The Wednesday Afternoon Music Express, Special Memorial Edition Presents: Alvin Lee

It appears that Alvin Lee finally made it home. Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer of Ten Years After, has died. A statement posted on his official website read: “With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforseen complications following a routine surgical procedure. “We have lost …

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The Friday Night Music Express, Special Memorial Edition Presents: Ray Stevens

This is for the children, that we lost. I’ll be back tomorrow.

The Early Morning Music Express Presents: Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died Tuesday in a hospital near his home in Southern California. He was 92. Mr. Shankar had suffered from upper respiratory and heart ailments in the last year …

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The Thursday Morning Music Express Presents: Dave Brubeck

I will not lie to my readers, Jazz is really not my thing. I am a rock and roller. However, I always show mad respect to the great ones in music. Jazz is an American thing, and we invented it, and people overseas wanted to sound like us. This was back, when America was a …

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Talk about a throwback!

Just my reaction to the video in this posting here.  Kerry Livgren was a founder of Kansas, in the 1980′s he was a part of a band called AD. This is “The Fury” from AD’s album “Art of the State”. Man, taking me back to my youth days in southwest Detroit. I used to jam …

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The Monday afternoon afternoon music club presents: Ted Nugent

This is dedicated to the Femi-nazi’s and other knuckle-dragging idiots on Twitter, who attacked me for having an opinion. I am an anti-feminist. Sue me, you knuckle-dragging nimrods. I present the greatest Conservative, and defender of the second amendment ever! Ol’ deadly teddy. I post this to stick it in the eye of the femi-nazi’s …

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The Saturday Night Music Express Presents: The Dixie Chicks

That’s right the Dixie Chicks! Yes, I know what they were singing about, and you know what? They were absolutely right!  This is dedicated to the atheist prick and his friends, who seem to believe that I should just die off the face of the earth or just get a job. This is also dedicated to the …

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ugh, oh dear.

Just…go….watch. I dunno what to make of it. The music, or at least their performance of it is, well… and I say that is a Musician. (I play guitar and drums both….) I say leave the originals alone, please. I mean, there’s nothing the like the original: Also, welcome back to Simon Jester. (via Simon …

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The Thursday Night Music Express Presents: Pink Floyd

This is for my friend Emily. Of whom is a fellow Michiganian, of whom I’d like to kidnap and have hot, nasty sex with for 48 hours. But, she’s damned married and kidnapping is illegal, so I can’t. Bummer. (Please note: the above is humor, and said in jest. I know Emily is happily married. …

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The Saturday Night Music Express Presents: Darrell Mansfield and Resurrection Band

It’s two in a row for two people, who been through it. This is dedicated to two bloggers, who have gone to death’s door and come back alive. My best to both. Lyrics: You’ve been walking in that rain again, looking for a friend Wind blows in your backyard, and it feels like it’s the …

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