Rock n Roll to Wake Your Ass Up!

So this Deadhead listens to a lot of freakin' music. Quite simply, if I did not run then I wouldn't listen to albums like the one I ran to this morning. See, I HATE running but my health is too important not to and when I run I need a steady beat, sometimes I need beat progression, sometimes beat regression. Dead and Jerry studio stuff could do it but not a lot of it has a fast enough beat which is also an important factor. Man, if I limited myself to what I ran to, I'd get bored real fast. So I stay open-minded (better than being close-minded, right?) and listen to whatever. Sometimes whatever is just perfect. Sometimes it kicks bloody ass all over the place and is the most outstanding bunch of loudness to wake your ass up and really get your blood flowing. I'm sorry but as much as I love listening to Jerry, Sugaree or A Simple Twist Of Fate ain't gonna do that at 6 in the morning.

Van Hagar will!

An Album I've Been Listening To. . . (and the Music I Ran To This Thursday Morning)

	Chickenfoot self-titled debut 2009
Avenida Revolution Soap On A Rope Sexy Little Thing Oh Yeah Runnin' Out Get It Up Down The Drain My Kinda Girl Learning To Fall Turnin' Left Future In The Past Bitten By The Wolf	Sammy Hagar - vocals Joe Satriani - guitar Michael Anthony - bass Chad Smith - drums

Holy bunch of rockin' out aging rockers, Ghost of Jimi Hendrix. Holy crap, I can't get sick of this, at least not after about five listens to far. What a great album from a great band. It would be a rock and roll travesty if these guys don't sell out everywhere they go this summer. Recently they wrapped up a short like 9-show club tour, a warm-up for lots of shows this summer in Europe and then back in North America. What a frickin' whiz on guitar Joe Satriani is. Long, long time ago I had one of his CD's -- Surfing With The Alien, I think? I haven't heard Satriani since then (circa 1992-ish.) Hagar's Hagar and I just listened to him the other day. Sammy's great. Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith really help drive this album. They're fuckin' animals, man. Holy crap! And then when Satriani dives in... holy crap!!! (That about sums it up -- Holy Crap!) Soap On a Rope, for instance, while oddly named, it goes along la di da di da and then at the end it completely blows out the windows and blows the roof off the house. FUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!! This just screams at you -- "PLAY IT LOUD. LOUDER, DUMBASS!!!!!!!!!!!!" I might worship just about every note of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia music but sometimes this is exactly what I want! A great Shakedown Street is a fun way to wake up but when they move into Althea or later on play Looks Like Rain, the life out of being LOUDLY woken up can just be sucked away. Something like this -- oh holy crap hell yeah, THIS is the (musical) way to wake up!!!!

And I just read the following which is blowin' me away -- Sammy's 61 years old?!?!?! Get the FUCK out of here!!!!! Noooo wayyyyy. Holy crap, I don't believe it. At times Satriani sounds as good as and no better than Eddie Van Halen and perhaps at times this is a continuation of Van Hagar... but maaaaaan, it simply fucking rocks. There's just one ballad here -- Learning To Fall -- which is the slow spot on the whole album, and one song -- Future In The Past -- that slows things down somewhat, at least until it picks up a ton of steam as it goes along, and the last song -- Bitten By The Wolf -- is the only to feature acoustic guitar (and harmonica.) Even though it's a total anticlimactic finish to the album, since it's about New Orleans I'll give it a pass. So there are some places where the music isn't completely balls to the wall and alright, not every song is perfection, a few have moments of lame harmonies or lame lyrics, or a spot where Satriani is this totally solo dude not fitting perfectly into a band... but every bad instance is made up for fifty times over. In just a few months, in October, the Red Rocker's gonna be 62?! Jayy-zuzz, you've GOT to be kidding me!

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Sammy on the late night show Red Eye talkin' to Greg Gutfeld
about sex, rock and roll, and driving 55.


"Oh Yeah" - June 6, 2009
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Jay Leno Conan O'Brien

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Who Run

Went running.

Tuesday Late Morning Run: 24 minutes 37 sec

+ 27 seconds

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Days Since My Last Run: 4
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11:40 am - 68° - bright and sunny

10 days, 2 runs. I've gotta do better than that. Pretty good run, though, and I'm looking forward to hopefully next run getting back to 25 minutes. I really, really, really wanna get to 30 minutes per run, man. One day. Probably, if I set out to, I could accomplish 30 minutes later today! But I just don't want to push it. When I had that stress fracture in my right tibia almost two years ago, that really messed up my head, sort of... I'm just nearly frightened to death of having something bad like that happen again. Being scared isn't how I want to be but then again not being able to run or hike for 3 or 4 months? No way. No f'in' way. So I'm not pushing it. Almost 25 minutes isn't pushing it and I feel great afterward. I'm ready for my next run!
X ·Feb :: +47 sec· X

2 runs in MARCH: 48 min *** FEBRUARY *** 3 hours 41 min January 2009 2 hours 54 min December 2 hours 42 min November: 2 hours 31 min October 2008: 2 hours 10 min **SEPTEMBER** 3 Hours 25 min

Tuesday's Running Playlist included some of this album...
	The Who My Generation 1965 (2002 deluxe edition)
disc 1: Out In The Street I Don't Mind The Good's Gone La-La-La-Lies Much Too Much My Generation The Kids Are Alright Please, Please, Please It's Not True I'm A Man A Legal Matter The Ox Circles (Instant Party) I Can't Explain Bald Headed Woman Daddy Rolling Stone disc 2: Leaving Here Lubie (Come Back Home) Shout And Shimmy (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave Motoring Any Time You Want Me Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Instant Party Mixture I Don't Mind (full length) The Good's Gone (full length) My Generation (instrumental) Anytime You Want Me (a cappella) A Legal Matter (original mono version) My Generation (original mono)

Wow. There's a lot of great music here. The bonus music on disc 2 is nice but the original album alone has a lot of great songs on it. A few I don't care too much for but even those are okay. Roger Daltrey's voice is a lot different in 1965 than later Who music that I'm more familiar with. It's gravely kinda and on a few songs he almost sounds like Mick Jagger.

The first song put me off a little. Out In The Street doesn't do much for me but it has some cool guitar from Pete Townshend. That helps but it just doesn't stand up to what follows. Song two, I Don't Mind, portrays the blues side of the band. Oh, man, it's so good. My Generation, of course, is a classic. One thing about it is, even though I've heard it around 1,500 times in my life, I never really noticed the great bass work from John Entwistle. He shines in so many songs as does Keith Moon on drums. Like My Generation, I've heard The Kids Are Alright a thousand times but I've never sat and listened to it like I am doing today and like I have several times over the past few days. Many of these songs have some nice, albeit not very upfront piano work from extended Grateful Dead family member Nicky Hopkins. He's especially prominent in I'm A Man. Not quite Bruce Hornsby-like but nice none-the-less. Perhaps my favorite song on the album is the instrumental The Ox. What a great driving force this four minutes of music is.

Disc 2, even starting with Daddy Rolling Stone to close out the original My Generation release, is quite Beatles-ish especially Shout And Shimmy. And then there's Motown with Heat Wave. What an odd thing to hear from this band. They were so different in 1965, at least here on their debut. Apparently the album was somewhat dismissed by the band as not really sounding like how The Who sounded on stage.

In any case, this is one of my new favorite albums. I don't why it took me so damn long to listen to it. Hey, better late than never!

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