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Okay..... here is my rant. I have a very small YouTube channel. 130 subscriber. Friends and family. Wife and I travel to our cattle ranch every week as we split time between there and our home in Okc. So I make little videos while we are there to share with friends and family. I made one that is about the election and some friends said I should promote it. Google advertising. There is a song on the video that I recorded in my home studio and a friend sang. “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”. I actually purchased license to...

My latest song. It's about the trip, not the destination.

(Available for over a year)

Barack Obama Sings Socialism Is Good

15 minutes, Part 115 minutes, Part 2

Pro shot video of Van Halen playing at the US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park in Devore, California on May 23, 1983.

Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. He was 80. Nash was in his early 30s when “I Can See Clearly Now” topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. In the mid-1950s, he was a teenager covering “Darn That Dream” and other standards, his light tenor likened to the voice of Johnny Mathis. A decade later, he was co-running a record company, had become a rare American-born singer of reggae and helped...

Adam Silver sat down for an interview with Rachel Nichols on NBA Countdown earlier this week, and indicated that the social justice messaging that you see on the courts and the backs of players’ jerseys will be “left off the floor” next season. Rachel Nichols: The NBA has certainly been the most visible billion-dollar organization championing social justice and civil rights. As you noted in your press conference the other day, though, that has not been universally popular. How committed are you to being that going forward? Adam Silver: We’re completely committed to standing for social justice and racial equality and that’s...

Eddie Van Halen, the all-American guitar hero who, with his namesake hard-rock band Van Halen, redefined the sound and possibilities of the electric guitar in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Tuesday at age 65. The cause was throat cancer. “I can’t believe I’m having to write this, but my father, Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, has lost his long and arduous battle with cancer this morning,” wrote his son, Wolfgang Van Halen via Twitter. “He was the best father I could ever ask for. Every moment I’ve shared with him on and off stage was a gift... I love you...

Rod Stewart is worried that any action taken to combat climate change wouldn't be enough to stop it. Speaking to Chris Evans on the How to Wow podcast, Stewart said, "I think the good Lord is intent on wiping us all out, because we’ve spoiled the Earth. We’ve spoiled it. I think it’s too late to turn back now, I think global warming is going to spoil the Earth. We’re literally, I believe we’re too late. ... And now with that prick in the White House, pulling out of the Paris Accord, it’s terrible." Stewart contrasted the mood during the...

the legendary guitarist and co-founder of Van Halen -- has died after a long battle with throat cancer ... TMZ has learned.

British rock band Led Zeppelin on Monday effectively won a long-running legal battle over claims it stole the opening guitar riff from its signature 1971 song “Stairway to Heaven.” The band, one of the best-selling rock acts of all time, was handed victory after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case, meaning that a March 2020 decision by a U.S. appeals court in Led Zeppelin’s favor will stand. Lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page had been accused in the six-year-long case of lifting the riff — one of the best-known openings in rock music —...

Yeah. Frank Sinatra. Ava Gardner. Nelson Riddle.

The song grabs you in the first two seconds: two shots on an E chord, followed by quarter-note hi-hat hits. You know something big's going to happen. No—it already is happening. At five seconds, the hi-hat hits double into eighth-notes as the E chord shots repeat. At seven seconds, the addition of a swung sixteenth-note (played on cowbell with a brush) signals the imminent, exhilarating plunge into a song you've never heard, but which you now want to hear more than anything else. And at twelve seconds, an authoritative, effortlessly-executed drum fill plunges you into what might be rock and...

Ksenia out front. Song reminds me a little of the sound of Gino Vannelli.

Watching American cities burn across the map all summer long is a little dispiriting for those of us foreigners whose first acquaintance with these burgs was through American songs. I have been to St Louis a handful of times, but, if you sneak up on me unawares and yell the name at me, I'm more likely to eschew my limited personal experience and burst into a few bars of "Meet Me in St Louis" or "The Saint Louis Blues" - notwithstanding that the former renders the town exclusively as "St Louiee" and the latter does likewise in all but a...

They put the guns in Guns and Roses. The Azerbaijan military has released a bizarre heavy metal music video touting their war weapons and featuring lot of explosions amid a violent dispute with its neighbor Armenia. The guitar-shredding propaganda tune “Atəş”— or “Fire” — was performed by a group of local heavy metal rockers dressed in combat uniforms, according to footage uploaded to the country’s military Youtube channel.

A viral TikTok clip of a man drinking cranberry juice and longboarding to the Fleetwood Mac track “Dreams” — and not, ironically, the Cranberries’ song “Dreams” — has both brought the rock group a spike in sales and the skater thousands in donations. “Morning vibe,” skater Nathan Apodaca captioned the video in which he glugs a large bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice while skating down a freeway and singing along with Stevie Nicks on the hit off of the group’s 1977 album “Rumours.” Since posting last weekend, the clip has racked up over 18 million views for Apodaca, who...

Uncle Henry is a conservative radio talk show host in Mobile, Alabama. He is now discussing the POTUS & FLOTUS covid-19 news.

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