Here is my set list from 11/01/09:
Donna - Ritchie Valens
Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
What I Got - Sublime
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
Twist And Shout - The Beatles
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys
Theme From "The Dukes Of Hazzard" (Good Ol' Boys) - Waylon Jennings
El Paso - Marty Robbins
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Set List - 10/24/09
Here is my set list from 10/24/09:
Every Night - Paul McCartney
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
And I Love Her - The Beatles
Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys
Tough Little Boys - Gary Allan
Everyday - Buddy Holly
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Something - The Beatles
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
Daughters - John Mayer
Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys
Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Still The Same - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
Baby, I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
A Pirate Looks At 40 - Jimmy Buffett
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) - George Harrison
Down Under - Men At Work
Dancing Queen - Abba (as performed by Luka Bloom)
Blackbird - The Beatles
Every Night - Paul McCartney
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
And I Love Her - The Beatles
Don't Worry Baby - The Beach Boys
Tough Little Boys - Gary Allan
Everyday - Buddy Holly
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Something - The Beatles
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
Daughters - John Mayer
Handle With Care - The Traveling Wilburys
Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band
What A Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Still The Same - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Peaceful Easy Feeling - The Eagles
Baby, I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
A Pirate Looks At 40 - Jimmy Buffett
Amarillo By Morning - George Strait
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) - George Harrison
Down Under - Men At Work
Dancing Queen - Abba (as performed by Luka Bloom)
Blackbird - The Beatles
Friday, October 23, 2009
Brown Eyed Handsome Man
Man, I love sports! I love watching sports, I love watching sports shows and news, I love talking about sports, I love listening to sports and sports talk radio. I love playing sports, although any speck of athletic talent I've ever had has long since thrown in the towel and headed for the showers.
It seems the older I get, the more sports I watch and listen to. Not just sporting events, but all things peripheral (news, shows, talk radio). I just love it all. Now, I'm not one of these mouth breathing, knuckle draggers who paints his face or body and makes a complete ass out of himself at games and makes everyone around him uncomfortable. No, I'm not that at all, but I do just love sports.
I love the way it can bring people together. It can be very divisive at times, but more often than not, it brings people together. It's something that nearly all men, and some women, can really relate to. That's because it's so enjoyable and it stirs something up in people. It is life! It has struggles and triumphs, victories and defeats, peaks and valleys, highs and lows. It's competition and it's teamwork. I mean, I can talk to total strangers and get deep into a 20 - 30 minute conversation about sports just about anywhere (the car wash, gym locker room, cub scouts, work, etc...). This is amazing, especially considering that I don't like to talk and I'm not a fan of people.
Over the years, and especially since college, my loyalties as to which sport I love the most has changed. And changed. And changed. I used to be strictly a baseball guy. Then I was an NBA guy. Then a college football guy. Then a college football guy with NFL on the side. I guess now, I'm college football with a side of baseball and NFL and a big tall glass of NBA. College basketball is ok once in a while, but I can't have it all the time. Hockey is something I've tried and liked but can't get into it. Soccer is tuna casserole as far as I'm concerned. I hate it. Makes me wanna puke.
Baseball, especially this postseason, has frustrated me. Mainly the bad officiating and MLB's refusal to get with the program and start using instant replay for more than just home runs. I didn't used to like the instant replay in sports. I used to feel that a bad call by an official is all part of the game, just like a bad play or an error by a player. I have since converted.
I listen to The Herd with Colin Cowherd every morning on ESPN radio. Probably one of the best sports shows out there and one of the best sports commentators around. He just seems to be able to articulate all the same thoughts and feelings I have about sports. He's not a cheerleader either. He's very balanced and unemotional.
The other day, he nailed it with this analogy of comparing professional sports to a family. Check this out:
"If all sports was a family, the NFL would be the successful, 45 year old dad. Progressive, hip, doesn't wanna be left behind, is absolutely gonna embrace technology. Trying to be a cool dad. He'll listen to his son's music. He may not love it, but he's trying to embrace it. He asks his kid about Facebook and Myspace, he's trying to be cool.
