Kashmir is the guitar player, Jimmy Page style. He even looks like Page, with the long hair and the skinny body and one-piece body suit. Kashmir does a great job of staying in character, even off the stage. The only local musician that I’ve seen approach Kashmir in terms of raw musical talent is Skafish back in the day, and, of course, Michael Jackson. After that, you’re into the bottom half of the top ten, if you’re lucky.
It’s Saturday morning. Last night, Alexis and I and daughter Jackie went to Centennial Park in Munster to watch Kashmir play a bunch of Led Zeppelin. You can look far and wide, but you will not find a better Led Zeppelin band… outside of Led Zeppelin.
Kashmir is the guitar player, Jimmy Page style. He even looks like Page, with the long hair and the skinny body and one-piece body suit. Kashmir does a great job of staying in character, even off the stage. The only local musician that I’ve seen approach Kashmir in terms of raw musical talent is Skafish back in the day, and, of course, Michael Jackson. After that, you’re into the bottom half of the top ten, if you’re lucky. It’s 7:20am and I should probably be doing a radio show. Instead, 24-year-old Sam Michel is sititng in the chair for me. As I told the three or four of you before, my daughter was coming into to town from New York City. I pledged to everyone involved that I would take off two days from doing the show to go to the beach and laugh.
Part of what we did yesterday, besides burn ourselves in the 95-degree sun, was to go to the Lighthouse Mall. That’s where I bought two suit outfits. Now I know what the three or four of you are thinking – JED, why the hell would you upgrade your wardrobe? It’s 11:21pm and another day of radio draws to a close. I rode my bike to do radio this morning, talked with an up-and-coming rock band (Detour North), and then settled into my comfort zone of joshing with my friend of 45 years.
It was the friend, Billy Baker, who had the line of the day – “It was funny listening to you try to be cool with the young musicians.” He has a point. I did joke with Emmanuel Roldan, Kem Mastey, Anthony Esparza and Danny Klus. I made the perfunctory quips about the drummer getting all the chicks (Klus), and I made the appropriate observation that all four of them would have a tough time getting a drink without getting carded. They seemed to be having a good time, so I really don’t know what Baker was talking about. If you combine radio and gratitude, you get something like Raditude. I’m pretty sure that this word will never make it into general use, but if it does, it’ll mean something like this.
Without radio to ride my bike to, I would be without a morning purpose. And who wants that? |
I run radio stations and a streaming video network in Hammond, Ind., and write this blog.
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