All Things To All People
[Purchase Book] I have to admit that this was a book that was written pretty much for me. I’m a comics geek AND a music geek, and it’s a comic book about discovering punk rock in Akron, OH circa 1980. Given the…
For a band with many members — between the band performing on a sound-stage, cut between very close shot stills of the various scars on the band-members’ bodies.
For a song about two characters. We see the band set up, rocking behind two characters, a boy and a girl on the couch (for example; these would be the characters sung about in the song) watching television. During the first half…
A band goes around helping out people by doing their chores with the Power Of Rock. For example, the band comes upon a guy trying to get a bucket of bricks or something to the second floor of his house, through a…
Cover of Trans [Purchase CD] “I’m in here.” – Hal Incandenza Trans is quite possibly Neil Young‘s strangest album, and one of the hardest to find; it’s one of the few Neil Young albums that’s out of print in the US. On…
Thom Beckman, Jim Freeman and Rodd Karp are a local, Seattle-area band called ’63 Burnout who do what they term Instro ROCK (“ROCK”, deservedly, with all-caps). Their sound combines elements of surf and rockabilly, and, well, their new record, Trouble At The Speedway is pretty dang…
The video opens with a couple of pre-teen girls around who are hardcore fans of the band — wearing their t-shirts; their posters all around, stuffing envelopes for the fan-club newsletter, &c. They bop around to the song and are having a…
Cover of Drama [Purchase CD] Yes is one of the big, fat, dumb, lumbering dinosaurs of Progressive Rock. They’re still around, still doing long, drawn out prog-rock numbers with classical influences, sci-fi/fantasy lyrics, and Roger Dean is still painting their album covers,…
Image via Wikipedia One of the things I’ve always been interested in is pop music. Well, that should be obvious, don’t you think? I mean, really — it’s probably less an interest than an obsession. But that’s all right, too. However, one…
Alright so I?m terrible and didn?t manage to write this little column last week ? my second week into it?that?s a bad sign I will admit. But I?m back and ready to try my hand again. In all honesty I tried to…