Our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee recently sent along Jim Eannelli’s first solo album Just Deserts which was released in both digital and physical formats on September 27, 2024.   Yours truly was visiting Eugene, Oregon in late August to catch John Fogerty’s 56th Anniversary Celebration concert when the Just Deserts […]

       The music world lost an icon when the Godfather of British blues, John Mayall, recently passed away at the age of 90.  I can’t say that I knew that much about him, but in his lifetime (November 29, 1933 – July 22, 2024) he saw a lot of musicians pass through his bands.  Listening […]

            By the end of the 1970s, Triumph (aka – The Rock and Roll Machine) were one of the biggest exports from the Great White North.  There were better known bands at the time (see:  The Guess Who and Rush) but for the record, Triumph were similar to, yet vastly different, than their Canadian compatriots.  […]

       Let us first clarify who Craig Frost isn’t.  He is not related to Jack Frost.  He also wasn’t a member of the Michigan band The Frost or the Swiss metal band from Zurich called Celtic Frost.  At one juncture of his career, Craig Frost was a journeyman keyboard player on the Flint, Michigan bar […]

       Okay, I now have further proof that 1967 was a long time ago.  When Doug Ingle passed away on May 25, 2024, I told one of the kids at school I was going to do an Iron Butterfly tribute.  It should not have surprised me when they asked, “Who?”  I went through all the […]

       In the last few months I was still playing in a band with three airmen from KI Sawyer Air Force Base, our bass player loaned me an album by a band called Trapeze.  Lee said, “There is a song called Black Cloud on it I really want us to learn.  As was my custom, […]