Monday, September 27, 2010

Rock & Roll Will Never Die! ... but

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but

by Rich Hynes on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 2:14pm
 
When I was a kid the battle cry was "Rock & Roll will never die! Rock & Roll is here to stay!". Well, with only fab two of the fab four remaining, Stephen Stills drawing Social Security from the U.S. Government and Elvis celebrating his 75th birthday, I offer this list;

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does smell strongly of prune juice and Ben-Gay®

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does draw full Social Security compensation.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does have a gall bladder operation scheduled for next Thursday.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will shake it's cane at you and tell you to get the hell off it's lawn.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will also never drive above 42 MPH

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it is dreading that annual prostate exam.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will try to comb-over it's male pattern baldness

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it is considering the purchase of a Hoveround®

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will fumble in it's coin purse for exact change.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will wear black socks with Bermuda Shorts.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does seriously need to trim it's ear hairs.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will describe every detail of it's out-patient knee surgery.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it clear it's mucus anytime and anywhere.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does have the thermostat set for 82º

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will go on about how hip it is since it's hip replacement.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will say "what?" after every single thing you say.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does have $27,356.74 in it's checking account.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will show you pictures of every single one of it's grandchildren.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does have all of it's medication sorted by day of the week.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does remember that day in 1956 while forgetting the events of the last ten minutes.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does let out at least one good Malox® belch for every other thing it says.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it has upgraded to DEPEND® Super Plus Absorbency.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does keep it's '64 Nash in immaculate condition.

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will always tell you what it was like when it was a kid..

Rock & Roll will never die! ... but ______________________________________




Feel free to add your own… Happy New Year Everybody!







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      Debbie Toplis ‎..it will still pinch your cheeks and smooch you on the lips!
      January 3 at 2:19pm ·
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      Bryan Hodge In other words it will be like every other form of music....(gasp) its not eternaly 16...OMG
      January 3 at 2:26pm ·
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      Bryan Hodge GOD LOVE KEITH RICHARDS ...AT ANY AGE
      January 3 at 2:26pm ·
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      Bryan Hodge Rich , I hope you never stop playing music either
      January 3 at 2:28pm ·
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      Mike Brown But you will never believe what was found during its colonoscopy!
      January 3 at 2:58pm ·
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      Gabrielle Price ‎...but it's wallet condom expired before the last Who Farewell Tour.
      January 3 at 3:58pm ·
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      Mark Edward Cutsinger Rock& Roll will never die...but, What's the difference between a musician and a Mutual Fund?
      One will eventually mature and make some money.
      January 3 at 4:30pm ·
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      Rich Hynes This one came via e-mail: ... "Rock & Roll will never die ... but it will continue to provide sustenance for subterranean bacteria long after putrefaction"
      January 4 at 10:49am ·
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      Rich Hynes Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will also never miss an episode of Matlock.
      January 5 at 9:21am ·
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      Rich Hynes George Handlon ,,,,Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it does have hard plastic covers on all of it's living room furniture.
       
      January 5 at 9:24am ·
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      Rich Hynes Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it has taken a part time position as a greeter at Walmart®
      January 8 at 9:08am ·
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      Rich Hynes Mark Allan::: Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it is playing a lot more golf these days
      January 8 at 10:21am ·
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      Arthur LaSalle rock n roll will never die...but it is changing the will every week.
      January 25 at 9:45pm ·
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      Rich Hynes Rock & Roll will never die! ... but it will always be a little bit leary of direct deposit.
      August 17 at 9:15am ·
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      R.t. Todd Edwards Rock-n-Roll will never die...as long as there is Mylanta.
      August 17 at 9:30am ·
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      Mike Butler Rock and Roll left the arena years ago
      August 17 at 11:39am ·

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Happy Birthday B. B.

It's real easy to be a fan of Riley "Blues Boy" King born September 16th 1925 outside of Indianola, Mississippi.


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I don't know how many times I've seen B. B. perform but it's well in to double digits.. The last time, in Spring of 2009 I thought he was great.


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It would be a good idea to cut down the set time to about 35 minutes.

I've got a ton of B. B. King 78s and 45s. Here's a couple of his 1950s 78 RPM records:


Saturday, September 11, 2010

September 11th 2001

I spent a large part of my adult life without children. I wanted to be a dad but I wasn't. I became a father by age 40, so I had spent 20 years waiting to hear my child's voice. On 9-11-2001 my daughter was two years old. She was talking of course, in fact, sometimes she wouldn't stop. But on the morning of 9/11 she saw how distraught I was so she looked up at me and for the first time formulated to words "I love you dad" in a sentence. Hearing those words for the first time is what I remember most about 9/11.

