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While surfing YouTube last year, Antoine Baril came on my radar as the one man band playing songs from top rock groups like Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Yes group, Genesis. It's amazing how well he plays all the musical parts. Keyboards, bass guitar, guitar and drums.
Based in Canada, he's got access to the same instruments the original musicians used including the actual Moog synthesized Keith Emerson used on stage and recordings.
It's worth a listen.

My music of a misspent youth. How many do you know. No I haven't put the music on as I've no idea how to.
I'm gonna run away from you -Tami Lynn
I'm on my way -Dean Parrish
Here i go again - Archie bell
Do I love you -Frank Wilson
Out on the floor-Dobbie gray
Sweet soul music - Arthur Conley
Time will pass you by - Toni legend
Long after the night is all over -Jim met radcliff
Be young be foolish - tams

Later music which are my thoughts on getting older
Hero - Enrique Iglesias
That don't impress me much - Shania twain
Another one bites the dust - queen

Well I wanted to get started with my day BUT I am inspired to write yet another long term blog. After this you guys probably won’t see a blog from me for a while. Because I do post quite a bit here now that I’m not on Facebook but anyhow….

A way to keep your brain from succumbing to entropy is to play the piano. A long lost hobby of mine that I dearly love. I will be posting videos of me playing it on YouTube and posting it here once I get back into it. Because I do want to show the world that I do have passions that I pursue that aren’t just about sexy handsome men. Although they are very high on my list. Lol.

So stay tuned for those videos. It will be a series of music pieces that I love to play on piano. I’m mainly into classical pieces right now because they are both challenging and melodic simultaneously. I don’t care anymore if you guys see what I look like. I’m tired of hiding myself. I have things to offer in my creative and inspiring arsenal.

My melodic piece of weaponry. I love it so much. One of the things I would grab if there was a fire threat. And excuse the mess. My teenage kitten has other ideas besides keeping order.

I been listening to this band for a long time and lately I am discovering lots more by them and They are in my top 5 of most solid bands I ever heard that you can put their music on back to back and listen to every song and enjoy them instead of skipping over 3/4 of it to get to the good stuff because its all good.

George Lynch, heavy metal guitarist. He starts off nice and easy but keep watching

Many among you open the Music section on CS from time to time. You may come across quite a few songs and artists you never heard of or else some of your favorites of decades ago. Anyway, if you like a song, you can click the like button... and additionally the music is added to your profile. (You can also add the music to your profile without adding a 'like', but why would you?).

Thinking of adding any favorite music, which you could find on YouTube? Then you can share this with CS members by adding music of your own. It will appear on the music main page, where it gradually moves down as new contributions are being posted.

Something more happens: you now figure in the list of music posters. Just click the button 'Posters' on top, which is by default sorted by last on-line date ... and there you are. You also find the number of music items underneath your picture. That number combines your own contributions and the number of songs you have 'liked'. (My own contributions account for nearly half the music song count you may find for me).

Note: the 'liking feature' applies to the CS music, to the books and to the movie sections. 'Liking' blogs does not add them to your profile, nor does 'liking' video sequences.

In the early days, singer and front man for Van Halen David Lee Roth took them to the top of fame. Unfortunately his crazy personality and ego was more than the band could take and he had a falling out with the group. Auditions for many, but he was replaced by singer & guitarist Sammy Hagar who was already successful with the rock band Montrose and started a solo career.

Everyone has their favorites and while David had the energy and stage presence, Sammy came into the group and added a flavor of a more refined voice and songs.
I was fortunate to see Van Halen live, probably16 or 17 years ago with Sammy up front.

If there's a vote of who was the overall best, I'd have to say Sammy is the one!

When It's Love...

There are dozens and dozens of popular songs that for whatever reason, I don't really care for. A Horse With No Name is one of them.
Written by Dewey Bunnell, performed by America and released on their self titled album in 1972.
A little sleep inducing, but it's actually a good song.

I've been working with a contractor and his clients for a few weeks now. Tweaking the layout of a remodeling job. Originally, it was a kitchen. Then they added the master bath, display, laundry and window seats for 2 bedrooms.
I waited for my finishing department to make a stain sample a week ago and it was rejected by the clients based on the grain of the wood. We selected a different cut of wood and requested another color sample be made. I asked for that to be ready last Friday and was told Monday.

The project is about 40 miles from my house and I rescheduled the meeting for Monday, late afternoon. The problem was the finishing department didn't get the sample for me. I made it to my appointment, went over all the details, sizes and prices... except I didn't have a wood stain sample for them to approve.
Yeah, it's not a good thing for a salesman to close a deal when the key to the deciding factor is missing. I couldn't get the deposit without final approval of the color. This means another trip... when the freaking sample is ready.

I offered excuses but the contractor is holding the deposit check until the clients are happy with the color. So, I left empty handed. But... they want to add wall units in two rooms. I tool measurements and details and will have a price for additional work from the clients/contractor.

Kinda annoyed, on the way back home, I tuned to a blues station on satellite radio to hear guitarist Joe Bonamassa hosting a show about some female blues legends.
It's been 55 years since I first started learning music, guitar in general. Quit and started back a few times along the way. While rock music is my main focus, I find myself leaning toward British blues rock that was created by guys in England listening to old records of Black American blues artists. It's Blues with a British twist. A favorite group was FREE who had billing as a blues band.

Back to the radio show, Joe played songs by Jessie Mae Hemphill, an artist who's name I didn't recognize. One of the first things I did when I arrived home was to do some YouTube research on Jessie. Her style is about as raw as blues gets...



"You know I love you but you treat me so low-down..."

Simple, but I'll have to wait for the weekend to 'ear out' the song and learn the parts.
That's my Blues impairment for the week.