Boston’s own Handel & Haydn Society is continuing its Summer of Beethoven series, with selections of past concerts.
Category: Music
Whatever Happened to Freedom Fries?
And we thought things were bad with 9/11, the Iraq invasion, and the Great Recession.
A Progressive Meal
After my freshman year of high school, until I left for college in Western Massachusetts, I mostly listened to WBCN, the legendary alternative radio station in Boston at 104.1 FM. ‘BCN was where I first heard David Bowie, Ten Years After and Captain Beefheart, along with the comedy troupes Firesign Theatre and Monty Python. Progressive music was well-represented on WBCN, and I remember enjoying this King Crimson record in particular.
I Remember…
… Iron Butterfly, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. But do you remember BLOODROCK?? “We were flying low, and hit something in the air.”
There’s a really obvious splice in there from where the album version was cut down for the single. If four-and-a-half minutes of somebody being “self-aware” they’re dying isn’t enough for you, here is the classic “D.O.A.”
Jerry’s Kid
Gary Lewis is as nice a guy as his dad wasn’t. Here’s a favorite song from Gary’s album Listen! that I first heard on Andrew Sandoval’s Come to the Sunshine podcast.
Oh Mono!
After 18 months The Rolling Stones in Mono set is still available for free listening on YouTube and, yes, it’s official.