Ray Manzarek: The Music’s Over
Sad news tonight for rock fans: The Doors’ keyboard player Ray Manzarek died on Monday after a long battle with bile duct cancer. Manzarek brought jazz influences to The Doors’ brand of dark, poetic rock and held down most of the bass duties on stage and in the studio – playing a keyboard bass with [...]
Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40
British playwright Tom Stoppard has announced that he’ll be producing a new broadcast for BBC Radio 2. Inspired by and featuring the music from the Pink Floyd classic Dark Side of the Moon, the long-simmering project will hit the airwaves this August -just in time to celebrate the 1973 release’s 40th anniversary. Here’s what The [...]
Troggs on Film
My old pal J.P. Lilliston and I have played music together for years, and his guitar can be heard all over Blue Turns Black. I’ve been threatening to put out a Lilliston-produced record for some time and I hope that now that he’s moved back to Nashville from Chicago we’ll complete the project in no [...]
Soul Grooves: Donald "Duck" Dunn
On May 13, American music lost one of the most influential bass players of all time. You might not know his name, but if you’ve been listening to music since the 1960′s, you’ve heard the man play. Dunn was a member of the soul music band Booker T. & the MG’s, known for their instrumental [...]
To Hell with Nirvana
On a recent episode of Coincidence Control Network, I reviewed Hit so Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel. I viewed the flick at the Nashville Film Festival and this rock doc is just now starting to open in theaters. It tells the tale of the hard living drummer of Courtney Love’s band [...]
Burroughs Reads Junky
Hola, amigos Junky is William S. Burroughs’ first book and also his most readable. While many readers may have already cracked the cover on this dusky treasure, I recently found a fine gem that washed up on the cyber shores of this here late night lookout. This YouTube offering is an abridged audibook version of [...]
Joy Division – Lost and Found
Hey Peeps, Just recorded Episode the 13th for Coincidence Control Network today! If you haven’t followed the podcast you have some catching up to do! CCN features Joseph Matheney, Kim Monaghan, Ken Eakins and yours truly in weekly round table discussions about current counterculture. It’s really a blast and we’ve been getting amazing feedback. If [...]
Sesame Street Hustle
Hello friends, Have you ever noticed that Oscar the Grouch looks like he’s made outta weed? Seriously. Of course, I don’t think this is intentional. Frank Oz probably had a run of the green shaggy stuff laying around and the rest is history. Along with groovy music and the kind of social awareness that came [...]
Happy Birthday, You Handsome Devil
Welcome, initiates… This week, we celebrate the birthday of Jimmy Page: a guitar hero, an occult dabbler, and – just like Jesus – a Capricorn. Page was a well-known session guitarist before working with the Yardbirds and – of course – Led Zeppelin. One of the most influential musician/songwriters of all time, Page has been [...]
