It was 40 years ago today …

… Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. It’s hard to believe that the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” turned 40 this June. Undeniably one of the greatest — if not greatest– albums of all time, the music on this 12-inch LP altered the path of rock music and impacted popular culture in […]

“On the Road” for 50 years

… the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the […]

Brain Waves

Ever wonder about the sea of electromagnetic radiation we find ourselves moving through? There’s all kinds of EMR: from cell phones, carrier waves, radio waves, TV waves, portable phones, WiFi, Ethernet, radar waves, microwave ovens, remote control devices, garage door openers, electronic toys, power lines, base stations, intercoms, computers, monitors, electrical appliances, X-rays, medical devices […]

Revolution …

Three films have been released to DVD this week that pretty much sum up many of the “revolutionary” feelings that abounded in the 1960s. All three are from The Criterion Collection, which puts out defintive versions of major and classic films from the silent era to the present. First off is Lindsay Anderson’s “If ….” […]

Harry the Hipster Gibson

Here’s someone you won’t remember from the 1960s: Harry the Hipster Gibson, a wild man piano player/jive singer who could easily have been the inspiration for such rock heroes as Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard and a whole generation of wild, rockabilly performers. I first came across him in a PBS pledge special “Soundies: […]

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