Wade developed  his painting from a photo of Sun Ra taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan…It was first sketched out and then painted with acrylics.

A Student from The Toledo School for the Arts asked Wade….”How do you know when you are finished?”   Wade said, “YOU NEED TO KNOW WHEN TO WALK AWAY.”

Sun Ra at the New England Conservatory of Music, February 27, 1992
Background information
Birth name	Herman Poole Blount
Also known as	Sun Ra, Le Sony’r Ra
Born	May 22, 1914
Origin	Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Died	May 30, 1993 (aged 79)
Genres	Hard bop, swing, avant-garde jazz, free jazz, experimental music, Hip-Hop
Occupations	Bandleader, composer
Instruments	Hammond organ, piano, organ, keyboards, Minimoog, Celesta
Years active	1934–1993
Labels	El Saturn Records, Impulse!, MPS Records, ESP-Disk, Black Saint, A&M, Leo
	Arkestra         Info credited to Wikipedia

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Progressive, Psychedelic ROCK!!!!!!

Left to Right (PINK FLOYD founded in 1965, pic taken in 1968)

Nick Mason (long time member), Syd Barrett (original leader who eventually left the group due to deteriorating mental health) , David Gilmore (seated..long time member…joined Pink Floyd as their 5th member in 1967), Roger Waters (left the group in 1985) , & Richard Wright (left the group in 1979 rejoined, and died in 2008)

Arnold Layne….PINK FLOYD’S… First Single written by Syd Barrett

2 Charting Singles….”Arnold Layne” and “See Emily Play” (1967)

Albums

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Wish You Were Here (1975)

Animals (1977)

The Wall (1979)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

The Division Bell (1994)

PINK FLOYD reunited in 2005 for a single performance, at the charity concert LIVE 8

Richard Wright died in 2008 but the surviving members Waters, Gilmour and Mason reunited for  “The Wall Tour” in May  2011 in London.

Compilation CD’s

Relics (1971)

Works (1983)

Shine On (1992)

Echoes ..The Best of Pink Floyd (2001)

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 40th Anniversary Edition (2007)

The Best of Pink Floyd a Foot in the Door (2011)

If you have children, and if they have ever had any type of surgery…you know the stress that a parent goes through.

He was in the operating room for the maximum time that the hospital told us….and we started worrying.  It turns out that they could not get his heart  to show any abnormalities…even though he was just in the emergency room a week before with some major irregular heart beats.  Just like when he was little…he would be sick as a dog (not a Cat…lol) and I would get him to the doctor and his fever would be ALL gone and he was just fine….UUUUgggggh!!!!!!!!!!!

Well…they didn’t do the surgery because since the they couldn’t get the heart to beat irregularly….they didn’t know where to ablate.

The Good News…they ruled out any major heart diseases and hopefully he will continue to grow out of this.

On this Valentines Day….I can’t help but think how times in my life when my heart was hurting….How cool it would have been if someone could have just ablated that section of my heart out.

When your heart is hurt…does it ever really recover?

I know that my heart is….shall we say weaker….easier to break…once broken.

Sometimes I think we believe that the people in our lives know that we love them….I am a “I LOVE YOU” type of person.

I say “I LOVE YOU” to my boys all the time….Losing a sister to car accident…I understand how someone can be in your life one minute and not the next.

but..this morning….I gave my 21 year old a Valentine SNOW GLOBE.with his favorite….Scooby Doo in it…he thanked me…I said…”I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW YOU ARE LOVED”

I tell him everyday…but sometimes we need to hear it in a different way.

We all show our love in a different way….TRY SHOWING SOMEONE HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THEM IN THE WAY YOU KNOW THEY WOULD LOVE TO RECEIVE IT….THAT’S HOW TO SHOW SOMEONE LOVE.

My favorite part of coming to the Valentine Theatre is just pushing back and experiencing the awe of it’s lush beauty while waiting for the show I am attending to begin…..

ANOTHER WHITE DASH by Butterfly Boucher (yep..that’s her name…Butterfly) was playing in the background as the crowd waited for Richard Marx

Richard started the night out with his hit song “ENDLESS SUMMER NIGHTS“….which happened

to be the song I posted to FACEBOOK and was humming all day….lol

and then he played  “SATISFIED”

LYRICS for “SATISFIED”

There must be more to livin’ than nine to five

Why should we wait for some better time
There may not even be a tomorrow    (LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Ain’t no sense in losing your mind
I’m gonna make it worth the ride

[Chorus:]
Don’t you know, I won’t give up until
I’m satisfied

Richard said, “It has been 2 years since I was in your HOOD”

The last time was with the Toledo Symphony….A little different than going on stage all by yourself.

Playing Acoustic is kinda like being out there without a net.…

He told the audience to just RELAX and pretend they were at his house and “Grab a BEER”

Richard promised us that he would play us some tunes that would take us through his career and a only a few new songs

(he goes to concerts too and knows that you like to hear hits)

He told us how he had recorded with a lot of people … Luther Vandross was one of those people….Richard and Luther soon became good friends.

Dance with My Father” is the title track to singer-songwriter Luther Vandross‘ thirteenth studio album. With Richard Marx, Vandross wrote the song based on his personal experience. Its poignant lyrics recall childhood memories with Vandross’ father, who used to dance with his mother.

Despite the lack of promotion due in part to Vandross’ hospitalization, “Dance with My Father” became one of the requested songs at the time. During the 2004 Grammy Awards, “Dance with My Father” earned Vandross the Song of the Year and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance accolades.

