Ellisrsp

Ellisrsp t1_ja09ja6 wrote

Fastball- The Way

>Fastball frontman Tony Scalzo came up with the idea for the song after reading articles that described the June 1997 disappearance of an elderly married couple, Lela and Raymond Howard from Salado, Texas,[5] who left home to attend the Pioneer Day festival at nearby Temple, Texas, despite Lela's Alzheimer's and Raymond recently recovering from brain surgery. They were discovered two weeks later, dead, at the bottom of a ravine near Hot Springs, Arkansas, hundreds of miles off their intended route.

I'm currently caring for an elderly parent in the early stages of mental decline. When I was younger, I thought this song was cool. It still is but now I can't listen to it.

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Ellisrsp t1_itrqiau wrote

You just opened up a humourous memory for me.

In the early 90s I lived across the street from the University of California, Irvine campus. Their (somewhat legendary) radio station KUCI only had a 25 watt transmitter. Once you strayed, like, a mile beyond the campus you got nothing but static. One year they upgraded to a transmitter that pumped out a raging 200 watts. Suddenly, one could listen to Tazy's ska show all the way out into the orange groves past Westpark.

The promo they ran at the time went something like, KUCI. Now more powerful than most lightbulbs

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