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JERRY LEE LEWIS

The Casuals, Bobby One, Alan Marlo

State Theatre

Niagra Falls, NY

HOWLIN WOLF & HIS ORCHESTRA

Rosewood Club

Memphis, TN

BROOK BENTON

Ruth Brown,

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Lightning Strikes Lenny Kaye!

Buddy Guy Walks Into A Bar

Ike & Tina Turner & The Scene That Formed Their

BOB DYLAN

GRATEFUL DEAD

Oakland Stadium

Oakland, CA

IGGY POP

The Austin Opera House

Austin, TX

BRYAN FERRY

Greek Theatre

U.C. Berkeley

Berkeley, Ca

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An April Fool's Daydream

Robert Johnson: The Sound & The Fury

Rock & Roll Acid Casualties

Never To Be

The Beatles First Concert In America!

The Beatles’ first US concert was watched by a crowd of 8,092 fans

at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, DC.

The Beatles

Washington Sports Arena

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50 Gigs That Changed Music

Chris Charlesworth: Gigs That Transformed Live Music

Mutations: A Retrospective of Beck

PJ O'Rourke

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When Paul McCartney Teamed Up With Elvis Costello

Little Richard & Solomon Burke: Sex & God & Rock & Roll

The Cramps

Eldorado

Paris, France

Back In Black Tour '80

AC/DC

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Uniondale, NY

Ramones

Keystone

Palo Alto, CA

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

“In 1978, rock music resembled a combat zone more than a community. The divisions had been visible for most of the decade, with the fraying of any notion that the factions of rock fans could peacefully coexist, but in…

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The Bottom Line

NYC

Tom Waits

The Paradise Club

Boston, MA

The Clash

The Saints

Cherry Vanilla

Birmingham Rag Market

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Keystone Hall

Kutztown State College

Kutztown, PA

Led Zeppelin

L.S.U. Assembly Center

Baton Rouge, LA

Led Zeppelin

Earl's

ALIVE AS YESTERDAY: 1967 CONCERTS

Electric Flag,

Moby Grape

Steve Miller

Fillmore SF CA

Donovan

Cow Palace

San Francisco, CA

 Lenny Bruce

The Mothers of

Today on the Rock & Roll is a State of Mind blog, we celebrate the 54th anniversary of what many regard as one of  the very first rock festivals...Monterey Pop! 

While Monterey Pop wasn’t the first music…

This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend,

Jeff Goldstein

who spent many happy hours @ The Fillmore East

The Story of the Fillmore East begins here...

Located…

Psychedelic rock was a musical genre that emerged in the mid-sixties due to the popularity of such mind-altering drugs as LSD, mescaline, cannabis and peyote mushrooms.  The roots of Psychedelic Rock begin here: On Friday April 16, 1943 (a…

1964

"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls —…

"A Pop person is like a vacuum that eats up everything, he's made up

from what he's seen.  And that's why people are really becoming

plastic; they are just fed things and are formed…

Over the years there have been many arguments concerning which year produced the best rock album.  While this is most probably arrived at via a subjective view point, there is a serious case to be made for the…

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…

Vince Taylor, while not widely known to US rock fans, was an influential part of the European rock scene in the late 50's and early 60's.  While not widely known to US rock fans, Taylor was an influential…

An Interview with M. Frank & Johnny Pierre

Ed Yipsilanti (Mind Smoke Staff Writer)

M. Frank (Author)

Johnny Pierre (Editor)

Ed: Greetings to one and all.  I'm very excited

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder

as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Over the…

Worried that no-one would understand their Liverpool accents in 1964 film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, US music execs considered dubbing them over with American actors. McCartney harrumphed: “We can understand a fucking…

Farewell Aldebaran - Judy Henske & Jerry Yester

1968 Straight Records

There have been many albums that I became attached to over the years and Farewell Aldebaran certainly falls into that category.  I'm thinking of Van Morrison's…