a tip of the hat to Gregor @ captains dead for the MP3s of a classic Rolling Stones bootleg. At the above link, there is a great link to the story behind the recording of one of the most classic bootlegs in the history of bootlegging! If you’re not familiar with Live’r Than You’ll Ever […]
Category: Good Listening
Unexpected A Apolitical Blues
As a guy that is all about song titles and lyrics, I often get excited seeing a subject line in Bob Lefsetz’s regular email newsletter – something like “Rock Steady” for example, where I know that certainly he must be writing about Bonnie Raitt and Bryan Adams. Those of you that read this site on […]
A head on collision of music and my life
I don’t even know where to begin this one, so we’ll start here: I’m messaging back and forth today with my friend AK, one of my friends that goes way back in my timeline. I guess that she and I have known each other nearly 20 years now, and yet we know each other better […]
Good Listening: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Live in New York City Volume 3
This one is for Dan, who threw down a challenge to me in the comments of this Springsteen post: Hey, in the spirit of the Boss, share a boot! Reach back and find something obscure that has a lot of meaning to you. Blatant begging. Sorry. (I’ll also send this out to site regular Ann […]
Put your 90s sunglasses on and rock out with some of these….
Semisonic – Closing Time Welcome to September! My unofficial ’90s weekend drew to a close yesterday with an awesome set from Big Head Todd & The Monsters at Taste of Cleveland. My friend Captain, forever living his life in lower case over @ captains dead was surprised to find out that Big Head Todd are […]
Good Listening: Cracker – Empire Concert Club – 5-12-92
This post is a response to Kelly and José’s Random Retro Wednesday Song: Euro Trash Girl A post in which our heroes pay tribute to the day that David Lowery and Johnny Hickman decided to record a really long awesome song that was so long, they put it on the Kerosene Hat album as a […]
Thank you for listening to our songs, we’d do it for free, I swear to God….
Okay, guilty pleasure time – here’s one of many bands that fall into that category for me. This one’s for Mel, who just wrote a great memory-jogging post about 10 of her favorite concerts. One of those concerts, was a 1997 Grog Shop appearance from Matchbox 20, who were in the midst of finally breaking […]
Good Listening: Pearl Jam – Tivoli: Utrecht, Holland – 3/4/92
Seventeen years ago today, Pearl Jam released their debut album Ten. As of 2003, the album has been certified twelve times platinum in the United States, and remains the band’s best selling album. So you might find it hard to believe that the album wasn’t an immediate success, and took nearly a year to reach […]
Good Listening: Nine Inch Nails – Woodstock ’94
So, Nine Inch Nails were in town over the weekend at Quicken Loans Arena, which got me thinking a bit about something. But first, you can check out a few reviews of the Cleveland show here, here, and here. Still with me? Good. Billboard Magazine has a feature online celebrating 20 years of Nine Inch […]
Interview: Tesla guitarist Dave Rude
On the heels of their recent live DVD release, Tesla are set to release Forever More, their first new studio album in four years on October 7th. My compadre Chris Akin caught up with Tesla guitarist Dave Rude for an interview on last night’s edition of The Classic Metal Show. The interview covers a lot […]