Pop-friendly dance tracks, fully-deciphered for the millennially-impaired (approved by the Big Bad Baby Boomer Board BBBBB). Not responsible for the "Huh?"s and😱s from those under 20.
I'm picturing you, Brad, with a hip, modern haircut and stylishly unstyled clothes, carrying a skateboard, hanging with the homies. Kind of like Zoolander meets Steve Buscemi in 30 Rock.
Yes...that's hilarious...to a point you can't possibly imagine! In the late '80s, when I was youth minister at a southern L.A. county Lutheran church (you know the Southland....'twas Cerritos), I managed to accrue a small army of neighborhood skater teens, who would come to our parking lot to grind, ollie, and kickflip (oh, and they'd also do skateboard tricks)....they eventually came to know a lot of my youth groupers (I know, tiny fish, right?!?😉), and started coming to Wednesday youth nights.
As I got to know them (and borrowed one of their boards), I realized, at 32, I could ride pretty well! I took about 3 or 4 of them to the local skate shop, and told them money was no object: Build me your dream board....and, they picked out for me ('cause what do I know about parts?) all the components: the Vision board, trucks, grip tape, wheels...the whole schmeer! So, for a year or two, I rode with my posse!
We went to several of the skate parks around the county, and even shot our own skate videos at night at certain vacated company parking garages. They were well-lit and empty, and they had long ramps....I could go fast and straight (I never fell!!), and just had no use to try all the tricks. It was enough for me to ride fast enough to keep up with my boyz, and turn!
So, that Buscemi gif is more on-point than you could have realized! "How do you do, fellow kids?" is, if not something I DID say, it's something I could've said with no problem! And, the generic "Music Band" shirt is a scream, too! I turned them all on to spoonerisms, and found a shirt in a catalog I bought for half-a-dozen of my lads. It said, "Dain-Bramaged." They loved it!
There are a couple fabulous music stories involving my core 5 or 6 youth group homie/doods and myself. They'll pop up probably in an eventual GOLD PASS post (a shameless plug to free subscribers reading this.....UPGRADE TO PAID--EITHER MONTHLY OR ANNUALLY--AND, ALONG WITH ALL THE USUAL FR&B POSTS, YOU'LL GET TWO EXLCLUSIVE GOLD PASS POSTS, AVAILABLE NOWHERE ELSE)!
Pop -friendly dance tracks...was this written by an ai? What have you done with Brad? Of course, I jest. You are much more diverse than I in your musical tastes. If I don't hear an electric guitar, I'm out of here. Nome Sain?
HA! "Who are you, and what have you done with Brad?" I love it! I just left this message on a FB power pop group (in effect): "I have seen the future of pop and power pop...and it lies in the capable hands of SG Lewis and Roosevelt!" I hear Eddie Trunk's rants about the dearth of rock in the Hall of Fame, and being completely ignored at the Grammys, and "where are the rock songs today?" and I certainly can't disagree.
But, rather than (just) curse the Fender-less darkness, I've chosen to hunt, far and wide, the songwriters and purveyors of the new generation of riveting pop songs. A lot of dreck, granted, has to be pored thru and over to find 'em, but Lewis and (the best, in my opinion) Marius Lauber (Roosevelt) are worth their weight in thumb drives and USB ports! And, Nome Sain? Yep! And, he's pretty good, too!
wow i had no idea Infatuation was co-written with TEED - makes sense though with how good of a song it is! seconded on it sounding like Yr Love, i'd forgotten about that gem for a minute! handing you the A&R hat too, Lifetime is definitely single worthy.
And, it feels good to have made that assessment on "Lifetime" BEFORE finding that "Tonight Show" video!! Me and SG....workin' together! Thanks, wing! You're the best!
I'm picturing you, Brad, with a hip, modern haircut and stylishly unstyled clothes, carrying a skateboard, hanging with the homies. Kind of like Zoolander meets Steve Buscemi in 30 Rock.
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Hope that opens for you....
Yes...that's hilarious...to a point you can't possibly imagine! In the late '80s, when I was youth minister at a southern L.A. county Lutheran church (you know the Southland....'twas Cerritos), I managed to accrue a small army of neighborhood skater teens, who would come to our parking lot to grind, ollie, and kickflip (oh, and they'd also do skateboard tricks)....they eventually came to know a lot of my youth groupers (I know, tiny fish, right?!?😉), and started coming to Wednesday youth nights.
As I got to know them (and borrowed one of their boards), I realized, at 32, I could ride pretty well! I took about 3 or 4 of them to the local skate shop, and told them money was no object: Build me your dream board....and, they picked out for me ('cause what do I know about parts?) all the components: the Vision board, trucks, grip tape, wheels...the whole schmeer! So, for a year or two, I rode with my posse!
We went to several of the skate parks around the county, and even shot our own skate videos at night at certain vacated company parking garages. They were well-lit and empty, and they had long ramps....I could go fast and straight (I never fell!!), and just had no use to try all the tricks. It was enough for me to ride fast enough to keep up with my boyz, and turn!
So, that Buscemi gif is more on-point than you could have realized! "How do you do, fellow kids?" is, if not something I DID say, it's something I could've said with no problem! And, the generic "Music Band" shirt is a scream, too! I turned them all on to spoonerisms, and found a shirt in a catalog I bought for half-a-dozen of my lads. It said, "Dain-Bramaged." They loved it!
There are a couple fabulous music stories involving my core 5 or 6 youth group homie/doods and myself. They'll pop up probably in an eventual GOLD PASS post (a shameless plug to free subscribers reading this.....UPGRADE TO PAID--EITHER MONTHLY OR ANNUALLY--AND, ALONG WITH ALL THE USUAL FR&B POSTS, YOU'LL GET TWO EXLCLUSIVE GOLD PASS POSTS, AVAILABLE NOWHERE ELSE)!
Pop -friendly dance tracks...was this written by an ai? What have you done with Brad? Of course, I jest. You are much more diverse than I in your musical tastes. If I don't hear an electric guitar, I'm out of here. Nome Sain?
HA! "Who are you, and what have you done with Brad?" I love it! I just left this message on a FB power pop group (in effect): "I have seen the future of pop and power pop...and it lies in the capable hands of SG Lewis and Roosevelt!" I hear Eddie Trunk's rants about the dearth of rock in the Hall of Fame, and being completely ignored at the Grammys, and "where are the rock songs today?" and I certainly can't disagree.
But, rather than (just) curse the Fender-less darkness, I've chosen to hunt, far and wide, the songwriters and purveyors of the new generation of riveting pop songs. A lot of dreck, granted, has to be pored thru and over to find 'em, but Lewis and (the best, in my opinion) Marius Lauber (Roosevelt) are worth their weight in thumb drives and USB ports! And, Nome Sain? Yep! And, he's pretty good, too!
wow i had no idea Infatuation was co-written with TEED - makes sense though with how good of a song it is! seconded on it sounding like Yr Love, i'd forgotten about that gem for a minute! handing you the A&R hat too, Lifetime is definitely single worthy.
And, it feels good to have made that assessment on "Lifetime" BEFORE finding that "Tonight Show" video!! Me and SG....workin' together! Thanks, wing! You're the best!