We continue the journey (hey! Journey! Maybe……) of blues/rock with the boys from Boston. Aerosmith – Night in the Ruts – 1979 (buy it) Night in the Ruts (Right in the Nuts, get it? Huh? Actually I didn’t until just now…..damn, I hate being stupid.) starts off with a big, Continue Reading
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listening Post: Aerosmith – Draw the Line
A break from politics….which really busted up my music appreciation summer…and back to the catalog of Aerosmith. Aerosmith – Draw the Line – 1977 (Buy it) I’ve listened to this record twice now. Once at a coffee shop and again on a ride home. Both times I had a dramatic Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Rocks
Continuing the quarter century journey with the Toxic Twins, et al. Aerosmith – Rocks -1976 (Buy it) Tasty.Big.Sonic.Rocks is better than Toys in the Attic and that’s really saying something. In many ways this album is the progenitor of 80s glam metal. It’s all there. The big, epic soaring ballads Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
This is a first for the Listening Post series in that I have no real relationship with this band at all. I mean, sure I know the “hits” and they’ve been a part of the general tapestry of my musical life since I was a little boy but the “Toxic Continue Reading
listening Post: Aerosmith – Get Your Wings
This is a first for the Listening Post series in that I have no real relationship with this band at all. I mean, sure I know the “hits” and they’ve been a part of the general tapestry of my musical life since I was a little boy but the “Toxic Continue Reading
Listening Post: Aerosmith – Aerosmith
This is a first for the Listening Post series in that I have no real relationship with this band at all. I mean, sure I know the “hits” and they’ve been a part of the general tapestry of my musical life since I was a little boy but the “Toxic Continue Reading
listening Post: Van Halen – 3
When I was about 15 or 16 my best friend in the summer vacation town of Bar Harbor was a guy named Pete. I met him while we were both prep cooks at the town’s greasy spoon. Pete was a metal guy all the way. Used to listen to Pantera Continue Reading
Radiohead: Los Angeles 8/24
Truly an amazing show. Something about the music and this band in particular, with their dystopic sensibilities and desperation through post apocalyptic decay versions of humanity that really lends itself to Los Angeles. There is a disconnect here and the songs that Radiohead chose for the show fit that to Continue Reading
listening Post: Van Halen – Balance
When I was about 15 or 16 my best friend in the summer vacation town of Bar Harbor was a guy named Pete. I met him while we were both prep cooks at the town’s greasy spoon. Pete was a metal guy all the way. Used to listen to Pantera Continue Reading
listening Post: Van Halen – For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
When I was about 15 or 16 my best friend in the summer vacation town of Bar Harbor was a guy named Pete. I met him while we were both prep cooks at the town’s greasy spoon. Pete was a metal guy all the way. Used to listen to Pantera Continue Reading