Showing posts with label rock music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock music. Show all posts
Monday, June 01, 2020

CULTURAL BITS: "When I Was A Boy," by John Entwistle and The Who.

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John Entwistle  (1944 - 2002) played bass guitar for The Who, but "Thunderfingers" was much more than just one-half of the band...
Friday, January 10, 2020

R.I.P. Neil Peart.

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Allow me to begin my lamentation about the passing of a legend with a travel story from Bayeux, France, on July 16 in 1985. I was two mon...
Wednesday, January 01, 2020

My favorite albums of 2019.

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Before running down the album list for 2019, kindly allow a bit of belated housekeeping. --- November & December Discs There we...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

I'd rather read Elton John's autobiography than watch the biopic.

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To repeat, in my world musical biopics are bunk. Give me a gifted documentarian, archival footage and original songs and I'm in. Ha...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Back on the road again? Songs by touring musicians, about being touring musicians.

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Rock musicians seem to have disproportionately populated the genre of "songs about being on the road." Perhaps this owes to The...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Achtung Grandpa: Growing up and getting old with or without U2.

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There was a piece in The Guardian today from a fashion designer advising what not to wear if you're a man over 50 . Crossing over ...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

"Bands are known for drink, drugs and dust-ups. But beyond the debauchery lie four models for how to run a business."

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For your approbation, owing primarily to the great opening story about Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts. It's a good read, on the glib s...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Watch this real-world documentary about Queen, and forget the biopics.

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Ignore the subtitles in Portuguese because the quality of this two-part documentary about the band Queen is good. Why bother with bi...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

The 50th anniversary of the "White Album," or where the Beatles meet Gravity's Rainbow.

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Hands down my favorite Beatles album, even though I didn't come to it until a few years later, when I was a junior in high school. ...

Flight documentaries: An indispensable documentary about Mick Ronson, the under-appreciated guitarist and arranger for David Bowie.

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Flight documentaries happen when we're flying home after a European sojourn. Eastbound flights are for sleeping, westbound for readin...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

It's the July/August edition of tunes, or the bimonthly roundup of the music playing in my head.

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Welcome to the music playing inside my head. It won't necessarily play to everyone's taste, and that's as it should be. It'...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Tunes, or the bimonthly roundup of the music playing in my head, May/June edition.

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In 2018, I've resolved to offer a musical recap every two months. For those just tuning in, I can no longer carry a tune across the...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Belated bimonthly roundup of the music playing in my head, March/April Edition.

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I'm thankful to you for reading. There have been 12,787 posts since October, 2004, and while I try to write about topics with some ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Apologies for this rock-pop digression into my British musical tastes.

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Of course, these lists are contrived click bait, but Mojo does them better than most. The first brief video snippet includes a fleeting ...
Sunday, April 08, 2018

"Join Together: The Who & the Sixties," a presentation at the Carnegie Center this Saturday.

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Perhaps I should pay closer attention. I was neither aware of this book, nor that the author is booked for a gig at the Carnegie Center t...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Roger's Year in Music, 2018: The onset of a bimonthly roundup of the music playing in my head (January/February).

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Previously I threw my hands into the air, made a belated list of favorites, and called it good for 2017. The long awaited and much belate...