A Cavalcade of Rock: Weird Al Yankovic

In 1976 Alfred Matthew “Weird Al” Yankovic first achieved minor notoriety while still a high school student in 1976 after sending a homemade tape to the Dr. Demento Radio Show and getting airtime for a song called “Belvedere Cruising”. Al went to Cal Poly at San Louis Obispo after high school and while a sophomore [...]

A Cavalcade of Rock: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Emerson, Lake and Palmer began ca. 1970 and were made up of Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer. ELP was, perhaps, the first group of hard rockers who truly wanted to incorporate other genres of music into the rock field — some say this was because they loved music of all types and wanted [...]

A Cavalcade of Rockers: Bob Seger

Bob Seger, of Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, was born in Detroit on May 6 of 1945 and began his musical career in 1961 with a group called “The Decibals”. He then teamed up with “The Town Cryers” and “Doug Brown and the Omens”. Bob once stated that Little Richard and Elvis Presley [...]

A Cavalcade of Rockers: Y&T

In the early 70s a group formed in the San Francisco Bay Area that helped shape the future of Rock, the name of this band was Yesterday & Today (but it became better known as simply Y&T). The original members were Dave Meniketti (lead guitar, lead vocals), Joey Alves (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Phil Kennemore [...]

Atheism, Belief and Today’s Society

“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.” ~ Joshua Liebman I was the product of a fine education, which happened to be due to the Catholic Church, but I am most thankful for gaining my education during (and after) Vatican II. Vatican [...]

Odd Christmas Songs

The Pretty Little Dolly by Mona Abboud The Chimney Song by Bob Rivers I Farted On Santa’s Lap by Little Stinkers I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas I am Santa Clause by Bob Rivers Monsters’ Holiday by Bobby “Boris” Pickett Zat you, Santa Clause? – Buster Poindexter

The Idiot and the Economy

I am not an economist by any stretch of the imagination, but I have taken some form of economics and business course at various stages of my education over the years. This doesn’t quite make me an Economic Idiot, but to put it frankly… it places me not far from that catagory. LoL An Economics [...]

Musical Jamboree

In the early-to-mid 60s, I was introduced to a wide variety of music. My best friend’s mother listened to Country and Western music, whenever we played at his house we would hear the likes of Jim Reeves and Hank Williams, Sr. Sometimes we’d sneak up to his oldest brother’s room and play the collection of [...]

The TV Groups

As a small child, approximately 3 – 7 years old, I tended to enjoy the songs meant for children (like Puff)… but I also spent hours sitting on the floor and playing while the listening to singers like Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Mario Lanza and the great Robert Goulet. I learned to [...]

My First Favorite Song.

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh