music

Music and My Parents

I loved music. Still do. In my c-PTSD childhood, music and books were the escape. I first found rock and roll through the Chipmunks albums and the occasional tune on a children’s record (“Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter,” for instance). As I mentioned several months back, I found a radio on one ofContinue reading “Music and My Parents”

Geoff Tate/Queensryche

When I was a senior in high school, I was given a copy of Queensryche’s “Rage for Order,” and I was amazed. While everyone else was drooling over Metallica and Megadeth, which I listened to enough to be familiar with them, Queensryche did more for me. Then late my senior year, they released “Operation: Mindcrime,”Continue reading “Geoff Tate/Queensryche”

Music, especially rock music, has been a big part of my life. Huge. I found my way into rock at Lake Junaluska, NC, as I said in a previous post. It led me to everything else, and it left me with some specific songs that have nostalgic places of honor, even if I didn’t loveContinue reading “Music”

Heroes, Felons, and Fiends

This weekend is seriously a set of high holy days for me and a few hundred (thousand?) fans. Starting tonight, at Third and Lindsey in Nashville, The Floating Men will be playing again for three nights. They last played more than a decade ago. The last time I saw them was in June of 2006Continue reading “Heroes, Felons, and Fiends”

John Lennon

I was a preacher’s kid, grew up in the church. The family music collection was heavily the Gaithers on vinyl. My parents, much later, would discuss how they listened to a little Simon & Garfunkel. Mom remembers the song “Downtown” being big. In the last few weeks, I transcribed all of my parents’ love letters,Continue reading “John Lennon”