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A day late. The Ides of March. "Vehicle" (Original Post) Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 OP
Loved this growing up without thinking about how cringey the lyrics are. CincyDem Mar 2025 #1
You're right CincyDem and I should have thought of that before posting. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #3
My Wife Has Known Jim Peterik Since She Was A Freshman ProfessorGAC Mar 2025 #2
Wow, interesting! TY ProfessorGAC. Diamond_Dog Mar 2025 #4
Now For The Weird Part ProfessorGAC Mar 2025 #7
She must be a western burbs girl...St. Charles Road/294 neighborhood. CincyDem Mar 2025 #5
No, Much Farther South! ProfessorGAC Mar 2025 #6

CincyDem

(7,143 posts)
1. Loved this growing up without thinking about how cringey the lyrics are.
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 11:24 AM
Mar 2025

Tough to listen to now in today’s world and having 3 daughters.

Jim Petrick also wrote Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger (Rocky 2 or 3 theme).

Diamond_Dog

(37,489 posts)
3. You're right CincyDem and I should have thought of that before posting.
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 11:30 AM
Mar 2025

Being from NE Ohio and our former U.S. Rep was Jim Traficant, he always played Eye of the Tiger at his speeches and rallies.



ProfessorGAC

(73,365 posts)
2. My Wife Has Known Jim Peterik Since She Was A Freshman
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 11:30 AM
Mar 2025

She met him at a HS school dance where Jim's band was playing.
He was, I think, a senior in HS at the time.
My wife hit it off with his then girlfriend, so my wife & her friends used to follow the band around.
They lost contact in her college years.
A decade later, I met Jim through his partner Frankie Sullivan.
Full circle.

ProfessorGAC

(73,365 posts)
7. Now For The Weird Part
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 03:58 PM
Mar 2025

Yesterday was our 45th anniversary, so we got married on >>> The Ides Of March!

CincyDem

(7,143 posts)
5. She must be a western burbs girl...St. Charles Road/294 neighborhood.
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 11:47 AM
Mar 2025

Grew up in Evergreen Park area and Ides played at our HS often in the early 70’s. Wonder if Mrs ProfGAC and I were at any of the same dances.

Small world.

ProfessorGAC

(73,365 posts)
6. No, Much Farther South!
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 02:29 PM
Mar 2025

The Ides were a big enough name that they could go from town to town.
Then, she was 25 or 30 miles from the Southern Suburbs.

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