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Always do your very best to live a life youâre proud of, and if it falls short, have the strength to start over again. I used Better Each Day as my mantra. In the words of 19th century psychologist and pharmacist Emile Coue: âEveryday in every way, Iâm getting better and better.â
So hereâs the spoiler. I moved to Mukilteo WA based on a gut feeling of following my own compass, making new friends and excelling in a career. After 5 years and 8 months Iâm graduating from Home Depot Paint Associate to Buyer at Airbus Robotics.
The following are some words I wrote. Something from a lyric notebook. The spiral notebooks where I write poetry, lyrics, ideas and sometimes just what's on my mind. Hereâs an excerpt from one of them.
âI spend a lot of time with those people. Time well spent. My mind and body get to do what they like best: chat about anything in the world with the brightest group of people Iâve ever met while doing a feel-good workout. Suddenly I realize how good it really is. No amount of money could buy this.â
These are the guys I see every week morning. I think we all have little slots of time where youâre with your friends, work colleagues or just warm thinkers. Sometimes it's at work, sometimes with your family. For me? I met this motley crue at the local YMCA. Thereâs over a dozen of us depending on the day. Weâre ages from 42-80. Non-exclusiveâŠit just worked out we gelled.
One of the regulars said the group is a sweet thing. I found what I set out for years ago when I moved here from Aberdeen. This was written for the relationship between her and her sister. Freya and Annie, The Sweetest Thing Iâve Ever Known.
Itâs a team that was formed purely out of showing up to start the day at a gym. That simple gesture of peace to your body and mind is a good way to begin a day on your A game. We do our best work when all cylinders are firing.
So back to the Trainwreck of Aberdeen. Sometimes life is a complete tornado of disturbing changes and rip offs. I was spending a moment now and then on the edge of I donât give a shit anymore. With a little help from my friends the train got back on track. And somehow when you look back at it all, it plays out like a finely crafted novel.
Flashback to June 2016. I moved from a trainwreck in my hometown Aberdeen. I was looking for love in all the wrong places. Maybe itâs ironic the first friend I made when I landed in my new hometown was named Haight. I met Graham Haight as a fellow real estate broker at Windermere and followed him around town like a stray puppy. I was a rescue. He later had me fixed. Then he had me sew some on.
I joined the same gym, hired the same doctor, dentist and even auto body man as Graham. When I needed to buy a car on my Wendyâs wages budget, he was there with a car dealership of a guy Graham was a corner trainer for in boxing. Graham was my ride for my hand surgery. I drafted behind him.
He became my head football coach and the guy to bounce things off. Someone to give me some focus and direction. The big brother I never had.
My real estate attempt in Mukilteo was an unreachable dream. Competitive beyond my budget and timeframe. I fell back on my painting business, gave guitar lessons, worked at Home Depot and spent the rest of my time writing, producing podcasts and playing an occasional gig.
All the while, I searched and applied for jobs. Then the pandemic hit.
I didnât stop applying for jobs. I was looking for a job in procurement but was willing to start at any level with upward mobility.
Back in September Graham mentioned his daughter needed some paint work done. Sheâd just bought a house thatâs nearby the Y and only blocks from her new place of employment, Airbus Robotics.
I said I
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Hey to all the Better Each Day Listeners, this is Bruce and welcome to episode 251. Welcome to the show but most importantly welcome to the first annual year end Christmas party where we feature a special theme.
Now keep in mind that I am, and apparently always will be, a hopeless romantic love song writing fool. One thing we can all agree on is that some songs just need to be written. And some people need to be written about.
This year the vote was unanimous to introduce some songs you may have heard on previous shows, songs that were inspired by friends. The friends I speak of are sisters Freya and Annie. They are the stars of the show.
Now, I wrote, produced and performed everything youâre hearing but it wouldnât be happening without someone to write about and an audience.
Just to set the scene, I met Freya and Annie at the local YMCA almost five years ago. Theyâre happily married with kids but while weâre at the Y we are all kids.
When I see them it's in a noisy environment full of competition for their attention. Sometimes Iâll squeeze in for a chat and hear a story that leads to a song like this one.
Roses and Strawberry Rain was inspired by my friend Annie, now grown and a mother of two, who played with Little PoniesâŠthe toy Little Ponies. So I did my best to capture a story about a little girl playing pretend with her hero and champion race horse, Strawberry Rain. Rain wins the roses at the Kentucky Derby, the rain washes time away and years later she tells her children about her legendary story ofâŠRoses and Strawberry Rain.