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Thursday, September 9, 2010

The Good Ol' USA

Leave it to the USA to succeed in spite of it's self..

The leaders and the citizens of The United States are all worried half to death that a bunch of other people somewhere else on the planet is going to get pissed because some dumbass preacher has the freedom to burn a book or two hundred.. The network news showed footage of the demonstrations, the protesters were violently burning an American flag.

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These are the people we're worried about pissing off? Really? They're burning Old Glory and we're worried about them getting pissed? YES.
Yes we are. Because that is how we are... "They" could be taking a dump on a picture of Thomas Edison and we wouldn't flinch.. "They" could call Shirley Temple a two bit whore and we would just nod and rub our collective chins.. "They" could somehow effect capitalism and the flow of oil and/or the flow of assets to the profiteers,,, well, we would draw the line there I'm sure BUT just about any other expression is supported by the ideas of freedom and those ideas are still held dear here in The Good Ol' USA.


Please don't burn any books.. Not because you're worried about angering others, because it just doesn't make sense.

In this day of greater communication and expanded knowledge it's easier to see our country's weakness and faults but The Good Ol' USA is a positive force in the world and all of our hopes and dreams are still as possible as ever,, as long as we keep learning and growing.

If your ego is itchin' so bad that you have to tell everybody you're going to burn a book just to get some attention then please try to remember this: "It is better to know no fame than to be known worldwide as a blithering idiot"

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Luther Allison


Luther Allison was a blues singer and guitarist
that I saw perform live on several occasions. I traveled to Bloomington, Indiana
with a couple of friends to see Luther at The Bluebird early in 1997, several
months before he died.. Luther and I spoke for a short bit before the show..
After the show we went over to DJ Jimi Hurley's house and hung out for most of
the night, into the early morning. When we left Hurley's we decided to go for
breakfast at the downtown Waffle House. When we got there the place looked a
little busy so we headed north on old 37 and went to the Denny's north of town..
When we got to Denny's there seemed to be no one there. We entered the
restaurant about 5:30 AM and the server led us back through the place around the
corner past all of the empty tables back to a corner of the restaurant were the
only other people at the joint was Luther Allison, his manager, keyboard player
and guitar tech as they were starting to order breakfast. we sat and talked and
ate for a couple of hours and by the time we left I felt like I'd known Luther
for years and years. Luther Allison was truly a special citizen of this world.


 



Bottom line: Keep looking up
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Welcome


As if I didn't have a
hundred ways to express myself here's a blog,

Blog blog blog blog,,,,,,
blog blog blog blog BLOG !!!!!!!!!  (Doesn't have the same effect in print, think Perry Mason theme)


anyway,,, NO holds barred
here, so to speak... I enter and/or post any dern thing I feel like and I don't
care if you're offended or otherwise upset (well, I guess I do
care 'cause I'm one of those care about people kind of peoples).



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#1 Politics is great but politicians are lame.. They're
like little children sniping and bickering at each other.. I think of a song,
I think the band was "Steeler's Wheel" but the line was "Clown's to the left,
jokers to the right" ,,, yeah, you do remember that song, right? ... anyway,,,
Political correctness has ruined democracy. There are no strong leaders and the
people we need to lead are more interested in private life and understandably
so..

Say it with me boys & girls - Genuine compassion  GOOD -
Political correctness BAD - OK?


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Politics would be better if people like me would get
off of their asses and get more involved.



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#2 You don't have to believe in Jesus or even
believe there is a Jesus to believe that some people need to believe in Jesus..
You may feel like you're stronger than they are but that doesn't mean you are
nor does it mean that you are better or smarter than they are... Regardless of
all of the good and/or bad things that have happened in the name of religion it
seems logical that there is a supreme being. There's always a higher power..
Everyone you look up to has someone they look up to. Whatever you do best,
there's always someone who you learned it from. Following that logic leads me to
believe there is an ever changing supreme being... ... if a person seeks
guidance or protection or redemption from this being, I can't logically
determine if that is right or wrong...




It is what it is...



You may look up to Louis Armstrong though Satchmo looks up to King Oliver


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You may think B. B. is "The King Of The Blues" but B. B. will tell you how much he loves Django


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Bill Monroe "The Father Of Bluegrass" 
learned it all from his Uncle Pen



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