I love the organ chords over the pre-chorus in that song. Really takes that part of the song to another level. I remember on soft rock radio stations, the radio edit would remove the guitar solo and just play an instrumental version of the pre-chorus section and it still sounded great. 

The second riff in “Panama” when the drums kick in, and it’s only played for that one part of the song, something about those chords always hits me right in the gut. His melodic sensibility was beyond parallel. 

Were they REALLY the butt of jokes? They were still immensely popular and “Right Now” was a “cool” sounding song that didn’t sound out of place on MTV alongside grunge probably because it was piano based and not an 80s rock shred fest. I think that song kept them pretty cool in the 90s, and by the time they first…

That’s the thing I always loved about Eddie’s playing: even HE doesn’t know what time signature it’s in because he can’t read music. Dude was a piano and guitar prodigy and didn’t read music. And a lot of VH songs have these parts that jump into different rhythms and time signatures because Alex and Eddie just had a…

He also co-wrote one of KISS’s best and hardest-rocking songs, “War Machine.” 

Not to mention the multiple advancements in guitar pickup, bridge, and amplifier technology that Eddie INVENTED on his own. He literally changed the sound of rock guitar forever with his playing AND with the modifications he made to equipment. 

I was making a joke. Deadwood was set in the 19th cenutry, he played the sheriff. Justified was set in the 21st century, he played a lawman. This is a show set in the 20th century. 

Generally I didn’t enjoy a lot of the bodily fluids humor, EXCEPT the porta potty bungee jump thing in Jackass 3D was so insanely well-done that I had to applaud it. Seeing it in a theater in 3D just made it even more funny. 

What stories? I know he started putting on a lot of weight during the series but I wasn’t sure if there was more about his health or his life post-Sopranos that I’m missing. 

“Did you hear that, Tone? I says there’s never a bad time to appreciate just how funny Tony Sirico was as Paulie Walnuts!”

I do that to my wife all the time when we’re watching a show together. She, however, does not do that to me. Uh oh! 

Yes it was! As was Press Your Luck. 

The game show’s final round was appropriately near impossible to beat, just like most of the Carmen Sandiego computer games. Even with an Atlas on hand, it really tested your skills when you’re 8 years old and don’t know how to fucking use an Atlas. 

He’s never played a lawman set in the 20th century before. This is unchartered territory for Olyphant! 

One of my favorite bits of A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica, Pt. 2, is when Spinal Tap confronts them backstage at the Freddie Mercury tribute in Wembley Stadium. “We’ve got a bone to pick with you, Metallica representatives. It’s called: Black Album.”

The weirdest line from that song is “In a party, I’ll go for your neck, so call me Blackula.” The Blackula thing, makes sense, but why must he only go for your neck at a party? 

Dio LOVED marijuana, and loved writing lyrics that sound really cool but don’t make ANY literal sense whatsoever. “Ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he’s clean/oh don’t you see what I mean?” Is another favorite. Or Rainbow’s “Stargazer,” maybe his best performance as a vocalist, opens with:

“High…

They also tried really, really hard to shoehorn in the title of the album into that song. Like, it’s blatantly obvious they thought “Love at First Sting, great album title! But we don’t have a song called that, let’s try to fit it into this song. On the hunt tonight for/LOVE AT FIRST STING!” We did it! 

The original lyric on the demo version was “Witches gathered at black masses/bodies burning in red ashes.” At least the “masses” they rhyme are two different definitions of the word. 

I laugh at that scene in The Doors when Kilmer as Morrison suggests they sing “Baby you can bite my wire” as a replacement line for “Girl we couldn’t get much higher” when performing on Ed Sullivan.