“Money for nothing and your chicks for free…” – Dire Straits, “Money For Nothing,” 1985 As a follow up to our post Playlist: Songs From 1975, I have been doing research, as I always do, for a 40-year lookback, to 1985. I’m still working on it, but the first album that popped into my mind…
It’s probably acutely obvious to anybody who has read B&V, I kinda dig music. But despite this deep-seated, visceral love of rock n roll, I never picked up an instrument. I used to joke that I couldn’t play the radio. I know people who can play or wanted to try and play. My brother played…
*Image taken from the internet and likely copyrighted I’m not exactly sure why, but lately I’ve been thinking about – and listening to – a lot of psychedelic rock. Well, actually I know why. As long time readers know I like to kick off each year by looking back 50 years to create a playlist….
*Image taken from the internet and likely copyrighted Alas, I heard the news today that the last standing member of the legendary band, The Band, has moved on when Garth Hudson passed away “peacefully in his sleep.” Garth was the most soft spoken of the members of the Band and was the only member who…
“Gotta do what you gotta do, Head to the hills or go to town” – Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts, “big change” Neil Young dropped a new song on Friday, “big change,” lack of capital letters apparently on purpose…very E.E. Cummings of him. He also announced a new backing band, the Chrome Hearts. The…
“Hoping for more Peace and Love…” – Ringo Starr, “Thankful Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr has released a new album, his first since 2019’s What’s My Name, entitled Look Up. He hasn’t been dormant for those six years, he’s released a series of EPs over the last several years. The new album is being cast…
I’ll be the first to admit, the holidays came upon me fast and furious this year. Thanksgiving was unusually late and before I knew it the dreaded Xmas crept up on me. In order to recover, the Rock Chick and I decamped to Florida this week. With all of that going on, since Xmas hit,…
It snuck up on me again this year, but I noticed we’ve completed our latest trip around the sun. As most people are spending the dawn of this new year, 2025, looking ahead – making resolutions, planning vacations and weddings – we at B&V, in what has become an annual tradition, are looking backwards. We’ve…
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…