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Hidden Gem: Pink Floyd’s “A Pillow of Winds”

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Sep 5, 2018 | Hidden Gems

Today’s hidden gem is a song from the English band Pink Floyd. The song is not a typical song that the group is famous for, a matter of fact the song is a soft acoustic love song and that song was A Pillow of Winds. The song was written by David Gilmour and...

Hidden Gems: “Operation Eradication” by Eek-a-Mouse

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Sep 5, 2018 | Hidden Gems

Today’s topic on Hidden Gems is the song “Operation Eradication” by the singjay Eek-a-Mouse. I grew up listening to Eek-a-Mouse and have always wanted to see him perform live whenever he visited my hometown. Sadly, that never came to pass. But his...

Hidden Gems: Vince Guaraldi

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Aug 22, 2018 | Hidden Gems

When you think of Charlie Brown and the gang the first name comes to the mind of everyone all over the world and that is of Charles Schulz. There was also another name that a lot of people tend to forget and that name is Vince Guaraldi. Schulz was the one who gave...

Hidden Gem: Am I Blue?

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Aug 15, 2018 | Hidden Gems

As I was sitting down the other day and watch Justice League Unlimited, I saw Batman singing a song called Am I blue and how the way Batman was singing it was very emotional. Little did I know this song was older and has a history of the artists who have sung this...

Hidden Gems: mitsume

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Aug 8, 2018 | Hidden Gems

Stand at attention! Nightrider here! In today’s installment of Hidden Gems I will examine one of the acts I saw on the YouTube live stream of the Fuji Rock Festival held on the last weekend of July. There were many bands that performed at different stages at...

Fuji Rock Festival 2018

by Captain Cats and the Nightrider | Aug 4, 2018 | Hidden Gems, Underground

Attention! Nightrider speaking! While recovering from the San Diego Comic-Con International, my Youtube app on my smartphone suggested to me that I can watch the Fuji Rock Festival starting on Friday, July 27 and ending on Sunday, July 29. So, I watched most of the...