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10 Day Influential Album Challenge

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Mother Love Bone - Apple

I’m sure you’ve seen these things floating around Facebook. It’s a ‘challenge’ where you’re supposed to do something every day and then tag someone else to do to the same. Well, I got tagged recently. Here was the challenge: 10 Day Influential Album Challenge: I was challenged by [INSERT NAME] to post 10 albums that have influenced my musical taste – one record a day for 10 days. No explanation, no review, just the cover. … Continue reading

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Face Down In Cabo… Kissing The Ground

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Cabo - The Cabo Wabo Cantina

The wife and I recently returned from a vacation to Cabo San Lucas to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary.  We had an absolutely wonderful time and took a SLEW of pictures (Which will be posted for sure…) One place that I simply HAD to visit while I was in Cabo was the Cabo Wabo Cantina.  I’m a huge fan of Van Halen and the Cantina is the brain child of former VH front man Sammy … Continue reading

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15 Albums That Changed My Life – Part 1

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OU812 - Van Halen (1988)

I’m a huge music fan.  I don’t know about you, but when I hear certain songs / albums, I can magically be taken back to a specific time and place in my life.  I’m an especially big fan of song lyrics (which you’ll see plain as day as you continue to read). This list originally came from a Facebook post where one of your friends would tag you and you’d have to chime in.  I … Continue reading

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More Lyrical Brilliance From Sammy Hagar – Kama

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Marching To Mars by Sammy Hagar

There’s a bunch of stuff going on in the world and in my personal life right now.  My heart goes out to those affected by the bombings at the Boston Marathon yesterday.  During these times I often turn to music to get me through.  Today my iPod shuffled to an outstanding song called Kama by Sammy Hagar which I just had to share.  Per Sammy, the word “Kama” is the Sanskrit translation for “love”.  He wrote the … Continue reading

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Sammy Hagar Gets Uncensored In RED

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RED: My Uncensored Life In Rock by Sammy Hagar (2011)

I’ll start this off by saying Van Halen is probably my favorite band of all time.  I’ll follow that up by saying that I’m one of the rare few that thinks Van Halen was a FAR superior band with Sammy Hagar in it than when David Lee Roth was the front man.  With that housekeeping out of the way… No pun intended, but this book rocks. RED: My Uncensored Life In Rock is just that… uncensored.  … Continue reading

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Let The Lyrics Speak To You

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The Verve Pipe - Underneath

I’m a huge fan of lyrical music.  Sure a good beat and melody can get you moving on the dance floor, but for a song to truly “touch” me it’s got to have great lyrics.  I’m also something of a romantic and a family man as you’ll see from my choices.  There are quite certainly other songs that I love from a lyrical standpoint but these stood out as my favorites. Colorful – The Verve … Continue reading