The last week has been a busy one at B&V with a bunch of great new stuff coming out: an album from Beck (Ride Lonesome), a rocking single from U2 (“Silencio”) and an EP of outtakes from Stevie Wonder’s masterpiece Songs In The Key Of Life. All of that and I haven’t even mentioned Neil…
*Photo taken by your intrepid blogger I found myself wandering the house this week, looking for any distraction I could find from the rather grim stuff happening in the world right now. Especially since my Artemis II buzz wore off. I found myself standing in the B&V Labs (aka my listening room) and staring “with…
*Photo taken from the internet and likely copyrighted Despite having a hectic week this week, I found my mind wandering to, what else, rock n roll. For reasons only clear to a neurologist, which I don’t have, I started thinking about all the great double studio albums put out over the years. I’ve done a…
About a year ago I wrote a piece “Who’s Holding Bob Seger’s Early LPs Hostage?” In that post I lamented that you couldn’t buy any of Seger’s older LPs on iTunes or CD. If you wanted an old Seger album, say ‘Beautiful Loser,’ you had to hunt it down in the used vinyl store. Don’t…
Here we are this week with another reminder of how horrible 2016 was in terms of losing Rock Stars. We saw the one year anniversary of the passing of Glenn Frey, eulogized in a post on B&V a year ago. To commemorate the occasion, Bob Seger released a new single, entitled “Glenn Song,” in honor…
I grew up in the Midwest, the breadbasket of the US. In those days, one name was synonymous with rock and roll and that was Bob Seger. He was bigger than US Steel in the Midwest. I think they coined the term “heartland rocker” for Bob Seger. He was to the Midwest what Springsteen was…
My wife signed us up at a gym a few years ago. I was perfectly content to continue working out in our basement, all by myself. Such is my reclusive nature these days. Admittedly it’s been a great experience for my wife, she’s met people and made friends. For me, not so much. I keep…