Battle of the Bands Results: No Fooling Van Halen Handly defeats Ann Wilson

 The battle of The Who's "Won't get Fooled Again" was won easily by Van Halen over Ann Wilson 6 to 1. The cover by Van Halen was recorded during the Sammy Hagar years. As usual we celebrate winners. 

                                                      "Right Now"

"Dreams"

I will be back soon with another Battle of the Bands on May 1st!

Battle of the Bands: Won't Get Fooled Again

 It is April Fool's Day so I thought I would go with The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."

The Who's version not part of the contest...

Contender One: Van Halen

Contender Two: Ann Wilson

Who is it gonna be? Van Halen or Ann Wilson?

How many April Fool pranks did you fall for?

Have fun, let me know which version you like the best I will get the results up in a week or so.

Battle of the Bands Results: Pete Townsend holds off Passenger

 Pete Townsend holds off Passenger in my long overdue return to Battle of the Bands and my blog. The first five votes went Pete's way. Then the final 2 went for Passenger. The shut out went bye-bye and so did Passenger. In the tradition of old, we celebrate the winner.

                                               "Let My Love Open the Door"

"Rough Boys"

"Slit Skirts"

Yes, Pete is the guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who, but I decided to highlight his solo work for this celebration.  Join me on April 1st for a new Battle of the Bands. 

Monday's Music Moves Me:Songs About Love

Let's dance, rock to songs about Love. The theme for Monday's Music Moves Me.

Tina Turners asks the question "What's Love Gotta Do With It?"

Well I guess Queen knew we need "Somebody to Love"

Then we are silly like the Yardbirds "For Your Love"

The Who knew "Love Ain't for Keeping"

Because "Love Hurts" from Nazareth

There it is Love in five songs. Not a Taylor Swift "Love Story"

Hope you enjoyed see you soon!

Monday's Music Moves Me: The Body Part Edition

It's time for Monday's Music Moves Me blog hope post. This one should be interesting since it is about Body Parts in the song title. 

                                               "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

A little band from Texas had a song about "Legs"

A little ZZ Top.

Eyes count, "Behind Blue Eyes" The Who

Shakira "Hips Don't Lie"

Page and Plant "Heart in Your Hand"

ELO "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

Hey I kept it clean! I was able yo get a lot of body parts, head, heart, hand, hips, eyes, legs, shoulder, knees and toes! I hope you had fun and I will be back with a new post soon!

Battle of the Bands Results:All tied up!

The votes came in three for Blue Cheer and three for The Who. No winners, no loser just a tie. School starts and the dog days of summer are in mid stride. Talk about a case of the summer time blues. Nothing left to do but celebrate both.

                                          Blue Cheer with "Peace of Mind"

                                                  The Who with "Baba O'Riley"

                                           

Find out who will win my next Battle. Will it be a shut out, a close battle or a tie? My next Battle will be August 15, 2018.

Battle of the Bands: Summertime Blues

It is August already! Summer is almost over. School starts in a couple of weeks.  Summer is being shrunk! I did a few cool things but not everything I wanted to this Summer.  Now of course where I am summer will last through October and be back in April. But right now I guess I have the "Summertime Blues."

The Original by Eddie Cochrane..

Contestant One: Blue Cheer

Contestant Two: The Who

                        
Please vote in the comments! Blue Cheer or The Who? Let me know who wins with your vote. I will count up the votes and post about the winner sometime before the next battle on the 15th!

Blogging from A to Z 2018: T-Rex

The final week of the A to Z Challenge here so let's get it on! "Bang A Bong" T.Rex...

Going Big with dinosaurs and bands!

As The Who sings " and I drunk myself b-lind to the
sound of old T-Rex
To the sound of old T-Rex - who's next?"

Some Dino Bloopers

Oh I'm just a "20th Century Boy"

T Rex, Dinosaurs, and some prehistoric rock and roll!

Monday's Music Moves Me: Songs with Male Names Part 2

Last week's theme was so much fun I decided to do it again. 

The music is on, I have 20 songs this go around.

