Happy New Year! / Evanston Sports Report

Happy New Year to our plethora of readers!

For your viewing pleasure, here is the most recent (and first) episode of "Evanston Sports Report", on which two relatives of yours truly and Beer-on-the-Girl who live in the Chicago area discuss the Bulls and Knicks rivalry. There are references made to the last twenty years or so of said rivalry during which Michael Jordan got the best of our beloved Knicks.

It remains to be seen who will have a more successful decade.

Anyway, enjoy.

Comfortably Jordan

All of us Knicks fans in our 30s remember the Bulls' intro during the 90s. The song was very cool and added to the ambiance of their dramatic opening, particularly the electric guitar kicking in at the end as you heard "frommmmm North Carolina, at guard, 6'6", Michaelllll JORDAN!"



The song is called "Sirius" by a group called the Alan Parsons Project in 1982. It annoyed me that it seemed to me to rip off another particular famous classic rock song recorded earlier in the late 70s, particularly the guitar solo and the chord progression in general. I "researched" the Alan Parsons Project here. I found out there that Alan Parsons was an audio engineer for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon project, and there were other ties with Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons. Then, it came clear where his influences were.

Anyway, compare the Bulls' intro song to this (fast forward to 4:30). Also, YouTube has some cool live versions of Comfortably Numb.




(How do you do that thing where you can automatically make the link jump to a certain point, like 4:30, instead of instructing your readers to do so?)