trip to da liquor store

The Bunn liquor store is REAL close to my house! Dat makes it so easy to not only become an alcoholic but to maintain your status as such with just a quick walk up da road!

waitin' in line ain't too bad in a small town like Bunn!



...and it's just a short walk home!



pix taken by (9yr. old) Nathan Anderson!

Warren

It was sometime around the days when Chuck went stereo that we got Warren. You know, the replacement for Barney on The Andy Griffith Show? As a general rule I will turn the channel immediately when I see Andy and Opie in color. But just to punish myself I will sometimes watch 15, 30 or even as much as 45 seconds of the "newer" Andy's. Warren, huh?, Warren, huh?, Warren, huh? Warren, huh? Warren, huh? ahhhh! That bit got played so FAST!How in the hell did Andy ever think that this doofass could compensate for such a huge loss as Barney? When Barney left they should'a closed up shop and called it a day. The only savior could'a been Ernest T. Bass. But by that time, it was too late. Ernest T. was left in the dust of the black and white days and (I didn't know this until his recent death) unbelievably was in only 12 episodes! He made a huge imprint on the show! I love when Ernest T. goes back to school and Mrs. Wall-eee asked him to spell "twelve"..his response..."Tweee..L...V!" Beautiful! So hail, to Ernest T.!, hail to Barney! ..and a big 'ol f*ck you! to Warren! Get off my TV!!..you twerp!! Hell, I'da rather had Gomer!














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Oakteam masterlist

When you come to an Oakteam show, you may hear (..and at full volume, I might add!) any one of these ditties...


$ of an education
killin' down in dillon
weather or not
daddy had a wreck
I can give you everything
man, that rocks
yesterday clyde virginia
boyfriend 2
mr. busdriverman
yesterday's you
fat lady in the stands
i love you period
nya nya nya
raindrops*
some other world (woods)
gityoassupda road*
thunderbird*
purple GTO*
you know me*
sunday dress*
check please*
count on it (woods)
$100.00 a week*
you got the look I like (nick lowe)
crazy like a fox (nrbq)
can’t get the one you want*
battleship chains
all dressed up (new 'hoos)
church folks comin'
feel a drunk comin' on*
hi 'n dry*
inez*

(*from "Butterhead")

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All Dressed Up

With apologies to the guys in the OakTeam, and this is absolutlely no slight on those guys because every one of them ROCK MY ASS! I mean seriously,THEY ROCK MY ASS! ..and I have as much fun with them as ANYONE I have EVER played with! And we're talkin' about 28 years worth of gigs here! I can't imagine a better representation of my music than they are! But I gotta say, (well I really ain't GOTTA!.. but if I wanna hurry up and start drinking I GOTTA say SOMETHING!) the recording of "All Dressed Up" on the new Yayhoos record is the best recording of a TA song ever. When you hear it you're gonna have that same feeling as when you first heard "Maggie Mae". It's the same damn thang! It feels like too many cognacs..it's timeless! And I have to say, Timbo and Roscoe did a masterful job of mixing it, as they did on the rest of the record...It's certainly my favorite thing I've done...pretty much, ever!



















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Stones

I swore I wasn't going to. No way. You old farts ain't gettin' me this time. Too late, the wife's already bought the tickets. Well, I'm gonna justify it by saying it's a small venue (which should rock!) and our older son needs to see'm before they croak. Awe hell, who am I kidding?..I wanted to go. It's always loud as hell and mostly fun until they get to the 20 minute version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash". The new record will probably suck and they'll do too many of those songs, kinda the usual thing from them in the last 30 years. In fact, them sucking so bad is what really inspired me to write songs. I had nothing else to listen to so I had to write my own! There were a few songs (OK, more than a few) that I wrote as I imagined the Stones would do them. But believe it or not, a lot of times when I write I sing in a Bob Dylan voice. It's just plain stupid and downright dumb to do that, but it seems to work. Anyway, (how'd I get off on that?) all I wanted to say was that I'm just glad I didn't buy 2 of the $350 seats like somebody else I know! He said he had to go lay down after that purchase! And what's worse, that was money he had set aside to help get "Butterhead" out! So y'all might have to wait another couple of weeks, and once again..it's the damn Stones fault. I guess Macaroon 5 is opening, they haven't announced who, to my knowledge. I Emailed Mac and told him to pull a few strings. I told him that we'd do it for a case of Guiness. Can't beat a deal like that, Mick!

Did I ever tell y'all about how our high school quarterback got drunk as hell one night and walked into his parents room, opened the closet door and pissed all over his Daddy's shoes and then took all of his clothes off and got in the bed with them? Remind me to tell you about the ass beatin' he got from his Dad.











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had a lot to dream...

Man! I had the wackiest dream this morning! Fo real! In technicolor! My neighbor, Chick (...who's blog-worthy by himself, he's the one that went to San Antonio and came back talkin' about "the Alimony". Took me a while to figger out he was talkin' about the Alamo!) and I were in my back yard trying to understand what had just happened. Burn marks everywhere, my yard had just been cut into an M.C. Escher drawing with interlocking BEARS! Then rising from the trees in the front yard was a huge burning orange flying saucer. We, of course, were astonished as it slowly flew away. I followed it, and as I walked into the front yard I noticed a line of cars and about 2 hundred people lined up and going into the house across the street. The funny thing was that they all had North Carolina Tarheel basketball jerseys either on or in their arms. So I figgered it was some playa's in there signing autograghs. I got in line. When I got into the room where the autograghs were being signed, there sat none other than Lynyrd Skynryd! Not being a fan of them, I was very pissed off that I had wasted all that time in line. But I DID come out with some very cool Lynyrd Skynyrd tank tops. I really liked the brown one with green letters. I woke up, pissed off, mostly cuz I really wanted that damn tank top!













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what were you thinkin'?

