Thursday, August 16, 2018

SHIT WEEK STRIKES AGAIN

By now you know the Queen of Soul is dead. Fuck. There's no replacing her. Gone. That's enough to make it Shit Week. To make matters worse a friend of mine passed away two days ago. Suicide. He was the nicest guy, around the scene for decades. A music freak, mechanically minded, artistic, and selfless, big in the local chapter of Amnesty International. The type of guy that you'd see at shows, or at a taco stand, random places over the years and just assume that everything's ducky. I never saw him angry, sad, or distraught. Then out of nowhere, gone. That one I cannot wrap my head around. He wasn't irrational, or a substance abuser (even when many of us were), always level headed. It just doesn't seem possible. Needless to say I've been a bit distracted the last day and a half.

Tim, my friend that passed, was a roots guy. One band I associate him with is the Blasters. So here's some Blasters. If you need an Aretha fix, check this post from a couple days ago.

~ NOTE: ALL MEDIA IS HOSTED BY THE BLOGS & SITES NAMED BELOW ~
Listen: 
The Blasters - Red Rose mp3 at AM Then FM
The Blasters - Dark Night mp3
at ATumblr (?)
The Blasters - Marie Marie
(streaming) at YouTube OG Rollin' Rock version

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