Posted March 9, 2011 at 8:44 am | No comments
Referred to as both a painfully slow ballad and one of the band’s best songs, “Desperado” has become a bit of an enigma for a band that has always walked the line between soft rock and hard rock. Written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, the song was never released as a single when it first came out on the album of the same name, though it has since been released on several compilations of the band’s greatest hits. “Desperado” has become a favorite Eagles track when bands are searching for a tune to cover, and has been rerecorded by many famous acts that range from Clint Black to Johnny Cash to the Gimme Gimmes.
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Posted March 8, 2011 at 1:34 pm | No comments
While the song “Viva la Vida” was a huge hit for UK rock band Coldplay, it was also at the center of two separate plagiarism controversies. The first involved the band Creaky Boards, who claimed that Coldplay had stolen the melody to “Viva” from their song “The Songs I Didn’t Write.” The claims were based on the allegations that Coldplay singer Chris Martin had seen Creaky Boards perform live shortly before writing the song, an allegation that was later disputed. After going back and forth, and posting a video comparing the two songs on the internet, Creaky Boards retracted their claim and let things slide.
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Posted March 8, 2011 at 12:31 pm | 3 comments
Forty-plus years after the Summer of Love and the release of The Doors’ self-titled debut album, 61-year-old Doors guitarist Robby Krieger is a busy man. Recently, Krieger appeared at the Berklee College of Music’s Berklee Performance Center in Boston where he performed a set with Doors tribute band Morrison Crossing comprised of ex-Berklee students, and spoke to the audience and reporters on a variety of topics, past and present.
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Posted March 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm | One comment
Lemmy Kilmister may be the driving force of Motörhead, but Phil Campbell is the vehicle that they travel their music journey in. Phil has been Lemmy’s right hand man and lead guitarist for 27 years, performing 14 Motörhead LPs including such classics as Bastards, Inferno, and Hammered.
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Posted March 7, 2011 at 2:00 pm | No comments
Walter Kolosky the writer of Power, Passion and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra, brings us a listener’s guide that leads the reader through the different depths of John McLaughlin’s music. Kolosky’s Follow Your Heart – John McLaughlin Song By Song is written from the author’s subjective experience after listening to 42 of McLaughlin’s albums and analyzing each of the tunes.
Posted in: Jazz, Jazz Reviews, Reviews
Posted March 7, 2011 at 11:30 am | No comments
“More Than a Feeling,” which took Tom Schultz five years to write, has become Boston’s trademark song, after being released on their self-titled album in 1976. Over the years the song has gained much attention for the band, but it has also been noted for its shared similarities to other classic rock songs, and for songs that came after it which borrowed heavily from this classic track. Most notably, the song’s powerchord riff has been compared to the Kingsmen’s rock n roll track “Louie Louie.” It has also been compared to Elton John’s song “Screw You (Young Man’s Blues) as well as the lesser known track “Walk Away Renee” by the Left Banks.
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Posted March 7, 2011 at 7:50 am | No comments
There is something about Latin Jazz that just feels good, when it’s played well that is. A lot of modern jazz has moved beyond its roots as dance music, pushing the boundaries of harmony and melody in new and exciting directions, but nobody’s going to dance to it. This is why Latin, and Brazilian Jazz for that matter are so much fun to listen to. The top players in these genres know how to keep that deep groove, all while bringing advanced harmonic concepts to the mix. By doing so they not only appeal to folks who like to get up and cut the rug, but also to those who like to be intellectually stimulated when they listen to a jazz record or concert.
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Posted March 6, 2011 at 2:17 pm | 3 comments
It’s early September. Wylde’s home from Ozzfest where he did double duty with Ozzy and Zakk’s own Black Label Society (BLS). Time to rest? Hardly. He’s up at 4 a.m. doing whatever it is he has to do as hard as he can do it. The BLS motto of Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever is no marketing gimmick. The son of a now 87-year-old WW II D-Day Omaha Beach veteran, combat intensity is in Zakk’s blood.
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Posted March 5, 2011 at 11:00 pm | No comments
It isn’t often that a song is known as much for the composer as it is for a band that had a number 1 hit with it, but “Mr. Tambourine Man” is just such a song. Originally written by master folkster Bob Dylan, David Crosby and his band the Byrds would record a cover of the song on their debut record, which would jump all the way to number 1 on the charts and making the group stars in the process. While these two versions are the most well-known, artists as diverse as Judy Collins and even William Shatner have covered the song over the decades, making it one of the most recognizable hits of the ‘60s.
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Posted March 5, 2011 at 4:23 pm | One comment
One of the most iconic rock’ n’ roll bands in history, Motörhead, is out touring the US to celebrate the band’s 35th anniversary and the release their new studio album The Wörld is Yours. This latest release sold 7,000 copies in US in its first week to land at No. 94 on The Billboard 200 chart, and to-date has sold over 100,000 copies, an achievement Lemmy was proud to point out during an interview prior to the show, saying it was the bands best-selling CD yet.
Posted in: '80s Rock, Concert Reviews, Reviews
