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In April 1982 Ozzy Osbourne honored an agreement to broadcast his sold-out concert live nationwide from the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum, in spite of the fact that his guitarist Randy Rhoads, his band seamstress, and his tour bus driver had all died in a single-engine plane crash about six weeks earlier. Ozzy, who had not spoken […]
With R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe and lead guitarist Peter Buck in my classic rock interview. Includes the earliest days of the Athens GA band, with songs from their first four full albums Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, & Life’s Rich Pageant. Part one of two.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were among the best working bands on the planet even before they did twenty nights at San Francisco’s Fillmore early in 1997, and this not-to-be-missed performance of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” certainly doesn’t hurt the case for that contention. –Redbeard
Surprised to find just how many towns with the name “Lodi” existed. But there has only ever been one song with that moniker, written and sung by John Fogerty when he led Creedence Clearwater Revival. Here’s John and his band just before embarking on tour,at rehearsal in Burbank CA in May 1997.
Here is proof that the Robert Cray Band has been an impeccable live outfit nightly for decades, performing “More Than I Can Stand (It’s Over)” at Dallas’ Club Redux in 1987. -Redbeard
After the release of the Ghost of Tom Joad album , which invokes the name of the starving Depression-era Okie in the Grapes of Wrath , Bruce Springsteen did some selected dates without the “E” Street Band . More than a decade after the Republican Party appropriated the chorus from his song “Born in the USA” for President Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign , Springsteen was still rankled by the usage out of context minus the verses . ..(more)
Interviews with Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Nick Mason about “The Endless River” for the fascinating back story of a “final ” musical statement, 1994’s “The Division Bell”, which was never intended to be the superstar progressive rock band’s last word but which nevertheless became that when Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright died in 2008.
You can dock me points for the minimalist recorded sound, but Steve Forbert‘s “Rock While I Can Rock” scores big time in the attitude column now even more than when he performed this in 1992. Recorded live solo one man band right off the dance floor at Arlington Texas’ Baja Beach Club, ignore the radio […]
Rare revealing interview with Patti Scialfa, plus three terrific live performances In the Studio.
Not even the Rubberneck 25th anniversary releases, with excellent remastered sound and bonus tracks on vinyl and CD, of Ft. Worth band The Toadies contains this legendary New Years Eve 1995-96 performance of “Possum Kingdom”, mixed live to broadcast on Q102 that night by Doug Hall, no overdubs or punch-ins, straight off the stage […]