MUSIC
KEITH RICHARDS, A MASTER OF THE UNEXPECTED YET COMPELLING INSIGHT, OBSERVED THAT MUSIC RANKED – IN ORDER OF ITS PERVASIVENESS IN HUMAN ACTIVITY – THIRD, AFTER ONLY FOOD AND SEX . FOR MY GENERATION MUSIC WAS THE PLATFORM, THE GLUE THAT HELD US TOGETHER. IT SPOKE TO US, INSPIRED US. EVEN WHEN THE ALL THE PROMISES SEEMED TO FALL APART, WHILE SOME DISTANCED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS MOURNED THE PASSING, EVEN THAT WAS CHRONICLED THROUGH “THE MUSIC.” BELOW IN NO ORDER ARE LINKS TO A VAST ARRAY OF MUSIC. USE THE “SEARCH” BAR TO FIND MORE.
How the Rolling Stones Became “THE GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND IN THE WORLD”
It’s 1969 in small college auditorium in Fort Collins, Colorado. Roadies finish checking the equipment. Chip Monck pulls the house lights down and runs the show lights up. Sam Cutler, who performed the same duty at Hyde Park, ambles on stage and delivers the line he will deliver again and again for the rest of […]
Voices: Keith Richards
The music came across the airwaves and suddenly it felt like the world was actually changing…. I knew what I wanted to do: get this band together. I was becoming this very unlikely missionary for a new kind of music. That’s what Jimmy Reed, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf did to me. Elvis, […]
The Greatest Week in Rock History? From Slate Magazine
The greatest week in rock history Thirty-four years ago this week (December 2003), the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, Temptations, Santana, Crosby Stills and Nash, and Creedence Clearwater all shared top billing on the Billboard album chart. There’s never been another lineup quite like it — and there will never be again. By Eric Boehlert (Read the […]
ALTAMONT “Destroying all conceits…”
(From LET IT BLEED Ethan Russell recounts getting out of Altamont…. and a few thoughts about what it meant.) Forty years later what I remember, clearly, is running into the pitch blackness, up the side of a hill until suddenly halted by a chain link fence. Behind me a man was dead from knife wounds,though I […]
The Way We Were
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