For over a week now, Tom Waits fans have been waiting with bated breath for the surprise that was to drop on August 7. Starting on July 31st, a picture went up on his site, which was simply: Speculation over the ‘net was rampant. Was it a tour?! Maybe a newly-recorded album with the celebrities he’d put together to […]
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All Hell Broke Luce
Posted: 8th August 2012 by Dion in Music, Music Review, NewsTags: Alcatraz, Bad As Me, Flea, Hell Broke Luce, Kathleen Brennan, Keith Richards, Matt Mahurin, Tom Waits
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The Aural Adventure Is Just Beginning
Posted: 19th June 2012 by J. Marcus in Music, Music Review, UncategorizedTags: Alexander Courage, Fred Steiner, Jerry Goldsmith, Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Last week La La Land Records released its 3-disc CD soundtrack to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. All I can say is, “it’s about time!”
Music Preview: Rush’s Clockwork Angels
Posted: 23rd May 2012 by Brian in Music, Music ReviewTags: Alex Lifeson, Clockwork Angels, Geddy Lee, Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart, Nick Raskulinecz, Rush
When a band is well into the fifth decade of its career, with its members pushing sixty years of age, they’re usually relegated to the nostalgia circuit—you know, playing sold-out shows to aging baby boomers at outdoor concerts with one or two other “retro” acts, and coasting on the success of the back-catalog. If such […]
Film Score Appreciation – James Horner
Posted: 21st May 2012 by J. Marcus in Film, Music, Music ReviewTags: *batteries not included, A Beautiful Mind, Aliens, Apollo 13, Battle Beyond the Stars, Bicentennial Man, Braveheart, Cocoon, Cocoon: The Return, Die Hard, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Krull, Project X, Sneakers, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Mask of Zorro, The Perfect Storm, The Rocketeer, Titanic
I was recently discussing my feelings about composer James Horner with a friend on Facebook. If the name is unfamiliar to you, I guarantee that his music is familiar. He has scored films for over 30 years and won two Oscars® (both for his work on Titanic). In addition to his accolades, Mr. Horner has also […]
Revealing the Identity of “The Phantom” in One of the Most Notorious After-Death Jim Morrison Conspiracies
Posted: 25th April 2012 by Dion in History, Music, Music ReviewTags: Iggy Pop, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, The Doors, The Phantom, The Phantom's Divine Comedy Part 1
It was back in 1997 in the now-defunct “Record Explosion”, a record store chain in New York City that had a large amount of hard to find music and bootleg material, that I first came across one of the weirdest albums of the 1970’s: Phantom’s Divine Comedy, Part 1. This album may ring a bell for […]
40th Anniversary of L.A. Woman
Posted: 4th March 2012 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: 1971, Jim Morrison, L.A. Woman, Morrison Hotel, The Doors
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the most iconic albums of all time, the Doors have released a special edition of their final exit, unknowingly their last work together as a band, L.A. Woman. It is a two-disc edition, featuring the original album with never-before released alternate takes and two newly-discovered jams caught […]
100 Greatest Guitarists According to (Yawn)… Rolling Stone
Posted: 27th November 2011 by Dion in Music, Music Review, News, Up on The Soap BoxTags: B.B. King, Bucky Pizzarelli, Chuck Berry, Dick Dale, Django Reinhardt, Jimi Hendrix, John Pizzarelli, Keith Richards, Les Paul, Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone Magazine, SteveVai
Here we go with their lists again… So Rolling Stone Magazine has compiled a list of what they call the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”. The magazine supposedly used guitarists in the music world to vote. Well what did Rolling Stone come up with might you ask? A bunch of hot steaming garbage if you ask me.
Bad As Me
Posted: 14th November 2011 by Dion in Music ReviewTags: Bad As Me, Kathleen Brennan, Music Review, Tom Waits
He has been called ‘America’s best kept secret’. The man, the myth, the legend; Tom Waits. Over the past two weeks, a lot of people have asked me how I like the new Tom Waits album- so I figured being such a fan- I should finally sit down and officially talk about it.
Robert Davi Channels Ol’ Blue Eyes
Posted: 6th November 2011 by Dion in Music ReviewTags: Emil Richards, Frank Sinatra, Robert Davi
Like many, you may know Richard Davi as one of the two brothers who along with their Ma, harass a group of kids in The Goonies; he’s the super villain in License to Kill; the mob boss in Raw Deal; or Agent Johnson along with his partner Agent Johnson (no relation), in the original […]
The Doors Live in Vancouver, 1970
Posted: 31st October 2011 by Dion in Music, Music ReviewTags: Albert King, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Blues, Bo Diddley, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Peggy Lee, Porgy and Bess, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Vancouver, Vince Treanor, Willie Dixon
(Dion’s review was posted on The Official Doors Facebook and Myspace pages in January, 2011) We have Vince Treanor to thank for being able to listen to The Doors’ performance in Vancouver on June 6th, 1970. Treanor was the band’s road manager from 1967 until the end in 1972, when the band, post Morrison’s […]