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THE POP EXPOSE – Remembering ZZ Top’s ‘Dusty Hill’ Story by Mitchell Smith!

August 1, 2021August 1, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP EXPOSE, The POP-EXPOSE, ZZ Top0 comment

Happy Sunday Morning Everyone. Today I’m paying my respects to a legend, a pioneer, and all around class act, ZZ Top’s, ‘Dusty Hill‘. Dusty Hill was born in 1949 in Dallas and passed away last week in Houston. Hill and his band mates Billy Gibbons and Frank Beard formed ZZ Top in 1969 and have played together right up to his recent passing. ZZ Top exploded in the eighties and Gibbons and Hill are one of the most recognizable people do to their long beards, but the band has a…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Ariana Grande’ By Mitchell Smith!

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffAriana Grande, Music, Pop Music, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Happy Sunday everyone. I hope everyone is having a good weekend. Today I’m getting into one of the top pop artists of this past era, Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande was born June 26th 1993. Grande started out doing local plays but her big break came when she landed the roll of Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon hit show Victorious. She also had a spin off show called Sam and Cat where here and Icarly star Sam lived together. The show didn’t last long but Grande’s music career took off like…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘THE POLICE ‘ by Mitchell Smith!

March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, Pop Culture, The Police, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

The Police are an English Rock band formed in London in 1977. The band consists of lead singer Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart Copeland. This was one of the most influential bands back in the late seventies and eighties. They had a number of hits including Roxanne, Message in a Bottle, and Every Breath You Take. One of my all-time favorite songs is one from their early days So Lonely. They had a very distinct sound from Sting’s vocals to the unique drum play from Copeland. Sting got his…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘Remembering Eddie Van Halen’ By Mitchell Smith!

October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE, Van Halen0 comment

Eddie Van Halen was born in Amsterdam in 1955 and his family moved to Pasadena, CA in 1962. Eddie’s father was a Jazz performer who played piano, clarinet, and the sax. Eddie and his older brother Alex took piano lessons as kids and were both musically talented. Alex began playing guitar and Eddie took up drums. Soon after Eddie took up guitar himself and loved the sound of the electric guitar that he gave Alex his drum set. Eddie and Alex formed a band in 1972 and 2 years later renamed…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Tom Petty’ By Mitchell Smith!

June 14, 2020June 14, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE, Tom Petty0 comment

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers was formed in 1976 and they performed right up to Tom’s death in 2017. Petty was a huge influence on the music world and this was the first and last band I saw in concert. I went to see him in 1992 right after his Into the Great Wide Open album was released. This was such a great album and it was right at the end of my childhood Joes. The Great Wide Open was one of the first albums I bought with my own money…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Boxcar Willie’ by Mitchell Smith!

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Boxcar Willie. Lecil Travis Martin Was born September 1st, 1931. He is best know as his stage name Boxcar Willie. He also was famous for his train whistle sounds and Johnny Cash impressions. Willie was born in Texas and joined the United States Air Force in 1949. There he was a Flight engineer and part of the 136th Air Refueling Wing. He did this up till his retirement in 1976. Willie had wrote a song called Boxcar Willie in the 1950’s and years later he tried out for Chuck Barris’ The…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘RIP Little Richard’ By Mitchell Smith!

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffLittle RIchard, Music, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Richard Wayne Penniman best known as Little Richard passed away on May 9th. Little Richard was born in 1932 in Georgia. He was the 3rd of 12 children. He got the name Lil’ Richard as a child because he was skinny and had a small frame. Richard struggled in school but got involved in music at a young age. He started performing and was given the name Little Richard while playing with Buster Brown’s Orchestra. In 1986 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Richard was a huge…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Mötley Crüe’ By Mitchell Smith!

April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Mötley Crüe is an American Heavy Metal band that formed in 1981. The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee, lead guitarist Mick Mars, and lead singer Vince Neil. The band has stayed pretty much together the whole time with a couple slight breaks do mostly to drug abuse. Although they have had some rough patches, they remain one of the most popular bands. There is a 2019 movie on Netflix about their story called “The Dirt”. The movie is pretty wild and goes into how the band formed and…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Remembering Kenny Rogers’ By Mitchell Smith!

