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| August 30, 2023 |
August 30, 2023: Digital Music News: Garth Brooks Partners with TuneIn Radio for ‘Tailgate Radio’—Aimed at Sports Fans
Garth Brooks has partnered with TuneIn Radio to launch ‘Tailgate Radio,’ aimed at sports fans who love college football.Tailgate Radio is exclusive to TuneIn and will feature complete coverage of the 2023 college football season. Maria Taylor hosts the station and weaves her vast sports knowledge and insight with a music playlist to keep listeners’ energy high while tailgating or throwing a party at home.
Garth Brooks has partnered with TuneIn Radio to launch ‘Tailgate Radio,’ aimed at sports fans who love college football.Tailgate Radio is exclusive to TuneIn and will feature complete coverage of the 2023 college football season. Maria Taylor hosts the station and weaves her vast sports knowledge and insight with a music playlist to keep listeners’ energy high while tailgating or throwing a party at home.
| August 19, 2023 |
Aug 19, 2023: Ticket News: Doc Chronicling Massive Watkins Glen ’73 Jam Seeks Supporters
A 1973 festival featuring the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, The Band, and other legendary performers was bigger than Woodstock – and a group of documentary filmmakers are looking to bring its story to life with your support. Summer Jam at Watkins Glen is the subject of “a very special moment in time” that sold 150,000 $10 tickets, only to see more than half a million music fans show up to the festival grounds in Watkins Glen, NY.
A 1973 festival featuring the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, The Band, and other legendary performers was bigger than Woodstock – and a group of documentary filmmakers are looking to bring its story to life with your support. Summer Jam at Watkins Glen is the subject of “a very special moment in time” that sold 150,000 $10 tickets, only to see more than half a million music fans show up to the festival grounds in Watkins Glen, NY.
| August 9, 2023 |
Aug 9, 2023: The Guardian: The Band’s Robbie Robertson captured a dream of what America was, is and might be
The bandleader who didn’t front his band, who was never as celebrated as Bob Dylan or their peers, was the glue keeping the Band together
The bandleader who didn’t front his band, who was never as celebrated as Bob Dylan or their peers, was the glue keeping the Band together
- Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80
- A 2019 interview: ‘I didn’t know anybody who didn’t do drugs’
| August 3, 2023 |
| Aug 4, 2023 #supertramp #classicrock #70smusic Roger Hodgson grew up a happy boy but then his parents sent him away to a punishing boarding school. He put this horrendous experience and his search for sanity into an all-time 70s classic called The Logical Song. When he brought it to his band Supertramp a key member, Rick Davies hated it… but an adventurous recording session gave the song a true uniqueness including a strange instrument he Bought for a few bucks, as well as recording the iconic sax in a men’s room and adding a cool sound effect from one of the first handheld video games... In the end, the drummer made a 10-dollar bet with Roger Hodgson that the record Supertramp Breakfast In America would go top ten… the drummer won the bet in a big way when the album sold 20 million copies this amazing story is coming up next on Professor of Rock. |
july 2023
| July 27, 2023 |
July 27, 2023: Tampa Bay Times: Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles and singer of ‘Take It to the Limit,’ dies at 77
Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and stepped out front for the waltz-time ballad “Take It to the Limit,” has died, the band said Thursday.
Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added high harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Easy” and “The Best of My Love” and stepped out front for the waltz-time ballad “Take It to the Limit,” has died, the band said Thursday.
| July 24, 2023 |
July 23, 2023: Pitchfork: Presenting Dionne Warwick
Burt Bacharach’s name was also misspelled on that first single. It said Bert, which was his father’s name. (His mother gave him the u because she felt, for reasons lost to time, that it would protect him from the teasing his dad had apparently endured as a child.) By that point, the songwriter and his lyricist partner, Hal David, had a track record as hitmakers, which gave Bacharach a certain sway among executive types. Also, he was white. The e never showed up on a label again...... Bacharach’s contemporary Phil Spector liked to compare his productions to little symphonies, but this was a lot closer to the real deal. Spector draped simple pop compositions in lushly symphonic instrumentation; Bacharach’s songs are ingenious in their bones, whether performed by an orchestra or a soloist..Warwick and Bacharach were odd fits for the rock’n’roll assembly line. Both were conservatory-trained: she a young gospel devotee who could sing opera, jazz, or any other style if she wanted; he a 30-something aesthete and tinkerer who spent his adolescence sneaking into Manhattan bebop clubs and once wrote that he might enjoy Bill Haley and His Comets more if they used a few major-seventh chords. The music they made together with David sounds only occasionally like R&B, and almost never like rock. Suffused with jazz and classical harmony, set to rhythms influenced by the Brazilian music that Bacharach encountered in his years as a touring conductor, and with Warwick’s vocals emphasizing clarity and precision as much as fervor and abandon, it’s not the first thing a DJ might reach for to set the sock hop on fire.
Burt Bacharach’s name was also misspelled on that first single. It said Bert, which was his father’s name. (His mother gave him the u because she felt, for reasons lost to time, that it would protect him from the teasing his dad had apparently endured as a child.) By that point, the songwriter and his lyricist partner, Hal David, had a track record as hitmakers, which gave Bacharach a certain sway among executive types. Also, he was white. The e never showed up on a label again...... Bacharach’s contemporary Phil Spector liked to compare his productions to little symphonies, but this was a lot closer to the real deal. Spector draped simple pop compositions in lushly symphonic instrumentation; Bacharach’s songs are ingenious in their bones, whether performed by an orchestra or a soloist..Warwick and Bacharach were odd fits for the rock’n’roll assembly line. Both were conservatory-trained: she a young gospel devotee who could sing opera, jazz, or any other style if she wanted; he a 30-something aesthete and tinkerer who spent his adolescence sneaking into Manhattan bebop clubs and once wrote that he might enjoy Bill Haley and His Comets more if they used a few major-seventh chords. The music they made together with David sounds only occasionally like R&B, and almost never like rock. Suffused with jazz and classical harmony, set to rhythms influenced by the Brazilian music that Bacharach encountered in his years as a touring conductor, and with Warwick’s vocals emphasizing clarity and precision as much as fervor and abandon, it’s not the first thing a DJ might reach for to set the sock hop on fire.
| July 10, 2023 |
July 10, 2023: Dallas Observer: Amanda Shires, Asleep at the Wheel Paid Tribute to Western Swing at the Longhorn Ballroom
“This is not a normal night for us,” intoned the towering Ray Benson, just before he and his Asleep at the Wheel bandmates tore into Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen’s “Hot Rod Lincoln.”
“This is not a normal night for us,” intoned the towering Ray Benson, just before he and his Asleep at the Wheel bandmates tore into Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen’s “Hot Rod Lincoln.”
“Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.”
― Alice Cooper
| July 8, 2023 |
July 8, 2023: Rock Celebrities: John Taylor Expresses Fear And Anxiety For Duran Duran’s Upcoming Tour
During a recent interview with Allison Hagendorf, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor disclosed his concerns and anxiety about the upcoming Duran Duran tour. When the bassist was asked how he stays both mentally and physically fit in the busy schedule, Taylor answered by mentioning what he has to do every day.
During a recent interview with Allison Hagendorf, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor disclosed his concerns and anxiety about the upcoming Duran Duran tour. When the bassist was asked how he stays both mentally and physically fit in the busy schedule, Taylor answered by mentioning what he has to do every day.
