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 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 Covers Uncovered

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Most of us have heard (and love or like to various degrees) Elton John’s version of “Pinball Wizard,” John Lennon’s vocal-shredding on the Beatles’ “Twist &...

Best Of Rock: 10 Rock N’ Roll Literary Connections

By Ralph Greco, Jr. As often as they are accused of being sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll layabouts, many are wise beyond their years. Queen’s Brian May and Dean...

Best Of Rock: 10 Reasons I Don’t Go To Concerts Anymore

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Ok, I still go to concerts, but I knew I couldn’t title this ‘10 Things That Annoy Me About Concerts These Days’ without making this piece...

Best Of Rock: 10 Concert Stalwarts

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   There’s not much you can count on these days, but leave it to certain Vintage Rock acts to not always deliver fantastic shows and music, but...

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...

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 (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: 10 Concerts To Catch In 2014

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Looking at the roster of concerts for 2014, I feel a bit like Al Pacino in The Godfather III when he complains, “I thought I was...