In Memory

One of my inspirations passed away yesterday.

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’ – Official Video – 1983

Dusty Hill the famously bearded bassist of ZZ Top passed away at 72 years of age 7/28/21.

ZZ Top formed as a group in 1969 with the current configuration of Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard (the non bearded drummer) and Dusty Hill performing together continuously since 1970. Here is a classic from 1971 that shows the raw talent and depth of this trio.

ZZ Top – Brown Sugar – 1971

The last recorded performance is this one from not quite two weeks ago.

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’ – Live – 7/16/2021

Thank you Dusty for the incredible tunes and the Bearded inspiration. Godspeed.

You should Be Dancing

San Diego Pride is always later than the other California Prides and celebrated the 2nd-3rd week of July every year. Pride week kicked off here today and will crescendo all week into next weekend. I was wondering how I would usher in our pride week and much to my delight Foo Fighters just dropped this Fabulous cover of a Bee Gees classic today.
Enjoy!

Foo Fighters – Dee Gees / You Should Be Dancing – 2021

Happy San Diego Pride Ya’ll!

Last Pride Music 2021

As with many a night when I made it to the end of the evening on a dance floor, the DJ would send us all off with this Donna Summer classic.

Donna Summer – Last Dance – 1978

A Little After Pride Music

Taking a twirl across the Dance Floor at The Copa Key West to this tune was an out of body experience. Wow, what a charmed life I’ve lived.

Communards – Never Can Say Goodbye – 1987

Big Effin Pride Tune

Because we Proud!

Cazwell / Peppermint – Blend – 2018

We post this one again ‘cause it’s that Fabulous. Happy Pride Y’all!

A Little Pride Music

What’s fabulous, all about Pride and new from Jan, Alaska & Peppermint?

Gay Hands Up! That’s what!

Jan / Alaska / Pepoermint – Gay Hands Up – 2021

A Little Pride Music

Why Pride?

This song pretty much sums up why.

Bronski Beat – Jimmy Sommerville – Smalltown Boy – 1984

We are here, let’s dance!

A Little Pride Music

I was literally brought out of the closet and into a fully gay life with this 12 inch single permanently on the turntable in the first house I shared with my first lover, and a night on a gay club’s dance floor in the early 1980s wasn’t complete with a twirl to this fabulous number.

Festival – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina – 1979

A Little Pride Music

One of my favorite tunes ever made. Period. Wouldn’t be Pride without it.

New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle – 1986

A Little Pride Music

This was always my favorite Erasure tune.

Erasure – Chains of Love – 1988

A Little Pride Music

When this little Madonna tune was released Fearsome was but a bushy porn star stache and I had just moved into my first house with my first lover. We were so young and this song fit like a glove. Oh how I loved it. In fact I still do.

Madonna – Holiday – 1984 – American Bandstand

A Little Pride Music

I was so born this way it ain’t funny. The earliest of my memories was that of desire of affection from men.

Lady Gaga – Born This Way – 2011

A Little Pride Music

What Pride without a circuit party?

Sam Smith – I Feel Love (VJ Zenman Circuit Festival Mix) – 2019

A Little Pride Music

Fearsome can never listen to or watch this one enough. He loves it!

Taylor Swift – You Need To Calm Down – 2019

A Little Pride Music

Sylvester was a trailblazer. Little did he know what would come shortly after we lost him.

Sylvester – Someone Like You – 1986

A Little Pride Music

Icons of our community together in one classic performance.

Cher, Bette Midler, Elton John and Flip Wilson – The Cher Show – Medley of Mockingbird, Proud Mary, Ain’t No Mountain High Enough & Never Can Say Goodbye –  1975

A Little Pride Music

This tune takes Fearsome back to his time living in Seattle and tearing up a few dance floors in the clubs at the time.

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch ( feat. Loleatta Holloway ) – Good Vibrations – 1991

– Live Club MTV

A Little Pride Music

During Fearsome’s early years at the gay disco he never missed the opportunity to take a twirl when this classic came on.

Cheryl Lynn – Star Love – Soul Train 1979

A Little Pride Music

In the early 1980s there was almost no better way to fill a dance floor quickly than for a DJ to mix this toe tapper into the mix.

Human League – Don’t You Want Me – 1981

A Little Pride Music

Fearsome has cut many a rug on a number of dance floors to this fab tune!

Enjoy…

Change – A Lover’s Holiday – 1980