There was a little more of a break than I envisioned when I did my last episode at the tail end of last year, but the good news is that FNV is back for the summer!
Since summer is the silly season of politics and I like my bands when I can get them, I’m bringing back this series each Friday night through August. So for the next nine weeks rock out the summer with some new stuff and old classics I’m bringing back.
The first song is a tribute of sorts to a supporter of local music – the ‘Live Lixx at Six’ series on Ocean 98 (WOCM-FM). The background song comes from The Permilla Project, who’s featured at the end of this video.
Another Live Lixx video goes back to the early days when DJ BK and Leslie did the show as a tandem, and features The Aaron Howell Band.
Moving out of the Irie Radio studio, I included this song because the singer’s husband never sees Too Much Fun. It’s an old classic rock chestnut from a group which used to be known as 8 Track Flashback, but it’s good anyway.
Keeping with the female vocal theme – but switching back to original music – this is a band called 14-5 out of Pocomoke. You know, I’m not digging the unkind comments on the video (if you look at the YouTube page) unless they’re willing to go out and try it themselves. I know I can’t carry a tune in a bucket.
Another female vocal, from a group I’ve probably featured more than any other, Semiblind.
To close out, I wanted to give you a brief history of this series. It originally started out as a weekly review of some of the many political videos I was receiving back in 2009, with my first episode put up July 24 of that year. It wasn’t until episode 8 in October that I did music videos, and this was the very first one I selected.
For a long time, the Chrome Donut video was the most-watched video on my channel and it’s still #4 among music videos. This leads me to a good idea – next week I’ll feature the top three as I look back, while adding some new stuff as well.
Until next Friday night, have a great week and rock the summer!