Author: Jim Stalker

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

When the bong smoke cleared and rock fans soberly looked back at the 1970’s, many scratch their heads and wonder (to paraphrase the classic Deadhead joke)  “what the F was I listening to!”  Time in fact has not been kind to many of the era’s mega-sellers and live music draws that were labeled “progressive.” Progressive…

Band on the Run – Re-Release

For old fogies like me, we remember Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run as the first “proper” album from the ex-Beatle. His previous records, either by himself or with Wings, certainly had a moment or two apiece but for Beatle fans, they seemed like aimless noodling. Except for “Maybe I’m Amazed” and the opening of  “Uncle Albert” – nothing suggested…

Academy Awards 2011

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…

Grammy – 2011

The music industry is a complete mess. Illegal downloads continue to eclipse legal ones and most artists recordings are Trojan horses for live shows. These tours, especially the arena ones, are now the money train of the music business. According to Pollstar veteran rockers mostly rule this concert scene – many of them not even bothering to…