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May 31 2023

Rock & Roll 1975

Lester Bangs

In a June 1975 article in Creem magazine, Lester Bangs, while writing about how the impact of the breakup of the Beatles, captured some of the angst that existed in rock & roll music: “Name me one…

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May 29 2023

The Stories Behind 10 Rock Band Logos

Back in the early 1960’s, rock band logos were never quite as important as they are today in this age of branding.  Over the years, official logos became an essential item that every band needed to have in order promote…

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May 11 2023

Alive As Yesterday: 1979 Concerts

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The Palladium

NYC

 

Damn The Torpedo Tour '79

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Orpheum Theatre

Memphis, TN

 

The Specials

Tiffany's Late Bar Disco

Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Iggy Pop

The Human League

Paradiso

Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

The Plasmatics

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May 4 2023

Alive As Yesterday: 1967 Concerts

ALIVE AS YESTERDAY: 1967 CONCERTS

Electric Flag,

Moby Grape

Steve Miller

Fillmore 

San Francisco, CA

 

Donovan

Cow Palace

San Francisco, CA

 

 Lenny Bruce

The Mothers of Invention

Fillmore Auditorium

San Francisco, Ca

 

The Chambers Brothers

The Matrix

San Francisco, CA

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Apr 30 2023

Hot Platters: Live Albums That Changed My Life

Live albums were once a staple of most rock acts but could possibly be considered an endangered species nowadays.  Sure, over the years there have been many live albums that were released as a holding action because a band didn't…

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Apr 20 2023

Moments In Time: Rock & Roll Images

 

 

 

A YOUNG LESLIE WEST DURING HIS TIME WITH THE VAGRANTS

 

 

DOC POMUS & DR. JOHN WRITING SONGS IN NYC

 

 

BO DIDDLEY & HIS LADY GUITARIST NORMA-JEAN WOFFORD

 

 

JIM MORRISON BEFORE HIS DEATH IN PARIS

 

 

CLARENCE CLEMMONS & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Apr 13 2023

It Happened in the 60's: Rock & Roll on Network TV

Sweet Fancy Moses!  As strange as it sounds now, there once was a time back in the 1960’s when many popular rock bands of the day appeared on prime-time network television shows!  With the advent of The Beatles and other…

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Mar 23 2023

When Concert Posters Were An Art Form 1965

 

British Invasion Concerts NYC

 

The Dave Clark Five

Harry Deal & THe Galaxies, The Six Keys

The Knaves

Greensboro Coliseum

Greensboro, NC

 

Rolling Stones

Dave Berry & The Cruisers, The Konrads

The Checkmates, Johnny Ball, The Hollies

ABC Theatre  Romford,…

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Mar 16 2023

The Most Bizarre Rock & Roll Albums of All Time!

I've been an avid music collector since the early 1960's.  Besides the great albums I purchased, I always took note of some of the really bad records I bought over the years...you know what I'm talking about don'cha?  Record albums…

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Feb 23 2023

A Moment In Time: The British Invasion

This story starts in the United Kingdom...

""The British music industry was rigidly controlled by the BBC and London’s Denmark Street music publishers. A handful of powerful managers groomed a stable of homegrown singers in the mold of Elvis Presley…

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Jan 12 2023

Remembering Jeff Beck

I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away on Tuesday due to spinal meningitis.  I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton.  

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Sep 14 2022

Faces in the Crowd: Big Daddy Tom Donahue

Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog we celebrate the late great Big Daddy Tom Donahue (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975), who was a renowned American rock and roll radio disc jockey,

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