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To Those Gone or: RIP

18 Wednesday Sep 2019

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Ben Orr, Eddie Money, Ric Ocasek, The Cars

Salutations™!!

I’ve not had a chance to say RIP to the two names in music that we lost this past week. So, I’ve not been a big fan of Eddie Money or his music, but what I did like, I liked a good bit. He tried to join the police force (as his family was wont to do), I mean his name is really Mahoney, that’s a New York Police name if ever there was one. But, he went into music instead. He moved to San Francisco, changed his name to Eddie Money and went on to do some good songs. I’m not saying I didn’t like his stuff, I just didn’t hear more than just the “hits.” He had been battling a lot of things, including drug addiction and cancer, which eventually won that battle.

The other one was a little more sudden, surprising and more impactful to me. I won’t make it out to be a yeah, I have always been a fan situation but I have always liked The Cars. Ben Orr died in 2000 from Pancreatic Cancer. This week we lost the leader of The Cars, Ric Ocasek. He died from natural causes but he had recently had surgery. He suffered from both hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Growing up the most I knew of The Cars was the hits and always thought that Ocasek was the singer of the band. I didn’t find out until “Drive” that Ben Orr was co-lead vocalist. But, even that being what it is, Ocasek was the main songwriter of the band and the driving force behind it.

The not-so-funny thing about his death is it is the latest in the Vagabond Saints Society curse. We have lost a good bit of artists that VSS have covered, in one way or another. We don’t know that that is a real thing but it happens a bit. Anyway, RIP to both Ric and Eddie.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“It’s not the perfume that you wear. It’s not the ribbons in your hair. I don’t mind you comin’ here and wastin’ all my time. I guess you’re just what I needed. I needed someone to feed. I guess you’re just what I needed. I needed someone to bleed.” – “Just What I Needed” (Ocasek)

Exhaustion or: It’s Been a Day

27 Friday Oct 2017

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3B, Chicago, Cleaning, Eddie Money, Ghostbusters, Jim Croce, Music, Pink Floyd, The BCPF, Thompson Twins, Tom Jones, ZZ Top

Salutations™!!

I dropped 3B off at school this morning around 9am. I came straight home (we live 2 minutes from the school), put on some Thompson Twins, Ghostbusters Soundtrack (1984), Jim Croce, Pink Floyd, Eddie Money, Chicago, ZZ Top and Tom Jones records and proceded to clean up a big chunk of the house. I threw stuff away, I moved stuff out, put some stuff in a box to carry to the studio, dusted, swept, washed three loads of laundry, everything. IMG_20171027_105653_799

I only left the house three times: taking 3B to school, picking 3B up from school and a function that The BCPF needed to do. Even then, I am now sitting at over 7650 steps for the day. A step is a step is a step. It zapped me, too. I didn’t slow down until after 3pm when I took a shower. Six hours of cleaning. The only time I did slow down was when I was making the posts for the records I was playing.

All I know is, it’s a cool feeling coming how to a clean house. I’m exhausted, could barely keep my eyes open during tonight’s function, and I’m going to be sore. I’ve even fallen asleep twice writing this post. So, I’m leaving it at that. Oh, I did slow down long enough to do my B&W pic for the day, I’ll leave it here.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.” – Marie Kondo

Silent Sunday or: The Haul 9/16/17

17 Sunday Sep 2017

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.38 Special, ABBA, Art Garfunkel, Bangles, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Carly Simon, Carole King, Dan Fogleberg, Discogs, Duran Duran, Eddie Money, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Costello, George Harrison, Haircut One Hundred, Haydn, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, Laura Branigan, Metallica, Miles Davis, Mozart, Nat King Cole, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Paul Simon, Pete Townshend, Peter Paul and Mary, Player, Quiet Riot, Ratt, Red Rider, Sting, Styx, The BCPF, The Kingston Trio, The Moody Blues, Underdog Records, Van Halen, Werner Müller

Salutations™!!

Underdog Records was jumping yesterday but The BCPF and I didn’t see most of our “regulars” friends that we usually get to hang with. That was sad, but it was a great day otherwise. We filled in some “collection” gaps, I added to my hard rock genre, The BCPF got one of her favorite albums of all time. It was a great day. Here it is:R-3555769-1481559753-1737.jpeg

