Took me awhile to appreciate Bobby Bland due to listening to some of his later live recordings which were punctuated with a gravel sounding vocal squall which I didn’t get at all. She had that rolling pin in her voice Joni Mitchell –Love (1982) The first lady of Canadian Rock ...
Change the energy in the room by telling stories. Example: Tell me about perseverance verse tell me about your worst bike wreck. Stories are the human edge. Stories are ultimately the thing that sticks. “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten” –...
1979, when the band fired Ozzy Osbourne. “We were doing some rehearsals in L.A., and I was loaded, but then I was loaded all the time,” Osbourne recalled in his memoir,I Am Ozzy. “It was obvious that Bill [Ward] had been...
The cop wanted her car keys. Kelli Peters handed them over. She told herself she had nothing to fear, that all he’d find inside her PT Cruiser was beach sand, dog hair, maybe one of her daughter’s toys.They were outside Plaza Vista School in Irvine, where she had watched her ...
subject to the same temptations, distractions, and vices as everyone else. But the perception and expectation that leaders will put principles before self-interest persists nonetheless. For this reason, a strong sense of personal self-discipline is critical. Self-discipline ensures we act and make ...
Brown was employed as a session musician for many Motown Records artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Martha and the Vandellas, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and Marvin Gaye. It was not Motown's policy to print the names of the backing band members at the time, so he...
Let it be the same for all of His followers in this day, who shall not bend a knee to the temptations of this world nor compromise their faith in any way in Jesus Christ Holy name. July 10, 2013 Russ Welch 0 If Brother David Wilkerson were alive today, I believe he would address ...
Suddenly, naughty urges to stretch the truth or withhold key information, dance in the heads of rational people. Luckily most of us resist these temptations.Mostof us. For me it was over 20 years ago, in college, when I first learned how far a salesperson might go. I sold computers for...
Before Him was the thing to be done, and between Him and it were massed such battalions of antagonism and evil as never were mustered in opposition to any other saintly soul upon earth. And through all He went persistently, with ‘His face like a flint,’ of set purpose to do the ...
At the station you could tell at once who were flower-show bound: those that I refer to (fondly) as being in the metallic age: silver hair and gold teeth. They are the senior citizens in toothpaste white trainers who only have to pay a dollar for the train journey. ...