Aw, hella yeah! Jimmie Lee and kid bro Stevie Ray (RIP) cuttin' heads in tandem. NOTHING BEATS THIS, my fellow blues lovers and 6-string aficianados.DID I MENTION HOW MUCH I LOVE JIMMIE VAUGHAN???AND I CAN'T WAIT TO CATCH MY BOY PLAYIN' AT B.B. KING'S LIKE THIS NEXT MONTH!!DICK DALE, KING OF SURF GUITAR and my Spirit Father, I wish you a SPEEDY recovery, so you can grease those wheels of yours and get back out on the road to see us! May is just NOT May without Dick Dale sliding by the Big Apple and the Jersey Shore for some choice appearances!! I'll take ANY month! Get better, my friend!!You've gotta love Dick with the "afrullet" back in the '80s, side by side with SRV in "Pipeline" for the "Back to the Beach" soundtrack. LOL.
And then some choice current-day (2007) appearances of The Man doing "Pipeline" with "Hava Nagila" and "California Sun." Look at him still kickin' ass on THE BEAST 10 years later.... ROCK ON, DICK!
(At The Surf Club, Ortley Beach, NJ-- 5/29/07.)
(And at B.B. King's, NYC, two days earlier-- 5/27/07.)
IT'S NO MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WITHOUT DICK DALE IN NJ/NY!!Did I mention-- I LOVE THE SMITHEREENS!!!!
(Eh, just some photos of mine that I'm quite proud of, below...)
TIMES SQUARE, NYC-- Photography Exhibit 1CENTRAL PARK, NYC-- Photography Exhibit 2
I AM THE QUEEN OF THE 80s NEW WAVE & NEW ROMANTIC MOVEMENT, as well as the CONNSUMATE METALHEAD and INSTRUMENTAL GUITAR AFICIANADO!! (DICK DALE-- MY ULTIMATE GUITAR HERO & 'SPIRIT FATHER') Starting off with New Wave: Kajagoogoo!!!! (Steve Askew!!!), A Flock of Seagulls!!! (Paul Reynolds on guitar!!!-- Mike Score's hair!!), Duran Duran, Arcadia, Harold Faltermeyer, The Fixx, Human League, The Church, B-Movie, Visage, Heaven 17, Berlin, ABC, Alphaville, Culture Club, The Re-Flex, Pet Shop Boys, Yaz, Devo, Falco, Spandau Ballet, Gary Numan, M, Madness, The Waitresses, The Pretenders, Prince (Revolution era), Depeche Mode (early), The B-52s, New Order, Joy Division, Wang Chung, Republica, and MANY MANY MORE one-hit-wonders and marvelous obscurities! ('80s HARD ROCK/HEAVY METAL) Billy Idol & STEVE STEVENS!!!! (yum, yum!), SAXON (!!!!), Megadeth (DAVE MUSTAINE IS THE MAN!!!!), Ratt, The Scorpions, MANOWAR (!!!), W.A.S.P. (Blackie Lawless... woo-hoo!!!) Whitesnake, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, ZZ Top, Living Colour, Van Halen, AC/DC, Yngwie Malmsteen, Metallica (early), EZO, Vinnie Moore, Greg Howe, Alex Masi, Grim Reaper, Helloween, Motley Crue, KISS, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Cinderella, Jackyl, and MANY MANY MORE..... HUGE HUGE Led Zeppelin fan ('70s) and surf-shred guitar legend DICK DALE!! DICK DALE IS MY SPIRIT FATHER AND MY ULTIMATE GUITAR HERO!!! The Beach Boys. I'm into MOST (well, almost MOST-- ha) '80s pop music, and also LOVE smooth Jazz (DIANA KRALL!! SADE, RONNY JORDAN, to name a few), Blues (JOHN LEE HOOKER was KING!), and New Age music to unwind & relax to.... (Lu Cozma, Nora Jones, Enya, Delerium, Mythos, Enigma, Balligomingo, and all "Pure Moods" type music.)
Driving Miss Daisy, Escape from Alcatraz, Ordinary People, Mommie Dearest, Sleeping with the Enemy, The Breakfast Club, Mother, A Perfect Murder, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Seven, Kiss the Girls, (MORGAN FREEMAN IS THE BEST!!) Salem's Lot, The Fog, Jaws, The Blues Brothers, Forget Paris, When Harry Met Sally (BILLY CRYSTAL IS AWESOME!!), Eddie Murphy RAW & DELERIOUS, and many many more....
ALL IN THE FAMILY!!! (nothing funnier on TV-- EVER!!! Archie Bunker is THE MAN!) The GOLDEN GIRLS (They rule!! My favorite!!!), LAW & ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT, LAW & ORDER SVU, and the original LAW & ORDER (in that order)-- I'm a L&O junkie!!! Gilmore Girls (hilarious!), The Cosby Show, Nash Bridges, Miami Vice (mmm... Don Johnson-- still hot), Knight Rider, (The now defunct) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, The Price is Right (ah those classic game shows!), A LOT of Style Network shows-- esp. SPLIT ENDS!!! How Do I Look?, Clean House, etc., Little House on the Prairie, The Twilight Zone (good stuff), The Simpsons (!!) and Knots Landing & Dallas (back in the day...)
I have an insatiable thirst for books in my writing genres--- (NON-FICTION) Psychology, Self-Improvement, Personal Growth. (FICTION) Family psychological dramas (like "Ordinary People") with such authors as LaVyrle Spencer, and suspense/horror, with the likes of Stephen King and Dean Koontz. Oh, and music books, of course! I have a zest for continuously educating myself (I am my own university!--- hey, THAT should be my headline!!) on any subject that interests me, to the point of total brain saturation!!!
MYSELF. (I am a survivor in many ways.)