By Brad Gallagher: New York City has always been known to be a high crime city. From the 1960’s through the 1980’s the New York City crime rate increased consistently year after year through 1990, which would be recorded as the year New York City saw the greatest number of crimes ever. A few yearsContinue reading “Not Just Another Assault”
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A Good Old Fashioned Bottling
By Brad Gallagher: “Bottling”?? What’s a bottling? Well, it was once described this way: “Bottling is an action where a concert audience throws various objects at the performers onstage. This generally happens at festivals when one act in the lineup is of a different genre or audience from the rest of the bands, especially festivals whereContinue reading “A Good Old Fashioned Bottling”
Saturate Before Using
By Brad Gallagher: Today’s post is going to be short and sweet. It is about a little tidbit I recently heard on the radio in regards to Jackson Browne’s debut album that was simply titled “Jackson Browne”. Even though many rock artists start their careers with an album named after themselves, this particular album carriedContinue reading “Saturate Before Using”
Me and Julio
By Brad Gallagher: Today is Thanksgiving and we are celebrating in Mazatlán Mexico this year. We have been here for a few days and yesterday we had the privilege of meeting a little boy while we were swimming in the pool. He kept swimming up to us and then swimming away quickly when we lookedContinue reading “Me and Julio”
A Cover Story
By Brad Gallagher: A “Cover” in the world of music is a song that is written, produced, and performed by one artist and then at a future point in time is performed by another artist. Most often a cover is performed by a garage band (like Brush), or an up and coming band (like LynyrdContinue reading “A Cover Story”
The White Wing Dove
By Brad Gallagher: White wing doves are small birds that live in Arizona, who build their nests in the saguaro cactus to keep them protected from predator’s. When they sing, they sing a song that sounds like, Ooh.. Ooh.. Ooh… This is the bird that was the inspiration for Stevie Nicks’ 1981 hit song titledContinue reading “The White Wing Dove”
A Controversy of The Heart
By Brad Gallagher: You know those songs that stick in your head for days on end? Maybe a song with an intriguing riff or a mesmerizing back beat that keeps running through your mind? Maybe for you it is a specific lyric, or a repeating chorus. Well, whatever it is you just sit there andContinue reading “A Controversy of The Heart”
The International Battle Of The Century
By Brad Gallagher: Over the coarse of time there have been many famous battles. Such as, The Battle of The Bulge, The Battle of Bunker Hill, and The Battle at Little Big Horn to name just a few. In sports there was the famous “Thrilla in Manilla” between boxers Muhammad Ali and Jo Frazier, theContinue reading “The International Battle Of The Century”
Larry Rivera
By Brad Gallagher: My wife, Shari, and I spent the last couple weeks in Hawaii on the beautiful garden island known as Kauai. So, I thought it would be appropriate to write a story with something about Hawaii in it. On our second day on Kauai, we drove past a hotel which was once knownContinue reading “Larry Rivera”
Bennie Who?
By Brad Gallagher: During his career Elton John has had 57 songs reach the top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts, second only to Elvis Presley. 27 of those songs reached the top 10. And if that wasn’t enough, nine of those songs peaked at #1. Those nine songs were, “Crocodile Rock” onContinue reading “Bennie Who?”
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