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The evolution of equipment and skills required a revisit
The Barbarians are
Marshall Turner
Ian Luckett
Hugh Caldwell
Kevin Kung (KKung Drums)
And myself ;)
#metalheadhippie
The evolution of equipment and skills required a revisit
The Barbarians are
Marshall Turner
Ian Luckett
Hugh Caldwell
Kevin Kung (KKung Drums)
And myself ;)
#metalheadhippie


![45 Shinedown [PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION] #mentalhealthawareness
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45 is a song by American rock band Shinedown. The song was released on July 13, 2003, on the album Leave a Whisper. Following the albums release, 45 became a popular single. An acoustic cover of 45 was featured on the albums re-release on June 15, 2004.
45 placed twelfth among U.S. Modern Rock and third among U.S. Mainstream Rock songs after its release.
Brent Smith (the lead singer and songwriter) has stated in an interview:
The inspiration from the song really came from – I think a lot of people kinda take a literal sense because of the lyrics – but the song is basically about the day that you wake up and you look at yourself in the mirror and you finally decide that you want to try to become comfortable in your own skin, and realize that you’re gonna have to make yourself happy before you’re going to make anyone else happy. And basically, the 45 isn’t an actual literal term for a gun, I used it as a metaphor for the world, the .45 is actually the world and what it hands you every day of your life. When you get up, it’s a gift to be alive to begin with. A lot of different people, when I’ve talked about it, they said, “Do you really honestly mean that?” And I’m like, “Well, yeah.” Because I’ve been in that situation where I didn’t know if I wanted to continue going on and I didn’t know how to necessarily make myself comfortable with who I was, trying to find a way of learning more about myself. And you come from a dark place sometimes, and that’s really the reality of the song. It’s about overcoming and about moving forward. And it’s basically about understanding that it’s not always going to be good, but you really have no one to blame for yourself if you don’t move forward. That’s where the whole, “Nobody knows what I believe,” [comes from] because we’re all individuals. So that’s really where it comes from, it’s about moving on, really. 45 Shinedown [PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION] #mentalhealthawareness](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Kv7uBrSf_Dk/mqdefault.jpg)
![Counting Blue Cars #dishwalla
Counting Blue Cars (Tell Me Your Thoughts on God) is a song by American alternative rock band Dishwalla from their 1995 A&M Records album Pet Your Friends. It is their only hit song, peaking at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topping the same magazines Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1996. It received two ASCAP awards (1997 and 1998) as the most-played song of the year on radio in the United States.
Writing and inspiration
Dishwalla lead singer J. R. Richards wrote Counting Blue Cars rather quickly, telling the story of a young boys spiritual journey. He said the lyrics are about a conversation with the child within himself, but was inspired by an actual chat with his 10-year-old neighbor.[3] Richards said:
From that younger perspective, I think we take things in a much more honest way because we are not being biased by how were supposed to all think the same. So this idea of God, being an omnipotent being, could be a male or female. We always refer to God as a male, so why not make it a female? I started creating imagery to describe this journey, trying to think about what it was like to be a kid and the things that you would do. It quickly came together—I didnt think too much about it. But it did end up being one of the songs that really affected people both positively and negatively. I never thought Id ever have a song Id get death threats for writing.[4]
As quoted, Richards received death threats after the singles release from listeners who were upset about Gods depiction as a female in the song. Counting Blue Cars #dishwalla](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/L9hT8ps7Sxk/mqdefault.jpg)






