I hope everybody had a happy Xmas out there. The Rock Chick certainly outdid herself this year. It was quite a superb party. Sadly, our daughter didn’t make it home this year – a first – but we augmented this year’s party lineup with a couple of my oldest and dearest friends, Doug and RJ….
I looked at the calendar this Monday and thought, “My God, Xmas is only a week and a half away?” Could it be December already? It feels like only yesterday we kicked off 2024 with our annual 50-year lookback-playlist featuring rock n roll from 1974. And here I am wrapping presents already? It seems that…
When I think of major musical developments of the latter half of the 70s, I think of punk rock or maybe New Wave or I shudder at the thought of disco. But who knew when I went down to my local record store in the mall and bought the Doobie Brothers’ Minute By Minute I…
Just in time for Christmas and all you folks looking for stocking stuffers, The Rolling Stones have gone back into the vault and released another gem of a live show. This time it’s Welcome To Shepherd’s Bush, recorded in June of 1999 at that legendary theater. I don’t know how many of these fabulous shows…
Having been up in Banff for Thanksgiving with family (yes, I know going to Canada for American Thanksgiving is out of the ordinary but it’s gorgeous up there), I have fallen way behind in my rock n roll viewing. While I was away they released a new documentary produced by Martin Scorsese, Beatles 64. The…
“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination We learned to talk” – Stephen Hawking with Pink Floyd, “Keep Talking” When you think about it, it really is a miracle that we can all communicate by talking to each other. And while that…