A lifelong Okie, It’s a little late to relocate. I can’t believe the political ineptness of this state & its’ rabid moral majority Coburn named as senator holding up vets bill Thirteen major military and veterans groups have joined forces to try to force one senator — Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — to release […]
Any one seen or heard from our esteemed fearless leader lately? Last words from him were on 10/09. Come to think of it we also havn’t heard from our furry operative since being diverted from SEATAC. You don’t think?…….Nah…..Hmmmm.
The avatar for Kurt Cobain may be making Guitar Hero headlines right now, but one year ago a far more corrosive controversy was connected to the product. Rage Wireless Guitars, a series of controllers sold for use with the game, were found to have circuit-board defects that could cause battery acid to leak outside the […]
Soupy Sales passed on. Black Fang, White Tooth, Pooky, and Soupy are together again.
Okie from Muskogee, er, Yukon/Stillwater Garth Brooks has great news for all his friends in low places: Thursday Garth announced he’s coming out of retirement once again! The Country music superstar has been retired since 2000, popping up only on rare occasions for small music events. but in a press conference in Nashville Brooks said […]
Lucy Vodden (née O’Donnell), who was the inspiration for the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” has died, following a long battle with the autoimmune disease lupus. The British housewife — whose passing was announced by the St Thomas’ Lupus Trust charity — was 46. Vodden first achieved pop culture fame as a […]
One of my earliest musical influences. Another page turns in Rock history. Mary Travers, whose ringing, earnest vocals with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary made songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” enduring anthems of the 1960s protest movement, died Wednesday night […]
These tune sure bring back some memories. Ellie Greenwich, one of the most prolific song writers of the 60’s & 70’s, died Aug. 26 of a heart attack & pneumonia. She was 68. Here’s a list of only some of the songs she wrote: “Leader of the Pack” “Why Do Lovers Break Each Others Hearts?” […]
“After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one. The bankers plan to buy ‘life settlements,’ life-insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash. Then they plan to ‘securitize’ these policies, in Wall Street jargon, […]
Guitar legend Les Paul dies at age 94 Aug. 13, 2009, 11:17 AM EST WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94. […]
I saw them in 1965 at the Fairground Travel & Transportation Building. Inspired me to start a rock band. Paul Revere and the Raiders’ Drake Levin (1946-2009) Drake Levin died this morning, just after nine AM, at home in San Francisco. He would have turn 63 in August. He and Phil Volk were part of […]
12 Musicians That are (Surprisingly) Still Alive. 12. Fats Domino It’s been a long, long time since Fats was capable of walking up Blueberry Hill on his own. Fats is 81 years young, now. You know what his thrill was? Young blonde nurses. Meet Fats’ personal nurse Gina. 11. Della Reese Della must have been […]
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……are back!…… Now, let’s see if we can boost this blog back up again…… I guess everyone’s been very, very busy over the last month and a half or so?…… I’ve got many PD Bob tales to tell, along with my own stuff ( I touched on this somewhat in comment 7 on the previous […]