  • Paul Simon – Graceland (Top 5 for The BCPF, had it special ordered for her, new)
  • Sting – …Nothing Like The Sun (The BCPF nearly squealed when I presented it to her)
  • Metallica – Kill ‘Em All (NM used copy)
  • Metallica – Master Of Puppets (on RS Top 500 of All Time, I never cared for it before now, it’s a fave, NM used)
  • Metallica – …And Justice For All (2xLP, NM used)
  • Quiet Riot – Metal Health (Dutch pressing, VG+)
  • Bangles – Different Light
  • George Harrison – Cloud Nine
  • Player – Player
  • Miles Davis – Decoy (VG+ clean copy)
  • Ratt – Ratt
  • Eddie Money – Can’t Hold Back
  • Elvis Costello And The Attractions* – The Best Of Elvis Costello And The Attractions (VG+)
  • Black Sabbath – Master Of Reality (1974 pressing, VG+)
  • Art Garfunkel – Fate For Breakfast (with what has to be the silliest back cover photo ever)
  • Art Garfunkel – Scissors Cut
  • The Moody Blues – The Other Side Of Life
  • Duran Duran – Notorious (still sealed, will change that soon)
  • Dan Fogelberg – The Innocent Age
  • Styx – Kilroy Was Here
  • Carly Simon – Anticipation
  • Van Halen – Fair Warning
  • Haircut One Hundred – Pelican West
  • Red Rider – As Far As Siam
  • Jim Croce – Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits
  • Pete Townshend – Empty Glass
  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  • Nat King Cole – When You’re Smiling
  • The Nat King Cole Trio – The Vintage Years
  • 38 Special – Strength In Numbers
  • 38 Special – Wild-Eyed Southern Boys
  • Carole King – Simple Things
  • Carole King – Touch The Sky
  • Carole King – One To One
  • Carole King – Rhymes & Reasons
  • Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – S.R.O.
  • Laura Branigan – Branigan 2
  • Peter, Paul And Mary – Album 1700
  • Kingston Trio – The Best Of The Kingston Trio Vol. 2
  • Werner Müller – O, Tannenbaum (Christmas On The Rhine)
  • Joan Baez – Joan Baez Vol. 2
  • Mozart*, Haydn*, N.W.D.R-Orchester, Hamburg*, Leopold Ludwig – Symphony No, 41 “Jupiter”, Symphony No. 94 “Surprise”
  • Ella Fitzgerald – Ella In Hollywood
  • Blondie – The Hunter
  • ABBA – Greatest Hits

In addition, there is another jazz album that is from the 1930s but it’s not in Discogs so I will have to put it in, I suppose. It should be in soon. Getting back into vinyl? Then Underdog Records is your place! Whether you’re getting new stereo/turntable equipment, looking for the best accessories for your equipment or to buy a shload of vinyl, this is it. And Discogs is where I do all my cataloging and archiving.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“I don’t take coffee, I take tea, my dear. I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk. I’m an Englishman in New York.” – “Englishman In New York” (Sumner)

Over the Top or: The Less Desirables Movie of the Week

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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80s Films, Cheap Trick, Eddie Money, Frank Stallone, Kenny Loggins, Lincoln Hawk, Over the Top, Robert Loggia, Robin Zander, Rocky, Rotten Tomatoes, Sammy Hagar, Starz, The Less Desirables

Salutations™!!

When I think of cheesy ’80s films and their actors, I think of Sylvester Stallone.  Not Rocky I-IV, mind you, but just about everything else he did.  There may be some other exceptions but they’re not coming to mind right now.  This week’s The Less Desirables Movie of the Week is no different.  You’d think it was called K-R-A-F-T.  Does cheese make it bad film?  Not necessarily.  Sometimes cheese in film is like cheese on a sandwich, it makes it better.

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Over the Top

The film this week is Over the Top, starring the aforementioned Sylvester Stallone as Lincoln Hawk, a struggling-to-make-it truck driver who makes extra money by competing in arm wrestling contests, be it on a small barroom scale or a massive tournament plane.  He has a son, Michael (who uses his mother’s name and not Hawk’s) who is in military school and a total tool; misguided but a tool nonetheless. Michael’s mother, who still loves Lincoln is rich and is the daughter of a big-headed @$$hole played by the incomparable Robert Loggia, has a terminal illness and had sent Hawk to pick up Michael and bring him to see her.

Loggia’s character, Jason Cutler, hates Hawk with all his being and wants his grandson to have nothing to do with him.  He has Michael kidnapped, but Hawk gets him back.  However, by the time they get to the hospital, Michael’s mother has already passed away. Michael believes having to travel with Hawk, via his truck, made him late to see his mother and disassociates with him at his grandfather’s mansion.  So Hawk is arrested for trespassing when he tries to retrieve Michael by using his truck as a ram prow through the gates.

Michael comes to see Hawk in jail and forgives him but wants to stay with his grandfather. Then Hawk runs off to Vegas for the World Armwrestling Championships.  Michael has a change of heart after finding years worth of letters written to him in which is grandfather hid.  He fights to make his way to Vegas, which apparently, no one notices a pubescent driving a stolen truck on California highways and into Vegas.  Anywhat! You can probably figure out how it all ends, standard, par for the course fare for these kind of films.

The soundtrack is pretty good with acts like Robin Zander (of Cheap Trick), Sammy Hagar, Eddie Money, Frank Stallone and the theme song “Meet Me Half Way” by Kenny Loggins.  The soundtrack was probably the best part of the film.  The cheese factor that I mentioned earlier, well it’s certainly cheesy and no, really, it didn’t make it any better. The film was so-so at best and there was no cinematic breakthroughs, highlights or anything remarkable to even talk about.  Now, that being said, it was fun as long as you keep in mind it’s an overall horrible film.  In fact, Rotten Tomatoes gives it only 36% approval, if you put stock in that kind of thing.

Overall, I recommend it only from a nostalgic ’80s view, but if you’re looking for cerebral enlightenment? Not so much. The film was directed by Menahem Golan and I watched it on Starz. I rate it 2.5 stars. If you’re so inclined, watch it and let me know your thoughts on the film.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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