Category: Record reviews
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Cephalopods. Best people on earth.
Red Octopus Jefferson Starship 1975 Starship is coming to Portland. What? You thought they were dead? So did I! Perhaps these descendants of Jefferson Airplane were grown from stem cells. However they did this, I thought I’d listen again to their mightiest musical effusion, Red Octopus. Listening to Red Octopus…
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No fumar
Machine Head Deep Purple 1972 The biggest sin of “Sins of the ’70s Week” was the sin of omission. I forgot Deep Purple! Yeah, yeah, yeah, the freaks said/man those cats could really swing (“Space Truckin’ ”). Some of these songs do have a sort of big-band swing to them,…
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I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple
The power trio of guitar, bass, and drums emerged in rock ’n’ roll in the late 1960s. The pioneers were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, and Grand Funk Railroad. Their guitarists, Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Mark Farner, were like the great New York centerfielders of the 1950s. Hendrix was Willie…
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Rhiannon promised me heaven and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
The Fleetwood Mac Military-Industrial Complex cannot be confined to a single blog post. Around 1968, Peter Green wrote a song called “Black Magic Woman.” When I was a teenager we referred to this song as “Black Magic Marker.” You can find it on Fleetwood Mac’s English Rose album (1969). It’s…
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