Annieâs older sister Freya, who like Annie, is the warmest of warm people. Going nose to nose with Annieâs miraculous ability to jump rope and defy gravity, Freya, who has super powers also, saw the crappy clothes I wore when I performedâŠmy ragamuffin clothes werenât hittinâ it and she went into her rescue mode to save my sorry ass. Freya took me by the wrist and we went clothes shopping. And she organized a photo shoot with Annie as part of Operation Dress Bruce for new promo pics.
One of the new promo images created by Annie was the result of a filter that, I donât know if it was intentional or not, formed several images of my head in the shape of a heart. It looked like a kaleidoscope version of a heart with me in my Freya shirt.
Sometimes something is said in the morning workout that rings in my head and becomes a lyric. In this case it was a scenario where Annie stopped me briefly during our morning ant farm gym jam to tell me a quick Annie happy word about nothing in particularâŠto which I smiled and looked blankly at her. She responded, âthatâs all I got.â
I turned, walked away and looked back. I thought âThatâs all I got?â Other than stand ups, who says âthatâs all I got?â I turned to see her waiting for me with a goofy smile.
Thatâs all I got? Sometimes we end a conversation with âthatâs all I gotâ...or even end a sentence.
I used color names from Home Depot paint for this âxanadu, limousine leather and melodyâ list of paint color names. âComfort words and hearts and rainbows in my feed, thatâs all I need.â
Annie introduced me to her mother Kerri at the gym one morning about three years ago. It was hugely apparent where some of Annie and Freyaâs magic came from.
My little song Kerri is about a small town girl meeting a small town boy, on bicycles, on a sunny summer day and Kerri announcing to the world âsomeday Iâll marry that boy.â If it sounds like it could be a true story, it is. Well 50 years and 6 children laterâŠKerri and Dad are still a small town girl and a small town boy.
Combine Kerri, Freya and Annie, put them in a blender and voila, a song, the...
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Hey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. This is a special episode with the ghost of John Oates past. I was reflecting on a conversation from a while back where we talked about band names, the Beatles and Hall and Oates being two of them, and the famous Abandoned Luncheonette.
So here are a couple of covers starting with one from an album called Help! Itâs by that band with the name that catches on after a while, the Beatles.
I just recorded this last night. The Bee Geesâ To Love Somebody.
Here are two songs in a row that I wrote about my imaginary romance.
This is a song Iâm proud to say was written and recorded by two brothers of different mothers from mine, the Murchy Brothers with On The HarborâŠthat would be Grays Harbor where we grew up together.
Thank you so much for listening. Hereâs on more of my tunes. This one is one of those âstop and smellâ the rosesâŠDoesnât Anybody Fall In Love No More.
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Hey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. We had a storm here in Mukilteo WA that knocked out our power yesterday. I was reduced to a pencil and an acoustic guitar, two of the best inventions ever.
This song was the result.
Runaway
Thinking again of leaving it all behind
Packing my things and wondering why oh why I feel this sometimes
You and I will runaway, taking our time, let the whirlwinds blow
You and I will runaway, I wanna run away with you
You and I will run away, taking it easy time can wait
And I will run away with you
So sleep silent angel go to sleep until the morning comes
There is a place, where we both can live and never live without love
You and I will runaway, taking our time, let the whirlwinds blow
You and I will runaway, I wanna run away with you
You and I will run away, taking it easy time can wait
And I will run away with you
Hereâs a set of originals. Iâll list the titles in the show notes. I hope you enjoy your drive with me on an ocean road to wherever you want. A little influence from the Byrds and anyone with a 12-string Rickenbacker. Iâm Going Home.
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Bruce Hilliard speaking. The leaves are falling, times are a-changinâ and I heard Mr. Wines took the coda. My most influential band director Mr. Wines passed away a few days ago. In music, a coda is a passage that brings a piece of music to an end. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section. This guy was an entire opus, an epic rock opera for me and many others. Mr. Wines, one of my personal influences and motivators of my music career, passed last Sunday October 23rd 2022. He was 97. A long life for anyone. It deserved a long coda. He was the lifeblood of my music communityâŠthe Professor Harold Hill from The Music Man. And to think he was old by my standards when I had him in his late fortiesâŠwhat seems like a lifetime ago.
