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...
Rory Gallagher | Live At Montreux – Live Album Release
“I want to be playing when I'm 50,” Irish son Rory Gallagher stated rather matter-of-factly during a Beat Instrumental interview in June 1971. In all likelihood, the acclaimed blues...
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...
Carlos Santana | Plays Blues At Montreux 2004 – DVD Review
Carlos Santana's Plays Blues at Montreux 2004 culls some great footage of the Latin guitar God playing with blue legends Buddy Guy, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown and Bobby Parker. We...
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...
Live At Montreux 1982 Mink DeVille
Seeing as this Live At Montreux 1982 DVD is of a concert from 26 years ago, I watched the Mink DeVille Band, recalling how things were in 1982 and...
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...
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Counterfeit Guitars: Real Or Real Good Knock-Off
By Carl Cunningham
Their names are as iconic and legendary as the musicians that have played them: Gibson, Fender, Gretsch, Epiphone. In the hands of guitar legends like Jimi Hendrix,...
