Archive for the 'The Music' Category


Romeo Delight

My absolute favorite Van Halen track opens "Women and Children First". But I didn’t realize how much I loved "And The Cradle Will Rock…" until I heard the remastered version on the first greatest hits album, back in ’96.  I had to bring the disc back and forth to the car, just to hear that […]

Re-Get On Your Boots

Sometimes fact-checking fucks you up. I wanted to make sure that the U2 track was not in the iTunes Top 100, which it isn’t, but in doing further research, to make sure I was right, I searched on "Put On Your Boots" instead of "Get On Your Boots". The track still IS available at the […]

Holly Holy

Irving was raving to me about Jennifer Hudson.  He’d hooked up with Vijay Singh at the golf tournament and then gone to the Super Bowl.  But Irving, she was ON TAPE!  But he told me she sang live in the stadium, that Jennifer was in the league of Christina. Yeah, right. Last night I went […]

The Boy From New York City

Dewey Martin died. Hopefully that rings a bell if you’re a baby boomer.  He was the drummer for Buffalo Springfield, a band whose true greatness wasn’t recognized until Crosby, Stills & Nash broke through and the masses, wanting more of this incredible sound, went to the store and bought "Retrospective", Buffalo Springfield’s greatest hits.  That’s […]