This post is a response to the late-2021 news about Eric Clapton being a giant wanker, sort of. The original story was that a woman...

My earliest Christmas memories revolve around pandemonium. I was one of a brood of eight, so I remember adrenaline, noise, flying...

I’m back after a fine Thanksgiving weekend. Lots of good food and football and family time. I didn’t make it to my local shop for Record...

Maybe overheard somewhere, maybe not. One. RAY: Hey man. DANNY: What’s up R? RAY: Probably gonna head on over to the record store in a...

Back in the prehistoric pre-internet days, when my mother used to hang wet clothes on a line using bird beaks and Dad powered the family...

Cover songs are, of course, everywhere, you hear them all the time in every form of popular music. Not at all uncommon for a semi-popular...

“Rock and roll is the devil’s music!” That was the dire warning from preachers, school boards, and parents back in the 1950s. Elvis was...

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.” Corny, right? The quote is usually attributed to Dick Clark, but it sounds like a phrase invented...

It’s no coincidence that the rise of rock and roll and the evolution of the electric guitar went hand in hand back in the 1950s. This is...

THE FINAL VINYL DECISION: Finding and buying LPs If the lure of getting (back) into vinyl collecting and listening is nagging at your...

I love listening to music even more than I love to talk or write about it. I’ve had the opportunity to hear pretty much every format...

What happens to the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World without Charlie Watts? I worry about such things. Mick, Keith, and Ronnie...

If listenable is the highest praise I can come up with for these, why make a list about progressive rock? Honestly, me and the genre have...

A quick search on YouTube for “The Dark Side of OZ” gets you the Wizard of Oz film with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon playing over...

So, there's a hint about my age, and how long I've been an obsessed music fanatic (OMF). Pre-internet, pre-CD, pre-streaming,...