We've all heard Dr. Phil utter this famous phrase. So real quickly I wanted to share what I was thinkin' when I wrote the songs on "I'll Drink to That!". "$of an Education" is a phrase I heard Keef mumble during a drunken interview. He was refering to a mistake he had made and I thought "That's a cool way of putting it!" and it stuck with me for a long time. I even tried to get Dan to help me write it on one of my trips to Nashville. He thought it was stupid so one day when I was beatin' the hell outta my Telecaster the whole thing just kinda popped out ..like a cuddly little baby. "Daddy had a Wreck", you may have heard me say before was my answer to "Crawlin' from the Wreckage". Mission accomplished, 'nuff said. "Killin' down in Dillon" came about when I was reminding myself about how kids from North Carolina used to go to Dillon, SC to get married. Back when I was growing up, you could get "hitched" there (to your cousin...just kiddin'!) at 15 years old. Not sure if it's still that way. Wanda is such a beautiful hick name! It just took off from there. "Boyfriend 2" I wrote on a train coming back from NYC. I rolled it around in my head for about 4 hrs. so I would be sure not to forget it. Singing it to myself over and over and over... "Safety First" is such a corny phrase. It was just beggin' me (but very politely I might add) to write a song about wearing rubbers. I played drums left handed/footed to insure a really dumb beat! "Nastiest House" I'm afraid really was written about my house. Not all that stuff about the cockroaches and rats and food on the table from last week but it DID start when I went in my kids room and couldn't see the floor. They had gotten a little out of contol so I just started singing the first line and the situation just got nastier as I wrote it. "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" started when I was thinkin' of what my ideal girl would be. "She never thinks that the music's too loud" pretty much says it all. That's cool. "Nya Nya Nya" I wrote with Big Al. It started as a "who cares what you tell us, we're gonna do what we want" kinda thing. It took a turn for the stupid when we spit out the lines: "We'll use words that nobody understands...like..nya nya nya nya...."VERY Third grade of us. Thass why I love writing with him. Anything goes as long as it's stupid enuff! Those are my favorite kind of songs. "37 Miles in Reverse"...Speaking of stupid! I was tryin' to write the most bizarre Bo Diddley song ever, when I wrote this, obviously after too much caffeine. I think it was based on a friend of ours (I know his name but I ain't gonna tell you) who was kinda crazy, like REALLY crazy, not drunk but CRAZY! I'm pretty sure this song started when somebody told me that he had driven around he entire Beltline (6 lane expressway around the city of Raleigh) in reverse. This blew my mind, and I took it a step (or a mile) or 2 further in this song. "Mr. Busdriverman" is one of my favorite songs ever. Just the name itself cracks me up, I don't know why. But that's what started that ball rolling, just saying Mr. BusdriverMAN made me laugh! "Church Folks Comin'" is a true story. It was a Sunday afternoon and 2 church ladies were walking the neighborhood, knockin' on doors to invite everybody over to the church. They were one house from ours when I said "Screw that!..Honey, you gotta deal with these ladies comin' down the road, I'm gonna take a drive through the country!" And that's what I did...and wrote this song. They were just leaving when I got back. I got the "Thanks a lot!" eye from Grace. "Stay Away from Your Heroes" I wrote with Al. We were just talkin' about how we had heard some of our heroes were real pricks and how we didn't wanna ever get to know them. It's just better that way.
















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sign tha' guestbook

Just a few folks have signed in on the guestbook at www.olymicasskickinteam.com but the ones that have are pretty hilarious. I'm looking forward to reading more of them. Please do it, I need the comic relief! I've spent some time today re-typing lyrics from all my records and let me tell you boy!...you wanna talk about fun! This is only the kinda fun that you read about. This is so much fun in fact that I think it might be toddy time! Plus, my ass is gettin' sore sittin' on this damn hard ass chair! Now, go sign in so's we know who ye are!!












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ret wine

Here's a few suggestions for your ret wine dranking pleasure. Don't ask me about whites cuz I have no desire to drink a glass of cold cat piss that gives me headaches. So here go some of my favorites..In the $100 dollar and up range, spend your money on...Dominus Estates ('01) or Silver Oak ('00) Cabernets from Napa. Believe it or not, these wines are a STEAL at that price. Sounds like a lot of money but when you taste them you wanna send'm MORE money! In the $50 range..buy you a bottle of that Amarone (Bolla makes a great one for that price, some are higher). In case you're not famaliar, Amarone is a wine made from grapes that have turned to raisin. This stuff is awesome! It's kind of a cross between a great Cab and a Port, but not as sweet. This is one that we usually save for Thanksgiving or Christmas. They are usually at least 5 years old. My buddy, Larry, found a bottle of '96 in his basement last year and shared it with us and it was UNbelievable! In the $20 range go for the Seghesio Zinfandel ('03) from Sonoma. The '02 was #11 on Wine Spectator's list of Wines of the Year last year. Of course, when I went to look for it they wanted $30 for it instead of the $12 that WS listed it at. But the '03 is a really great wine and worth every penny. Now we're getting into the range of wines that are just great every day (and I mean EVERY day!) wines, the $7-$10 variety..My fav is the Kenwood Old Vine Zin (Lodi '01), $10. Next would be the Bogle Old Vine '02, (the '03 is not as good, look for the '02) about $9. Old Vines are what they say they are, wines made from grapevines (well, not the VINE but the damn grape!..jeez!) that are at least 40 years old. Ancient Vines are at least 100 years old, Kenwood makes a great one of those for about $20. Dancing Bull Zinfandel ('02) and Smoking Loon Cabernet ('02) are 2 other really good every day wines that are about $8. In the $6-$7 range, there's not much. I go Australian, Chilean or Spanish. Below that and you're just wanting to get drunk, so save your money and get a $2.99 bottle of Thunderbird. Now you know what I drink. (Well, except for the T-Bird!)


















