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I-40 Soundtrack
This song will always remind me of seeing the Mojave desert and the beautiful state of Arizona for the first. While listening to this song over and over I realized how exciting it is to shake things up ever so often. "no looking in the rearview mirror - only through the windshield", Tracie King (...
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Rock God
Lets talk for a moment about Jack White...aka the greatest musician of our time. This man ranked #17 on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarist of all time, 17th!! He has what like 4 super groups, owns a record label, producers, stars in movies and is a dad. They just don't make musicians ...
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Being a Marine
The next three months were some of the most memorable times in my life. I have enough stories to tell my grandkids’ grandkids. Boot Camp was nothing like I imagined. And being a Marine was not exactly as I imagined. &nbs...
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Turtle Bandits Unite
When my sister, Lindsey, and I were teenagers, we had a rule that we would only listen to oldies in our car. It was a powder blue VW Rabbit. One time Lindsey drove us over to take some library books back to the return box. Don't we sound like sweet, angelic teens with our oldies radio and our lib...
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Sorry Sack
This isn't so much a story about a song... (frankly I just chose this song because it was the most ironic sorry sack song I could think of), but rather this is an attempt to figure out why people aren't reading my stories and giving me the coveted stars I so cherish.What's the deal?&n...
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Attention to detail.
I remember seeing Family Force 5, before they got poular. I was at The 10 High to see a friend's band perform. I was shocked to see a talented, energetic and well rehearsed band. The guys were on fire that night. I told a friend half-way through the set, these guys are ready for the national scen...
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Family Force 5 Christmas Pageant 12/4/09
Prayers answered, My best friend's dad offers to take us to the Family Force 5,er,4[bassist could not be there] concert,[because I did not have a ride],I order 5 of the remaing 18 tickets online, and a little over 24 hours later we're waiting to get into the do...
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Driving Back Home
I was driving home from Nashville, on my way to visit some friends, and had Tears for Fears blasting. My phone rang from a private number....now usually I wouldn't answer the call. But I decided to anyway. It was the VP of Nissan calling me to thank me for a job well done on a recent project! I w...
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Paris in the Spring
Soon after arriving from NYC to San Francisco, I was given the awesome opportunity to go to Midem in Cannes France. It was on that trip that I realized just how much the music business is shifting, how honored I was to be on company sponsored trip in FRANCE, how much I LOVE LOVE Paris, and finall...
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