Check out the video below: a pretty great Geraldo Rivera report about the Allman Brothers Band and their 1979 reunion: Geraldo is a legit fan and did a great radio interview with me when One Way Out came out. Lots of great lines in this report, including, “Their music is old fashioned… they don’t even play disco.” Cool interviews […]
Neil Young visited Howard Stern for an interview this morning. They covered a lot of ground, including why he thinks Buffalo Springfield’s music didn’t translate well to record, the act and art of songwriting, bad reviews, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Young doesn’t even want to mention David Crosby by name. When Stern asks […]
In honor of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 60th birthday, I present the following story of the making of Texas Flood. This was written for and originally published in Mojo circa 2001. A new version of the album was released last year: Texas Flood (30th Anniversary Collection). When Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble were booked to play the […]
Frank Fenter Honored By The Georgia Music Hall Of Fame 1936 — 1983 Frank Fenter co-founder of Macon’s Capricorn Records to be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame October 11th, 2014 Frank Fenter was born in South Africa, in 1936. He majored in drama at college in South Africa and planned to pursue […]
In honor the Replacements’ recent reunion shows, I present to you this interview with Paul Westerberg. I would have loved to go see them in Queens Friday night, but I had my own gig going on. The Replacements were a very important band to me. I saw them in September, 1984, at the late and lamented Joe’s […]
In 1999, Guitar World devoted an entire issue to the 30th anniversary of 1969, which we proclaimed the greatest year in rock. I wrote the histories of several landmark albums, including James Brown’s Say It Loud (I’m Black And I’m Proud). The best part of the entire project by a long shot was interviewing the great man […]
Re-posting this today, marking two years since Farmer’s death. I am very proud that I own his Strat. Miss this guy very much. * Warren Haynes’ longtime and much beloved guitar tech Brian Farmer died Sunday August 24, at his home near Nashville. Farmer died peacefully in his sleep. He was 53. “He was a […]
New York Times reporter David Streitfield has been covering the Amazon/Hachette dispute since it began. He has an interesting, humorous take on the latest development — a rather odd and clearly misguided George Orwell reference. Money quote: The retailer argues that people against e-books are against the future, and talks about how the book industry hated […]