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...
For those who weren’t fortunate to be around, the late ‘60s and early ‘70s were a wonderful time to be a young music fan. There was...
In a fashion similar to when Van Halen erupted in the late ‘70s and Guns N’ Roses exploded in the mid-‘80s, Rage Against The Machine stirred...
After dropping four poorly-received prog-driven studio slabs, the Chicago-birthed brigade, Styx, were rescued from the bottom rungs of rock’s tour circuit overnight when their 1973 album...
For their more astute followers, the musical evolution of Cinderella was wonderful to behold. Their hard-hitting 1986 debut, Night Songs, was a custom fit for the...
