Unfortunately, though, your life will go by in a flash, as mine has.
So seeing as the thing most rockers have in common is a guitar, I bought one just like Buddy Holly’s.
Unfortunately, the money wasn’t great, so even though we had the #1 Canadian record on the charts when my daughter Candis was born, I left The Jury for the radio business.
After becoming a radio guy, I moved around a lot and never thought much about my band days until I got an invitation to attend the reunion of all the ’60s bands at the Winnipeg Convention Center.
The scariest moment of the night, though, was when Randy and Burton strapped a Strat on me and pushed me out on stage to join the rest of the Jury, who were laughing their asses off.
However, I did manage to tell a stagehand to make sure my guitar was turned off if he wanted to make it through the night.
Then the strangest thing happened, as Terry hit the intro of our first record, “Until You Do,” my hands knew exactly what to do.
After twenty years of not playing my guitar, I had no idea even what the chord progressions were, but there I was playing them, and it was the last time I was ever on stage.
(To view some of what went on that night, click the link at the bottom of the Blog.)
GEO’S LIFE-LINERS.
Radio Consultant Tracy Johnson said that Kidd Kraddick told him that he gave up some of his funniest stuff to his co-workers because it didn’t match his image.
The folks listen to the radio for 227 minutes every week. Can you even imagine what it would be if it was any good?
Your actual value is measured by how many people became successful because of your success?
If you want to accomplish something, you’ll find a way, or you’ll find an excuse.
Making magic memories is what our life’s mission should be all about.
We all respect that which we cannot do.
The Loss of your word is the biggest loss of all.
Marriage makes no financial sense to a man.
Little girls are fun and easy to make happy, but they become almost impossible as soon as they turn into women.
Why is it that the not-so-good-looking women are the ones who complain about men hitting on them, whereas the beautiful ladies never mention it?
Do women stop being naughty when the moment they no longer can conceive, or were they never naughty?
If the ladies really do like sensitive men the best, why do they always go home from the party with a Clint Eastwood type?
The only women I can handle attitude from are my daughters, and even that’s rather tough.
The government is the same as it’s always been, but unfortunately for them, we, the people, are smarter.
Before escaping to Canada, you may want to consider this, the far right is a little bit left of center.
Is it just me, or do all the presidents, upon leaving office, live like and near all the people they railed against?
Telling me what’s wrong with this picture pays a dollar an hour but fixing it pays a thousand.
If you can’t change the situation, then it is you who must change.
NFL kneelers ain’t gonna get the police’s attention; only what threatens their pensions can do that.
(For a little taste of what went on at the band reunion in Winnipeg, click on the links below.)
Jed Duval: It may be that after F.D.R., the only Presidents who left office and lived without the trappings of wealth were Harry S Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. They would occasionally give speeches, but I don’t think they received much other than their pensions. Of course, Eisenhower’s military pension was much more than Truman’s.
Ken Barnett: Good read, as usual, George. The part about your career going by in a flash is one of the truest things ever said!
Geo: And it did Ken!
Mine did too!
I just don’t look in the mirror anymore, Ken.