A New Beach Music Convert

Even though I was raised in the Carolinas, I finished high school in Maryland.  After graduation,  I talked a buddy of mine, “Karpo”, into to going with me to N. Myrtle Beach for a little R&R and skirt chasing!  On the way down, we bought a bootleg cassette tape of the Tams from a gas station and that was his first taste of Beach Music.

Over the years, we’ve stayed in touch by phone, and he called this week saying he was in Florida on his way back to Maryland and planned to spend a couple of days along the coast of South Carolina.  He asked if I had recommendations of where he should stay.  Of course, I said his only choice would by OD (N. Myrtle Beach).  I re-educated him about the Shag and reminded him of the music we heard years ago when we were there.  He asked if I knew a good club where he could go and I told him he couldn’t go wrong at Fat Harold’s.

He called this morning, after spending several days at OD.  He told me he bought 13 CD’s at Judy’s House of Blues and had gone to Fat Harold’s on Wednesday night and said you would have thought it was Saturday because of the large crowd.  He also said he heard the best music he’s listened to in the past 20 years.  While he was just standing and watching the shaggers, a girl asked him to shag and he said he didn’t know how.  She dragged his Yankee ass out on the floor and he said he was shagging up a storm! 

Oh yeah, he wanted to turn me onto this great radio station he listened to while he was there…..94.9 The Surf (of course, I just laughed because I’ve been listening to The Surf for years). He said he plans to come back in the fall and I gave him the website for SOS Fall Migration.

I’d say we’ve converted another Yankee.  Rev. Bubba D. Liverance

Obama or O’Bubba For President????

Hey yall!  If O’Bubba was president there’s a few things I’d be doing differently.

When it comes to bailing out the financial institutions, before I gave them money, I’d have to ask them how a company that’s in the business of giving financial advice and managing people’s money was not able to manage their own money?  And since you’ve done such a poor job, why should I believe you’ll do better with the money you’re asking for?  Then I’d tell them to kiss my ass.

What would I do with the automobile companies?  Last month, I saw Ford advertising their pick-up trucks on TV, and the big push was a new pull out step so you can more easily get into the back of the truck.  On their new Lincoln Navigator, the big push was a new feature that allows the vehicle to “parallel park” itself.  Let me give you dimwits a clue!  A new pull out step or a car that can park itself does not mean shit to the American public.  If you’ll design a full size car or truck that gets 40 miles to the gallon, there will be lines outside every dealership in the country tomorrow!

I can take a $100 cell phone, dial a number in Russia, the signal will go to a satellite in space, and have a conversation with someone 10,000 miles away.  Broadcast television can digitize a TV show, send the signal in space to a satellite, bounce down to my house and I have a device known as a Plasma TV that can decipher that shit and I can watch “House” or “24″ while drinking a beer.  You can’t tell me we don’t have the technology to get 40 mpg on a full size auto or truck. “When you car makers do this, then I’ll consider giving you money”!  “Until then, kiss my ass”!

Stay tuned for more on O’Bubba’s Stimulus Package in upcoming blogs.  Meanwhile, go out and buy one of our records and stimulate the O’Bubba family economy!  Bubba D. Liverance www.revbubbaband.com