Tag: Prince

• music Record reviews

  You may ask yourself, how did they get here?

  True Stories Talking Heads 1986 Every album Talking Heads released after Stop Making Sense (1984) was a disappointment. How could it have been otherwise? How do you top or even equal a record like that? Only The Beatles created a pop cultural icon and then came back to create a…

  April 9, 2013
• Miscellaneous music

  Middle-aged punks on dope

  “I am what I am. Thank God.” – Jimi Hendrix, “Message to Love” A co-worker entered my humble cubicle one day late in 2012 and said, “Flashback!” He was looking at the two shelves above my desk, which held a row of CDs, a display of old postcards, and the…

  April 7, 2013
• music Record reviews

  Guide for the perplexed

  When I was 15 and maybe even 20 I knew what was happening. Not every note, but I knew a lot. OK, I missed something big once. Epic, really: punk. In 1977 I was offered a free ticket to see The Clash on their first U.S. tour and I turned…

  April 24, 2011
• Concert reviews music

  Wake me up before you Gaga

  Lady Gaga in concert The Rose Garden, Portland, Ore. August, 2010 This summer I won two tickets to see Lady Gaga. I was trying to win tickets to Arcade Fire. You take what you can get in this life. Her concert lasted two hours, in which she demonstrated her ability…

  November 4, 2010