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lost another one to rock and roll

Man, I had high hope for my oldest son, Will. He's really smart, good at math and knows his way around a computer. In fact he makes skateboard videos and sets'm to music. The guys in the videos are landing on the beat and its a full production that he's assembled right here on this little computer we have at home. But he's got it in his mind that he's gonna be a rock star and tour the world the rest of his life. Problem is, there's nothing I can say to dissuade him. He's only 15 and he's technically about 10 times better than I am on drums. He's really solid and steady so, at his age if he keeps it up, he WILL be on the road gigging the rest of his life. He's that good. He has a band of other skateboarders that ain't half bad either. They spent all day in the studio recording 4 new songs yesterday. Like Father, like son...maybe not...maybe better. That's what we all want anyway, right? Check'm out at...www.purevolume.com/mynewbestfriend
We had a blast last night celebrating our friend, Bob Davis' 47th birthday. Bob Got his start as roadie for The Fabulous Knobs and The Woods. He now is a road manager for bands like System of a Down and some other big time acts, like.. believe it or not...Clay Aiken! I drank 5 beers! God! Ever since I quit drinking beer about 7 years ago I've really lost the taste for it and it was usually the last resort to quenching my alchoholic thirst. I DO like a Guiness or (maybe)2 every now and then but I NEVER drink that many beers any more, red wine..yeah, 5 glasses sounds about right. Anyhoo..we ran into bunch of our old friends which is USUALLY fun and in this case it was. Especially seeing Bob's Ex, Sherry, who flew out from San Fran for the occasion.














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2nd record

I was thinking about my second record today. About how great it is and how I wish more than 40 people had heard it. I would change some things about it though. I wouldn't have let ESD record dude, Steve Daly, talk me into doing "Street Fightin' Man". "One Good Heart" wouldn't be on there either, I kinda hate it. But songs are like taking pictures, ya gotta take some bad ones to eventually get a good one. "Man, That Rocks!" would still be there but it wouldn't have that stupid tape delay on the vocal, AND it WOULD be listed with the rest of the songs on the back of the record. That cover went through 5 different people proofreading it and NObody caught that!
I had a lot of fun making that record cuz I just stayed home for 3 weeks with my little Fender Pro Junior cranked wide the hell open with either my black Tele or my Jerry Jones (tuned in 5 string open G) plugged in. I played a lot of the guitars on that record. None of my solos would compare to Mike Krause's but I did play about 7 and most of'm did not suck. So after 3 weeks of putting keeper guitars and bass (all Jack) to a scratch vocal and drum machine, I took the 8 track ADAT machine over to Wes Lachot's place, dumped it to 2 inch tape and played drums to it. I'd heard the songs so many times at that point that most of the songs only took one take. Singing took about 2 days. Wes was hard on me. I had to sing them perfectly for him and I was glad about that. All in all, I'm pretty proud of that one but there's one other thing I would'a changed about it. I wouldn't have had the CD release party on the same night that Hurricane Fran tore the ass end out of the city of Raleigh! (That's another horrifying story unto itself!)
I'm pretty proud of the first record too but for different reasons. I'm proud of the way it sounds (HUH? are you kidding me?) for one thing, since it was recorded entirely on CASSETTE!... four track cassette no less. It was just a bunch of demos that I had put together like a record and Steve Daly (who heard it thanks to Roscoe!) liked it just the way it was. Some of my favorites that we do live, "Weather or Not", "Yesterday Clyde Virginia", "Fat Lady in the Stands" (and others that we should be doing) are on it. My son, Will, really wants us to do "You Don't Like Me" live. It WOULD be fun. We did it back when it came out. "Ladies Last" is another fun one to do live. It has a stoopid groove!














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liftoff!

Big Daddy Dave has been workin' hard and finally we have liftoff on the new Oakteam site. Just remember, we're just getting it up so there's gonna be a lot of stuff we've stolen from my site and therefore some stuff you've seen before. But now you have a chance to checkout clips from the new record, there's lyrics, more pictures and the ability to check out what ALL of the guys in the Oakteam are about, even get in touch with'm. Your feedback is more than welcome so hit "contact" and let the webmaster know what you think.

here ya go:

www.olympicasskickinteam.com



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whassupTA?

Notta damn thang! BUT! The new ass-kickin' site will be up and running within hours! ..and you're gonna love it. That's the news of the day. Other than that, I'm still looking for a 26 X 14 marching band bass drum to purchase. I used Roscoe's in the studio (Cowboy Technical Services, Brooklyn, NY..plug, plug!) on the new Yayhoos record and loved it. That thing played itself! I wish I knew a lacrosse coach or somebody that worked at a high school who would be able to talk to their band director and see if they could part with an older one. They could use the money, right? I went to my son's school, Bunn High School (How sweet would that be on the front of my kit?!) and left a message for the band leader there, but so far he hasn't called. Anyway, I'll put that link up to the new site as soon as Big Daddy Dave says it's OK. Word!







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mac's scrapbook

Ian MacLagan's manager/assistant/friend, Lynne asked me to make a scrapbook page for Mac as part of a 60th birthday present to him. She's taken pictures of all the pages so you can see my efforts as well as the efforts many of Mac's other friends...

http://www.ianmclagan.com/scrapbook3.htm

Click on each one to enlarge. There are 3 scrapbooks so make sure you view them all.








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Bunn style Tequila Lime Shrimp

OK class, this is a VERY tasty meal that I treat myself to on days like today when the people I'm painting for have bought the cheapest shit Lowe's brand of interior oil based paint and expect it to look like Benjamin Moore. Here's the first step, go into the Bunn Food Lion and walk PAST the "seafood section" (if you stop, you will be sorry, and no longer hungry), head over to the frozen section and grab a bag of P & D Jumbo Raw shrimp. Walk over and get a bag of limes, 5 for a dollar. Walk to the front of the store and stand in line for 10 or 15 minutes before paying. Then, on your way home stop at the Bunn Liquor store and get a bottle of Jose Cuervo Clasico, it's the white tequila with the blue label. Say "hey" to the church folks who are coming in as you are leaving. Drive home. Put frozen shrimp in cold water in your kitchen sink and forget. Cut lime into wedges. Open tequila and pour a double shot. Place shot glass to bottom lip and throw back yo head! Grab lime wedge, bite and suck. YOWZA!
Repeat the last 4 steps until bottle is empty. Now, that's a tasty meal and always real a crowd pleaser! Bunn appetit!










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TA rocks?

