When asked to write a list of my 10 favorite keyboard players, I kind of cringed at the thought. The instrument is not my strong suit and I’ve always thought you just can’t look cool rocking out on the keyboard like, say a guitarist of drummer can look cool on their respective instruments. Upon doing [...]
February 2012 kicked off the 10th anniversary of Innocent Words Magazine. With that in mind, we have decided to write one retrospective feature each issue documenting our biggest moments, good, bad or otherwise. Sometimes it’s not all fun and games at Innocent Words. On one particular evening, I don’t remember the date, I went out [...]
PART TWO: In your opinion, what was the best and worst concert you ever attended? The best concert I ever went to was the King’s X concert I wrote about above. The best part was 1) it was all access, anywhere I wanted to go and I had been a fan of these guys since [...]
PART ONE: Among the music and madness, I pulled our very own Troy Michaels away for a moment to discuss his passion for sound. As the creator of Innocent Words, Troy knows a thing or two about what exactly makes a melody into a hit, a musician into a rock star, and a beat into [...]
In the fourth or fifth grade I took up the drums as my first instrument. I wanted to be like Peter Criss. That dream died after one lesson. I didn’t know I had to learn notes and hold the sticks a certain way. I hated it and took up guitar a year later. To this [...]
The first rock ‘n’ roll movie I ever saw was “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” on Halloween. Though the movie sucked, it cemented my love for not only music but movies about music. I especially love music documentaries aka “rock docs” where the film maker takes you behind the stage to see the [...]
