It has been over a week. That is embarrassing.
I have had some great intentions of writing lately. I really have. I have also been very busy. That is not a great excuse. But it is the one I will use today. I will have another tomorrow.
Last weekend my dear wife, Carrie, my brother Darrell and his wife Emily, and my sister, Lynn, and her daughter, Katie, went to Indianapolis to watch our North Harrison Lady Cats play in the State Championship basketball game for Class 3A in the State of Indiana. We had a marvelous time…sort of. It was more fun last year. Last year it was that Minnie Pearl thing…we were just glad to be there. This year there was much more optimism that the Lady Cats would be bringing home the big hardware. It did not work out that way. Losing stinks. But…there are more ways to win than just on a scoreboard. Our Lady Cats are winners. Believe me. They are winners.
I was a winner this past weekend…thanks to the Lady Cats. Just like last year, the line-up of family I listed in the previous paragraph was together again. We went to the game together. We ate and laughed together. We stayed at the same hotel together. We stopped in Columbus, my birthplace, and we ate breakfast together. We laughed. We reminisced. We enjoyed our time. That is the way it is supposed to be. Shame on us that ONLY the Lady Cats have ever done this for us…uh…two years in a row. Am I glad we have a great basketball team? Well, for obvious reasons, yes. That they got me and my siblings together for two wonderful weekends will mean more to me than the trophies that will collect dust somewhere. I do thank them.
I was asked if I would write anything up special on this team. I could go on for days. I feel like I did that last year on this very space.
I may put some pictures on one day. By the way…Brilliance here left his SD card in this computer and packed an empty camera to the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indy where the Lady Cats played for a State Title. Not good.
John Wetton
John Wetton died at the end of January. You may not know the name. You do know the voice. I am sitting here listening to the John Wetton Official Bootleg Archive Vol. I. 6 cds of three concerts….one in Argentina and two in Japan.
John Wetton found his greatest commercial success when the first SUPER GROUP came on the scene. A guy from Yes, Steve Howe, a guy from The Buggles and Yes, Geoff Downes, and Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer fame joined with John Wetton, who had played in King Crimson and Uriah Heep, to form ASIA. In 1982 and 1983 their sound was EVERYWHERE. Heat of the Moment…Don’t Cry…The Smile Has Left Your Eyes…Hold Me Now…Only Time Will Tell. Those were all great songs. Though it never hit the radio…the song Heroine (the woman….not the drug…) is my favorite. John Wetton at his best.
In 2008 this original line-up made a comeback (Heroine was on the return album PHOENIX) and made many more great albums.
I always wanted to see these guys. Figured one day I would. In 2009 they played in a small now defunct little joint in Indy. It was in the middle of the week. I wish I would have gone.
Between Justin Hayward and Elton John and John Wetton, I can tell you I have always had a soft spot for English guys whose songwriting appealed to me.
I love music. That is why I make it.
Speaking the rights.
Danny Johnson