Kisses for Kylee Benefit October 16th, Owensboro Ky.
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100 awesome songs in no particular order…what are yours?
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Songs I enjoy listening to and some have the reasons why…Notice, there’s very little metal in the list…links are to stories and highlighted song links are the YouTube videos. Tidbits everywhere! Enjoy 🙂
- Blinded by the light… Manfred Mann..I can listen to this over and over..never gets old..the keys hypnotize me…
- Aint Gonna eat out my Heart Anymore…Angel..song says it all ..one of my personal favorites from my young teenage years.
- Dreams..Fleetwood Mac Rumors album…I remember playing on a pinball machine on our back porch on second street listening to this one..
- King of the Night time world….KISS personal favorite…I wanted to be one ( a king of the night time world)
- Surrender…Cheap Trick…Live Version..”Entire Album” has to be in the top five even though these are not listed like that……
- Edmund FitzGerald…Gordon Lightfoot, every time I hear this I remember Paul Moore playing the cassette at work, so I think of him when I hear it..
- Afternoon Delight..Star Land Vocal Band..I remember sitting on the back of my cousin’s car in Florida listening to this as a storm was out over the ocean 1976?..
- Run and Hide…BlackFoot..great song..Thanks Paul for turning me on to them..
- Levon…Elton John…I feel like Levon sometimes “As Levon Slowly dies”..story of my life..
- You light up my Life..Debbie Boone..Great song, great lyrics..”So many Nights, I sit by the window”. I grabbed the movie clip YouTube video instead of the lyrics one since I saw the movie when it came out. I know Didi Con isn’t singing ok..
- The Rose..Better Milder….great story in a song..deep, deep lyrics. I also grabbed the movie clip from “The Rose” instead of the lyrics video…
- The Killing of Georgie…Rod Stewart great sad song based on a true story..
- Fathom 309…Red Sovine..never ever will get old..love that sad story..”Have a cup on ole Joe”. Red Sovine was a genius to have music put the stories..I would add…Giddy up go and Teddy Bear..Flowers for mamma…
- Ode to Billie Joe….Bobby Gentry….good coming of age song…great movie..starring Robbie Benson, too bad he jumped of the bridge in the movie cause he was molested..
- East Bound and Down…Jerry Reed..”Entire Album” The whole sound track is great and a great movie..”I only take my hat off for one thing”..I went to the movie theater and watched this movie 6 times when it came out! It ran forever and the VCR wasn’t born yet to the general public so what do you do? You go see it again….and again!
- How you Gonna See Me Know..Alice Cooper…”Entire Album” I can relate to the complete album but this song is special, I remember playing it in White Rose and slow dancing with my wife ..
- Rock N Roll Children…Dio..I was one.still am..just older..
- Me and Johnny…. Rick Springfield ..reminds me of my childhood buddy David Lutz..”Someday we’re gonna shine”….
- In the Year 2525 Zager & evans…kooky cool song. Love the Spanish horns and feel to it!
- Rocky ..Austin Roberts…great sad song….soo believable..
- Run Joey Run…..David Geddes…another great cheesy song I cant get enough of..
- Billie Don’t be a Hero…Bo Donaldson ..love this song….
- Total Eclipse of the Heart..Bonnie Tyler….Sort of my wife Denise and my theme song..
- Time for me fly…Reo Speedwagon…
- Aint Even Done with the Night…John Melloncamp..what a great dance song even though I cant dance..
- Young Turks…Rod Stewart..I felt like this when I was younger and we were just starting out…
- Do You think I am Sexy? Rod Stewart…
- Momma Tried..Merle Haggard….great song. Reminds me of Sundays when mom would clean the house…she would put on this album among many and listen and clean…Love the guitar work…folks this is real country not like the country crap out today…
- Alone Again Naturally …Gilbert O’Sullivan
- Joey…..Concrete Blondes….Inspiration for Joey Star…There were a few 90’s songs that didn’t suck. This being one of them.
- 2112 / Overture – The Temples Of Syrinx….RUSH…Side “A” of the album 2112 only…Side “B” is ok only
- Taxi…..Harry Chapin..Great song about a missed love…….He was a genius…the song “sequel” to it is great too. The link has both songs! Enjoy ..man it’s good stuff.
