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An elderly Vietnam veteran used his Second Amendment rights in a heroic act of self-defense after a savage attack broke both of his legs. The incident occurred early Friday morning in Studio City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. I thought this article was timely, considering the event took place right before Veteran’s Day. Here’s …

Dementia is a truly horrible disease, and the Aldean family is pulling back the curtain on their lives to share their personal experience with the illness that causes cognitive decline. If you personally know someone that’s been affected by dementia, Alzheimer’s or another progressive brain disorder, then you’re familiar with the daily battles that the disease can bring. Families have no choice but to watch their loved ones struggle with memory loss and confusion as they grow older. Currently, there’s no cure for the disease that affects 7 million Americans (according to Alzheimer’s Association). Brittany and Jason Aldean have recently been more open about how the disease has affected their family. Jason Aldean’s uncle just recently passed away after a battle with Lewy body dementia, and Brittany’s father is currently dealing with dementia as well. The wife of the country music superstar shared that her and her family have had a hard time watching her father deal with the disease: “It is true what they say about dementia, which is it’s the long goodbye because cognitively your loved one declines. And it just seems like such a slow process, but it’s quick too, and you’re just slowly losing your person and it’s just mourning the loss of someone who’s still alive. So it’s been a really hard thing to go through… You never know what people are going through. Even though it may seem so amazing in life, there’s a lot of things behind the scenes that people could be going through. So just have grace, I guess, and any prayers for my sweet daddy would be so appreciated.” With all that’s been going on in their lives, Jason Aldean decided to get a bit more personal with his upcoming 20-track album – Songs About Us – which is set to release on April 24, 2026. He’s already released “How Far Does A Goodbye Go,” along with the three songs that have been called an album preview: “Hard To Love You,” “Lovin’ On Me” and “Help You Remember.” It’s clear that every song on the album will be one that’s emotionally driven. That’s especially so with “Help You Remember,” which was written with Brittany Aldean’s father in mind. Once it was released, Brittany shared a post that utilized home videos and pictures of her father through the years that was set to her husband’s new song. It’s a heartbreaking thing to watch, and Brittany captioned it with this: “Our journey with dementia. The heartache that diseases like this bring to a family is something we know all too well. We hope this song brings comfort to anyone going through something similar. Love you so much Daddy.” View this post on Instagram In a series of emotional Instagram stories, she expounded more on her father, the song, and why she decided to reveal this with her fans right now: “This has been a day that I’ve been excited about, but also a little bit dreading just because when we put things out on social media, it seems like we tell so much of what’s going on in life. But in actuality, we’re very private people. And you guys don’t know a lot of stuff that goes on personally. And this is the time that I have started to share my dad’s dementia journey, through the reel I just posted. When Jason’s bandmates wrote this song, you know, it obviously hit home, and Jason’s uncle actually had the same type of dementia, and passed away from this dementia, right before my dad was diagnosed, which is so crazy. We started seeing signs back in 2020, and then in 2022, my dad was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is a very horrible form. And so, it is true what they say about dementia, which is, ‘it’s the long goodbye,’ because just cognitively, your loved one declines, and it just seems like such a slow process, but it’s quick, too. And you’re just slowly losing your person, you know? It’s just like, mourning the loss of someone who’s still alive, so it’s been a really hard thing to go through. I’ve talked to my dad about sharing this video and his story, and he’s the sweetest man. He’s like, ‘If it helps one person, then it was just totally worth it.’ So, it’s something I was never gonna speak on, but I just hope that if you’re out there going through something similar, you know you’re not alone. You never know what people are going through, even though it may seem so amazing in life, there’s a lot of things behind the scenes that people could be going through. So, just have grace… and any prayers for my sweet daddy would be so appreciated.” The song, written by Jason Aldean, Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, John Morgan and Lydia Vaughan, has connected with the masses already. How could it not? There are plenty of families out there that have walked down the same path – or are currently walking down the same path – as the Aldeans. And the lyrics of the song, which tells the story of someone trying to help their loved one hold on to the memories that are fading, are tragically touching: “Talking in circles, saying anything I can To bring an old familiar feeling back, would it Help you remember? Would it all come back to you again? If we got in that truck right now And drove out to watch that made you smile sunset The heart knows what’s hiding Even when the mind can’t find it Even if you don’t, I still ain’t gonna stop trying, yeah To help you remember What I’ll never forget” It’s a horrible thing that the Aldean family is going through right now, but it’s great that they are being open about their journey, if only so that others out there experiencing the same or similar know they aren’t alone. “Help You Remember” probably hits close to home for a lot of people, and Brittany and Jason are hoping that it can bring some healing to others out there that are affected by dementia. “Help You Remember” – Jason Aldean The post Brittany Aldean Shares Emotional Video On Her Father’s Journey With Dementia Following The Release Of Jason’s New Song, “Help You Remember” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

It wasn’t his time. Last year, Colt Ford suffered a serious heart attack after a sold-out show at the Gilbert, Arizona, location of Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row. The country rapper was rushed to Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, where he was considered to be in critical condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit. Weeks after the medical emergency, the 54-year-old spoke publicly for the first time on the Big D & Bubba Show, detailing the scary event and revealing that he was declared clinically dead three times before being stabilized: “It’s just been a traumatic, crazy experience, guys. I don’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix. I died three times. Luckily, my band came out to check on me…they came out to check on me, and then all of a sudden they were like, ‘Oh God,’ and then that is when all hell broke loose.” This Mayo Clinic out here in Phoenix, if it was going to happen, God could not have had me in a better place. The big doc out here said, ‘I wouldn’t give me 1%, but I give you 0.1% that you’d survive.’ They brought me back. They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.” Luckily Colt made it through after 20 hours or surgery, and even returned to the road in 2025, just a year after the near-fatal heart attack. But Colt admits that it was strange to get back out there. During an interview on the Try That In A Small Town podcast, the “Dirt Road Anthem” co-writer opened up on what it’s like to be on the road again after a traumatic event like that: “Now I’ve got crazy anxiety and nerves. I’ve never had that before. So it’s been an ongoing process that’s a lot to deal with. The first time I went to get back on the bus I started to step on it and I was like, ‘Wait, oh, last time I was on here y’all carried me off here dead.’ So a lot of things like that you don’t think about until they’re back in the situation. I don’t even sit where I used to sit in my bus anymore because that’s where I was sitting when it happened.” And he also recalled the first time he woke up after clinically dying – and what he saw while he was gone. As it turns out, the last thing Colt saw before he finally woke up was his good friend Toby Keith, stepping out of a bright light with a message for him: “He used to call me Little Dog Daddy. You know, for most people you’d go, ‘I don’t want to be Little Dog.’… But it’s freaking Toby, so you’re like, yeah, he feels like a superhero. And I woke up by, literally, a light bright as it could be, and Toby stepped out and said, ‘They’re not ready for you, Little Dog, you need to go on back down there.'” When Toby Keith tells you they’re not ready for you, you listen. It’s nothing short of a miracle that Colt has been able to make the recovery that he has, and it’s great to see him back out on the road so soon. Though I’m sure there was a part of him that was no doubt happy that he was able to reunite with his old friend, even if was just for a second. The post Colt Ford Says He Saw Toby Keith Right Before Waking Up From A Coma After His Heart Attack: “They’re Not Ready For You” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Since Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in the early 1980s, he became one of the most important Heavy Metal singers of all time. Replacing Paul Di’Anno, he took the band to another level in terms of songwriting and vocal possibilities. Iron Maiden was a direct influence on most of the Heavy Metal bands that emerged in the following decades. As the genre evolved, Bruce Dickinson always paid attention to what was happening and has given his opinion