Archive for 2011/03


Saying Goodbye To Ronnie Hammond

From: Buddy BuieSubject: Ronnie’s funeral Dear Bob, Your words were read at Ronnie’s goodbye. Arnie Geller, record executive and my former partner, gave an elegant and moving reading of your tribute. Barry Bailey, J.R. Cobb, and Dean Daughtry were there. Robert Nix and Paul Goddard were not there because of health issues. The Atlanta Rhythm […]

Mailbag

Subject: NEWSFLASH: 60% Off Bon Jovi’s Vancouver Show, Tickets Now $6.75 From the Travelzoo Newsdesk: VANCOUVER–MARCH 17, 2011– A limited number of tickets to see Bon Jovi’s "Live 2011" tour are now 60% off exclusively for Travelzoo subscribers. Prices have been reduced to as low as $6.75 to this month’s Vancouver show, which is the […]

Ronnie Hammond

Sometimes you only have to hear a record once. And this I heard on the only rock station in Salt Lake City.  It was entitled "Dog Days".  There was a moodiness that always appeals to me, but mostly it was the vocalist, and the chorus: The dog days were scorchersSouthern torture Living out of a […]

Rebecca Black

And who said the Internet never broke a star? This is what the Black Eyed Peas have wrought.  After songs with inane lyrics like "My Humps" and "Boom Boom Pow" is it any wonder that Rebecca Black’s trifle is a YouTube sensation? Oh, don’t focus on the barely literate lyrics.  We’ve been pandering this crap […]