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~ LIVE PERFORMANCE REVIEW Tony Putaggio with Johan Blanchard at Perlas in Potrero, Guanacaste, Costa Rica Saturday, August 20th, 2016 Being a new musician to the area, I've been aggressively trying to see, experience, meet and collaborate with every musician/band I can. In doing so, I found that the talent in these parts is quite impressive. But I came across a talent that I felt was out of everyone’s league. I recently had the pleasure and good fortune of catching Tony Putaggio with Johan Blanchard, a progressive flamenco guitar duo that hail from Bordeaux, France at Perlas in Potrero. Johan was basically the thunder to Tony’s lightning, who’s talents were off the charts as well, but ‘the show’ was Tony and Johan as well as everyone else in the room knew it. I was not a particular ‘fan’ of flamenco guitar, but not an enemy either. It just wasn’t something that I reach for. But I knew enough about it to know the technical skill required just to call yourself a 'progressive flam...

This is result of an interesting email I received from my son, regarding an openly gay man, Michael Sam, trying to get a spot on an NFL roster. ~ ZAC:  How much you want to bet that the Dolphins draft Michael Sam haha. Not this it matters and not that I care but it would be very Dolphin’s like and it sure would suck to have to listen to people talk about it 24/7. I love how he says “I don’t want to be looked at as Michael Sam the gay football player, rather Michael Sam the football player”. If that was the case you probably shouldn’t have came out publicly.   Of course people will always think of you as the gay football player. I have absolutely nothing against gay people as you know but it’s different in football. Because I know as a guy, if I see a naked girl in the shower I’m 100% looking her up and down lol. I’m assuming it is the same for gay people which makes it awkward for his teammates regardless of their stance on sexuality. Think it was the dumbest thing he cou...

I had a drug problem. My X-Wife has a drug problem. My son has a drug problem. The United States has a drug problem. But his is not thee drug problem they like to harp on in the news about - meth, opiates, heroin, bath salts…??? what?… bath salts? What ever happened to good old airplane glue? Anyway – this is not about that – this is about a drug problem that is much more deliberate and sinister than that. This is about the LEGAL drugs in the most blindly, capitalist, American sense. Me, my X-wife and my son, along with millions and millions of American’s citizens have all, unwittingly, become integral parts of the perpetual cycle of American Pharmaceutical Drug Dependency (hereinafter referred to as APDD). This serves only as an American, capitalist, money making machine who’s earning potential has justified the turning of a blind eye to the destructive power on her citizens. We were… I was, sold a bill of goods and I bought it hook line and SINKER. My addiction, despite the fact that...

WHAT IF JESUS WAS FAT? Would That Image On The Crucifix Be As Easy To Sell Without The Hollywood Looks And 6-Pack Abs? It’s my feeling that they could not possibly sell Jesus to the masses like they have unless he was thin, white and good looking. Considering that the bible was the first book ever published, that makes it the very first marketing campaign in human history, and clearly, the most successful. But if you think about it, the smallest thing might have derailed that effort and forever changed the course of human history. Let’s Consider The Possibilities… Crucifixes would look like Budda-on-a-Stick. What if he was outright ugly? Do you think that would have ‘sold’ better than this image above? I mean… that’s a seriously good looking man right there. So I’m thinkin’… not so much. And ya’ gotta love that little split goatee action. What are the chances that 2,000 years ago, in the middle east, Jesus was a perfectly clean, english speaking, well manicured, thin, good looking whit...