I always think of my best friend growing up, Bob, on my birthday. Our birthdays are only 10 days apart, so for us, July was a busy month full of music new and old.  We always gave each other music.  The last birthday we celebrated together was 1991 as I recall, and he gave me Van Halen’s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge on CD.  Same copy I still own today.

My favourite birthday memory might actually be his party in 1984.  He was into Marvel comics limited series because they were easy to collect, and he loved The Last Starfighter, which was three issues.  Obviously we had to go see the movie.  His parents took us to Mother’s Pizza for dinner and then to the movie.  “It’s better than Star Wars!”  I raved back home.

This year on my birthday I’d like to share this new video I made from Mike and Bob’s Cross Kitchener Adventure.  I set it to the Gene Simmons song “Waiting For the Morning Light”, written by Gene and Bob Dylan.  (Don’t ask why I set it to that song.)  I hope you enjoy this nostalgic music video from about 9 months before Bob gave me that Van Halen CD!

Major events on this date:  Deep Purple broke up in 1976!

If you would like to celebrate this year’s birthday with Harrison and I, you can do that live this Friday at 7:00 PM on Grab A Stack of Rock!  Please join us, won’t you?