Kind of a small blog.
The Super Bowl is tomorrow and really I don't really care that much about it. GF wants the Patriots to win.
The Surf's annual Winter Dance Party took place this weekend and 52 years after the fact there's not much for artists who are still alive but the headliner Saturday was none other than Pat Boone and The Bobbetts of Mr. Lee fame. The Flamingos featuring Terry Johnson and Danny and The Juniors played Thursday. Danny committed suicide years ago. Friday had Tommy Allsup making his annual appearance. Allsup being alive today due to losing a coin flip to JP Richardson on a plane ride in a blizzard. JP Richardson Jr. showed up as well. I have never been up there, they sell out weeks in advance.
One of the artists who performed on that ill fated 59 trip to Blizzard Land Iowa was Dion, who go on a fabled career of pop and then the blues before being born again and then returning to rock and roll and the blues. Lately he has return to the delta blues that he loved so much and his latest album continues in that vein. I have yet to find that album since Best Buy doesn't seem to be interested of stocking that. I guess when you get to be over 50 and play in a band you have to grow a beard or goatee to be rock n roll and Dion last I checked sported a full grown beard. To each their own I guess. Nevertheless, there is a story on his website that Dion actually won the coin flip but when he found that the plane cost 36 bucks to fly, he passed and Richie Valens took his place. And the rest is history.
There's so many variations to the story of the coin toss and who won or lost but only Tommy Allsup and Dion know the details. We'll leave that up to your imagination of what really happened.
For the TE project, the music is there but the lyrics are not. Songwriter's block has really hampered things. I'm certain something will be finished before it's over. In the meantime thanks to Diggy Kat at Radio Buzzed for playing some of the music on their radio show.
A year ago, was the final broadcast of Beaker Street. Just a reminder that time flies.
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