From this past weekend: Anika Nilles appears to be doing a great job filling some pretty big shoes at the drums and Aimee Mann of ‘til Tuesday fame shows up to sing backing vocal as she did for the song in 1987.
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#HoldYourFire

Summer's going fast
Nights growing colder
Children growing up
Old friends growing older

Freeze this moment
A little bit longer
Make each sensation
A little bit stronger
Experience slips away

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v95t0Q9S6JU&ra=m

RUSH 50 “TIME STAND STILL” LIVE KIA FORUM LOS ANGELES INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA JUNE 7, 2026

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Tom Cochrane of Red Rider fame saw fuckin MAGA coming way back in 1981.
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#AsFarAsSiam

Lunatic Fringe
I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
I can hear you coming
And we know what you're after
We're wise to you this time
(We're wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss&ra=m

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe

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Well, this is a helluvan ear worm on a chilly subzero winter’s afternoon in northern Wisconsin. Another tune I’d rock the radio station to at my first gig in 1984.
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#SlideItIn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCaZ3v9Pfk
Slow an' Easy

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Saturday night nighty jam I fell in love with whilst at radio/TV broadcasting school in Minneapolis in 1982-83. The Michter’s Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey tastin’ mighty fine.
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#Fairchild

She makes me weak with a smile
That must have come from an angel
She can take me from saint to sinner with a touch of her hand
Still I know right or wrong I’ve got to be with her
In Shadowland

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97oeuk7Zhu0

FAIRCHILD - Shadowland (1982 AOR)

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This album and “Making Movies” from Dire Straits - and steady doses of Led Zeppelin, of course - helped me get through my junior year in high school.
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#DontSayNo

We live in confusion times
My world is a vice
Nobody gets out alive
But you can break through the ice
Don't Say No
My wounds are the open kind
I bleed every day
I pray for a change of mind
You can take me away
Don't Say No

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IyngBf7UY

Don't Say No (Remastered 2010)

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