Category Archive: BS Daily Tune Up
BangShift Tune-Up: “You Don’t Know How It Feels” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1994)
Tom Petty is one of those rare singers who doesn’t just transcend genre, but is able to transcend time. I grew up listening to his work, from the moment I was born to the moments as I type. My...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Here We Go” by Freestylers (1998)
For the most part, what I listened to in 1998 could best be described as “eclectic” and is best left in my music files for my own enjoyment when nobody is home. There’s rock,...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Dragula” By Rob Zombie (1998)
Once again, I use the BangShift Tune-Up as a way of motivating myself into action first thing in the morning. In this case, I need to go straight from waking up to pulling out the tools and tearing...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Leave Out All The Rest” By Linkin Park (2008)
As intertwined as music is to the lifestyle that we enjoy, whenever a staple musician leaves this earth, the feeling becomes more than just “another one gone”. Your mind goes back to...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Gear Jammer” By George Thorogood & The Destroyers (1985)
Whether you view truckers as hard-working types, dirty and dangerous, or the lone traveler on some forgotten highway where nobody ever roams, you have to hand it to the people who get behind the...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Dave Edmunds Jam Slipping Away Featuring Sideways Dirt Track Action From England!
I have no idea what trips memories in my head. Something reminded me of this video, which I remember seeing on television in The Gap as one of my ex wives was trying on 37 pairs of pants and then not...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Wreck Of The Old 97 – Johnny Cash
Sure this isn’t a car song, but it is about speed and danger, so that’s close enough for us. This song has been around since the 1920s in one form or another and it actually tells the...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: Little Stick Nomad – The Super Stocks (1963)
We’ve told you the story of the early 1960s group the Super Stocks before. They were assembled by Gary Usher and had a few flashes of glory before going their separate ways and pretty much all...
BangShift Tune-Up: “Replaceable” By CKY (2017)
Here’s the story behind this one: normally, I blast a wide array of rock music wherever I go that generally spans the mid-1970s to current. I’ve got a pretty broad taste in music,...
BS Daily Tune Up: A-Bone – The Trashmen (1964)
Minnesota’s favorite rock and roll sons of the middle 1960s were a band of boys known as “The Trashmen”. In 1963 they launched out of obscurity and ran up the charts with their most...
BS Daily Tune Up: Six Days On The Road – Dave Dudley (1963)
If there was one guy that owned the imaginary genre of “trucker music” during the 1960s and 1970s, it was Dave Dudley. His baritone voice spoke right to the diesel jockeys hauling all...
BangShift Daily Tune Up: SS396 — Paul Revere and The Raiders (1965)
Paul Revere and the Raiders were one of the great bands of the 1960s whose style morphed and changed throughout the decade. This song, an ode that was bought and paid for by Chevy as a promotional...
BangShift Tune-Up: A Metal Lesson In How To Drive A Stick!
The best theft deterrent system for cars in the United States: A manual transmission! HAHAHA…oh, wait. Nevermind, that’s true. And sad. The days of rowing your own are fading out, with...
BangShift Tune-Up: Velvet Revolver “Dirty Little Thing” (2004)
This is the kind of week that’s worth waiting for: there is so much going right in the automotive world that processing it requires some kind of mania. FCA dropped a family-friendly Hellcat SUV...