Prom time here in the great Midwest Wasteland. Not like I'm going to any of them. Too old and it cost too much for that. Plus most of what I've seen have made the girls looks like bad hookers. A long decline from the days of prom for me but then again I never went to any of my proms. Big waste of time and never did get any dates.
Found out the Best Buy in Casa Grande is one of the 500 stores that have been targeted for being close and their last day is May 12th. On my Arizona trip last year, I stopped in that store to pick up the Dream Theater album that came out.
Remember how we used to pay 12 to 15 dollars for those classic CD's and first generation ones that didn't sound so great? A lot of them can now be bought for 5 dollars at your local Wally World. The CR location had plenty of Rush and The Bee Gees 70s albums to which you can now get Main Course for 5 singles. A bargain and better than the digital downloads that the majors seem to stick to the downloading fool for 10 to 12 dollars (something's wrong there)
Big mouth strikes again or in this case Ted Nugent who's into some hot water on his comments on Obama and if he gets elected ole Ted will either be in jail or dead. Of course the comments sections are half and half pro Ted or liberals against Ted. My take: Terrible Ted hasn't made a decent album since State Of Shock, the dude is still trying to get into 16 year old panties while slamming away liberals and Obama and going out killing wildlife in the process. Whatever Theodore Anthony Nugent has in mind is being a Michigan transplant cowboy preaching his survival of the fittest theological baloney is his first amendment right which seems to imply only him and you if you agree with him and if you don't, fuck you then. Amazingly if the right wing thinks he's so great, how come nobody plays Ted Nugent songs on their campaign trail but rather John Mellencamp or Bruce Springsteen or Heart? In the meantime Theodore Anthony, there's a good chance Obama will be back for a second term like it or not, the GOP simply haven't had much of an answer to The Black Man in The White House. Bound and gag on that one dude.
Big mouth number 2: Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland."I don't feel it's my responsibility or my management's responsibility to evacuate the fans in the case of danger," Miss Nettles said in the deposition. "Do I care about their safety? Absolutely." In the case of the tragic accident at the Indiana State Fair last year, Sugarland was ready to take the stage before a heavy gust of wind tore the stage up and collapsed upon a crowd killing seven. Nothing more can be a career killer when a musician says such ridiculous things but then again this comes down to a he says, she says to which the lawyers suing say one thing and the band say another. But in the case of bad weather my observation is that the venue should probably had either delayed the concert or rescheduled it for another time. But somebody is wrong, who remains the question. http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/16/us/indiana-stage-collapse-sugarland/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sugarland-tour-manager-stage-collapse-lawsuits-312610
And for the first time in many years I decided to take some things up to Half Priced Books and get some kind of cash back since the Amazon sales have been slow lately. Got 35 bucks back for my effort. It was either that or donate them or let them gather more dust.
The Top Ten Songs Of The Week.
1. Wall Of Pride-Omar And The Howlers 2002 A remake of their 1988 song and taken from the new Essential Omar And Howlers Collection. Not a complete overview, Ruf Records couldn't get anything from the Columbia and Antones/Discovery albums. Problem with the Wall Of Pride album was the usually reliable Terry Manning gave that album a poor mix and the drums sounding like cardboard boxes and a cheeseball dated keyboard sound too. Omar Dykes recorded a new version and stripped it down to the basic swamp blues boogie which is much better than 1988 version.
2. Just The Same Way-Journey 1979 A minor hit but a rare song to which Greg Rolie sang lead instead of Steve Perry who did the counter vocal on the chorus. Next single was Lovin, Touchin, Squeezin and the rest is history. Perry would give Journey the bigger charting hits, Rolie would eventually leave a couple albums later.
3. Big Shot-Dr. John 2012 New Dr. John is a return to the New Orleans Voodoo funk that he was famous for in the late 60s and early 70s and is his best in 40 years. That's saying something. Credit Dan Auerbach for that.
4. To Share Our Love-The Moody Blues 1969 Here ya go Tad. A Moodies track for ya.
5. Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You-Led Zeppelin 1969 Staying in the year of 69, we pick one of our favorite album cuts from Zeppelin. They were on to something.
6. Sheep-Pink Floyd 1977 Boy we're picking some heavyweights on this top ten. At the Pawn America last week, we found a bunch of dollar C Ds that I never thought that I would find. Found Animals and Wish You Were Here and both were in great shape and for a dollar too. I figured whoever bought these in went out and bought the new reissues (in amazing digipak, BTW I hate digipaks but you already know that). I tend to favor Animals over WYWH or The Wall simply that Animals never gets played on classic rock radio.
7. Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man-The Rolling Stones 1965 B side to Satisfaction and one of the more fun songs that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ever wrote. In fact I don't think they ever top that one although Sweet Neo Con came somewhat close in the neighborhood.
8. War Paint-Rush 1990 As much as people complained about Presto, their first for Atlantic, I thought it was a big improvement over the 1988 Hold Your Fire although Rush was still more into the keyboard side of things, they could still rock it out although the another bitch was that Rupert Hine tended to elbow himself into the recording singing backup on some of the songs. Hine would return for Hold Your Fire before Peter Collins returned for Counterparts and Test For Echo.
9. Rock Lobster-The B52's 1979 Silly stuff. But fun. But still silly.
10. The Revenge Of Vera Gemini-Blue Oyster Cult 1976 The best use of Patti Smith. This is off the Agents Of Fortune album which may have been their most democratic album. Even Alan Lanier got to sing on two numbers but the dominant one was Albert Bouchard who sings on three numbers and two on the unreleased stuff that made the bonus cuts on the re reissue of Agents. To which you can now buy for 5 dollars at Best Buy or Wally World take your pick.
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