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Bob Marley: Uprising Live!

by Doug Collette
January 17, 2015

Bob Marley Uprising Live! Eagle Vision 2014 Given Bob Marley's status as a cultural icon, it only makes sense that it's impossible not to engage in the truisms of 'what if' and/or 'if only' watching Uprising Live! By the time of his untimely death from cancer in May of 1981, the ...

Article: Film Review

The Doors: Feast of Friends

by Doug Collette
January 4, 2015

The Doors Feast of Friends Eagle Vision 2014 As with the previously-released archive titles of the Doors, Feast of Friends elevates the standard for such vault projects to another level by including pertinent content from the time period in which the band's self-financed and produced film was made. current group manager ...

Article: Live Review

Soule Monde at Higher Ground, South Burlington, Vermont

by Doug Collette
January 3, 2015

Soule Monde Higher Ground Ballroom South Burlington, VT December 27, 2014 Since they began playing as a duo a few years ago as Soule Monde, drummer Russ Lawton and keyboardist Ray Paczkowski have refined the chemistry they discovered as perennials in the Trey Anastasio Band. Opening slots like the ones this ...

Article: Book Review

Neil Young: Special Deluxe A Memoir of Life & Cars

by Doug Collette
December 28, 2014

Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars Neil Young 384 Pages ISBN: # 0399172084 Blue Rider Press 2014 It's hard to believe Special Deluxe is written by the same man who wrote Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press, 2012). Neil Young sounded so selectively obsessive on ...

Article: Film Review

Jeff Beck: Live in Tokyo

by Doug Collette
December 24, 2014

Jeff Beck Live in Tokyo Eagle Vision 2014 Even though it's tempting to close the eyes and become awash in the sound Jeff Back's making with his band during Live in Tokyo, it's well-nigh impossible not to take the eyes off the guitarist for the duration of this DVD. And it's ...

Article: Live Review

Soulive at Higher Ground, South Burlington, Vermont

by Doug Collette
December 16, 2014

Soulive Higher Ground Ballroom South Burlington, Vermont December 13, 2014 Strikingly reminiscent of the Lettuce show October 25 2014, Soulive's extended single set at Higher Ground this night took flight during a blazing solo by guitarist Eric Krasno. It wasn't the only such instance that occurred during the two-hours plus the ...

Article: Book Review

On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom

by Doug Collette
December 14, 2014

On Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom Dennis McNally 384 Pages ISBN: # 1619024497 Counterpoint 2014 Don't be intimidated by the subtitle of Dennis McNally's book. On Highway 61 is the antithesis of the dry drone of academia. On the contrary, while this is not ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
December 13, 2014

Of all the entries in the Rory Gallagher discography-and it's lengthy despite his premature passing in 1995 at the age of forty-seven-none deserve the expanded treatment more than Irish Tour '74, which is not doubt why it was originally documented on film as it happened by Tony Palmer. Not only did the title set the standard ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Rolling Stones From the Vault: L.A. Forum Live in 1975 & Hampton Coliseum Live in 1981

by Doug Collette
December 13, 2014

Given that their history spans more than five decades and multiple generations, it only stands to reason the Rolling Stones would have a veritable wealth of material in their archives on par with the vintage likes of Charlie Is My Darling (Abkco, 2012) and what's perhaps the next high-water mark of their career after that mid-Sixties ...

Article: Extended Analysis

U2: Songs of Innocence Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
December 7, 2014

Given the controversy that arose around the unilateral download of U2's Songs of Innocence, it's either brave, foolish or greedy to see the issue of the album in various physical forms in such short order. Yet the group confounds even further in the way they can, when playing and singing, leave behind the posing, pomposity and ...