Talkin About My Generation!

A week ago, the 40th Anniversary edition of Exile On Main Street was released. I remember the first release well! I was in my first semester at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I started in the summer wanting to get a head start as well as away from my parents! The album was [...]

A good friend of mine back in 1969 played an album of British electric folk music by a band called Fairport Convention and I was hooked. It was truly a melding of traditional folk, electric folk, and in some instances ancient madrigals. The woman who was singing had the ,sot beautiful voice and the musicianship, [...]

It was the end of March in 1967 when I saw Cream for the first time at the Murray the K Music in the 5th Dimension Show. As a matter of fact, it was the first time Cream played in the USA! I was certainly impressed. They played “I Feel Free“, “I’m So Glad,” and [...]

Three of my favorite bands! All three worked very hard to become successful and all three had spectacular musicianship! When I first picked up the Tons of Sobs LP I had no idea that this band was so young! Andy Fraser, the bass player, was 15, Paul Kossoff, guitarist, was 17 and singer Paul Rodgers [...]

I have been thinking about how tuned in to everything that was going on in our world we as a generation were. Even as kids, perhaps because of the Depression and World War II, it seems we were given every opportunity to grow and succeed As I look back there is a sense of awe [...]

Before we get into the blog of the week, I would like to let you know that yesterday, April 18th, 2010 I met one of the most important figures in NY music Mr Clay Cole. In a few of my earlier blogs I made mention of the fact that The Clay Cole Show was de rigueur [...]

I am fascinated by intuition! It always amazes me that when I am working on something, like this blog, reminiscing, al these other ideas pop up! WHile working on the Hollies blog, I was reminded about the After the Fox soundtrack. Then came the “do you remember this movie, that movie, etc?” Here it is, [...]

It was sometime in 1964 and I was in bed with the flu, a British music show on the tele and out pops Just One Look by the Hollies. I was taken by the harmonies and the overall sound of the band. Graham Nash said that the group decided just prior to a performance to call [...]

Originally, this was going to be a post about the Hollies, the Original Fleetwood Mac and…The Kinks! Perhaps the most famous underrated famous band of the 20th Century! You have the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, and I would always add the Kinks! But once I got started, it was all Kinks all the time! [...]

Well, I thought I was done but one of our readers informed me of a review in the NY Times that was extremely critical of Sgt. Pepper upon its release    I went searching for the article and after readiing it, decided that it would be of interest so I am submitting it for your [...]