Bands

There's been this list going around my friends' Facebook pages recently. It asks a bunch of questions about your musical tastes. Stuff like what band you think is overrated. Who do you regret not seeing in concert. What music is your guilty pleasure...

When I heard that Rush's Neil Peart had died I immediately felt sad. I knew one of rock's greatest drummers had been silenced forever.

Some of  my favorite singers and musicians are people like The Beatles, Loretta Lynn, REM, Hank Williams Sr, among several others.  I seem to really like bands that were broken up before I got to see them live, or.... that broke up before I was even born.

If there's one Hollywood cliche you can count on, it's that most actors are frustrated musicians deep down inside. While the majority will never have major commercial success like, say, Rick Springfield, Patrick Swayze or Jamie Foxx (go ahead and laugh, but they all had number one singles), many gamely pursue a side career in music for years without being noticed by anyone but their most hardcore