Crabb Bits: Junior Seau, MCA, Dirt Drifters

I was a big fan of Junior Seau when he played for the Chargers, in fact I still have his jersey that I bought about 20 years ago at some AZ outlet mall and it still fits.  I wore it to morn his passing away from killing himself at age 43.  Junior Seau was the heart and soul of the Chargers of the 1990s and got them to the super bowl to which they got blown out by The San Francisco 49ers but at least they made it.  They say that team is cursed, he was the 7 or 8th person that died in tragedies over the years but then again everybody dies.  Seau would later go on to The Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots to which he played in the Super Bowl that the NY Giants beat them to deny them the perfect season.  Retirement hasn't been good to him, he survived a 100 foot plunge off a hill a couple years ago but appently depression and brain damage got the best of him and he ended up taking his life on Tuesday.  He was a warrior and he will be missed.

Friday, Adam Yauch, aka MCA from The Beastie Boys died at age 47.  Don't know the whole story behind that but he's been suffering from cancer and that's what the cause of death.  Everybody has or had a copy of their 1986 Licensed To Ill at some point or another and Paul's Boutique, the Capitol followup remain the two more big influential albums of that era.http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beastie-boys-co-founder-adam-yauch-dead-at-48-20120504

In the ten years of blogging, I have seen many artists pass by and documented it at some point although most of what I blogged before 2006 are now in a internet dust particles never to be read since the websites they appear on don't exists.   Adam Yauch is one of many that have taken that lonesome road back to the great beyond and one day you and I will be walking on that road too.  Just hope it's not sooner than later.

A strange footnote: The Dirt Drifters have imploded.  The band whose country sound is more Kentucky Headhunters than Jon Bon Jovi have canceled all of their touring dates due to a private and personal matter.

Hopefully it will be resolved whatever the matter may be, The Dirt Drifters remains one of the true country rocking bands that somehow you don't hear on KHAK or that new KISS country channel that's on 96.5.  Their recent album This Is My Blood holds up very well.

2021 update: Why is this the most viewed of the month is beyond me.  Perhaps the Dirt Drifters's site ended up becoming a sports betting website might have something to do with this so the link was deleted. This is a record collecting site, not a fucking Draft Kings knockoff.  Flush your money down the loo for better results.