{"id":19339,"date":"2026-04-13T08:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:35:10","slug":"all-my-rowdy-friends-have-settled-down-and-they-seem-to-be-more-into-laid-back-songs-nobody-wants-to-get-drunk-and-get-loud-everybody-just-wants-to-go-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19339","title":{"rendered":"All my rowdy friends have settled down. And they seem to be more into laid back songs. Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud. Everybody just wants to go back home."},"content":{"rendered":"
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While not quite the first all-70\u00b0 weekend (see 2024), but 70\u00b0 or better kicks in Sunday and sticks around for the better part of next week\u2026 so the silly decisions will be compounding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Demonized Tally: 1 killed, 29 wounded<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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1979\/1980 at the Spanish Club\/French Club Allies party at Union Local High School LTR Jay Coffield, AZ and Kevin Finsley. For the PodCast being Max was unavailable a new friend Jax sat in for the show and it was a doozy of a trip down memory lane. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIG THANKS to Jeff “Creepy” Brown for making sure the show is staying active. He and Dawn Barbee have been very true and reliable friends over the last year. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Alex and Kevin met when the latter moved to Pine Lake OH from Pennsylvania during their 7th grade (Junior High) year at Belmont Elementary School in 1977. Both outcasts became fast friends and were at times practically inseparable as they chased girls and shared many hijinx as well as their first KISS concert together in 1979. The last concert they saw together was REO Speedwagon (when the band was still cool) in 1982. They last saw each other during graduation from their shared High School in 1983 and would not reunite in person till Oct 2021 in Dallas TX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is their story and some of the music from their journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PLAYLIST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGonna Fly Now\u201d \u2013 Bill Conti
\u201cGod of Thunder Live\u201d \u2013 KISS
\u201cChildren of the Sun\u201d \u2013 Billy Thorpe
\u201cGut Feeling \/ (Slap Your Mammy)\u201d \u2013 DEVO
\u201cYou Dropped a Bomb on Me\u201d \u2013 GAP Band
\u201cAll My Rowdy Friends of Settled Down\u201d \u2013 Hank Williams Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Summer 1985 Martins Ferry Ohio Heath, AZ, Steve Vass and Squiggy<\/p>\n\n\n

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My first day of 2026 playing my Black Beauty on the back porch<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mar 31, 2026 Back Porch Byrons DOGZILLA and Jamo<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ummmmm pickles baby!<\/p>\n\n\n

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As always in the Chicago spring the weather changes more than a bitchy woman’s mood. The cats take full advantage as do I <\/p>\n\n\n

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More frogs in Buena Park on N Kemore<\/p>\n\n\n

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My new friend Jax and I at El Palmar on Thursday April 2 just before I got really sick for 2 weeks, <\/p>\n\n\n

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As of Thursday Melita had been ill for 12 days and I for 10. Whatever virus we caught we got it together. She managed to make it into her new job coughing all day long. Luckily for me it was Passover and I had no work. I again was in bed most of the time. Had to miss a podcast and was unable to update this site for the better half of April. I was unable to eat anything for 3 days but I mad up for that yesterday please, believe me. I was able to somehow watch the latest episode of Daredevil and the first 2 episodes of season 5 of The Boys. <\/p>\n\n\n

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A most worthy benefit of my taste buds being reactivated!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While not quite the first all-70\u00b0 weekend (see 2024), but 70\u00b0 or better kicks in Sunday and sticks around for the better part of next week\u2026 so the silly decisions will be compounding. Final Demonized Tally: 1 killed, 29 wounded 1979\/1980 at the Spanish Club\/French Club Allies party at Union Local High School LTR Jay Coffield,… Read More »All my rowdy friends have settled down. And they seem to be more into laid back songs. Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud. Everybody just wants to go back home.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary-of-a-damned-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19378,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions\/19378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}