Throughout any given year, I've always found myself reading an inordinate amount of rock & roll books. It's a habit I fell into back in my high school days. Whenever I hear about a new rock & roll …Read more
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Sep 16 2022
Something Cool To Read This Week!
It's Time For Our Weekly Compendium Of
Random Rock & Roll Articles From The World Wide Web!
Tom Waits Shares Unreleased Live Recordings
Supersize: A Painter Who's Giving Rock ’n’ Roll Singles New Dimensions
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May 29 2022
Rock & Roll Sunday Funnies
When I was a kid I always looked forward to Sundays
& the cartoons in the Sunday Newspaper.
The other day while I was daydreaming, I thought to myself
"Hey what if the Sunday Funnies were …Read more

Jan 13 2022
Alive As Yesterday: 1987 Concerts
License To Ill Tour '87
Beastie Boys
Fishbone
Murphy's Law
Many people's first taste of the Beasties was in 1985, when they opened for none other than Madonna during the pop star's first…
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Jan 6 2022
Alive As Yesterday: 1983 Concerts
Ramones
Fool's Face
Mississippi Nights
St. Louis, MO
Live Album Recording Date Freelance Vandals Right Track Inn Freeport, NY
The English Beat R.E.M. Campus …Read more

Nov 29 2021
A Moment in Time: Van Morrison & Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. 1968)
Release Date: November 29, 1968 Warner Bros Records
When I got out of bed his morning, I suddenly realized that 53 years ago Van Morrison's Astral Weeks album was released. Looking back on those days, I…
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Nov 3 2021
Alive As Yesterday: 1982 Concerts
Prince
Zapp (featuring Roger)
The Time
Rockford Metro Centre
Rockford, IL
Spring Fest '82 Ramones David Johansen Jim Carroll Peter Dayton Lines Thunderbird Country Club …Read more

Sep 28 2021
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 …Read more

Sep 21 2021
Alive As Yesterday: 1976 Concerts
David Bowie
Station To Station Solar Tour 1976
David Bowie Public Hall Cleveland, OH
David Bowie Pavillon de Paris Porte de Pantin Paris, France
The …Read more

Apr 14 2021
Rock & Roll: The Psychedelic Years (Expanded Edition)
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…
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Sep 9 2020
1970: The Saga of the Festival Express
It was on June 27, 1970, that the Transcontinental Pop Festival began its journey in Toronto, Canada. This festival was part of a series of concerts in Canada that became known as The Festival Express which is also the…
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Jul 22 2020
Hot Platters: Alone Together - Dave Mason (Blue Thumb Records, 1970)
TRACK LIST
01. Only You Know & I Know
02. Can’t Stop Worrying, Can’t Stop Loving
03. Waitin On You
04. Shouldn’t Have Took Me Than You Gave
05. World In Changes
06.…
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May 20 2020
How Radio Lost Its Groove
HOW RADIO LOST ITS GROOVE
In recent years, it has become obvious that radio, at least as the entity that I grew up with in my teenage and young adult years, has lost its groove. These days,…
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Mar 24 2020
Faces in the Crowd: Jimmy Miller (Producer)
“One thing that producers and engineers tend to have in common is their undeniable love of music, and it is the highs they experience in the recording studio--those exhilarating moments when the blending of artistic effort, musical material, and…
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Sep 10 2019
Hot Platters: Bad Rice - Ron Nagle (Warner Bros. 1970)
Back in the early 1970's, while attending college in Dayton, Ohio, I used to go to this great record store called The Forest which was just off-campus. Many a happy hour was spent thumbing thru the album racks…
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