Laurence Wilson Vastly. Roger Waters was the chief songwriter for over a decade. He either collaborated on songs with Richard Wright or Dave Gilmour or wrote songs by himself, which he presented to the band. For instance Waters wrote most of the material on The Dark Side of the Moon and some of the writing […]
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Officially his tenth studio album counting releases as Sonny & the Sunsets, Rod for Your Love comes advertised as a back-to-basics sort of album for Sonny Smith. That rings especially true considering that his two prior LPs were an original monologue set to music (2016’s Sees All Knows All) and a vibrant Sonny & the […]
We are told ….. DYNAMIC BROADCAST RECORDING FROM STEVIE NICKS AND LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM WHILE IN THEIR PRE-FLEETWOOD MAC GUISE One of the most famous pairings in American rock music history, the story of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks begins long before they found international success with Fleetwood Mac. Starting their musical career as members of […]
Muiris Mac Cartaine, Listens to a lot of Music writes … In the 60s Love, the 13th Floor Elevators, the Zombies, the Electric Prunes, the Sonics and the Left Banke have all released great albums and are relatively well known amongst the connoisseurs. How about another 60s band that were produced by George Martin that […]
Rocci Disopa, former Recording Engineer Without a doubt…”Synchronicity” by The Police. 1983’s LP by the English band ‘The Police’ was its zenith. The totally organized chaos that became the biggest Rock band in the world, had humble beginnings. Yet they somehow managed to put aside those huge egos and big frustrations, and record one dominant […]
“The performances contained on the Mountain Bootleg Series are drawn from various stages of the bands career from the very early years when the band first formed through to recent gigs undertaken by the band. All the performances come from the personal archives of both Leslie West and Corky Laing and whilst some of the […]
Ranked time after time as one of the best live jazz recording sessions in history, and yielding two of Evans’ most classic albums (Waltz for Debby, Sunday at the Village Vanguard), The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 represents the pinnacle of spontaneous musical communication: three men breathing as one on a tiny bandstand. The performances […]
Sonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana. He is best known for his slide guitar playing, having developed a technique where he also frets notes and plays chords and chord fragments by fretting behind the slide while he plays. Eric Clapton has said that Landreth is one of the most advanced guitarists […]
Paul McGowan writes ….. Continuing on the subject of separation and vinyl, I have been working diligently on voicing and polishing our new phono preamplifier, the NuWave Phono Converter. I don’t want this blog to turn into a sales thing so I am not going to go into any detail about the new product – […]
Bob Smith writes … In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida . Anyone familiar with Iron Butterfly will recognize that as the bands most recognized song , clocking in at an astounding 17 minutes in it’s unedited form. But first things first. The early prog rock group Iron Butterfly formed in 1966 following the various band members stints in other groups […]
In 1986, Johnny Cash’s place in country music’s pecking order had fallen so low that Columbia Records, his recording home since 1960, dropped him from their roster, claiming he was no longer marketable. Given this, perhaps the most remarkable accomplishment of Cash’s late-period association with Rick Rubin and his American Recordings label (beginning with the […]
ROBIN MEADOWS … If you think the movie Freddie was charming you’re in for a treat. He was SO much more charming than he was portrayed as the other answers attest. His roadie said that the movie “never even got close to portraying Freddie the way he really was” and he wishes that they had […]
We are told …. Bruce Springsteen (solo acoustic), live at, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 9th December 1995 In 1995, Bruce Springsteen had an international #1 with his Greatest Hits album. Instead of capitalizing with a full-band tour, his next project was The Ghost Of Tom Joad, a partial return to the starkness of his […]
For the first time ever, the earliest recordings of America’s greatest band! n September of 1961 Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Mike Love stepped up to a microphone together for the first time at the home of Hite and Dorinda Morgan to demo The Beach Boys’ first three songs. Between that […]
From the archives ….. “When we started no-one could see beyond vinyl,” Nick Mason says. “Then there was the cassette revolution, then there was the CD and it just goes on and on. And one never quite foresaw how it would pan out.” The contract lawyers did not foresee it either – which led […]
Michael Munson writes … This question is another example of mixed or confused meanings. The important thing to do with it, I think, is to point out the mixup, and “unmix” it for clarity. Blaine VanderShuit is exactly correct, that Cohen was using the idea of a secret chord metaphorically, in the song Hallelujah. The […]
On this day in 1987, U2 released what would become the bestselling album of their career. But their examination of the gap between the American dream and the reality under Reagan is just as relevant today, writes Kevin E G Perry In the spring of 1985, U2 fell in love with America. An extensive tour […]
The synth-pop band’s first album in 17 years billows with the widescreen ambitions of their foundational decade
As they return with a hits compilation, the forever debonair frontman talks to Mark Beaumont about the problem with indie sleaze, losing band members and what he’s learned from Sparks MORE
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Amy Christa Ernano, lifelong rock & roll fan, sometime singer Only one of Dylan’s 6 (known) children, Jakob, is a musician, and no, they have never collaborated on music. As far as I know, Jakob had a hard enough time distinguishing himself as a musician in his own right, as opposed to being “Bob Dylan’s […]
James Patrick Page, born 9 January, 1944, and better known to the record collecting world as the one and only Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin guitarist, Jimmy Page, got his start in the music business as a London session musician. He soon became one of the more sought after guitarists in all London and was especially […]