Long story short, I’ve started to do some major house cleaning with my music collection (to put it mildly.) I’ve been listing items on Ebay for the past couple of weeks, and wanted to give a heads up to ya’ll, because there are some items that are online right now, that are pretty hard to […]
Category: The 70s
Announcement: My new rock band.
I was talking to my co-worker/vinyl loving comrade Michael today, and he was giving me continued ribbing on my usage of “quote/unquote” in my recent Billy Joel post. After reading it originally, he had emailed me asking why I didn’t simply use the actual quote symbols. Answer: Because I didn’t want to. But it got […]
10 Artists Who Should Stop Making Records
I hate lists like this one from MSN Music. In the way they are formatted making you go page by page to view each individual list item, it feels like a cheap attempt to drive up web traffic with posts that are virtually worthless. Yes, we know that The Who need to stop making albums. […]
Rush vs. Rock Band – It’s harder than it looks
Saw this in one of Bob Lefsetz’s recent dispatches – Rush were on a recent episode of The Colbert Report and took a crack at playing their own song……on Rock Band. Check out the video below. Priceless!
Quick Hits – Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, Joe Cocker, The Who
Greetings from Cleveland, where you’re only as old as you feel…..and with some of the news from this week, I’m feeling pretty old. For example, August 5th will see the release of the 15th Anniversary Edition of one my favorite albums from the 90s, a special 2 CD/1DVD package of Sarah Mclachlan’s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. […]
Steve Lukather announces tour dates in support of his new solo CD Ever Changing Times
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather put out a great solo CD earlier this year called Ever Changing Times. And now the unthinkable has occurred: Steve is touring to support the disc, and inside the run of scheduled tour dates, are 13 U.S. shows! The U.S. shows begin with a date at Red Rocks opening for Jethro […]
Good Listening: Hall and Oates – The Liberty Concert (1985)
This morning, my Ipod was shuffling away, and hit on some Hall and Oates. That made me think of the Hall and Oates playlist that I had made for the Ipod, and I quickly navigated towards it. Within that playlist is one of my all-time favorite musical segues that happens in the opening moments of […]
Quick Hits – Billy Joel, Barenaked Ladies, Van Halen, Dream Theater
First, an update to the Westerberg entry I posted yesterday – it seems like you might have to wait a bit longer to plunk down 49 cents for 49 minutes of new Paul Westerberg. The new music is supposed to be available today, and might be still – but it’s more likely that the download […]
Bruce Springsteen digital EP, Tesla live DVD available this week
Just a reminder for you all that Magic Tour Highlights, the new digital EP release from Bruce Springsteen and the E. Street Band, was released on Tuesday. The release features Danny Federici’s final appearance with the band from March of this year, and guest appearances from Roger McGuinn, Alejandro Escovedo (on a duet of Escovedo’s […]
Interview: Inside the studio with Heart
My good comrade Chris Akin and I have been involved in the entertainment scene for over 10 years. As all music fans do, we’ve had many musical arguments, but we are musical brothers in arms on many things like Journey, Night Ranger, and Bruce Springsteen. Chris first nabbed my respect by knowing that Survivor had […]