What occupations might the Fab Four have taken had they have never formed the Beatles?
Meanwhile, Lord Lennon remains one of the most recognisable figures in British public life, although it is seven years now since he stepped down as an unusually sanctimonious Archbishop of Canterbury (catchphrase: “Nobody is more popular than Jesus”). And Paul [...]
Wasted talent, if the Beatles had never formed that is
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 November, 2009 to the music subset
Rock along the watchtower, a Jimi Hendrix riff voted the best
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 30 November, 2009 to the music subset
Readers of guitar and drum magazine Musicradar.com have voted Jimi Hendrix’s riff in “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” the best guitar riff of all time.
A by-product of the sprawling, bluesier Voodoo Chile from the same album, from its wah-wah intro to the rhythm parts and the astonishing solo, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) is still regarded [...]
Photo: Göreme National Park, Cappadocia, Turkey
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 10 August, 2009 to the snap shots subset
You have go and see the dwellings carved into the chimney like rock outcrops in Cappadocia.
Former doctor supports Jimi Hendrix murder theory
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 21 July, 2009 to the music subset
Former UK doctor John Bannister seems to think claims made in a recently published book written by former Hendrix road manager, James “Tappy” Wright, that the iconic rock guitarist was murdered rather than dying of a drug overdose, are “plausible”.
He said that Wright’s description, in his memoir Rock Roadster, of Hendrix’s demise “sounded plausible because [...]
Smells like keen spirit, is a grunge revival is on the way?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 to the trends subset
If you’re like me and over the perpetual 80s music revivals that seem to roll around every six months, then talk of a grunge revival may literally be music to your ears.
There have been murmurs of a grunge revival for sometime, but Andy Hull of Manchester Orchestra, in a segment during Triple J’s new music [...]
Boy Blue plays the blues, Keith Richards plays a mean guitar
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 7 May, 2009 to the music subset
Who needs a groovy blues stage name when you play guitar like Keith Richards?
It made me sick – my name’s Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written – just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at [...]
All modern music descends from the Rolling Stones: Bob Dylan
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 16 April, 2009 to the music subset
If Bob Dylan says the Rolling Stones are the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, then they truly must be without equal…
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, [...]
Bagged, a bunch of new photos of the Rolling Stones and Beatles
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 2 April, 2009 to the photography subset
A candid collection of 45-year-old photos of the Beatles and Rolling Stones that have apparently been sitting in a bag belonging to a former manager of both groups, since the mid 1960s.
Plenty of “goofing around” poses.
The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary Box Set
Posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 30 December, 2007 to the music subset
The Joshua Tree: 20th Anniversary Box Set.
It’s been 20 years since U2 unleashed this Rock/Pop classic upon us.
Virtually every track, from the building grandeur of Where The Streets Have No Name and the muscular gospel of I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For to the hoarse latitudes of Red Hill Mining Town and the [...]
