Writer | Speaker | Project Leader
It was 1985, just like in the song from Bowling for Soup, and we were all wondering who the new guy in Van Halen was going to be. It is very hard to explain the importance of this moment in our young lives. Mostly because, in the greater context of the planet, with all its…
For someone like me, a Gen Xer who was 18 in 1991, Nirvana has always had a special place in my musical heart. Now I’m nearly 53 and it’s a little different of course. I remember the whole “grunge explosion” and how the pop landscape changed as a few distorted chords took over airwaves and…
The fact is that Hendrix’s Woodstock performance was mid, as the kids say. They should have left it with the original soundtrack album. His myth was secured, 100%. On Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, Jimi Hendrix closes both the festival and the album with a compact, ferocious sequence: “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Purple…
The Big F did not come out of a scene so much as out of a state of mind. They were born from frustration, the kind that only comes after you have already “made it.” Not the romantic broke-band frustration, but the deeper kind that creeps in when success starts to feel like confinement. Endless…
This record has always been treated like an afterthought. Not the debut, not the myth, just the second one that came out too fast and didn’t change the world. Which feels about right for a band like the New York Dolls. It’s a weird, lopsided album. Half originals, half covers, all of it a bit…