I’d forgotten just how big 38 Special was during the 1980s, but their hit-packed set at Lincoln’s Thunder Valley Casino quickly remedied that. From opener “Rockin’ Into the Night” through encore “Hold […]
38 Special, Lincoln California, 08/09/14
52. Devil’s In the House of the Rising Sundae
Highway 11 was the back fence of my small world, the northernmost boundary of my known universe. It wasn’t much to look at — a black two-laner bordered by peach orchards, pine […]
Deep Cuts: Ten Songs To Hate School By
Songs about school date back to the beginning of rock and roll. Throughout the Fifties and Sixties they focused on just how keen and swell school is, and then Alice Cooper happened. […]
Deep Cuts: Intro to WockaWoll Guitar
Back in the meedly-meedly-meedly ’80s when speed was the name of the game, a guitarist friend of mine said to me: “Nobody at a party will ask you how many notes you […]
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