Keystone Revisited will perform at the Alberta Rose Theater in Portland Oregon, Fri. Sept. 14th. Keystone Revisited features the music of Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia. The band features drummer Bill Vitt, Merl Saunder’s son Tony Saunders on bass, Michael Hinton on guitar, and Steven Abramson on keyboards/vocals. (See graphic below for dates, times and …
Month: September 2012
No artist ever did a better job of turning an innocent lip-synch into a monumental fuck-you. – Scott Schinder http://youtu.be/GiaYVr7Vg9M
Meet Tracy Irve, a brother-sister pop duo from Sweden whose video for “I Can’t” is trending in the US today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVenuEKqEsE
The decline of the labor movement in America is often traced to the Reagan ’80s, which is also when this corporate homage to “work” was released… coincidence? – John Petkovic and his band, Cobra Verde, enjoy life to the fullest in Cleveland, Ohio.
Just goes t’show that ANY schlub can like and/or try to replicate a great song! Alas. I’ve been very dubious of Warren Haynes and his Nth-generation Allmans cult, so this wasn’t quite as bad as I’d feared. Though the vocal remains an uptight disaster! – Tom Kipp
This is a stone classic of journalistic ineptitude, with Lou Reed actually doing his best to be somewhat cordial & kind to the clueless dolt from Sweden who’s been sent to "interview" him, ca. mid-’90s! – Tom Kipp
A conversation between East Portland Blog and Lawrence Spaulding: EPB: Are you still running? LS: Yeah, I have a hamstring strain and I am not training for anything, but I still run ten miles or less. EPB: But you did run marathons at some point? LS: Yeah, but like I said I am not training …
When Pearl Jam’s cover of “Last Kiss” came out around the turn of the century, I wrote a review panning the effort, which I will post below. Twelve years on I must admit that I overreacted. Like the earlier version by J. Frank Wilson, it’s a fun tune. Let’s just leave it at that. Pearl …
Released in 1973, this album was a commercial failure, but some of the songs made it into later Fleetwood Mac live shows. Buckingham Nicks has yet to be re-released on CD and has attained stratospheric cult status. But it’s all here on Youtube, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFDxIX_T8jU
….Yes some of us still like classic U2, and they do this great song as well as anybody…. – Marc Marshall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6naVGwgHDtQ From the tune’s Wikipedia entry: “In 1955, Alex North and lyricist Hy Zaret were contracted to write a song as a theme for the obscure prison film Unchained, and their song eventually became …
The Sweet Inspirations were founded by Emily “Cissy” Houston, mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick (herself the mother of sisters Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick). on March 28, 1967, The Sweet Inspirations sang the backing vocals for Van Morrison on “Brown Eyed Girl”. In 1968, the group recorded with Hendrix on his …
Right about now, I could use a “cold wind in August” – it’s fairly warm in LA. August 31 is Van the Man’s birthday, I thought I’d celebrate with Van, joined by Dr. John on keys, and Mick Ronson on guitar, (one of my favorite power trios ever) filmed on Dutch TV in ’77. – …