It’s Tuesday afternoon and I’m minutes away from phoning Matthew Sweet for an interview when I happen to hit Twitter on my phone and see a breaking story that Hank LoConti, longtime owner of the Cleveland Agora has just passed away at age 85. The news hit me like a ton of bricks because Hank […]
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Continuing Journeys
#98032918 / gettyimages.com I got a chance to speak with Journey guitarist Neal Schon for a piece that ran in this week’s edition of the Cleveland Scene prior to their upcoming show here in the area on Tuesday evening with Steve Miller Band and Tower of Power. As is often the case, writing that story sent […]
SOME GIRLS GETS A MAKEOVER
SOME GIRLS 2011 – Universal Republic Records 1978 – Rolling Stones Records In the words of Lou Reed, “Those were different times.” And they were. New York was still reeling from a financial crisis and the country as a whole wasn’t much better off. Son of Sam had kept the city on edge for months, […]
Contest: Win both volumes of Journey’s ‘Greatest Hits’ on vinyl!
Journey released Greatest Hits on November 15th, 1988. Sometime around that time, I saw it in my local record store (the sorely missed Crow’s Nest in Crest Hill, Illinois) and had to pick up a copy. Despite what my good Twitter pal @jukebox65 might want to believe, I was not a Journey diehard at that […]
Journey to Steve Perry: Let’s hang out, bro.
I had to laugh when I saw this: Steve Perry is welcome back on stage with Journey any time, guitarist Neal Schon said in a recent interview. In fact, current lead singer and Perry soundalike Arnel Pineda would be “overjoyed” if Perry were to show up for one of the band’s tour stops. I was […]
Setlist: Journey, Foreigner and Night Ranger at Blossom Music Center, 8/2/11
Going to see a Journey show always leaves me with so many thoughts. First, it’s great to have the opportunity to see a Journey show in 2011 and I have to give thumbs up each time to Neal Schon, because I know he and the other members did a lot of work and took a […]
Interview: Author Neil Daniels Talks About His New Journey Book
Journey once ruled the earth. If you’re reading Addicted to Vinyl, you know this already. Even if you did, the Journey story probably runs deeper than you realize. And it’s all laid out in a new book by Neil Daniels, the UK rock author extraordinaire who’s written books about Bon Jovi, Judas Priest and Led […]
A Smart Ass In Every Room: Cruising The Bay Area with Joel Selvin
As someone with a passion for both music and writing, I really look up to the legendary members of the old guard that really paved the way for what is being done in their respective fields today. On the radio side of things, I’m talking about guys like Rick Dees (now on Twitter @RickDees) and […]
Random Youtube: Journey – Frontiers and Beyond
This is a classic documentary if you haven’t seen it. The doc was briefly available officially in the late ’90s on DVD from Journey before it was pulled without explanation. When I had the chance to interview Neal Schon a short time later, he said (no surprise) that the DVD was pulled due to the […]
Good Listening: Bad English in Allentown, October ’89
“When I See You Smile” was one of those songs that I heard on the radio quite a few times, before I actually knew anything about the band behind the song. Bad English was the band, a supergroup of sorts featuring vocalist John Waite, former Journey members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain, bass player Ricky […]