Chapter One I was nervous and excited to move to London. London was where the action was and after spending all my nearly seventeen years in rural France, I was ready for excitement. I was glad I had Aimee, my best friend since girlhood, along. I doubt I would have been brave enough to go alone. We …
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British singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her London apartment. Full coverage may be found here. Like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Brian Jones and others, she joins a long list of musicians who died at age 27. Just because this is not a surprise doesn’t mean it’s not a …
When you answer “Beatles” to the question, “Beatles or Stones?” it shows that you don’t understand the question being asked, and if you don’t get it in 2011, you never will. – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 3 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 …
Critic’s Roundtable, Part 2 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Tom is, as usual, generous, judicious and fair in his evaluation, and that’s why he always would have made a better rock critic than some of us of stronger, more strident opinions. But there are …
Here’s Groupie, the Delaney and Bonnie original version (Just listen, don’t look at the sucky Jim Morrison tribute video accompanying it on Youtube) of what became the Carpenters’ megahit, Superstar. I love this song. I tried to sing the Carpenters version at karaoke but need to practice the fast part. Luther Vandross does a great …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …