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 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 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: 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: You Can Pick Your Friends

By Ralph Greco, Jr. So my two best friends and I are sitting around my house on a Friday night as we are wont to do on Friday nights, discussing...

Best Of Rock: Seven Things Taken For Granted

By Ralph Greco, Jr. A woefully subjective-in-no-way-conclusive-completely-unscientific listing of those moments in rock music, whether intentional or accidental, that stir men’s souls and cause women’s skirts to inch-up so suggestively...

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 Concerts I Wish I Had Attended

By Ralph Greco, Jr. Most forget the typical listing of Monterey Pop or Woodstock, that fateful last show of Buddy Holly or the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl, below is...

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 Sexiest Rock Songs

Best Of Rock: 10 Sexiest Rock Songs By Ralph Greco, Jr. I don’t really want to know what gets you going (as I am sure you’d rather not hear about my...