The Outside Lands Music Festival Allowed This Old Dude In!

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Preamble: I joke that I’m the oldest person on the grounds at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for the Outside Lands Music Festival – this being my third year going with my sons. The only people I saw that were older than me were performers. The first year it was Tom Jones, last year it was Neil Young, and this year it is both Paul McCartney and Willie Nelson. Outside Lands is an amazing experience and I don’t think age should be a determinant of attendance even if the 65,000 attendees could pretty much all be my kids.

The Evolution of Technology: MTV

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

It’s time to continue our Evolution of Technology series, this time remembering MTV. As usual, I co-write these columns with Professor David E. Weber. I can’t believe I’m even putting “MTV” and “Remembering” in the same sentence, but it’s now been long enough that MTV is part of our nostalgia plus the changes in MTV have been significant in addition to its impact on our culture and entertainment.

Rock N Roll Summer Songs at #DadChat

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Every time #DadChat does music, we have a blast. Don’t we ALL love summer ROCK songs? What are your favorites? Bring your favorite rock ‘n’ roll summer songs and your classic pop ones as well. Back again to co-host is School-of-Rock maven Jason Ramsey! Heck, if you have a fav hip-hop or rap, share ’em! That means, have the YouTube link handy and ready. We’ll have a transcript – as always – so don’t worry about seeing them all during our chat this Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET.

Radio Show about Rock n Roll

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Featured guests:

Wayne Levine (BetterMenCoaching.com) for “The Men’s Room.”

Pastor Drew Sams for “Spiritual Rap.”

Special Guest, Dr. Jennifer Weberman (The Parenting Playground) for “The Women’s Room.”

This radio show about rock n roll is loosely inspired by this column, Rock n Roll: The Cure for What Ails You and the Key to Knowing Your Kids.

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Rock N Roll Love Songs at #DadChat for Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Bruce Sallan

Perhaps the greatest love songs album of all-time and certainly Sinatra’s all-time best!

Every time #DadChat does music, we have a blast. Don’t we ALL love LOVE songs? What are your favorites? Bring your favorite rock ‘n’ roll love songs and your classic pop ones as well. Back again to co-host is School-of-Rock maven Jason Ramsey! Heck, if you have a fav hip-hop or rap, share ’em! That means, have the YouTube link handy and ready. We’ll have a transcript this week so don’t worry about seeing them all during our chat this Valentine’s Day, February 14 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET. Homework for this chat is my #1 column on 12Most.com – 12 Most Classic Romantic Songs for Valentine’s Day.

Special Moment Christmas Songs

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Bruce Sallan

Every time #DadChat does music, we have a blast. Don’t we ALL love Christmas songs? What are your favorites? We brought ALL our favorites Thursday, December 20. Jason Ramsey, our resident music expert, did the co-hosting job as he did beautifully in the past for our music-related chats. Homework for this chat was The Ten Most Beloved Christmas Songs and listening to my annual Christmas Radio Special! See if YOUR favorite Christmas song was there in the #DadChat transcript!

Concert Series: The Foo Fighers, Neil Young, and More People at Outside Lands, 2012

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Bruce Sallan

Culling short videos from 6 hours of footage over 3 days of #OutsideLands, 2012 is quite a challenge, but I’m going for it. This is a few minutes of The Foo Fighters, Neil Young, and lots of people! Look forward to more from our Concert Series!

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Special Moment Songs and Rock ‘N’ Roll at #DadChat

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Bruce Sallan

My son in front of the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame and the title inspiration for my next book!

Don’t we all have those songs that bring back good (and bad memories)? The songs we listened to in high school, those we loved when we first fell in love, and so many others we associate with high and low points in our lives. Jason Ramsey co-hosted Thursday’s #DadChat, October 11 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. PT/9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET. Read the transcript and enjoy all we shared.