Richard Marx really was quite comical…he heard someone burp in the audience..and he said..”Did you just burp?”   “Well, I did tell you

to pretend you were at my home….I guess you’d to that at my house.”

When the crowd would applaud…he would give a silly look like…who me?

and then he says……..”I guess we should get one of these PUSSY BALLADS out of the way” and then played “ONE THING LEFT TO DO”

Richard gave us some insight on how he writes a song…..

He said the music usually comes first….he lives with it…humming it out in his everyday life and then tries to figure out what it is telling him.

Sometimes ,on rare occasions, it all comes at the same time (the lyrics and the music).

Back in 1991 when he wrote “Hazard” …a song about a missing girl named Mary…he used his archaic Panasonic Cassette Player.

His wife Cindy (who he said he knew was HAWT) thought Hazzard would be a hit and he only recorded it to prove that she was W_R_O_N_G…….He did it for all men who deal with the fact that MEN CAN NEVER BE RIGHT!!!!

Cindy WAS RIGHT…it became one of Richard’s most popular songs…peaking at the top of the charts.

Richard kept saying..”OK, I’m going to drop another name.”

and talked about working with the following artists………Keith Urban…..Life House……InSync….Chris Daughtry …Josh Groben….Barbara Streisand …..Ringo Star……and Shelia E (who gave him the recipe for the Brew he was drinking on stage for his voice)

The Brew…..Lemon Juice, Honey, Crushed Ginger, & tons of cayenne (to be sipped to avoid trips to the restroom…lol)

Richard talked of how he missed his father Dick Marx who passed away in August of 1997.

Dick Marx was an American jazz pianist and arranger. He also composed for film, television, and commercials.

He said “JINGLES” are sort of nonexsistant these day…..but his dad wrote the best of them

He played the song “THROUGH MY VEINS” in tribuite to his late father……He played so intensly…I could see his veins pop out from his neck.

Then he played the song “SAVE ME”….with a video of his 3 sons, Brandon on guitar (born 1990), Lucas on Piano (born 1992), and Jesse

on Drum(born 1994)……..I got that (IT’S AWESOME) shiver when I heard the inherited similarities in their voices.

There were 2 women who showed up at the concert that were recognized before the show by 101.5 The River as ticket winners..

Richard called out to the two women who got together after several years just to come to this concert…..they had brought albums with them of Richard Marx….

Richard said ” Everyone has made a FASHION HAIR ERROR at some point in their lives…but…..“Your Shit’s not on YouTube.”

Then he unplugged his guitar and sat down at the edge of the stage and performed “ALWAYS ON YOUR MIND”

He left the stage and then came back with

“RED RAIN” & “WHEREVER YOU GO”

If you plan on catching a Richard Marx concert…..be ready to SING……he was constantly bringing the audience in on his songs.

and if you can’t sing….well…..JUST MEOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

When I go to a concert in Detroit….my fav is

THE GRAND TRUCK PUB
612 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI  48226

Peanut Butter Cup Stout….oh ya!!!

Foran Burger* – ½ lb. burger, corned beef, Russian dressing, swiss and The Poet Stout Kraut© $8.75…..it will change your LIFE

There is something just SO COOL about driving into Downtown Detroit (OK, stinky too..lol)

The Piston Basketball on the refinery…the bulletin boards keeping you up to date with the hip happenings…and the BEAUTIFUL CHURCH tops that catch your eye….and then the lit up streets decorated with snow flakes for the season.

The line was loooooong….but it went quick once they opened the doors.

The FILLMORE is a beautiful theatre……..  http://thefillmoredetroit.com/index

Raphael Saadiq opened for Lenny.

He told us all how blessed he was to be touring with a legend such as Lenny Kravitz.

At the end….he spelled his name and then said…If you don’t know my name..

GOOGLE it.

http://www.raphaelsaadiq.com/us/music/stone-rollin

and Lenny….well…nobody is as cool as Lenny Kravitz…in a Hippie sort of way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He played Black & White America off of his new CD and showed pics on the big screen of him and his family growing up.

His Mom was black and his Dad was white…something that society had a hard time accepting in the late 60′s and 70′s.

Lenny is the same age as “THE CAT”

ROCK ON LENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Handel’s Messiah is one of the Christian world’s most popular musical works ever. It’s a sort of 18th Century musical which can be appreciated on many levels, since it contains hummable tunes, rousing choruses, virtuoso arias, many memorable moments, and deeply spiritual texts.

• ‘For Unto Us a Child Is Born’
• ‘Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion’
• ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’

Handel’s Messiah is one of the Christian world’s most popular musical works ever. It’s a sort of 18th Century musical which can be appreciated on many levels, since it contains hummable tunes, rousing choruses, virtuoso arias, many memorable moments, and deeply spiritual texts.

I was proud to hear my husband sing in this purrrr…formance.   I love to support his love for music….but I must confess..that my tongue is a little sore from biting it (to avoid laughing)…I just couldn’t help but think of bugs bunny when the first solo began.

About 2000 people  witnessed the successful collaboration of the Toledo Symphony, The Toledo Choral Society and BGSU University Choral Society for Handel’s Messiah on December 3 and 4th.

DIDN’T KNOW I WAS GOING TO PLAY “MUSICAL CHAIRS” AT THE PERISTYLE.……..My family was told they were in the wrong seat.  We then moved to one row over…only to find out we were in the correct seat ALL ALONG….and yes the older lady next to me loved it when I kept knocking her husbands walker with the back of my coat…then the lady who said I was in the wrong seat….grabs my broken arm to tell me that she is sorry for the mishap. UUUGHEYMEOW!!!!!!!!!!!

Each year a different cause….this year benefited Special Olymipics