Honestly, I’ve always seen it as something of a slap. To this day, you’d be hard-pressed to uncover any commentary on the combo without that caveat....
Ever had one of those, “What was I thinking” revelations? You know, a moment when you look back on a “snapshot” from sometime in the past...
T-I-M-B-E-R-R-R-! If hacked down in a musical forest, loggers could easily count the many rings of this 55-year-old rock and roll Monterey cypress. From the high-flying...
The name represents a renowned rock brand. The logo is equally legendary. And the tunes remain timeless — in some instances, even after a half-century (or...
Truth be told, I blame Blue Öyster Cult. Most of the frustrating and painful auditory issues I suffer from as an old man (I believe) are...
There I was, perusing the latest issue of a popular music magazine while standing in the check-out lane down at the local A&P. It was then...
No Pro Tools. No Auto-Tune. Maybe a click track, but definitely no computerized studio wizardry. It was an honest and pure record — an organic collection...
For the casual observer, perusing record bins down at the local Kmart back in the day, one image (likely) comes to mind (quickly) when recalling the...
They wrote the one textbook I actually was capable of consuming (and comprehending). As a result, it was the one class I could pass — with...
1976. AM radio was pumping out a steady stream of sanitized chart-topping feel-goods depicting funky waterfowl, amorous rodents and midday romantic rendezvous, while FM airwaves transmitted...
A full 15 years following its initial April 2006 release, this album remains a brave and beautiful piece of work. Yet, personally, it’s a painful one...
A collision of ‘60s-birthed psychedelia and ‘70s-inspired soul, the self-produced sophomore set by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lenny Kravitz breathed the last gasp of rock and roll...
There we were – me and the world-famous rock star for whom I worked at the time – standing in the back of a packed Orlando,...
Spring — 1976. Ronnie was a 14-year-old bad boy — the heartthrob of the neighborhood bad girls. He had shaggy long blond hair, smoked cigarettes, rode...
Outrageous concert theatrics and notorious publicity stunts aside, what made the Alice Cooper group an iconic combo was their well-crafted, world-class songs — bold and brave...
Hey, what the… Wait one doggone minute — this AIN’T “Hotel California!” For mild-mannered music enthusiasts who grew up with cozy album rock radio during the...
There’s a particular scene in the award-winning 2000 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous. In that playful scene, “band aid,” Estrella Starr (played by Bijou Phillips) peers...
Oh sure, there was the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Cream, Zeppelin, Jimi and Janis — the elite golden gods of the glorious first wave of...
DATELINE: South Florida, 1990. For those of us who imbibed, the original music scene was thriving. The hair band era was ramping down, the grunge generation...
An immediate TV ratings champ when it debuted on ABC in September 1970, was The Partridge Family. The show was based on a fictional pop group...
Prolific and irreverent, the loveable So-Cal douche bags already had dumped a buttload of garage-birthed LPs and EPs when punk surprisingly became embraced by the mainstream...
Casey Kasem referred to him once as the “glam guru.” While the legendary American Top 40 radio host’s observation may have been accurate at the time,...
“If there ever was a musician who was an honorary member of San Francisco society, Mr. Peter Frampton!” The earnest intro from Winterland Ballroom general manager, Jerry...
