Monday Morning News… Again… May 6, 2019

10
No, not the movie… although Dudley Moore was pretty darn good… and it made Bo Derek many a teenage boy’s fantasy… but the birthday… the one when you’re just about past the age where someone laughs so hard at the table that they snort a combination of cola & cake out their nose… and in my case the birthday where I got everything I ever wanted, the birthday that has made all subsequent birthdays just a little less significant, the birthday where I got my heart’s desire; yes, I got the modifications for my green CCM bike…monkey handlebars and a red, with gold flecks, banana seat. At the time it felt like I was the last kid in the neighbourhood to get my bike souped up… and although I was a little late learning to ride and had a gift for falling off, a bike was a major part of one’s 10 year old identity…
I swore just before my birthday that year that if I got the monkey handlebars and banana seat that I would never ask for anything else… and other than a couple of life & death situations and radio airplay I think I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping my promise…
So the sun’s out and it’s a beautiful day, and as I walk through the streets of my neighbourhood to visit my nearly 94 year old mother I think about that birthday, that bike, and the happiness that a red banana seat and monkey handlebars brought me many years ago. I think I’ll tell mom and thank her again…
Yours on two wheels,
Andy
May 6th, 2019
Upcoming
To preorder Leap Before You Look click on either of the links below and be the first kid on your block to get your very own LP or CD today!
Skydiggers Acoustic
Saturday May 11th – Thousand Islands Playhouse  Gananoque, On
Jessy, Josh, Aaron & Andy
Andy Maize & The Future’s Not What it Used to Be
Album Release Party
Friday May 17th – The Dakota Tavern / early show  Toronto
Andy, Derrick, Lyle & Michael


Source: Skydiggers