I did this using a computer and a MIDI interface to trigger an Alesis D-4 16 bit drum module, then overlaid the guitar tracks on a Yamaha 4 track MD recorder. The bass line was a triggered Technics keyboard that Exodus (a long story) provided.
I like to refer to my MIDI drummer as the “electric monkey”. You can’t do it without one in real time if they don’t show up when you need one in the first place. So there you go.
INeed2 is the file name. The Lyrics are HERE

Ya I know, I must have had way to much free time on my hands at some point in history. And yes, I have given up on trying to sing. But that’s a whole different story, and best left for another day.

I don’t put a whole lot time or effort into this site. And thats all because of the time constraints of the “life” thing in general. I know, it sounds like I’m saying that the dog ate my homework, but it is what it is.
Anyhow, I was notified on the evening of my wifes birthday (the 13th of February) that my mother was in dire straits and close to death. I said a final prayer for her and knew instantly that she had passed on. I recieved a phone call 5 minutes later that confirmed it.

(Not sure who I grabbed this picture from, but thanks)

She was a wonderful lady and will be missed by all eight of her son’s and daughter’s.

Due to mitigating circumstances I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ll explain later, but in the mean time, have some music, it just might make you feel better.
Slow Ride–Kenny Wayne Shepherd. A tribute to our men in the blue…

Thanks for the submission Russ. Senator McCain is the proverbial fox in the hen house. He just dressed like a chicken to get the job done IMO, but that’s typical of a lot of politicians these days. Thanks to the nanny state way of thinking I’m sitting here having to puff on a crappy tasting cigarette that is fire safe, and goes out if I don’t feel like constantly puffing on it. We have a problem Houston, and John McCain probably won’t help the situation.

Entertaining Considerations
by Russ Vaughn

I was afraid this was going to happen when McCain started coming on stronger in the primaries. To an even greater extent than John Kerry, John McCain possesses the ability to politically divide American veterans more than any other presidential candidate. With Kerry, a key determinant of which way veterans’ loyalties fell was party affiliation. I’m sure there were many liberal Democrat veterans, particularly Vietnam veterans, who held their noses and supported a man they viscerally disliked because he was their party’s candidate and represented their overall liberal positions. It was easy for those of us who were politically conservative Vietnam vets to take a hard, unrelenting stand against the man we knew had smeared us because he was the candidate of the party whose positions we opposed.

Today, this division among veterans in general and Vietnam veterans in particular has been turned by McCain’s candidacy into a family fight among Republican veterans that threatens our already diminished prospects for victory in November. While virtually all of us admire and respect McCain’s military service and POW sacrifice, there are millions of us who feel that is simply not enough for him to be able to command our political loyalties four decades later. Setting aside the fact that McCain sided with John Kerry in 2004 and denounced those of us who dared to question Kerry’s very questionable war record, there are many reasons why we do not see John McCain as being someone we can trust to represent the mainstream views of the Republican party. I will spare you a Sean Hannity, rapid-fire recitation of the litany of McCain’s transgressions against his own party because I think there is a single issue far more compelling.

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Push always comes to shove at some point. Jackyl is one of my favorite red neck rock and roll bands.
Have some elevator music America, it’ll do you some good…..

Click on the YouTube button’s below to check it out for yourself.

“Push” the button….

“I Stand Alone” is a good one also……

So be it. We’re active participant’s in either case, so what you see is what you get. Illusion. Meet. Reality.

by J. R. Nyquist
Weekly Column Published: 02.01.2008

After two decades the West has been thoroughly duped; its leaders manipulated, blackmailed, swindled to a point that overt hostile moves by the Russian military, or scathing threats from the Russian president, produces no meaningful reaction. We all know that Russian agents unleashed radioactive poison on the streets of London. British officials believe that Andrei Lugovoy was Putin’s henchman in the matter. And now, with hardly a squeak from so many political pips, Lugovoy is a member of the Russian parliament with full legal immunity. In a recent interview with Megan Stack, published in the 27 January Los Angeles Times, Lugovoy said: “I don’t believe the Cold War is back. It has never ended.”

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H/T to Matt Wilson at 1913Intel for the link.

Washington, D.C. — In the movie The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s little terrier, Toto, pulls aside a curtain to reveal that the awesome “wizard” is really a little man frantically pulling levers to create an illusion of power. Moscow is not quite the “Emerald City,” but Vladimir Putin is certainly acting like the wizard — and seems intent on trying to re-create the “Iron Curtain.” Worse still, leaders here in the United States and in Western Europe appear to be as fearful as Dorothy’s craven lion in looking at what is really going on behind the curtain.

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