It was an accident waiting to happen. And it never should have happened. It’s February 20, 2003, and the rock band Great White is playing at a small venue in Warwick, Rhode Island. The place is packed, and Great White goes into their first song. Some pyrotechnics erupt behind the band, as is the plan…
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a Lawsuit is Pending
Ah, The Wizard of Oz. The 1939 motion picture classic that still holds up today, 75 years later. The original 1899 book by L. Frank Baum is one of the best-selling children’s stories of all time, and it spawned dozens of literary sequels, as well as a Broadway play, a 1939 motion picture, several children’s…
Read MoreCould clear eyes and full hearts take the field again?
One of my favorite sports dramas of the past 10 years has been Friday Night Lights. I’ve been a big fan of the show since its debut episode, and I’ve followed closely the highs and lows of the Dillon High School football team – the Panthers for the first three seasons, and then the last…
Read MoreThe Stained Glass Window of Kenwood Avenue
Inspiration comes from various sources in my life. And on December 3, 2011, it came from a salvage company. Background. From about 1968 to 1971, I lived with my maternal grandparents in a small house on Kenwood Avenue in Slingerlands. One of the things I always remembered about that house on Kenwood Avenue was that…
Read MoreYour amplifier may go up to 11… but my lens can go up to 19.
And as I unzip my camera bag… I pull out the newest lens in my arsenal. Say hi to the Vivitar 19mm f/3.8 wideangle lens. At 19mm of focal length, it’s my most-defined wide-angle camera in my bag. I just got it over the weekend, and paid for it with my share of the winnings…
Read MoreMay 5th. Blotto. Fear of Strangers. The Penny Knight Band. Ernie Williams and the Wildcats. I am SO there!!
If you wanted to see top entertainment at a local, intimate performance venue in the late 1970’s – early 1980’s, you could go to the Ritz or the Chateau or the Falcon’s Nest… but really, you wanted to go to JB Scott’s. The Central Avenue locale was the place where everybody performed. U2 played three…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Yes, it’s a 45 rpm record… and it’s shaped like a heart.
It was January of 1979, and I was listening to American Top 40 on my little radio. And at that time, Casey Kasem announced that a new record had debuted on the Top 40 charts – and for the first time, it wasn’t a round record. It was actually shaped like a heart – and…
Read MoreForget Team Edward and Team Jacob… Howzabout joining Team Abe?
Apparently there’s this new subgenre of fiction, in which popular literary classics and historic figures are getting re-told as tales of the supernatural. There’s the best-selling book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and then there’s an action comedy film debuting later this year called Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. But the one that really interests…
Read MoreThe ten (or more) that belong in the WWE Hall of Fame… but will sadly never get in.
As we approach professional wrestling’s biggest night of the year – Wrestlemania – the WWE takes a moment to honor the legacy of professional wrestling by inducting several wrestlers and tag teams into its Hall of Fame. Of course, there’s no true “brick and mortar” hall of fame for the WWE, and the Professional Wrestling…
Read MoreK-Chuck Radio: Lewis Carroll would be proud…
So here’s the challenge. I’m going to see how many songs, each linked, in on way or the other, to Lewis Carroll’s two famous books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, that I can find for this blog. So here we go. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE – White Rabbit Plenty of imagery and borrowing…
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