KT Tunstall Eyes to the Skies by Jay S. Jacobs Is it possible that the next big thing in music is a thirtyish woman from Scotland? An adopted daughter of a scientist who had no real interest to speak of in music? An iconoclast who became a figurehead of a local music scene where lack … Continue reading
Poison – The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (Capitol/EMI) The subtitle 20 Years of Rock is a bit of a stretch – thirteen of the eighteen songs on this compilation (and all of the top 40 singles) stem from three albums (and one soundtrack contribution) during the band’s white-hot period of 1986 to 1990. Of the … Continue reading
Journey And the Journey Continues… by Deborah Wagner When you think of classic 70’s and 80’s arena rock, undoubtedly Journey is one of the first groups that comes to mind. Now, over 30 years after the band’s creation – with countless hits and the 2005 release of their 13th studio album Generations – Journey is still having fun doing … Continue reading
Music Scene The Best of 1969-1970 (Volumes 1 & 2) (MPI Home Video-2000) The train wreck that is Music Scene – an uncomfortable, pre-Saturday Night Live mix of youthful comedy and popular music – is worth watching if only for its noble attempt to do what it did before what it did was done right. This ABC variety … Continue reading
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND – VELVET REDUX LIVE MCMXCIII (2006) Starring Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker and Sterling Morrison. Directed by Declan Lowney. Distributed by Sire/Rhino Home Video. 83 minutes. Not Rated. Everyone knows the legend of the Velvet Underground, a brainy group of beatnik New York musicians who were championed by pop artist Andy … Continue reading
Live 8 (Capitol Records-2005) The television coverage for the massive Live 8 concerts on MTV and VH1 was awful. It was all about the personalities, not the music. This was supposed to the most important concert experience of the decade, and yet very little of the performance footage actually ended up on screen. The viewer … Continue reading
Rick Springfield – The Day After Yesterday (Goner/IKE) Jessie’s Girl is probably a grandma now and the Working Class Dog is approaching retirement, but Rick Springfield keeps on keepin’ on. Springfield’s new album is called The Day After Yesterday, which was oddly also the name of Paul Giamatti’s unpublished manuscript in the movie Sideways. I don’t know if there is … Continue reading
Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina Checkin’ In by Jay S. Jacobs The band came to be in the early 70s and was made up of two distinctly talented parts. Jim Messina was a respected producer and former member of the acclaimed groups Poco and the Buffalo Springfield. Kenny Loggins was a new kid on the … Continue reading
The Dick Cavett Show John & Yoko Collection (Shout! Factory-2005) It’s 1971 and John Lennon is now thirtysomething. His life, finally, is getting interesting. Always on the cutting edge, this time he is on the verge of getting his peacenik ass thrown out of the United States, and not just because he is inflicting Yoko … Continue reading
The Ed Sullivan Show Four Complete Historic Episodes featuring the Beatles (SOFA Entertainment-2003) Ironically, the Beatles’ impact on modern popular culture has been diluted and diminished thanks to the very thing they themselves hath wrought: their successors, wanna-be’s and imitators, wearing us down with forty years of excessive noise. These trashy new neighbors have brought … Continue reading
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