Our Top Ten Best 38 Special Songs List Of All Time!
If you’re only a fan of old music, that music is going to wind up sounding even older – Johnny Van Zant The Van Zant name carries a lot of weight in Southern Rock, and over the last half-century, it’s earned more than its fair share of respect. It’s a name that will make any […]
The Top 10 Best KISS Songs Of All Time!
Rock is about finding who you are. You don’t necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you are in a rock band. – Gene Simmons Rock and roll and hard rock in the nineteen seventies and eighties belonged to KISS. They were in the right […]
Hoodoo Gurus – The Counter Culture Thunder From From Way Down Under
Tell me, what’s my scene? – Hoodoo Gurus Convention was never an ideology that Le Hoodoo Gurus ever believed in. They wholeheartedly rejected the mainstream philosophy that made rock and roll boring, stale, and predictable and instead chose to follow their own eclectic and eccentric vision. Their stubborn refusal to adhere to any of the […]
Three Dog Night: The Complete Story Of An American Classic
I bought a Three Dog Night album when I was pretty young, and I remember listening to all those songs. That’s just greatly crafted songwriting and the songs have such great harmonies. I remember marveling over them and trying to figure them out on piano – Borns When Joe Strummer said “the future was unwritten”, […]
Ed Kuepper – When The Saints Go Marching In
Brisbane might have been the birthplace of the concert tribute band. It wasn’t a music scene. The Saints couldn’t get into that. We didn’t try very hard, but it was the only way you could play in an established venue. We were pretty much blacklisted from everywhere so we put on our own shows […]
Michael Lee “Meat Loaf” Aday – All Revved Up with No Place to Go
The day that I ever become hip… Please shoot me and put me out of my misery! – Meat Loaf Greatness isn’t something that just falls out of the sky or appears out of nowhere, it lines up its chosen targets wisely and carefully, and as much as it gives them, it takes even […]
Our Top 10 Best Carlos Santana Songs
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… You hear them, and they’re affixed to you – Carlos Santana Carlos Humberto Santana Barragan was born to play the blues. By the time he was five he was an accomplished violinist and under the tutelage of his father, who was a respected and talented mariachi […]
The New Romantics: Birth of a New Movement
The New Romantics, also known as New Wavers, Blitz Kids, and New Dandies, were adopters of the New Romantic movement, a youth fashion and music trend emerging from the UK in the late 1970s. The growth of progressive social values that began in the later 1960s continued to thrive in the 1970s, these values including […]
The Dictators: The Uncrowned Kings Of The New York Scene
The Dictators were one of the finest and most influential proto-punk bands to ever walk the Earth – John Dougan The streets of New York are a hard, cold place where the strong flourish and the weak fall between the cracks, subsumed and consumed by a city that doesn’t care about anyone, and even if […]
The World According To Ric Ocasek: Life, Death, Wife & Worth
I don’t think I’m an entertainer. I never think, ‘Wow, I can’t wait to get the crowd moving. Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch – Ric Ocasek For a man who never thought of himself as an entertainer, Ric Ocasek did a pretty good job of keeping his legions of fans […]
The Fascinating Story Of Foghat’s “Lonesome” Dave Peverett
I’m in the mood, The rhythm is right, Move to the music, We can roll all night – Foghat (Slowride) If you walked into any record store in the country and asked one of the too busy, cooler than cool, flipping their way through endless racks of vinyl customers who Dave Peverett was, they’d […]
The Definitive Top 10 Very Best ‘The Who’ Songs
We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times – Roger Daltrey Few bands embraced everything that rock and roll offered with the same zeal and enthusiasm as The Who did. There is an extensive list of songs by The Who that can be credited with shaping countless […]