Music-The Many Faces of Genesis

One of my favorite bands back in the day was Genesis. Genesis started back in the 1960's with students at an English boarding school-Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Steve Hackett. By the mid-1980's-They were down to three-Collins, Banks and Rutherford and each had side projects, Hackett was with GTR and Gabriel was having a solo successful career.

On the week on June 28th, 1986, the Genesis gang had occupied seven slots on the top 100 with song that they were either artists or producers of:

Howard Jones-No One is to Blame-produced by Phil Collins (above)

And the group Genesis:

The two other songs that were in the Top 100 that week (and I don't have the videos on my computer) were Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" and Mike and Mechanics "Taken In"

Hope you enjoy.

A Whole in the Wall-Emil's Burger

The other day I was down by the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland and I was hungry. I walked into this little place called Emil's Burger and decided to try it. I am glad I did. It may be a small place but it is big on good food:

Part of their menu

Inside Emil's

The view 

The chicken club sandwich

The Western Burger-which is what I had

Emil's Burger was good. I think I will be making a trip back there.

A Look CSU-Chico

My daughter at the CSU Chico sign

Taking a look from a another college visit. This time it is California State University Chico.  Chico is a true college town as everything is based on the University. It is a very beautiful campus to take a stroll:

The Laxson Memorial Auditorium

The Admin building

There are a lot of trees and nature on the campus:

This creek runs through the campus and they have an area called Alumni Glen that you can sit and watch nature 

Colusa Hall

Old Hutch's Plaza

Some of the art work on the campus

Got to love the students there

And you know I had to check out the baseball field. It was all locked up:

Chico St. may be a huge party school but it is a real nice and scenic campus.

Some Old School Music

Decided to go old school this week for the tunes:

Hope you enjoyed some old school tunes.

Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale

It is the beginning of March and that means the Annual Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale. It sale of stuff that is donated to Museum and they sell it to raise money for the place. It is held in a huge building and it is usually packed. You never know what you will find:

People looking around

For some reason somebody donated a whole lot Lord of the Rings stuff

Love the Lionel Train clock

Elvis was in the building

Love the jewelry box

This was interesting

Need a kitchen table set

Love the cabinet

The White Elephant Sale was cool. I just bought a bunch of books as I don't more stuff in my house. LOL.

2014 Oakland A's Fanfest

A's GM Billy Beane and Manager Bob Melvin

They are playing Spring Training games down in Arizona and getting ready for the 2014 season. Here are some pics of the A's Fanfest:

A's great Vida Blue

Fans waiting in line

A's 1972 World Series Gene Tenace signing some autographs

Nerd Power:The A's Eric Sogard

From Left to Right: Pitchers Ryan Cook, Jim Johnson and Coach Darren Bush

The A's Josh Donaldson signing an autograph

The seventh inning racer-Can you guess what A's legends these three are?

The A's FanFest was great. I am getting ready for baseball. Love it.

Some 80's Music

Let's have some and get some dancing in with some 80's songs that you may not remember but were fun to listen to:

Hope you enjoy a little music