In my hometown Aberdeen WA, Hampton Rudolph Wines is a legend. He came to us as a young teacher from Eastern Washington, Pasco is the city I remember him mentioning. In Aberdeen he set a standard for excellence in everything from marching band, symphonic band, pep band, stage band, brass choir for Christmas, witty humor and other psychological mind games he messed us up with.
So, after working closely with him during some very formative years of my life, Iâm writing a pod letter to my dear and recently passed high school band coach, teacher and visionary, Mr. Wines.
Dear Mr. Wines,
Thanks for the mind games. I say mind games in a good way. You knew what we were capable of and figured out ways to trick us into achieving it. You taught us as teenagers the importance of discipline and accountability. You preached respect for our instruments and uniforms and most importantly the attitude to carry it off with 100+ other students fueled mainly by fries and hormones.
You used signature phrases like âwell this week is shotâ, âmoxie, intestinal fortitudeâ and if we sucked you encouraged us with suggestions like âyou might as well take that horn and make it into a planter.â
The âthis week is shotâ speech was a landmark in my way of thinking everything, yes everything, is funny. Do you remember how 52 weeks per year could be shot year after year?
Every Monday morning sounded like this: Well today is Monday and the day is half shot already. Tomorrow will rain so we canât rehearse on the field but we can stay inside but since itâs Tuesday weâll be getting ready for WednesdayâŠand that day is shot. (And heâd be diagramming this on the chalkboard.) That leaves Thursday and Friday. Friday is the pep rally and game (actually the Friday concert at the football stadium). So Thursday is the only day of the week we can do anythingâŠunless it rains. (Which it did.)
And Mr. WinesâŠI was apprehensive to visit you in your house on the hill later in life because when youâre busy you say âdonât bug me man.â I wonder what you think about the current educational system. I believe you took an early retirement when budget cuts hit the arts first. Many people were disappointed to see you retire.
Music was morphing into the rock era and in your lifetime went from Gershwin to Nirvana, from analog to digital and back. From formally educated musicians and composers to garage bands. Did you like my bands Denny and the Chadwicks and Tahola Toilet Authority?
Somehow those that followed your fundamentals went on to appreciate your white glove inspections. You literally wore white gloves during our periodic inspections of our gear. You commanded cosmetically perfect white marching shoes to march in the football field mud.
And...
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The weather is changing, the leaves are too, here are my songs just for you. Ahh, to be a brilliant master of rhyme. Rhymeâs disease. And nowâŠfrom Johann Sebastian Bachâs Toccata in D minor to my Roses and Strawberry Rain in D major.
Roses and Strawberry Rain
Just To Know You
Sweetest Thing
Kerri
Pollyanna
Endless Rain
Thanks for listening!
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When I was a little kid I watched American Bandstand because I liked the songs Dick Clark and company selected for his top hits itâs what the kids want countdown. Based on what I heard, I walked downtown to Aub Schmidtâs music store with a dollar in coins and bought a 45.
Being a fan of vocal harmonies, Beach Boys and Four Seasonsy stuff, I heard this version of âIâve Got Rhythmâ by the Happenings. I had the honor of speaking with David Libert, the baritone and arranger of the Happenings a couple days ago and he said the stereo separation he did were copying the Mammas and the Papas strong stereo separation. As youâll hear in the following chat with David, I say no one invented anything from zero. So here it is, from Bruceâs 45 collection, âIâve Got Rhythmâ and listen for the lead vocal on the left and the other Happenings happening on the right.
David Libert had such a long and interesting career in the music business, his friends encouraged him to write a book about itâŠso he did.
The result is an autobiography 50-plus years in the making aptly entitled Rock and Roll Warrior, recently released on Sunset Blvd Books. Itâs a chronicle of Davidâs inner circle life in the music industry as a popular international performer, singer/songwriter, tour manager, booking agent, producer, and drug dealer on the Sunset Strip. Itâs a story so wild, so crazy, so over-the-top that it can only be true. He was Alice Cooperâs road manager and knows as much about the business as anyongâŠso he wrote a book on his experiences.
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Thanks for listening. I've had a few requests for some original music...and maybe a new one. Here it is, Polyanna:
Pollyanna
You donât even know me , so how can you show me what to do
You donât even need me, if only for less lonely night
You shouldnât go on thinking weâll be someday
And turn that darkness into day?
I donât know
(Chorus)
Pollyanna wonât you please come out of the rain
You know youâre driving me insane
Always looking for a miracle
Always searching for revelation
How can a loser ever win?
