98.5 KOME – Fan Blog

First of all, want to say that Rock and Roll Classic’s Blog has a widget now for you to use and share that contains the radio station Rock and Roll Classics @ Live 365 which you can now grab right from my sidebar!
And also from the blog Chili choose one of the stand out bands of the 70′s to talk to us about ~ Bread. I used to love listening to Hooked on You when I was a kid. This was the band that along with others woke my musical soul up! I practically lived with a radio on all day long and long into the night, most times falling asleep to the sounds.

I think I would love to be able to do that again.

And from 70′s Classic Rock Blog I am going fixin to get Southern on ya’ll ~

Art’s Wordless Wednesday choice was a awesome Song from an Awesome band - Free Bird From Lynyrd Skynyrd. I bet anyone who cruised El Camino Real in the late 70′s through the early 80′s recalls the green van with Free bird on the side! I can not recall who owned that, if you are the owner and read this, give me a yell would you … would love to see a photo of the van as well. Great times cruising, so many awesome cars. My son’s would give their eye teeth to see all those classics rolling up and down in front of the Taco Bell on El C amino.

Oh, if you are frail of mind due to memories of home , do not go to Google Maps to see the old homestead! You can go and at least in Santa Clara CA, you can do the street view thing………….. bad move on my part. OMG what did they do to home? Its all discombobulated!!! I am going to need a freaking guide when I get back home just to find stuff.

Anyway, good times back then and I am told progress is good ( sigh).

My choice for today’s video placement is YES – Roundabout. I miss just chilling out on a Sunday afternoon listening to KOME while my Dad worked in the front room. Those days were good good days for me.

Have a good one peeps, I will be back later. I have some photographs of the American Bald Eagles that nest at the Lake I live near to get put up on my flickr account.

My husband loves Pink Floyd, to him the band, their lyrics speak to him, as they do for millions of fans across the world. I have a affinity for a few of their songs, especially Shine on You Crazy Diamond. We were so lucky to have his soul sing to us for as long as we did, God Bless him on his journey and bless his family. My thoughts are with them and all the fans who are missing such a wonderful talented man.

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,
blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter,
come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Well, it’s not raining here yet, but as big as Gustav is, I swear I can feel rain in the air from where I am.
And when ever it rains there is nothing better than a guitar and a sax playing softly on a great pair of speakers.
Right now I am listening to Craig Chaquico ( formerly of Jefferson Airplane and Starship) and life is good.
My Aunt was hurt as I have reported before a few weeks ago and it was rough going, but today there was good news, and now I can smile again. She will be okay, so I will be okay.

You see my Aunt taught me some valuable things in my youth, such as how to take the wrapper from the straw , drop a bit of coke on it, and bamm! you have a snake unfurling on your table. I learned that at a lunch table in a Sears on Long Island. * yes in the old days, Sears had lunch counters* She also welcomed me back into her life many many years later as if I had not left, and now I am so grateful to God that I get another chance to one day make it to where she lives and sit and talk with her. I need her to know I love her and always have.

So as I said, Life is good, very very good. Give a listen to Cafe Carnival off Craigs Album Panorama: The Best of Craig Chaquico

Cafe Carnival ~