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A barque with a fireship, by Carl Wilhelm Hugo Schnars-Alquist (Hamburg 1855 - Hamburg 1939)

Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Traci Lords, Iggy Pop, Susan Tyrrell

A brief historical “GORCH FOCK” moment: two barques of the GORCH FOCK class (1932–1958) pass each other with their sails almost fully set. On the left is the German officer training ship Gorch Fock, and on the right is the Sagres from Portugal, the Portuguese Navy’s training ship.

Squall to Windward, by Mark Richard Myers (1945-)

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Strange Highways was a dark, heavy and difficult album, which made “Here’s to You” with its hollering and cheering both feel like a welcome respite from the borderline oppressive heft and also a little awkward.  Presumably it was meant as another Dio anthem along the lines of “Stand Up and Shout” and “We Rock”, and there was something of a hook in Tracy G’s riffing as well as the pre-chorus.  But Ronnie’s growling had the same belligerence that made “Jesus, Mary & the Holy Ghost” and “Evilution” total monsters and this iteration of Dio was all about beatdowns, so “Here’s to You” felt a bit stuffy and claustrophobic even as the lyrics offered a rallying cry.  Ronnie was aiming for something very deliberate on Strange Highways and for the most part he achieved his goal of crafting a more modern metal record more rooted in the real world, but that created a weird dichotomy on “Here’s to You” that he couldn’t fully reconcile.