*Photo of The Struts (from l. to r. -Gethin Davies, Luke Spiller, Jed Elliott) taken by your intrepid blogger with his crap iPhone camera There’s nothing like a good ol’ rock n roll concert to shake me out of the workaday doldrums. The Rock Chick discovered a few months back that the Struts, who we…
*Picture of Cage The Elephant, barely visible in the light show, taken by your intrepid blogger I think I have found my new favorite alternative rock band and it’s Cage The Elephant. In the early days of our marriage the Rock Chick and I shared very similar musical tastes. But as time has gone on,…
My rock n roll cup overfloweth…Â First I got to see the Stones last Thursday, and last night I got to see former Heartbreaker lead guitarist extraordinaire Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs. It was my best bud Doug’s idea to go see the Dirty Knobs and man, I’m glad I did. It was an…
With all the spectacle of the U2 show at the Sphere last Wednesday, it’s seems incredible that just two days later I saw Billy Idol and his sidekick guitarist extraordinaire Steve Stevens at the Chelsea Theater inside the confines of the Cosmopolitan casino. I have to admit to you, when the Rock Chick came up…
You don’t see a lot of live albums any more. Back in the 70s and 80s, when dinosaurs with guitars roamed the Earth, spitting fire and lighting their guitars on fire and well, there was just a lot of fire, live albums could be a big deal. I say “could be” because often times “live…
I heard recently that like Paul Simon, who has decided to call it quits on touring, Elton John has announced he’s retiring from the road. While this is sad news for all rock and roll fans in general and Elton fans more specifically, the news could be worse. Poor Neil Diamond just announced he was…
*image from the Kansas City Star It was a bit of a rough May… First we lost Chris Cornell and then we lost Gregg Allman. I was beginning to feel that numb sense of despair I’d felt for much of 2016. But then I remembered on Friday, June 2nd, I had tickets to see Tom…
*Photo taken by your intrepid blogger My friend’s younger brother, who I call Young Goodman Brown for no good reason, emailed a couple of months ago. He lives in Tulsa now and is a successful orthopedic doctor. And here I remember him as high school kid with a bleach blonde mullet. Time passes quickly, folks….
*photo taken by your intrepid blogger Despite the ethos of BourbonAndVinyl celebrating fine, strong drink and rock and roll, and my general sympathies to all seven of the deadly sins, I’ve never been a fan of Las Vegas, aka Sin City. I do love the song “Sin City” by AC/DC, but that’s another matter. However,…
I remember the horrible Paris attacks of November 13th, 2015 as if it were yesterday. I chronicled my feelings, mostly simmering rage, in these very pages. While I’m not a religious man, there are things I hold sacred. Along with my family, rock n roll and concerts are one of those things. The communal joining…