Youâre always looking for a miracle
Always searching for a supernova
Somehow you always find your way
You find your way
You find silver lining, somewhere were the skies are always blue
Wake up when your makeup starts to run
Boo hooân when you do the things you do
You always find a way to make things work
Catch a falling star and youâll get burnt
No, not you (ding)
(Chorus)
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Me and my buddies from shop class sang this at the junior high talent assembly. Our band was the Beach Balls, vetoed by the elder teacher with glitzy cat-eye glasses that hovered over the production and basically censored our really good work. The word âballsâ was too radical so I suggested instead of Beach Balls, how about the Sons of the Beaches? âSonsâ?, âbeachesâ?â...nothing satanic there! We settled for the Leech Boys.
My first memories were of 78 rpms with about 25% of the Mom/Dad record club collection being the standard 33 â rpm vinyl that prevail to this day.
By the time I was old enough to buy a record, 33 â albums were the norm and the coolest things ever invented. But for affordability? Forty-fives. And you could avoid the filler crap songs on albums that were fairly common in those days. Buy the songs you liked, avoid paying more for lame filler songs on the LP and when the album you liked came outâŠbuy it and listen with friends.
Hereâs more from a random grab of songs from my ancient gallery of 45s From an Old Box. These are the songs I liked, maybe didnât buy but currently am holdingâŠwaiting for the unknown owner from 1963 to call.
Please enjoy the memories and scratches, the way we used to listen with gum.
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Hey everyone and we have a surprise in store for us. I, while looking through my memorabilia for a Johnny Quest outdoor horizons adventure club card (made that up) I ran across an old brown box full of 45s.
So, randomly, here are ten or eleven 45 r.p.m. records played on a 1972 turntable I found while looking for my retainer.
I was into Santana/Page/Hendrix for guitar inspiration but for melodies and vocals, this apparently was what I was listening to as a young teen.
I think these are the melodies and sincerity that people miss.
These are the songs I listened to in bed, in the dark on my General Electric clock radio that I could operate the knobs proficiently at the top of my head without looking.
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We donât smoke and we donât chew, weâre the class of â72. I was honored to play at an Aberdeen High School class reunion 1972 and had a great time and Iâm not surprised. The acoustics in the party venue wellâŠas big boomy rooms go, the sound wasnât optimum so to those who couldnât hear the troubadour, this is for you.
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Hey everyone! And welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio ShowâŠthe show that features recording artists and their work. Thatâs what we usually do but this episode is all about a party Iâll be playing in a week. Itâs taking me back home to Aberdeen Washington or Warshington for the washing impaired.
Aberdeen, the town that put the Gator on the Animal House movie via Bill Murray who watched in person our hometown ritual dance, the Gator, performed at the Rocker by our beer soaked Schmenges flailing on the dance floor like freshly caught fish on a dock. He told someone at SNL and low and behold, the John Belushi Gator.
Aberdeen was the childhood home of both football icon John Elway and Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers. William E. Boeing was a local and Nirvana sprouted out of a garage just down the street.
Most importantly to me are the friends and family that came with the magic of growing up there. I remember a happy childhood with neighbor kids everywhere. We were the baby boomers and we knew how to have fun. As a kid, Iâd go to door of my buddieâs homes, knock politely and ask in my best Eddie Haskell voice if their precious child could come out and play with the well adjusted neighbor Bruce.
Then weâd go out and build a howitzer slingshot or blow something up. Hot air or hydrogen balloons with fuses, model cars with fuses, everything with fuses.
As I got into my 60s I found myself metaphorically going from door to door to see if anyone could come out and play. It seems in our old age weâve become jaded and have seen and done it all. No one to play with anymore.
Until one day I received a call from Aberdeen friend Paul Koski asking if Iâd like to take a three hour tour on his awesome boat with Ginger and Mary Ann. (I made up the Ginger and Mary Ann part but the boat was pretty cool.) Plus, I got to reunite with some people I hadnât seen in a long time.
We did two of those boating day trips and had plans to travel to Finland to visit his relatives and see the sights. COVID put that on the back burner but last March we drove to Helena MT and back in four cold and snowy days. The goal? To deliver a car and visit with his brother-in-law and have fun. We did both. Iâm so glad I got to know him beyond our teenage years.
He returned to his wife and home at Aberdeen Gardens to complete his new house. What was to be his final home I assume. He was killed working on it about a month ago in a tragic accident. He never moved in.
