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
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VH1 honors The Who
My good friend Jeff Christian, a high school buddy and school radio show co-hort has been extolling the virtues of The Who and the VH1 honors show for weeks. He emailed me his thoughts this morning so I thought we would make him Guest Blogger for the day. From Jeff:A Continue Reading
Listening Post: Van Halen – Van Halen
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 in your hands
The Listening Post series has turned out to be the most fun I’ve had in a long time. I’ve come to love some music, hate some, discover some. I thought I knew some things and I knew nothing in comparison.I am about to go on vacation and I will be Continue Reading
Listening Post: Bon Jovi – Lost Highway
And so we come to the end of another Listening Post. With Lost Highway we have traversed more than a quarter century of pure MOR. Thanks for sticking it out with me. Bon Jovi – Lost Highway – 2007 (Buy it) To paraphrase Captain Kirk in Wrath of Khan: “I’ll Continue Reading
listening Post: Bon Jovi – Have a Nice Day
Great things come from New Jersey. Frank Sinatra. The Boss. Me. And, of course, Jon Bongiovi.I know nothing about Bon Jovi save the big super hits that catapulted him and his group to megastardom. Is there anything more to the once high-haired glam pop rock than just faux country anthem Continue Reading
Listening Post: Bon Jovi – This Left Feels Right
Great things come from New Jersey. Frank Sinatra. The Boss. Me. And, of course, Jon Bongiovi.I know nothing about Bon Jovi save the big super hits that catapulted him and his group to megastardom. Is there anything more to the once high-haired glam pop rock than just faux country anthem Continue Reading
Listening Post: Bon Jovi – Bounce
Great things come from New Jersey. Frank Sinatra. The Boss. Me. And, of course, Jon Bongiovi.I know nothing about Bon Jovi save the big super hits that catapulted him and his group to megastardom. Is there anything more to the once high-haired glam pop rock than just faux country anthem Continue Reading
Listening Post: Bon Jovi – Crush
Great things come from New Jersey. Frank Sinatra. The Boss. Me. And, of course, Jon Bongiovi.I know nothing about Bon Jovi save the big super hits that catapulted him and his group to megastardom. Is there anything more to the once high-haired glam pop rock than just faux country anthem Continue Reading
Listening Post: Bon Jovi – (these days)
Great things come from New Jersey. Frank Sinatra. The Boss. Me. And, of course, Jon Bongiovi.I know nothing about Bon Jovi save the big super hits that catapulted him and his group to megastardom. Is there anything more to the once high-haired glam pop rock than just faux country anthem Continue Reading