By Pat Metheny I met Mick in the summer of 1973. Along with Gary Burton, we were both on the teaching staff at a summer jazz camp in Normal, IL. Mick and […]
RIP MICK GOODRICK
Music in Nazi Germany – The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz
Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide […]
I AM COMING TO GERMANY!
By Roger Waters Dear German fans, I’ve heard there is a rumor going round that I may not be coming to Germany on my European tour, because of opposition from the Israeli […]
“Economics doesn’t matter, only values”
By Tom Fowdy, Oxford University It is worth remembering that in both World War I and World II one of the biggest long term factors contributing to Germany’s defeat was the fact […]
THE LAST WALTZ BLUES JAM
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 […]
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 […]
The Ten Best Films of All Time
By Paul Schrader I’ve participated in the Sight and Sound ten best list since my critic days in the early 70’s. Every decade the list mutates (and dilutes as the list of […]
Left to their own devices they will kill us all
By Roger Waters 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, 𝟔 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝟖 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰. I figured something out […]
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 […]
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