His friends gathered for a rememberance and there was still a sense of numbness. Those get-togethers can be so healthful and bring some smiles but for me there was a silver lining bonus of being asked to play a set at Aberdeen High Schoolâs graduating class of 1972 reunion in a week.
Now those guys graduated two years prior to my class of â74 but having known many of these classmates, my friend Paul being one, I said âyes, where, whenâ without hesitation.
So from my heart to all the Aberdeen High School Weatherwax graduates of 1972, here with us or gone, my song Iâm Coming Home. Thereâs a line at the end: Itâs not on a map, only a poet would know, Iâm coming home.
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Hey, it's Bruce Hilliard with todayâs guest Tommi Tikka with a message to go to the Born Free Foundation and he and several generous and concerned musicians have donated time and music to the causeâŠcause thatâs what we do.
Please kick back and listen to our chat and music from the Born Free climate change project.
Born Free Climate Change Contributions Welcome Here!
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Hey, it's Bruce Hilliard with todayâs most excellent guest Steve Blaze, lead guitarist in of one of the hottest rock bands Iâve heard in years, Lillian Axe. Their latest album From Womb To Tomb will be released on CD on August 19 by Global Rock Records. This is the bandâs first new album in ten years and it comes ahead of their first UK headline dates in 29 years.
Coming up, a few cuts from the LP written by our guest Steve Blaze and a chat with Steve!
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Hey it's Bruce and come see me in concert at the Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett WA on Saturday July 23rd (thatâs 2022) at 8:00. And please welcome todayâs guest Silvano AncelottiâŠFrom Italy, its Uncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards and some of the best Irish pub music youâll ever hear.
Folk/Rock music, spiced up with Irish Trad! Based in the north of Italy (weird, innit?) and made up of lads who, in one way or another, lived or spent too much time in Ireland!
Too rock for the Folkies and too folk for the Rockies, the Bastards could please or disappoint almost everyone. Formed back in 2007, they play a unique blend of folk/rock and Traditional Irish Music. Uilleann pipes, tenor banjo, mandolin, Irish flute: there are few others bands in the folk/rock scene that could compete with the Bastards in terms of deep knowledge of Irish
Traditional Music and Irish culture and society.
As written in a review of the first album, âUncle Bard & The Dirty Bastards donât pretend to be Irish. [...] They are showing âhuge gratitude and all the due respect to Irish music and cultureâ. They are really Irelandâs adopted sons and have brought a new breeze to the European Celtic rock scene.â
CONTACTS
Management: [email protected]
Booking: [email protected]
Web: www.ubdirtybastards.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/UBDirtyBastards
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dirtybastards
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Itâs a Thursday edition of the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show and hereâs the reason. The Zombies are in town. Live at the Historic Everett Theater tomorrow night at 7:00 PM, tickets are still available. And next week Saturday July 23rd Iâll be at Black Lab Gallery and Bar in EverettâŠtwo blocks away from the Zombiesâ show the week prior so you can hang at the park for a week and just walk to my show.
Hereâs a conversation from last September (when we first warned the village folk that the Zombies were coming) with Colin Blunstone, the voice of the Zombiesâ #1 hit Time Of The Season.
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Asher began classical violin training at the tender age of 2 and had already performed with the Buffalo philharmonic by age 13.
Asherâs expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to a career as a soloist in demand, performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden, Carnegie, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continents. Asher has also been featured on PBS, and has made headlines on CNN, WABC, and NBC and many other major news sources.
Asher is known for breakdancing across stages with his LED electric violin, in addition to performing as a DJ violinist, bringing his experience as a live performer and technical prowess as an audio editing and mixing guru to countless clubs and stages across the country.
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Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and todayâs guest Flood Dud, yes me, to talk about blind dates. You can say what you want about them, or even worseâŠ.go on one. This can be a marathon event to locate someone you like but with the right amount of perseverance Iâll be finding a mate.
Thereâs no better defining moment between artificial intelligence, in this case the dating app on my iPhone, compared humanoids, in particular your friends that know what you like, than the blind dating process.
The blind dating process that involves a matchmaking algorithm thatâs set up to keep us using their app, flipping and flipping through screens in search of love only to meet this awe inspiring person and embarrassing yourself into permanent submission.
Smart Picks. Up sells. You have to budget your dating app investment to allow a few bucks for the date. Iâm doing a reverse Houdini here. How hard can it be to get locked into a trick? Iâve become great at escaping but getting handcuffed and submerged in ice water in a coffin hanging from the Space Needle is getting harder and harder to find these days.
