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Rare Birds – Top Five Pioneers of “Rock Violin”….# 1
Eddie Jobson (Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, Frank Zappa, YES, UK, King Crimson, Curved Air) Click here for #’s 2 3 4 5 If Mozart were reincarnated as a rock musician he would most likely come back as Eddie Jobson. Like Mozart, Jobson was precociously talented on both keyboards and violin from an early age. He was the featured soloist at the age…
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Rare Birds – Top Five Pioneers of “Rock Violin” …# 2
Number 2… David Swarbrick – Fairport Convention click here for #’s 3 4 5 David LaFlamme was America’s electric violin pioneer during the late sixties. In Britain, it was David Swarbrick. ‘Swarb’ was already folk royalty in Britain when the call came to join Fairport Convention in their desperate attempt to retool and recover after a road accident…
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Rare Birds – Top Five Pioneers of “Rock Violin”….# 3
Novi Novog – Studio and stage virtuoso Recording Credits: Prince/Michael Jackson/Ronnie Montrose/Frank Zappa/Carly Simon/Bonnie Raitt/ Jennifer Warnes/Spinal Tap/Terrance Trent D’arby/James Taylor…..(too many others to list) Yes, she plays Viola not Violin. Her work is part of the soundtrack of our lives. The peppy string work on Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” is Novi; as is the down-homey fiddle work on the Doobie Brothers “Blackwater”. Novi not…
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Rare Birds – Top Five Pioneers of “Rock Violin”….# 4
Number 4……. Jerry Goodman – The Mahavishnu Orchestra With his buffed physique, aggressive attack and lightning speed; Goodman was among the first electric violinists to bring real rock attitude and volume to an instrument more associated with delicacy and nuance. I saw him stand on stage and slug it out for two hours with John McLaughlin, Billy…
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Rare Birds- Top Five Pioneers of “Rock Violin”….. # 5
NUMBER ……5 David LaFlamme – It’s A Beautiful Day Epic Track – “White Bird” David LaFlamme was born to a Mormon mother and was a classically trained violinist. He formed the band “It’s A Beautiful Day” with his wife Linda LaFlamme. They were contemporaries of Santana, Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead during the 1960’s “Summer…
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The Pathetic Prog Time Capsule – (Concert Review) YES In Oakland – 9/22/77
Authored by: Dale Nickey What a lovely time to be alive. Chill autumn night by the bay in the year 1977. We’re driving across the Berkeley/Richmond Bridge to see Yes perform at the Oakland Arena. Oh, to be in one’s early 20’s, a musician and with the lady you love. As we enter the arena…
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Spirit mainstay Ed Cassidy dead at 89
Ed Cassidy was a one off. Probably the oddest candidate for Rock stardom ever minted. Cassidy came to the party late in life but made the most of his visit and had remarkable staying power. Cassidy is most famous as the bald drummer in the legendary 60’s rock band Spirit. Cassidy formed Spirit in 1967…
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Hits about “hits”…..Killer tracks that went TOP 10
Authored by Dale Nickey: In Hip Hop culture, songs about killing and murder are plentiful and omnipresent; so they will not be found on this list. However, the act of couching musical mayhem in a three-minute Pop music confection is truly subversive. Making it to mainstream radio and the TOP 10 chart is pure genius…
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They’re Ooky and They’re Spooky – “Matmos” The Addams Family of Rock
Authored by Dale Nickey: It’s the pioneers who make life interesting for the rest of us. Back in the 60’s scientists advised us of all the practical technological goodies we would enjoy as a perk pursuant to our space program. Lazers, computers, and tele-communications innovations for the masses would make the billions spent worthwhile. Many thought it was…
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Before and After – Music Makeovers That Made Sense AND Dollars….Volume 1 (T.Rex)
BEFORE: Tyrannosaurus Rex (1967-1969): MUSIC: Tolkienesque’ Acoustic Acid Folk Marc Bolan took an acoustic guitar, bongo player Steve Took, and made four very eclectic albums of odd ball waif-folk. Mythology, magic, and gnomes were the subject matter. The world remained unimpressed. Without a course correction, Tyrannosaurs Rex was headed for the same Acid-Folk purgatory as…
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