I wanted to defend myself a bit about the name of my website. terryandersonrocks seems to imply a rather extreme amount of self importance and I've always hated that about it. It's like "Who the hell does this guy think he is, telling everybody that HE ROCKS!" But at the time when I was choosing a domain name all of the ones that I really wanted TA.com, terryanderson.com, T.Anderson.com, Oakteam.com and others less pompous were taken. I ended up using terryandersonrocks because one of the clubs that I've played (pretty much my whole musical career here in Raleigh) was The Brewery and their website is (or was, I haven't been there since my man Kenny sold out) Breweryrocks.com. So I tried that and putting "rocks" on the end of my name DID discern which Terry Anderson it was. I definitely didn't wanna be confused with the radio personality in LA or the hostage journalist who was held captive for so long by Iran! Once the new site is up though, www.olympicasskickinteam.com, everything about the band will be on THAT site (and it's coming together quite nicely). But just as soon as that site is up, my original site terryandersonrocks will be about nothing but ME, ME, ME!! It's all about ME!..in sickening doses! How long I slept, what I had for dinner, who I talked to and why, where did I go?.....nothing but ME, ME, ME!! I CAN'T WAIT!!
















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Butterhead?

Record companies and booking agencies the world over will be receiving CD's from me this week. The cover has our name, the list of songs on the CD and a picture of a dog with the word "Butterhead" underneath. I'm sure upon seeing this they will all turn their heads much like the dog's. "Butterhead? THAT'S what they're calling this thing?" Well, maybe and if we do here is why. On a recent road trip to Lexington KY, we arrived and were making our way towards the club when OakTeam keyboard nut, Greg Rice, looks down at the car below. (We roll in Dave's 15 passenger van and it sits up pretty high.) "There's a butterhead!" he blurts out. "Huh?" I say, "What the hell are you talking about?" "That girl down there...Everything looks good BUT HER HEAD!" he says. We die laughing and of course then I get the dumbass idea to name the record that! Oh brother!












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silver bullet

My friend, Dick Hodgin (we call him"Shoot off"...don't ask why!) told me this story about a friend of his that got stopped for a DUI. The cop asked for his registration and license. Dude grabbed a silver tin foil chewing gum wrapper, balled it up, handed it to the officer and said "This silver bullet will tell you who I am!"
Oh man, I love that story.
Speaking of Dick, we (The Fabulous Knobs) did a gig in Greenville(SC) with one of his bands, Moonpie (later named The Accelerators). And unfortunately after the gig we got into a fight in his house(where we were staying) and his wife asked Dick to please have us shut the hell up. So we did.... for a bit..then we started talkin' about whatever it was that had pissed us off in the first place..and then it was on again! His wife (@3am!) said ...."git them the hell outta here!" So we grabbed our shit and left, 5 hours from home. David (Enloe) SWORE he could drive all the way back and IMMEDIATLEY pulled the car into the ditch coming out of the driveway! Keith (Taylor) said, "I'll take over". Drove for about 30 mintes and then let David take back over. So from Greenville, SC to Raleigh, NC ..the ONLY song that played for the next 5 hours was Dave Edmunds version of NRBQ's "Me and the Boys". THE ONLY SONG! FOR 5 F-ING HOURS! Brutal! We heard it maybe ...ohhhh.....200 times! But we got home safe!






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Pulp Fiction & my Mom

Bravo had a Pulp Fiction marathon last night and even though I own the movie on DVD I sat there spellbound by it watching it once and then half again before passing out. What really sucked was how chopped it was. Hey! you MF-ers, why the F can HBO play the un-F-ing-cut version but you guys gotta replace all the F, S, A, N and GD words? I've never understood that. Do they (or we) have to pay extra to allow those words on THAT cable channel? I'm sure there's some GD, MF-ing, S-A FCC law about it. That's an amazing movie though, chopped or not, and I understand now how my Mom could have watched "Dirty Dancing" 47 times. Not that I could watch that movie once, but just how certain movies become part of your life.
Speaking of my Mom, yesterday was the fifth anniversary of her death. Sometimes I think I'm a terrible son because I almost never go to her grave to lay flowers or do any of that stuff that people do. But she knows that I love her and miss her very much and I just feel like I can say that from anywhere in the world that I am. It's just really hard to go over there. I don't like being reminded of her death but I do remind myself frequently of her life. I have a large portion of my backyard dedicated to her. It's a garden full of Japanese maples, flowers, a small pond, a bench and a stone made for me by Ron Bartholomew, Dave's brother, that says "MeMa's garden". That where I go to talk to her.














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shitboy is back!

the smeller's the feller

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Oh my GOD! The little boy with the paint pealing ass has come back to spend the night. You might remember me tellin' about my neice's son who was born with about half of his intestines. Well evidently, the amount of intestines you have corresponds with how bad your poop stinks! This 6 year old kid whose butt would fit in a medium saucepan has done it again. I'm in the kitchen on the other end of the house with the door closed and all of a sudden the smell of vomiting maggots on a dead skunk starts to waft through the room. NO! It can't be! Sure enuff, it's him! Holy shit! Get the candles! Where's the spray! Turn on the ceiling fans! Open the windows! (I know it's 95 out there!) Everybody out and quick! I gotta rig something up for that boy. Maybe a 1 gallon bucket outside would do it? ....God help us! ....GOD HELP US!!!
















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tidbits

Practice last night was a hoot! At first it was scheduled for 8-8:30, then I got a call from my friend, Bob Davis, road manager dude guy for (at the present) System of a Down. He said the guys in Watershed (Columbus, OH) are gonna be crushed if you don't come to their gig tonight, "they worship at the alter of Terry Anderson!"...Uh..yeah right... "whut time, Bob? .."9-ish.." "Well, I have practice!" .."Screw that! Y'all know them damn songs! Git yo ass down here!" .."OK, I'll watch the first song or 2 and THEN go to practice!" Thass what I did. I walked in the back door of the Lincoln Theater, went straight to the dressing room, looked in the fridge and grabbed a Guiness..."Anybody looking for Terry Anderson?" "Hey!!!!" (....it was on!) We talked until it was time for them to go on. They hit the stage and rocked like hell. I really REALLY hated to leave! They were great! But I HAD to git to practice! Grabbed another Guiness and ran out the back door...
I walked in and everyone was pretty much ready to go...so I told them that the record was done so we should start preparing for the CD release party...and I wanted to play the record in order right off the bat when it happened, prolly Sept. We rocked like ass, ran the record down, then left! Best version of "Check Please" EVER! Guess I was inspired by the Watershed guys!

Can't wait to hear the new mixes that Roscoe sent me of the new Yayhoss stuff in the morning!

