The history of Australia’s AC/DC can be divided into WBS and ABS:  Their early history with lead singer Bon Scott (With Bon Scott) and the rest of their career after his untimely dea…

 “And that’s the way it is.”  For some reason this phrase used to irk my brother Ron.  Any time he heard this phrase, he would snarl, “No, that’s the way you SAY it is.”  I am still no…

A special pre-album release review:      April of 2019 will see Happy Growl Records release a 2-CD set by Kenny Baldwin’s band Locate Your Lips.  Kenny was a drummer with Tony Williams-like jazz…

    Looking back over the past fifty years of rock music, a lot of great bands have come and gone.  A few of them became gigantically successful and, amazingly, some are still out there rocking. …

      How many places have you called ‘home’?  This popped in my head when I found my old American Federation of Musicians Local 219 card in one of my high school yearbooks.  I was sixt…

Is Classic Rock Magazine obsessed with Deep Purple?  In an early summer of 2018 issue, they included a bonus CD with the majority of the tracks having some connection to Deep Purple’s own label, Pu…