MY GENERATION (part I)
Recently, I joined a discussion group (one of those Yahoo! things) from the great UK site, My Generation. If there’s ever a Xanadu for rockers like me (steeped in the Sixties, lost in the millenium), it’s that one.Some of the people I’m sharing with (when I have time) are from the groups [...]

CUSSED-AT CASSETTE GIVES IN TO SEEDY CDBeen doing a bit of CHRISTMAS shopping (take THAT, naysayers!) at the local Saks/Proffitt’s/Belk here in town (pity the poor identity crisis that store has!), and couldn’t help noticing that everything’s “CD” now … no “cassette” players in sight! They have small disc players, portables — even a large [...]

THE LLOYD THAXTON SHOW. Man, when I knew that program was coming on (I believe) my hometown’s Channel 9, I’d sneak into the bedroom (where my folks had a second — much smaller — TV) about twenty minutes ahead-of-time just so I could “lay claim” to the set (we had a rule in the Hinson [...]

Somebody in Virginia tuned in to this blog and wrote, asking me to make the font a bit bigger. Easier said than done, though … seems the powers-that-be at the big “B” won’t let me get it beyond what it is now! (Huh?? Yep, I tried the font-size window. No luck. So, just [...]

25 years ago, we lost a legend who was, arguably, the greatest song-poet and activist this side of Dylan … a man who, with three other talented lads, was part of the group that changed rock-and-roll (if not music in general) forever. John Lennon didn’t die of drug overdose, alcohol ingestion, motor accident or even [...]

Lemme kick this off by throwing one of my OWN on the turntable: While being heavily influenced by Gene Vincent and the Bluecaps (“Who Slapped John?” being the first actual R&R record I heard that clicked), Buddy Holly (“Not Fade Away” — who could deny that beat?), the Beatles, Raiders and strong coffee, I [...]