Bristol March 9th 1971
Bristol March 9th 1971
Seattle’s Kenny Hill has left the building - several years ago - I brought his brother Robbie over to Steve Fisk’s Ballard villa to have these recordings mixed for Light in the Attic records!
Originally recorded at RCA in LA in 1975 with Executive Producer Cuba Gooding Sr.
Seattle’s Kenny Hill has left the building - several years ago - I brought his brother Robbie over to Steve Fisk’s Ballard villa to have these recordings mixed for Light in the Attic records!
Originally recorded at RCA in LA in 1975 with Executive Producer Cuba Gooding Sr.
Fab book getting an expanded reissue this week !
Sing Out with Martin Carthy
"you should work with Ginsberg, that guy has got words!" -
Bob Dylan to Phil Spector circa 1977
As the author of ‘Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary” - an oral & visual history of Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies - this “new subscribers offer” is something that I can really get behind !
Fabulous
Get the Beatles Back, Glyn Johns
"You hear musicians saying, 'Even if I didn't get paid for this, I'd do it anyway.' When's the last time you heard a businessman say, 'If they didn't pay me for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free' ?"
- Dick Gregory
This review from a recent show in Boston captures the essence of what I just witnessed in the San Francisco Bay Area
www.stagestoriesmusicmagazine.com/featured-art...
I first discovered Jack Bruce via Cream - but his post Cream solo albums are very rewarding also - as is his early work with Graham Bond - let’s not forget he played bass on Lou Reed’s Berlin
It’s this guy’s birthday
I once told him that I loved him
he didn’t respond
Underrated spiritual music from these icons of English folk rock
Underrated spiritual music from these icons of English folk rock
It’s this guy’s birthday
I once told him that I loved him
he didn’t respond
Apparently, musician and political activist Country Joe McDonald has just passed away - this memory of him came up this week in my phone;
Today is International Women’s Day;
“Don’t think that sticking your boobs out and trying to look f*ckable will help. Remember you’re in a rock ‘n’ roll band. It’s not ‘f*ck me...it’s f*ck you!”
- Chrissie Hynde
Albert Lee, Peter Frampton, Rory Gallagher, Kenny Jones at Jerry Lee Lewis 1973 London sessions released by Mercury Records
If you can make it happen in New York - you can make it anywhere!
the grand old dame Marianne Faithfull reciting classic poems from the likes of Byron, Keats, Shelly, Tennyson accompanied by ambient music - Eno contributes some soundscapes here as does Nick Cave on piano. This is something different and delicious.
You were right there with me !
You are doing god’s work in a god-like manner
discussing the glorious early 1980s with a friend; vinyl LPs were cheap, CDs weren’t for sale yet, indie-rock was fresh, live music clubs were plentiful, college radio hadn't been co-opted by major labels and there were several inspiring fanzines to get your information from.
Happiness is a book cover designed by Darryl Norsen that I helped edit and fund about the 1960s Yippie movement by a woman who helped lead the movement Nancy Kurshan and published by @threeroomspress.bsky.social