Diary of a Not So British Fan Girl

Anyone who is a Genesis fan may be familiar with the name Steve Hackett, who was their guitarist from 1971 to 1977, before Mike Rutherford took the reins after his departure in 1977.  Hackett's live album that came out in April of '''' '98’ just two decades shy of his departure from Genesis which, was then titled  "The Tokoyo Tapes.” The album was released as a document of two live concerts done by a supergroup line-up of Hackett, John Wetton, Chester Thompson, Ian McDonald, and Julian Colbeck, in December 96’ and is what inspired me to write this particular post. Hackett performed an acoustic cover of a song originally done by the English prog rock band Asia, featured on the album “The Tokyo Tapes.” Asia of course was co-founded by John Wetton former member of another progressive rock band known as,  “King Crimson” in 1981, and was the original writer behind the song “Heat of the Moment” that ended up becoming a hit for Asia and was almost left off of thei...

The eighth studio album that Ozzy Osbourne released back in 2001 titled “Down to Earth” has slowly become one of my favorite albums of all time, which is also just so happens to be nearing its twenty-fourth birthday on October 16th. I was never a major Ozzy fan because, while I do listen to a bit of Metallica and Type O Negative I’ve never been big on any sort of metal. The only two Ozzy Osbourne songs I knew were “Crazy Train” and “Shot in the Dark.” Since, I grew up believing everything Ozzy wasn’t it wasn’t till shortly before his passing that I started seeing everything he was. I read an article about his last show that mentioned “Mama, I’m Coming Home” from his sixth solo album titled “No More Tears” that was released in 1991 to thank for this. I remember going to listen to the song then, watching the video, and thinking how beautiful the lyrics were and how incredibly talented he was. I felt inspired to write about it and finding out he passed shortly after I decided to write ...