- Suicide is Painless…..Theme Song for M.A.S.H. I only like the song with the lyrics…very deep and dear to me….It’s hard to imagine like a 12 year old kid wrote those words of wisdom..
- Born to Run….Bruce Springsteen…I love this song..I can feel the power of the motorcycles..We gotta get out while were young`cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run…
- Goodbye Girl…David Gates…Who else has seen Kramer vs Kramer?
- Pressure…Billy Joel…story of mine and everyone else’s life..Mtv ruled for a while..
- Fast Car….Tracy Chapman…..a sad song about hope but in the end it remains the same..lost..We all wanna get out but mostly end up doing what our parents did..
- I walk the Line….Johnny cash..one of the first albums I remember listening to..
- The Best of Times….Styx…
- MR. Roboto…….Styx…
- Leader of The Band…..Dan Fogelberg…good song…deep meaning…
- Same Old Lang Syne…..Dan Fogelberg….true story..great song. Never grow tired of listening to it..I can imagine every line in the song…He had the gift of making you feel every line as if he was writing your story…
- Big John…Jimmy Dean….love this song since I was kid..notice I love story tellers?? Anyone remember Big John beans?
- At Seventeen….Janis Ian….for some reason I really like this song, maybe cause I feel like the ugly duckling too…
- I’m Sorry…..John Denver…..Another great story teller…Love this song….”Its cold here in the city”…I used to listen to this on my “Show and tell” record player. It was attached to the Robinson Crusoe slides.
- Kings and Queens…..Aerosmith…..”Long ago in days I’m told”….Would make a good after school special movie. Anyone remember that series?
- Goodbye to Romance…Ozzy/Randy Rhoades….The guitar work…and lyrics…what a beautiful combination and sad song..It turned the rock world upside down.
- Thunderbird..Quiet Riot….Well written song. Written about randy leaving for Ozzy’s band. So much emotion from one friend to another.
- Easy…..The Commodores…..awesome song. The intro on piano, how it “hops”..awesome 70’s vibe to it. Nobody, NOBODY writes like this anymore. The bass line..whew!
- Hold the Line..Toto…I remember skating to this song…
- Smoke of a Distant Fire…Sanford Townsend Band….I remember listening to this on my little transmitter radio at night lying in bed…
- What You Gonna Do? Pablo Cruise..remember listening to it in bed at night too..
- Ebony Eyes….Bob Welch….wasn’t the video played every Friday night on Night Trax or Friday Night Video?
- Thunder Island Jay Ferguson…great song..From the opening guitar riff I was hooked!
- Show Must go On…QUEEN..my motto….Gonna have to go with the greatest rock voice of all time. Freddie Mercury was GENIUS.
- Spread your Wings….QUEEN..When I was in the scouts and was painting the solar system on a 4×8 sheet of plywood,,I listened to this song over and over..I feel like Sammy most of them time..I should be just sweeping up the Emerald bar…L
- I stole Your Love…..KISS..love the live “Studio” version off of ALIVE II where the chorus echoes “How does it feel to find out your failing your test????” I wore this album out and still feel like a kid when I play it! All I had was the gatefold back then to stare at!
- Convoy….C.W. McCall….Reminds me of “Little Trucker”…I used to talk on the cb and I remember standing out in front of our house and talking to the truckers going by on a walkie talkie..KADJ0472 the little gopher, we’re clear!
- Three times a Lady…The Commodores…I would love to slow dance to this one again. It has probably been played at most wedding receptions!
- Puff The Magic Dragon….Peter Paul and Mary…..Reminds me of being a kid,,never wanting to grow up. Why did little Jackie paper grow up?
- Cold as Ice…Foreigner…I really love the intro piano notes..like they are being pounded out..great well written song..when it was released I recorded it on a shoebox tape recorder and would play it over and over and write down the lyrics..lol…
- Hazard…Richard Marx…. Another great song with a story…it’s a reoccurring theme of mine..
