Bios and stories about the artists we feature
After many months of teasing – Jack Spann’s new CD hits the streets on June 16th! We have been sent frequent updates on the new album by Spann’s producer Gary Tanin at Daystrom Records in Milwaukee. We will be going on summer hiatus about the time Beautiful Man from Mars hits the street, but […]
It is always interesting to hear the sound bites that the news media gather in the graduation season. Every person tabbed as a graduation speaker will put their spin on “Oh the places you will go”, with some resorting to reading the whole tome of the same name written by the late Dr. Seuss. […]
For the purpose of this two parter, we are defining ‘Celebrity Sightings’ as casual encounters with persons who have a reason to be widely known to the public. Getting to see the Black Crowes first at the Hollywood Palladium and later at the Wiltern Theater don’t count as ‘encounters’. Seeing a celebrity standing five feet […]
You read that right: “Gigs in the Round”, not “Getting Around to Gigs”. Transportation to and from gigs is a different chapter. This one will discuss gigs where the band is not on a traditional stage but literally surrounded by the crowd they are playing for. The name more than likely is a play […]
What were you listening to during the Summer of Love? Listening to the radio then meant AM Top 40 as FM was just getting to be the next big thing. At 13 going on 14 years old, I was listening to a lot of pop songs and chumming around with a new piano playing […]
James Brown lived by “The One”. He learned his rhythmic chops from drummers who learned them from the African traditions of their ancestors. The emphasis on what Brown referred to as “hitting the one” gave him his unique brand of music. Whether it was called “soul” or “funk”, it was a pulsing, drum propelled […]
Our old buddy Puddles Pity Party has a new posting at Post Modern Jukebox. The site has many of the newer posts besides Puddles so enjoy! This link will take you directly to Puddles take on Blink 182 .
“The hardest working man in show business.” James Brown couldn’t even escape this title when he died in December of 2006. His family memorial service was squeezed between bookend engagements at The Apollo Theater in New York City and the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia. In holding true with his life on the road, […]
Contrary to an urban musical myth I am about to burst, not all rock drummers hailing from across the pond are named Mick. Listening to Jeff Beck’s Truth recently (with that relatively unknown vocalist named Rod Stewart out front), I noted the exceptional drumming done by Mick Waller. This got me to […]
There is no reason at all for readers to recognize the name Tom Dowdy. Resplendent in his rhinestone encrusted shirt, he hosted an eponymously titled TV show in Jacksonville, Florida that featured a lot of the popular bluegrass and country artists of the day. Roy Rogers even brought along his horse, Trigger. Though his […]