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Aldo Nova’s 1981 classic Fantasy Video

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Earlier today I woke up to this classic 1980’s tune that was playing on my alarm clock radio. It was called Fantasy from Aldo Nova.

It’s one of those songs that you can’t get out of your head all day long. It’s like having a skip in a record playing part of a song over and over again! Am I the only one that this happens to?

So all that I could hear in my head all day was Fantasy and I kept thinking about that damn video! Spandex leopard suit singer Aldo Nova with his big hair and vintage Les Paul guitar with Marshall stacks as far as the eye can see. Ah, the dreaded 80’s look and the thing that really bothers me is that at the time, I bought right into that look.

This piece of 80’s nostalgia pop rock, brings me back to the days of practicing this song in my friend Domenic’s parents basement with our other friends Eddie and Jon. So this video is dedicated to those guys and the spandex leopard skin suits left over from that memorable time in our lives!

I hope you get a kick out of it everyone.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GylirgHFqeQ

Keep on Jammin’





I’ve heard of Prog Rock but not Frog Rock

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I love discovering new bands that play distinctive forms of music but I just have to wonder what this Frog Rock bands plays?

Any idea’s out there folks? Come on Chris Noto, take a crack at this one! $10 bucks says that you don’t have these guys in your MASSIVE musical collection?

frog rock band

Ok if you do have these guys in your collection Chris, then my question for you is does Counterpoint play any of their tunes? I’d love to hear one of them at your next show.

Keep on Froggin’

Iggy Pop down the street and around the corner

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Iggy Pop is a man on a mission. His own mission, that is. What it is, only he is privy to it.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don’t believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
Iggy Pop

I’ve never been a real big Iggy Pop lover but the man on stage is raw and inspiring. He work with the stooges is well known and now the man and his band is set to play in Toronto at the Yonge-Dundas Square stage. It’s all part of the NXNE Festival concert line up this year.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfZb26IZq9w

I’d love to go and check his show out live tonight but I have previous plans for today that cannot be changed!

I just found out about the show yesterday morning after coming home from an early doctors appointment down the street from Yonge-Dundas Square.

I was walking to the subway to go home and get ready for work when I saw the stage being set up, so I had a few minutes to spare, so I just walked around a bit. I saw this cool older couple sitting a this outside venue at a table and they were having a smoke and a coffee. So I walked up to them and asked then what was up and they told me of the show. Damn, not enough time to change our plans.

Has anyone out there seen these guys live? Am I nuts for not ditching my plans today for the chance to see the great Iggy Pop and the New Stooges play that is 7.9 km (4.9 miles) away?

Keep on Jammin’

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