Once at a Satellites show, Steve Marriott got up and killed everybody in the house, especially me! He brought the place down and then walked off stage and straight to the bar. I said, "Steve, let me buy you a drink!" He hollered out to the bartender..."triple Chivas!" ...You bastard! That was 9 dollars! Oh well, I can say I bought him a drink. What's 9 bucks? That was one rockin' mutha..shut yo mouth!

How many Americans have died in Iraq thusfar? 1760?
From now on, any American president that starts a war should send HIS first born to lead the charge! This shit sucks! I can't imagine losing one of my kids in this bullshit!
Where does it end?






















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song origins- I Love You Period

Back in the very early '90's I was helping my Dad with his painting business between gigs. It's something I've always done in my spare time and I have since his retirement taken on a long list of my own (and might I add: very happy) clients. But I decided long ago that if I DID ever do it for a living I would do it by myself. I watched my Dad for years stress over his employees. They would either not show up or if they did, they might be drunk. But I wanted to work by myself for a couple of other reasons too. One was that I needed to make my own hours, get off whenever I wanted or needed to be off. The other reason is that I didn't want to listen to somebody else's bullshit all day long! Working with my Dad, there was always someone who would ride my ass or get on my nerves. (I'm sure none of you have anyone like that at YOUR work!) Well, one of these people happened to be my Dad's girlfriend at the time, a B.I.T.C.H. And every fourth week it was hell on Earth being around her, obviously corresponding with her menstrual cycle. I was priming a kitchen at the seminary in Wake Forest when we all had to endure one of these weeks. The fumes of the oil based Kilz I was using started to get to me....and she was REALLY getting to me! So I cynically said to myself "I love your period!". Of course, from there it went to "I love you period" and the words of the story pretty much fell straight outta my mouth in order as I scrambled to write'm down that fast. A year or so later Dan Baird and Bill Lloyd produced a six song demo for The Woods with money we'd gotten from RCA. When RCA passed on us (we were shocked and heartbroken...NOT!), Dan calls me and says, "What would you think of me covering your song I LOVE YOU PERIOD?" I said, "Let me think about it for a..YES!" Needing more songs for his first solo record, I loaded up the truck with some more stupid-ass ideas and hauled'm to Kentucky. We rocked like hell in a building out back of his house that we affectionately referred to as "The Rock House". Many of the songs that didn't end up on Dan's "Love Songs for the Hearing Impaired" were used in their "Rock House" form on his "Out of Mothballs" CD.













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song origins-Battleship Chains

Between September of 1984 and July of 1985 two bands had given up. The Satellites had called it quits after years of playing gigs, sending out demos and trying in every way to make it. 400 miles to their north, The Fabulous Knobs called it quits. Still drawing big crowds Debra, the singer, goes solo with her band Demilo with Arms. There was so much baggage in that band though, everyone was ready for it to end. The rest of the guys in the Knobs, Jack, David and I, called Dan upon finding out about their break-up. Dan was interested so he came up and rehearsed a few times until we started booking gigs as The Woodpeckers. Dan would take the train up from Atlanta that arrived in Greensboro (an hour and a half from Raleigh at the time) at 2am, so we would always fight about who's turn it was to pick him up.
One of the weekends of May '85 we played at a place called Clawson's in Beaufort, NC. Well on the Friday night I had so much fun (code for: got drunk as HELL!) that I wanted to sleep in my new van instead of the rental house we were all staying at. So that drunken night that I spent in that van was the night that I had a dream about a band and they were playing this song... and it was rockin' as hell! 9am or so I staggered back up to the house. Dan fortunately was up and I started singing it to him. He grabbed a guitar and figgered out the parts I was singing. We played it that night and the crowd loved it. It ended up on some demos that The Woodpeckers did and eventually on the desk of the Elektra rep that gave the reformed "Georgia Satellites" a deal. Y'all know the rest. 'Course we wuz all mad and shit that they had stole our song but we really understood. We were just mad at the situation more than we were them. (shhhhh!...I still like The Woods version better!)













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panty sniffer thanked!

Yeah!!!!!!!!! I just noticed that after weeks of blogging I have finally received my first comment! It's from Karen, a self-proclaimed panty sniffer from up in BC, Canada. And though her comment was a bit snide, snotty and snooty it was well intended. So for this reason I am taking the high road. Now, I COULD go all Nationalist on her ass and sass back with a few "America Jr." comments or start talking "a'boot" this or "a'boot" that. But I refuse to do it. Nor, will I tell her that if she don't like it then why don't she just put them panties on backwards, take a big whiff of that skidmark and get the hell OOOT, EH!? Nope, I'm not doing that either. Know why? Because she's right! Why should anybody in the world give a shit on a stick that I woke up that morning with what resembled a flaming pepperoni pizza on my head? Come on, Terry! You gotta do better than that! But in my defense, I will have to say that not only were my senses dulled by 3 bottles of red wine the night before but it was just a slow news day. But on a slow news day does Brian Williams just stare blankly into the camera? Nope, here's what he does. He sets you up with one of those "Y'all ain't gonna bleeve this shit!" lead-ins like "A 100 year old Alabama grandmother falls out the back door of her trailer, busts her ass and loses one of her favorite Sunday shoes, you'll never guess where she finds it.." Then after 3 Geico commercials, a Levitra ad and then one of those "Like a Rock..Chevy is Ford tough!" commercials (you know the one...there's boulders falling all around this guy in a hard hat and shit!..like that HAT is gonna help!) Brian comes back with.."In the mouth of a dead Grizzly bear.. in the northern woods of Maine... a hunter found a shoe....blah blah blah..." That's what Brian Williams does, makes you glad you're alive on them slow news days and that's what I gotta do! And I have Karen to thank for making me realize that! So thanks for helping to make this a better blog in the future, you 'ol panty sniffer, you! And to show my appreciation I, Terry Anderson, Mr. Songwriterman am gonna write you a song...or a limmerick..or a nursery ryhme..or whatever you wanna call it...

A dark haired blogger named Karen
had not a problem with sharing
that the panties that she once was wearing
she'd sell them to me or to you
But the pair I bought and had gotten
were lost in the mail and hence, rotten
and upon my nose hitting that cotton
I threw them down and said, "Eewww!!"


