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 Killer Backing Vocals

By Ralph Greco, Jr. A list of backing and harmony vocals could stretch across any number of fantastic Beach Boys moments, the tone-perfect two-part harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel, and...

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 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...

Best Of Rock: 10 Songs I Really Do Like…But Don’t Need To Hear Again

By Ralph Greco, Jr.   All bands have ‘em. They are those super-duper popular tunes that either broke a group to a mainstream audience, have been co-opted for commercials or are...

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: 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 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...

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: 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...