Singer Don McLean says Buddy Holly should be left in peace: Many years ago I performed at the Surf Ballroom, in Clear Lake, Iowa, which was the last stop on Buddy Holly’s final tour. He was killed in a plane crash in 1959 that also took the lives of singers J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and […]
Boz Scaggs Still Rollin’ Along
You, like me, may go all the way back to the sixties with Boz Scaggs. Boz never seems to rest. And today”s Memphis Boz Scaggs album (yes, it’s available on vinyl) is right up with his best R&B tinged efforts. Having drummer Steve Jordan and guitarist Ray Parker, Jr. on board sure doesn’t hurt this […]
VIDEO: Yardbirds “Stroll On” (Blow Up-1966)
In his autobiography, Rocks: My Life In and Out of Aerosmith, guitarist Joe Perry discusses how seeing the Yardbirds in the movie Blow-Up in 1966 changed his vision of guitar duos. He tells Technology Tell “When I saw The Yardbirds in the movie “Blow-Up”—I talk about it in the book, I didn’t really know it then, but that […]
Jimmy Buffett. Key West. You.
Wanna get away? Jimmy is performing an intimate show in Key West on April 1st at the historic San Carlos Theater and he wants you to pick the songs! One lucky winner will get an all-expense paid trip to Key West! Submit your set list before March 2, 2015! Read More.
The Dead Are Dead
The Grateful Dead band of the sixties, up to Pigpen’s passing in 1973, was a most unpleasant musical experience. Joe Queenan, succinctly and with some great humor, locks in on the Dead’s early years. In my companion post I chronicle the Dead from start to what I view as the terminal Dead date, August 9,1995—the […]
Happy Birthday to a Legend
Over Christmas break I played music on an old iPod we keep at our New Hampshire house. It still plays Jack Johnson as well as it ever did. But to Apple, in terms of sales, the iPod is barely a blip on the radar in an iPhone world. Technology tends to be a killer to […]
Happy New Year!
A Four Freshmen Christmas
I have been listening to The Four Freshmen since the early fifties, but the group actually began in 1948. The original Four Freshmen that fans remember so well included Ross and Don Barbour, cousin Bob Flanigan, and Ken Albers. The last original member, Flanigan, retired in 1993. Bob owned the name and managed the group […]
Records on the Comeback Trail
Vinyl records are making a resurgence. From the Wall Street Journal: Nearly eight million old-fashioned vinyl records have been sold this year, up 49% from the same period last year, industry data show. Younger people, especially indie-rock fans, are buying records in greater numbers, attracted to the perceived superior sound quality of vinyl and the […]
R.I.P. Sam Cooke Dec. 11, 1964
It’s been 50 years since the death of Sam Cooke. The Wall Street Journal summarizes his groundbreaking career here. In the late 1950s, Cooke was the first black singer-songwriter to figure out how to parlay male vulnerability into sweet pleas that resonated with integrated teen audiences. Watching his TV appearances on YouTube, it is easy […]
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