Road Crew Magazine
Music Magazine with News, Reviews, Photos and Video

Wow, it's Thursday January 29th.  This week itself has been a long one for me.  If you read a couple of days ago, you know that it is somewhat frigid here.  My house has FINALLY made it just over 70 degrees and it's 3:20 pm on the 28th as I type this.  Mix in 4 screaming heathens and it makes for a very cabin feverish 2 days since they didn't have to go to school due to all the ice. But in the midst of it, I collected todays facts and sat and stared at them for a long time to try to figure out where to go with them.  My mind said, "Chocolate, you need chocolate."  Which I bypassed and had something more healthy instead. :(  But as I look over them as I type this intro that has a lot to do about nothing, I see that there are 2 song releases, 2 who sang the national anthem, a band formed and a musician departed and 2 birthdays.  So, it really has it's own theme of things that happened in 2's.  That's something I can work with.

Let's just go in the order that I listed them, shall we?  In 1958 the song Tequila was released by The Champs in 1958.  This instrumental classic is played by high school marching bands across the nation and the first thing that really comes to my mind is the unforgettable "Big Shoe Dance" in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.  



The other song, released in 1966 was I Fought the Law by The Bobby Fuller Four and would eventually top out at #9 on Billboard's Hot 100.

I wish I were in Tampa.  I think my wishing star is broken or hiding, because I'm still in the frigid wasteland of Oklahoma and NOT enjoying the Super Bowl festivities this week.  I just read that Faith Hill and Jennifer Hudson are to sing the nation anthem at this year's event.  But in looking back at Super Bowls XXIII (23) and XXVIII (28) our nation's anthem was sung in 1989 by Billy Joel and in 1994 by Natalie Cole.  And as I only have today and tomorrow to say it.....GO STEELERS!!

In looking at the next twosome, the band formed and a musician departed, these events took place several years apart and involved 2 different bands, however they are both from the "hair metal" genre.  In 1978 the band Whitesnake was formed by lead singer David Coverdale, and in 2000 Poison guitarist C.C. Deville announce he would be leaving the band.  The band did convince him to return to the band.

And finally, let's take a look at those birthdays.  Tommy Ramone of the Ramones was born today in 1949 and in 1961, Eddie Jackson of Queensryche was born.  So happy, happy birthday to them!  Well, I think I will go hunt down that chocolate about now.  Have a great one!