Listening to Harvard University’s WHRB radio station tonight, they played something by one of their graduates, John Adams. He composed the modern opera Nixon in China. The piece I heard tonight was Shaker Loops. It’s really catchy, if that’s the right word.
Category: Music
Platter Matters
The Platters on Disc
The Disk Platters
Until we have confirmation the Upjohn conversion was completed, Denro will continue to hold onto that data disk pack!
Lightnin’ Strikes Again and Again
Following the major league passings of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone, music business deaths continue in the minors.
Lou Christie
Bobby Sherman
Windows into The Doors
My vote for the most important record heard on Sixties radio wasn’t by the Beatles. The abbreviated version of ‘Light My Fire’ was a hit on AM, and the full album version broke on through to usher in the age of Underground Radio on FM.
The Worst Beatles Song
Nashville, 1954
Memphis, 1955
London, 1965
How to Not Honor Brian Wilson
“May you never hear Surf Music again.” — Jimi Hendrix
Hendrix came to Psychedelic music as a Blues guitarist, as did many British artists. Separate from Hendrix, the genre in America evolved from Garage, with its inspiration being not the Blues, but Surf. Dick Dale was a leading — many say THE leading — practitioner of Surf Guitar and, like Hendrix, he was left-handed.