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RIP Ace Frehley – The Spaceman
On October 16, 2025 we lost Ace Frehley, the original guitarist and a founding member of the rock band KISS. Ace was my favourite member of KISS. In the late 80s each KISS member release a solo album and Ace’s was the best of the four!
July 22/2025
July 22/2025 has turned out to be quite the day in terms of music history.
We lost Chuck Mangione, a musician from Buffalo, NY who became well known in the 80s for his hit ‘Feels so Good’ on which he plays the Flugalhorn.
We lost George Kooymans of the Dutch band, Golden Earring. Golden Earring had two big hits in Canada with Radar Love and The Twilight Zone.
The biggest loss of all was Ozzy Osbourne. Ozzy was lead singer and cofounder of Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath is considered to be the first heavy metal band. Ozzie was also know for his solo work and the reality show, The Osbournes.
Ozzy passed only a few weeks after his last live performance at Back to The Beginning; a massive event which highlighted the music of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. Back to The Beginning featured many musicians that were influenced by and fans of both Ozzy and Black Sabbath. It was a very emotional show for both particpants and fans. There are videos where you see men and women with tears rolling down their faces.
Here is a video of Ozzy’s last performance of Mama I’m Coming Home at Back to The Beginning. He seemed to know he was not long for this world so it makes the performance very emotional.
There was one musician who stood out during the Back to The Beginning event. The musician, Yungblud, probably had what I think was the best performance the the show and that is saying something due to the calibre of musicians that participated. Turns out he had a very special connection with Ozzy and family. Ozzy’s wife Sharon invited Yungblud to participate and this performance shows why!!!
7 MORE DAYS!
Only 7 more days till summer vacation!!!
For me, the bus driver, its like being in high school again! Actually, its even better as a bus driver. When I was in high school, I worked during my summer vacations and now I get to chill!
I wish all the students a great summer vacation! Some of you will not be returning next year and I wish the very best as you continue to move forward in life.
Sad Week for Music
This week we lost two music icons. First we lost Sly Stone from Sly and The Family Stone. Then we lost Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. Both Sly and Brian had massive impacts on music in general
The Funky playlist has a number of tunes from Sly and The Family Stone.
The Beach playlist features all the big tracks from The Beach Boys.
Dec 12/2024 – Snow Day!
Buses cancelled today.
Hello WING18!
Welcome to School Bus Rock. This site has been created to provide information with regards to the music played on the bus. There will be a post indicating what playlist was played during the morning run and the afternoon run. Those posts will link to pages that will provide track information as well as a links to Youtube where the playlists are organized.