Now, that's what I'm talkin' A'BOOOOOT!!!
THAT'S a damn blog, EH!?































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Yayhoos stuff

Yayhoos @ Lakeside
Photo by
James Sigman
Jersey City, NJ


Just got some mixes from "Put the Hammer Down!" that Roscoe and Timbo did last week and Holy Guacamole! They're the first 8 songs we cut and if the rest of the record is gonna sound like this!..hold on to your hats! That 26 inch kick drum we used has cut a groove so fat that you could drive a semi truck through it (and pass another one!) I've really never heard anything like it! Just imagine AC/DC and The Rolling Stones making a record together in a great modern recording setup. And I love this band for letting me unleash some of my Keith Moon licks. I spent many an afternoon after school beating the hell outta my kit to "Quadrophenia", "Who's Next" and "Who's on First" (NO WAIT! that was an Abbott and Costello routine...might be cool with a rap beat behind it though..hmmmm..) Anyway, glad to see those afternoons weren't spent fer naught! ..y'all ain't gonna be disappointed!

I'll tell ya where to stick it!

The new Oakteam record, "Butterhead" (I'll tell more about that name later), is not unlike my other records in that the record store guy is not gonna know what section to put it in. He'll hear "Purple GTO", "$100 a week" and "Rehab" and wanna stick in the COUNTRY section. Then he'll put on "Check Please", "Hi n' Dry" and "Sunday Dress" and wanna stick over there in the ROCK section. Well let me help ya out buddy. Here's where it belongs, lets cover all of our bases and put it in the COMEDY section. Right there behind Louie Anderson, the next one should be Terry Anderson and The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team "Butterhead"...perfect!

$100 a week

Damn that woman drinkin' all my liquor
out the door's where Im gonna kick'r
If she don't straighten up it won't be long
I hope that ugly 'ol head's a hurtin'
and I know one damn thang's for certain
She better get'r a job or she's gonna be gone...

Can't pay the rent
Put shoes on the baby's feet
It's all been spent puttin' food on tha table to eat
And we both know I can't afford to go down to the liquor store
and buy enough for her and me
on a $100 a week..

That bitchin' and a moanin's gonna drive me crazy
Sittin' 'round the house gettin' fat and lazy
Lookin' through the catalogue
Seeing what she's gonna git next
While the bills are pillin' up by the hour
Day care, credit cards, water and power
Guess there's nothing to do but write another bad check!

Can't pay the rent...












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it didn't look like that on the box!

Woke up this morning and looked at myself in the mirror and thought my head was on fire! Damn! What the hell happened! Oh..I remember now. When my wife was dying her hair I accidently said "Gimme some of that!..No, not that!..the hair dye!" My neighbor came over and said "I think it's gonna be red" "Naw man, see..right here on the box..that's how it's gonna look, just dark brown", I say....






Last night we had a lovely time over at Alison (Guitartown moderator) and Rock and Roll Johnny's house. She has a new job with a wine distributor and asked us to come by for a "tasting". There was a great spread of cheeses and fruits that we grazed on to compliment the wines. Everything we tried was awesome but after the fourth glass of the French malbec, I went straight from tasting to gulping. I really love the Chilean wines though and the reserve Cab she had won over all of'm. From the "It's a small world" category, it turns out that her Mom gave the incredible eulogy at my favorite uncle's funeral. He was important to a lot of people's lives in Hickory(NC) and he and her mom were best friends. Kinda wild, I named my first son after him (and Otis Redding).
We listened to the new Oakteam CD and got thumbs up from her 14 year old daughter, Taylor. When you can please the kids, you got a hit! Remember that!
And I just remembered that I have a hangover...I'ma go lay down..





















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come on. boy! git ye some!

I hope y'all are savin' these blogs cuz I ain't gonna tell these damn stories again after the record comes out(which should be no later than Sept.1!)...but I was just laughin' about a part in the song "Gityoassupda Road". Right before the solo I yell.."Come on boy! git ye some!". Well here why that's funny: The story goes like this.. as told to me by someone who shall remain nameless, but for the purposes of this story we'll just call him....umm....Dan (since that's what everybody else calls him). But I'm told that Jeff G. (figger it out!) who produced some records by the band Kansas, was on the road with them (Kansas). He was running sound or just hanging or whatever. But anyway, one night he had to room with one of the guys in the band who just happened to pick up a rather large redneck bundle of love...and after everybody got cozzy Jeff hears some moaning in the next bed.."uhhh..yeah..thass right...come on boy!...git ye some!....yeah boy...uh!....git it!" Pretty hot, huh?
Oh my GOD! Just thinking about it makes me wanna ...FO UP!!!


















