40 years ago today (16 Jul 1981), Harry Chapin died. On his way to a gig, actually. Those who know his music know it well, he wasn’t an artist you liked casually. If you liked him, you loved him. I’m 55 now, and mostly known for being a metal head (Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, etc), […]

Those who know me know I’m a metalhead first.  Things like Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Queensryche – these are my jams.  But unlike most of my metal brethren, that’s not ALL I like.  In fact, in the right frame of mind, I can like almost anything.  However one of my favorite treats I go […]

Last year, just as the pandemic got started and we were all locked in, I did something I haven’t done since the early 80’s. I bought a record player. Somewhere around 1988 I stopped with records completely, as I got my first CD player in Dec 1987, and I was mostly into cassettes then due […]

For the last 5 or 6 years or so, I’ve been keeping a “xxxx deaths” playlist in iTunes.  Whenever I hear of some musician I know and like something from, I’ll add a song for them to my playlist.  As today is the 31st of December, it struck me as a good time to put […]

On the surface this is a music post, but it really isn’t. It’s about human emotion and feelings. Before I get to that…

Here’s a music anniversary post that will mean more to me than pretty much anyone else.  My parents split when I was young – they divorced in 79, and separated a little before that – I was 12 when they first split up.. I have very few memories of my family unit with both my […]

“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?” It’s Nov 30, 2019.  An album that dominated my musical landscape like no other was released 40 years today.  It’s The Wall by Pink Floyd.  I’m here to write a few words […]

I’ve been a huge Pink Floyd fan for as long as I can remember. Today they released a compilation, “The Later Years 1987-2019“.  It is selected songs from a significantly larger box set coming out next month, also called “The Later Years”.  I wanted to take a few moments and get a few thoughts down […]

I was a child of the 80’s, and in the early/mid 80’s one of the biggest powerhouses there was at the time was Quiet Riot.  Technically the third Quiet Riot album, Metal Health came out in 1983, and good God was that a massive album.  There was a lot to like on that album, but […]

A friend of mine on Facebook had a post about the band Dream Theatre and it made me wonder. Have any of my music friends checked out any of the last three Night Ranger albums? 2011’s “Somewhere in California” 2014’s “High Road” 2017’s “Don’t Let Up“