Rock’s Mad Geniuses by Jason LeValley
With the recent passing of Fleetwood Mac founder Peter Green at the age of 73, rock lost one its last remaining mad geniuses from the heady days of...
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Defining Acid Rock
My first exposure to the term “acid rock” came just before I attended my first rock concert in 1980. The opening act that night was a newly formed...
Ontario Progressive Rock (1970’s/early 80s)
In the 1970s, within the American Midwest and Ontario, there existed a fascinating subculture that was distinctly their own - and this phenomena was sharply expressed in the...
USA Midwest Progressive Rock (1970’s/early 80s)
In the 1970s, within the American Midwest and Ontario, there existed a fascinating subculture that was distinctly their own - and this phenomena was sharply expressed in the...
Almost Famous –An Appreciation Of Larry Wallis
ALMOST FAMOUS –AN APPRECIATION OF LARRY WALLIS May 1949 – September 2019 I can still remember the first time I saw Larry in the flesh – it was...
1968 Brit-Psych B-Sides
As 1967 drew exhaustedly to a giddy close, it became gradually apparent that the childlike optimism of the Summer of Love had dissipated, never to return. It was...
Can’t Tell You What To Purchase, But Here’s How You Begin
There are few things we can do in life that reflect who we are, what we enjoy and how we wish to experience those things. For music lovers,...
‘Kraut Fusion’
One phenomena you will find when deep diving into the progressive rock waters, is that you'll discover that Germany had an overabundance of jazz rock bands operating throughout...
The Shake Spears – Biography of a 1960s pop group
I had started this project several years ago and I hadn't worked on it for a long time - but now I am happy to publish this post,...
1967 Brit-Psych B-Sides
The mode of the music changed, the walls of the cities shook, rooms hummed harder, ceilings flew away. In his 1965 poem, ‘Who Be Kind To?’, the preeminent...