Did Zeppelin nick a riff from Spirit, did Ray Charles kinda borrow a few gospel tunes from his church, did Little Richard rip off a dirty limerick, did Randy Bachman reverse a Zeppelin intro for American Woman and did most bands steal a lick or two from Chuck Berry, of course they all. Rock & Roll’s always needed a little extra help so the pilfering of a phrase from here or a borrowed lick from there never meant much to anybody because most folks realize that a few notes not a whole song makes. Unfortunately now that big money is involved it’s attracted the accountant sharks so do up your seat belts.
A FEW OTHER THINGS ON MY MIND…
I wonder whose validating the methodology that they are using to gather ratings today is valid.
Successful radio stations tend to play the tunes folks like more often than those they don’t.
Repetition begins the 2nd time you play a song your listeners don’t like.
Your best stories always come from your worst decisions.
I know lots of guys who aren’t sleeping around but I know of no beautiful woman who isn’t sleeping with one or more guys.
The word yes doesn’t need an explanation but the word no sure does.
Sometimes I just like to listen so I wonder how much it would cost to have Morgan Freeman come to your home and talk about whatever he wants for about an hour.
Our Prez seems reluctant to admit that there may be some bad Muslims but recent events would suggest that there are. So in trying to sort out the good from the bad, are the good ones OK with gay people?
It’s what we think about something that makes it good or bad.
Everybody loves to hang around with the person who is the life of the party which makes me wonder why there aren’t more of them.
Even though I have a problem with doing things for the greater good I have an even bigger problem with whomever it is that chooses what the greater good is.
Winners don’t have to play by the rules because by the time the rules are in place it’s already too late.
The first time you realize that somethings are better off left unsaid is usually right after you’ve said them.
The secret to success is to simply pursue it.
Isn’t weird that overtime how the people you’ve cut the most checks for seem to like you the least.
When I turned 21 my father said that I was now in charge of the family name and he didn’t care what I did with it. Now that I’ve reached the age where I also no longer care this may be a tradition that ends here. The only strong people in our family now are the females and why would they give a s**t.
Only fathers understand why their sons need to go to war, mothers don’t so I think that they should be in charge.
So who do we have to call to tell whomever that we don’t need or want Arab oil.
Only the losers are ever charged with war crimes.
As George Burns once asked, is it still premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.
Unfortunately the knowledge of what you should have done when you were young only shows up when you’re old.
You really never think much about how you are living until people close to you start dying.
Staying silent is a hell of a lot easier than speaking up.
When you dream there are no rules so you can do anything and everything.
The possibility of failure is a great motivator.
How weird was that, not watching GOT!
If we finally convince the young to stop bothering us with their revolutionary ideas, what then.
With men it’s about what we did, with women it’s about why we did it.
Seeing as a lot of marriages end up like a business shouldn’t an exit plan be put together before the wedding so that somebody besides the lawyers get some money at the close of business.
Wow Kevin Durant to the Warriors lets do the ring ceremony right now and get it out of the way.
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