If all sports was a family, college football would be his oldest son. Aspiring to be like dad. 'Boy has he grown over the last 10 years,' say the in-laws. Now, as a teenage son he's having some growing pains, you know, the BCS. But he's a comer. He's growing physically and intellectually every year.
If all sports is a family, the NFL is the 45 year old, successful dad, college football is his oldest son. The NHL is the Goth daughter. Not a lot of friends, but the ones she has, very loyal. Defensive, sort of a loner, not sure where she'll be in 10 years. She does her own thing and everybody sort of leaves the Goth daughter alone. That would be the NHL.
The NBA would be the exchange student you adopted. Very global, very well-traveled, very hip. The old people in the family don't get him, the young people worship him. Been drinking wine since he was 12, driving since he was 14. Not afraid to be his own guy or have his own opinions. He's a little different but the young people totally relate. If all sports is a family, the NBA is the exchange student you adopted.
College basketball would be the oldest daughter, she's in college now. Really popular in high school, but she moved away and hasn't kept in touch enough. The one month a year she comes home from college, everybody loves her. Then she leaves, out of sight out of mind.
If all sports was a family, college basketball would be the daughter in college and baseball would be Grandpa. 'I'm not embracing technology! I'm not gonna get on that email thing! I miss the good old days when I was in power.' Moves very slowly, absolutely sure he's smarter than everybody, his own worst enemy, he's diabetic but loves ice cream. And you wonder, how is dad so cool yet grandpa so out of touch? 'This replay thing? Go ask your dad how it works!' I mean, grandpa, seriously, you're not smarter than everybody in the room. You're the worst run professional sports league in the country. You need to adapt occasionally."
Baseball the sport is great, but as Colin says it's, "paralyzed by tradition."
"A well 2, 3 the count and nobody on he hit a high flyer into the stands. Aroundin' third he was headin' for home it was a brown eyed handsome man..."
It seems the older I get, the more sports I watch and listen to. Not just sporting events, but all things peripheral (news, shows, talk radio). I just love it all. Now, I'm not one of these mouth breathing, knuckle draggers who paints his face or body and makes a complete ass out of himself at games and makes everyone around him uncomfortable. No, I'm not that at all, but I do just love sports.
I love the way it can bring people together. It can be very divisive at times, but more often than not, it brings people together. It's something that nearly all men, and some women, can really relate to. That's because it's so enjoyable and it stirs something up in people. It is life! It has struggles and triumphs, victories and defeats, peaks and valleys, highs and lows. It's competition and it's teamwork. I mean, I can talk to total strangers and get deep into a 20 - 30 minute conversation about sports just about anywhere (the car wash, gym locker room, cub scouts, work, etc...). This is amazing, especially considering that I don't like to talk and I'm not a fan of people.
Over the years, and especially since college, my loyalties as to which sport I love the most has changed. And changed. And changed. I used to be strictly a baseball guy. Then I was an NBA guy. Then a college football guy. Then a college football guy with NFL on the side. I guess now, I'm college football with a side of baseball and NFL and a big tall glass of NBA. College basketball is ok once in a while, but I can't have it all the time. Hockey is something I've tried and liked but can't get into it. Soccer is tuna casserole as far as I'm concerned. I hate it. Makes me wanna puke.
Baseball, especially this postseason, has frustrated me. Mainly the bad officiating and MLB's refusal to get with the program and start using instant replay for more than just home runs. I didn't used to like the instant replay in sports. I used to feel that a bad call by an official is all part of the game, just like a bad play or an error by a player. I have since converted.
I listen to The Herd with Colin Cowherd every morning on ESPN radio. Probably one of the best sports shows out there and one of the best sports commentators around. He just seems to be able to articulate all the same thoughts and feelings I have about sports. He's not a cheerleader either. He's very balanced and unemotional.
