Back in the ’70s, the No Nukes movement was alive and well (and yours truly even attended some protests.) I did not go to this concert but I remember the event well. And my first experience of the E Street Band was in this timeframe, … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen – The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts To Be Released
(Pictured – ME’s Music Vault) Wherein I periodically send our team into the vault to find tunes that ME has featured over the years and which he (and his minions) would not like the world to completely forget …. Fleetwood Mac is a band I … Continue reading From the Vault – Vol 7
I always liked Thin Lizzy but when they were popular I would not have told you they were one of my favorite bands. Now that I go back and listen, I say to myself, what the fuck was I thinking? I enjoyed them on the … Continue reading A Six-Pack of Thin Lizzy
“This is a story of drug abuse” – Chrissie Hynde Reckless – Marked by lack of proper caution:Β careless of consequences – Irresponsible That’s the dictionary definition of the word. And I guess that that word pretty much sums up Chrissie Hynde’s life, at least through … Continue reading Book Review – Reckless: My Life as a Pretender – Chrissie Hynde
One of my very first posts ever was in late 2015 (my how time flies) and it was on the subject of virtuoso jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. As I said in that post, “What I like about Metheny is that he is very varied in … Continue reading Featured Album – Bright Size Life – Pat Metheny
βCharlieΒ Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically.” – Keith Richards. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died at the age of 80 on August 24, 2021, five days ago as I write this. Lest ye think that somehow the Music Enthusiast missed … Continue reading An ME Tribute to Charlie Watts
Wherein I provide three versions of a song to see how it can be (sometimes radically) reinterpreted …. Even though I wrote a series about Ray Charles at the end of last year, I’d somehow gotten it into my head that Willie Nelson wrote this … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Hard Times
Wikipedia: “In 1967, Jimi Hendrix told the journalist Keith Altham that ‘Third Stone from the Sun’ is about a visiting space alien who, upon evaluation of the human species, decides that people are not fit to rule Earth, destroys their civilization, and places the planet … Continue reading One Song/Three Versions – Third Stone From the Sun – Jimi Hendrix
Manager Robert Wace “I had a friendΒ … He thought the group was rather fun. If my memory is correct, he came up with the name just as an idea, as a good way of getting publicityΒ … When we went to [the band members] with the … Continue reading Have a Cuppa Tea – A Six-Pack of the Kinks
“We played this festival in Nuremberg at an old Third Reich park. So I’ve played a venue that was literally built by Hitler that was more hospitable than that Air Force base was.” – The Offspring, who actually made an attempt to soothe the crowd. … Continue reading Woodstock 99 – Not Your Mother’s Peace and Love Festival
