Try to imagine waiting for the next Pink Floyd album. There was no Dark Side… or The Wall. It was just Piper, Saucerful,More and Ummagumma. Would you have even been their fan if that’s all there was? Pink Floyd were still in search of their big direction. Their way of making a mark in musical [...]

We got a new resident heavy metal specialist in our ranks, so I thought, on the spur of the moment, to start some sort of debate. So let’s go back about 41 years to the time when there was actually a serious contest between Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. After 1970 there was really no [...]

On the final Billboard 200 album chart prior to Christmas a total of eight Beatles releases made the top 200 sellers of the week: #082 Abbey Road (1969) #085 The White Album (1970) #099 The Beatles in Stereo Box Set (2009) #126 1 (2000) #130 Sgt. Pepper’s… (1967) #163 Rubber Soul (1965) #170 Revolver (1966) [...]

Alright, I’ve finally made it to the last Beatles album in my “Most Valuable Beatle” series for each album. And as a pre-emptive strike against the comments I’ll get if I don’t mention this; I know that Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be (with the exception of “I Me Mine” and Phil Spector’s [...]

A new Beatles feature series begins today. I know we’ve been doing a lot of Beatles related posts lately, what can I say? With 9/9/9 coming up, I have a bit of what they call Beatlemania. This series is focused on what The Beatles (along with producer George Martin & engineer Geoff Emerick) had to [...]

John Frusciante was born on March 5th of 1970 in the borough of Queens in New York City. He is known for his work as the Red Hot Chili Peppers lead guitarist for five albums and for the 10 solo albums he has released along with his work with Mars Volta. He joined The Red [...]

Black Sabbath’s debut self titled album was released on February 13th of 1970 (Friday the 13th.) It is considered by many to be the very first heavy metal album. The band’s debut single “Evil Woman” was recorded and released in December of 1969 but the remaining six songs on the album were recorded and mixed [...]

Zacarias (“Zack”) de la Rocha was born on January 12th of 1970 in Long Beach, California. He is best known as the vocalist & lyricist of Rage Against the Machine. Rage Against the Machine was formed in 1991 in Los Angeles. Along with de la Rocha on vocals, the band consisted of Brad Wilk on [...]

Jimi Hendrix died from a drug overdose on September 18, 1970. He was in London when he died and he was only 27 years old. Hendrix is considered by most critics to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Along with being an incredible guitarist, Hendrix was also a singer & a songwriter. [...]