Austin-based guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time and it’s always a pleasure anytime that I get a chance to catch him in concert. Johnson is currently in the midst of a few different projects, including a newly completed solo CD called Up Close that features […]
Tag: Paul McCartney
A Peculiar Life: The ATV Interview with Richard Page
Life is full of happy accidents — I was in the midst of setting up an interview with Gary Wright via his publicist and mentioned to him that former Mr. Mister vocalist Richard Page (Wright’s current tour mate) had a new solo album out. Wright relayed to his publicist that Richard was willing to speak […]
Setlist: Paul McCartney in Kansas City, 7/24/10
It’s still the “greatest show on Earth” and I’m not talking about the Ringling Brothers. After nearly 18 hours of bus and car travel, it only took a few seconds of “Venus and Mars” to validate what a great choice I’d made road tripping it to Kansas City to see Paul McCartney. For three hours, […]
We’re going to Kansas City…..
….Kansas City, here we come! As the week came to a close, the girlfriend got an unexpected pair of tickets to see Paul McCartney’s first performance in Kansas City in 17 years. Which means that I had to make the very difficult choice to hop on a Greyhound bus to go see the show with […]
Video: Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas Time LIVE!
For the first time in 30 years, “Wonderful Christmas Time” found its way back into Paul McCartney’s setlist, because it’s that time of the year, right? As we mentioned in the Cage Match a couple of weeks ago, McCartney hinted in interviews prior to this winter tour that he might drag it out for the […]
Cage Match: Xmas Edition Vol. 1: Paul McCartney vs. Billy Squier
While discussing recent Cage Match activities, my co-worker Rebecca suggested a battle between a couple of Christmas tunes. Suddenly, an additional idea sprung into my head – a holiday themed Cage Match each week leading up to Christmas! It was so simple…..and why hadn’t I thought of this easy cop-out great idea sooner! We’d been […]
New Releases This Week: Paul McCartney, Starship, Them Crooked Vultures
The holidays must be coming up, because there are quite a few reissues on tap, and also new music from Boyz II Men (yipe!), John Mayer and the “super-group” pairing of Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Zep bass player John Paul Jones as Them Crooked Vultures. Kris Allen – Kris Allen – You know, the […]
The 100 Greatest Singer-Songwriter Albums of All Time
Thanks to all for your lyrical help in the previous post – the song that I was searching for was “Love Letter” by Bonnie Raitt. Nowhere close to John Parr, but I guess at least I found out from the experience that there is a video for “Naughty, Naughty.” Who knew? I woke up this […]