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Thought Tom Murse did a good job with his story/obit on Sam Lugar in today’s Era. It’s on the front page, where it should be.
Bryan Rutt has a good piece on Lugar and the Sharks over at his blog, talking a bit more about the music. Was listening to a bit of it […]

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If you grew up as a rock and roll obsessed kid in Lancaster County in the early 1980s, as I did, the Sharks were gods. I had no sense that they were just a local band, because local was all I really knew back then. And when they won the Basement Tapes… well, that just […]

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Yeah, I know Bill Wyman used that for his biography. But check it out - who’s this?

Give up? This would be former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, which - according to the Daily Mail - is all but broke and living in a ramshackle house, in part because the checks from the Stones stopped coming in […]

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I got 13 of 30.

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Bummer. Not only did he invent the electric guitar, he also basically invented the multi-track recorder as well. Not to mention that the finest of electric guitars still bear his name.

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Hey man, is that Freedom Rock? Well turn it up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eGWW8KOQio

Found this one over at at the PowerPop blog, and I can practically smell the patchouli through the screen. A pretty good collection, tho - how many of these tunes do you have on disc?

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Sitting around over the weekend lamenting the demise of the music channel - not so much MTV, but VH1, which at one time would broadcast historic rock movies (like the Stones at Altamont), along with “Behind the Music” and other programming devoted to, you know, music.
These days it’s all the “Flavor of Love” crapola. I […]

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…to jail.

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Had posted the pic of Paul Revere & the Raiders last weekend, which was actually an ad for Vox - the Beatles used the amps (as have Queen & U2), they made organs and the famous teardrop guitar used by, among others, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones.
Ran across a couple of vintage Vox ads […]

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This one’s going around Facebook. One of about 100 quizzes or lists making the rounds, or so it seems. …

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As a sometimes musician, this really annoys me:
When Jennifer Hudson stepped up to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl, there was a sense of high drama. This was her first appearance on the national stage since the October murder of her mother, brother and nephew: Would Ms. Hudson be able to master her […]

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As done by the Byrds, at the Fillmore. Do any Christian rock bands do this song? They should.
Have a quality weekend, see you next week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvPYJc18ME

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Kudos to reader RH for his use of The Google to dig out the meaning. When Brian Wilson was writing the follow-up to “Pet Sounds” in 1966, he used the phrase to describe the music he was making - and the phrase is apt. Get a taste of it below - first in what was supposed […]

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Story of my life. Have a quality weekend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPTYimAE7E

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Don’t let people mess you ’round.
Rather depressing that music like this can be huge north of the border, which it is, but disappear without a trace here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. Change!

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Yeah, I’ll buy that.

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…and so am I. Atrios:
Appetite for Destruction was released 21 years ago. Sgt. Pepper’s was released 41 years ago.
Guns & Roses is now officially an oldie. I think I’m gonna go lie down for a while…

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So I finally went out and bought “Guitar Hero.”
Guitar Hero III, actually, the one with Slash on the cover. On sale over at Circuit City, and since I turn 41 in a week I figured it could be a birthday present to myself. I also figured the boy would also want to play it. I […]

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Any Brian Wilson heads out there?
When I was a kid the Beach Boys were one of the first “rock and roll bands” I listened to, the usual stuff - surf, fun fun fun. Endless Summer. Wasn’t until later I got into Brian Wilson, then went back and listened to the band’s records in a completely […]

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OK. See, now, I have to respond to this, even though as a general rule of thumb I only comment in threads here on the blog. But BeingReal has called me out - or called my hair out - and this requires action.

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