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Posted on December 14, 2017December 13, 2017 by Patrick

The Noise & Sound Hall Of Fame

It’s National Which-One-Doesn’t-Fit Day, that day that comes once a year when the so-called Rock & Roll Hall of Fame pisses off the Western world by announcing it’s new members. Okay, who among the following doesn’t fit? … AC/DC, Green Day, Hank Williams, Donna Summer, Frank Zappa, N.W.A., Nat King Cole or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five? When you try to be all things to all people, you end up with an identity crisis that makes you no one to everyone. The Rock Hall has hopelessly lost its way and at this point has no idea what it’s doing.

Posted on October 22, 2017October 21, 2017 by Patrick

“Sir, I Have Come To Rock”

Fun Facts: Rock & Roll

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally … They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

In 1970, Neal Schon was fifteen years old and had two job offers, one was to join Santana and the second was to go to England and play with Derek & the Dominoes.
When Woodstock started, Yogi Bhajan asked the audience to “meditate for one minute for brotherhood” to which a voice in the crowd screamed out: “Fuck you. Let’s boogie.”
Here’s the translation of the lyric in The Doors song “Five To One” that says “Five to one, one to five”: the first part is the preferred ratio for cutting heroin and the second part are the odds when playing Russian roulette.