Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Left-handed guitarists
Left-handed guitarists stick out from their right-handed bandmates but also give the impression of a fuller-petaled flower on the stage. One of the world's most famous left-handed guitar players, Paul Mc Cartney, when he played with the Beatles, used to stand to the far right of the stage, along...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Tbgroucho remarked that Elvis the King didn't debut on American
television on the Ed Sullivan show. I think I can remember watching that Jackie Gleason show when i was a very little boy. It is also interesting to note that though the Beatles gave their first live performance on the Ed Sullivan show, they made their first appearance on American TV on the Jack...
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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Billy Joel
It was not exactly my intention to write about music "greats" in this blog, but Billy Joel ended up on my turntable so I decided to write about him. A fantastic pianist and singer, Billy Joel is perhaps along with his contemporary Bruce Springsteen, the best American songwriter of the 1970s. Piano...
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Sunday, May 9, 2004
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence was my favorite American group in the late Sixties. I did not become interested in music until 1969 when I was eighteen years old and had graduated from high school and this band was huge then. John C. Fogerty was the heart and soul of the band as he played lead guitar and sang on most of...
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
Meat Loaf the Pavarotti of 70s rock
Meat Loaf had the bulk and the voice of a great opera singer and like Pat Benetar, a singer trained specifically for opera, he used his voice to great effect. A talented entertainer, he originally envisioned himself as an actor or at least a musical performer, who kind of blundered into rock to the...
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Friday, April 9, 2004
Prince
I've really admired Prince. I thought he and his band the Revolution were a terrific musical force around 1984 and the movie Purple Rain was one of my favorite movies with the best soundtrack that ever supported the plot of a movie. This is an enormous concession because I am a huge Beatle fan, but...
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Friday, January 30, 2004
Billy Idol
Billy Idol is a hoot! I never took him seriously when he first came out, but he has always made terrific music. I consider him something of the British version of Prince, another one of my personal music idols, but Billy seems more of a rocker than Prince does. I love that both Billy Idol and Prince...
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