The theme of our program tonight is how fucking great it is to be alive!\u00c2\u00a0 And if you don’t believe life is a gift, that should be lived to the fullest, if you don’t dream of driving with the top down, blasting the radio, pounding your fist on the dashboard, if you haven’t seen God, if your genitals have not tingled at a concert, I WANT YOU TO STOP READING RIGHT NOW!<\/p>\n
That’s right.\u00c2\u00a0 Shut down your computer, turn off that BlackBerry, I don’t want to bring you right down, I don’t want to bum you out.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re surfing the astral plane, we’re enjoying ourselves, and we don’t want your downer energy.\u00c2\u00a0 Go utilize apps, go play video games.\u00c2\u00a0 Just please stop reading, this is going to bum you out too much.<\/p>\n
Clive Davis would say Wishbone Ash can’t sing, that the song is too long.\u00c2\u00a0 Jimmy Iovine would say they’re not good-looking enough, that there’s no way to tie in with the Fortune 500.\u00c2\u00a0 And a band this good wouldn’t make a deal with a major label today anyway, they wouldn’t give up 360 degrees of revenue, wouldn’t sell their souls, they’d want to be free, on stage, where they belong!<\/p>\n
I never even HEARD this song until today!\u00c2\u00a0 Sitting at the light, waiting to turn from Sunset onto Barrington.\u00c2\u00a0 When I heard the live rendition done at XM.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is not the take I’m going to point you to here, that one had better vocals, but this ancient one just WAILS!<\/p>\n
Wanna know what it was like in the seventies?\u00c2\u00a0 WATCH THIS CLIP!\u00c2\u00a0 Catch the audience clapping, grooving, moving to the music.\u00c2\u00a0 Others standing in sheer admiration…how do they DO this?<\/p>\n
We know how Britney did it.\u00c2\u00a0 On sheer desire.\u00c2\u00a0 Flashing her lashes for aged men.\u00c2\u00a0 But that didn’t used to be the recipe we admired.\u00c2\u00a0 We liked acts that truly cooked.\u00c2\u00a0 Who assembled the ingredients and every night attempted to make that cake RISE!<\/p>\n
Watch this clip.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t it make you want to raise your arms in exultation like the dude in the black shirt at the end?\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t it make you want to grab your wallet, put on your jacket and go to the gig?<\/p>\n
You can’t get this feeling anywhere else.\u00c2\u00a0 Only music can light such a spark inside, transport you three fifths of a mile in ten seconds.<\/p>\n
Hang in there, through the intro ad, through the first few notes, until the guitars lock in and start to WAIL!<\/p>\n
In the old days, music was sealed up, you could visit it in the store, but it was hard to hear.\u00c2\u00a0 But via the miracle of the Internet, you can hear Wishbone Ash’s "Blowin’ Free" right now!\u00c2\u00a0 TURN IT UP!<\/p>\n
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