As posted on Oasisinet: Dearly beloved, it is with a heavy heart and a sad face that I say this to you this morning. As of last Friday the 28th August, I have been forced to leave the Manchester rock’n’roll pop group Oasis. The details are not important and of too great a number to [...]
Archive for August 2009
Listen Up: Chief Bids Our Kid Adieu
August 29, 2009(IT’S GOOD) TO BE FREE: NOEL QUITS OASIS
August 28, 2009“It’s with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer. “Apologies to all the people who bought tickets for the shows in Paris, Konstanz and Milan.” Well, we can’t [...]
You Never Give Me Your Money…
August 27, 2009But that’s all about to change. Beatle geeks, the time is now. The remasters are 13 days out and so far, the advance word is pretty much everything we could have hoped for. Witness UNCUT: The key word is clarity. Not loudness. Clarity. The voices and instruments are crystal clear, pure, human, natural (except, of [...]
Ellie Greenwich, R.I.P.
August 26, 2009She either wrote or co-wrote “Be My Baby”, “River Deep, Mountain High”, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, “Da Doo Ron Ron”, “I Can Hear Music”, “Hanky Panky”, “Leader Of The Pack”, “Not Too Young To Get Married”, “Do Wah Diddy”, “Chapel Of Love”, “And Then He Kissed Me”… not a bad CV. Click on Ronnie, [...]
Please Don’t Squeeze The Shaman
August 26, 2009Big news on the horizon for those Doors fans like us who really aren’t interested in anything after Strange Days: Bright Midnight, the band’s own archival label, finally acquired the first generation tapes of two shows at San Francisco’s Matrix club in March of ’67. To put things in context here, the Doors’ first album [...]
Play It, James
August 21, 2009Happy 70th to Mr. James Burton, Guitar God. You may know James’ “chicken pickin’” style from Elvis’ TCB band, or maybe as Ricky Nelson’s right hand man. Or from Dale Hawkins’ “Suzie Q”, the riff for which he came up with when he was 16. Or possibly from the guitar solo on the Monkees’ “Papa [...]
