I was doing some rabbit hole touring on YouTube the other day, and got into a series of Uriah Heep videos. I recall Uriah Heep being pretty popular at parties back in the early ’70’s, yet they do not show up on classic rock radio programs these days. I think …
In the ’80’s, Saturdays were a time of recovery from the antics of a Friday night. Sudden & sustained movements were not encouraged and were rewarded with great pain. Often the best remedy was lying motionless on the couch, with MuchMusic providing the soundtrack to getting prepared for Saturday night. …
I’m trying to recollect exactly how I picked this album up way back in the ’70’s. It’s not one where the cover or musicians would have pulled me in (my arcane album picking method described elsewhere on the site). I must have heard it, or parts of it, at a …
If you know the name Waddy Wachtel, then you’re familiar with one of the best & most prolific session guitarists and producers of the rock era. Even if you’re not familiar with him, I’m pretty sure you’ve heard his work. Wachtel has been in the music industry since the early …
Television’s Marquee Moon was released in 1977. At the time, we were celebrating the arrival of punk and its adding new energy and style to the musical landscape that had been dominated by disco (at least on the airwaves). A friend of mine introduced me to Television. There were a …
I don’t know that there’s a golden age of pop music, but this era is special for me. Perhaps it’s because I was growing up in this time, and music accompanied many important moments. Perhaps it’s because this was occurring in parallel with & influenced by the psychedelic, progressive and …
I was not quite old enough to fully appreciate the San Francisco music scene in the late ’60’s. However, after listening to much of what has been produced in that time, I feel that this is the one album that captures much of the mood & feel of that era. …
Like a lot of people, my favourite instrument in a band was the guitar. The more guitars, solos, riffs in a song the better! Of course, I had favourite guitarists, including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton to name a few (and I think I’ll get into that …
The English Beat’s first album came out in 1980. The English Beat (“English” was added to the band’s name in North America to avoid confusion with an existing American band named “The Beat”) was part of the second wave of ska music in England, along with contemporaries The Specials, Madness, …
I was flipping through the TV channels the other day, passing one of those channels that exists solely to show older shows, and I saw “Everybody Loves Raymond”. Then, in keeping with the quirky manner in which I sometimes create playlists, I thought a playlist made exclusively of bands or …
