I’m not going to do a post on Ray Manzarek. I met him once. He was a good guy. I was part of a group of students that brought him and the poet Michael McClure to Washington State University for a standing room only performance. Ray was a perfect gentleman, a seasoned entertainer, and . . . → Read More: R.I.P. Ray Manzarek – Jazz From Copenhagen, By Davin Michael Stedman
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This “Bayou” video is from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1970 appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall and is one of the few clean and crisp videos of CCR in concert that still survive. Creedence was a very unique band, especially in their late 60s-early 70s era when most performers were showing their ability to jam, . . . → Read More: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born on the Bayou, By Lou Caruso Part of my job is to listen to a lot of music. Rough life, I know. So I like to share some gems I run across. Here’s Jason Isbell, formerly of Drive-By Truckers, with a song he wrote about his father’s advice. – John Moe is the host of the stellar NPR show . . . → Read More: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Outfit (Live on KEXP), By John Moe Remember when music was created by people that weren’t by the book, didn’t look like they just rolled out of a diaper, or were hatched from some technological egg? Remember…? They could be complicated motherfuckers and you still loved them… God I’m glad I experienced those days… A dear friend of mine, John Bosch, . . . → Read More: Paul K – Wilderness of Mirrors – Documentary To Be Released by Fall 2013, By Jesse Sykes I always think of this song as the pop music center of the 20th century. There are those 33 1/3 books, and the one on Low did a great job of describing its importance this way. Basically what you have here is Northern European melody with rhythm and blues backbeat; synthesized, but analog; intimate . . . → Read More: David Bowie – Sound and Vision, By Chris Estey While I have sung and played music since childhood, a number of mundane personal detours led me away from music, my first love, and into the corporate world. One day I peeked outside my cubicle and realized that music was still there waiting for me. So we kissed, made up, and ran off together. . . . → Read More: Celia Chavez – She Understands These Things The Stone Roses are one of those bands I never really got, probably because I was living in Seattle when they were on the way up and there was so much local music at the time. Here’s an interesting documentary about everything that is bad about the music industry… Self destruct now, and watch… . . . → Read More: The Stone Roses – Documentary – Blood on the Turntable, By Gary Heffern Thanks to Pat Thomas for rediscovering this Lester Bangs quote about Van Morrison‘s legendary 1968 album, Astral Weeks. “What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and . . . → Read More: Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks Still have a soft spot in my heart for The Deftones. I remember when the band was in Seattle recording their 2nd record “Around The Fur” and as soon as they got done with one of the mixes of “Be Quiet and Drive Far Away”, they came over and played it on my 107.7 . . . → Read More: Deftones – Entombed, By Marco Collins Everybody who knows music knows Beethoven had a big ol’ AFRO. His 9th rocks so hard. Makes you want to light a big ol’ blunt and conduct the symphony with a wooden baseball bat on your roof top. This is the Deffest Jam of the 19th Century, NO DOUBT. I’m just saying… if . . . → Read More: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, By Davin Michael Stedman After our High Noon show at the Keystone Berkeley in late July, 1981, Mickey Hart told the rest of the band “Anyone who wants to go, we’re heading over to the Hell’s Angels’ clubhouse in Oakland”. I followed the others in a caravan to somewhere in Oakland. We all pulled into a corner parking . . . → Read More: Steppenwolf – Born to Be Wild – RIP James “Fu” Griffin, By Michael D. Hinton After she left Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll recorded a solo album in 1969 (also titled 1969) with Chris Spedding on guitar, future husband Keith Tippett on piano, and Soft Machine‘s horn and woodwind players. Recorded by Eddie Offord, it’s a delightful slice of English progressive pop/jazz. – Pat Thomas is the author of . . . → Read More: Julie Driscoll – Walk, By Pat Thomas I love a cat in a uniform… – John Petkovic and his band, Cobra Verde, enjoy life to the fullest in Cleveland, Ohio. Happy Birthday to Sylvia Plath, one the literary obsessions of my youth, Steve Wynn turned me onto Peter Laughner decades ago, he said “this guy’s songwriting reminds me of you” and handed me a cassette of Laugnhers’s solo LP. I’m a little less obsessed with Plath these days, but I did buy a CD . . . → Read More: Peter Laughner – Sylvia Plath, By Pat Thomas The Serious Scoop. Having flung my share of sarcastic links and comments onto this forum, I want to take time to say something really heartfelt and serious about this upcoming election. There has been a lack of thoughtful discussion so I’d like to change that, at least about myself. Here goes. I support . . . → Read More: I Support Obama for a Couple of Urgent Reasons, By Jan Erickson I’m going to try to live today, as I do every day, according to the principles set forth by Jimi Hendrix in Axis: Bold as Love. – John Roderick [John Roderick will be performing with friends at the Showbox in Seattle on Oct. 29. Follow him as he tweets his wisdom @johnroderick.] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTcLrTabS4 . . . → Read More: Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love, By John Roderick Whatever it is at the heart of Rock n’ Roll that made Mötley Crüe inevitable is a thing I wouldn’t cross the street to save from a fire. – John Roderick [John Roderick will be performing with friends at the Showbox in Seattle on Oct. 29. Follow him as he tweets his wisdom . . . → Read More: Mötley Crüe – Wild Side, By John Roderick, Celebrity Guest Blogger Back in Chicago in the 1970s in my early teens my dad took my brother and I to see Oscar Peterson at the now defunct Rick’s Café Americain (one of many such named and themed Casablanca bars of the time). As a budding keyboard player, I was struck then and now, by how that . . . → Read More: Oscar Peterson – Take the “A” Train, By Steve Gans Hey kids, here’s a minute of pure bliss, Sandy Denny with Fairport Convention in super high quality video, during the era that Faces/Who Producer Glyn Johns was steering the ship…… If the Fairport Convention video above didn’t move you, this vintage footage will finish you off. Today I walked into a bar in . . . → Read More: Fairport Convention – Farewell, Farewell and Unseen Sandy Denny Footage, By Pat Thomas I appreciate it that older rock dudes want to keep the dream alive, but when I see the “Paul Weller hair” on a chunky dad I wince. – John Roderick [John Roderick will be performing with friends at the Showbox in Seattle on Oct. 29. Follow him as he tweets his wisdom @johnroderick.] . . . → Read More: The Jam – Town Called Malice – Paul Weller Hair, By John Roderick, Celebrity Guest Blogger |
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