real gone music Archive
28 May 2014
Album Review: The Grass Roots — The Complete Original Dunhill/ABC Hit Singles
It’s common knowledge that many rock and pop groups of the 1960s sat on the sidelines while seasoned studio musicians (see: The Wrecking Crew) played on the songs credited to […]
12 May 2014
Album Review: The Mamas & The Papas – A Gathering of Flowers
By my rough count, there have been more than twenty – yes, twenty – compilations attempting to distill the catalog of The Mamas & The Papas down to a disc […]
29 Apr 2014
Album Review: David Ruffin – My Whole World Ended / Feelin’ Good
Sure, everybody knows The Temptations, and their many hits, including “My Girl,” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” both featuring lead vocals of David Ruffin. But fewer – especially those […]
28 Apr 2014
Album Review: Blood Sweat & Tears – The Complete Columbia Singles
For some years there, BS&T was a true hitmaking juggernaut. And a lot of their music was – for whatever reason – the kind of thing that your parents might […]
07 Apr 2014
Album Review: Tower of Power — Hipper Than Hip
For quite a number of years – primarily the mid 90s to around 2006 – I was immersed in a consuming hobby of sorts: I collected and traded bootlegs […]
04 Mar 2014
Hundred-word Reviews: Reissues
Those CDs continue to pile up here at Musoscribe World Headquarters. And even after I cull the unsolicited or semi-solicited ones that don’t make the cut for coverage, I still […]
28 Feb 2014
A Conversation with The Tubes’ Founder Bill Spooner, Part Five
Continued from Part Four… “We’re waiting for an investor. Maybe it’s you.” Bill Kopp: I remember something from a little later in The Tubes’ career, from The Completion Backwards Principle […]
27 Feb 2014
A Conversation with The Tubes’ Founder Bill Spooner, Part Four
Continued from Part Three… “No one would get my wheelchair.” Bill Kopp: We’re talking about the songs on The Tubes‘ 1977 album Now, and whatever comes to your mind about […]
26 Feb 2014
A Conversation with The Tubes’ Founder Bill Spooner, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… “If I get you guitar lessons, will you stop playing that?” Bill Kopp: Let’s talk about the Now album from 1977. Bill Spooner: What do you […]
25 Feb 2014
A Conversation with The Tubes’ Founder Bill Spooner, Part Two
Continued from Part One… “Can’t you control your bitches?” Bill Kopp: If you don’t mind, I’d like to run down the track lists of the Young and Rich and Now […]