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… from Paul McCartney to The Pope, we couldn’t help but both comment on the remarkable similarities in response that millions of attendees display at those two seemingly disparate gatherings. Who dares try to convince the pilgrims filing in, ages eight to eighty with stars in their eyes and a song (okay, three hundred songs) in their hearts, that this isn’t a religious experience? Paul McCartney is my guest from backstage In the Studio.
Working without a net, unrehearsed and totally imprompt, surrounded by wall-to-wall fans crammed like sardines into a Dallas bar/restaurant in February 1994 for my Friday afternoon remote broadcast on Q-102 ,Peter Frampton obliged his loyal fans with the appropriate “All I Want to Be is By Your Side” which I first played back in 1972 on my first radio station in Findlay , Ohio .
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As we prepare to host the members of Bad Company next month to mark the band’s forty-fifth anniversary, it takes only a cursory glance at their set list from their most recent reunion tour to be impressed by just how strong the songs on that May 1974 debut indeed were, as “Ready for Love”, “Movin’ […]
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 […]
It would be fascinating to watch the latest Oscar-nominated remake of A Star is Born with Dallas-based Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was THE Cinderella best-seller that Fall and into 1989, peaking at #4 on the Billboard album chart and selling over a million copies largely on […]
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 […]
Here’s Steve Lukather and Toto totally live and mostly acoustic on my Q102 radio show in 1993 in a Dallas Mexican restaurant. That’s not a typo!
“There was only ONE of those voices,” Peter Frampton reminded me emphatically one time. Here the late Steve Marriott displays one of the reasons he was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the lead singer of the Small Faces , with one of their signature songs “Tin Soldier” performed live […]
In 1978 my pick for album of the year was Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town,which no doubt topped many such lists that year.Second by a gnat’s eyelash on my list,however,was Blue Valentine by Tom Waits,an album which I can cherish easily for another thirty years…(more)
Ten years after redefining what the guitar composer/ performer could be with 1987’s Surfing with the Alien, Joe Satriani had come to a crossroads in his career and knew that he needed a second act. He delivered in a big way in 1998 with Crystal Planet, and I’ll let AllMusic.com’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine make my […]