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Brushes with fame

Now, y'all know my song "Stay Away from your Heroes" which are words that I usually live by. I don't wanna blow the myth about these people I look up to by meeting them and finding out what a prick (ie. Dave Edmunds, Chuck) he or she is. I've never been someone who would walk up and ask for an autograph. But I have been fortunate (or unfortunate, however you feel about these people) enough to hang out at some pretty cool gatherings of talent in my day. Back in '86 The Woods were being courted by a rather smarmy rip-off manager type dude who shall remain nameless that used tickets to an MTV Award Show afterparty as a representation of how connected he was. So we went and drank and rubbed elbows with the hot artists of the day. There was Tina, Sting and the dudes from 10cc sittin' at one table. Grace Jones and Robert Palmer (damn, he was short! RIP!) were all over the place. Cher was in the house! WooHoo! So you get the idea, big deal, I didn't give enough of a shit about anyone there to even strike up a conversation. Hell, most of them had no myth to blow with me. Another time, when The Satellites were opening for Tom Petty (I believe it was the tour that they had to finish out for the slack-ass Replacements, who got the boot) Dan got us back stage before the show. This was at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill. Dan introduced me to Tom as the guy who wrote "Battleship Chains". "That's a great song" Tom says. "You got a few yourself" was all I could muster. I mean, I love Tom Petty. I was one of the first people to ever have a Tom Petty record, when he was on Shelter and wasn't on the radio, but I just DON'T wanna talk to these people! He then stood back and did a magic trick for us all. He put a lit cigarette in a hankerchief, balled it up and unfolded it and of course the cig was gone. Pretty impressive, and no smoke later billowed out from his back pocket either!
Got to meet Ronnie Wood once. He was like Mac, just seemed like an old friend. We (The Woods) opened for The Gunslingers Tour he did with Bo Diddley (Bo is another whole story all together..but a good one..) and he came back and shook our hands (Jeez! he's got huge hands..he'd a been a good basketball player..for Carolina..but I digress..as usual). No blown myth there. Back to Bo for a second. That dude was a trip when we got the chance to be his band! He gave us 5 minutes worth of instructions before the show. He told me "Don't play my beat!" He wanted me to play a straight beat over all of his songs that were famous for "the Bo Diddley beat". Uh... OK Bo, whateva! We did a 2 hr. show that had about 8 songs in it. So needless to say a lot of it was just jamming, but man! It rocked like hell! Cleared the house, and as the club prepared for the second show Bo sat back in the dressing room and told us no less than 50 jokes that he laughed at harder than anyone! It was hilarious. I wish I could remember some of the jokes, there were a couple of really good ones. So we do the second show and it's more of the same, 2 hrs. -8 songs. I woke up the next day and my arms were literally NUMB from playing so much! Bo was great! My most favorite famous run-in though was when The Yayhoos played London in '02 and Ian Hunter came back and sat down. Him and I sat there together and talked about Rock and Roll. "There's not many of us left!" he tells me, putting me and the boys in the same boat with himself. It was pretty unbelievable. I was flashing back to high school, running home to put on my headphones so I could beat the shit out of the drums to my Mott the Hoople records... and here he was telling me that we had just kicked HIS ass! See why I do it?

Love to London, thoughts and prayers....




















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...speaking of record companies!

I ain't seen a f*ckin' penny from Not Lame for "I'll Drink to That!". I've sent countless Emails to the dude (the last one was pretty simple, it said:
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????????????????)
I got 2 measly thousand dollars up front which was way less than half of the recording costs and ain't seen squat since! He DID fly us to Chicago so we could kick their lame asses at the Pop festival up there once. That was it! Pitiful! ....and ya wonder why we wanna put the new one out ourselves? Hell, we might as well..same difference!

...ain't this fun?!















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I will kiss your ass!

Just for shits and giggles, I sent out a few Emails to some record companies to let'm know I have a great new record that is mastered and ready to go if they wanted to hear it.
Not a mass Emailing and none to major labels, but a hand chosen few small ones that I thought would be a good fit for the Oakteam. (Don't worry Bloodshot, I didn't send you one...."Oh, that's just Terry..") I sat down and took the time to search out contact names and sent out something like this:

"...and the hits keep coming!

Terry and his band The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team have a new record. It's 13 butt-bumpin' hits mastered and ready to go! Former NRBQ guitarist, Big Al Anderson called his last record "I'll Drink to That!" the best record of 2001. See why artists like Etta James, The Georgia Satellites, Dan Baird and Jo Dee Messina have covered his songs. Email back and ask for your advance copy now!"

I will fly all over the world, come to your house and personally kiss your ass if I get ONE reply. Like I say, I know this ain't the way ya get a record deal and honestly I really don't want one. Everybody involved will make three times as much money (or more) if we put it out ourselves. That being said, and being more and more known, the record companies days are numbered so they should maybe think about a "kinder-gentler" approach. The only thing they got going for them that my website ain't got is their publicity networking....and anybody can hire a publicist.

Thanks a bunch to whoever bought my guitar, I already miss it!






















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Email love

I received a very nice Email today from Nigel about an exchange he had with Ace Andres about his song, "A Terry Anderson Song". Thanks for the kind words, guys:

Ace,

I'm a big Terry Anderson fan and really enjoyed your song " a terry anderson song". I started listening to Terry's stuff after I bought the Yayhoos album. Terry's stuff rocks. What made you write a song about him? -Nigel

Nigel,

As for Terry; well, back in the mid 90's I use to live in LA. I saw actresses that would get leading roles in primetime TV shows because they would have sex with the producer. I knew bands that would open for me, that would get contracts with labels because they stood for the right "cause" or weren't afraid to embarass themselves. (we call those Acts). I said in a newspaper interview once that I'd rather be an unknown artist than a major "act". Terry is the epitome of that statement. He's way to good to be just remembered as a guy that wrote some Sats songs.

He got my respect when he was quoted once in an interview saying that writers today are so predictable when they rhyme something. Then he went on to show how he took the time to rhyme "Schwarzzenegger". That was a major "paradigm" shift for me. My songwriting improved and mostly because I started studying Terry's songs.

So my song "A Terry Anderson Song" that says I wanna hear a Terry Anderson Song, really started out as "I wanna Write a Terry Anderson Song" . The essence of the song is that, I'm tired of the crap that Hollywood is feeding us. I'm reminded of a time back in the late 50's when Buddy died. Hollywood flooded the market with little punk asses like "Fabian" or "Pat Boone". (thus you have the Jessica or Britney reference) And if you bought Terry's "I'll drink to that" Album, my song will make even more sense. Terry's music is better than any of the crap that's being bought and sold by the labels. AND Terry is true to Rock and Roll. He hasn't capitulated and started doing "Novelty" songs. I once asked him how long the public would still listen to rock and he said "until we die".

I respect him and his music. He's a nice guy. And there aint a lot of "Artists" in this industry that I will say that about. To be honest He's one of the only artists I would pay money to see these days. -Ace
























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one day left..

to bid on my guitar. It's a Jerry Jones single cut with 2 lipstick pick-ups. I used it a lot on my second record. I had it on a page called "T-Bay" on my website but the danged 'ol webhost, Earthlink, made me take it off. Something about sellin' stuff makes it a business instead of a personal website. Whatevah! Check it out..














