Bam

Here comes:

Baby Got BOOK!

A religious version of the Sir MixAlot classic.


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Ah, Double Standards...
Note the mascot's choice of books. Priceless.


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The National Highway Safety Council has done extensive testing on a newly designed seat belt.  Results show that accidents can be reduced by as much as 45% when the belt is properly installed.  Correct installation is illustrated below:


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Wonder is right...



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Hooray for Small Enterprise
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Ok, personal stuff:

Talk about geeked. Out of the blue, this remastered deluxe edition of the first Power Station album came out a week ago.

Re-mastered, plus some remixes (eh, whatev), a bonus track that was a song they had on the soundtrack to 'Commando', that Ahnuld movie from 1986 where he kicks ass rescuing his kidnapped 10 year-old not-naked-all-the-time-yet, but-in-near-future-will-be-bitching-about-naked-pics-of-herself-on-this-new-internet-thing Alyssa Milano daughter. The song 'Someday, Somehow, Someone's Gonna Pay' sounds like a heavy rock song that plays during the end credits after a movie like that.

And it wasn't Robert Palmer singing but Michael Des Barres who sang after Palmer left to be the Robert Palmer we all remember in the Addicted To Love video. Kinda run of the mill, but the pocket is heavy as hell thanks to Tony Thompson on drums. Tony's the guy who played with Zeppelin at Live Aid. He hammered and felt the pocket like Bonham did. And that's almost sacrilegious to say, but it was true.

I wanted to smack Robert for skipping out like that, especially for missing Live Aid with the Station. Not that the Live Aid dvd has the Power Station performance on it. But therein lies the reason I'd say.

Michael Des Barres...sounds familiar don't it? That's because you probably remember his former wife Pamela Des Barres, former groupie to the classic rock icons of the 70s and 80s.
She was like the 70s Tawny Kitaen of rock whores except Pam went on to get a book deal to talk about Jimmy Page's penis (among MANY others), rather than get arrested like Tawney for beating up a baseball player boyfriend after leaving O.J. before "Tantrum '94".

Aw, you know Tawny, the redhead who slithered on the cars in the Whitesnake video.

HEY!, speaking of the 'Snake, no shit, they are playing the Toledo Harley Davidson Store parking lot this summer! Man, that would be a blast! Just the sound of that gig invokes beer, crank, and blistering guitar leads.

Say it again:
Whitesnake at the Toledo Harley Davidson Parking Lot.

You'd think we'd need to call Curtis Sliwa and the Guardian Angels to keep the peace for this one, but Curt's too busy guest-hosting Sean Hannity's radio talk show.

I don't know if it'd be cooler to see them there or at the Royal Oak Music theater 4 days later. Wait. Yes I do. Well, at least in the Toledo Harley lot the people there wouldn't be cynical hipsters trying to act like they're only there because it's some kind of a mock-retro appreciation dickhead thing to do for a laugh. Sipping on the PBR they don't really like, using exaggerated body language to over-prove to people around them that they're only there as a lark because they 'd never really admit that Whitesnake indeed does put on a hellacious rock show.

Look you fuckin' wienies, if you're gonna act and dress like you're rather be listening to Weezer and Elvis Costello, then stay home and do it. I'm not talking about just this Whitesnake show, I'm talking about the rest of your life.
"Can ya hear me now? Good. Cuz I wanna tell you you look just like me."


Yeah...I'm thinking being outside on some blacktop, on a summernight, with rows of Harleys behind me, swirling rainbows of color from the stage light show in the chrome exhaust pipes of the bikes moving to the strains of "In The Still of The Night''s Zeppelin rip-off violin bridge would be pretty fun. Or I could do it standing in the 'cinder-block warehouse with drapes' that is the RO music theater, where the motto is "Good sound? City Ordinance 341 prohibits that."


Aaaaanyway... this new Power Station album also came with a DVD containing this sweet 30 minute promo video that used to exist with all 3 PS videos, plus in-studio stuff of them playing. Always wanted that. AND!... the band playing 'Some Like It Hot' on Saturday night Live in Feb 85. I saw it once, and always wanted a tape of it.

I vividly remember seeing it in 1985, all 14 years of me, thinking "Man, this is confusing EVERYBODY in that audience. It's the 'Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News, I Got a Bad Case of Loving You" guy in a suit, with the two guitarists from Duran Duran dressed like leather samurai's, one of whom is wearing a skirt, and some professor-looking black dude wailing funky rock beats on drums.

FUCKING_ AWESOME.

Gimme eccentric and eclectic lookin' cats who can play anyday.

R.I.P Robert, Tony Thompson (the drummer), and Bernard Edwards (producer and member of Chic who produced the Power Station)

Fortunately I got to meet Robert, Tony, and Andy Taylor at Clutch Cargo's in 97 when they put out a 2nd album (11 years after the first). High school friend of mine was taking photos for Rolling Stone and got me into the Meet & Greet. Got autographs on my Power Station CD sleeve. Pics of the show are at popfolio.com, her site. Loads of great pics of all kinds of bands there. Big bands.