Author Archive
30 Dec 2009
Juke Joint: Hookers, Batwings, Pigs’ Feet and Hair Tonic
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29 Dec 2009
Review: Paul McCartney – Good Evening New York City
At age 67, Paul McCartney has nothing to prove. As the world’s most successful songwriter, with a vast back catalog of Beatles, Wings and solo albums, he could easily (a) […]
24 Dec 2009
Essay: “My Brilliant Non-career” part 4
On the group’s 2004 full-length album release, Sun Greets the Dawn, I used the Roland RD-300s for piano sounds; the Emu Vintage Keys for Farfisa, Mellotron strings, Vox Continental, Hammond […]
23 Dec 2009
Essay: “My Brilliant Non-career” Part 3
ANYway, I digress. So I bought this thing, more or less expecting it to arrive and require a few hours of plug-and-play assembly. What I found instead was an “unstuffed” […]
22 Dec 2009
Essay: “My Brilliant Non-career” Part 2
The Poly 800 had lots of sounds, was relatively easy to reprogram with different sounds, allowed saving of the sounds, and weighed about 15 pounds. It had pegs at either […]
21 Dec 2009
Essay: “My Brilliant Non-career” Part 1
When I was little my parents had this toy of a keyboard called a Magnus Chord Organ. Most 1960s homes seemed to have one. It was a two-and-a-half-octave affair, with […]
18 Dec 2009
Musoscribe’s Best of 2009
2009 shaped up to be a great year for pop music, if not for the music business. In no particular order — here are my choices for the Best of […]
17 Dec 2009
Interview: Jamie & Steve (Jamie Hoover & Steve Stoeckel)
Formed in Charlotte NC in the early 1980s, the Spongetones have long charted a rather unique path in pop music. Beginning with their debut LP (1982’s Beat Music), the quartet […]
16 Dec 2009
Album Review: King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King (40th Anniversary Series)
There was little precedent for the music on King Crimson‘s 1969 debut album. Titled In the Court of the Crimson King — An Observation by King Crimson, the album gave […]
15 Dec 2009
Book Review: Bomp 2 – Born in the Garage
The printed fanzine phenomenon was the precursor of today’s blog. While the form got its beginning covering science fiction, by 1970 one of the medium’s most (ultimately) influential outlets was […]