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Category Archives: Music
April 2023 Grab Bag o’ Humour
As two letter abbreviations for Canadian provinces become more and more common in Canada, I looked up Newfoundland. NL is the two letter abbreviation for Newfoundland. This is way better than the four letter, Nfld., we were taught as kids. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Geography, Humour, Music
Tagged Art, Canada, CFL, D list, doctor, engineer, Fender Bender, Fender guitar, football, Frank Zappa, Joe's Garage, lawyer, lead guitar, Newfoundland, NFL, paintings, realist art, rhythm guitar, scientist, soccer, stratocaster, telecaster, tiger mom, two letter abbreviations for provinces
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Roger Hodgson in Kiss?
Roger Hodgson is to many, the voice they think of when they think of the band Supertramp. And why not? He penned and sung most of their hits. But there was a schism with the band in the early 1980s … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Music
Tagged 1970s, 1980s, faces, going-to-war face, gruff singing, Had a Dream, high singing, hit maker, keyboards, Kiss, lightning man, makeup, Paul Stanley, piano, rhythm guitar, Roger Hodgson, Supertramp, theatrics, walking in heels
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Haunted CDs
The first I heard about a haunted CD was with Nirvana’s Nevermind album. You put the CD in the CD player and it mostly played normally. That is until the 12th and final track. Sure it played that 4 minute … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 69th track is Eurotrash Girl, 88th track, 99th track, Big Ben chiming, CDs, Coldplay, cracker, Disgustipated, Eurotrash Girl, Everyday Life, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, haunted CDs, Is the CD player broke?, Kerosene Hat, Nevermind, Nirvana, Possession, Sarah McLachlan, Tool, Undertow, Who's here?
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What’s Left Over
I have two brothers who are left handed and also play the guitar. They do this in the normal way. That is they conform to right handed guitars and play them the right handed way. That is the left hand … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Bass, drums, fire breathing dragon bass, fire breathing dragon guitar, fire breathing dragon keytar, glam rock, guitar, keyboards, left handed, left handed guitar, left handed keytar, left handed pianos are no abomination, lefthanded keyboards, low notes on right and high notes on left, ordinary keyboards favour the right handed, Stephen Huss
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The King of Pop
Rolling Stone magazine has been taking a lot of flack for dubbing Harry Styles “The King of Pop”. Michael Jackson was known as the King of Pop in that era of music and his fans and family don’t think that … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Adele, Anderson-Bruford-Wakeman-and-Howe, Bad Company, Bruce Springsteen, Chopsticks, Drake, Ed Sheeran, Elvis Presley, Free, Harry Styles, King of Pop, King of Rock and Roll, Kings are replaced, Michael Jackson, Paul Rodgers, Rolling Stone, The Boss, The Firm, The Voice, Vern Gosdin, Whitney Houston
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Ironic Titles?
Two stalwart rock bands, Coldplay and Imagine Dragons came out with albums recently. Both albums implied there was more to come in this vein. The title of the Imagine Dragons album is Mercury Act I. Act I usually implies that … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged album series, are these ironic titles?, Coldplay, Did the label have to name the Led Zeppelin albums?, Follow You, Green Day, Imagine Dragons, Led Zeppelin, Mercury Act I, Music of the Oblate Spheroids, Music of the Spheres, My Universe, Tre is a Green Day band member, Vol. I From Earth With Love, Wrecked
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Fun With the Fine Arts
The fine arts are fun. Ask anybody (except those who bleed, perspire or cry for their art!). Just look at some of the words used to describe the fine arts. We’ll start off with music. Music is fun! Just look … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Humour, Music, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged action, all doctors and lawyers can be boring, Art, comedy, fun, gravitas of other disciplines being named after it, joking around, lies and fabrications, music, play, staid profession, starving artists, the fine arts, theatre cinema, visual art, writing fiction
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The Underground Railroad
“Uncle Ron,” said 7 year old Ivy, “Do you know what the Underground Railroad was?” “You mean is. It still exists but doesn’t go by it’s formal name anymore.” “Quit it Uncle Ron. My teacher said it no longer exists. … Continue reading
Perfect Pitch
“I want you two to hear my latest musical fave,” I said to Mr. And Mrs. Tunic. I began playing Heat Above. Keyboards started the song. “It’s Greta Van Fleet. Their latest song. It doesn’t sound like Led Zeppelin but … Continue reading