Waddy Wachtel, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, Steve Postell & Denny Tedesco Keeping It In the Immediate Family By Jay S. Jacobs It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the Immediate Family – guitarist Danny “Kootch” Kortchmar, guitarist Waddy Wachtel, bassist Leland Sklar and drummer Russ Kunkel – played on most of … Continue reading
Jim Beviglia – Playing Back the 80s (A Decade of Unstoppable Hits) (Rowman & Littlefield) It’s hard to condense the music of an entire decade into a concrete and meaningful listing. That goes doubly for an adventurous and musically rich era like the 1980s. I could probably easily come up with a list of hundreds … Continue reading
Phil Collins – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY – October 14, 2018 After a fairly long layoff, Phil Collins proved you can’t hurry retirement. After re-emerging a couple of years ago during the opening night of the US Open in Queens NY and releasing a series of his classic albums complete with side-by-side before and … Continue reading
PHIL COLLINS: GOING BACK – LIVE AT ROSELAND BALLROOM NYC (2010) Featuring Phil Collins, Brad Cole, Chester Thompson, Daryl Stuermer, Bob Babbitt, Eddie Willis, Ray Manette, Leslie Smith, Guy Barker, Tom Rees Roberts, Phil Todd, Graeme Blevins, John Aram, Lynne Fidmont, Connie Jackson, Amy Keys, Lamont Van Hook, Terron Brooks, Bill Cantos and Patrick Woodroofe. … Continue reading
ATLANTIC RECORDS – THE HOUSE THAT AHMET BUILT (2007) Starring Ahmet Ertegun, Bette Midler, Chris Blackwell, Solomon Burke, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Aretha Franklin, David Geffen, Taylor Hackford, Mick Jagger, Mick Jones, Kid Rock, Ben E. King, Leiber and Stoller, Wynton Marsalis, Paolo Nutini, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Jann Wenner, Jerry Wexler and … Continue reading
Miami Vice Season One (1984-1985) (Universal-2005) There is nothing funnier than the party people of the 80s, so get ready for this freakazoid on the dance floor. Taking a second look at Miami Vice all these years later will make you wonder what all the popping and locking was about. We’re told that this series — almost like a … Continue reading
PETER GABRIEL – PLAY: THE VIDEOS (2004) Starring Peter Gabriel. Distributed by Warner Strategic Marketing. 141 minutes. Not Rated. Pretty much all of the superstar acts of the 1980s took advantage of video and the explosion of MTV (back in the days when Music Television still played music…). However, very few artists expanded the medium … Continue reading
Live Aid (Warner Strategic Marketing-2004) It’s been said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. There is no better example of this than the agonizingly sixteen-hour-long Live Aid broadcast on July 13, 1985 (now available on DVD). The official excuse for the concert was to raise money to feed the starving people … Continue reading
Brandy–The Best of Brandy (Atlantic) Actress and singer Brandy has grown up before our eyes, going from a sitcom daughter (on Thea and later her own hit Moesha) to a star on the radio. Her music has always been a savvy construction of dance beats and soft ballads; enjoyable enough to get you to sort of overlook the fact … Continue reading
TARZAN (1999) Starring the voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Rosie O’Donnell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Hawthorne, Lance Henriksen, Wayne Knight, Alex D. Linz and Taylor Dempsey. Screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. Directed by Kevin Lima and Chris Buck. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. 88 minutes. Rated G. After the … Continue reading
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