Has it been 45 years already? Forty-five years since the single most exciting and innovative year in rock history? Damn, I'm old as dirt. But also unspeakably grateful for having been there.
2024-11-12
2024-09-23
1979: Crest of the New Wave, Part 1
These days, New Wave has come to basically mean "Eighties Synthpop," even though the term was being used before Synthpop was even really a thing.
2024-06-22
1979: The Birth of Hardcore Punk
2024-06-10
1979: The Year Punk Peaked, Part One
I have so much to be grateful for, but being a young, precocious, screwed-up latchkey kid living in a major metropolitan area when pop culture was peaking is pretty high on my list. It's only now that I realize how spoiled I was. How spoiled we all were.
2024-05-16
Richie Blackmore and the Occult?
Wait just one minute: I knew Richie Blackmore was into a load of Hobbit-type RenFaire stuff, which he's done exclusively since leaving Deep Purple a zillion years ago with his filk singing combo. But he was into the dark stuff too?
Labels:
Aleister Crowley,
Deep Purple,
Richie Blackmore
2024-05-06
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