I went on a college blind date when I was 19. It was possibly the funnest date ever for me. It was a WSU barn dance in a small grange building in the middle of a wheat field in the Palouse of Eastern Washington. She was a short freckled faced chubby girl in bib overalls and a âletâs go have funâ face.
We got drunk on the way there, parked on a small road and with only the light of far off grange we cut across the pitch dark field to save time. Without being able to see where hell we were, we fell ass-over-tea-kettle into a 15 foot deep irrigation ditch full of mud. It was so dark we couldnât see and when we realized we couldnât climb the slippery muddy embankment to escape the bowels of death, we started laughing. And man, itâs hard to climb out of a muddy irrigation ditch when drunk and laughing hysterically.
Climbing out involved inadvertently pulling one another back to the bottom of the ditch which got us laughing to paralyzation. The picture we posed for later is one of the best mud photos ever taken at a dance.
That was then, this is now. The dating scene for us old guys is brutal. If youâre married, stay there. Donât be thinking you can put on your âhey Iâm hittinâ it nowâ look on and strut out there with the confidence of Buddy Love. I read in the one Christmas gift I received this year, Dating for Dummies, you should never talk about other women on these trial dates. So stay tuned because just as I felt the Titanic start to wobble and sink I played the âtalk about other womenâ card.
I was at the meet up bar before my mystery date and spotted her oddly shaped butt as she waddled though the doors. I waved to her and pulled out her chair. Something told me I was in for an awkward test of my character.
We chatted for a minute and ordered. She said she was dying for a rum and coke so she ordered a Margarita and meatballs. I wanted a glass shard Tabasco smoothy but stuck with the near beer Iâd been nursing before the princess arrived.
Then the screening began. It began with the description of her favorite husbandâŠthe one that could do everything I do only far better. He played every instrument and was an awesome DJ. He was ambidextrous and had perfect pitch. I wanted to say âsame hereâ but walking on water wouldnât have impressed this jaded lady.
So it was my turn to impress. I wanted to use the airline joke and tell her in the unlikely event of a water landing, we could use her ego as a floatation device, but no. Hereâs what I did.
I changed the topic to my YMCA friend Freya. My way too young Freya is happily married and is in no way romantically involved, at least that she knows of, with me. Freya was my helper smurf when I needed advice as to a place to meet this ice cold blind date super sized Slurpee.
My...
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Chuck Wright is todayâs guest. When Chuck is not fighting crime by night, he is best known as the bassist from Quiet Riot!
Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and todayâs guest Chuck Wright, to talk about his new and first solo album, or project as he refers to it, Chuck Wrightâs Sheltering Sky.
Chuck is proud and excited to release his debut solo album, Sheltering Sky, on Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records, on May 20. The album features guest appearances by several of Wrightâs musical peers including keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater/Billy Idol), guitarist Lanny Cordola (House of Lords), vocalist Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen), Troy Luccketta (Tesla) and the late Mr. Big drummer, Pat Torpey.The albumâs 11 tracks also illustrate Wrightâs impressive songwriting ability as he either wrote or co-wrote all nine original songs on the album. Also included is an edgy, intense version of Bjorkâs âArmy of Meâ along with a soulful, Celtic-rock take on the The Youngbloods classic, âDarkness, Darkness.â Chuck also produced and engineered most of the album. Sheltering Sky exhibits a diversity and breadth of musical styles that embraces facets of Wrightâs hard rock legacy while also delving into a more varied side of Chuckâs musical vision with well-written songs that feature ethereal guitar work, tasteful, soulful 70s era influences, Prog, Jazz Fusion and even a bit of heavy funk. Besides his usual outstanding bass work as performed on a variety of different bass instruments, Wright also contributes on keys and acoustic guitar on several tracks.The new single from Sheltering Sky is Throwinâ Stones, a fierce and passionate call for the end of armed conflict, a call which couldnât be more perfectly timed for todayâs world. It features a heavy funk groove that emphasizes Wrightâs powerhouse playing and the various playing techniques for which he is known. -
Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard telling you they tattooed her in darkness. That is a line from Goddess Reborn, a song weâll hear and hear all about from guest and rockinâ it James Carr. James is the front for the James Carr Band. If you get a chance, check them out. Very good. James Carr plays some kick ass guitar and what a great vocalist!
Okay, Iâm back with a couple minutes to play this by request. A song I wrote about a promise made by a little girl to a little boy one sunny day in the 60s. Her name and the name of the song, Kerri.
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