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After World War II the worldwide success of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, and a bit later Led Zeppelin all had a profoundly positive effect on the British self-esteem. All of these predecessors of Def Leppard were almost entirely influenced musically by the blues, rhythm and blues, and soul music of […]
Guitarslinger Gary Hoey had burst upon the scene that year with Animal Instinct , showing up at my Friday afternoon live remote broadcast on Dallas/Ft.Worth radio Q102 in October 1993, and he brought his guitar and effects rack to play live. Gary launched into the Dutch band Focus hit “Hocus Pocus” from twenty years earlier […]
The late Glenn Frey was Bob Seger’s buddy long before Frey headed west and took wing with the Eagles singing background vocals on Bob’s first hit, “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” in 1968…
People that have not been in Billy Joel’s corner since the days of The Hassles and Cold Spring Harbor and Piano Man, the latter album released November 1973, truly cannot appreciate the depth of affection millions feel for this guy. But those lucky few who packed Spark’s Saloon to the rafters in Huntington out on […]
The tributes and testaments started even before official word was issued that Aretha Franklin had passed away. Knowing that I have interviewed so many of the greatest musicians of the last half century, more than one news outlet contacted me looking for a possible recorded interview that they could excerpt, but I never had the […]
After several alarming live tv meltdowns exposed widespread lip-synching to recorded tracks, there was a debate raging among rock cognoscenti twenty years ago about whether the majority of Nineties acts who were selling on the charts could actually PLAY or not. So it was a real pleasure to witness Soul Asylum tee one up live […]
August 1993-Truly one of the greatest honors I have ever received was to have James Taylor sing a song to me . Like millions of others , I came of age at the time that James debuted on U.S.radio with the stunning “Fire and Rain” in 1970, but this gem from the earliest JT canon actually pre-dates his breakthrough by about 18 months .
Ted Nugent does a colorful TED talk on Cat Scratch Forty!
Ian Anderson In the Studio for the brilliant 21st century sequel to Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick”.
Predictably, the induction of Journey into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rekindled several obvious questions once again with loyal fans, among them: why did the much-beloved and enormously successful Eighties line-up of the Bay Area band, fronted by Steve Perry, disband?