guitarist and singer from Phoenix, AZ. If you live outside of AZ, you have not heard of him and that is unfortunate. He is the greatest. If you live in Phx, you can see him out gigging. Details here. Either way, you can pick up his latest album from iTunes. It’s called ‘Troubled Notes from the Hotel Chelsea’. Go in and listen to ‘Silver Shoe Lou’ and thank me later. DO IT!

   I have all of Joe’s albums, and never missed a show when he was in town (Flagstaff). I have been to his house and met his family. I invited him to play my wedding. That is how big an endorsement I give Joe Myers.

   Who needs sleep _ Barenaked Ladies

   I am a big fan of this band, but haven’t followed their new material in many year. basically, everything up through the first five albums I am in. Also, I have seen everyone in rock. Everyone, seriously. Barenaked Ladies are in the top two or three concerts ever. Better than Pink Floyd, better than Jimmy Page… you get the idea. Side note, the band just did a ‘kids album’. Then, the lead singer get busted doing blow. oops.

   Visions of Johanna _ Bob Dylan

   no surprise. I have a crapload of Dylan on here. This song is another strong stand out from the forementioned disc above, ‘Blonde on Blonde.’

   Shooting Hoops _ G Love and Special Sauce

   dumb song, just terrible. however, I do love this band. Their first album is just about the finest debut since Pearl Jam’s or Blues Travelers. Both are debuts many would say the bands never eclipsed after. I have seen them live a lot, always a good show.

   * you may wonder why I only listen to bands letters a – j. I thought you loved Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam? Well, I do. However, I lost my iPod recently. As a result, I am using a older back up one that has a broken hard drive. It won’t recognize bands after ‘J’ in the alphabet.

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3. Two hundred years from now: The King of Kings was born to Mary and Joseph in a car garage and they named him Elvis. Knowing that Elvis was the Music Messiah, three wise men bearing independent label record contracts approached the family in the dead of night so that the music corporations wouldn’t hunt them down and kill their once in a lifetime opportunity–they scored a contract with the family and lived lives of hedonistic excess, fulfilling the ancient American Dream of success. The family escapes from South Los Angeles, where they were residing, and flees to Las Vegas, where Elvis, the King of Kings, grows up in the entertainment industry. Still an independent, around the age of 35 Elvis reaches the peak of his celebrity and power, but the music corporations around the globe, and many world governments (including France, who hated Elvis with what could only be called joie de vivre), plotted against his fame and planned to kill his music career. They eventually crucified his career and soon Elvis, the King of Kings, was dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head while sitting on a bidet he mistakenly thought was a toilet (he committed suicide in France), dying for everyone who has ever had to stand up and face the devil called the Man. But just before Elvis was brain dead, Santa Claus, an independent record label from Germany and Holland whose logo looked a lot like the classic Coca-Cola Santa Claus from the 1950s, downloads what was left of his brain into a subatomic nanocomputer–and there’s enough data to resurrect his career. With his resurrection, belief in the saving power of the music of Elvis increases, so much so that in time Elvismass is born. In two hundred years it’s celebrated all over the world, and the German/Holland Santa Claus logo is always by the King of King’s side during Elvismass parades, along with his body guards, entourage, roadies and fans. And if you’re good boys and girls the Independent Santa Claus, who is driven around the world in his stretch limo–and if you leave Santa Claus a big bowl full of Bangkok heroin–you’ll wake up to find a remixed music collection of the music of Elvis and a Karaoke machine!

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4. You have got to be shitting me! No one can follow that up. Thanx for the education Heath.

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5. and it would appear I put my fives answer under my wacky photos answer. In my defense, I have a terrible cold and am more pilled up than Elvis right now.

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