An awesome article on one of the greats...

...done by Wired. It does me good to know that the magizine/web presence is still putting out dope ass reporting.

Regarding the subject of the article, I can say he is the only artist I can think of whom I've never heard anyone say "I don't like him". He is timeless and a wonderful person. I got sad when I had read on fark.com that his parents had passed. And I just downloaded a new release from him on iTunes for 99cents that was damn good. I can't listen to it just once, I have to play it again after the first time. Anyways, without further yammering,

My Man

Ok back to the yammering. Thinking back to the times when Al's videos were on MTV, when they still played music (dating myself), when I was but a wee lad my parents let me have my very own VCR tape (VCRs were kinda new still), and I could record whatever videos I wanted from MTV onto it (oh joyous rapture to a 11-12 y/o). Did you guys have your own VCR tape that you would record your stuff on? What kind of stuff did you keep on "your tape"? I can remember having a lot of hair bands like (gulp) Warrant and Firehouse,... whatelse... drawing a blank. Probably for the best after that start... Maybe some cartoons of some sort... oh I remember I had Billy Joel Piano Man on there (good save memory)....

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