Recently I was with a group of women who I adore and we were talking about music and our favorite rockers of all time.  There were a lot of male rockers who were named, and I threw in names of women who I've always admired in rock, soul and folk.  Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, Christine McVie, Ann Wilson, Lydia Pense, Etta James, Joni Mitchell, Maggie Bell, Joan Jett, Chrissie Hynde, Signe Anderson, Mama Cass, Bonnie Raitt and of course Grace Slick.  A comment that hasn't left me from that conversation was from one of the women who said for her, it was always about the men, and she never bought a record by a woman.  WHAT?  Really?  NEVER???  I was stunned. Still am.

She quit touring and all that a while ago.  She made wise investments, didn't need to keep touring or doing music, does her art work, and I think she's still beautiful with snow white hair.  I never got to meet her or interview her, so she's the illusive artist that I guess I still would love to talk to. Who knows, there's still time.   

One time Dad found an old book that had been tossed in the trash called "Billy Whiskers" and brought it home.  The book was so beat up that he had to tape it together so he could read it to me.  Coming home he announced "Babe, look what I found!" like it was a big deal!  It made me look forward to Dad coming home every night after that so he could read me the adventures of that darned goat.  Something from the trash made me incredibly happy because that's just how he made the world look to me. This was a man who had been through The Great Depression, the Oklahoma dust bowl, and World War II and was so positive about life.  I'm forever thankful that he and my Mom adopted me.

So, Happy Monday!  Yeah, the world is doing it's usual thing, and we can find out how horrible it is on the internet, or TV, or paper, but right now, at this moment, it's a Happy Monday. 

 

1965 - The Beatles are made Members of the British Empire in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace presided over by Queen Elizabeth.

1955 - The microwave oven is introduced by the Tappan Company.

Halloween's coming and I need to get pumpkins this weekend.  I enjoy pumpkin carving.  I love pumpkin seeds, and while I'm not a great artist when it comes to the actual craft of carving, they look okay with a candle inside on Halloween night.  This year I want some different colors.  Those white ghost pumpkins look cool.  I like the ones that are sort of vareigated shades of green.  Of course there's the standard orange ones that I need as well.  I wonder how many "Beaver Believers" will honor their team with a pumpkin carving this year?  I'm sure there's going to be several "O's" as well.  GO OREGON TEAMS! 

This morning I woke up early, as usual, and jumped into the thick of morning drive traffic.  At the moment when I was going north on I-5, near the curves, I knew I would be driving into the KGON parking lot right as I was supposed to be in the production studio getting a call from Peter Frampton.  In other words, I was going to be late.  Crap!  It's a good thing I have a pretty decent relationship with the producers of Premiere who organized this interview for me.  Right as I was parking, my cell phone rang and it was Peter Frampton.  I had to tell him I was running a bit late and would he PLEASE give me a couple of minutes to get headphones and RUN to the studio for the interview.  He laughed and said sure, I was the last interview of the morning.  Whew...so I ran. 

As usual, Peter Frampton was a lovely gentleman to speak to and we talked about his new Blu-Ray, DVD, CD release of the Anniversary Concerts he did for Frampton Comes Alive.  Remember the show at the Oregon Zoo in 2011?  Yeah, that tour.  We talk about several things and the coolest was when he was talking about his son, who plays in his band and also does vocals.  You can hear the fatherly pride from Peter.  That melts my heart.

Enjoy!

Iris