There are tons of patriotic songs out there, good and bad, that we’ll all hear way too many times this week, as the United States celebrates the July 4th holiday. I, for one, don’t care if I ever hear, “God Bless The USA,” ever again. Here, then, is a personal list of some patriotic songs [...]
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Every time the summer heat starts getting to me this time of year, there are a couple of songs that come to the jukebox of the mind. Through the magic of YouTube, here’s one of them, something I’d probably now call a “guilty pleasure,” but which during its heyday was a pretty cool tune. Plus, [...]
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If you haven’t heard yet, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be coming to the North Charleston Coliseum on Saturday, August 16th. This will be his first appearance in the Charleston area since 1978, though he has played Columbia a few times since then.
Tickets are $30, $66 and $96, pretty reasonable by [...]
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With all the talk of the “death of terrestrial radio” amid the internet and satellite inroads, etc, what’s being lost in the fuss is that there are still some real personalities out there in radio land who love the music, what little of it they still get to play. Here in Columbia, SC, we lost [...]
Filed under: Rock and Roll Heaven, Uncategorized | Tagged: Classic Rock, Fox 102, Mike Scott, Radio | 1 Comment »
With my beloved Boston Celtics back in the NBA Finals for the first time in a long time, it seems like a good time to remember that Beantown is almost as good a rock ‘n’ roll town as is is a basketball town. In my perfect sports world, Boston would sweep the Lakers in four [...]
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The passing of rock ‘n’ roll originator Bo Diddley today marks the loss of one of the artists who defined what the music would sound like. His trademark, primal rhythm, that went, “Bomp—Bomp—Bomp—Bomp-Bomp,” was one of the building blocks of early rock, and it has remained an influential beat. He was inducted into the Rock [...]
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1. Project – this not only makes it sound like a school assignment, it’s also oddly popular with anything remotely related to prog rock. Example: Alan Parsons Project
2. Group – if you have to explain that the small ensemble of people you have on stage [...]
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