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Beady Eye: New York, NY, June 22, 2011
by Mike Perciaccante
Beady Eye Live on Letterman The Ed Sullivan Theater New York , New York June 22, 2011Usually when a big group breaks up, the main lyricist is the singer, and he/she goes on to a solo career that is similar in scope and acclaim to what the original ...
Stuttering to the Top of the Charts
The Stuttering Foundation, a nonprofit organization helping people who stutter since 1947, has recognized the song “You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet," a 1974 number one hit by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as being the most unique of the many rock songs featuring stuttering vocals. Jane Fraser, president of the Stuttering Foundation, said recently, “Not only was 'You Ain't ...
Debut album from singer/songwriter Mark Gresty marked by craftsmanship and real soul
In just about every form of music, storytelling is becoming a lost art. Consider singer/songwriter Mark Gresty to be a rare find then. On Gresty's new album—the first for the 59-year-old musician㬆 Cents Above a Beggar—Mark Gresty's Pappadom Songs, each lyric has a point, every line written by a real soul. “Most songs are insulting in ...
Neal Morse: Testimony Two Special Edition
by John Kelman
Neal MorseTestimony Two: Special EditionRadiant Records 2011 There are those who've claimed that rock music is “the Devil's Music," but for Neal Morse it's been just the opposite. Born again while leading Spock's Beard--on the vanguard of a new wave of symphonic progressive rock gaining traction in the ...
Bettye LaVette: Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
by C. Michael Bailey
Cross Nina Simone with Tina Turner and you get Bettye LaVette. Finally receiving the attention she deserves, LaVette finds herself on a most receptive world stage. LaVette appeared at the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors, in tribute to The Who's Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey, singing “Love Reign O'er Me," from Quadrophenia (Polydor, 1979). Video of the ...
The Who: Live at Leeds 4 CD Box Set
LEGENDARY LIVE ALBUM TO BE REISSUED IN A 4 CD BOX SET To mark the 40th anniversary of the 1970 release of The Who's Live at Leeds, Geffen/Universal will release a “Super Deluxe" 4 CD box set on November 16. Having been reissued and expanded from the original six tracks twice before (in 1995 and 2001), ...
Dan Weiss: The Creative Absence of Egotism
by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
The first time drummer/composer Dan Weiss is heard, there can be a perception of something inherently wrong with the music. It slowly creeps up--like a chill on a cool morning, just as the sun is rising over a misty ridge. Waves of lush pastel colors pass over and around in impassioned washes of rhythm and elements ...
When Generations Collide: The Who at the Super Bowl
As Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend left their Super Bowl news conference Thursday, Daltrey carried a Saints helmet and Townshend one for the Colts. Minutes before, the two leaders of the Who held acoustic guitars for an expressive mini-concert that included “Behind Blue Eyes," “Pinball Wizard" and “Won't Get Fooled Again." “Meet the new boss. ... ...
The Who:Sell Out: Deluxe Edition
By: Ron Hart For those of us who grew up on classic rock radio, you would think that The Who had been raiding the airwaves since their inception with the amount of AOR play they get. Yet when the legendary instrument trashers initially burst onto the UK rock scene in 1964 it was the rogue patchwork ...
The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
by Doug Collette
The Who Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 Eagle Vision 2004 Just by virtue of the combustible dynamics of their personalities, The Who on stage were an improvisational unit of the highest order, apt as easily to implode as explode. At the time of their appearance ...
