Big Leather Couch

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You can register for free at playlist.com and type in a band name and BAM the song will be there to assist in building your playlist.

Travis lays out some guidelines for this meme and they go like this:

1. Grab the banner, make your post title Five on Friday, and be sure to link back here.

2. Go to Playlist.com to make your play list of five songs. Choose a particular theme to share with us. You can simply post the play list, or you can add a little summary about what you are sharing.

3. No tags, but feel free to invite your friends to play along if they need a post topic on a Friday.

Last Five On Friday for 2011. I am so glad Travis came up with this fun idea. I have been exposed to music I would not have heard...followed Progressions that were amazingly well thought out...every Friday a group of people spend time to put together their sets hoping to share, hoping to entertain and they always do.

As I mentioned the other day, I had a fatal hard drive crash. Well I was able to retrieve 48+GB from my deleted files thanks to the wonderful Data Rescue 3.

Yesterday I purchased a new 1TB external hard drive and created a new iTunes Library. Then I brought all the files which were recovered over into that library.

There were a lot of files which were corrupt. Bits and pieces of songs and podcasts. Those got trashed.

The library was about 1,800 songs short of where I was before the crash. I found a huge portion of that loss was the music I had digitized from cassette from the Warner-Chappelle collection I had copied from a friend back in the early 90's. It was a 20 CD collection of music from the Warner-Chappelle Publishing. So many great songs from the 20's to the early 90's were included.

I have spoken to a friend who is going to try and get me the collection to reburn. I am hopeful...

So many of those songs were what I call Standards. The great music of Ella, Frank, Dean, Robert, Duke, Patti, classic show tunes. So today, five of those songs I know are no longer residing in my iTunes...

It could have been much worse, so I am thankful I was able to save so much. Now a little prayer the collection can be sent to me and I will be closer to normal.

BACK-UP your valuable data...music, photos, etc. I am already burning DVDs of playlists as a tertiary backup and looking into using the iCloud to ensure nothing is ever lost again.

Have a safe, healthy New Year. Rememebr, New Year's Eve is Amateur Night...be careful.

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Save this number... 1-800-222-4357

Off to California on business next week. Will check in when I can.

ENJOY!

OK, so I was going to do a whole post on the fact that yesterday at 5:00pm, I had exactly two comments...That has not happened since I began blogging.

But then I decided that no one wants to hear about my lack of consistency or my dearth of readers, so...

Monday evening, I had to scramble..first I had been home with a stomach bug all day, so I was worried about belching on the air!

Then my first guest was a no show, so I had to wing it until my second guest arrived. Luckily it was a 2 guest night or the show would have been me rambling...well that is until my good bud Phfrankie Bondo of "Phfrank's Place" called in and joined in the monologue I was having - which meant it was no longer a monologue I guess.

My second guests, Shayna Zaid & The Catch were a ton of fun...Remember you can always listen from the player on the top of the left sidebar and I officially now have an iTunes page which you can find HERE...that I think is so very cool!

What would be cooler is if y'all go over and write a review or rate the show.

Got this in an email from Dad Vince the other day and I did laugh out loud...

Maybe I should become one of those people who just makes fun of everything and thinks they are something special when all they are is a one-trick pony...but nah...

So, laughter...and if I have two readers a day, I will thank those two people from the bottom of my heart.