In 1985, I saw a guitarist named Stanley Jordan on the Tonight Show. I was amazed at his technique and the sounds he was able to get out of the guitar. He used a finger tapping technique similar to what you’ve seen Eddie Van Halen do up on the fretboard of the guitar. But he… Continue reading The Michael Franks Concert
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Seeing Historic Concert Performances
It’s not that often that you get to be at a noteworthy rock and roll performance. I’ve had the opportunity to see a couple of musicians in concert as they were preparing to record live albums. I saw Jimmy Buffett in Memphis on August 1, 1978. This was exactly a week before he started recording… Continue reading Seeing Historic Concert Performances
Seeing Cheap Trick
I got married in 1985. My wife still had to complete her senior year of college. She was studying communications at the University of Tennessee at Martin. We lived there while she was finishing up school and would occasionally participate in the school activities like the Cheap Trick/John Waite concert. I was not a big… Continue reading Seeing Cheap Trick
Seeing Hall and Oates
In fall of 1981, rock group Hall and Oates released their Private Eyes album. I was not a fan of this band. They weren’t bad, but their sound was a little too pop for my tastes at the time. Their music got a lot of play at the college parties that I attended, and we… Continue reading Seeing Hall and Oates
The Best Fried Chicken in Lexington, Kentucky
My youngest daughter Mary spent the last year in graduate school at the University of Kentucky. My wife and I went with her on an apartment hunting trip a year ago. We were able to find a reasonably priced apartment that wasn’t far from campus. The apartment complex was gated which gave us a sense… Continue reading The Best Fried Chicken in Lexington, Kentucky
Downsizing
Things were changing in the summer 2019. Our youngest daughter was entering her last year of college. Our oldest daughter had been out of the house for about a year. We were beginning to feel like empty nesters. My wife asked me what I thought about downsizing. We had been in our house since 2006… Continue reading Downsizing
Why Ferlin Husky Scares Me
A syndicated movie show appeared on late night around 1987 featuring bad movies. One of the only movies that I saw on this program was Hillbillys in a Haunted House starring country music singer Ferlin Husky. Ferlin Husky was familiar to me because his song Wings of a Dove was on some 8-track tape that… Continue reading Why Ferlin Husky Scares Me
Why Scuba Diving Apes Scare Me
Robot Monster is another film that I discovered from the Golden Turkey Award books. It has a lot going for it to make it bad fun. The monster is a guy in a gorilla suit with a fake scuba diving helmet for a head. The opening credits lists the N. A. Fischer Chemical Products as… Continue reading Why Scuba Diving Apes Scare Me
Why Chiropractors Scare Me
Plan 9 From Outer Space is the grandaddy of all bad movies. It is the film that has worn the title Worst Movie Ever Made for the longest. One review of the movie said that it might not be the worst movie ever, but it is the most entertaining bad movie you’ll ever see. I… Continue reading Why Chiropractors Scare Me
Why the Carpet Monster Scares Me
In 1980, the movie The Creeping Terror was featured in a book, The Golden Turkey Awards. The book shared information about a variety of movies that are considered the worst ever made. In addition to being an extremely bad movie, this one is also very fun to watch. It involves a creature in a spaceship… Continue reading Why the Carpet Monster Scares Me