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RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n

TWO photos this week! The recent passing of Eddie Van Halen had me remembering the time I saw them in concert. I was a HUGE Van Halen fan, and because I was in radio, I was able to contact the concert promoter and arrange to give away VH swag on my show. In addition, I acquired a backstage pass for myself in the process. At the time I was really into David Lee Roth, but after the concert was over he took off. So I never got to meet him. However, Eddie and Michael were hanging out to the side of the stage watching the roadies disassemble the stage. I sat there chatting with both of them and had them sign my backstage pass. Good memories. I was 19 and Eddie was 25. And check the date on the pass! This week marks 40 years ago to the day that the concert happened! Wow, time really flies!<\/p>\n

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Last week, I put a song on my moonrise video that I found stuck in an obscure folder on my computer. I’m not even sure where it came from. It was labeled as something else but after listening it turned out to be an instrumental by The Beatles called “Flying.”<\/span> It was a little different from the released version as if it were a remix and had an odd jazzy carnival sounding ending in it. I ran it by my pal, webmaster and longtime Beatle fan, Scott Sebring who figured it was an alternate take from a bootleg and he managed to find it. The carnival music ending was actually a looped sound that came out of an instrument called a Mellotron that one of The Beatles was fiddling with while they were running through the song. I don’t know how I ended up with this version but it’s catchy!<\/p>\n