Misfits come in all shapes and sizes, at least Alton Ellis did. He was 6’4″ easy, though his clothes were 5’8″. He had a huge pimply nose in the middle of a […]
63. The Alton Ellis Incident
From the Stacks: The Leaning Tower Of Bowie
…or an obsession viewed in the sunlight.
62. Turn and Face the Strange
David Bowie ended the 1970s in April 1983 — drove a stake through their Angel Flight hearts like some sort of dance friendly Van Helsing. Let’s Dance wasn’t Bowie’s first album in […]
(Really) Deep Cuts: Classic Rock
An alert reader and good friend I’ll never meet brought up classic rock radio recently. I’m paraphrasing here, but he mentioned that in the good old days of radio — say, 2005, for […]
On My Turntable: Quadrophenia: The Director’s Cut
Oh, the dreaded reissue, the pricey box set. I’m a sucker for these things — always have been. As a kid I had to have KISS’s The Originals, though that collection was no […]
Deep Brushstrokes: Musician-Painters
In rambling about The Beatles’ White Album I mentioned something along the lines of the band at that point being three great artists and Ringo off in separate corners making art. Coincidentally, […]
50. The Punk and the Godfather (Why It Matters Revisited)
This is the big number fifty in my ongoing narrative, not including the many sidebars and asides. This seems like a good of a time as any for a sanity check. I […]
Deep Cuts: Weird Television Musical Appearances
Music television predates MTV — it even predates the Ed Sullivan Show — and as a kid I would watch any show with a special guest appearance. From Bobby Sherman on The […]
Deep Cuts: Library Rock, J-R
Are you all progged out from letters A through I? Let’s see what J-R holds. Here’s more music based on literary works:
Deep Cuts: The Greatest Bowie Song You’ve Never Heard
I’ve moaned a few times about how the great artists of the Sixties and Seventies struggled during the Keyboard Eighties. The great David Bowie is no exception, his worst crimes against humanity being […]
