As I started out to trace the marketing of rock all the way back to its origins with Elvis Presley and his wily manager Colonel Tom Parker I began to understand that rock & roll has become a long train…moving…
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Jul 2 2024
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
JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH IN PARIS
CLARENCE CLEMMONS & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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Jun 18 2024
Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock & Roll @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
EXHIBITION OVERVIEW
"For the first time, a major museum exhibition examines the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll's seismic influence was felt across culture and society. Early…
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Mar 20 2024
Alive As Yesterday: 1959 Concerts
JERRY LEE LEWIS
The Casuals, Bobby One, Alan Marlo
State Theatre
Niagra Falls, NY
HOWLIN WOLF & HIS ORCHESTRA
Rosewood Club
Memphis, TN
BROOK BENTON
Ruth Brown, The Falcons,
The Pips, The Delloes
James Moody & His Orchestra with Eddie…
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Mar 5 2024
The Beatles On Tour 1964
1964
"The Beatles were one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands of all time. They also had one of the fiercest, most intensely loyal fandoms of all time. Beatles fans — mainly teenage girls — offered the band their…
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Feb 22 2024
Faces in the Crowd: D.A. Pennebaker
One Sunday back in 2019, I woke up to the news that D.A. Pennebaker had passed away at the age of 94. While Pennebaker was a well known film maker to many folks, I thought it would be worthwhile to…
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Feb 15 2024
Alive As Yesterday: 1989 Concerts
The Who
London Coliseum
London, UK
Grateful Dead
Alpine Valley Music Theatre
East Troy, MI
Jerry Garcia Band Electric
Wiltern Theatre
379 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Lou Reed
Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle
Frankfurt, Germany
Nirvana
Grinch
Murphy's Pub
Cincinnati, OH
Neil…
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Jan 31 2024
Rock Geography: Whisky A Go Go (Expanded Edition)
Today, on this latest edition of Rock & Roll Geography, we take a stroll down to California to check out The Whisky A Go Go, one of LA's most historic music landmarks. Still in business today, this venerable club is…
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Jan 24 2024
Rock & Roll: The Psychedelic Years (Expanded Edition)
Psychedelic rock was a musical genre that emerged in the mid-sixties due to the popularity of such mind-altering drugs as LSD, mescaline, cannabis and peyote mushrooms. The roots of Psychedelic Rock begin here: On Friday April 16, 1943 (a day…
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Jan 9 2024
Remembering Bill Graham & The Fillmore East
This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend,
Jeff Goldstein
who spent many happy hours @ The Fillmore East
The Story of the Fillmore East begins here...
Located at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and Sixth Street was…
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Nov 15 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1969 Concerts
The Kinks
Taj Mahal
Sha Na Na
Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA
The Move
Cold Blood
Albert King
Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA
Grateful Dead
AUM
Flying Burrito Bros.
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA
Spirit
Nazz
James Cotton Blues Band
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Oct 25 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1982 Concerts
Prince
Zapp (featuring Roger)
The Time
Rockford Metro Centre
Rockford, IL
Spring Fest '82
Ramones
David Johansen
Jim Carroll
Peter Dayton
Lines
Thunderbird Country Club
Tyngsboro, MA
Diary of a Madman Tour
Ozzy Osbourne
Starfighters
Notre Dame A.C.C.
South Bend,…
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Oct 12 2023
Vince Taylor: The Original Ziggy Stardust
Vince Taylor, while not widely known to US rock fans, was an influential part of the European rock scene in the late 50's and early 60's. While not widely known to US rock fans, Taylor was an influential part of…
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Oct 4 2023
Celebrating the Artists Who Created Iconic Album Covers
From the awwwards.com site :"Long before the digital era and the design disciplines that emerged with it, there was a unique canvas, reaching a visual audience of millions; every designer dreamed of working on a vinyl record album cover. Invented…
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Sep 13 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1975 Concerts
Led Zeppelin
L.S.U. Assembly Center
Baton Rouge, LA
Led Zeppelin
Earl's Court
London, UK
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Keystone Hall
Kutztown State College
Kutztown, PA
Ramones
CBGB's
NYC
John Cale & The Only Ones
Paradiso
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Sep 6 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1973 Concerts
David Bowie
Hollywood Palladium
Los Angeles, CA
Joe Walsh & Barnstorm
Allen Theatre
Cleveland, OH
Sly & The Family Stone
Little Feat
Berkeley Community Theatre
Berkeley, CA
Grateful Dead
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
San Francisco Concerts 1973 Bill Graham Presents
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Aug 16 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1978 Concerts
The Year Rock Went to Pieces (Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado)
“In 1978, rock music resembled a combat zone more than a community. The divisions had been visible for most of the decade, with the fraying of any notion that the…
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Jul 28 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1986 Concerts
RAISING HELL TOUR '86
RUN DMC
WHODINI
LL COOL J
Municipal Auditorium
Nashville, TN
"All Hell Breaks Loose at a Run-D.M.C. 'Raising Hell' Rap Concert in California: 'I am great--get it straight--that`s what I say--my name is Run--I`m number…
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Jul 20 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1980 Concerts
The Cramps
Eldorado
Paris, France
SETLIST
TV Set
(Ronnie Cook & The Gaylads cover)
(Ronnie Dawson cover)
(The Sonics cover)
NOTE: SET LIST INCOMPLETE
Back In Black Tour '80
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Jul 12 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1972 Concerts
“Some people say the 1970s New York rock scene started in the 1960s with the Velvet Underground. Others insist that it began around 1968 with the Stooges and MC5 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Or with Lou Reed’s reconfigured Velvet Underground…
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Jun 21 2023
Rock & Roll: Why The 80's Pretty Much Sucked
As I remember it, the 1980s was a decade in which the genre known as basic meat & potatoes rock & roll began to undergo a myriad of changes. The punk rock revolution was underway but didn't really become a…
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Jun 18 2023
Rock & Roll Sunday Songs On A Sunday
It's a beautiful morning on a Sunday
which always reminds me of rock & roll songs that are all about Sundays!
Blue Sunday is track 10 on the Doors’ fifth album Morrison Hotel, which was released in February 1970.…
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Jun 5 2023
Rock & Roll Advertising 1970's
The early, much-romanticized years of the ‘70s -- when Lester Bangs was starting to inspire a generation of imitators – were a time when print advertising relied on a lot more words than it usually does today, and when it…
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May 25 2023
Alive As Yesterday: 1974 Concerts
Summer of '74
Charlton Athletic F.C.
The Who
Lou Reed
Humble Pie
Bad Company
Lindisfarne
Dave Mason
"The Doom Tour" 1974
CSNY
The Day Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Launched Their 'Doom Tour' In the summer of 1974, the concept…
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May 11 2023
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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