Often, I am driven by mood when creating playlists. The songs I select need to create and support a mood or feeling. It’s often how a song makes me feel that then leads to my internally categorize it for future listening. The playlist will all be of one mood or …
Here’s a playlist composed of songs sung by band members other than the usual lead singer. It’s quite interesting that several of these songs are among the best known of the band, without the lead singer being prominent. Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson sang lead on two of Canned Heat’s most …
Another off-ramp journey in the large Rock realm, into early/mid ’60’s Freakbeat & Garage rock. Links to Wikipedia definitions of garage rock and Freakbeat. From the definitions, Garage Rock was more of a North American phenomenon, while Freakbeat was more of an English mod orientation. To me, they are two …
The infamous drum solo was a staple of the late ’60’s & early ’70’s rock scene; it seemed that every band worth their salt had to have a song that featured a drum solo. If there wasn’t a drum solo within an album song, they often chose to do …
An awful lot of pop & rock songs get released annually. Some become famous & entrenched in our listening, many never hit our ears, and some have a comet-like life; they flash into our listening for a period of time, then disappear only to return now & again. I heard …
It’s no surprise that cover versions of songs can be very successful. The rock and roll business started off with songwriting teams cranking out the songs & producers finding bands to cover & record them. It really wasn’t until the mid ’60’s that bands started to write, record and be …
Time to get off the hard rock mainline, and take the siding into lost love & melancholia. Most of us have experienced lost love at some point in our lives and succumbed to those angst-y feelings. Music is often a refuge, whether it’s to escape those feelings or just …
Not only are the Rolling Stones one of the most influential rock bands of all time, they are also responsible for creating the groundbreaking mobile recording studio: the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio (wiki link). Ian Stewart, the band’s road manager and pianist oversaw the creation of the first unit in …
A member of the guitar great birthing group John Mayall’s Blues Breakers, a founder of Fleetwood Mac, the writer of Black Magic Woman, a great guitarist and a troubled soul, Peter Green passed away July 25, 2020. We lost one of the best blues/rock guitarists and writers of all time. …
Continuing the tributes to artists that often work behind the scenes and do not get the credit they are due. Dick Wagner & Steve Hunter are two great guitarists that often worked together. Unfortunately, Dick Wagner passed away in 2014. They had a long relationship with famed producer Bob Ezrin, …
