Best Of Rock: 10 Reasons Why Metal Is Cool
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
I’ve just survived a fully loaded, four-band strong summer metal show. Testament, Motorhead, Heaven and Hell and Judas Priest took and shook an outdoor shed in...
Best Of Rock: 10 Seasonal Albums
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Yes, we have had plenty of yule time ditties from our favorite vintage rockers, even some full albums for that special magical time of year. But...
Best Of Rock: 10 Lyrics That Rattle The Brain
Best Of Rock: 10 Lyrics That Rattle The Brain
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Being in these jaded years of my late thirties — so late that I am 48 — I...
Best Of Rock: 10 Keyboard Solos Not Played By Emerson Or Wakeman
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Far be it from me to make these lists easy. Uber fan as I am of knife-wielding Keith Emerson and cape-twirling Rick Wakeman, I thought it...
Best Of Rock: 10 Most Embarrassing Moments
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Not of the Ozzy –bites-the-head-off-a-bat-but-doesn’t-know-it’s-a-live-bat variety, there have been moments in rock history that have been so out-and-out silly, embarrassing, jump-the-shark insipid that I felt a...
Best Of Rock: 10 Obscure Song Openings
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
There is the 'accidental' feedback at the start of the Beatles' "I Feel Fine," John Bonham's crash-and-burn iconic cymbal get-up-and-go of Led Zeppelin's "Rock & Roll,"...
Best Of Rock: 10 New Years Wishes
Best Of Rock: 10 New Years Wishes
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
I
have to admit that, for me, the holidays are more about those great Rankin and
Bass animated specials and eating mom’s...
Best Of Rock: 10 (or so) Never-Sung-About Unsung Heroes Of Rock & Roll
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
There are a host of studio musicians, unknown arrangers, producers, writers, artists — gals and guys of every stripe, background and from every era — that...
Best Of Rock: Rock N’ Roll Refusals
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
There are those moments when you refuse, reject, say ‘no thanks’ — and though the minute passes with nary a notice — and later you come...
Best Of Rock: 10 Albums To Play When We Break Self-Quarantine
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
It might not seem so at the moment, but this big bad coronavirus pandemic will surely end. Nobody quite knows when and nobody can predict what...
