Best Of Rock: 10 Rock & Roll Guilty Pleasures
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
We can’t ask the church for these indulgences. If you’re human, you will find yourself sneaking away time and again to indulge in some sordid nastiness...
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 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: 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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 &...
