Killswitch vs. The Eagles

My friend Jim created this great video for one of my most favorite bands, Killswitch Engage. This video took months of painstaking work but it is awesome. I have to admit that I haven't listened to Killswitch in quite a while - my favorite song is "Your Days are Numbered" from their first cd and they've since switched singers, I've moved, my life has changed, I haven't seen a rock show in years.... basically, I find that I listen to music that supports my state of mind at the time. Since I'm not out in the rock scene anymore and I don't seem to have that same emo-rock dramatic epic-ness to my life like I did years ago, KE doesn't quite fit. But hey, I'm on to other music now. Been listening to a lot of Eagles. Not sure why. Maybe it's that 'Peaceful Easy Feeling.." :)

I'm so excited that Bret Michaels won Celebrity Apprentice! I knew there had to be a brain under that headband. Seriously though, I do remember going to see Poison - oh it was probably 1987? And I had hair up to there and it was awesome. My friend Chuck pretty much idolized Poison. Too bad he bore a resemblance closer to the drummer than to Bret. But the hair was there. He had it and he bleached it. AND he had the pins - all the Poison pins a man could wear on a super cool jean jacket. Thank god he stopped at the makeup - maybe a little eyeliner, but that was it. We went to the show outside Cleveland - the old Agora maybe? And Chuck new all the tricks about finding out where the band was. We stalked their tour bus, we hung out by the back door of the club. We didn't see the band, but it was still pretty eye-opening to be out there with the 'rest of the groupies.' I was sorely out of my league. I didn't have the goods to be even considered (did I even know what that really meant??) but I was impressed by drive and the ambition of these professional groupies. Who am I to judge. I guess pick a vocation and go with it, right?