6 Post(s) Found For: Brian Wilson

  The single greatest living Canadian since Stompin’ Tom Connors, who loudly and proudly celebrates his latest Date of Birth on July Five, tell us all:   1. “Munsters” or “Addams Family”: Which one’s for you, and Why? Well, Munsters of course, since Lily Munster aka Yvonne De Carlo (R.I.P.) was born in my hometown […]

  On the afternoon of March 9, 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire entered an even tinier recording studio and emerged, just a few hours later, with a dozen original rock ‘n’ roll songs on some quarter-inch tape. These twelve songs were then pressed onto one thousand vinyl records, nine hundred copies […]

  There’s Brian Wilson and his Beach Boys, most obviously. Then there were Crosby, Stills, Nash and sometimes Young, the Eagles, and my own personal favorites the Turtles, Byrds, Mothers of Invention and possibly even those Runaways. Not to mention Lindsey Buckingham’s Big Mac. However, whenever the songs and stories of California are sung and […]

THIS IS THE LAST INSTALLMENT OF DVD REVIEWS @ HARD VISION BY THE LATE PAUL AUTRY, WHO PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 30, 2011. PAUL WAS A GREAT GUY WHO IS MISSED GREATLY HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND AS WELL AS A GREAT JOURNALIST. PAUL’S REVIEWS WAS ALWAYS HONEST, YOU MAY NOT AGREE WITH WHAT HE SAID BUT […]

Veteran SoCal socio-musical historian Domenic Priore, sitting alongside a tiki totem beneath a strategically placed orange branch, more than ably launches our story over a wealth of Eastmancolor’d freeway and beach footage, drawing, as only he can, that all-important connection from Gidget to Dick Dale all the way to teenage Brian’s Hawthorne, California music room. […]

NAME: Andy Timmons PLAYING (YEARS): 33 STYLE: Combination of rock, blues, and jazz…really anything with guitar! GEAR: Main rig: Laney VH100r head with Mesa Boogie Rectifier 4×12, signature model Ibanez guitar, Tube Screamer, Chandler Echo…. ENDORSEMENTS: Ibanez guitars, Laney amplifiers, D’Adarrio strings, Dunlop picks – PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS:As a  solo act: 6 highly acclaimed solo CDs, tours of Japan and Europe, appearances with G3.   With others: […]