As its name states, this documentary largely concerns itself with live videos of The Beatles, mostly in the US and UK. It starts out with a nice color clip from Manchester England in late 1963. By this time, Beatlemania had been in full force in … Continue reading Movie Review – Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
Pictured above (l-r): John Mayall, Eric Clapton, John McVeigh, Hughie Flint. In an earlier post, I recounted the story of the Yardbirds and how Eric Clapton – content for a while playing blues in clubs – became increasingly dissatisfied. He started to see a trend in … Continue reading Featured Album – Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
So how did I wind up getting a ticket for a show that I could not get into for love or money just a few months prior? On the exact same tour? Don’t know, but maybe there was some “Bruce overload” in the area. Adele … Continue reading Concert Review – Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Foxborough, Massachusetts
Disclaimer – Pray for Sound is one of my son, Nick’s, two bands. (The other being The Color and Sound.) I wrote about them briefly a while back. PFS just put out a new album and so he asked me if I’d feature it. Of course, … Continue reading Featured album – Everything is Beautiful – Pray for Sound – (post-rock)
In this occasional feature, I put three songs together more or less as a mini-set. Typically there’s no real relationship between the songs other then unintentionally. As is my wont, they’re all a little bit bluesy. Hope you like ’em. Or at least, some of … Continue reading Tres Songs (mini-set)
One of the most important female bands in American rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were one of the finest… rock bands of their time, in about 1973. They were extraordinary… they’re as important as anybody else who’s ever … Continue reading Fanny – The Founding Sisters of Women who Rock
“Doo-wop is a genre of music that was developed in African-American communities in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles in the 1940’s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one … Continue reading Doo-wop
