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VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE Nearly forty years after he crossed into the next dimension, there is an ongoing fascination with Jimi Hendrix. He caught...

DON QUIXOTE Don't you just love the internet? News travels at insane speeds, though most of it reads like it was fact-checked by a sleep...

GET THE KNACK Remember this LP? Power pop/rock, tightly arranged with great harmonies and lascivious lyrics that seemed a perfect match for ...

BAND ON THE RUN Viewed as an incredible return to form, the third Wings platter was nothing short of miraculous as it was made under tum...

RED ROSE SPEEDWAY There is much truth in the old adage: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again . Wings expanded to a five...

WILD LIFE After issuing two solo records, James Paul McCartney decided that he wanted to be part of a band again. Getting back in front ...

RAM "I thought McCartney was quite good, but then it didn't quite do it in every way. After it got knocked I thought... do ju...

MCCARTNEY “McCartney was very funky, down home, just me.” Curiously, when irreconcilable differences finally splintered one of the gre...

COUNTRY ROCK Submitted for your approval (or derisive laughter) is a list of some of the earliest and most influential recordings in this mu...

This is just all shades of awesome.

"Now the first of December was covered with snow So was the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston Though the Berkshires seem dreamlike on...

Two legends having fun with a great tune that isn't sappy or profound. I hope that the "Annual Gift Guy" finds you all well an...

MR TAMBOURINE MAN Purists will go to great lengths to protect an art form from becoming diluted or tainted by the introduction of elements t...

DAMN THE TORPEDOES In "The Hero With a Thousand Faces", Joseph Campbell described apotheosis as the expansion of consciousness th...

Bedtime stories for rock toddlers.

Another sad anniversary is marked today, which needs no explanation. It is hard to believe that twenty-nine years have passed since a very s...

GOODBYE Parting gifts come in varied forms, garnering different reactions from their recipients. When the bearers of said farewell offer...

ARTHUR (or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) "You're gonna find out just how powerful America is, you Limey bastard!!...

Presenting the Rolling Stones on their much documented 1969 US tour. They came, packed venues and laid a somewhat dubious claim to the t...