Last night, Bruce Springsteen headlined Day 2 of the Glastonbury Festival, in large part due to the above Joe Strummer-penned fax. Sure, the fax is 15 years old and was written by a guy who’s been gone for half that time, but the important thing is that this missive was used by Glasto organizer Emily [...]
Archive for June 2009
From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
June 28, 2009Michael Jackson, 1958-2009
June 25, 2009You Take Your Choice At This Time – The 1966 Battle Royale: Round One, 26-50
June 23, 2009Onward and upward… A Side: “Hanky Panky”, Tommy James & The Shondells – A frat rock nugget originally recorded in ’63 that sank without a trace, only to be resurrected by a Pittsburgh DJ two years later and given a new lease on the charts. It hit #1 for two weeks in July of ’66. [...]
“Y’all the ‘love crowd’, right?”
June 18, 2009On this, the 42nd anniversary of the Monterey International Pop Festival (the only music festival worth remembering), let us enjoy every damn second of Otis Redding’s set: “Shake” & “Respect” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” & “Satisfaction” “Try A Little Tenderness”
Oop-ip-ip, oop-ip-ip, yeah! The 1966 Battle Royale: Round One, 1-25
June 17, 2009A Side: “Eight Miles High”, The Byrds – And we kick things off with what is easily a Top 10 contender. The best song about jet lag featuring a Coltrane-inspired 12-string Rickenbacker solo ever recorded. Bonus points for the Small Faces nod. B Side: “Standing In The Shadows Of Love”, The Four Tops – Levi [...]
My Mind’s Eye: Small Faces coming to your DVD player soon
June 16, 2009It’s all too beautiful, indeed! This fall, Reelin’ In The Years Productions will be releasing a compilation of the moddest of all mod bands, the Small Faces. Featuring new interviews with Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones and vintage sit-downs with the late Mssrs. Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane, tons of vintage ’66-’68 footage from Beat [...]
