Showing posts with label #classicrock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #classicrock. Show all posts
Monday, June 22, 2026

Archive Review: Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (1993)

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Some 16 years ago, an unknown vocalist by the name of Meat Loaf , fresh from a stint with Ted Nugent’s mid-’70 Free For All band, hooked up...
Friday, April 3, 2026

The Reverend's Guide to Record Store Day 2026

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For those of you who celebrate the holiday, Record Store Day is rapidly approaching, and if you haven’t scanned the list of available hot w...
Monday, December 29, 2025

The Reverend's Favorite Reissues & Archival Albums of 2025

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As a child of the '70s, although my musical tastes didn't calcify after the decade like so many of my contemporaries, the exciting a...
Monday, June 2, 2025

CD Review: Pink Floyd’s Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII (2025)

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An often-bootlegged, fan-favorite performance(s) by classic rock legends Pink Floyd , the band’s four nights at the Roman Amphitheatre in Po...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Book Review: Al Kooper’s Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards (1999)

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Musician, songwriter, label executive, producer – Al Kooper has made a living out of being the “Forrest Gump” of rock music. For better tha...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report: Collage, The Exploding Hearts, Los Straitjackets, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Paul Stanley (December 2006)

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December 2006 The “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report” was a short-lived review column that ran on our Alt.Culture.Guide™ website for almost a year u...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report: Jeff Beck Group, The Buzzcocks, The Church, My Morning Jacket, Only Living Witness (November 2006)

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November 2006 The “Rock ‘n’ Roll Farm Report” was a short-lived review column that ran on our Alt.Culture.Guide™ website for almost a year u...
Monday, December 2, 2024

Planet of Sound 3: Even More Essays From the Rock and Roll Globe Era, 2021-2024

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Planet of Sound 3 is the third and final archival collection of rants, raves, and reviews penned by award-winning rock critic and music his...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Have A Bo Diddley Holiday!

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  Having a hard time figuring out a gift for the rock ‘n’ roller on your Christmas list? Don’t wanna buy ‘em just another crappy CD or a rag...
Monday, September 2, 2024

Book Review: Jim Higgins’ Sweet, Wild and Vicious (2024)

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On the Mount Olympus of rock ‘n’ roll, Lou Reed may be Apollo, the Greek god of music and poetry…or maybe he was the Oracle of Delphi,...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Archive Review: Mountain's Over the Top (1995)

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The first time that I ever heard Mountain – the Mountain Climbing! album, I believe – was at an older friend’s house. I was twelve or thir...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Archive Review: Rich Robinson's Paper (2004)

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After the Black Crowes went on hiatus back in 2002, guitarist Rich Robinson found himself without a band (and apart from his brother, Crowes...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Archive Review: Joe Cocker's Joe Cocker! (1969/2009)

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Years before he became the tragic burn-out parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live , Joe Cocker was just another young soul rebel t...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Hot Wax: Robin Trower’s Bridge of Sighs (1974/2024)

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I spent untold hours circa 1974-75 playing Robin Trower ’s Bridge of Sighs over and over again on my funky BSR turntable (you know, the kin...