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I followed my musician friend to the country while he produced a young band's demo for their first album - and I made a video of it, of course.

Me in my bathroom followed by a trip to the art gallery with some lawn mowing to finish the day - I know, riveting stuff.

Hello, and welcome to the show! I'm your host, Philipsen. Before we get started, please note that this is my own personal list, and it might not reflect what you are thinking. Anyway.. Let's get started!

The first award is known as "Douchebag of the year". This award is given to the person, who I think deserves to be named DB of the year. There is only one nominee, and therefore, the winner.. Obviously.. Anyway, the winner is my former roommate.

I decided to award him this honor, because he's just a massive douche. If you need a reason why, go through my past blogs, but in order to save you some time, the main reason why I award him this award, is because whenever I did something, like leave a coke can on the kitchen counter, brush a fake plant with my shoulder or open the fridge a certain way, I was greeted with a mile long message about how expensive all his stuff was and how I need to take better care of his things.

The next award goes to Album of the Year. The nominations are: Slaughter to Prevail - Kostolom, Ingested - Stinking Cesspool of Liquefied Human Remnants, Gojira - Fortitude and Tremonti - Marching in Time.

This is a tough one, because all these albums were KILLER! But I decided to give it to Tremonti. Fantastic guitar playing and fantastic song writing makes this album so good!

The next award is for the luckiest racing driver of 2021.

This award goes to Jack Aitken, who crashed during the 24 hours of SPA. Video attached


His injuries were only a fractured vertebra and a broken collarbone. Insane!

There is still a few more awards to give out, so stay tuned!

Up next, we have the award for the single most stupid people in the World. It's us, the Danes! A few days ago, a story broke, that Danes have spent 450 million Danish kroner, that's $68.766.300, on fireworks this year. Yes, 68.7 MILLION USD on fireworks. It's only been on sale since the 27th, so for four days. That's $17.1 million PER DAY! It's absolutely insane!

Moving on to the best science application of 2021. It's the covid vaccine!

Next up: Best late night host of 2021. This is a tough one, and three people have been nominated: Stephen Colbert, Seth Myers and Jimmy Fallon. I thought long and hard on this one, and I have decided to award this award to Stephen Colbert.

That leads me into the worst late night host of 2021. That's easy, it's Jimmy Kimmel.

Moving on - nuttiest politician of 2021. Three people have been nominated. Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. I'm gonna give it to them all.

We are now at the final award. It is for the weirdest collection of people out there. You know, the people whom you go "Are you well? Do you need medication? What is wrong with you..". Drumroll please... And the winner is... The Anti-vaxxers!

I decided to give them this award, because they are just.. Well, they are a bit nutty, aren't they? For the life of me, I can't see what benefit they are. They are actively trying to stop something that will end up saving a lot of lives! I really do not get it. Can someone please explain it to me?

Anyway, this concludes this years awards ceremony! I hope you had fun, and I hope to see you again for the next one, at the end of 2022!

Happy New Year!

I'm off on vacation for nine days, and yeah, it feels soooo good.

I ran into an old TV show that was on from early 1989 to spring of 1993. Watched about three hours of it on one of the newer networks this week, and actually watching the last hour of the third one tonight. I didn't forget how good the show was, but just watching some of the episodes I remember watching years ago is very nice. There had been some of these episodes that I haven't seen.

I sure wish that they would bring it back whether it's with Scott Bakula Sam), or a newer actor playing Sam. Dean Stockwell played Al, but the actor passed away a couple of months ago.

Who remembers Quantum Leap, and which episode was your favorite, or stood out to you?

As far back as I can recall, I always wore clothing suited for the performance I did as a musician.
The very first band we played poolside on hotels along Miami Beach. All dressed alike, our costumes were bell bottom pants and striped pullover shirts. If we had to a night gig at a hotel it's was clam digger pants and puffy sleeve shirts... something Tom Jones would perform in.
These were clothes we didn't wear on the street.
As music changed so did our clothing. Nehru jackets wide belt low-rise pants.
When psychedelic music came along it was knitted pullover and tie-dyed shirts.
Music changed to rock and I had some slacks made from a shimmering material that reflected stage lighting along with some striped pants.

