My Three Songs: 03/31/11

1. Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike
2. Accept - Balls to the Wall
3. Alice Cooper - School's Out

Theme :: Baseball! MLB starts its season today... Go Cubs!

My Three Songs: 03/25/11

1. KISS - Cold Gin
2. Van Halen - Take Your Whiskey Home
3. George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

Theme :: Alcohol. Enjoy your weekend!

My Three Songs: 03/24/11

1. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'  (from "Escape")
2. Dokken - Breaking the Chains
3. Heart - Magic Man

Theme :: Harry Houdini, who was born on this day in 1874. Google has created its doodle today in honor of Houdini's birthday, and yesterday Houdini's last living assistant passed away!

My Three Songs: 03/23/11

1. Bad Company - Shooting Star
2. Guns n' Roses - Live & Let Die
3. Kiss - Beth

Theme :: The death of Elizabeth Taylor.

My Three Songs: 03/21/11

1. Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
2. Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
3. Sixx: A.M. - Lies of the Beautiful People

Theme :: Home run king Barry Bonds starts his perjury trial today.

My Three Songs: 03/18/11

1. Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
2. U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
3. KISS - Rock & Roll All Night

Theme :: Bands with members named Paul. The new movie "Paul" hits theaters today.

The United States of Good Beer

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My Three Songs: 03/17/11

1. Heart - Magic Man
2. Bad Company - Shooting Star
3. Metallica - No Leaf Clover

Theme :: Lucky Charms marshmallows.  Happy St. Patrick's Day!

My Three Songs: 03/16/11

1. Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
2. Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise
3. Van Halen - Dance the Night Away

Theme :: Wolfgang Van Halen, Eddie's son, who celebrates his 20th birthday today. Eddie's guitar solo "316" is named after Wolfie's birthday.

My Three Songs: 03/15/11

1. Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
2. Metallica - Turn the Page
3. Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55

Theme :: Sammy Hagar's new autobiography, "Red," in stores today!

My Three Songs: 03/14/11

1. Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
2. David Bowie - Fame
3. Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy

Theme :: Alice Cooper being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight.

My Three Songs: 03/11/11

1. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster
2. Cinderella - Shake Me
3. Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo

Theme :: The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that took place in Japan earlier today, which also sparked a massive tsunami.  Get more on the story from CNN here, or click here to donate to the Red Cross to help in the relief effort.

History of Beer Cans

Dan Becker and Lance Wilson have released a book called "Beer: A Genuine Collection of Cans."  It's a very cool look at the history of how beer has been packaged, marketed, and sold over the years. Plus I'm sure there are a few old-school brews that you used to drink back in the day.

Click here to get a copy of the book for yourself through Amazon.

My Three Songs: 03/10/11

1. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
2. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride 'n' Joy (from "Texas Flood")
3. Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock in America

Theme :: Walker, Texas Ranger.  Today is Chuck Norris' birthday.  Chuck Norris doesn't blow out birthday candles - they blow him.  More Chuck Norris Facts.

My Three Songs: 03/09/11

1. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion (from "Toys in the Attic")
2. Aerosmith - Rag Doll
3. Tom Petty - American Girl

Theme :: Barbie, who was introduced at the American International Toy Fair in New York on this day in 1959.

She can rap AND rock? Impressive.

My Three Songs: 03/08/11

1. Axe - Rock and Roll Party in the Streets
2. Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
3. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone

Theme :: Fat Tuesday.  Last chance for Catholics to sin before giving up stuff for Lent.  Also, an incredible display of the barter system of economics, in which females provide a mammary display in exchange for cheap, shiny plastic jewelry.

My Three Songs: 03/07/11

1. Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
2. The Cars - Moving in Stereo
3. Black Sabbath - Iron Man

Theme :: Monopoly playing pieces.  The game was released on this day in 1933.

Liquid Lunch Drink of the Week: Dominican Champagne

Rick, Len, Roxanne, and Borna are in the Dominican Republic this week for the WAPL International Incident.  Last time I was in Punta Cana, a tour guide for one of our excursions introduced us to "Dominican Champagne."

Ingredients:
- 1 bottle of Dominican dark rum (Make sure it's dark rum! No Captain or white rum or any of those fruity Bacardi rums)
- 1 bottle of 7-Up (old school glass bottle if you can find one)

Sure you can mix it in a glass with ice and all that stuff, but I prefer the way our tour guide did it.  Dump a little bit out of the 7-Up bottle and refill the empty part of the bottle with rum.  He called that "American Style."

Now if you want to drink it "Dominican Style," just do the opposite: dump a little out of the rum bottle and refill the empty part with 7-Up.  That is some good stuff!

My Three Songs: 03/02/11

1. Metallica - Turn the Page
2. Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
3. Foghat - Slow Ride

Theme :: The Cat in the Hat.  Author Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, was born on this day in 1904.

My Three Songs: 03/01/11

1. Deep Purple - Highway Star
2. Rolling Stones - Happy
3. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days

Theme :: Ron Howard, star of Happy Days, who celebrates his birthday today.  In addition to playing Richie Cunningham, Howard also starred in American Graffiti and The Andy Griffith Show, and has gone on to direct films like Apollo 13, Parenthood, A Beautiful Mind, and more.

Nigel Tufnel on Steve Vai World Record Attempt

Guitarist Steve Vai is trying to break a world record for the largest online guitar lesson this Thursday, March 3rd. I don't play guitar, but I might sign up just because Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap is telling me to.