I must confess. I passed on purchasing the 40th Anniversary release of Permanent Waves (released today – May 29). Filling my shelves with two-inch thick boxes I’ll open once and likely won’t ever open again has more or less run … Continue reading Album Review: Rush – Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary
The Concert Shirt. If you attend a concert without going home with a concert t-shirt you didn’t really attend the show. At least that was my thinking many years ago. As such, I have many concert shirts, also known as … Continue reading The Best Concert T-Shirts (I Own)
I don’t know what I just watched but this is one of the coolest things I have seen in quite a while and thought I’d share. Musician Guilhem Desq uses a pasta maker to produce some amazing sounds covering Pantera’s “Cowboys from Hell.” All I could think when watching was the great Rush lyric “What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound.” Enjoy. What is a Hurdy-Gurdy? So this old-world instrument is actually called a hurdy-gurdy and according to Wikipedia is “a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel … Continue reading Guilhem Desq Covers Pantera’s “Cowboys from Hell” Using a Hurdy-Gurdy
Unfortunately, we won’t get new music from Tom Petty unless it comes from a vault of unreleased material he sat on prior to his death. When Petty died in 2017 he left a pretty big hole in rock music and … Continue reading Top 10 Best Tom Petty Songs
Major Lodge Victory slipped under the radar (landed at #159 on Billboard 200) and quickly disappeared in 2006 but marked the turning point in a log slog back to relevance Gin Blossoms fully enjoy today. In many respects, Gin Blossoms … Continue reading Album Review: Gin Blossoms – Major Lodge Victory
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