Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Having seen this video about 50 times when the song "Closest Thing To Heaven" came out in 2004, I never knew who the girl in the video was. I just recently was sorry to learn that the "damsel in distress" at sea was Brittany Murphy.
Murphy passed away just over a ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
I have been at this blogging stuff for almost a year and I have tried to get credentialed to as many things as possible. I have had moderate success, but the rejection I have received is for what I think are the wrong reasons. Most of the time when I ...
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Friday night I attended the Youngstown Phantoms USHL hockey game at The Covelli Centre. Saturday, I made it to the Styx / REO Speedwagon / Night Ranger concert. As I waited for Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon to finish a 20 or so minute rant on Vietnam and what it ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Any fan of Rock & Roll in the Youngstown area will want to mark November 7, 2009 on their calenders. Usually when a band we have heard of and admired for so many years comes to our area, they bring an opening act who might have a hit or two. ...
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Sonic Boom is the first KISS studio album in 11 years. The last studio album, Psycho Circus, featured the original KISS lineup of Ace Frehley, Peter Criss, Gene Simmons, and Paul Stanley. Criss and Frehley are gone again. Wearing the Catman makeup is Eric Singer, who was acive with KISS ...
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Dave Grohl has seen plenty in his days as a drummer for Nirvana and the frontman of the Foo Fighters. Warren, Ohio paid tribute to Grohl by renaming Market Street Alley. The new name is David Grohl Alley. Grohl was born in Warren in 1969 at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, which ...
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