A Handmade Moment of Domestic Bliss The release of Ram hit Beatles fans with the reality of the world’s most prolific band falling apart. No matter how genius the work was- no one was going to like it. It was Paul McCartney picking up and moving on with his life. In the infamous 1971 Rolling Stone review by […] More
The Last Contribution to Pink Floyd Syd Barrett will always be a vital part of Pink Floyd regardless of how long he was actually an official member of the band. He had created the path in which the group ultimately stayed on- a genius musical production, always on the trippier side of things. Yet, his […] More
Bert Kaempfert Produktion Tony Sheridan, was a British singer- songwriter and guitarist. His most notable work is tied to his early collaborations with the Beatles. Quite some time before the the Beatles were the Beatles, the band was an extension of Tony Sheridan. In the summer of 1961, the band recorded eight songs for the Bert […] More
The Blues Scale Stevie Ray Vaughan is a Texan guitar god. His way of playing has an instantly defined signature. Often recognized as the blues scale or even “the voodoo blues scale,” Stevie Ray has made this sound timeless along with his soulful predecessors. His inspirations were his older brother Jimmie, the gypsy/jazz guitarist Django […] More
Sky High Military fighter jets are rock and roll as hell. Just look at them, they are massively powerful machine birds protecting the sky- protecting you. You gotta see it to believe it… to feel it. 1. Scorpions- “Rock You Like A Hurricane” The German rock band, Scorpions, released “Rock You Like A Hurricane” […] More
A New Species of Producer Brian Wilson’s reverence amongst his contemporaries is indescribably impactful, but I’ll try my best to allegorically explain it with the theory of evolution. Brian Wilson was the Island of Galapagos, rock artists were the finches, his records were genius conclusions (i.e. Charles Darwin), and the shift in musical production was […] More
No Wonder He Became a Wildlife Superstar John Denver was the son of an Air Force pilot who spent most of his time in the New Mexico wildlife. Denver was inspired by flight and nature and spent much of his time singing and writing about the great wild. Of course spending so much time in […] More
The Songwriting Laureate The Swedish Academy awarded Bob Dylan the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 2016, on the grounds of, “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Makes sense right? No? Ok, let’s break it down into three parts- all reasons why it makes sense that Bob Dylan is now a […] More
We’d Steal From Anybody! Listen carefully to the intro beat of “Break On Through,” and you’ll know exactly what The Doors had included in their mega hit. That’s not it though! The song has a menagerie of songs that it was built on. Ray Manzarek, many times called “the hinges to the Doors,” had also […] More
A Synthesis of Beauty and Brilliance James Douglas Morrison had an extravagant way of conveying his intrinsic beliefs. Some of these extravagancies would lead to police confrontation. Yet, at the same time of some of his arrests (related to intoxicated exhibitionism), he was making intellectual leaps. In 1969, shortly before his arrest in Miami, he […] More
The Opus It’s a rock song of the ages. The six minute suite which became, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” was almost everything but ostentatious. Queen was known for crossing genres between rock/ glam/ and progressive. If their music seemed flamboyant it was because of it’s complexity. Mercury included multi-faceted vocal arias and a confusing plot. The man […] More
Does Anybody Here Remember Vera Lynn? The 1982 cinematic release of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ originally premiered for the Cannes Film Festival. The film was supposedly made out of “competition” but instantly became one of the most prolific films in the history of music and animation. The plot follows “Pink” , a rock star, who loses his […] More
