Cool, Cool Reign!
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Rain… That’s how it begins. Some forceful piano chords with rain. Then the Moon rises with some timpani and piano arpeggios. Setting a mood that sticks with you. This is powerful without being rude. As the closing song for The Who’s masterpiece Quadrophenia, “Love, Reign O’er Me” is one of those songs that fits the [...]
Beth Conquers Detroit!
Saturday, August 28th, 2010Growing up during the 70′s, I was always into the next most shocking thing to come along in rock ‘n’ roll. I remember my mom having some serious problems with me buying Alice Cooper’s Killer album until she either decided to trust the fact that my becoming a mass murderer was a very remote possibility [...]
Pooh Is Not My Real Name!
Friday, August 27th, 2010For today’s WMMCM rock star extravaganza I decided to write about a song from a band that hails from north of the border, as in Canada. Why Canada? Well there is something aboot a band from Canada having a big hit in the U.S. in 1973 that I find interesting. There have been quite a [...]
Detroit! A Good Place To Be… From…
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Detroit, Michigan, is not really a town known for its rock music scene. (Just kidding…) There are plenty of rock stars from there, but it’s never been a place where careers take off. If you were a blues or R&B singer it was a great place to be, but rock? Well, not so much. The [...]
Lodge-ing A complaint
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010As we continue down our path of audio destruction involving the life and times of rock stars, there is one thing that becomes more and more obvious. Some of the people who want to become rock stars do so because they are driven and they can. They have the talent, the desire, and also the [...]
You Can Insult Them If You Top The Charts…
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Of all the bands that began their careers in the middle of the psychedelic 60′s, only a select few would be strong enough or innovative enough to survive into the harder and more complex sounds of the early 70′s. Bands that a few years earlier had been at the top of the charts and leading [...]
Ricky’s Grown Up
Sunday, August 15th, 2010So now you have been plugging away for years, studying your craft, and slowly over time becoming the success you’ve always wanted to be. Now you’re a rock star. What next? As the years go by, and naturally you’re getting older, and music is changing as it always does; you keep doing what you’ve have [...]
My Ego Is Bigger Than Yours!
Friday, August 13th, 2010In the next installment of our WMMCM focus on rock stars and songs about them it became obvious to me that for a very natural follow-up to Peter Gabriels’ too cool for words “Big Time,” I needed to find a song even more over the top and outrageous. That wasn’t hard to do when I got to [...]
The Real Guitar Hero
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010On a rainy afternoon in 1981 I was driving around in my 1969 Pontiac GTO listening to KLOS 95.5 which was then my favorite radio station. There was always a competition in those days between KLOS and KMET for rock radio supremacy in Los Angeles. KLOS was my choice because I really liked the on-air staff. [...]
Extra! Extra! Extra! Byrds Attack Monkees!
Saturday, August 7th, 2010In the wild and crazy days of the mid 60′s, with the Beatles and Rolling Stones topping the charts, all those young musicians who were inspired by their music, success, and fame were slowly making their own mark on rock and roll. Buffalo Springfield, the Moody Blues, and too many others to mention were all taking [...]
