We also did our Byrdsy B-Side, ‘She Makes Me Happy,’ on Swingin’ Time. “As far as this story you’ve told me about Ray Skop being the first manager of the Amboy Dukes and his co-writing ‘Journey to the Center of the Mind’ with Ted Nugent and Steve Farmer, at the same t...
Martin & Lewis were hugely successful, playing sold-out performances in tandem with jam-packed crowds waiting for them to open their hotel window and wave down toward their adoring public on the street. Only a handful of performers has ever received that kind of reaction (think Beatles, Elvis...
Mikhail rehearsed day and night, and after 23 years away from the stage, he began playing again. The strain to retrieve the time he had lost was great, and he died of a heart attack at the age of 65. Picking up where her father left off, Natalya Fikhtengoltz, a violinist and a ...
From the moment they started playing, the energy in the room was electric. Their enthusiasm and love for music was contagious and they had everyone on the dance floor all night long. We can't say enough about their incredible talent. Their voices are phenomenal, and they flawlessly performed...
and because I am honored to have a co-write with Jim before he retired. He is such a legendary songwriter. My late dad loved the song and called it my “number one.” This summer it picked up air time on radio, thanks to Steve Franklin with KBEAR playing it and iHeart Radio’s Ca...
By the time they moved to Brooklyn in 2007, Meeks and Morphew were playing shows as a duo that eventually involved into a full quartet. Last summer, they released their third full-length record, Pattern, with the stand-out track, "Shape of Your Head.""Shape of Your Head" - The Binary...
Decades later, some fans still grouse about the accessibility of “The Black Album,” but the truth is that without it, they wouldn’t still be headlining stadiums today; they might be playing the community centers and the package tours that their hair metal rivals rely on to keep their ...
the infectious rhythm of the chanting and stamping lifted a clumsy game to the heights of ritual significance. It was as though they were, I don’t know, playing out some symbolic struggle between mighty ancient dynasties or something. In any case, it was clear that Greatness Lay Before Me...
He was brought up by other family members in Fife where he still lives today with his wife Elizabeth & four children in Largoward. He was introduced to the mouth-organ at age five and was soon playing concerts throughout the East Neuk of Fife as a member of 'The Anderson Trio' with ...