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Ex “Slims” bassist Rick Gerard dies – RIP (Tribute Video)
Just learned of the passing of bass player Rick Gerard. Great musician. Always had a positive optimistic vibe. Formerly with Virginia And The Slims with Mark Francis White . Amazing musicians. I was the weakest link. Here is a video tribute capturing us at Gazzaries live on a sound board recording. Rick is the dark…
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Indie Albums Time Forgot – Bjork – “Bjork”
Bjork (Bjork) 1977 – Yes, I know. What’s Bjork doing on this list? Well, long before her international success, an 11-year-old Bjork was shuttled into a studio by some Icelandic impresarios (including her step-father). Björk appeared on Icelandic radio singing “I Love to Love” through the music school she attended, which led her to a record deal. She whispered and cooed her way…
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Skid Row’s Hidden Place – The Tempered Plug (At Catrancher Studios)
Authored by Dale Nickey: If you walk down Skid Row in downtown L.A., you will see a desert of despondency and dementia. However, wafting out of the upper floor over the assembled multitude you will hear music. Invisible to all below is an oasis of hope and light called Catrancher Studios; equal parts musical laboratory, performance…
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Before And After Vol. 3 (GENESIS) – Music Makeovers That Made Sense AND Dollars
GENESIS Before (1967-1975) Genesis was a hard working, dues paying member of the Progressive Rock elite league. However, they could not seem to throw the commercial knockout punch that Yes, ELP, and Jethro Tull had been able to deliver. The band’s stock and trade became quirky, phantasmagorical mini-operas, and elaborate stage presentations with multiple costume…
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Lost Treasure – Deborah Gee’s “Portal” reopened….
Reviewed by Dale Nickey: Deborah Gee is an artist who has been around the block. She has been-there-done-that both musically, and existentially. On the solo album Portal (2000) she demonstrates her ability to channel all of what she is and what she’s learned into the grooves. Gee has had brushes with commercial crossover. Her music…
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Exclusive Interview with Deborah Gee
Deborah Gee is having an eventful century. Her critically acclaimed debut solo album “Portal” was released in 2000. After that album ran it’s course, a chance meeting in a coffee house resulted in a liason with her future significant other (ex-Dickies) guitarist Glen Laughlin. Together they birthed a new band, The Cherry Bluestorms. Led by Gee and Laughlin and…
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A Shaman, A True Star (Ballad of Jimmy Townes)
By Dale Nickey: I answered an ad for a Bass Player. Something about spoken word, freeform music and the Grateful Dead. I was 41 years old and thought I had seen it all. I had had decided to reinvent myself as a fretless bass player. I was ready for something different. I called the ad.…
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Debut Albums That Shook My World – (Luka Bloom – “Riverside”)
Luka Bloom (Riverside) – 1990 Irishman Luka Bloom managed to paddle in on the first tidal surge of the New Celtic boom. Two years after Van Morrison And The Chieftains breakthrough album and four years before Riverdance came this unfussy, echo-drenched little gem. The core of the album is Luka’s masculine brogue and his clean hyperactive electro-acoustic strumming. What decoration…
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R & R Hall Of Shame (Spotlight) – Brian Eno
You hear his music every day of your life. Eno composed the six second startup sound for Microsoft. Brian Eno started out in the early 70’s as a sound sculptor and keyboardist for Prog-Glam crossover band Roxy Music. He soon left to carve out his own unique and highly intellectual niche in the rock and…
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Johnny Winter Remembered
Author: Dale Nickey Johnny Winter, was a storm force gail that issued forth from Texas just in the nick of time to bring hard electric blues to the tie dyed Woodstock Nation. He had androgyny, an endless well of virtuosity and blind blues mystique. He was the whole package. To say his passing was a shock would be…
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