Iggy Pop – Iggy Pop
Ya know, I never got into Iggy Pop in my earlier years. When I was young, his harder edged sound just wouldn’t have been my thing. And when I became more aware of his...
Category: ’70s
Hot Tuna — Yellow Fever
So yes, I did buy three Hot Tuna records at once. This and the last two, “America’s Choice” and “Burgers,” were all picked up at a rare excursion to Shady Dog Records down in...
Hot Tuna — America’s Choice
Again, coming very, very late to Hot Tuna. I will never be able to say what Jorma Kaukonen’s Quarantine Concerts at his Fur Peace Ranch have meant to us in terms of getting through...
Hot Tuna — The Phosphorescent Rat
One of the great joys of the pandemic times (because you have to invent some joy during this epic disaster) has been the many musicians who, out of love or out of necessity or...
Hot Tuna — Hot Tuna
The deficiency of my Hot Tuna collection is a little embarrassing, especially given how big a Jefferson Airplane fan I am. I’ve always known that Hot Tuna was essentially Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady...
Hot Tuna — Burgers
I wrote not too long ago about about how very, very late I was to the Hot Tuna scene. But in a very short time, I’ve really made up for it. Since last November,...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Live at Berkeley
Folks, it’s been a long lockdown. I’m writing this in the latter half of December 2020, having endured what most sensible people have endured for the past 10 months. We’ve barely left the house;...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience — Axis: Bold As Love
As I mentioned last time, I was thinking more and more about my Hendrix-less lifestyle. I watched all of the amazing performance at Monterey, and then listened to an internet bootleg called “The Blues...
Eddie Hazel – Game, Dames and Guitar Thangs
Some people can’t even alphabet correctly, it seems. I was blithely plowing through the albums I’ve bought in the past year or so that I wouldn’t have covered in my alphabetical tour of my...
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