A good friend recently sent me this link http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1655254/-rock-dead.jhtml written by Gil Kaufman wondering if rock was dead. They, and by “they,” I mean naysayers and the media, have been saying rock is dead for 40 years now. They said rock was dead when Elvis died, when Lennon died, when the punk movement of the [...]
When I was 12-years-old my first cassete was The Go Gos Vacation. This was a major turn after my early flirtation with my Kiss records (see previous blog http://www.innocentwords.com/Blogs/tabid/803/EntryId/81/You-Wanted-the-Best-You-Got-the-Best.aspx). But damn it, I couldn’t help myself. That song “Vacation” was so cool and the band was five girls. For a kid who loved music on the [...]
In a world of disposable digital music the art of the album cover is dying a low death. To me, album cover art is one of the best parts of a new record. The art can show so much about the band and it’s music, it can also make you want to buy the record, [...]
You know how some music fans from the south are so dedicated to Lynyrd Skynyrd that they don’t think any good music has come out since the 19770’s? That is kind of how I feel about the 1990’s. For one reason or another, even though I was a child of the 1980’s, it is the [...]
It always amuses me to no end when I am talking to a friend or even a casual acquaintance whom is in a band or works in the music industry and they say…”as long as it’s off the record” or… “don’t quote me on this.” It makes me think that I am an evil journalist, [...]
I can remember like it was yesterday, but it was actually October 28, 1978. I was seven years old and I just saw the made-for-TV movie “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” and I was hooked. I didn’t know who they were or that they were the biggest band in the world at the [...]
