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- Home Grown Art Exhibit At Texas State UniversityFather’s Day June of 2015 I went to visit my daughter and son-in-law in San Marcos, Texas. She had a great plan for my special day. First a visit to a special exhibit of Rock n Roll concert posters of the 60,s, 70’s and 80’s, th...
- Update for the Post about Moby Grape’s debut LP featuring “The Finger” album coverThis is an update to the blog I wrote on Moby Grape‘s debut LP. I finally obtained a “Mono” copy of the album with Don Stevenson giving the”The Finger” still intact on the cover! I picked this copy up at a brand new...
- Rare and Cool 45 rpm from 1962…I have a friend named Dave. He owns a business called “College Hunks Hauling Junk”. When Dave finds records in the junk he hauls off, he brings them to me. My wife calls him my “Dealer”. Recently Dave came to a party...
- What’s big and purple and lives in the ocean?…Moby Grape: the greatest band that never was…What’s big and purple and lives in the Ocean? Moby Grape of course. The joke is as old as the hills, but it is literally where the band got it’s name. The same year (1967) that the band “Touch” was making their eponymo...
- Update to blog from 10/29/2011 Spirit is sueing Led Zeppelin over “Stairway to Heaven”!When I first wrote about the question of Led Zeppelin ripping off Spirit’s song “Taurus” as the basis for “Stairway to Heaven”, I got a number of very heated comments. The opinions split right down the middle of pro an...
- Update for the Touch BlogSo I go to my Vinyl Preservation Society of North Texas meeting last month and my friend Vince is there. He commented that he had read my blog on the group and eponymously titled album “Touch” and he brought something to show me. ...
- What does “Louie Louie” have to do with the Birth of Progressive Rock? The Album “Touch”on Apr 19, 2014 in LP Records Rock MusicWhen the song “Louie Louie” opens, you hear a keyboard riff that is easily one of the most famous and influential musical ideas of all time. A fifteen year old kid named Don Gallucci created that keyboard riff. A billion songs have used t...
- Homage to Lou Reed “Sally Can’t Dance…”Lou Reed died October 27th, 2013 at the age of 71, in Southampton, New York. He died of complications of a liver transplant. An Icon of rock history, he left music a totally different place than the landscape that existed before his career began&...
- McCartney Rocks Austin for the first time… I have had the privilege to see Paul McCartney 3 times. So when my friend Jim, who lives in Austin, called to invite me to see Paul in Austin, I almost declined the offer. Boy am I glad I didn’t. I witnessed history. Witnessing history i...
- After 50 years, Clapton is still god… Eric Clapton‘s 50th anniversary tour came through Dallas, Texas March 19th at the American Airlines Center. This tour is not getting the publicity of The Rolling Stones 50th anniversary tour, and it seems typical of Clapton to not toot his ow...
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