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It's like jazz

August 21, 2020 @ 11:21 am
55 years ago today The Rolling Stones album: Out of Our Heads containing the song “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” became the first Stones album to hit # 1 It stayed and # 1 for 4 weeks....

It's on the Hob

August 20, 2020 @ 11:13 am
Ronnie Wood says he’s doing his best to be optimistic during the pandemic, but admits he’s getting anxious to get back on the road, which is what The Rolling Stones were supposed to be doing this summer....

Shades of Melancholy

August 18, 2020 @ 9:39 am
The Band released Stage Fright, their third album, 50 years today (Monday) — August 17th, 1970. Containing 10 songs, including the title track, “The Shape I’m In,” “The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show” and “Daniel and the Sacred...

No Stairway

August 14, 2020 @ 10:56 am
If you’re a guitar player in a band imagine the opportunity to play with Jimmy page.  it happened to the Black Crowes.  the got an album out of it too; [Jimmy Page with The Black Crowes Live...

Owner of a Broken Foot

August 13, 2020 @ 10:21 am
Former Yes singer Jon Anderson started his self-quarantining at his central California home on crutches. He tells us how it happened:   “I was gonna make barbecue, and, what I do, I give my wife a massage...

Appliance Approved

August 12, 2020 @ 11:59 am
Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits turns 71 today his song “Money for Nothing” was inspired by something he saw at an appliance store. Add a cool guitar and Sting and you had a number 1 hit…3 weeks...

New Who?

August 11, 2020 @ 12:02 pm
Roger Daltrey took a break from fixing a bulldozer on Friday to answer questions from Who fans ahead of Saturday’s launch of Join Together @ Home — a six-week series on the band’s YouTube channel featuring some...

Are You Magic; Man

August 7, 2020 @ 12:02 pm
Heart‘s first single, “Magic Man,” is 45 years old. Singer Ann Wilson asks, “Can you believe it’s been 45 years since our first 45 record was released?! “It seems like only yesterday I was writing ‘Magic Man’...

It was a Jam, Man

August 6, 2020 @ 10:43 am
Peter Frampton’s song: “Do You Feel Like We Do” is his most famous. As a solo artist, Peter Frampton had released four studio albums before his career blew up with Frampton Comes Alive in 1976. He says that...

Pop and Rock

August 5, 2020 @ 11:01 am
Rick Derringer turns 73 today.  His big hit: “Rock ‘n Roll Hoochie Koo” was written for somebody else. Written with the idea of giving a blues rocker Johnny Winter a shot at a pop hit, it didn’t...