As we come to the closing of another week, I am more than delighted to celebrate today’s holiday. Granted we still have to go to work cause bills and food and this whole surviving thing BUT, today I want to make it fun or at least not so boring.

Would You Rather…

Only be able to listen to music from ONE decade for the rest of your life?

OR

Never be able to listen to the same song twice? EVER

Now take a few minutes to think that one through. One means eternal loyalty to your favorite era whereas the other means discovering new music forever… but losing every classic the second it ended.

To me this is an impossible choice because while i love new music, I could not only listen to it once. For me the same song can mean a dozen different things for a dozen different situations. There are some songs that make your heart happy and others you know can make you cry and that catharsis of screaming out the lyrics to Before he Cheats is something I don’t think I could give up.
On the other hand, given that my music favorites span from Elvis to Teddy Swims for time periods…. That’s a 70 year musical range that I couldn’t give up if I tried.
So for me, I’m stumped on this one, what do you think?

Back in 1986 when Ozzy’s Album The Ultimate Sin was released, there was a little bit of a secret/unknown tid bit include. The Song Shot in the Dark, which became one of his biggest hits, wasn’t actually written by Ozzy.

The Song was originally written by bassist Phill Soussan along with guitarist Steve Jones from Sex Pistols.

Now, because of contract disputes and songwriting credit debacles, the whole track ended up in this weird legal grey area. So for years, Ozzy avoided performing it live.

Which means one of the biggest songs of his career was also one of the ones that gave him the most grief afterwards.

But, ya know. Rock history is messy like that sometimes.

Before hair metal had exploded and guitar shredding was the sport it’s become today there was the OG of guitar rock anthems:
Chuck Berry’s - Johnny B. Goode

Then the boys with the beards got their hands on it and their version took that classic rock-n-roll blueprint and did what they always do and cranked it up with pure British heavy metal horsepower!

It was faster, louder, and had more attitude than anyone knew what to do with. It’s one of those covers that proves something very important.

Sometimes the best way to honor a classic…
is to crank the amps and play it like you mean it.

There’s a strange idea floating around that life is supposed to split neatly into two piles.

One pile is work.
The other pile is the stuff you actually enjoy.

And somewhere along the line we all agreed that the first pile had to take up most of the space.

But if you look closely at the things people love the most—music, art, building something, chasing an idea—none of it really started as “work.” It started as curiosity. Noise. Experimentation. Somebody trying something just to see what would happen if they turned the volume up a little more.

That’s the real thread running through everything.

The best things rarely come from playing it safe. They come from someone deciding to push on the edges a bit. To take something familiar and twist it, stretch it, or rebuild it until it feels new again.

That applies to music, sure.

But it also applies to everything else.

Routine can make life feel predictable. Comfortable. Manageable.

But too much routine and suddenly you’re just going through motions you don’t even remember choosing.

The trick isn’t avoiding responsibility or pretending life is one endless weekend.

It’s remembering that even inside the structure… there’s still room to bring a little chaos with you.

A little creativity.
A little rebellion.
A little noise.

Because the moment something starts to feel personal again… that’s usually the moment it starts to feel alive. Keep the Chaos Alive!

-Bobby D