Best Of Rock: 10 Album Covers That Changed My Life

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   Like everybody else, I enjoy all the wonderful gains with our latest technologies — but I am about as likely to watch a movie on my...

Best Of Rock: 10 Rock & Roll Legal Battles That Don’t Involve The Beatles

By Ralph Greco, Jr. By all accounts, it’s a hot and heavy game trying to keep a rock band together, let alone make a living from playing and recording music....

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 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: 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 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 Moments When We Might Have Lost Rock n’ Roll…But Didn’t

By Ralph Greco, Jr. From legislation to outlaw it to past preachers who condemn it — bucking trends, scrutiny and inflation — rock has risen again and again like the...

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 Ways To Recognize A Fake Vintage Rock Fan

By Ralph Greco, Jr. With AI on the rise, we all need to be ever more vigilant on what is coming from a real source and what could be manufactured...

Best Of Rock: 10 Bacon Bits Of Separation

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   You know that six degrees from Kevin Bacon game people play to show their movie star acumen? It can be done with Vintage Rockers — and...