POTD: The Chicks
After dropping “Dixie” from their band name, The Chicks have released a video for one of their new songs, “March March,” which includes clips of protestors throughout US history, right up to #BlackLivesMatter.
Hagar The Horrible
Sammy Hagar was one of 14 performers asked by Rolling Stone how they’re dealing with not being able to do concerts during the pandemic. His answer was ridiculous.
POTD: The Spirit Of Radio
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s a special video made by the classic rock band Rush as a tribute to their late drummer Neil Peart and to the radio stations that first helped boost the band’s popularity four decades ago.
Best Things I’ve Heard Recently
After a couple of months of not listening to podcasts, here are three episodes I enjoyed recently and recommend to you.
POTD: Kids React To Led Zeppelin
Picture Of The Day: Despite playing them thousands of times during the first half of my radio career, I was never a Led Zeppelin fan. Still, I got a kick out of these kids’ reactions.
Another Covid Concert Cancellation
Another concert tour cancelled due to concerns about COVID-19: John Fogerty won’t perform at The Fabulous Fox in St. Louis on July 12th. But here he is doing a CCR classic at home with his family.
POTD: For The Longest Time
For today’s Picture Of The Day, a bunch of sheltering-at-home choral singers from Vancouver, Canada, perform a Billy Joel classic, with lyrics customized for the coronavirus crisis.
Tom Snyder & Little Richard
With the deaths of Little Richard last weekend and Tom Snyder in 2007, it’s delightful to look back at this perfect amalgam of a great broadcaster and a great entertainer, from a 1997 broadcast of “The Late Late Show.”