Friday, March 18, 2005
The Cars
The Cars are perhaps my second favorite all time group. I love the Beatles most of all and perhaps Creedence after that, but the Cars are right after Creedence in third place, but perhaps tied for second. The Cars did not have the biting political commentary that Creedence could produce but still...
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Monday, February 21, 2005
The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead are definitely gone now that the chief Dead member, Jerry Garcia is, well, dead. They have been an incredibly popular group who must have made it into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, but I don't know whether they ever had a Top Ten hit. When I hung around Cambridge in the seventies,...
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Friday, February 11, 2005
The Bangles
The Bangles rock! Song for song, they play as hard as any band in the universe male or female. They are four females, all goregous, and they can all play and sing. They trade in on their sexy resemblance to the Beatles with their name. Any red-blooded male in the audience would want to take a run at...
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Saturday, February 5, 2005
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick is an aptly named band. They do hardly anything but entertain the listener. Robin Zander, the skinny blond guy handles the main vocals and Tom Peterson handles the bass and back-up vocals while Rick Neilson the brains of the band, handles the lead guitar and Bun E. Carbs does the...
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Howling Wolf
Howling Wolf was a hell of a musician and apparently a wonderful man as well. Born Chester Arthur Burnett in 1910 in Louisianana, the home of the bules, he became a foundng father of that kind of music and his mother disowned him because she felt the blues was the devil's music. She gave the care of...
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Thursday, November 18, 2004
The Who
I kind of violated the premise of this blog by writing about a super group, but what the hell. Blogs are made to be broken. Pete Townshend is my all time favorite guitarist. My friend said that I like him because of his windmill theatrics but that is not so. I like him because of the intricate...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2004
ABBA
I just saw a movie, Muriel's Wedding in which Muriel is addicted to ABBA songs. ABBA consisted of two sexy women who could sing passably well and two guys, both affable and apparently could write incredibly hookish melodies. Though much maligned by harder edged groups, or at least djs who liked...
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Friday, August 27, 2004
Prince in Concert at the Fleet Center (conclusion)
Prince is absolutely wonderful as a band leader, musician and performer. He has complete control of his guitar and his band. Nobody misses a step, nobody misses a note and nobody misses a beat. He played Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love in the last section of the concert and thus paid tribute to...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Prince at the Fleet Center Part II
Prince's stage consisted of a cross walk that divided a circular stage into four quadrants. A keyboardist sat in the lower right quadrant. An indefatigueable drummer sat on the lower left quadrant. A beautiful blonde saxophonist, among others occupied the upper left quadrant. And a sexy black...
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Monday, August 23, 2004
Prince in Concert: Fleet Center Boston, August 17th 2004
The last time I went to a big-name concert was on Oct. 1st 1989 at Foxboro Stadium where I saw and heard the Rolling Stones. As the reader can see, I'm not a huge concert-goer. My friend and escort that night, the ever wonderful Tammy had not been to a concert for a while at that time either, though...
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