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1953 Eddie Cochran age 15

 

 

1960 David Crosby when he was a member of the folk music combo Les Baxter's Balladeers

 

1961 Eric Clapton …

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It's Alive!  The Ramones! A Correct History Of Music Streaming SNL's Cowbell Sketch Ruined Christopher Walken's Life The Kid Creole …

 

As I remember it, the 1980s was a decade in which the genre known as basic meat & potatoes rock & roll began to be undergo a myriad of changes.  The punk rock revolution was underway but…

"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void…

50 years ago today, The Woodstock Festival took place in White Lake, NY.  It was an event that transformed the youth culture and established the Music Festival template that continues to this very day. 

Woodstock: The Event …

"Say, what was the first rock concert you went to?"  Hmmm...let me think about that for a minute or two...no, wait!  I remember now!  It happened on a beautiful summer day on August 13, 1967.  I had just returned…

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Robert Crenshaw: Details about his "Rock Odyssey" Drexel University: The Lost Tracks of David Bowie  Joe Meek: Architect Of Stardom  …

This past Sunday, 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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“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 factions of rock fans could peacefully coexist, but in…