- Winter time…Steve Miller….remember hearing this on 8 track…love the sound effects of wind blowing, haunting acoustic guitar..
- I’m Not In Love….10CC…love the voices in the song..never gets old..”Big boys don’t cry”…
- Don’t Cry Out loud…Melissa Manchester….…”baby cried the day the circus came to town, cause she didn’t want parades just passing by her, so she painted on a smile and took up with some clown..”..powerful words…
- Third Time Lucky…..Foghat…….I can relate to this song..
- Shapes of things to Come…Nazareth….The end of the world…great song..(I know the Yardbirds wrote it). I saw Nazareth in Evansville Indiana!
- Grave Robber….Petra….love this song…inspirational…
- Against the Wind…Bob Seger….what an awesome song…also can add…”Roll Me away”. “I too am lost and I feel double crossed and I am sick of what’s wrong and what’s right”
- Hungry Heart…Bruce Springsteen…..cool song about mid life crisis….so many people do this…”I got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back”, how many ppl actual do this?..
- Age of Aquarius….The Fifth Dimension….Love this hippie song. Wish it was true…
- Mr. BoJangles….Nitty Gritty Dirt band…….Always reminds me of Jumbo..I remember one year when the carnival was in the lot across from Second and green street where the little coffee place is now, and Jumbo was dancing for tips..
- If…Bread……great song..soo sad..
- Without you”..Harry Nilsson….
- Brandy….Looking Glass…..good sad love song
- 50 ways to leave your lover..Paul Simon…The snare intro…whew!
- It never rains in California….Albert Hammond…
- Please Come to Boston…Dave Loggins..
- Under Pressure….QUEEN/David Bowie…perfect song…”Its the terror of knowing what this world is about..watching some good friends, scream let me out”…
- Band on the Run..Paul McCarthney & Wings. Better than the Beatles..
- Time in a Bottle..Jim Croce….well written song .love that descending acoustic line..great singer/songwriter,,tragic short life..
- I’ll Have to say I love you in a song..Jim Croce….better than the one above by a few songs..
- Wasted days and wasted nights…..Freddie Fender..I remember going to the Pine Room restaurant with my mom and they had those table juke boxes..I played this song over and over..
- Mandy….Barry Manilow……great song..”you gave and you gave without taking..I have never experienced that…
- Wildfire…Michael Martin Murphy ….great song..good story teller.
- I’m not Lisa…..Jesse Colter….love the single piano notes…sad coming of age song..
- Telephone Lines…E.L.O….love the vocals…like he is speaking through a phone…very smart..
- Le Freak…..Chic…love the disco era..great song to skate too even though I cant really skate well…Great guitar riff!
- Sad eyes…Robert John…good song to slow dance too a long time ago..
- Logical Song….Supertramp…
- My Life….Billy Joel…song says it all..
- Lady…The Little River Band…I remember slow dancing to this one in junior high 8th grade but don’t remember her name..she must of not been important..….
- I’d really love to see you tonight….England Dan & John Ford Coley…great song..can almost see the stars and feel the warm wind..love how the high hats open up during the intro..its all in the details!
- Sultans of swing…Dire straits….perfect story and guitar playing…
- Every time I think of you..The Babys…great song..Saw them open for Alice Cooper..great music…
- Cool Change…Little River Band….wonderful song..
- Sounds of Silence …Simon and Garfunkel….”Hello darkness, my old friend”..we know each other very well…
- two out of three aint bad….Meatloaf….good song…great lyrics..sad though
- Vincent…Don Mclean….studying art in jr high and high school, I can appreciate depression and the close walk with life and death.
- On With The Show…Motley Crue…great well written song..very sad..Perfect blend of guitar, raw emotions and guts. I wish Motley Crue had of stayed this way…:(
And a bonus one…Damn, David Bowie wrote some great songs…But “Is there life on Mars” It’s on Amerika’s tortured brow, That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow, Now the workers have struck for fame
‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again. Deep Deep Deep
there you have it…your turn …..send us yours to chuck@kickacts.com and we’ll put them up…
chuck
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Standby Records Presents “THE HALLOWEEN TOUR”!
