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  On the very last night of my very first trip to London Town precisely 48 years ago this month, my youth hostel roomie – a young Australian who’d nicknamed himself in honor of the Dave Clark Five as it turned out! – gifted me with, wait for it, a ticket to join him at that night’s Paul […]

Let’s go back to the year 1985 in Philadelphia, PA. Tom Keifer and John Corabi, two of the best rockers to come out of Philadelphia were playing the club scene looking to get signed to a record label both artists taking different paths to getting signed. June 30th Tom Keifer, Winger, and John Corabi came […]

  Y’know, the more I think all the way ago about it, the more I realize I must have had the absolute coolest parents on the entire block. Every May for my birthday, then every single Christmas, I’d joyously receive the latest Beatles (and/or from 1966 onwards Monkees) hot-off-the-presses album …without even asking! In fact, dear Dad […]

  9:30 AM – Awaken after three-and-a-half hours “sleep” to shower, pack,                breakfast (M&M’s Peanuts), and bus to meet band van by 11 AM                at pre-arranged rendezvous spot. 1:30 PM – Band van arrives at pre-arranged rendezvous spot.         […]

Here’s an interview with an in-your-face punk bassist JOHN FAHNESTOCK.  Quoted himself  “I Play a “Mean Distorted” 78′ P-Bass through an Ampeg SVT it’s LOUD and will make your Hair Move!”  What more could you ask for? Dig in… Marcy:  How old were you when you started playing bass???  Why bass???   John:  it was around […]

  or HOW CAN YOU DRIVE TO TWO PLACES AT ONCE   Gary Pig Gold and the Firesign Theatre Change the Course of Canadian Educational Field Trips Once and For All.   I can now hereby unequivocally state I was actually one of the proud, the brave, and yes, the subsequently unemployable by-products of the […]

As you may know…if not, I was the Editor of a FAN/MAGAZINE named ROCKBOTTOM since I was 14 years old….psssst….i’ll probably be 51 by the time this is printed. WC, WCA or SAZ graced the pages one way or another in EVERY issue. Anyway, this article was written up by SHANNON LARKIN for me quite […]

  From amongst the many many projects, digital and otherwise, my To M’Lou Music label was involved with at the turn of the last centuries, the one I look back on most fondly – especially this month of all months, as The Man Himself would have, should have turned 83 (!) on the 17th – […]

Looking at the calendar this year 2023 I can’t help but wonder it has been 30 years since Poison released the native tongue album. It was a chaotic year with the 80s music genre Motley Crue and Anthrax had new singers, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden didn’t have a singer. Poison had recruited a young […]

~Marcy Miller      Twenty-three years after releasing their last full-length, thrash metal band Sacred Reich returned in force with their fifth studio album ‘Awakening’, on August 23rd, 2019 released by Metal Blade Records demonstrating without effort that they remain a formidable force in thrash metal.  Catch them on tour…     I asked Chuck Fitzgerald from Massachusetts back […]

How did the song Mississippi way come together?  Actually pretty easy, the riff came first which got me hooked on finishing the song in the first place.  I usually try to finish the guitar parts first.  Then work on the lyrics. Lyrics usually come easy to me well enough to get started to figure out a […]

  No, EP would not have turned 100 this January 8th …though had he made it this long, he very well could have looked that old. Nevertheless, here’s a century-count of Elvis numbers absolutely, truly, and without a single doubt Fit for The King… 100. “Old MacDonald”         (whilst getting into Double Trouble on the silver […]

  Let’s see… John Entwistle. George Harrison… So how come it’s the utterly coolest-by-far members of some of our all-time favorite bands who seem to depart far, far too soon? Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees truly went horizontal on us as well, almost twenty years ago already. And, like Messrs. Entwistle and Harrison, Maurice […]

  Although it’s spent over a decade already here in the ol’ sty, I’m hardly surprised to find I’m still discovering, hearing, and even seeing fresh goodies galore buried within that great big Neil Young Archives box of mine. Yet it is something else entirely which has me ballbusting today about The Greatest Living Canucklehead […]

Bob Dee with Petro has been no stranger to making music videos. The cool thing about a song is that it tells a story where you make a four-minute movie. Bob Dee filmed the second single/video Baby from his latest release Idolmaker. The video was filmed in Brooklyn, NY. I was lucky enough to get […]

