This is another one of those situations where hearing one song begot another. I had some family in town for a visit for a few days this week. Last night, we ended up getting together with my sister from another mister, Angelica, and niece to have dinner. En route to the restaurant, the first song …
Rocky IV was the first Rocky movie I ever saw, and it was one of my favorite movies to watch as a kid. We had a VHS tape of the movie recorded from HBO, and I used to watch it all the time. One of the most critical scenes in the film is when the …
I feel like I’ve heard just about every Tom Petty single he ever released. He seemed to be another one of those artists that just had hit after hit after hit, and the radio stations around Detroit always showed him a lot of love. For the longest time, however, I never actually owned a Tom …
I can’t help but think of the movie PCU every time I think of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic. For those not familiar with the movie, it’s basically a college misfit comedy à la Animal House starring Jeremy Piven and David Spade. One of the side stories in the movie is that Gutter, played by Jon …
I always loved horror movies as a kid, still do. Of all the horror franchises that were around back then, my favorite was by far A Nightmare On Elm Street, and it was through this film series that I first heard of the band Dokken. Dokken performed the title track to the third installment in …
Last week, I was having lunch with some coworkers in our commissary when the subject of musical guilty pleasures came up. When I was asked about this, I really couldn’t think of anything. That’s not to say that I expect everyone to like what I like, I just don’t feel embarrassed or otherwise guilty about …
Jazz seems to be a genre of music that you really don’t hear much about these days, at least I don’t. Just about all of the jazz artists I know or still listen to are people that have been around for many years. I fully admit that this could simply be a result of my …
Today is my grandmother’s 97th birthday. She was always a very big part of my life, babysitting me and my sister almost everyday when we were in grade school and beyond while my parents worked. Every year, we would typically have Thanksgiving or Christmas Eve at her house in Detroit, and it was always a …
To say that there have been a lot of great guitarists throughout musical history is certainly an understatement. Considering how many greats there have been, it’s a nice treat when you can find someone new. In the relatively early days of Elektra Records, the same year The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed …
Of all the concerts I’ve been fortunate enough to attend, there have really only been a couple where an opening act I didn’t know caught my attention enough to seek out their records. In 2006, I went to see Primus at the Hollywood Palladium with a couple of friends. On that tour, they had a …