Falco "Rock Me Amadeus"

                                                  The Who "Tommy Can You Hear Me?"
                                                     

Billy Joel "The Ballad of Billy the Kid"

Taylor Swift "Tim McGraw"

Elvis Costello with "Oliver's Army"

"Quinn the Eskimo" Bob Dylan

Doobie Brothers "Jesus is Just Alright"

"Careful with that Axe, Eugene"

Pink Floyd 

Waylon Jennings "Good Time Carlie Has the Blues"

Johnny Cash "A Boy Named Sue"

Grateful Dead "St. Stephen"

The Beatles "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"

"Vincent" by Don McLean

"Louie, Louie" by the Kingsman

                                                "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" R.E,M

                                                   Townes Van Zandt "Poncho and Lefty"

                                                             Dave Matthews "Jimi Thing"

Black Oak Arkansas "Jim Dandy"

                                                     Joni Mitchell "Michael from the Mountains"

"Jack Straw" from The Grateful Dead

                                             

Happy Birthday Pete Townshend

Above picture from Wikipedia of Pete Townshend performing in 1972.

Today is the songwriter, guitarist Pete Townshend's 70th birthday. Which to me sounds like a great excuse to celebrate his music on my blog. I celebrated his 68th birthday here.

One of my favorite Who songs is "Behind Blue Eyes." Here Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam and Joe Walsh help Pete out on this song...

One of his better known solo songs is "Let My Love Open the Door"

From his first solo album here is Pete Townshend with "Day of Silence"

I hope he has many more birthdays and writes many more songs! What is your favorite Pete Townshend song? Favorite Who song? Feel free to share in the comments and I will be back soon!

Remembering John and John and celebrating Jackson Browne' on their Birthday

October 9 is a good day to be born if you want to be a rocker. I mean it worked for John Lennon, John Entwistle and Jackson Browne.I'll share some music, thoughts and memories.

 I was probably robbed of my chance to see John Lennon when he was shot like a lot of people. The world was robbed of his future songs. Lennon was robbed of his future. We are fortunate as music fans that John Lennon created so many timeless songs with The Beatles and created some solo masterpieces as well.

It is hard to pick favorites, but this one is near the top of my list of his solo songs...

Of course everyone was posting tributes for John today and I found this incredible version of "In My Life" by Keb Mo, it is ear candy enjoy...

It is also John Entwistle's birthday. Entwistle was the bass player for The Who. I did get to see John perform with The Who and I did see the band on the same tour he died on, just a few shows later. Entwistle was able to part of a rhythm section that also included the legendary Keith Moon.

Here is a song John wrote for The Who...

Lastly it is Jackson Browne's birthday who might be running on empty but is still very much alive. I had the chance to review one of his concerts and you can read that review here.Below he performs "Take It Easy" at that show..

Thanks and I hope you enjoy.

Happy 68th Birthday Pete Townshend!

Today is Pete Townshend's 68th birthday. Best known for his lyrics and guitar work, Pete is without question a talented and great musician.

Let's start the celebration with a solo song by Pete...

Here is a rare track...

The Who...

Here is Peter with David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd fame)

Happy Birthday Pete! I will be back soon with a new post

Happy Birthday Roger Daltrey

Today was Roger Daltrey's 69th birthday. The leadsinger for The Who is still in better shape than me, as you can see this video from the 12.12.132 show...

Here is Roger solo performing I'm A Man...

and Roger performing "Under A Raging Moon"

Celebrating a little Roger Daltrey on March 1st

Happy Birthday Ringo

He wanted a message of hope, peace and love for his birthday. Great things to hold onto if you can find them.

Ringo Starr turned 70 today. I have been fortunate to see him twice with his various All-Star bands. Both along time ago and kind of makes me old. The first time was at Wolf Trap. The All-Stars there included Jack Bruce, then I saw him again in Portsmouth, Virginia with Sheila E and some 80's musician. Real fun shows.

He has to be a proud dad, being able to see his son follow him into the family business of great music and drumming. Zak Starkey the drummer for the Who since 1996. Filling legendary shoes of Keith Moon. He also has to feel proud being part of the Beatles and being able to have a fun solo career.

Cheers and happy birthday!