The last few years have wreaked havoc on music. Black Rose Rebellion has endured lineup changes and waiting to play live music. Lately the band has been alive and rockin ‘playing music to audiences having a good time doing it. The band is hard at work working on their debut album. The band doesn’t have […]

  Just like most near-lifelong Beatlemaniacs stuck in the summer of 1980, news that no less than John Lennon was about to re-enter the recording studio after an unprecedented five year AWOL filled me and my ears with eager, excited anticipation. I mean, there could be no doubt the Chief Beatle would have identified with, […]

  What with that undisputed Grandpappy of All Things Canuckrock turning 79 (!) on September 27, I thought it more than high time indeed to take a good hard look back at Ten Reasons to Immediately WatchBACHMAN & TURNER LIVE AT THE ROSELAND BALLROOM, NYC 1.  Randy Bachman remains the greatest-living Canadian singer/songwriter/guitarist …who still […]

  Allow me to quote, word-for-most-accurate-indeed-word the shrink-wrapped stickerhype affixed to Mono-Tone Records’ The Cosmic Genius of Big Boy Pete 1965-1977, the very first of two (so far!) volumes of audio esoterica culled from the great man’s already voluminous discography: Like an English Kim Fowley produced by Joe Meek or a one man Barrett era […]

  You know, it’s becoming increasingly obvious, with every passing Summer and with every passing trend, that The Byrds were just about the greatest rock ’n’ roll band America ever produced. Now sure, I bet lots of other musicians in 1964 were inspired enough after first viewing A Hard Day’s Night to want to throw […]

Philadelphia is going to be rocking Thursday, July 28, Friday, July 29 and Saturday, July 30. After delays because of Covid, change in city and venue BLE masquerade is finally happening. The masquerade event will feature 30 bands over three days for one low price for a ticket to see this great event for all […]

  It’s hard to fathom a world where any imaginable sight, sound, or moving image of your fave rave pop star isn’t a mere click/Tok away. But back in that Golden Age when the roll was still an essential part of rock, families instead gathered ’round their communal TV set every Sunday evening at eight to turn […]

  “I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight.”(Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington D.C., August 28, 1963) “From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official: President Kennedy died at […]

The M3 festival Is a three-day music event that is held at Merriweather Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The M3 Festival is a celebration of 80s music genre. For many fans this is the one time of the year where they get together with friends to celebrate life and music.  M3 Rock Festival’s Official M3 Kix-Off […]

  I must confess that prior to the red-hot July of 1964, I’d never ever heard anything quite like Tommy Morgan’s harmonica solo on “The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)” …Dylan vinyl having not yet infiltrated my household, you understand. Two summers later, the 66-cent “Popsicle” 45 quickly became a most refreshing schoolyard treat while, […]

  Ever since excitedly cycling a mile or three to the nearest record store the very day “Hey Jude” was released, I had been loyally buying up each and every new Apple 45-RPM disc my weekly childhood allowance allowed. But checking the ol’ singles clock, as pictured, reminds me that Early 1970, as Ringo would […]

  It’s no longer much of a secret whatsoever Yours Quite Truly passed the vast majority of those dreaded Late 80s criss-crossing O Canada as part of the Great White Northland’s – ah-hemm, authorized however, I’ll have you know! – Beach Boys tribute combo known as Endless Summer. And as our reputation, not to mention skill at reproducing Big Brother Brian‘s […]

Paramount Pictures is giving the movie Wayne’s World the 30th-anniversary treatment. The movie was released on February 14, 1992, went on to gross $183.1 million dollars at the box office. The film has become popular and remains one of the most popular comedies from the ’90s. The film is going to be released on a […]

Phil X & Drills to release new album Bon Jovi guitarist and frontman for Phil X and The Drills appeared on the Metal Summit to talk about his career, playing at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, answering fan questions, and giving advice to a young fan who picked up a guitar because of […]

  In honor of The King and what could have been – what should have been – his 87th (!!) Birthday this month, may I suggest one and all hook to your platform of choice to immediately watch Any or All of… Gary Pig Gold’s Top Ten Elvis Movies 1. THAT’S THE WAY IT IS  (dir. […]