My dad managed one of the early bands and would help us move equipment and wardrobe.
He bought one of the puffy sleeved shirts for me that had lots of bright colors. He called it "The multi-shirt" and it was okay for a short time, but as the music grew harder and louder, I refused to wear the multi-shirt despite his pleas that it would show off better from a stage.

"No dad, that's not the style anymore" No more multi-shirt.
I remember he would place it on a hanger in front of all the other garments we wore for the night. I avoided that shirt like the plague. Somewhere along the way, I think one of the other band member made that shirt disappear. My dad was pissed on that subject.

Around the time of Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, I had a few custom made jump suits.

Probably started by The Rolling Stones, all 'band clothes' became street clothes, with the exception of leather pants and silk shirts the the unbuttoned front. It became impossible to differentiate a musician/entertainer from someone looking to bum a cigarette from you.

I retired from music to attend college, but I was lured back after passing an audition for a touring band. We played the nightclub circuit and had two tuxedo jackets and 4 shirts so it was necessary to hand wash clothes in the hotel room ready for then next gig.

Now, band clothes are shredded T-shirts with silkscreen images of other famous musicians.

I still have nightmares about the multi-shirt!

I took a quick walk around the city and headed to one Perth's great beaches. This is a little of where I live and what I do.

Life off the Record is a new YouTube series I’m producing with musician Michael Vdelli as he takes us inside what it’s like to build and maintain a successful self-managed music career while navigating the many twists and turns that present themselves along the way.

With unprecedented access to record label discussions, agent negotiations, studio recording sessions, and the at times delicate matter of family business dynamics, Life off the Record pulls back the curtain on the music industry offering an intimate view of what life’s really like for an independent recording artist.

One of my favorite pastimes is to wander the city people watching. I particularly enjoy the quirky characters or unconventional types you see enjoying themselves - the eccentrics of the world add color to the palette of life, I think.

I recently took a quick trip from Perth city to the port town of Fremantle recording some of the people and sights.

I haven’t slept. It’s like a group of psychiatric patients escaped and decided to hide out in my head with tequila and a couple of piñatas - the festivities have been going for a day or two. I’ve tried drinking hot chocolate, burning oils, incense and meditating to no avail. I guess nothing can help you when your unhinged friends drop by for a party.

Sex would be the best remedy, but there’s nobody to have it with. The last person to let me lay on top of her naked with this body has been gone a while. She was a lovely woman though - generous, kind, patient, caring, all the qualities you’d look for in a partner. Allie was just a bit too much of a hippie though. She’s probably now married to a guy named Aura who runs a retreat in Bali called Cosmic Caresses where for a fee someone will hold you in their arms and whisper in your ear how important to the universe you are. I hope she’s happy.

I’d be happy if I could sleep.

Being sleep deprived is dangerous, and I’m not really the the dangerous type. My heart rate rises enough at the thought of drinking an under-chilled chablis - god forbid I have to deal with a faulty oven timer while baking a sponge cake - that’s living on the edge enough for me.

Oh to sleep. Maybe if I get drunk - no, that’ll just make me want to put on a Bee Gees record. I bet Barry Gibb was sleep deprived when he wrote Night Fever, and Staying Alive - that could have been a Tragedy…

Actually, writing this nonsense has proved to be quite an effective sedative - it will probably put everyone else to sleep as well.

Maybe you remember the 1960's teen sensations The Monkees. They were 4 guys who played music, sang and acted. Originally contrived by Columbia Screen Gems and Don Kirshner, The Monkees responded to an ad in Variety Magazine.
They had some talent to play instruments, but studio musicians played on their recordings for the first few albums. It's reported Jimi Hendrix was hired for live performances (that later proved to be a failure) as pre-teens couldn't get into his music.

Davy Jones, died of a heart attack at age 66 in 2012, leaving 3 Monkees
Peter Tork died of cancer at the age of 77 in 2019, leaving 2 Monkees
Michael Nesmith died December 10, 2021 of naturel causes at the age of 78.

That leaves, Micky Dolenz as the only surviving member of the band.


Hey, hey, he's one Monkee...