I must admit I’d spent the last week to week and a half in a bit of a musical cocoon listening to Fleetwood Mac’s recent vault release Rumours Live, along with Guns N Roses’ new song “Perhaps” and of course, the Stones first new song in quite a while, “Angry.” While I was locked in…
“We don’t have to fade to black, let the sun come in” – The Pretenders, “Let The Sun Come In” As I mentioned in my last post, my playlist with songs about Flying, I took a small break from B&V… call it a vacation. I spent most of that time away from music, although I…
“You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords, Mind, it’s strictly rhythm he doesn’t want to make it cry or sing” – Dire Straits, “Sultans of Swing” I believe it was John Mellencamp who once sang, “Let me give you some good advice young man, you better learn to play guitar.” Every rock n…
“Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast…” – Bob Dylan, “You’re A Big Girl Now” This year, like many before it, seemed to both fly by and at the same time drag on. I looked up and suddenly realized it’s the end of the year… it snuck up on me again. Traditionally for…
I think Chrissie Hynde has just always been cool. Born in Akron, she moved to London to work in the Malcolm Mclaren/Vivienne Westwood boutique SEX and was smack dab in the middle of the burgeoning punk rock scene. I think she was even involved in an early incarnation of the Clash. Finally she formed her…
“He’s got a curly tongue and a curly tail, but mostly he’s got hate for sale” – Pretenders, “Hate For Sale” Could any of us expected, this far down the line, this gift of a fabulous Pretenders’ album? I, for one, needed this record! I was an early adopter on the Pretenders. Their seminal debut album Pretenders came…