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red, white and blue

Well, I'm drinking' RED wine (surprise!), I'm WHITE (sorry, that's the best I could do!) and I woke up this morning and made pancakes with the fresh BLUEberrries that I picked yesterday on my Grandparent's (now my Uncle's) land.
I worked on my truffle farm today, just cuttin' grass, aesthetic stuff. No harvesting, that's in Jan. & Feb. I think it's gonna be a good year though. The trees are getting so big that they are shading the whole field. Dark, humid, warm= mushrooms (truffles). Last year they got up to $1800 a pound!
Sorry Spain, but I cook with my truffles and I cook with yours..can't tell the difference. They fill the kitchen with the same sweet earthy smell and taste the same. My favorite is pasta and fresh jumbo shrimp with my creamy truffle sauce!
God Bless America!













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Bonus CD

Spent most of the day Saturday remixing home demos of songs that will be on the new OAKTeam record. They will be included on the bonus/companion CD called "You Can't Bite me with a Monkey in your Mouth!" Also included will be outtakes of bad background singing, really good background singing (ie. "ooze and Oz" from "Raindrops"), an acappella version of "Rehab" plus 5 songs that were completely finished before they were so rudely kicked off the record. "Up" was booted cuz there really was no place for it. A lot of people like the song, it just didn't fit for this record. Same with "Count on it". Mike Krause plays his most amazing solo ever on it, shades of Mick Taylor. But it's a slow song and we already had 2, that's the limit! "Drankin' Buddy" and "Disconnected" sucked lyrically. Shame too, cuz Don Dixon guested on the later and gave a great performance. I have a drum solo (one of the things about rock music that I hate the most!) on "Drankin' Buddy" that's not unlike Mickey Waller's on Rod's version of "I'm Losing You", it had to go. And the other one sliced at the last minute was our version of Big Al's "Crazy Like a Fox". They all together make up another 40-something minutes of fun. We haven't decided about the price yet or if there will be one but the cover will be a fisheye picture of Pilate, the dog that "sang" with me on "Feel a Drunk Comin' on". Ooops! spoiled the suprise.














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TV and sh*t

I'm making my famous Thai red curry coconut soup and watching musicians around the world plead with all their might for the famine and poverty stricken people of Africa. Their points are well taken and I wish I could help, but it's all I can do to feed my bunch and the friends they drag in who help themselves to anything in the fridge. Just as the celebrity sing-along gets started with Sir Paul McCartney they cut away abruptly to the Disney version of AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS! WooHoo! There's a switcharoo for ya, from saving the world to the most insipid show on the planet! Thanks for that ABC!
Speaking of sh*t! Has anyone seen "Being Bobby Brown"? Yeah, me neither. But I did see a clip from it, you know...the one where Bobby's talking about how Whitney had a turd too big and he had to help her get it out! I AM NOT sh*ttin' YOU! That's what he was talkin' about!...Huh?....come on Bobby! You can't tell that on TV! Unbelieveable! Of course, she's trying to get between him and the camera, waving her hands, to keep him from sharing the details. I think I might have a new favorite show!
More turdish tails...my niece's son was over last night. He is truly a miracle baby, born without about half of his intestines. He came close to NOT making it more than once as an infant. Now that he is 6 yrs. old though he can flat stink up a bathroom! You know it's bad when you look in on him and HE'S holding HIS nose! Grace made the mistake of walking in to say "Do you need some"...(runs out, one step from throwing up). Bless his little pea pickin' heart. Him and his sister are both sweet as candy, but damn!...build that boy an outhouse!













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GRAVE..YARD...DEAD!

Jack and I have played together since before the other 2 guys in the OakTeam were born. We had a band from '78 to '84 called The Fabulous Knobs. We worked our asses off in that band, doing 3 to 5 gigs a week. So needless to say, there was a lot of time spent riding around in a van together.
One of our favorite things to listen to was a "Best of Jerry Clower" tape. Jerry Clower was a country humorist from Mississippi who told these great stories about people in the South. Now, lately I've been screaming out "Grave Yard Dead!" at the end of certain songs to which that phrase would be relevant, "Killin' Down in Dillon", "Daddy had a Wreck" and "Thunderbird" in particular. It just flew outta my mouth one night and has stuck. Well, now I remember where it came from. It was the Jerry Clower story about him taking the MCA record executive hunting...
"Yes sir we can go hunting, we'll go down to Uncle Versie's farm." They pull up to Uncle Versie's house and Jerry says "wait here I go ask him". Uncle Vercie says "Yeah, Jerry that'll be fine, y'all can go huntin', but would you do me a favor and shoot 'ol Della the mule for me? She's in bad shape and the boys have gotten so attached to 'er they can't find it in their hearts to do it." So Jerry says, "Yeah Uncle Versie I'll be glad to do that for ya". As he's walking out Jerry's laughing to himself "I'm gonna have some fun with that MCA records dude!"...He stomps to the car, "I can't believe it! You know as good as I been to that man he told me that we can't hunt on his land!" He get's in the car and drives off so fast he's throwing rocks against the house. He stops at the end of the dirt road where Della the mule was standing by the fence. He jumps out with his shotgun and "BLAAOOM! Down 'ol Della went, GRAVE..YARD..DEAD! About that time Jerry hears 3 more shots.. "BLAAOOM! BLAAOOM! BLAAOOM! He turns around and says "Man! what are you doing?" The MCA records dude says, "Jerry, that man made you so mad, I killed three of his cows!"














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Oh Lo'ard!

I woke up this morning feelin' so punished. Did the job thing and still had no money. The bums got it right, man. If you're gonna work your ass off and still not have anything, why work at all? My other question right now is why...My God why.. did I tell my neice that I would babysit tonight?
Anyhoo..Happy Canada Day y'all...I'll put Celine Dion on and drink a Molson for ya. Yeah, right.
Hey, I did hear that Madonna really hates Mariah Carey...uh, duh....who don't? Thanks for sharing anyway.
Nathan's licking his lips again, which reminds me of when I took him to the doctor for a cough a couple of months ago when it was still cold. His lips were really chapped and the doctor said, "Nathan you gotta quit licking your lips". His response without taking a breath was, "Yeah, everybody's got something they can't stop doin', my dad's is red wine". Uh, thanks kid. Needless to say the Doc fell to the floor laughing and I got snickers from the nurses on the way out.
Y'all have a fifth for the Fourth and check out www.shirleyQliquor.com, it's a good 'ol time. We wanna do a record with her.... uh him or whatever it is.
"Tell ya Mama 'nem I said, How y'all durin'?"











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