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Post-Hardcore powerhouse, The Persevering Promise, is excited to announce
that they will be joining Consider Me Dead, Catching Your Clouds, and The
Paramedic on The Halloween Party Tour, presented by Standby Records.
The Persevering Promise, has opened the ears and pulled on the
heartstrings of fans and critics throughout the United States with their
debut LP, An Illusion in Shambles, which has recently hit #8 on Billboard
Charts in the Pacific region. The dynamic anthems of The Persevering
Promise are comprised of strong, honest vocals, ranging from vibrant hooks
to solid gang chants, monstrous guitar riffs and technical, animalistic,
powerhouse drumming.
Debut Album “An Illusion in Shambles” OUT NOW, featuring Chad Ruhlig of
For The Fallen Dreams, Ronnie Winter of RJA, and Shawn Spann of I The
Breather.
iTunes:
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Glen Campbell’s final studio song :-( video
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It is really sad what this disease does to someone and their loved ones…I had the pleasure of finally seeing This Iconic person in concert back in 2012.
Here is my review. Glen’s final video is at the bottom of this article.
chuck
Glen Campbell…What can you say about him? He is An American Legend. A musician. An Icon. An Actor. And, a man that is dealing with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
With the public announcement a few months ago that he is suffering from this he decided to embark on his Goodbye tour. You got to hand to it to him. He could stay home and let this debilitating disease slowly rob him and his family like so many others but instead he is taking it out on the road. Therapeutic? Of course it has to be. Plus if I had to guess, it has to be comforting to do what you know what to do in times of duress. His is to play music.
So on June 8th he rolled into Evansville Indiana at the Aiken Center. I have, like a lot of people my age and older grew up on Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Reed just to name a few and all the variety shows that have long gone away and really should be brought back. Back when the whole family could sit around the television and watch the same programs and the parents didn’t have to worry about what was seen or heard.
Back to the Concert, first off. I only found out about it one day out of the blue by looking up his tour dates and saw where he was making a stop in Evansville. I usually am a radio scanner, meaning if I don’t like the song on the radio I hit the scan button and Read more…
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Classic Evansville rock “The Phonz” Youtube video
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Wow! Check out what someone has found! Does anyone remember the Phonz? I do. They were blowing up this area back when I first got into the music scene. Evansville used to and I guess is still a hotbed for local talent. Remember Kramer’s lake? The Rock Pit? The Victory and the Dungeon? Funkys? Don’t forget the Ross Theater where I used to play quite a lot! Bands like the X-men, Stop the Car, Pegasus, Silent Partner, Glass Hollow, and ATTAK (my band not as much) were blowing up the scene! So many more that at the moment I am drawing a blank since I have Pegasus’s song the “Night Caller” stuck in my head! Anyone remember that? Anyone got a copy of that? Who had that song called “She’s a lady”? Glass Hollow had a radio song “called” Fire?
chuck
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Here is a photo taken from Larry’s Facebook page during the time he was in The Phonz!
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Fishing Hole…Grandpa fishing at 88
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Fishing Hole..
It looked like this one but was solid red!
Around 1970 my grand pa purchased a 1958 Ford truck for $100.00. It was red and the gear shift, also called “3 in a tree,’ was on the steering wheel column. He didn’t know how to drive one so my grandmother drove it home. He eventually learned to drive that old truck. He even let my brother and I brush paint one year. I remember that old truck well. It served Pop’s well too. He drove it back and forth to work all those years until he retired in 1985. He then sold that truck for $100.00. I would say he got his money out of it. He and that old truck used to take my brother and me fishing too. It wasn’t anything for him to load us up and take us to Audubon Park to fish with cane poles. He never got to fish much because he was always busy baiting our hooks or fixing our poles. I am sure us two boys were a handful for him. I can still see him stringing up the bluegills we would catch. We would take them home, he would clean them and mom would fry them for us. She would have us drink milk when we ate them incase we missed a fishbone.
