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For many, the Who died when the wildest of rock and roll drummers, Keith Moon, died in 1978. Moon has proven to be irreplaceable, and the Kenny Jones/Warner Brothers period of the Who which followed, with the exception of Eminence Front and Another Tricky Day, is mostly forgettable. Rock’s most articulate talking head, windmill armed…

The 83rd annual Academy Awards, will be broadcast on ABC next Sunday with hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Who are they you ask? Well, one is PhD student who is nominated for best actor playing a mountain biker who cuts off his own arm and the other was the heterosexual in Brokeback Mountain (in just one…

It Might Get Loud is a documentary chronicling a “summit” between guitarists The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (White Stripes). In a warehouse they chat about their pasts, development as guitarists, while sharing some of their classic riffs between them. Remote locations with each guitarist are also included in order to…

I am one of those people that love concert DVD’s. If I have guests over I love having them rather than standard CD’s providing the background music. Concert DVD’s, by offering unfamiliar takes on popular songs, showing artists in performance, can be a catalyst to great conversations about music. Now that many concert DVD’s are…

Beatles Rock Band – A Review   I hate to admit, but I was one of those idiots who pre-ordered the Beatles Rock Band so I would have it the first day. Not sure what the real urgency was, but apparently, about 700,000 others made a similar decision to be sure they added this much-ballyhooed…

“Rock and Roll’s Finest Night!” So said Little Steven in his incredibly eloquent “power of rock and roll” prelude to his induction speech for the Hollies. The head scarf wearing former Soprano Steve Van Zandt continued, “The Grammy’s? Nice people, nice show, but they go f*** themselves!” He was right. If you want a real…