Picture Of The Day
Hey, how about getting a bunch of ukulele players to cover Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back In Town"? Sounds like fun...
Concert Review: Bad Company and Joe Walsh
To my knowledge, the only time in music history when a band, song, and album all shared the same name was in 1974, when Bad Company did "Bad Company" on "Bad Company." I got to see them play that tune, and many others, Friday night at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater on...
Gold Records
Do musicians still get gold records? For decades, if you sold half a million units of a song or album (across all distribution formats), you'd be presented a framed version of your album cover and vinyl record. There was also a platinum record for a million units, and...
Stairway To Beatles
The Beatnix, an Australian Beatles tribute band, performs "Stairway To Heaven" with a Fab Four arrangement on the TV show "The Money Or The Gun" in the early 1990s...
Led Zeppelin’s Ripoff Riff Lawsuit
In February, I talked with Tim English, author of "Sounds Like Teen Spirit," a book about bands that have ripped off other people's rock riffs and used them in their own tunes. We played several samples of the originals and the copies, and he cited Led Zeppelin as the...
Keith Emerson
I was sorry to hear that Keith Emerson died yesterday at age 71. After hearing the news this afternoon, I played some ELP on my show and talked about him, realizing that -- as with George Martin earlier this week -- even the rock stations in town...
A Missed Radio Opportunity
I punched around to various radio stations yesterday to hear which were doing tributes to George Martin by playing Beatles songs and telling stories about him. The answer: very, very few. For rock stations (or classic rock, classic hits, oldies, etc.), this would have...
Beautiful Again
Last April, I raved about "Beautiful," the Broadway show about the life and career of singer/songwriter Carole King, and recommended you see it if you get to New York. Well, now you don't have to, because the bus-and-truck national tour of "Beautiful" has come to St....