Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleedin’ Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind A quick scan of my now almost-seven-year-old blog tells me that while I may have mentioned them once or twice, I’ve never really featured the Doors. Not sure why that is. … Continue reading Featured Album – Morrison Hotel – The Doors
I recently read a book that’s been on my list for a while. It’s called Three Dog Nightmare and it’s about singer Chuck Negron’s descent into hellish drug addiction. It’s also interesting because – and I’m not making this up – his penis split because … Continue reading My Week at Camp – Roots Rock Revival
I’ve been an Elton John fan for a long, long time. I saw him exactly once many years ago. When I knew he was going to resume his (seemingly endless) farewell tour, I figured, well, I gotta get a ticket to that. I confess I … Continue reading The Bitch is Back – Elton John Farewell Tour Review, Foxborough, MA
Even though Jeff Baxter doesn’t need any introduction to many rock folks, some may be less familiar with him. A little background on this unusual guitar god from his website: Baxter joined his first band at age 11. In junior high school in Mexico City. … Continue reading Featured Album – Jeff “Skunk” Baxter – Speed of Heat
The inspiration for this post came from my picking up a copy of Uncut magazine featuring Elvis Costello. Uncut’s Ultimate Music Guide does these great tributes to musical artists where they’ll intersperse magazine articles (NME in this case) from the artist’s early days with contemporary … Continue reading ME’s list of Great Debut albums (Part 1 of an Occasional Series) – My Aim is True
Midnight Cowboy is a great, somewhat dated movie and is, to date, the only X-rated movie ever to win best picture. (The stuff it got an X for in 1969 you can now see on cable TV any day of the week. X has since … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions
Like a lot of people from my generation, I have a pile of albums just sitting around never getting played. I was rummaging through them the other day and stumbled on an album (and band) I’d forgotten about. The band is Flamin’ Groovies and the … Continue reading From My Collection – Teenage Head – Flamin’ Groovies
I actually bought these tickets for a 2020 show and I think we all know what happened then. So finally, we waited long enough that we could actually congregate again. The wait was worth it. The show was at the TD Garden in Boston where … Continue reading Concert Review – Roger Waters – This is Not A Drill
A little background is in order: Wikipedia: “Paul Green is an American record producer, film producer, director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, music teacher, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who founded School of Rock (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music), a performance-based music program for kids. … Continue reading Jon Anderson and Paul Green Rock Academy perform Close to the Edge – Live
In the (almost) seven years he’s been blogging, ME has rarely done a movie review. Well, I’ve done several documentaries. But apart from The Wall, this is the only scripted movie. I toyed with the idea ‘coz I like movies. But for a guy as … Continue reading Movie Review – Elvis
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