I remember I was fifteen years old in my bedroom reading Rolling Stone magazine (I thought I was so cool . . . ha!) and I saw this ad for a new record called Tubular Bells. I was a precocious…
Yearly Archives: 2022
‘It Tolls For Thee” . . . : Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells
Tagged with: Mike Oldfield, Prog Rock, Progressive Rock, Tubular Bells
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Crazy Fingers” . . . : Grateful Dead on Classical Guitar
I’ve been listening to a lot of classical guitar these past few months. Mostly Bach, some Vivaldi but I’ll leave that for another post. Anyway, given my listening habits I guess that it was inevitable that the Great YouTube Algorithm…
Tagged with: Classical Guitar, Damia Timoner, Grateful Dead
Posted in Classic Rock, Classical, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Classical, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Ease My Worried Mind” . . : The Sad Tale Of Jim Gordon
Rock music has more than it’s share of weird and tragic stories but this one is one it’s weirder and more tragic ones. At one time, Jim Gordon was one of rock music’s most admired and in demand drummers. During…
“I’m Just Trying To Break Your Heart” . . : Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Teaches You To Write One Song
“If you want to think of yourself as a songwriter, write songs.” – Jeff Tweedy For a long time I would read about the band Wilco (and it’s predecessor, Uncle Tupalo) but never really listened to them. That changed when…
Tagged with: How To Write One Song, Jeff Tweedy, Songwriting, Wilco
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Music Appreciation and Analysis
ManRoy Music 