I miss the original Poo Bah record shop that used to be located in an old craftsman style bungalow in Pasadena on the corner of Walnut and Wilson Ave. Now the place is some damn salon/spa I think. also long gone from Pasadena California: The Handlebars Saloon in the alley behind the Academy theater on Colorado Blvd. Great times, live bands, and sometimes you might run into Alex Van Halen or someone from the band. Perkin's Palace on Raymond Ave. Great concert venue--- especially in the punk years. Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, and all those L.A. '80s hair bands--- GnR, Ratt, Crue. Place is now just another fucking 'mixed use' apartment and retail space. What a crime! The old Bob's Big Boy diner on Colorado near Pasadena City College--- another place to usually run into somebody from Van Halen late at night in the '70s. The United Artist move theater where for at least 10 years they played a midnight show of The Song Remains the Same every Saturday night. Oh how many beers I knocked over and rolled down under the seats there! Legendary FM radio station KROQ used to be in Pasadena on Los Robles Ave. KROQ was instrumental in helping catapult many local L.A. bands to national attention. The 'Rose Palace' on Raymond used to be a concert venue in the '70s. Vanilla Fudge, The Who, Santana, and even our boys Led Zeppelin played there. Now they just use the space to decorate floats for the new years Rose Parade.

I overheard this at a bar a few years ago. male patron wearing a fedora hat goes up to the bar: "Can I get a Henny and gin-gin?" (Hennessy & ginger ale) bartender: NO!

Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) has left the Beaver house... RIP He was always an inspiration to me, my favorite character on "Leave It To Beaver". I thought it hilarious that in the '70s the actor (Ken Osmond) was rummored to be everyone from porn star John Holmes to Alice Cooper.

I heard that he opened a home for troubled teen girls. It's called "Uncle Fingerfun's house of shakey puddin"

"that she is a he"

LOL BINGO about Hudson. He was worse even than Jack Lord (Hawaii Five-O)--- and Lord pretty much had to use cue cards for most scenes.

When it comes to the rock and roll genre I generally regard Little Richard as one of the FOUR legs of the table which everything else sat upon later. Little Richard Chuck Berry Elvis Presley Buddy Holly Little Richard is to rock and roll what Babe Ruth was to baseball in my opinion. So many of my rock and roll heroes will talk about the first time they heard a Little Richard record as being one of the inspirations to them also getting into rock and roll. RIP

I don't think it matters who killed Tony P. I think the story was such that he proved that burning too many bridges and eventually anybody or everybody is going to come at you at some point---- so it could have been anyone. I also don't think Tony followed the old Mafia honor thing when he had Phil Leatoardo wacked out in front of his wife with his grandkids in the car. So just on that basis Tony getting whacked in the restaurant with his family was fair game was it not? There were lots of clues throughout the Sopranos that sort of came from other Mafia films. Like the conversation about how you don't know when it will happen while he was in a boat fishing with Bobby (a homage to Godfather II where Fredo gets whacked by Al Neri). And then of course Goodfellas and how Tommy gets it thing he was going to a ceremony to "get made"---- yeah, the got "straightened out" LOL. And how about in Casino who the KC dons "cleaned things up" taking out all the loose ends at the end of the film. And of course what about Donnie Brasco where Donny asks Lefty if a 'hit' is like "the Army" and Lefty says, "Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know. In 'our thing' when they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it."

I liken it to the late '50s/ early '60s before the British invasion, after Buddy Holly died, Chuck Berry was tossed into jail, and Elvis got out of the Army and started making crappy movies instead of good music and the "industry" decided to manufacture crappy "hit songs" for mass consumption and there were plenty of dumb people buying it. Business will always act that way---- try to convince you a product is worth having and spending money on. But that only gets you so far, eventually people ought to figure out there is better music and sometimes it takes a Beatles, Kinks, The Who to come along and play real music, written by REAL talent, and cut through the pre-formed CRAP people are used to.

I also from that generation. To be honest there is basically no good music today--- not really. 10s, 00s, and 90s were pretty bleak actually. Back in the 60s and 70s the difference was there was a lot of bands/musicians who were forced to pay their dues. If you weren't good you washed out--- nobody would listen to your shit--- much less buy it or pay to see you live. Today that has changed, and younger people today will gladly consume CRAP that is fed to them like it is Kraft macaroni and cheese. Back and my day all genres were better. From County/Western, to soul, R&B, rock, pop--- all of it was better. Bands had to pay their dues and they did or they faded away. I think a great example of this is the Beatles story. Yes, they were all naturally talented and had a deep well of inspiration inside them from birth. But by their own admission they didn't turn the corner until they went to Hamburg and actually had to play (gig) 7 days per week many hours a day. They became TIGHT as a band, and from there it opened up many more opportunities. Today some CRAP can go out and find an audience and actually get a pay check--- all because kids have no ear or taste for what is good.

They beat us fair and square

Watching a re-run of the 2010 Winter Olympics Hockey gold medal game ( USA vs Canada). BTW--- here in North America we just say "hockey" no reason to add "ice" to hockey. Speaking of ice---- if you are talking about figure skating it is appropriate to say "figure skating"---- otherwise SKATING here in the USA and Canada is assumed to mean you are talking about hockey.

A beautiful SoCal spring day. Funny how the planet is probably thinking: "what virus? No problem here--- human problem, not my problem!"

Blah!!!! Had a case of Costco brand ales delivered to the house. The case included some brown ale, IPA, blonde ale, and a pale ale. The brown was pretty good, the blonde was piss, the pale ale only "meh!"--- and the IPA tasted like it came out of the ass of a dead rhinoceros. I actually had to buy a 6 pack of Pabst Blue ribbon to "cut" the Costco IPA just so I could sneak up on it and swallow it. Note to self: Never buy a beer "grab bag" from a club store again. PS-- never thought it possible to make Pabst beer taste worse than it already is. What a sin.