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gotta play to play! Have fun with it..be creative. I pick Baltic... its close to work, I never have to pay income tax. Ill have 3 houses. One for me, a guest house, and an Air BnB. Far enough from the jail and the bad side of town and far enough from railroads that I wont hear a train but dont need to go far for travel.

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#sicart #jazz #jazzart #concertposter #subwaystation #metro second poster art concept for this show in 2016. Bringing NYC and DC musically together

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10 posts! Dedicated to Cat

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In 1971, Black Sabbath was suffering from writers block while trying to record their 3rd upcoming release, Masters Of Reality. They enlisted the help of then unknown New York go-go dancer and aspiring singer, Debbie Harry. Their partnership only lasted a few months, although talks were made about her becoming the fifth member of Black Sabbath but Ms Harry's refusal to dye her hair black caused irreparable damage between her and Ozzy. Although this is an unknown part of music history, evidence of this partnership has been in plain view for decades. Take a listen to the first 45 seconds of the Sabbath song "Children Of The Grave", and then listen to the first 45 seconds of the Blondie song "Call me".. Your "WTF" moment for the day will have been made

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A Sic Mind turned 2 today!

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i couldve been worse with this. #communion #scandals #lettuceprey

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All The World’s a KISS Stage (well, it should be...)

Im not alone in thinking that the greatest picture ever taken in rock and roll history is the picture that is the gatefold of the 1977 double album KISS “Alive 2″. This picture totally defines what it would be like to see KISS in concert. I have been to thousands of concerts and none will ever surpass my first KISS concert two years after this iconic photo was taken. I have a numbered and signed print of this photo (by the photographer), waiting for the right frame to put it in.

now, Im very aware that this photo is staged. it did NOT happen during a show, but I can tell you that ALL OF THAT PHOTO HAPPENED IN THEIR CONCERTS!! It happened when they started in 74, and if you go to a KISS concert today, this photo will come to life. Excitiement like this photo is what I look for in concerts I see today. Some bands do know how to put on a stage show...Rush, Pink Floyd, Flaming Lips . In fact, 5 months after my first KISS live experience, I saw Parliment/Funkadelic who learned from KISS on how to make a concert stage work with great music.

So, it got me thinking...what if KISS and their stage show were a part of every other artists’ concert. The WORST concert I have ever attended was Crosby, Stills and Nash. You know why?? here...

look at that!! How boring is THAT! Seriously, I know they are icons and all that but..what propells people to shell out a ton of money just to see 3 guys under three spotlights strumming on a guitar? Now, if they even had just one member of KISS on that stage, or a tiny explosion..WOW!! That would take it up another notch. So ASICMIND is proud to present to you some unearthed nuggets of music history...artists that have influenced KISS, or were influenced by KISS at some point in their career.

We all know James Brown was the godfather of soul, but did you know that he was also the godfather of Gene Simmons? Thats right. And on several occasions, back in the early years of KISS, you would see James Brown front and center at a KISS concert. And Gene would always give him his propers ( thats what is was called back then..propers...look it up). Gene would say, “I’d like to dedicate this one to the godfather of my soul, James Brown...this is Black Diamond”. It was at these shows that Gene got the idea for crazy dance moves for KISS.

Both Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley will tell you that when they started KISS, they wanted to be The Beatles. They wated to be BIGGER than The Beatles. Both bands were a quartet, made up of a bassist and a guitarist that seemed to be the leaders, and a second guitarist and a drummer who contributed their fair share (although Gene will argue that all the way to court about Peter and Ace). KISS had to make themselves different from The Beatles. The makeup, the outrageous costumes, the fire breathing, bloodspitting, and 2 hour pyrotechnic extravaganza of a show didnt set them apart enough from The Beatles. What did they do? They tried out a fifth member to join KISS that just so happened to be a big influence on The Beatles. Needless to say, Ravi Shankar didnt cut it because he just sat there.

In 1968, Tiny Tim peaked with his rendition of “Tip Toe Thru The Tulips”, his number one hit that only charted at number seventeen. It was his staple. He was only known for that song and playing the ukulele. He wasnt even tiny! He was over 6 feet tall! After years of touring for that one song, he finally decided to change it up a bit in 76 by hiring KISS and the whole stage show to back him on his “1776-1976 Ukulele States Of America” World Tour. He died of a heart attack 20 years later.

Everyone thinks that it was comic Sam Kinison that merged comedy and hard rock. There had always been comedians that blended music into their act. Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, The Smothers Brothers..all acts that incorprated wholesome music with their comedy to give their joke an added punchline, if the music itself wasnt the joke. Richard Pryor, on the other hand, had another idea. His “That Ni**ers Crazy” tour featured a hard rock backing band consisting of four guys in whiteface wearing S&M clothing...who were they? You guessed it...

 1979 brought change for KISS. They had just released the album “Dynasty” which saw KISS “progress” with the music industry by recording a disco song, “I Was Made For Lovin You”. While it did suprisingly well on the charts, it didnt fair well with most of their fans, and The KISS Army was dwindling down to cub scout status. They tried a number of things... Im not sure why they agreed to back Frank Sinatra on a tour, but they were fired after the second performance when Gene got blood on Sinatras tuxedo.

Nobody tours like Loretta Lynn. She has one tour bus just for herself, a second tour bus for her dresses and three pick-up trucks for her band. One tour, Loretta Lynn was traveling from a show in Fargo, North Dakota to the next evenings show in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her bus and the bus full of her dresses arrive the next afternoon at the venue but the pick up trucks werent there. She figured they had stopped to eat (as it was a Wednesday, the day Loretta lets you eat), but as showtime was approaching a few hours later, the band still hadnt arrived. Well, as her opening act started to play, about twelve 18 wheelers pull up. It was the crew of KISS and they were playing the next night. She politely asked the crew if any of them could play country. None of them could, but they said Paul and Gene always blasted her music on the tour bus and they were coming to see the show. Maybe KISS could be your backup band. Sure enough, when the 5 stretch limos arrived to bring the four members of KISS to the show, they heard the news and agreed to not only perform, but let her use their stage. It was a magical night. The photo shows the exact moment she realized what happened to the band. “Oh my God, they ran out of gas because I forgot to give them their per diem!”.

“Cant Touch Kiss” was the working title for MC Hammer, as he was a huge KISS fan back in the day. One night, Hammer was watching a KISS show from side stage. They started playing “I Was Made For Lovin You”, and Hammer couldnt help himself. He came flying out on the stage, parachute pants and all, and started dancing. After the show, Gene pulled him aside and said “If you ever pull a stunt like that again, or try and use our name in a song, Ill sue your ass so fast, you’ll be broke before you reach triple platinum”...and, now you know what happened to MC Hammer.

Believe it or not, for all of their evil “devil music” and demonic stage shows, their biggest hit was a ballad by drummer Peter Criss, “Beth”, a song with vocals, piano, and a string section. When “Beth” was performed, Peter would come out and sit on a stool and throw roses out to the ladies in the crowd while he sang against a backing music track. One night the band wanted to mix it up a bit. They re-arranged “Beth” to be done by the four members, and Gene called his old buddy from Hebrew School, Barbara Streisand, to come sit in on the one song. She agreed, but only if she could make some changes. That night, and only that night, the song “Beth” became known as “Babs”.

If you have ever seen or heard an interview with Gene Simmons, he is all about the swagger..he is all about being cool. He is cool  when flying 50 feet in the air and blood flowing from his mouth. He thinks he invented cool, so much so that he tried to trademark the word “cool”. He was denied because another artist, Miles Davis, already had it. Gene invited Miles to a KISS show. Miles arrived with his trumpet and walked out on stage unannounced. Gene ran over to him and whispered, “Miles my man, I only invited you to watch, not play”. Miles looked at him and said, “dude, shut the fuck up start playin “Love Gun”. Thats my jam”.

Charlie Daniels wrote the song “Devil Went Down To Georgia” based on seeing a KISS concert in Dahlonega, Georgia. He truly thought that they were the band brought there by Satan himself. Years later, Charlie Daniels still tours with that song being the only one anyone ever recognizes. He makes more money from jukebox residuals than touring. Now with YouTube and all, who needs jukeboxes, so this past year he was invited by Paul Stanley to perform “Devil Went Down to Georgia” at that same venue in Dahlonega. No shocker hear, Paul played the part of the devil. Not sure how they got a stripper pole on that small stage.

A few years ago, KISS was finally inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (RRHOF) One of the traditions at the award ceremony is to have someone who was very influenced by, or influential to the nominee introduce them at the award cerfemony and perform with them.. Well that list was too long to pick one person, so the committee pondered on it. Who or what means the most to KISS? The answer...money. At this point during the meeting, the secretary of the RRHOF had just left the room to take a call about her sons babysitter being sick so she had to leave and pick up the boy from the bus stop. Not asking what else was said in the meeting, she went ahead and booked Eddie Money to play with KISS at the ceremony. To this day, KISS doesnt even know why but they made the best of it... Eddie Money blew a blood vessel that night.

Today, KISS is still a major influence all over the performing arts. Even the cast of the broadway sensation “Hamilton” has special once a month matinee performance with KISS as the pit band.

..and even Paul Stanley is a huge “Hamilton” fan..

