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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Although many may consider it a less important symbol than the dollar sign, never underestimate the power of the asterisk. Jon Glaser certainly doesn’t. After being estranged for years, Glaser was going through his father’s belongings following his death when he stumbled across rock and roll history.* He learned his father was a member of [...]            Tim February 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Book Reviews, classic rock, humor, Review Copy, rock | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) |  Print This Post |  Email This PostSometime in the summer of 1999, I popped Santana’s Supernatural into the CD player in one of our vehicles. From the back seat, I heard one of my kids (aged 8 to 13) ask in the combination disdainful/incredulous tone only kids can achieve, “Since when did you start listening to Santana?” They were just a [...] Tim September 27th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, Music, Review Copy, Santana | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHistory, some have said, is an accumulative science. Of necessity, it builds on what has come before, on what others have studied and written. Yet the building blocks are events, all of which — to the dismay of many students — are tied to particular dates. And while the dates themselves may not be important, [...] Tim August 23rd, 2010 | Tags: Book Reviews, classic rock, Culture, Music, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIn the few times I’ve seen Jackson Browne in concert, I think it’s always been after David Lindley was no longer part of his road band. I do have a vague recollection of having seen Lindley perform as a sideman, for lack of a better term, at least once before but the brain cells with [...] Tim August 8th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, concerts, Jackson Browne, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostEven though I probably wasn’t aware of the routine yet, Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s On First?” reminds me of buying The Guess Who’s American Woman. I called my best friend on the phone after getting the album and the conversation went something like: “I got the new album by The Guess Who.” “Who?” “The [...] Tim May 12th, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, American Woman, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, The Guess Who | Category: Music | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBy the most common definition of the term, The Ides of March were a one hit wonder band. Forty years ago this week their song “Vehicle” broke onto the Billboard charts, where it would peak at number two in late May 1970. Never again would the band hit the top 40. A popular Chicago-area group, [...] Tim April 14th, 2010 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostGranted, it’s a compilation album. And it comes after both Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road. That said, Hey Jude, a/k/a The Beatles Again, was long my favorite Beatles album — and remains among my favorites 40 years after it was released. Some don’t consider this an “official” Beatles album because it is a compilation. Released [...] Tim February 24th, 2010 | Tags: Beatles, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWith Springsteen and Dylan both releasing new CDs in 2009, you would think that would simplify my choices for album of the year. But Working on a Dream ranks as a below average Springsteen release and I’m enough of a Grinch that even Dylan doesn’t make me want to buy a CD of Christmas songs. [...] Tim December 28th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostTrue, Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson was released in the summer of 1972. But with the cover, on which Nilsson appears as Dracula, and the B-horror movie sound effects between the first and second tracks, it seems an appropriate topic for Halloween week — even though I value the album as a tremendous deconstruction of [...] Tim October 28th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostPristine. That may be the only way to describe the sound quality of Steely Dan’s Aja. When you consider that the album was released 32 years ago today, it says a lot for what was achieved. I know Steely Dan gets a lot of disrespect from some quarters. Their music — at least their last [...] Tim September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Steely Dan | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |       The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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