Tag: rock music

• Brandy: Best Song Ever?

  Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) by Looking Glass The song Review by Bill Ectric originally appeared on the website of The King Tut Vintage Album and Cassette Museum of Jacksonville I’ve been saying for years that my favorite song is Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl), released by the band Looking Glass in 1972. If you’ve seen…

  Bill Ectric

  August 14, 2018

  Brandy, Elliot Lurie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Kurt Russell, Looking Glass, lyrics, music, rock music, silver, Spain, the silver route

• The Pete Brown Interview

  By Bill Ectric On June 16, 1964, Pete Brown gave the first ever poetry reading at Morden Tower, now a literary landmark in Newcastle, England. The Morden Tower Readings, conceived and organized by Tom and Connie Pickard, went on to host readings by more poets than can be listed here, especially from the Beat and…

  Bill Ectric

  October 15, 2017

  beat generation, classic rock, Cream, Jack Bruce, Jazz, Morden Tower, Pete Brown, Peter Green, Phil Ryan, poetry, rock music

• Vintage Crawdaddy! William S. Burroughs interviews Jimmy Page

           

  Bill Ectric

  January 18, 2014

  beat generation, Crawdaddy, End of the Game, Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, magic, rock music, William S. Burroughs

• Hammers of God

  Folio Weekly staff writer Dan Brown remembers his youthful infatuation with the dark side of hard rock & heavy metal bands, back when such music was always considered “evil” by our parents (which made us like it all the more). Ironically, the occasion for Dan’s article is The Winter Jam, billed as “Christian Music’s Largest…

  Bill Ectric

  January 13, 2012

  Backwards masking, Black Sabbath, Dan Brown, Folio Weekly, heavy metal, Led Zeppelin, rock music, Sanctus Real, Skillet

• Berlin: Lou Reed’s Dark Poetry

  Via Literary Kicks,  Michael Norris writes: In 1973, as a follow up to his highly successful “Transformer” album, Lou Reed released the album “Berlin”. The ten-song concept album tells of the disintegration of a couple living in Germany. The couple, Caroline and Jim, follows a dark path that starts with drug addiction and descends into…

  Bill Ectric

  September 23, 2010

  Berlin, Literary Kicks, Lou Reed, Michael Norris, rock criticism, rock music, Steve Hunter