And I don’t mean the band Journey recently inducted into the supposed Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. God knows what those clowns think when they make their choices but when I look at the possible choices they could have made besides those guys… well, I won’t go there. Let me just say that I understand when people are upset when I make such statements because they have a soundtrack to their lives as well, but this isn’t their column, is it? I look at it this way— Journey had hits, yes, and made CBS one hell of a lot of money, but they didn’t have an original bone in all of their collective bodies and you will never change my mind. Hall of Fame? Not even close. Not while the hundreds more deserving are locked out. Change that to thousands.
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Frank Gutch Jr: A Journey and the Soundtrack to my Life; Angharad Drake’s New Album; The Big Bright In the Studio; Plus Notes…
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags Alternate Root Magazine, Angharad Drake, Beth Ditto, Beth Garner, Blue Sky Boys, David Gogo, DBAWIS, Don & The Goodtimes, Don't Believe a Word I Say, fotheringay, Frank Gutch Jr., House of Records, Indie Artists, Indie Music, Jesse Ed Davis, John K. Samson, Journey, Larry Coryell, Leonard Bernstein, Mario Lanza, music, music videos, radio, Records, Red Foley, Road Runners, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Sandy Denny, segarini, Six Fat Dutchmen, Sweet Home Oregon, T. Texas Tyler, The Big Bright, The Live Five, The Moguls, The Record Company, Victory At Sea, Wes Swing on April 19, 2017 by segariniFrank Gutch Jr: Life at 45 RPM… My Life as a Vinyl Addict; Plus Copious Notes
Posted in Opinion with tags Alistair Hulett, bill jackson, Blue Sky Boys, Crash Vegas, cream, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Earthquake, Frank Gutch Jr., Indie Artists, Indie Music, Javier Escovedo, Jethro Tull, Jim Basnight, Kate Burke, Melissa Payne, mick abrahams, Moon Dial, music, Music Radio, music videos, Norrish Reaction, Paul Hood, Paul Revere & The Raiders, radio, Ransom & The Subset, Records, Ruth Hazleton, segarini, Seventh Fire Records, Spirit, Susannah Espie, The Meyce, The Moberlys, The OF, The Zeros, Tom Griswold on July 14, 2015 by segariniI am a vinyl addict. The gateway drug was radio. When it was riding the crest of the wave before TV came along and kicked it to the curb that wasn’t there. Before TV which a lot of people thought would be the death of radio, a format already writhing in pain. You could only get so big and radio was gargantuan— a seething mass of gelatinous goo— an 800 pound gorilla. By the time I came along, everyone had a radio.