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Kenny Rogers 1938-2020 Rest In Peace –On a Warm Summer’s evening on a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler we were both to tired to sleep. So we took turns a-starin’ Out the window at the darkness The boredom overtook us and he began to Speak.– Kenneth Ray Rogers was born August 21, 1938 in Houston Texas. He was the fourth child out of eight. Kenny had a huge music career where he wrote songs and produced records, but he also was an actor in such…

THE POP EXPOSE – ‘ZZ TOP’ By Mitchell Smith!

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE, ZZTop0 comment

ZZ TOP ZZ Top is an American blues and rock band. The band consists of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard. The trio have been playing together for over 50 years a remarkable feat in itself in the professional music world. This Texas trio started out playing blues in local small town venues. They experimented with a lot of different sounds to create a new rock sound. They started to expand their venues but decided to take a break after a long tour. The band was exhausted and the…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Growing Up Francis Bean’ By Mitchell Smith!

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, Pop Culture, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Frances Bean Cobain was born on August 18th 1992, named after Frances McKee of the Vasalines. Frances of course was born into the grunge life and perhaps the heyday of grunge to Kurt and Courtney Cobain. 2 of the most iconic grunge singers with Nirvana who started the Grunge hype, and Hole 2 of my all time favorite bands. Daughter to 2 of the most powerful singers in history, Frances was sure to be a Grunge goddess, or perhaps it would be an unbelievable burden to try and live up to…

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Get The Skinny on ‘ROCKETMAN’ (Spoiler Warning)!

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffElton John, Movie Reviews, Music, Pop Culture, Rocketman0 comment

Elton John, I was too young to remember him or too young for him to impact me. I do remember his music videos from the eighties and of course The Lion King Soundtrack. He is still standing. I went expecting (whoops) a documentary still autobiography or something like that. What you actually get is a Broadway play. It opens with Elton in his orange horned devil outfit. Elton is walking down a hallway and joins an addiction meeting. From there we start to see his past. Reginald, at a very…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Def Leppard’s Rick Allen’ By Mitchell Smith!

February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Serpentorslair StaffDef Leppard, Music, Rick Allen, The POP-EXPOSE0 comment

Rick Allen was born in November of 1963 in Derbyshire England. He started playing drums at the age of nine and in 1978 at 15 years old Allen replaced Def Leppard drummer Tony Kenning. In 1984 Allen was in a car accident and lost his left arm. This did not stop Allen though, he didn’t put down the drum sticks and went on with the band as Def Leppard tore into the mainstream with hits like, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar on Me, and Photograph. Def Leppard is one of my all time…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘Thriller VS. The Eagles Greatest Hits by Mitchell Smith!

September 2, 2018 Serpentorslair StaffMichael Jackson, Music, The Eagles, The POP-EXPOSE, Thriller0 comment

Last week the Eagles greatest hits album took over the all time number one selling album as it knocked the long standing Thriller album off the top and arising a little controversy about a greatest hits album being allowed in the same category as a single album. I like the Eagles and I like Jackson, while both are not in my top 10 ten artists they both fall into my top 25. I want to break each album down and see where I stand on the debate. This is strictly sales of an album…

THE POP EXPOSE ‘The Regrettes ‘ by Mitchell Smith!

July 29, 2018 Serpentorslair StaffMusic, The POP-EXPOSE, The Regrettes2 Comments

The Regrettes are an American punk band from LA. I heard them on the radio the other night when they played their cover song “A Teenager in Love”, originally by Dion and the Belmonts in 1959, this song has been covered by many bands such as Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Marley, and the Mutations from the Muppet Show. The Regrettes had a nice sound to this remake with lead singer Lydia Night, lead guitar Genessa Gariano, bass guitar Sage Chavis, and drummer Drew Thompson, so I checked out some of…