Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Hit Somebody!
This past weekend, I was thinking of absent friends and family. It's just that time of year.
Naturally, that led me to music and no one wrote better songs about mortality and morbidity than Warren Zevon (God rest his soul). In researching him, I learned about a song that he had co-written with Mitch Albom about 10 years ago. This led me to this live recording of Hit Somebody. The performance and the audience reaction/participation made me smile. It's a hockey song, but also a metaphor for life. Just about all of us get at least one shot in life and if we are lucky the red light flashes. Like the people of Philadelphia, I was singing along.
Naturally, that led me to music and no one wrote better songs about mortality and morbidity than Warren Zevon (God rest his soul). In researching him, I learned about a song that he had co-written with Mitch Albom about 10 years ago. This led me to this live recording of Hit Somebody. The performance and the audience reaction/participation made me smile. It's a hockey song, but also a metaphor for life. Just about all of us get at least one shot in life and if we are lucky the red light flashes. Like the people of Philadelphia, I was singing along.
