6 Post(s) Found For: John Lennon

  Saturday, September the 13th of 1969 broke particularly warm, bright and sunny over the suburbs of Toronto. Yes, this was to be the day the drummer in my very first (bedroom-over-the-) garage combo agreed to accompany me all the way into the Big City in order that I could buy my very first teen-aged guitar. But! […]

  So even though Tarantino’s latest failed to put Paul Revere or his Raiders back up at the Toppermost of the Poppermost, and American Funnyman Neil Hamburger’s long-too-awaited Still Dwelling seems to have passed totally under the fryer, the Pig Player this past year was kept busy as always spinning, alphabetically as always…   ALEX […]

  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 […]

  Lindsey Buckingham got kicked out of Fleetwood Mac (again), The Monkees made their first-ever Christmas album (!), and I am still waiting for that big Turtles Battle of the Bands Commemorative Special Anniversary Collectors Edition. In the meantime though, I remained happily singing along beneath headphones to (in strictly Alphabetical order)… EDGAR BREAU Edgar […]

  As we arrive at the thirtieth (!!!) anniversary of the Chief Beatle’s death, I found myself reaching far back indeed within the Pig Archives to exhume one of my very first-ever articles on the subject. Originally published two-and-a-half decades ago in either “Outer Shell” and/or “Inside Joke” Magazine, I believe its drift remains as […]

CACTUS / FRANK ZAPPA / INCOGNITO / MUSE / IAN DURY / CLIFF RICHARD / JOHN LENNON / GEORGE HARRISON / ROLLING STONES / JANIS JOPLIN / VOLBEAT / THE KINKS / DE CLOSE GOLD / KEITH MOON / JEFF HEALEY