The opportunity presented itself in November to attend a performance by blues artist Mose Allison at a jazz club in the Detroit area. This was my first time seeing him perform live, although I had been familiar with his music since youth. I have just recently become reanimated by his music, which has always made […]
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WLIR’s Living Room Studio Broadcast, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, September 14, 1976 The Band Roger McGuinn (guitar, vocals) James Q. Smith (guitar, vocals) Bruce Barlow (bass, vocals) Lance Dickerson (drums) 01 Up To Me02 Take Me Away03 Dreamland04 She Don’t Care About Time05 Mr Tambourine Man06 Friend07 Hickory Wind08 Bag Full […]
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I really like Luxman’s from the 80’s, they were there when the “audio-bug” bit me as a teenager. I bought my first Luxman gear with earned money in ’84! This was a kit with some swedish made speakers, branded with the Luxman logo but they actually looked very much like Snell E/III, only a little […]
Gwyn’s Biography: “Welsh-born Gwyn Ashton migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in the ‘60s, picked up a guitar at 12 and from the age of 16, played every bar, festival and seedy biker show imaginable. Aussie audiences are tough and like their rock & roll […]
Doug Sahm’s first solo record was something of a coming out party, a big budget affair that let the world know what the insiders already knew: that Doug Sahm was a quintessentially American musical visionary. After The Sir Douglas Quintet concluded its contract with Smash/Mercury, Jerry Wexler convinced Sahm to sign with Atlantic and brought […]
Dan Marsciano / ThoughtCo write: The power metal genre as a whole really took off in the late ’80s with help from bands such as Helloween and Gamma Ray. The ’90s continued this momentum, thanks to Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Hammerfall, and Dragonforce. Metal fans became infatuated with the speedy solos and soaring vocals, along […]
by Reverend Keith A. Gordon Updated March 06, 2017 Blues-rock is a legitimate child of the hallowed blues music tradition, and it could be argued that the first wave of British bloozers like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, John Mayall, and their kith and kin did more to bring the blues to white rock audiences […]
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Howard – help please! WHICH vintage Krell? Certainly. I sold many pairs of these magnificent but tricky-to-drive speakers when I ran Subjective Audio. I was, so I’m told Apogee’s most successful UK retailer. i mention this because I have a lot of direct, personal hands-on experience. The simple part of my 2-part answer is re […]
Walter Atkins writes ….. Eric Burdon and the Animals Stern Grove Summer Of Love 50th Anniversary San Francisco, CA July 16, 2017 Influential Eric Burdon and the Animals gleefully rocked the Stern Grove Festival on a perfect mid July Sunday afternoon. His lethal band of Animals included: guitarist Johnzo West, keyboardist Davey Allen, bassist Justin […]
Glen Matlock, the former Sex Pistols bassist, recalls family holidays at Butlins, being shouted at by Iggy Pop on a road tour and swanning around in kimonos in Japan. Interview by York Membery How often do you travel? My life at the moment seems to be one long series of busman’s holidays. This year I’ve […]
Two incredible quality radio broadcast recordings from the great Jeff Buckley. His love for performing covers from an incredibly diverse range of artists and styles has been well documented and throughout the years those fortunate enough to catch him live may have heard him perform an eclectic selection of covers from a range of artists […]
Peter Quantrill writes …. There are strong arguments for opening out the themes of the Passion by means not of a staging transplanted from church to opera house, as has been attempted in recent years, but through movement. In this choreographed Passion there are two discrete but overlapping layers of action. The musicians concentrate on […]
From the archives: Sony has developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes (TB) of data per cartridge. Created with the help of IBM, Sony’s technology allows for tapes that can store the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs. The tape hold 148 gigabits (Gb) per square inch – beating […]
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by Reverend Keith A. Gordon / Updated February 12, 2017 When American became embroiled in World War II, it served to increase the exodus of African-Americans from the Southern states northward to cities like St. Louis, Detroit, and Chicago. Former sharecroppers were moving out of the rural areas of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to find jobs […]
Recorded just as the band were hitting the height of their fame in 1981, this is a high quality FM radio broadcast from WMMR FM. Their classic debut album, Beauty And The Beat, had been released just a few months prior, and “We Got The Beat” was the radio hit of the summer. This legendary […]
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