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The Stories Behind 10 Rock Band Logos

Back in the early 1960’s, rock band logos were never quite as important as they are today in this age of branding.  Over the years, official logos became an essential item that every band needed to have in order promote

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Alive As Yesterday: 1979 Concerts

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

The Palladium

NYC

 

Damn The Torpedo Tour '79

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Orpheum Theatre

Memphis, TN

 

The Specials

Tiffany's Late Bar Disco

Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Iggy Pop

The Human League

Paradiso

Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

The Plasmatics

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Alive As Yesterday: 1967 Concerts

ALIVE AS YESTERDAY: 1967 CONCERTS

Electric Flag,

Moby Grape

Steve Miller

Fillmore 

San Francisco, CA

 

Donovan

Cow Palace

San Francisco, CA

 

 Lenny Bruce

The Mothers of Invention

Fillmore Auditorium

San Francisco, Ca

 

The Chambers Brothers

The Matrix

San Francisco, CA

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Hot Platters: Live Albums That Changed My Life

Live albums were once a staple of most rock acts but could possibly be considered an endangered species nowadays.  Sure, over the years there have been many live albums that were released as a holding action because a band didn't

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Moments In Time: Rock & Roll Images

 

 

 

A YOUNG LESLIE WEST DURING HIS TIME WITH THE VAGRANTS

 

 

DOC POMUS & DR. JOHN WRITING SONGS IN NYC

 

 

BO DIDDLEY & HIS LADY GUITARIST NORMA-JEAN WOFFORD

 

 

JIM MORRISON BEFORE HIS DEATH IN PARIS

 

 

CLARENCE CLEMMONS & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Remembering Jeff Beck

I was shocked to learn that Jeff Beck, perhaps the greatest rock & roll guitarist of all, had passed away on Tuesday due to spinal meningitis.  I've always ranked Beck alongside my other favorite guitarist, Danny Gatton.  

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The Beatles: Something Cool To Read This Week!

 

 

 

 

Worried that no-one would understand their Liverpool accents in 1964 film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, US music execs considered dubbing them over with American actors. McCartney harrumphed: “We can understand a fucking…

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