on many newer bands, including System of a Down. What is Bruce Dickinson's opinion on System of a Down Although System of a Down isn’t exactly the kind of music Bruce Dickinson is into, he said that he “kind of liked” the band, especially because it was something different that managed to become mainstream when it normally wouldn’t have. “You'd got like, the extremities. I mean, because Punk didn't really change it that much. Punk just borrowed the aggressive guitar, like Marshall types tones. But now you got some Metal bands, look at the grandaddies of everything, Slayer, and a band like Sepultura: just big, fat slabs of angry ‘Grrrrr!’” "Which your blues rockers just went, ‘Ugh, we hate that! What's that all about?' And it’s like, well, you have to get in the headspace of why they’re writing stuff like that. Because, if they’re young kids, which they were when they were doing it, they’re going, ‘We don’t wanna be like my grandad, who plays really proficient blues guitar. It’s going nowhere, because I can never be as good as him. And, even if I was as good as him, people would say, 'You’re not as good as him.' So I’m gonna do something different.’” "So you've got that palette, that then diversified into Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down. Those kinds of things that started doing really kind of the things that were a little bit more out there. I kind of liked System Of A Down, simply because of the fact that it was that eccentric. I’m not sure where it came from. I mean, if it was like Armenian or weird Anatolian goat music or whatever the hell was his inspiration to it." Bruce Dickinson continued: "I love the fact that it did get mainstream exposure. I think it’s great when stuff like that breaks through. I’m not sure what I could take from it, for my purposes. But, nevertheless, it’s great that it’s out there,” Bruce Dickinson told Loudwire in 2024. The Iron Maiden vocalist mentioned Armenia because all the members of System of a Down are of Armenian descent. Serj Tankian (vocals) and Daron Malakian (guitar) were both born in Los Angeles, California, but their parents were born in Armenia. Drummer John Dolmayan’s parents were Armenian as well, but he was born in Beirut, Lebanon, where they were living at the time, and later moved to California during the Lebanese Civil War. Bassist Shavo Odadjian is the only member who was actually born in Armenia. He was born in Yerevan, when the country was still called the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. He and his parents moved to Los Angeles when he was 5 years old. Serj Tankian said seeing Iron Maiden live was one of the most impactful moments of his life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywaBOMvYLI&list=RDiywaBOMvYLI&start_radio=1&pp=ygUIdG94aWNpdHmgBwE%3D The members of System of a Down are fans of Iron Maiden, especially the band’s vocalist Serj Tankian. The first concert he ever attended was an Iron Maiden show in 1984. Interestingly, he wasn’t even a big rock fan at the time, but his girlfriend was a huge Maiden fan, so he went along with her. He immediately became a fan himself and later said it was one of the most impactful moments of his life. "The first one that I ever saw, my first rock show I ever saw was Iron Maiden in 1984. I'd like to say — 1984, maybe. My girlfriend at the time was a huge Maiden fan. I, at the time, didn't even listen to much Rock music. I hadn't even smoked pot. It was the first time I started smelling pot outside. I was a 4.0 good kid in school. So that was impactful for me because of the timing more than anything. And you'll hear those kind of horses galloping within System's music that's influenced by Maiden as well. Everyone in Rock has been influenced by Maiden," he told Monsters, Madness And Magic in 2024. In the previous decade, he talked about that show in an interview with A.V. Club, saying he first didn't get it and his first impression was that a really loud kind of music. "I thought it was one of the craziest things I'd ever seen. (Laughs) I'm, like, 'This is madness! What is this? Everyone, hide!'" He continued: "At the time, I wasn't actually a metal fan at all. I thought, 'Wow, this is really noisy music, I don't get it.' To be completely honest, I wasn't in love with it. And now I'm a huge Iron Maiden fan, and I know Bruce Dickinson and see the guys on tour and whatnot. But time changes. It's interesting. But at the time, I wasn't a metal or even a rock fan, to be honest." System of a Down was formed in Glendale, California, in 1994, a year after Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden. Their debut album came out in 1998, and since then they have released three more, the most recent being Mezmerize and Hypnotize, both in 2005. The band broke up the following year but reunited in 2010 and has remained active since, although they haven’t released any new albums.The post Bruce Dickinson’s opinion on System of a Down appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.