Hi and welcome back for another year of festive holiday musical happy-time! No big hurrah here, no major write-ups, I thought I’d jump right into this year’s selections with an instrumental piece from legendary prog-rock band Jethro Tull. Their 2003 release Jethro Tull Christmas Album is one of my favorite seasonal listens. It’s equal parts Pagan…
So Boots & I were up at the World on Thanksgiving weekend. There was no one particularly driving reason for us to head there, but we were “in the area” so we decided to make a weekend out of it. And when I say “in the area”, I mean “somewhere on Planet Earth”. Like we…
Rating: 5 / 10 Long before Ringo Starr was a Fab Four fixture, or before Love Me Do became their first hit single… before John Lennon proclaimed that the band was more popular than Jesus, or before they were slumming around India with the Maharishi… before their Magical Mystery Tour debacle of a film and…
Two of my favorite albums and highly-acclaimed rock classics were released on this date, forty-five years ago. So, in lieu of any actual content of late, I thought I’d remind you. We’re talking about: The Beatles (aka ‘The White Album’) The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society The way I see it, you could…
Well I’ve been talking about it for a few months, so enough yakkin’ already. Here’s where I start my attempt at doing a tangible bit of good. I’ve started a fundraising page; you can find it at http://www.stayclassy.org/fundraise?fcid=281162. My goal is to raise $5,000 to benefit the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America by February…
Pound for pound, I’d say Love Gun is probably my favorite Kiss album, or at the very least in my Top 3. Everything about it screams quintessential Kiss. First there’s that cover. Look at that thing. Beautiful. Artist Ken Kelly painted it (he had done the Destroyer cover as well) and that is some buttkickin’…
… and been summarily rejected? That issue has been fixed. One of my plugins updated and reset a setting that I specifically turned off. To say that I might be a little annoyed is putting it mildly. I was wondering where everyone had gone… 🙁 Anyway, Comments have been fixed, so feel free to fire…
I decided to run the 2013 Allstate 13.1 Fort Lauderdale half marathon at a slower pace, and the reason I decided to run the 2013 Allstate 13.1 Fort Lauderdale half marathon at a slower pace was because I was physically incapable of running it at a faster pace. I believe in logic. This is my…
Your enjoyment of the live, 3-LP Wings Over America will largely rest upon your affinity for the mid-1970s Wings era. But it remains a strong live release from a tight rockin’ band.
As strong as an album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. really is, it still represents something of a step backward for the band. While their previous album Headquarters (released earlier that very same year) represented an assertive statement of individuality and liberation of The Monkees as a self-sustaining band, PACJ has the band relying…