[Editor’s note: On June 3, 2024, rock’n roll great Ian Hunter will celebrate his 85th birthday. As part of East Portland Blog‘s celebration of this momentous occasion, we are presenting again a wondrous, fascinating, and historically fact-packed article by rock journalist extraordinaire and WorleyGig.com provocateur, Gail Worley. Ian Hunter sat for this interview in late …
Jonathan Toubin is a New York DJ who was on a tour stop in Portland and sleeping in his downtown motel room Dec. 8 when a cabbie had a medical episode and crashed his cab into Toubin’s room, injuring Toubin severely. He’s still in ICU and Gail Worley writes here about the upcoming fundraiser for …
Best Album: Manraze, PunkFunkRootsRock. Take guitarist Phil Collen from Def Leppard and team him up with drummer Paul Cook from The Sex Pistols and add Simon Laffy, the bassist from Phil’s former Glam band, Girl (because every power trio needs a bassist), and you’ve got a record that sounds, well, like a raunchier version of …
“Seeing Ministry live is comparable to being on a battle field, and that’s the closest I ever want get to going to war,” says Gail in The Worley Gig.
Key Lyric: “What you get is what you see.” The Message: Light some candles and break out the hot oil! Nothing gets me in the mood for love like the extended, “Come and Get It” mix of Gene Love’s Jezebel’s sex-drenched “Desire.” Back in the 80’s, I slapped “Desire” on the disc player before all …
Taylor Dayne – Love Will Lead You Back – Great Sex Can Make You Seriously Delusional, By Gail Worley
“Love Will Lead You Back” By Taylor Dayne Key Lyric: “In my heart I know, love will lead you back.” The Message: Great sex can make you seriously delusional. When it comes to matters of the heart, I don’t believe in second chances. Likewise, I would strongly advise anyone against reconciling with a lover who …
http://youtu.be/LrPJgnOXjy8 Key Lyric: “I never had a chance to love you.” The Message: Holy shit! Did I ever screw up! “Wait” is my number one, hands-down, favorite song of all time. I can see the video for this hair metal classic of unrequited longing play in my head from start to finish every time I …
“While the span of the band’s career was relatively short, The Runaways changed the landscape of rock and altered the perception of women making music forever. With The Runaways’ biopic just released last year, who would have imagined that their influence would continue to be topical several decades after their break up? I was around …
From Gail Worley at The Worley Gig: “Jeff Koons is one of the most polarizing and well known contemporary artists living today. He attempts to elevate the banal by constructing large metal sculptures that resemble balloon animals, oil paintings that contain subject matter derived from digital collage, and large-scale pornographic photographs featuring the artist and …
The awesome Gail Worley posted this very cute animal video on The Worley Gig. I’d also like to thank Gail for helping spread the word about EPB:
When 5th season American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry sang a brooding cover of Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line” in 2006, Idol fans went universally ape shit, calling the arrangement “wildly innovative” and raving about how refreshingly far removed it was from the up-tempo original. What most didn’t realize was that Daughtry’s performance was not …
What has become the most overplayed anthem in the history of team sports, Queen’s “We Are The Champions” (from 1977’s News of The World) is arguably the British quartet’s best-selling and most widely known single – and I’m including “Bohemian Rhapsody” in my calculations. Shot in jaw-droppingly clear high-def during the era shortly after Freddie …