Today, THE hottest ticket is Adele. No band on stage, no pyro, just ...her...and that voice... people are paying thousands to see her/hear her. but..she knows... she gets it.. she needs to figure out something to boost that stage. Well, she is on the right track.. recently she got former KISS guitarist, Vinnie Vincent who has been a recluse and not been seen in years to come and play guitar for her. He asked if he could wear the makeup and outfit for old times sake. She said, “Sure, as long as you dont spill me coffee, mate”.

Get it?

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Last night, I was watching the end of Rocky 3. The final round is one of the best fight scenes ever, where Rocky and Clubber Lang go toe to toe for one final round until Rocky lands a killer punch and they both fall to the mat. In a race for the belt, Rocky gets up off the mat before the 10 count and takes back his championship status. Feel good story right? Well, as I watched the celebration it occurred to me.. even though its movie magic, that round felt too long. So I rewound it, and timed the round with a stopwatch. And as I watched both, I noticed that.. maybe Im wrong.. 3 minutes is just longer than I thought. Then.. I witnessed the injustice. The final punch from Rocky came a good TWO SECONDS after the bell shouldve rang. It was a late punch. Now, we cant say for sure how the judges would've scored it, but here it is folks..Rocky was a racist punk-ass and the fix was in!! And it actually doesnt stop there!! Take note: The first Rocky movie.. Rocky LOSES to the black man, yet the celebration in the ring is all for Rocky. White power right??? Rocky 2.. Rocky gets a rematch with the same black man, and he WINS. You would think Rocky 4 shouldve been about Clubber Lang gets a rematch right??? Noooooooooo... in fact, Rocky 4 is about another , superior white Russian man who KILLS a black man in the ring... and who comes to save the day??? Shouldve been Clubber, but nooooo.. of course, its Rocky! This has been ignored for 33 years, but NO MORE!! THANKS OBAMA!

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Oh dear Lort sweet baby yeezus, its a birthday..

So today is a day of joy and world celebration

One score and , god, how many years ago...decades maybe..., there was a massive amniotic sac explosion

And our lil’ Becka was unleashed unto the unprepared world

Earth, as it was known then, would never be the same. At the moment of the explosion,  a huge laugh , “HAH”, was heard ‘round the world. One could only assume it was the great creator, laughing at what he had just bestowed upon us.

We have all had to make changes in our lives to adjust to The Becka.. we’ve had to learn how to write properly.

we had to learn that all the types of beer we drink is the wrong beer..

and that God is, in fact, a cheese loving penguin

(can you believe I found a GIF for penguins and cheese????)

These are just a few things we all do to stay in the good graces of The Becka.. whats one of the things that’ll piss off the Becka?? Post a picture of her she hates..

yeah, thats right.. Im scared to do it...

Anyways, with all of our faults, the Becka still loves us, ..well maybe not ALL of us... lets just call it a select few

and the fact is, with all of our faults, we love her back unconditinally

even though some of us wanna smack the crap out of her at times..

(right now she is thinking “who would wanna smack me”?)

( actually right now, she is probably cringing at the writing of this because she cant correct it)

so here’s a toast..

to the Becka, on the day she graced us with her presence.. youre an inspiration to us all...

...to drink .....HEAVILY!!

you do make the world a better place.. Happy Birthday!! (even though you probably hate this shit!)

awww hell.. I aint scurred of her.. she in Russia...what she gonna do??

..and a favorite of hers from my personal Beckastanian Art Collection..

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Deliverance: A Gif Story

Before I start my story, here is its humble beginning. A very good friend of mine, in a totally different time zone was having a rough time. It was about 1 am my time, 8 am for her. We chatted a bit on Facebook but she was still a bit down. In times like this, for me its always “tell a joke” to break the funk. Problem is, Im very long winded ((as shown in this opening monologue).. so I decided to tell her a story, on Facebook. 

She loves movies, but a lot of the classic movies that we think everyone has seen, she has not. So, I decided to tell her the story of the movie “Deliverance”. I never thought out how this was gonna go… i pretty much winged it. Ive only seen the movie twice. I think this was a fun take on the movie, and it did its job.. it cheered up my friend. And it was her idea to put this, and others out in a blog somewhere, so Tumblrworld, welcome to the hell that is my mind, as I present to you, DELIVERANCE: A Gif Story

Two pairs of friends are driving thru the mountains

They decided to go camping and canoe down a river, so they stopped at a hillbilly convenient store to map out a plan and fuel up. The natives are restless…

For some reason, one of the dimwitted friends decided to break out a guitar at the gas station and starts playin..

This kid , who looks like a possum ,walks out the back of the store and listens. He sits down on the stoop, breaks out a banjo and starts playing too.

They look into each others eyes as the play, and they feel a musical connection, and they jam together

After the jam session, they pack up their gear and started to head out. They made a deal with the mountain folk that, once campers were at their starting destination on the river, the mountain people would drive take their cars a few miles down the road and have them waiting for them at the end of their trip.

