The Hero's Blog

 My Live Stream: Hard Habit To Break (Chicago Cover) Back in 2016,  I went through a phase of starting to record songs, but never finishing them. About a month ago, I pulled a couple of Logic Pro X projects out of the vault and decided to finish them up on my YouTube live stream. First, I started with a Journey cover song, then I moved over to finishing up a cover of a Chicago cover song: Hard Habit To Break.  This song originally appeared on the album Chicago 17 back in 1984, and was produced by David Foster. It was written by Steve Kipner and John Parker. It was major hit for the band. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was played in heavy rotation on both radio and MTV. It featured dual lead vocals between Peter Cetera and Bill Champlin.  Skipping ahead to 2016, I decided to record a cover of this song because I'd been doing a vocal impression of Peter Cetera, mostly for fun, since I was about 16 years old. I wanted to see how well I could replicate...

 Joseph Hero: Back To The Music After a considerable delay (of over 6 years), I've decided to start making music again.  I've been dusting off my music production skills on a YouTube live stream, producing and recording cover versions of songs by various artists. I had some project files in Logic Pro that I started on years ago that I figured I'd finish up, adding drums, guitars, and vocals where ever I can.  If you're interested, you can catch my live stream on my YouTube channel here:  https://www.youtube.com/@JosephHero1000iz/ So far, I've dusted off a cover of Journey's Feelin' That Way I'd started in 2016. I had only made it as far as sequencing the piano part. Over the past few weeks, I added the drums, a bass line, and the guitar parts, both rhythm and lead. After that I added lead and background vocals. I also did some work on a cover of a Beach Boys Tune, and also a cover of a tune from a band called Ace. If you'd like to see/hear how I did ...

 Garlic Supplements: Do they Work? Garlic Supplements: Do they work? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Garlic has been found to have anti-inflammatory effects, as well as anti-cancer and anti-oxidant effects. If you’re a male over 40, it’s a good idea to start taking garlic supplements for prostate health. Once a man hits 40, his testosterone levels start to gradually drop at an estimated rate of 1% per year, which can indirectly cause his DHT levels to increase. DHT, or dihydrotestosterone, is a by-product of the testosterone metabolic process, is more powerful than testosterone, but also has some inherently harmful effects, unfortunately. When DHT attaches to hair follicles on top of the head, it kills the hair follicle over time, causing the hair to fall out permanently, resulting in male pattern baldness. When DHT collects in the prostate gland, it causes the prostate to enlarge over time, and can cause malignant tissue to proliferate inside the gland, causing prostate cancer. Al...

Should I Index Paginations on Google? My Contribution to the World of Search Engine Optimization Blogging Note: This blog posting deals with the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). If you're here for my latest music post, go here . If you're here for my latest recipe, click here .       Those pesky paginations: extensions of your home page, archive pages, and other pages that tend to gather a lot of posts and entries over time. I usually refer to paginations as “page 2’s”, because they start with page 2, 3, etc. They usually look like this:“www.website.com/page/2”, and they can get numerous, if you publish a lot of content. I found out the hard way that it’s possible to incur algorithmic penalties on Google, etc., if your “page 2’s” contain a lot of thin or duplicate content. To address this, you either have to go and optimize the content on each individual page (which can range in the thousands), delete a whole bunch of links, posts, etc. If you don’t have a ...

 Strut Your Stuff (A Love Letter to Van Halen) Verse 1: I'd risk it all For your call But I'd have to get in line Six feet tall You have it all Oh my stars you look so...(fine) Bridge: All of the boys want to see ya All of the girls want to be ya Oh my oh my, can't refuse ya When you walk by, I just lose my mind Chorus: You're turning heads up and down the street every time when you Strut Your Stuff.  Everybody has their eyes on you when you strut your stuff. Verse 2: You don't play Legs for days I could get lost in your eyes I love your walk The way you talk You got your pick of any guy Bridge: All of the boys want to see ya All of the girls want to be ya Oh my oh my, can't refuse ya When you walk by, I just lose my mind Chorus: You're turning heads up and down the streets every time when you Strut Your Stuff.  Everybody has their eyes on you when you strut your stuff. Traffic stopping as you walk down the street 'cause you strut your stuff. You're ...

 B-Major (We're Not In Love Anymore) (My attempt at a "Chicago" song) I miss you oh, so badly I feel alone, so sadly 'cause we're not in love anymore We're not in love anymore I miss your touch, so sweetly I hide it so discreetly that we're not in love anymore We're not in love anymore I long to long for you I long to long for you We've been together for too long, it seems We don't fulfill each other's goals or dreams because we're not in love anymore We're not in love anymore I really miss the way we hold each other closely But now we never, ever touch each other, mostly  'cause we're not in love anymore We're not in love anymore I long to long for you I long to long for you The Backstory      I wrote this song in the spring of 2007. Lyrically, it's pretty much what you think it's about: a breakup......and yeah, we broke up......🙄      Musically, I wanted to write a song in the style of 1970's Chicago, comp...