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Neck Illusions: Double Helix Alien DNA concept by Kevin Estrella of Pyramids on Mars

“The idea for the Double Helix Alien DNA design came to me in a dream. My dream custom guitar is being handed to me by these Greys (Extraterrestrials). The design on the neck captured my attention. But how could such an elaborate design be put on the neck of a guitar? Three days after the…

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Patsy Cline Records ‘Crazy’

August 21, 1961, Patsy Cline recorded ‘Crazy’ in the makeshift Nashville studio of Nashville music producer Owen Bradley and his brother, Harold. Still on crutches after going through a car windshield in a head-on collision two months earlier, Cline recorded the classic Willie Nelson song ‘Crazy’. She had difficulty reaching the high notes of the…

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Quote Trivia – Happy Birthday to Icon Robert Plant

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. Robert Plant Birthday call-out to Robert Plant, celebrating his 72nd…

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Influences Behind the Music – Kevin Estrella, Pyramids on Mars on Dark Shadows Radio

Lost in Space 04 Kevin Estrella -Pyramids on Mar Kevin is the guitarist and composer of the instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars.  Hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. Kevin has always had a passion for and has spent over…

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Quote Trivia – The Monkees’ Show Final Airing

There’s an audience for everything. Davy Jones Today in 1968 was the final airing of the Monkees TV NBC television show. The Monkees were a foursome who had answered the 1965 Hollywood Reporter ad “MADNESS FOLK & ROLL MUSICIANS, SINGERS WANTED FOR ACTING ROLES IN A NEW TV SHOW. PARTS FOR 4 INSANE BOYS.” The…

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Quote Trivia Mix-Up – The Beatles & The Police

That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. Ringo Starr The debut of The Beatles as the world would grow to know them: John, Paul, George, and Ringo was today in 1962. Ringo Starr made his debut with The Beatles at the horticultural society Dance, Birkenhead, England, having had a two-hour rehearsal in preparation. This…

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August 17, 1959 – The Musical Genius of Miles Davis

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. Miles Davis Monumental innovator, icon and maverick trumpeter Miles Davis released masterpiece jazz album Kind of Blue. Its influence on music, including jazz, rock, and classical genres, has led writers to call it one of the most influential albums ever…

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Elvis Presley 1935 – 1977

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLJXjHJz_GvRj8ZU4oiF47GAE28p-1iXek&layout=gallery[/embedyt] A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Elvis Presley Drafted into the US Army on August 16, 1958, they assigned ElvisNine to the 3rd Armored Division in Friedberg, West Germany….

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Offbeat Weekend, Quote Trivia – Three Days of Peace and Music, 1969

Describing Woodstock as the ‘big bang,’ I think that’s a great way to describe it because the important thing about it wasn’t how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. David Crosby, The Byrds/Crosby, Stills & Nash On August 15th, 1969, the first day of…

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Quote Trivia – David Crosby

The people who run record companies now wouldn’t know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven’t a clue, and they don’t care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So your point is? David Crosby Happy 79th David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist. David Crosby was a founding member…

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