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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Disturbing the Peace

With Disturbed.




The band Disturbed was in town last week to celebrate the release of their new CD 10,000 fists, and sign autographs for WRIF listeners at the Madison Heights Best Buy.

The band is very excited about the new CD, and they are looking forward to playing a show (or 2?) here in Royal Oak in November.


6:15 PM


WRIF Fantasy Football week 3

After 3 weeks there is only 1 undefeated team, Tiny Tim's "Shacktown Droogies" who put up a ridiculous 128 points with Tomlinson, Steve Smith and Carson Palmer leading the way.

I lost by .02 points. YES POINT 02. That sucks! Now I'm 2-1 on the season and I'm in 4th place and facing the "KDL16" team who is in 10th next.

In the WRIF friends and family league, Arthur P. is in 1st, Sabrina (my wife) is in 2nd, both are 3-0. I'm in 3rd place and for the second week in a row had the highest score (Tiebreaker) so I have the most total points in the league. Sabrina's friend Marti Martin is in 4th.

Mike Staff is 6th, Mark Pennington is 9th, Sparky (WRIF Promotions) is 10th, and Ken (Promotions as well) is in dead last at 0-3.
5:57 PM

Friday, September 23, 2005
Music Mentors

















Wednesday evening was the first day of guitar lessons for a group of kids at Gilda’s Club in Royal Oak. I work with a charity group called "Music Mentors", together with the Detroit Blues society, we were able to help out some kids who’s lives have been touched by cancer.

Guilda’s Club is a wonderful place that provides lots of opportunities to anyone who has been affected by cancer, weather the disease has affected you one of your parents, siblings or spouse, Gilda’s club gives you a chance to learn, live and interact with others in your situation.

Music Mentors is focusing on teaching kids about music and positive effects music has on our lives. From teaching the technical side of recording to guitar lessons for first timers!

The Detroit Blues Society provided the guitars to the kids.

Gordie O’Shea from "Spider in a Jar" is our volunteer guitar instructor.

As you can see the kids enjoyed their free guitars, and free lesson, the first in a series of 10.
9:49 AM

Monday, September 19, 2005
My little pets.


I have mentioned before that Sabrina and I like to spend time out side. Both of us garden, I grow the vegies and she takes care of the flowers and herbs.

As any good gardener will tell you, bug control is key, and nothing controls bugs like this preying mantis here. What make this guy so special is that we hatched him (or her).

I bought a mantis egg this year at the farmers market and hatched about 150 of these woderful bug eating aliens. Even so it is pretty rare to see one, they are very well camouflaged, but I saw this one climbing on a sunflower stalk, and snapped a (blurry) photo.

Black out.


11:44 PM

Saturday, September 17, 2005
Billy Idol Concert

It was great to finally see Steve Stevens in concert. Billy Idol closed out the concert season at Freedom Hill last night with an all around good time WRIF concert. As you can see I snaped a couple of photos at the show.

The real thrill for me was seeing Steve Stevens (Billy’s long time guitarist). Steve has played with a ton of bands, including Robert Palmer & Michael Jackson; He has also released 2 solo CDs along the way. Don't worry guitar freaks, I did get some Chop Shop footage with Mr. Stevens and it will air on the weekend of October 7th.

The crowd was big and excited. And the song selection included all the hits, as well as my 2 favorites "Blue Highway" and "Flesh for Fantasy".

The next big show for me will be SOAD and the Mars Volta at the Joe on the 29th. See you there.


Black Out.



11:39 AM

Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Week 1 was pretty good

Lions win!, and I got 2 out of 3 in Fantasy Football. I have a friends and co-workers league (BFFL) which is in it's 5th season. I'm in my 2nd year with a league lovingly referred to as the "Mafia" league, and I just started this WRIFFFL 'RIF listeners league.

In the WRIFFFL I got a week one win over Teacher Tom (Mangoes) who had a poor outing from his WRs. With just 44 points I'm in 6th place. Dawg Pound had a huge week thanks to Kerry Collins, Jimmy Smith & Cory Dillon and is in 1st overall.

I'll be out this week on Thursday at Century Dodge, giving away a key to "Super Charged Sunday" a Dodge Charger and tickets to the Super Bowl.

Friday, I'll be hosting the Billy Idol concert at Freedom Hill.

Black Out.
8:26 AM

Saturday, September 10, 2005
A nice weekend, Go Lions!


Things have been pretty busy recently. I've been talking with Chop Shop Clothing Company about making some Chop Shop t-shirts, and I hope to have some within the next month. I've also been looking at adding a couple more stations to the Chop Shop roster this month!

The weather has been (and is supposed to be) perfect this weekend. It might be our last blast of 80+ degrees for the summer. My garden is loving the weather, but you can tell fall is on the way. The Tomatos have been great all sommer and the cucumbers as well, but I think this weekend was the final harvest for my green beans.
I'll be making my home made turkey chili this weekend as well with home grown green peppers and onions.

Go Loins! (photo of me and Eddie Drummund) I actualy get to go to the game this year. Last season EVERY home game fell on a Sunday at 1pm, and that conflicts with my WRIF air shift, but this season the Lions open at home with a 4:15 kickoff. So I'll be on the air from noon to 3, as well as Drew and Mike who will be on the air form the Lions pre-game party at Vivio’s. Then I'll drive down there to Eastern Market as well and head on over for the game. See you there.

Black out.
2:17 PM

Thursday, September 01, 2005
If you had to choose?
There is a great "Extra" scene on the Pulp Fiction DVD where Vincent and Mrs. Wallace discuss the issue of, "are you an Elvis man or a Beatles man". It turns out that both prefer Elvis, if they had to choose.

With the Stones show just in town I was reminded that there are several one or the other bands, so here are my picks:

Elvis or the Beatles: I have huge respect for both, but I'm not crazy about either. Having said that I'd still go Beatles all the way.

Rolling Stones or The Who: The Who, I have a few Stones albums but none of them mean as much to me as my Who CDs.

Iron Maiden/Judas Priest: This is tuff, both bands would be in my top 30 of all-time, but if I had to choose, I'd go Iron Maiden.

Soundgarden/Pearl Jam: Please, Soundgarden by a mile!

Nirvana/Foo Fighters: I vote Foo Fighters.

Eric Clapton or Stevie Ray Vaughan: Clapton wins my respect for versatility and longevity, but most of the time I'd rather listen to SRV.

Steve Vai/Joe Satriani: Both! I think Steve has given us a wider variety of music and it speaks directly to me as well as just about anything I can think of, So I'll go Vai

Zeppelin/Sabbath: again both would be in my top 30, but Zeppelin had more variety, and better musicians at each position. Give me Led Zeppelin

Black out.
7:17 PM



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