Join me as we take a look at the wild side of the world. 5 plus 1 for the fun. Let’s begin. High School Drama:  The original core of Lynyrd Skynyrd—Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom—first came together under the name “My Backyard” back in 1964, as Jacksonville, Florida, teenagers. Under that name and several others, the group developed its chops playing local and regional gigs throughout the 1960s […]

Billy Idol in his own words… ” I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. I feel the pull of emotions when these characters appear in my actions. I can justify all of it to myself, but inside, where it really matters, the fullness and the void struggle to assert one another… […]

Welcome to Totally Mashed! Each week I will showcase some of my Mashups and others for your enjoyment. WHAT: A mashup is a creative work, usually in a form of a song, created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, usually by superimposing the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another, increasing the tempo and pitch while adding or reducing gaps to make it flow. This week things get creepy 🙂 […]

Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young” is about a man attempting to convince a Catholic girl to lose her virginity to him. In a past interview with Billy Joel, the piano man reminisced, “One of the first gigs I ever played with my high-school band the Echoes, this girl that I had a crush on was looking at me—Virginia. I thought, ‘This is so cool.’ I was completely hooked. There was no way I […]