Liberal England (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
As well as being Britain's coolest actor for a short while in the 1960s (thanks to Blowup ), David Hemmings could sing. As a boy he played Miles in the original production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw and in 1967, at the height of his acting fame, he recorded an LP while he was in Hollywood making Camelot . In his memoirs Hemmings is dismissive of the whole project: The angel purity of my childhood...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
This is why the interweb is great. In the Stars You Once Fancied thread Sheev posted a YouTube montage of Gillian Blake, containing the fantastic David Cassidy tune Cherish . This prompted a bit of a Partridge Family meandering on Spotify and Wikipedia. I have re-discovered how many great pop songs they released. Some may scoff, but considering the music was largely the work of The Wrecking Crew it's...
The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In his Ash Grove recording, guitarist Dave Alvin laments the loss of a favorite Los Angeles club, a venue that should be on the National Register of Historic Places. It would have to be in an urn, however, the club burned not once, but three times. Ed Pearl (an uncle of Spirit's Randy California) founded the 250-seat Ash Grove in 1958.
Houston's Clear Thinkers (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Andrew Ferguson is not impressed with Bob Dylan or his new Christmas CD: The production and packaging are professional. The band is competent in a midnight-at-the-Nashville Hyatt sort of way--maybe a little heavy on the tremolo but still. And...
PowerPop (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From 1966, please enjoy The Byrds and "2-4-2 Foxtrot (The Lear Jet Song)," the (let's be frank) concluding throwaway track from Fifth Dimension (my personal fave of their albums nonetheless). Roger McGuinn (still Jim, at that point) actually taped the sound of a Lear jet on the runaway for the track, and over the years it's apparently been a source of some irritation to him that most people...
Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Download for $12.98. Listen to The Byrds performed at Concertgebouw on May 15, 1971
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Filed under: News , Exclusive While David Crosby continues to plead unsuccessfully for a Byrds reunion, the band's former frontman Roger McGuinn tells Spinner he didn't want to be in a band with Crosby in the first place. McGuinn first met Crosby back in 1960, showed Crosby a few chords on guitar and, as the two became friends, even had dinner with Crosby and his mother in Santa Barbara. But the idea...
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Like many, I've been getting back into The Beatles in a big way since the release of their remastered catalog last month. I've been picking up their masterpieces one at a time and the first one I got, REVOLVER , did not disappoint. With an absoultely mind-boggling range of genius songs including "Taxman," "Eleanor Rigby," "Yellow Submarine," "Got to Get You Into My...
Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Roger McGuinn (co-founder of The Byrds) visited our offices in Seattle yesterday to meet the audio engineering team. Roger has been a fan of Audition going back to the Cool Edit days and has also worked closely with our team as a beta user over the years. It was great fun for our team to have a music legend in our midst. Roger is currently on tour in the Pacific Northwest, which is what brought him...
17 SECONDS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Orange Juice -’You Can’t hide Your Love Forever.’ (Polydor, 1982) I had heard of Edwyn Collins before 1994, I’m guessing, but ‘A Girl Like You’ was what got me into him and soundtracked the greatest summer of my life, in 1995.* As time went on, though, I felt the urge to investigate his back catalogue and [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Filed under: News , Exclusive Metallica might not have faced a well-publicized fan backlash had the band listened to former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn . When Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was set to testify before Congress against file sharing back in 2000, McGuinn tells Spinner that he tried to convince Ulrich that downloads were the future. "I talked to Lars, but he didn't seem to get it,"...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
"Ar" wants to know who they are. When I was young I studied guitar for seven years (multiple styles), so it's an area I've long had an interest in. I was never very good but I learned a lot about...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
A fine new documentary, *Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound* was broadcast on PBS a few days ago. This documentary marks the 50th anniversary of her...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for...
Show Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Oct. 11 - 17 in PDF format This week's TV Movies JEALOUSY: Rachel (Lea Michele, left) and Finn (Cory Monteith) chat in class, upsetting Quinn (Dianna Agron) on 'Glee,' at...
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