Talkin About My Generation!

Hi all, Happy Valentines Day! One month from today is the Induction ceremony of the following folks into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Performers: Alice Cooper Neil Diamond Dr. John Darlene Love Tom Waits Non-Performers: Jac Holzman Art Rupe Sidemen: Leon Russell What a great honor! They should all be very proud! For [...]

48th Street between 6th and 7th Ave in Manhattan in the 1960′s was a wonderland of  music stores on both sides of the block. Called Music Row, it dates to the early 1930s, when the musicians’ union moved to Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, and all of the stores followed suit. Today there are still music [...]

Those beautiful 60′s! AM radio was what we grew up on. Little transistors with the single earpiece at the beach, in the car, everywhere we wanted to go, the music went with us! Scott Muni, Harry Harrison, Cousin Brucie, Joe O’Brien just to name a few. What a great era! I remember driving in my [...]

While I was living in New York City, there was a lot of great music coming out of Long Island and as you will see, I had a connection to a lot of it! One of those bands was Danny Beline the Rich Kids. Money Isn’t Everything Danny was Perry Como’s nephew.The band was considered [...]

Hello all! I hope your New Year is starting off great! I know you will find it hard to believe in the 1960′s, Macy’s had one of the best record departments! My mother worked there and I would sometimes go to visit her for lunch and she would give me her employee discount card and [...]

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I am writing today to express my deep sadness over the passing of one of the legends of music television in the late 1950′s and 1960′s, Clay Cole. Clay passed on Dec 18th. In October 2009 I started this blog as an homage to my sister Denyse as well [...]

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 [...]