By Bob Margolin The more blues-driven musicians commandeered the instruments at the jam, and played some old favorite songs together, mostly Robert Johnson’s. This sounds like a common scene at open-mic jams […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
Miles Davis by Erin Davis
People think of my dad as the prince of darkness (the name of his 1967 album), a moody performer who turned his back on the audience out of disregard for them. That […]
Robbery at the Drake Hotel
By Jimmy Page On this day in 1973, Led Zeppelin played the last night of Madison Square Garden in New York. This was the final night of our American tour and here […]
It Sounded Like a Good Idea!
The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood Explains how he and Keith Richards wound up playing with Dylan at Live Aid ’85(Thanks to David Perkin / New York Rocks for this one) “In New […]
Rediscovering a 1993 Keith Jarrett album
This album of compositions by Keith Jarrett incorporates Elegy for Violin and String Orchestra, Adagio for Oboe and String Orchestra, Sonata for Violin and Piano and Bridge Of Light, for viola and […]
The origins of the band name The Leather Nun
By Jonas Almquist On and off we get questions on the origins of band name The Leather Nun. Myth busting is fun and quite OK after 40 yrs. Pointing in the direction […]
Photo Essay: David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto recording ‘Secrets of the Beehive’
Secrets of the Beehive recording sessions at Miraval studio, south of France, 1986.Photos © Yuka Fujii.
David Sylvian – Brilliant Trees Sessions in Berlin 1983 (Raw Camera Footage)
By David Sylvian This raw footage shot on, what’s now seen as a primitive camera but which was a top of the line consumer product at the time, a massive, unwieldily object, […]
A Special New Year’s Eve with John & Yoko
“Club Dakota” by Elliot Mintz about spending New Year’s Eve with John and Yoko: “We spent one New Year’s Eve together in front of a giant Wurlitzer jukebox Elton John had given […]
Remembering Janice Long
By Elvis Costello It was with a shudder of sadness that I woke on St. Stephen’s Day to news of the passing of the broadcaster, Janice Long. Janice and I were approximately […]
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