2023 was a bad year for me. I was diagnosed with cancer and went through five rounds of chemo. I lost all my hair, missed five months of work and felt like I was run over by a bus. The good news is I am now in remission. Here is a song I wrote and recorded while going through the ordeal. It is easily one of the stupidest and I have ever written.(and that is saying something) but I think it conveys what five rounds of chemotherapy truly feels like. You can listen to the song HERE. BYOB & crank it up!
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Saturday, May 4, 2024
Chemo Party '23 by Casey Redmond
2023 was a bad year for me. I was diagnosed with cancer and went through five rounds of chemo. I lost all my hair, missed five months of work and felt like I was run over by a bus. The good news is I am now in remission. Here is a song I wrote and recorded while going through the ordeal. It is easily one of the stupidest and I have ever written.(and that is saying something) but I think it conveys what five rounds of chemotherapy truly feels like. You can listen to the song HERE. BYOB & crank it up!
Thursday, January 18, 2024
MacDonald's Girl: Songs About Fast Food
MacDonald's Girl: Songs About Fast Food |
It's cloudy and cold today at the Mighty 88. High of 27. Could see a couple of inches of snow today and tonight. We are coming off an artic blast. Temperatures have been in the single digits since Saturday. Today is actually quite balmy.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
CCD Kids by Casey Redmond
CCD Kids
The Zambonis: The world’s only all hockey rock n roll band
I have never been a hockey fan. I don’t really know why. It has everything someone could want in a sport, it’s fast paced, takes great skill and there is often blood. Maybe it’s because I never played it as a kid. It was not a family thing, I don’t remember anyone in my house ever mentioning it.
They say you are never too old to change and I may just become a hockey fan yet, thanks to the Zambonis. The ‘Zambonis are a rock n roll band out of Bridgeport, Connecticut that play nothing but tunes about hockey. No love songs, break up songs or car songs, just hockey songs.
Okay, so they put out a couple of songs about hockey, big deal? Right? Try seven albums and counting. They play everything from punk to ska, metal, rockabilly and even country and western.
Mainly a recording act, they do play a few gigs a year mostly in the northeast. Last year they played a 2:30pm gig at a library in Roxbury, Connecticut! How rock n roll is that?
They have been sanctioned by the NHL and have been commissioned to write songs for several teams. There music is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple etc..and you can checkout there videos on YouTube.
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Casey’s Incredible Mix Tape 1
Do you have the post-holiday blues? Too much pecan pie? Too many beers? Too much family time? Whatever the reason, here is the cure. It’s Casey’s Incredible Mixtape 1. Surf, Garage, Sixties Pop & Instro. It will cheer you up & give you the power to face 2024. Crank it up & BYOB! Take a listen HERE
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Donny & Marie New Year’s Eve TV Special
Wow, some things from the past are just too weird to believe. Growing up, my oldest sister was a huge Donny Osmond fan. Our suburban household rang with a constant barrage of Osmond classics like “One Bad Apple” & “Go Away Little Girl”.
My sister outgrew her Donny obsession about the time he started teaming up with his sister Marie. There popularity was at their peak when they made this 1976 New Year’s Eve Special.
It’s amazing what passed for entertainment back in the seventies. This was the heyday of the variety show and the Osmonds pulled out all of the stops.
Highlights (lowlights?) include:
1. Terribly stupid jokes courtesy of Rip Taylor.
2. Fake out of control laughter by Marie upon hearing Rip Taylor’s terribly stupid jokes.
3. Donny’s over the top synthesizer solo dressed in purple sequined tuxedo & top hat.
4. The Osmond Brothers Band’s weird prog rock/ soul jam dressed in three musketeersesque pastel colored space suits.
5. A music of the 1920s song and dance medley.
6. Insane over the top audience response to all of the above.
These things could only of happened in the 1970s. It is worth checking out. If nothing else. it proves that we have evolved, at least a little, in the past fifty odd years.
Happy New Year.
-Casey Redmond