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"Swear to God Bill Clinton gave me the key to Little Rock Arkansas and wildeyed raved that? Wang Dang Sweet Poontang was his favorite song ever! " Ted Nugent then posted this picture.

Flashback to February 1964 and The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Later the same year, The Rolling Stones appeared on Ed's show as well as many other groups from England... The newspapers called it The British Invasion.

Long hair, VOX amplifiers and uniforms for some. It was soon after local radio stations were asking kids to vote. I was 12 years old and asked to vote. School mates were taking sides asking me to vote my favorite band: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

How can you compare? They were musically different and different in how they got packaged. I doubt Hells Angels attended a Beatles concert!

I did like Brian Jones and his influences on the Stones, but I was too young and distant to the politics surrounding his leaving the band.

McCartney still performs and so does Ringo Starr, their two other band mates are gone now. The Stones less a retired bassist remain intact and are still touring. 56 years later McCartney and Jagger are still trading barbs as to who was better... The Beatles or The Rolling Stones.

My vote?

Through these trying times.

Musicians, song writers and country music stars of all time



You sometimes forget how much you admire someone until
you're stuck at home looking for something to listen to.

I've always been fascinated with music created with synthesized and electronic sounds. Roland is one of the companies who for 2 generations has been a leader in the manufacture of devices like analog and digital music synthesizers, digital sequencers for both studio and live performance.
In 1982, British musician Thomas Dolby released a New Wave single titled "She Blinded Me with Science" that was created with layers of electronic drums and 'synth'
Thomas was awarded (by Roland Corporation) at the NAMM show in 2018 for a Lifetime Achievement and he performed his song She Blinded Me with Science giving the background to the making of this hit!

I have had this song playing in my head for a while now. My job and life in effect depends on my imagination, which really has no bounds. When I mention what I think of (imagine), I have lost 99% of the people even before finishing the first word. I luckily don't need anyone's approval, for anything, and that is not thinking too much of myself, but just knowing myself.

I needed a money order yesterday and stopped at the grocery store (in Miami) where they charge 99 cents, unlike the bank that's upwards of $7 and only available during bankers hours.

Setback by the number of people in the store, with the exception of the customer service line holding 6 feet between us, it was nearly impossible to maintain any form of social distancing throughout the store. Side note that explains why Miami has more cases of COVID-19.

I try to be aware of my surroundings and the music on their PA system started playing the song Missing You by John Waite. Okay, so my head was bobbing by the time he got to the chorus and the woman behind me was singing along. I turned to see and it was a young black woman, wearing a surgical mask. I asked if she knew who the singer was and she said "I love this song, but no, who sings it?" I said The British musician John Waite, he played in a band called The Babys. She thanked me for the information and smiled so strongly that her eyes squinted and it crinkled the mask. She asked if I liked her singing and I said it was very good... but the real question came when she said "Do you think I should keep my day job??

Bob Seger has plugged away on his guitar for more than 50 years, but there's more to the man than his hit songs. From his athletic background to his retirement, there's a whole lot of untold truth about this classic rocker.

Most people contain multitudes. And that's certainly true of Bob Seger. In addition to being a talented musician, he's also a lifelong athlete and competitor. Back in high school in Michigan, he really wanted to play football, specifically the glorious position of quarterback. But he couldn't cut it on the gridiron, leading him to turn to track and field instead. His years of hoofing it as fast as he could inspired one of his most beloved songs. As he told The Mercury News in 2019,

"I always wanted to write a song about being a runner. I don't think anybody got that, but that's where the 'Against the Wind' title came from."

Seger races against the wind not just on land but also out on the water. In 2001, his sailboat Lightning won the Port Huron-to-Mackinac Race in Michigan. And it turns out that he's quite the hands-on owner. Lightning crew member Mike Thompson told a boating publication,

"Everybody took turns steering the boat, and he was in the rotation just like everybody else."

Watch the video for more about The Untold Truth Of Bob Seger!

I don't follow country music... but every time America is faced with a disaster, be it a shooting, plane crash, death of a public figure, some country singer writes a song that goes mainstream.

I'm up from my afternoon nap and have my pondering hat on.

Predictions, predictions... I'm sure I'm too late to pen some lyrics, pick up a guitar and record the next YouTube viral song about a virus across the country, urging Americans to stand tough, we'll get though this pandemic together.

This brings up the TV show called 'Gone COUNTRY' where singers from other genres would crossover from their normal music style. Twisted Sister's front man Dee Snider appeared on the show, goes off the rails and probably would have done well... except for the part where he 'shoots birds' to the audience. I'm looking for that episode on Youtube!

I did find this non-rock & roll clip of him:

How do you judge beauty? Israel was only 38 and weighed close to 1000 lbs. May 20th was his birthday