Building a Better Dave

While all the other songs on the radio were soft and fluffy, I found an album that had some of the heaviest music I had heard, and they were unapologetic. Yes, we play heavy music - it's no Fragile - Straight at you.  The Band was Bachman Turner Overdrive and the album was Not Fragile.  I think the album made a special impact on me as it wasn't second had music. It wasn't my brother or sister's mu...

While Queen's a Night at the Opera has hits like "Your My Best Friend" and "Bohemian Rhapsody " but the AMAZING song is The Prophet song and it somewhat gets overlooked because of Rhapsody, and it's a musical masterpiece in my opinion.  Here is a YouTube video of the prophet song.  A Night at the Opera on Spotify A Night at the Opera on Apple Here is a video about the making of the Prophet Song Th...

It's weird as a person in his fifties who loves technology. I find it cool, and it scares me to death.  Today I share a story about picking up a package the day after I delivered it at the Amazon pick-up center.

I have found when you start doing math to see if you can eat or afford something. When this happens you may be very close to doing something that you regret.  I saw the peloton bike and then read about the NordicTrack S22i which is "cheaper" but still an arm and a leg. However, if I cut out so many of the monthly payments I make to different sites and figured  I can now "afford" it.  The good news...

This is the album that introduced me to Randy Rhoads. Randy WAS MY DUDE. I LOVED the mixture of classic and heavy metal, and I learned every note on every record. It took me hours, but I did it.  When Randy died in 1982 it wrecked me. My hero was dead. I wore a black armband to school to show I was in mourning.  I found a clip on YouTube with Randy explaining how to play Revelation mother Earth, a...

I'm 11 years old in Mrs. Lewis' class who was the coolest teacher ever. Everyone had gone out to recess but me and my best friend grabbed the little record player and cranked it up to 10, and through the distorted speaker I head these things on the guitar called "Artificial Harmonics" come out of Ace Frehleys guitar.  We just kept playing the song "She" over, and over, and over.   Kiss Alive I on...

My first concert was the World Series of Rock July 28, 1979 [24] Aerosmith Ted Nugent Journey Thin Lizzy AC/DC Scorpions But I saw Angus Young and was like WHAT? and that lead me to buying a Gibson SG. I bought everything they did, and LET THERE BE ROCK where every song is great, and I just played the grooves off this album.  Let there be rock on YouTube Let there be Rock on Spotify

I saw a band open for Ozzy I had never heard of, and MAN WERE THEY HEAVY. I immediately went out to buy their album.  There was only one problem. My ears could not comprehend what I was hearing. At times it sounded like someone making fun of heavy metal.  It was so fast and the guitar solos sounded like a fax machine in heat. Metallica's Ride the Lightning was like nothing I had ever heard before.

In looking at 10 albums that changed my life, starting at number 10 is British Steel by Judas Priest. It was like nothing I had never heard of. It was HEAVY and it wasn't by accident.  The singer was amazing, and I loved the song Steeler that had about 90 seconds of the band playing one note at the end of the song. I loved that (in listening to it tonight, it's VERY hard not to play air guitar). ...

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Attention: There has been a shaving accident.  You gotta me kidding me.... Oh Geez... Hmmm.... Here we go.....

I had a second family in my early twenties. Post Mom, they were my cheerleaders, my support group, and all-around second family.  Over the years different insecure girlfriends steered me away, and we lost touch. With divorce number two under my belt, I had nothing stopping me from reconnecting. I had thought about it. I'll do it next time I'm in the neighborhood. I should call first. Why do we fee...

Thinking of the rubber bowl, and remembering some interesting times there.  It was a huge (for Akron) stadium

When I was a kid big acts like The Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Three Dog Night, Tom Petty, Aretha Franklin, and Ringo Starr came to a 35,000 seat stadium called the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio.   One band was the Osmonds and they left a memory that has me thinking of my Mother, and how Mom always knows what to do in any circumstance.

I watched the "Its the great pumpkin charlie brown" special as I do every year, and I was surprised at how scattered, and in general, "Not good" this special was. 

I'm going to try to put together 30 days straight for National Podcast Post Month  http://napodpomo.org/

It's weird how we remember things that hurt us in living color. These vivid memories never seem to fade away like old polaroid pictures.  I've shared some stories in the past that sound like pity parties, but today (realizing this) I wanted to share a really good time.    

Christians are known for being: Judgemental Disliking Homosexuality Asking for Money So when I see a church that pushes the stereotype it drives me nuts as none of the above is biblical.  Sure homosexuality is mentioned seven times in the bible, but poverty is mentioned 300 times, and lying is mentioned 155 times source https://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_times_is_the_word_lie_used_in_the_Bible htt...

So my ex-wife calls me and wants me to be an escort to a meetup party at a normally off-limits room at the House of Blues in Cleveland. This is one of those parties like "40 and Fabulous" or for me "Fat, Fifty, and Frisky" - you get the idea. I have no game. When I was young, I had no game. I played the guitar and that might get me some attention, but that's another podcast for another day. Now wi...

Download File I get to the airport hours before my plane leaves. I need to pee. The woman sitting next to me seems nice. Will she watch my stuff while I go to the bathroom? Yes she will, and this turned into a bond that has sharing opinions on her latest project....

So my friend Master Kuldryn invited me to go to a Dungeon in Orlando Florida. While I didn't originally want to go, a few of my friends decided it would be a hoot, and as an investigative reporter, I decided to support my friend and check out his world. I never had any intentions of participating in anything, and I didn't. The place we went to had no sex, no more nudity that you would see in a sea...

Download File I was in a meeting with some people preparing for a podcast roast. Last year they were roasting me, this year we're roasting John Lee Dumas. This made me reflect on where I was last year, and where I am this year. So I thought about: Weight Loss Dating Financial

Today at my church they are having a children's program. There is only one problem. We only have one child, and "Child's Program" doesn't roll off the tongue. Why would you have a children's program when you only have one? The only reason I can come to is that we've always done it that way. The church I go to came from a split church. It was awesome. We had probably 30 people in the choir. The mus...

I had a great time in Australia. I really miss those people I was asked to speak in Australia. This is one event that I had to pick up the ticket, and it was worth every penny.  I had to give up control I got to do new things I have never done I got to stand up for myself So many things in Australia can kill you, just like America...

My first time I ran into someone speaking in Tounges I was working as a Janitor for the church I was attending. It freaked me out.  I thought the guy was having a seizure. I started attending a different church, and they made it sound like I didn't have the holy spirit and I needed to have someone "lay hands" on me.  I was told growing up you do not have someone speak in tounges unless there was s...