Pat Blythe: The Women of Rock – Part Four

Hello everyone. Let’s give a warm welcome to Debbie and Cyndi. Two unique women who dance to their own drummers and whose talents encompass a variety of musical fields in two decidedly different decades. These ladies can pop and rock, disco down or jazz it up, sing the blues, or pour their soul into a ballad. Their many talents run the full gamut and they have led the way for a new kind of woman in music, adding their own twist and turns to rock and roll. Quirky, outrageous, individualistic, sexy, ballsy, entertaining, exuberant, clever, brilliant, artistic and really, really smart.

Geoff Pevere: The Dark

Sometimes I know why a certain song has been selected for heavy rotation in my subliminal playlist and sometimes I don’t. When I started running Badfinger’s ”We’re for the Dark” over and over again in my head, I knew.

I love the song, to put it mildly, and the band is one of my more enduring obsessions. The song is one of the late Pete Ham’s most gorgeous and haunting compositions, a lover’s declaration of safety, commitment and refuge that nevertheless holds teeth in its embrace: I love you, it’s saying, like nobody loves you. I’ll protect you, it says, but only by holding you so tightly no one else can get near us. Our love will be oblivion, it suggests, a place unattainable, impenetrable and final. We’re for the dark.