COME ON DOWN (to my boat)

It was one of those fun songs of 1967 … one that had a great rhythm, accented by a riveting backbeat and lyrics you just hadta sing to!
Come On Down (To My Boat) by Every Mother’s Son was an instant hit, and a great repreive from the anti-war blues that had everybody down. Singers/creators Dennis [...]

SHAKIN’ ALL OVER

The Who. Led Zeppelin. Eric Clapton. The Fratellis. Phil Spector. Mike Roberts … they all have one thing that links them together: A three-man group from the Soho district of London, The Pirates. Though they weren’t Top 40 here in the US — even during their heyday, when [...]

Motown Lives!

Brothers and Sisters, Motown lives again!Okay … maybe not the Motown, per se; but, if ya dig the classic soul and funk of Otis, Wilson, Aretha and other giants, you’ve gotta tune in to Ryan Shaw!
This 26-year-old from Decatur, Georgia brings back the passion of the Soul Era’s golden age amd sets it up [...]

New McCartney CD Set for Release

As some of you know, Sir Paul McCartney has a new CD coming out in June, and the buzz is that it’s gonna be his best yet. But the big news is that the first release scheduled from Memory Almost Full, entitled PIZZA AND FAIRYTALES, is inspired by a bitter feud with JOHN LENNON, [...]

Are The Stones About To Crumble?

It’s a question that rock pundits are beginning to ask … are the Rolling Stones ready to crumble?? These guys (well, two of ‘em, anyway) have been on the scene since the earliest John Mayall days (about ‘62), when Dick Taylor (later of The Pretty Things) was in the group. After Brian was evicted [...]

New Group Renews The Rock We Knew …

Tired of tribute, flashback and cover bands of the Sixties? Wanna hear rock-and-roll as it was meant to be? Up to now, if we wanted to hear the “real deal,” we’d haveta search out the (relatively) few original bands that are still together … and hope that, forty years after-the-fact, they still sound [...]

The Musical Miller Brewery

Okay … from some of the mail I’ve gotten, folks don’t quite buy the story I told about Elva Miller, the swingin’ senior singer from Sausalito (actually, from Claremont, but it didn’t fit into the saying …). Soooo, now ya got proof!They called her the “Beatles butcher” after her horrendous rendering of “A Hard [...]

NEVER TOO OLD TO ROCK …

It’s the title of a Rick Springfield song that seems to become more and more appropriate as we get older. But, man, I’ve run across an article that defines that to the letter! Read on …
Better yet, click on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6549333.stm for the word. A group of old ladi … er, senior citizens … [...]

Barbarians … and other things

Listen … before we begin, let’s take a moment to reflect on what just happened down there in Blacksburg, VA, okay? The Relic’s got some primo friends and contacts smack dab in the middle of VT, and, while they’re okay, they’re obviously shaken up by the massacre that happened just two buildings down from [...]

IMPROV-ABILITY

As most of you know by now, one of my favorite shows is Whose Line Is It, Anyway? (American version). Yeah, I know it’s in syndication and picked up by ABC Family, but it’s one of the liveliest, most flat-out enjoyable shows on TV.Now, you may be wondering: What does that haveta do [...]