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Currently ReadingRecently Read | I grew up with Led Zeppelin. I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo. (Who’d a thunk it would take home theater setups before that concept really took hold.) [...]            Tim August 26th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostThirty-seven years ago hard-core Chicago fans like me thought the rest of the county had finally caught on. In retrospect, what we were seeing was actually the beginning of a new and different path, one that would lead some of us from the band. On August 19, 1972, Chicago V became the number one album [...] Tim August 19th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Terry Kath | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostYou have to be of a certain era for the name Bill Chase to mean much. And it actually could mean something to you in two different contexts. Yet both contexts have an untimely limit. Bill Chase died in a plane crash on August 9, 1974, near Jackson, Minn.. One context is a pure jazz [...] Tim August 12th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, jazz-rock, Midweek Music Moment | Category: Music | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostBob Dylan took only six days to record Highway 61 Revisited, the last being August 4, 1965. What did he accomplish in those six days? Well, the album itself ranked fourth in Rolling Stone‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The opening track, “Like A Rolling Stone,” tops the magazine’s list of [...] Tim August 5th, 2009 | Tags: Bob Dylan, classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWe didn’t realize it at the time but one of them there paradigm shifts occurred in music on August 1, 1971. That afternoon and evening, more than two dozen famous and not so famous musicians performed at two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. Gathered by George Harrison, the performances were benefit concerts for [...] Tim July 29th, 2009 | Tags: Bob Dylan, classic rock, George Harrison, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostToday’s jazz fan could only dream of a line-up like this: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz. Yet those are just a few of the artists who performed at the first Newport Jazz Festival July 17-18, 1954. Newport is the granddaddy of the [...] Tim July 15th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, jazz, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI know. It’s hard to go to any music or pop culture site without seeing some reference to the 40th anniversary of Woodstock in August. But I’m actually going to talk about something other than the festival itself — the soundtrack to the documentary film, Woodstock. I couldn’t tell you today which came first for [...] Tim July 8th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Woodstock | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSpirit’s Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is one of those albums I have a somewhat different relationship with. Months will go by without listening to it. Once I put it on, though, it’s something I’ll listen to repeatedly for weeks. That’s why it’s earned a permanent place on my iPod. Sadly, the LP may fall [...] Tim June 17th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostFor me, On The Border was the breakthrough album for the Eagles — and, it seems, much of the rest of America. The album, the band’s third, went gold on June 5, 1974, just 10 1/2 weeks after its release. In contrast, the band’s first two albums both took about 18 months to go gold. [...] Tim June 3rd, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Eagles, Midweek Music Moment, Music | Category: Music | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSometimes, a few seconds are all you need to know just what album you’re listening to. Sgt. Pepper’s, for example. Or you know you’re listening to Exile on Main Street when you hear the opening licks of “Rocks Off” (which may be the best first five seconds of any album). And for me, the opening [...] Tim May 13th, 2009 | Tags: classic rock, Midweek Music Moment, Music, Neil Young | 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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