The other day, he nailed it with this analogy of comparing professional sports to a family. Check this out:
"If all sports was a family, the NFL would be the successful, 45 year old dad. Progressive, hip, doesn't wanna be left behind, is absolutely gonna embrace technology. Trying to be a cool dad. He'll listen to his son's music. He may not love it, but he's trying to embrace it. He asks his kid about Facebook and Myspace, he's trying to be cool.
If all sports was a family, college football would be his oldest son. Aspiring to be like dad. 'Boy has he grown over the last 10 years,' say the in-laws. Now, as a teenage son he's having some growing pains, you know, the BCS. But he's a comer. He's growing physically and intellectually every year.
If all sports is a family, the NFL is the 45 year old, successful dad, college football is his oldest son. The NHL is the Goth daughter. Not a lot of friends, but the ones she has, very loyal. Defensive, sort of a loner, not sure where she'll be in 10 years. She does her own thing and everybody sort of leaves the Goth daughter alone. That would be the NHL.
The NBA would be the exchange student you adopted. Very global, very well-traveled, very hip. The old people in the family don't get him, the young people worship him. Been drinking wine since he was 12, driving since he was 14. Not afraid to be his own guy or have his own opinions. He's a little different but the young people totally relate. If all sports is a family, the NBA is the exchange student you adopted.
College basketball would be the oldest daughter, she's in college now. Really popular in high school, but she moved away and hasn't kept in touch enough. The one month a year she comes home from college, everybody loves her. Then she leaves, out of sight out of mind.
If all sports was a family, college basketball would be the daughter in college and baseball would be Grandpa. 'I'm not embracing technology! I'm not gonna get on that email thing! I miss the good old days when I was in power.' Moves very slowly, absolutely sure he's smarter than everybody, his own worst enemy, he's diabetic but loves ice cream. And you wonder, how is dad so cool yet grandpa so out of touch? 'This replay thing? Go ask your dad how it works!' I mean, grandpa, seriously, you're not smarter than everybody in the room. You're the worst run professional sports league in the country. You need to adapt occasionally."
Baseball the sport is great, but as Colin says it's, "paralyzed by tradition."
"A well 2, 3 the count and nobody on he hit a high flyer into the stands. Aroundin' third he was headin' for home it was a brown eyed handsome man..."
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Set List - 10/18/09
Here is my set list from 10/18/09:
Route 66 - John Mayer
I'm A Loser - The Beatles
Alcohol - Brad Paisley
How Do You Like Me Now?! - Toby Keith
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Down Under - Men At Work
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
Route 66 - John Mayer
I'm A Loser - The Beatles
Alcohol - Brad Paisley
How Do You Like Me Now?! - Toby Keith
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Down Under - Men At Work
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
Friday, October 16, 2009
Ram On
So, Rush Limbaugh was bullied out of his opportunity to be a minority owner of the St. Louis Rams. Bullied by two of the biggest bullies/shakedown artists this country has ever seen, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
I am not a Rams fan and I rarely listen to Rush Limbaugh. As an American, and as a conservative, I am a fan of freedom of speech. I believe in it and I believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. I believe in agreeing to disagree. I believe in speaking out about what you believe in and also in speaking out against what you don't believe in, but this situation with Rush Limbaugh and the Rams is ridiculous and just another example of how hypocritical the Left in this country are.
First of all, if Rush was allowed to be a minority owner, he basically would be just an investor. It's not like he would be running the day to day operations of the team. A friend of mine on Facebook posted this comment: "Are people concerned that Rush Limbaugh has offered to buy the Rams? It's not like they are going to be re-named the St Louis Conservatives."
Seriously!
Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony are minority owners of the Miami Dolphins. They haven't changed their name to the Miami Crappy Music. The Dolphins haven't changed their colors to leopard print or hot pink and green silk!
Why should someone be refused the chance to invest in an NFL team just because they are opinionated? It's his job to be opinionated. He has one of the largest audiences in all of talk radio so he must be doing something right. I'm willing to bet that his opinions match those of most NFL owners. The only difference is that Rush's job is to express those opinions on the radio.
