Today I just finished a book about John Mellencamp called Born In a Small Town. It was written by Heather Johnson. And it talks about John's interesting life from Farm Aid to growing up in Indiana. The one thing that surprised me was the fact that he has to this day he has only won one Grammy for Best Male Rock Performer for Hurts So Good in 1983.

It Might Get Loud

I just finished watching documentary It Might Get Loud. It was Directed by Davis Guggenheim and features Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin and The Yardbirds. The Edge of U2 and Jack White of the white Stripes. In the Movie Davis goes into the early days of Page,Edge and White. It also has Page's Gibson double neck guitar. I liked when they played The Band's song The Weight. I loved the film very much.

On I Sunday I got some CD's at the library. One of them was Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen. This is Bruce's fourth album. I think it is his third best album after the two Born's. It did good on U.S. Billboard Pop Albums in 1978 reaching number 5. "Prove It All Night" and "Badlands" only reached 33 and 42 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles. "The Promised Land" is also a good song on this album. This album is much better then Don't Look Back by Boston and city to city by Gerry Rafferty formerly of Stealers Wheel.

I got an autobiography called The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life With Styx. It was written by Styx bass player Chuck Panozzo and he talked about how he had to hide the fact that he was gay and had AIDS and how it affected his work with Styx. He also lost his brother. I liked the book it was good but sad.

I just recently started listening on Last FM to a band called Quietdrive. Although I can only listen too one song "Rise from the Ashes" I really like this song. It did not do so good on the hot 100 in 2006. This song is much better Irreplaceable by Beyonce(no talent)Knowles. And it is also better then Nickelback's Savin'Me. It is my top track on Last FM. Plus they are from my hometown of Minneapolis which makes them even better.

Tonight I got some CD's at the library. One of which was Ozzy Ozbourne's latest album Black Rain. It had maybe one or two good songs. One of those songs was I Don't Wanna Stop. It featured Black Label society guitar player Zakk wylde. It will still never be the same as the Randy Rhoads years 1979-1982.RIP R R.

Another album I got was Live Alive by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble It consisted of 4 live shows one of which was at the montreux Jazz Festival in 1986. The songs on Live Alive were songs by artists that influenced Vaughan Such as Wonder,Hendrix and Buddy Guy. I like the covers this a really good live album.