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Take Five: Pre-fame Jimi Hendrix

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair took place 53 years ago this August. A list of the festival’s highlights could fill volumes; chief among them was Jimi Hendrix’s incendiary reading […]

30 Days Out, June 2022 #2: George Clinton, Imij of Soul, Vision Video, Pinkest Floyd

Two tribute bands helping audiences relive the old days in style, one giant of funk, and a new band applying a modern spin to a beloved subgenre. Those are the […]

A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part Two

Continued from Part One … Bill Kopp: The term “supergroup” was just coming into use around the time ELP got started. And it certainly applied to you three, since each […]

Album Mini-review: Jimi Hendrix — Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival

File Next to: Cream, Buddy Guy By the time of this historic July 4, 1970 concert – in front of his largest-ever American audience – Hendrix had broken up the […]

Album Review: Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys — The Street Giveth…and the Street Taketh Away

When it comes to James Marshall Hendrix, there are any number of “fun facts,” little tidbits of trivia that may or may not add to one’s understanding of the man […]

My (sort-of) Cocktail with Howard (Kaylan): My Dinner with Jimi

Howard Kaylan is best known as the lead singer of 60s pop group the Turtles. That group chalked up an impressive string of hit singles including “Happy Together,” She’d Rather […]

Preview: My Talk With Howard / My Dinner With Jimi

This evening I had the honor and pleasure to speak at great length with Howard Kaylan. Known to some as “Eddie” (as in, Flo and Eddie), vocalist for FZ’s Mothers, […]