After a long drive, the find a nice place along the river, and unload their canoes

Purty, aint it?

Anyways, they trust the mountain folk with their cars, hop in the river and start paddlin’

These city slickers are havin fun! They go down the river a few hours, then they find a quiet spot and camp for the night

Sunrise approaches…

Ned Beatty and Jon Voigt got tired of waiting for Burt Reynolds and the other guy to wake, so they decided to continue their venture down the river

After about a commercials length into their venture, they decided to pull over and wait for smokey and the bandit

While they are chiilin, Jon sees movement in the woods..

BUT, its NOT bigfoot! Its a couple of hillbillies! One has a shotgun. They approach our two stars and say “Where you goin city boy?”

“we aint but goin down the river, mindin our own bizness..” replied Jon

“well, Im about to mind your bizness too”, continued the hillbilly. “Take off yer clothes, boy”, he yells to Ned. As Ned strips down, the other hillbilly straps up Jon to a tree. As Ned stands there, shaking like a leaf, his hillbilly whispers to him, “Now, squeal like a pig”.

The hillbilly proceeds to play his version of King of the Mountain, and rides Ned like there is no tomorrow

As hillbilly one finishes up on Ned, hillbilly two is ready to go to town on Jon. “Youre gonna get on your knees and pray sweetie”.

The hillbilly unzips his pants, and knocks Jon to his knees, when all of a sudden…

Burt Reynolds appears, and shoots an arrow right thru the first hillbilly! The second hillbilly zips up and runs to the hills!

But, while everyone else was celebrating, Ned was not. He just had some man boldly go where no man has gone before

What will the four friends do now? Will they bury the man they killed, or will the go to the authorities and report the crime?

The four friends put it to a vote. Either bury the body, or carry it to civilization.. not sure they realized that they were screwed if the vote ended in a tie.

Luckily Burt Reynolds had more movie credits at the time of filming and was on the verge of stud-god status. So, he got two votes and they decide to bury the body.

after they bury the body, they take off in their canoes.. speeding away from the scene.. not like anyone would see them anyways.. Now this is where their lack of canoe skills start to show. The guitar guy originally took the lead in the first canoe, but is so freaked by the events of the day, he goes into shock and falls into the river.

OR… was he SHOT from afar and fell in???

The others crash into some rocks and are hanging on for dear life, all the while, they are looking for their buddy and keeping an eye out for a possible shooter

Burt is hurt..his femur broke. So the other two hide him in a small cave and keep him safe. 

Jon decided to climb the rocky terrain and take watch from up high overnight

Early in the morning, Jon stumbles across a hillbilly with a rifle scoping his friends below. He starts to sneak over to surprise him by smacking him in the head, but he trips and accidently shoots the hillbilly with his bow and arrow, and stabs himself with another arrow in the process

Jon goes over to the body and realizes its the same guy that wanted the blowjob ( if you didnt get the “on your knees and pray” metaphor, then you aint too bright)

he drags the body down the rocks to the other guys and says, “Shit guys! We gotta do this again..bury another one.. but i aint votin.. we gonna bury this cocksucker!! ”(see what I did there?)

So, somehow, in the MIDDLE of NOWHERE, they managed to anchor the man down, UNDER WATER, like they had bowling balls or sandbags with em!! HOW!!!?? Personally, i thought this whole thing was premeditated, but it couldnt have been cause no black people were involved.. brothas like to plan out every detail and leave no trace.. Its called the biggie-tupac move.

After they composed themselves, they set back on down the river, when who do they meet up with???

ITS THE GUITAR GUY!!!

But, he’s dead…

So, what do they do? THEY WEIGH HIM DOWN IN THE RIVER TOO!! I mean, SERIOUSLY! Sheesh! This is their buddy! He just played Duelin Banjos with possumboy! How you gonna do your boy like that? No respect!

Now, after all of this, they actually reach their destination ON TIME, and believe it or not, their cars are there waiting like the hillbillies said they would be..

They take Burt Reynolds to the hospital to get him checked out, and start to think of an alibi for the weekends events.

They run into some cops and tell them some story about a friend that went missing, and the cops tells them about a missing local who was out hunting..

The cops are suspicious about the guys, but have no proof…

so they let the guys go with a warning to never come back to the area again

The three friends speed off and make a pact to never speak of this weekend ever again.

Later that evening after everyone has gotten back to their homes, Ned is in bed tossin and turnin.. he starts to dream..

.. in his dream.. he sees..

a hand.. reaching toward him from a grave!!! He wakes up in terror!!

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Preach it Pastor Patton! What a wake... Errrrr, um, concert. Faith No More at Merriweather Post in Columbia Maryland.