Songs for The Crowners, my band, to learn

Subject to change. Last update 7/30/2015
AC/DC: Shoot To Thrill, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Thunderstruck, Let There Be Rock, Whole Lotta Rosie

The Beatles: Oh Darling, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Here Comes The Sun, Dig A Pony, I've Got A Feeling, One After 909, I Me Mine, I Saw Her Standing There, Taxman, Drive My Car, In My Life, She Loves You, I Feel Fine, Ticket To Ride, Day Tripper, Paperback Writer, Yellow Submarine, Get Back, Revolution, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Don't Let Me Down, Nowhere Man

Billy Idol: Rebel Yell

Billy Ray Cyrus: Thrillbilly, I'm So Miserable, I'm American, Never Thought I'd Fall In Love With You, Face of God, Amazing Grace, Some Gave All, Enough is Enough, The Past, Stand Still, The Freebird Fell, Achy Breaky Heart, Words By Heart, Stand

Black Sabbath: Neon Knights, Heaven and Hell, Fairies Wear Boots, Paranoid, After Forever, Into the Void, Iron Man, End of the Beginning

Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla, Black Blade

Bob Seger: Old-Time Rock and Roll

Casting Crowns: Voice of Truth, Praise You in this Storm, Stained-Glass Masquerade

Cheap Trick: Dream Police, I Want You To Want Me

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son, Bad Moon Rising

DC Talk: Jesus Freak

Def Leppard: Foolin', Pour Some Sugar On Me

Deep Purple: Highway Star, Stormbringer, Mistreated, Perfect Strangers, Lady Double-Dealer, Nobody's Home

Demi Lovato: Party, Don't Forget, U Got Nothing On Me, Every Time You Lie

Dio: Straight Through The Heart, Rainbow In The Dark

Guns N Roses: Nightrain, Sweet Child O' Mine, You Could Be Mine

Idina Menzel: Let it Go

Iron Maiden: The Trooper, Wasted Years, Fear of the Dark, New Frontier

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts: I Love Rock and Roll

Journey: Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), Any Way You Want It, Open Arms

Judas Priest: Metal Meltdown, Victim of Changes, Redeemer of Souls, Breaking the Law

Katy Perry: Hot N Cold, Roar, By the Grace of God

L.A. Guns: Never Enough

Led Zeppelin: Black Dog, Rock and Roll, The Ocean, Immigrant Song, Misty Mountain Hop, Since I've Been Lovin' You, Whole Lotta Love, In My Time Of Dying

Lynyrd Skynyrd: I Ain't the One, Call Me The Breeze, Gimme Back My Bullets, Saturday Night Special, That Smell, Simple Man, Free Bird

Miley Cyrus: These Four Walls, Bottom of the Ocean, GNO, The Climb, Wrecking Ball, Can't Be Tamed, Adore You, Drive, Maybe You're Right

Ozzy Osbourne: Crazy Train, Goodbye to Romance, I Don't Know, Believer, Over the Mountain, See You On The Other Side, Not Going Away

Paramore: Ignorance, Brick By Boring Brick, Monster, Ain't It Fun, Last Hope, Crushcrushcrush

Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb

Queen: I Want It All, Fat Bottomed Girls, Tie Your Mother Down

Queensryche: Jet City Woman, Where Dreams Go To Die, Arrow Of Time

Quiet Riot: Metal Health (Bang Your Head), Thunderbird, Slick Black Cadillac, Sign of the Times

Rainbow: Long Live Rock N Roll, Tarot Woman, Stargazer 

Sammy Hagar: I Can't Drive 55

Scorpions: Lovedrive, Blackout

Steve Miller Band: Abracadabra, Fly Like An Eagle

Stryper: Saved By Love, Renewed, To Hell with the Devil, Free, Yahweh, Always There For You, All For One, Soldiers Under Command

Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown: Lipstick Wonder Woman

UFO: Lights Out

Van Halen: Why Can't This Be Love

Whitesnake: Is This Love, Still of the Night

Winger: Seventeen

2013 in review

What a year! I didn't post much here because I figured most people stopped caring about this blog with me going a little crazy and paranoid, but a heck of a lot happened. Baseball games? Loads of them, I saw the Mariners play four, though they lost each one, usually due to offense, but there were tough pitchers on the mound for the opponents, too (Andy Pettitte and Jeff Szjmardzja). I also saw the Pirates, Indians and Phillies all play, each had their own degree of interest to them, though since the Pennsylvania chapter of my Dad's life appears over, I doubt I will be back. The Hot stove has definitely been active, and I doubt it's going to slow down, with the Mariners making a huge, 10-year signing of Robinson Cano. While he will not magically lift the Mariners to playoff worthiness, it's good to finally have an everyday player who can be a popular face of the franchise for years to come and I hope the young guns (Ackley and Franklin, especially) can produce enough to join him in that circle. Concerts? By the ton. 1964 the Tribute was the tip of the iceberg. Before seeing classic rock came a metal concert not unlike Iron Maiden's from last year, only this was within walking distance of my apartment. It was the band Dio Rising, a tribute band to the late Ronnie James Dio, former frontman for Rainbow, Black Sabbath (he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in the 80s) and Dio. They covered many loud songs of his, as well as some of the more introspective ones. Lynyrd Skynyrd produced a blistering show of classics and they actually opened for Bad Company, who were more laid-back. Sammy Hagar had a partying style about him, yet carried his show with the professionalism you would expect for someone who's been active for 40 years. A week after him came my first Canadian concert, the metal band Black Sabbath. The audience was more rowdy than I'm used to, but the band was great, the music solid and the performance truly memorable. In September, I saw Zepparella at the Skagit Valley Casino, where they played classic Led Zeppelin hits, some of which I had heard the year before at the band's performance at the Tractor Tavern, others were new, like "Misty Mountain Hop," "The Ocean," "How Many More Times" and "Whole Lotta Love." Late in October was my first very local concert, HalloQueen and Voyager. HalloQueen is a Queen tribute, and delivered many Queen hits, including Bohemian Rhapsody and Fat Bottomed Girls. Voyager, though, is a tribute to "Hard Rock and 80s metal," with songs from bands as varied as AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Winger, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses and Van Halen in their setlist. Sadly, everyone, including Voyager, seemed out of their heads by the time that performance took place, it was loud and uncomfortable. The last show was another local club concert, the all-woman AC/DC tribute Hell's Belles played downtown, performing various songs I had heard through life and Iron Man 2. This was a much better show, the club had seating and the band seemed to be having more fun. 2014's concert plans are already underway, I am the proud owner of a ticket to Miley Cyrus' show at the Tacoma Dome on February 16th. I also plan to see Journey and Steve Miller when they come to the White River Amphitheater with a friend from Church. Others I hope to see are Stryper, Billy Ray Cyrus, Katy Perry and if the rumors of rumors are true, Led Zeppelin. I also would like to start a band, if possible.

Contentment, finding it is tough.

Well, this year has been feeling better than before, I've gotten to see 1964 the Tribute at last and will see three Mariner games, hopefully featuring Raul Ibanez and Michael Morse. I will also be spending time with my Dad in July. However, the title is referring to the fact that despite moving out, buying tickets to three Mariner games, making plans to see a heavy metal tribute in my hometown, a Bad Company/Lynyrd Skynyrd concert down South by Seattle AND a Sammy Hagar show over by Marysville (and I'm convinced more artists are likely to announce themselves before the month of May is out), I get annoyed that I don't think I can see Robert Plant and Tony Iommi perform over at the Gorge Amphitheatre over East by Ellensberg. Why? I have more than I could ask for, I'm on my own, I have a good church, good friends, good family, good plans, I don't need this classic English Bluesman or the original heavy metal band to be happy, so why do I act like I do, clawing at friends and sort-of friends as though if I don't get this, I will drown and die unsatisfied. Maybe it's that they're old. Maybe it's that the world is fallen. Or maybe it's just the same old anxiety.