Blogdaughter Tammi of Road Warrior Survival wants me to fess up with my musical proclivities. Being a dutiful blogfather, I respond thusly:

Random Ten Albums:
Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop
Ratt - Ratt
Refreshments - Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy
MCA Master Series - Guitar Stars
Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation

1. What is the total amount of music files on your computer?
Nothing to speak of. With the exception of "Mr. Bad Example" that I got from Straight White Eric's site, I don't download music recreationally. The tunes I live for are on tapes or CDs and there's about 300-400 of those.

2. The last CD you bought is:
Blue Oyster Cult - Heaven Forbid

3. What is the song you last listened to before this message:
Elvis - Satisfaction
Yet another theft from Straight White Eric. Oddly, I'd never heard this song before, but the day after I got it from Eric, it turned up in a TV special on figure skating that I watched with Beloved Wife.

4: Five songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you:
I don't listen to a lot of music these days, because I find it distracting when I'm trying to write, but these are some old favorites:

1) Led Zeppelin - Thank You: When I first started dating Beloved Wife (then Beloved Girlfriend), it was the first song I ever dedicated to her. The music stinks, but the lyrics are sweet.

2) Rush - Red Barchetta: This song is about the pure unadulterated pleasure of driving fast. Perfect for when you have 5 miles of open highway and no place for the cops to hide. Best listened to in excess of 80mph.

3) Beethoven - Symphony #9: I saw "A Clockwork Orange". That should be enough explanation.

4) Ted Nugent - Stranglehold: There's something about that extended guitar-work section that just makes me all warm inside. Terrible Ted at his best.

5) Alice Cooper - School's Out: I hated school, and every time that sacred final day in June would roll around, this anthem got played - LOUD.

5. Who are you gonna pass this stick to (five persons and why)?
Don't know why... mostly just because they're on my blogroll & I'm pretty sure no one else has tagged them yet (if I'm wrong and you've already been tagged, just give me a virtual middle finger & tell me to piss off):

Graumagus of Frizzen Sparks - because I don't know of any good bagpipe songs, and I'm sure there'll be at least one on his list.

Sally of Whimsy Capricious - just wanna see what's popular across the pond. I'd ask Alex, but he's been WAY too busy to blog lately. Either that or Sally lost the handcuff keys again.

Susie of Practical Penumbra - since I can't get naked pictures of her, I need to find an alternative way of getting to know her better

Jeff of Oh-Dark-Thirty - I'm hoping he'll teach me to be funky & groovy & cool with his young-people "tunes", or whatever they're calling them these days.

Spear Shaker of Shaking Spears - just because I want to see if I can get him to let his hair down and post something personal instead of merely his usual excellent daily essay.

Posted by: Harvey at 10:19 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 Is a tag a good touch or a bad touch?

Posted by: Susie at January 31, 2005 11:25 PM (MYr06)

2 Harvey, you are a good man. Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big and Buzzy is one of the best albums I have ever heard. Have you been keeping up with the Refreshments since then? Their follow-up album The Bottle and Fresh Horses is nothing short of awesome. And after record label problems forced them to split up, and a couple of them (along with a few others) became Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers they were equally great. Have you listened to them? If not, you should. I specifically recomend Mexican Moonshine from ¡Americano!, Better Beautiful Than Perfect from Sonoran Hope and Madness, and West Texas Moon from Honky Tonk Union. Hell, just listen to all of them, there are only three or four songs on all of their albums that I don't really care for.

Posted by: Chuck at February 01, 2005 12:30 PM (IECm3)

3 Nice selection, Harvey! Now if we can only get Ogre to shut his pie-hole and post his! Of course, then he would be giving in, and that just doesn't seem likely!

Posted by: That 1 Guy at February 01, 2005 12:36 PM (7tckq)

4 .. heh.. good music, my man....

Posted by: Eric at February 01, 2005 06:46 PM (YlwMq)

5 Harvey - This uptight white dude needs a little more time at the controls before I start freelancing the personal stuff. . . I don't have blogdaughters, I've got a real daughter who checks my every move. . . SS

Posted by: Spear Shaker at February 01, 2005 08:26 PM (RBWRY)

6 Chuck - wasn't aware they had a second album. Got links to samples? T1G - threaten to take his llamas away. That should get results :-) Shakes - I don't think your daughter will mind. Just don't let her know that you're a closet Boys2Men fan :-)

Posted by: Harvey at February 02, 2005 04:41 PM (ubhj8)

7 Check Amazon for it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001EWQ/qid%3D1107398701/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-8423610-2522507 Sin Nombre, Buy American, Birds Sing, and Broken Record are my favorites. Tributary Otis and Preacher's Daughter are pretty good too. I reckon you would like the latter. *wink*

Posted by: Chuck at February 02, 2005 08:50 PM (IECm3)

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