Apparently, it's Sharpton's and Jackson's jobs to shut down, intimidate and oppress anyone whose opinions differ from theirs. They claim that Rush's opinions are insensitive and offensive. The executive director of the NFL Players Association, DeMaurice Smith, urged players to speak out against Rush Limbaugh. Smith said, "we also know that there is an ugly part of history and we will not risk going backwards, giving up, giving in or lying down to it." Wow. If that's not a victim mentality, I don't know what is. If I was black, maybe I would be offended by Rush and his opinions but, they are just opinions. They're just words. Words that Rush gets paid quite a lot of money to speak. Don't people realize by now that actions are what really matter?
I could get behind blocking Rush's ownership bid if he were out doing things that are really offensive and insensitive like beating his wife (or his baby's momma). Or if he were beating people up or carrying illegal weapons or drinking and driving. Those are things that are truly offensive and dangerous and even insensitive.
In fact, between April 2008 and April 2009. 60 NFL players were arrested and charged for doing those very things.
18 DUI
4 Domestic Violence
7 Disorderly Conduct
13 Drug possession
6 Illegal Weapons
8 Assault & Battery
23 Other (includes reckless driving, resisting arrest, interfering with a police officer's duties, involuntary manslaughter, etc.).
Out of the 60 players arrested, 50 were black players and 6 were not (2 black players arrested more than once and 2 non-black players arrested more than once).
Where is the "black leadership" in regards to speaking out against these insensitive and offensive acts? Apparently, if you're black and in the NFL, killing someone because you were driving under the influence deserves a second chance. If you torture and kill defenseless animals, you deserve a second chance. If you bring an illegal firearm to a nightclub and then, like a total moron, shoot yourself, you deserve a second chance. But, if you're white and you express your opinions on YOUR OWN radio show, you deserve no chance at all.
"Ram on, give your heart to somebody soon, right away..."
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Set Lists
Here are my set lists from 09/25/09, 09/27/09 and 10/11/09:
09/25/09
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Love Is All Around - The Troggs
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Love Will Keep Us Alive - Eagles
The Girl From Yesterday - Eagles
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Hotel California - Eagles
Daughters - John Mayer
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles
Centerfield - John Fogerty
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
09/27/09
Business Time - Flight Of The Conchords
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ice Cream Man - Van Halen
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers
Going To California - Led Zeppelin
What I Got - Sublime
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
Eight Days A Week - The Beatles
Wonderwall - Oasis
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
10/11/09
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
How Do You Like Me Now?! - Toby Keith
Alcohol - Brad Paisley
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Ice Cream Man - Van Halen
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
What I Got - Sublime
09/25/09
Do Wah Diddy Diddy - Manfred Mann
Love Is All Around - The Troggs
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Love Will Keep Us Alive - Eagles
The Girl From Yesterday - Eagles
Here Comes The Sun - The Beatles
Hotel California - Eagles
Daughters - John Mayer
Black Water - The Doobie Brothers
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
Peaceful Easy Feeling - Eagles
Centerfield - John Fogerty
I'm A Believer - The Monkees
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
09/27/09
Business Time - Flight Of The Conchords
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Ice Cream Man - Van Halen
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
Long Train Runnin' - The Doobie Brothers
Going To California - Led Zeppelin
What I Got - Sublime
Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
The Joker - The Steve Miller Band
Eight Days A Week - The Beatles
Wonderwall - Oasis
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
10/11/09
Friends In Low Places - Garth Brooks
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
How Do You Like Me Now?! - Toby Keith
Alcohol - Brad Paisley
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Ice Cream Man - Van Halen
Ring Of Fire - Johnny Cash
What I Got - Sublime
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Set List - 09/19/09
Here is my set list for 09/19/09:
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
Still The Same - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton
Gone Country - Alan Jackson
Still The Same - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
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