Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (1987)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun… 

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Gracie Slick challenges, "Let them say we're crazy!" Tell us about something you're glad you did, even though your friends or family may have advised you against it.

Are you kidding? Many, many times in my youth… well take when I flew a hang glider.

2) Slick is the lead singer of Jefferson Starship. This band got its start in 1965 as Jefferson Airplane but updated their name in 1974. Part of their reasoning was that by the 1970s, airplane travel was commonplace. In 2023, an estimated 820 million Americans flew domestically. When was your most recent flight? When is your next one?

It was… in a private jet!

Ha! Beat that! You can read about it here. I doubt very much that I will fly again.

3) Songwriter Albert Hammond said the song was inspired by his divorce. After years of legal wrangling, he was finally free to marry his long-time, long-suffering girlfriend. They're still married today. What is something you waited a long time for? Was it worth the wait?

I waited forty years! And yes it was… to throw the alarm clock out the window after I retired

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4) Albert Hammond is perhaps best known as the one-hit wonder who sang, "It Never Rains in Southern California." Is rain expected where you are today?

 Showers with a possibility of boomers in the afternoon. Tomorrow we are supposed to have severe thunderstorms in the afternoon.

5) He co-wrote the song with Diane Warren. In January, she lost her home to the Los Angeles fires. When a friend is confronted by heartache or tragedy, what can you say or do for them? What shouldn't you say or do?

I am the wrong one to ask, I am horrible with words. Sometimes all you need is a warm hug and no words.

6) "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was the love theme to the romantic fantasy Mannequin. In that movie, a department store mannequin comes to life and falls for a struggling artist. While it was a moderate success at the box office, the gritty Vietnam drama Platoon was a much bigger hit. When you sit down to watch a movie, what genre would you prefer (fantasy, romance, comedy, drama, etc.)?

I haven't watched a movie in ages. A SiFi moving would get my attention. but not one of those serial movies. The first one is usually great but the others are just cookie cutter versions.

7) In 1987, when this song was popular, Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Aretha was proud of her Detroit roots. Have you been to Michigan? If yes, where did you go?

All over the place. When I was a field tech we installed EKG machines in ambulances like on the old show “Emergency.”

 

8) In 1987, the Chevy Corvette made news by adding a low tire pressure light to its dashboard. When you're driving and a yellow warning light comes on, do you handle the issue promptly? Or is it something you'll get to when you get around to it?

I do. A could of years ago the idiot light “Check Engine” light came on so off I went to the dealers… after waiting around an hour or so the guy came out and said that fixed it and will be $76. Why what was wrong? The gas cap was loose. I STOPPED right there… What? $76 to tighten the gas cap? He pointed to the sign on the wall… using their fancy machine to tell you what is wrong… $76! Wait a minute you are charging me $76 to tighten the gas cap? After I have been buying cars here since 1999? Um.. Ah… we can wavier the fee.

9) Random question: A magic mirror reflects your appearance five years from today. Would you look at it?

 Yes, because at my age it would be good to know that I’m not pushing up daises in five years. 

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