Well, here I am a grown and I have been asking Pop’s to go fishing for years. He always declined but I asked every year. Well last summer I brought it up again and this time he didn’t say no. He said he would like to go. I prayed for a nice cool day and called him and told him I had the poles and the bait already to go. He wasn’t going to wiggle like a night crawler out of it this time. I picked him up and took him to my daughter’s in laws’ pond. I set him up a chair and fixed him a pole. I baited it just like he tried to teach me years ago as a kid and asked him if he wanted me to “cast it” it out for him. He said “nope, I can do it” and with that he tossed it out there and sat down. It wasn’t too long before the fish were biting. He jumped up and started reeling them in… One after the other… I was so busy taking fish off his pole and rebaiting it I didn’t have time to fish myself but I saw what he saw so long ago when the roles were reversed. I was having the time of my life watching my Grand pa have the time of his life.
We fished for a few hours and then I took him home. He kept saying over and over how many fish he had caught!
This past weekend while we were doing our weekend thing of me taking him to the store and out to eat he brought it up again. “We going fishing this year?” he asked. Yep Pop, you bet ya” I said… Come on Spring….
(looking back over this article.) It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since we did this…Pops is now 93. His health is a little worse for wear but at 93, how much tread would I still have left on the tire? I am almost embarrassed I haven’t made time to take him back to the fishing hole. I have asked him several times in passing but just like before, he keeps telling me no. But I really think I should just take him any way.
Chuck gee
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KickActs EXTREME* New Steele Panther Video!
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KickActs EXTREME*
***KickActs Extreme*** You know the drill… KickActs Extreme means 18 years of age or older to view. Not for the faint or tenderhearted. The video that’s up is Steele Panther (Rated PG) so if you haven’t heard of them…You might want to move on to something a little tamer to read or watch like this LINK. If you are familiar with Steele Panther ENJOY! LOL The song is called *****Whipped. Don’t forget to check out Steele Panther on their opening slot with Judas Priest! They will be heading to Evansville Indiana on October 22nd!!
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Fleetwood Mac together again Minneapolis MN 2014
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WOW! WOW ! WOW! This is awesome! The band is sounding great and Christie McVie is back with them. At 71 she is sounding great! Who says “you’re too old to rock”?? No one did. This band is nailing it. And it all sounds live to without any flown in background music or vocals like the majority of acts/bands of today.Check out the YouTube videos.
Hat tip to DIMEBAGDARYL79 for posting the vids.
And probably my favorite FM song Tusk!
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Another Henderson landmark is coming down.
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Station One is coming down. Built between 1950 and 1951 for Henderson’s growing demand for electricity and due to Government regulations in 1995 was retired. I know to some the old building is an eyesore. It’s no longer in use and just sitting there. I will admit, the area around it is an eyesore. The old conveyor belt systems and coal filled parking lots could be cleaned up and paved and grassed over. But when I look at that building, I think about the architects that drew up the original plans for the building design. Of course I wasn’t there but I picture them sitting around a drafting table thinking of a design that would best fit the interest and use of the new power plant and somehow “hat tip” to the Mighty Ohio River and her majestic banks.
When I look at the building I see a work of art. A practical working place and art all rolled up into one. It’s just not a plan building on the riverbank. When I look at it I see a paddlewheel boat. With it’s pilot’s house out in front of the three smoke stacks that follow. It’s as though she is steaming up river. Steaming her way into the future. Face into the wind. Bow into the current. Pushing water through time. I am sure it was a delight to see her while traveling on the river. Some I am sure when they saw it knew that they were back home safely in Henderson.
It’s a Landmark and well, I understand the building was built and insulated with asbestos at a time when asbestos was “in”. It has stood for sixty plus years and could have easily stood over watch for another sixty years but as it is said. “It is not meant to be”. Like a lot of other Henderson landmarks…Progress to some is more important than the history that is carries. So, she is coming down. She is coming down as I type. Preparations are already in place and she is expected to be gone forever by May 2015. The view of the river will be forever changed. From what I am told it will be a future park at some point. Which to the people that walk and traverse the river walk, that area will have a beautiful new view to look at.
To those like me that are attached to art and landmarks, it will be missed. But as I used to read in the Gleaner as a young kid in the editorials someone used to say all the time… “Progress is wonderful”.
chuck
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