Crabb Updates: Classic Rot, Brains Ratings, Mr. C

Carl Gardner was the lead singer of The Coasters who had some big hits in the late 50s with Searchin, Yakety Yak, Charlie Brown.  He passed away at age 83 from poor health. He will be missed.

In this weekend of driving around town with Nicole, I was pretty subjected to the most pious pieces of crap that is known as music radio.  Classic Rock is now classic rot and it's pretty damn bad when one classic rot station plays Killer Queen and the other station follows it up 20 minutes later.  We have so much music out there and the Clear Channels and Cumulus owned stations have a outdated playlist of 100 that they will not change the damn song.  I grew up listening to classic rock in that era but there was a lot more going on besides the same 100 that The Fox or 105.7 sticks out there.  Thank God for Bob Dorr who played Eddie And The Hot Rods' Get Across To You and got my mind off the crappy drivers for about three minutes.

Nothing against Queen folks but I never been a big fan of Killer Queen and can tolerate it once a year, just not twice a night and twenty minutes after The Fox played it.

The month ratings for the Rock N Roll And The Brains Blog is a unbelievable 173 views.  Nothing has ever came close to the 100 views range here in the Crabb Music blog and really doubt if it can be topped.  Perhaps Tom and Delta Moon have something to do with that or Margaret from The Brains Site or word of mouth.  Can't say but perhaps we should enjoy the ride while it lasts.

Just in, Clarence Clemons, the famed sax player to the E Street Band had suffered a stroke and I don't know much of the details right now, this is very new, here's hoping that he can recover from this.  Strokes are a life changing event and usually not for the best.  Unless you're The Strokes band making a new album so that Rolling Stone can give four stars every time they make an album.

Dallas defeated Miami to win the 2011 NBA Championship and is last team standing.   Basically I'm not a Heat fan and all that hoopla that LeBum James did last year on ESPN and that GD goofy introduction that they did made me hope that they would not win it.  Wait till next year Queen James and never mention him in the same sentence with Michael Jordan.

Even with my GF in town, the bargain hunts continue and managed to find some more fun stuff at HP Books and elsewhere.  Willie Nelson-Horse Called Music which somehow commands big bucks on Amazon, Badlands for 2 bucks, that band featuring Jake E Lee and the late Ray Gillen always gets you twenty bucks. Stuff Etc, had two Zombie CDs of note, a singles collection and their Odyssey and Oracle and a Best of Big Mama Thornton on MCA.   I would have bought more,  the first three Wire albums of the late 70's. The first Undertones on EMI, but already had them.  Turned out to be a fun run while Nicole was out and about getting some needed things for the trailer.  Her place is looking more like home but I wish to hell we can stop that GD leaky faucet in the kitchen........

And finally, it was three years ago that we had the big flood of CR. To which 31 feet of Mad Cedar River came and destroyed just about everything in town.  Three years later, many places remain abandoned and forsaken and probably will never be the same again, but there's a bit of progress to be made.  And I still hope we never had to deal with that ever again.

Floods suck.

UPDATE: The Big Man passed away on Saturday the 17th of June from complications from his stroke.  Another end to an era.  The E Street Band will never be the same again.