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On This Day – Max Sued
On this day in 1970 Max Yasgur who owned the farm where Woodstock was sued by neighbours for damages caused by the rampaging hippies. The suits either totaled $25,000 0r $35,000. Eventually, they were settled. The finances of ‘Woodstock Ventures’ are a bit murky but it seems that although it was planned as a profit […]
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Tagged as: beatles, bob dylan, classic rock music, doors, john lennon, Keef Hartley, live music, moody blues, On This Day, rock and blues
On This Day – Stones Bombed!
During he Exile on Main Street tour There was the usual madness, Forged tickets, riots, ticket-less fans trying to get in to venues (2000 in Detroit), drug arrests, the band being unable to book hotel rooms to their standard in Chicago (OK they did decamp to Hugh Hefner’s place, which ain’t too shabby a hang […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, live music, musical instruments, On This Day, real rock and blues, rolling stones
High Heels, Legwarmers, Bikini Pants – Yes Its Prince.
On this day in 1984 the person that used to like to be known as an artist who once had a name before going a bit strange released a successful album. Purple Rain was the first album that acknowledged the band and called them the Revolution and supported the film. Why the band was acknowledged […]
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Tagged as: live music, love rock music, On This Day
Rolling Stones At Hyde Park 6th July.2013
We went to see the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park. There is always a bit of trepidation when you see a band that you love and admire. Will they be as good as you remember? How will time have affected them? Will it seem as if they are only there for the money and are […]
The Best Band You Never Heard 1
Over the last couple of weeks I have been two stonkingly good gigs. Both by the same duo Akoustic Soul. Now, I know them, but that does not mean that I am biased. I know some of the other local bands but they will not feature in this series. Akoustic Soul Are; Andrew Wilson (guitars) […]
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Tagged as: akoustic soul, live music, love rock music, new bands, rock and blues
Small Faces Reunion (well, some of them anyway).
The Small Faces will reunite to play the Vintage Festival (Goodwood August 13th). There are likely to be more dates and a tour announced in the near future. Trouble is, it isn’t really The faces. It’s Some of them. Rod Stewart will not be there (too busy) he is going to be replaced by Mick […]
Posted in Rants, Uncategorized
Tagged as: classic rock music, faces, glenn matlock, live music, mick hucknall, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rod stewart, ronnie laine, ronnie wood, small faces
Champion Jack Dupree
All things are connected, sort of. Yesterday I wrote about Keef Hartley because I had lost a post about him due to a problem with wordpress (too boring to explain fully, just stay with this). So last night I picked up Keef Hartley’s book Halfbreed opened it at random and started reading about Keef recording […]
Posted in Blues
Tagged as: blues music, champion Jack Dupree, live music, real rock and blues
Commercial Radio Stations the End of Civilisation?
This is not as stupid a question as it first appears. At least, not if you think that music is important. I believe that music is one of the foundations of society. It predated written communication and probably the spoken word. Rhythm and melody is with us before we are born. Babies in the womb […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, live music, love rock music, real rock and blues, rock music