The Kinks: Destroyer

This all started with Twitter. A macrobiotics enthusiast was suggesting that the meat industry had influenced society to stop saying “Swine Flu” & instead use “the very abstract” name H1N1. And in my head I could hear the clipped guitar & someone singing “‘Cuz there’s a red, under my bed…” I wonder if there is scientific evidence to show the effects of not eating enough meat on human mental health.

But I can turn anything into a musical experience. I jumped on YouTube & found this rather intriguing live performance.

The Music Nerds Discuss Local Music

At one of my East Side Grill gigs, we performed “Send Her My Love,” & then I announced that we would be doing “one more from Journey” before we launched into “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’.”   My sister’s boyfriend turned to her in surprise because he thought “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” was written by a local band (notice how this local band’s fan doesn’t even know the correct lyrics to the song).

KK described this as being as bad as thinking that Jodeci wrote “Lately.”   And although my sister denies it, I swear I remember her thinking, when she was in high school, that Keali’i Reichel had written “In My Life.”   When I told her that it was by The Beatles, she had said, “Who are The Beatles??”