{"id":3089,"date":"2018-02-07T02:33:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T02:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/speaktherights.com\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2018-02-07T02:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T02:33:21","slug":"50-years-50-day-day-11-cant-write-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midwestfootballwriter.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"50 years in 50 day Day 11… Can’t Write to Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had to put The Moody Blues in.<\/p>\n

I was actually sitting here warming up my laptop and I thought, I have not listened to my one Alice Cooper CD is ages.\u00a0 I put it in and got through 5 of the ten songs and it did nothing to help me write.\u00a0 But now you know the Moody Blues fan who likes listening to Barry Manilow (if you have read earlier posts) also has Alice Cooper on the shelf.<\/p>\n

The music collection is pretty wide.\u00a0 Travis.\u00a0 Train.\u00a0 Fastball.\u00a0 Willie Nelson.\u00a0 Bill Anderson.\u00a0 Frank Sinatra.\u00a0 Davis Gilmour.\u00a0 The Byrds. The Platters.\u00a0 The Drifters.\u00a0 Boz Scaggs.\u00a0 David Foster.\u00a0 Alicia Keys.\u00a0 Dusty Springfield.<\/p>\n

Here is the teller…which music artists are represented most on my shelf?<\/p>\n

The Moody Blues:\u00a0 I have everything they have released.\u00a0 After The Moodies the top ten include:<\/p>\n

Bob Seger, Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, Asia, Huey Lewis and the News, Jimmy Buffett, Bruce Springsteen,\u00a0 The Beatles, Gordon Lightfoot, and Billy Joel.\u00a0 I probably have more Chicago than I think.\u00a0 Tim Krekel is also well represented, as he should be.<\/p>\n

What is not on my music shelf that you might think may be there?<\/p>\n

There is no Led Zepplelin.\u00a0 Won’t be. I have no Fleetwood Mac, though I enjoy hearing them on the radio.\u00a0 I have no REO Speedwagon.\u00a0 I have no Bon Jovi.\u00a0 I have no Journey.\u00a0 I have no Def Leppard (sp?).\u00a0 Aside from Hotel California, I was never a great Eagles fan.\u00a0 I really get a kick out of Joe Walsh though.\u00a0 I have no Bob Dylan,\u00a0 I have heard he is genius.\u00a0 I’d rather listen to Alice Cooper.\u00a0 I do stop in my tracks when I hear Dylan sing the song “Jokerman” and his songs “My Back Pages” by The Byrds and “I Don’t Want to Do It” by George Harrison are tops.\u00a0 But that is all the Dylan I want to listen to.\u00a0 Don’t tell me about a genius writing a line like “the sun’s not yellow it’s chicken”.\u00a0 I don’t want to hear that.<\/p>\n

Bob Seger is my American Rocker poet.\u00a0 I listened to him in a football locker room as a kid and I got it.\u00a0 “Against the Wind” is pure poetry.\u00a0 No one brought more personal sounds to the lyric like Bob Seger did.\u00a0 The sounds don’t seem to be looking for lyric approval.\u00a0 They\u00a0 fit .\u00a0 They are perfect together…Seger’s words and the music he puts together.<\/p>\n

John Mellencamp?\u00a0 I got a couple of his CDs but I don’t reach for them often.\u00a0 I don’t need to listen to Indiana when I am sitting here.<\/p>\n

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Those are my musical thoughts tonight.<\/p>\n

Speaking the RIghts…<\/p>\n

Danny Johnson<\/p>\n

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