Typhoon Baba O'Reilly

Who? 🙂 Thread is making me feel old. My son is on a Hank Williams Jr. kick right now, so I'm re-living the sounds of my drunken youth, minus the drunk and the youth.

    8 days later

    Spent the weekend with my soulmate at the Norfolk Jazz Fest this past weekend. Such a wonderful time... such a great venue with a lot of my favorite smooth jazz performers doing their thing.

    This is my iPhone recording of Boney James Friday evening, as he performed his hit from several years back, called "Vinyl". A much needed weekend away from the bullcrap that life throws at us on occasion.

    23 days later

    My favorite smooth jazz bass guitarist (RIP) and a popular country music singer... whoda thunk!
    And a favorite tune of mine, a remake of Barry White's "Never Gonna Give You Up" with Wayman Tisdale on the bass and Toby Kieth on the vocals.

    So smooth.... not as smooth as Barry, but very close.

      PA-PLAYA With that title I almost feel like I'm going to get Rickrolled if I push play. Edit to add I did listen and it is a great sound. Didn't know of Wayman beyond his basketball playing days until you started posting him here.

          johnnydoom

          I've followed college hoops all my life but really didn't get into the Smooth Jazz genre up until about a decade ago. By the time I'd listened to his last album release (Rebound) in 2008, a year later he was gone. Years later, when I hear one of his songs on Sirius XM's Watercolors channel (smooth jazz) I often think about how cool it would've been to attend one of his concerts.

          He was a tremendous college basketball player (his 12 years playing in the NBA was average for the most part)... one of the top college players on the 1984 US Men's Olympic basketball team, the last amateur team to win a gold medal in the Olympics.

          But as good as he was playing hoops, he became an even greater musician his later years. And he seemed like such a cool dude too, with an infectious smile and a down-to-earth way about him.


            PA-PLAYA

            My kind of music!

            This one has some pieces in it that cause something to well in me... maybe, the setting, the song, the crowd singing in unison...oh, the Spirit, for sure!

              10 days later
              20 days later

              I stumbled into this one yesterday - love the guy's energy!

                hobbit Well there is energy, I can’t deny that! I think, but can’t tell for sure, that I like the woman’s voice. I did admire, and laugh as well at the way the dude vocalized “you” on the first run through the chorus.

                  Always dug this song. This version is mesmerizing.

                  23 days later

                  A lot of garage days songs are kick ass, i love this one-

                  Enjoy and turn the volume up

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                  One of my favs, just missed out on Ten, but made Lost Dogs-

                  We all go through valleys. Maybe it's the loss of a loved one, or the passing of a dear friend, or having a child move thousands of miles away and not being prepared to deal with that situation as a parent.

                  I've had three dear people in my life pass away over the past year. Two golf buddies, and my father who passed just a month ago. As much as we want to think that we're resilient and impenetrable emotionally - sometimes it's just not that easy.

                  Having people you can count on, in the backdrop providing love and encouragement and assuredness means everything. That one word... assuredness. It's the hardest. Because sometimes we just aren't emotionally equipped to deal with things and see the bigger and brighter picture, that everything is gonna work out. It's human nature.

                  But my wife of 29 years, who has been my support system throughout the past 29 years (but especially the past year), is the reason I want to keep going forward, want to move beyond the sad feelings and keep moving ahead.

                  This one is for her. She's been my rock. When I found her 29+ years ago - I found out what true love really means. And it took a while for me to figure that out. Too many years to be honest. But better late than never!

                  She just gets better with age. 🙂

                  Can't beat it when your son is the Twisted Sister/Dee Snider Band guitarist and you can sit on the couch and listen to him practice going through a set. Right now " Under the Blade"