Is anyone else concerned that Stevie Ray's book isn't listed at the side, and there could be some sort of karmatic consequences as a result? Not that I've read it. I'm just saying is all.
As I sit here eating my Newman's Own Organics The Second Generation Spelt Pretzels, I'm reminded the master himself passed away this morning. And as I was driving along 494 to rehearsal this morning, I browsed through my Ipod (probably not safe, but not illegal either) looking for the appropriate song to mark the occasion. Since I don't have BJ Thomas' eponymous "Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head", I went with the next best thing. Guns n Roses "Civil War."
Yeah, I know. I can't imagine Newman was much of a GnR fan either. But this particular tune features the famous "What we have hear..." line from the Warden in Cool Hand Luke sampled at the beginning. So I was cruisin' to the GnR, like Newman tearin' it up at the BIR. I think I'll add Cool Hand Luke to my Blockbuster queue.
FYI... According to Wikipedia Newman's Own, founded in 1982, was a For Profit company, with all proceeds going directly to Newman. He in turn donated all proceeds, which reached approximately $250 million as of this year.
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Wells- You get another gold star for the GNR reference. (one of my all time favs)
Wells, tell him you saw GNR in Hawaii, had backstage passes, got a guitar lesson from Slash and helped Axle refinance his house and he'll give you the whole box of stars (but you WILL have to show him your Izzy tatoo ....)
I'll do you one better. I'll say I was brought in by Axel to lay down some tracks and backing vocals on Chinese Democracy. (It's not entirely unrealistic. Being in production for about 15 years, who hasn't worked on it at this point?)
... wait a minute. How'd my sorta' homage to Newman become a series of verses on all things 'Guns? (Not "LA...")
I'm commenting just to show I can blog too. I'm not nearly cool enough to know anything about GNR. However, I do know how to use HTML tags! So there.
I was never a huge Gun N' Roses fan. That cover they did of Sheryl Crow's "Sweet Child Of Mine" just fell flat; they took her sweet, beautiful, and melodious song and turned it into that. Why mess with perfection, Axel?
Also, Santa Claus gave me "Appetite for Destruction" one Christmas when I was like 10, and my mom immediately confiscated it. Before the cellephane was even unwrapped. It was out of the stocking and into her hands just as quick.
On a slightly unrelated topic, anyone here John Mayer's cover of Tom Petty's "Free Falling?" Second worst cover ever, after GNR's attempt listed above.
It is spelled AXL!!
Oh man . . . I knew I should have purposely misspelled the bands name, too. How upset would you have been had I called them "Gun And Roses?"
Guess I lost that gold star. But in my defense, the original post wasn't supposed to be about Alex Rose.
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