Ooh, it takes every kind of people To make what life's about, yeah Every kind of people To make the world go 'round https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Palmer_(singer)
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Wednesday Rock Blogging
Jimi
Hendrix, with bandmates Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Billy Cox (bass), was already booked to perform a concert in Honolulu at the H.I.C. Arena on August 1, 1970, and the film’s director, Chuck Wein, desperate to feature Hendrix in some capacity, devised a plan to film a...
Alicia Keys
While reducing my blog-post drafts down to a manageable few, let's review some of the best music videos. We were lucky to see Alicia live and up close in her first big tour, and this video shows what we saw - a regular girl singing her heart out. Say hello to your La...
A Common Disaster
I have saved hundreds of live-music youtubes over the years and it's time for a year-end clearout. I try to play music on Wednesday nights but fall asleep half the time, and other times I play them on Tuesday by mistake. So hardy har har, 2020, these are the best of...
War
We have worn out shoes, but we paid our dues.....
EVH 2
pic.twitter.com/KPFoPXbqJq — Wolf Van Halen (@WolfVanHalen) October 13, 2020
Eddie Van Halen, RIP
When we were involved with doing the concerts at Cal State Fullerton, our sound & lights crew were also the guys who worked the Van Halen tours. The band was rehearsing at a sound stage in Los Angeles getting ready for the US Festival, and I got to go along. ...
Roy Head, RIP
If you missed the 1960s but heard it was the greatest decade to be alive, this video will help explain it. I always wanted a pair of these boots - just to kill cockroaches in the corner!
Toots, RIP
Let's break from our early-1980s cruise around the L.A. music scene to acknowledge one of the greatest Jamaican artists of all-time, Toots Hibbert, who died on 9/11. As most of you know, my wife Donna was born and raised in Jamaica, and her father was a musician in...
Social Distortion
While we're surveying the L.A. bands of the 1980s, let's mention Fullerton's own Social Distortion. Mike Ness has stayed around Orange County, and is currently selling his home - a classic 1931 Italian Renaissance Revival in the historic Floral Park area of Santa Ana....
