Gregor S., can you help out Snagsby?
Speaking of Snag, I already mentioned this previously, I think, but just like BG music is very specific to me on the radio (second post below), although this may or may not be accurate to actual BG music, there is a specific Snag song that is on the radio all the time here.
It is this.
Also, GC shocked me into almost crashing the Punkwagon last month by stating “leave it here, I like this song.”
That song being this (I shazz you not!!!!!!).
oh PP. you have no idea how many times C and I have had that same conversation.
What fresh hell is this?
I had to live through 38 Special once in my life already. They BETTER NOT be on the comeback rollio.
GC almost NEVER says “leave it here”- it is much more probably that she will stab at the radio shutting it off completely because it is “driving her up a wall” 99% chance that relates to Led Zeppelin or AC/DC.
Yeah that is Dr. Mrs. fish too. Usually during the rocking guitar solo.
Yeah that is Dr. Mrs. fish too. Usually during the rocking guitar solo.
Alex Lifeson would not stand for that.
Jeez. 38 Special are so far below REO Speedwagon standards they’re almost Styx.
Would it irreparably destroy everyone’s impression of me if I admitted to going (on purpose) to a .38 Special concert (sometime in the early 80s)? If so, I won’t say anything. Perhaps I should also neglect to mention that, at the time, my favorite band was Styx.
And a deadening silence was heard across the blog…
Plover, if I was to criticize you for that, I would have to reveal some of my early concert attendances also.
Which I am not prepared to do, nor do I think the poplace here is prepared to accept.
I believe we should just say we were young, and learned better.
Those more recent years I saw Styx, or styx cover bands, should not count.
“Styx cover bands” is a bit of an eldritch phrase, isn’t it? Though maybe not so worrisome as, say, “Ayn Rand commemorative food stamps”. Perhaps you imagined them?
If not, I suggest blaming interdimensional miasmic chaos. Which is arguably the most parsimonious explanation anyway.
Thanks for the note, PP.
I think I saw Styx once, maybe as a warm up to Climax Blues or Blue Oyster Cult or something. I don’t remember exactly. There’s a lot about that period I don’t remember exactly.
I’m pretty sure I saw Styx in the 1970′s and they were definitely the warm-up band.
Headliner was Bad Company, if I recall correctly (and probably, I doesn’t).
If not Bad Company, it was ZZTop. Before they became obscure, and then became MTV stars. The other warm-up band was the Outlaws. And these concerts were at the Capital Center in Landover.
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Jeez, if you guys only saw Styx once, I begin to doubt that you live in the Midwest.
They’re like Cheap Trick, playing every festival and strip-mall opening in Flyover Country.
“Caught Up in You” and “Hold on Loosely” are the Fried Mac of AOR radio. So awful yet so decadently delicious when you’re in the right mood. I’m with GC on this one. Especially when the Skynrd cover guitar solo kicks in.
Also, .38 Special are notable for having the most superfluous second drummer in rock history.
Since we’re going all Judy Blume here, I have to confess that, while I despise the pre-packaged rebellion Avril represents, the chorus to “Complicated” gets me every time.
I think the only appropriate Styx cover band is Eric Cartman.
Brando, why do you know all my evil thoughts?
South Park I just am forced to not like, except when it makes me pee myself. Cartman doing classic rock covers though would never get old. I’d watch hours of it. “Feel like making love” anyone?
Good times.
I feel the Pitchfork approaching. I feel it in my bones, as surely as an umpteen paragraph review of the new Rihanna was published today, I feel the quickening!
I believe we were promised punch and pie.
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Cartman sings Sugar Walls.
I always leave that 38 Special song on! AND I crank it up! Like right now, it’s totally blaring…
go back to the Genesis, Blue girl.
I’m so caught up in you, little ZRM.
Fridge note for Pinko… you need to let us know when we can gather over here for baby shower wishes, etc… we’ll need sufficient notice, BG is attempting to book .38 Special. Also, we’ll need to procure the punch and pie…
also, it takes longer to shamble over….
38 Special or, or, or! One never knows!
careful, BG. We don’t have the budget for Poison or Def Leppard.
Might be able to swing Styx or Cheap Trick though.
South Park I just am forced to not like, except when it makes me pee myself
Note to self: Leave vicinity of Pinko if South Park starts playing. Either option would be alarming, possibly dangerous.
HOLD ON LOOSELY
After watching the videos for both of .38 Special’s hits, I love how the singer is wearing something that looks like a cross between a t-shirt and a kimono, as if it was an earlier, pre-Snuggie ancestor, Australopithecus snuggieus.