tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36320792490103007582024-03-24T19:33:33.498-04:00The Secret History of Rock 'n RollUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-18693922262881869812023-12-27T20:25:00.000-05:002023-12-27T20:25:01.907-05:00Men of Steel: Big Country's Steeltown (1984)<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3Veko70OfQ" width="366" youtube-src-id="e3Veko70OfQ"></iframe></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I can't remember what I wrote this for or exactly when, just that it was written a long time ago.</b> I'm posting it now because this album always reminds me of the week after Christmas, seeing I bought it then back in 1984...</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2023/12/men-of-steel-big-countrys-steeltown-1984.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-38729473549632843212023-12-22T00:10:00.003-05:002023-12-22T00:13:14.330-05:00Merry Chrisknowlesmas!<div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZN2bcS9shuY?si=AzSkoUSSAUHMDBOU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><b>It's that time of year - for the secret history of rock n' roll Christmas songs!</b> Well, kind of. It's more the secret history of rock n' roll songs that fill me with wistful holiday nostalgia. </div><div><br></div><div>Let's get this party started. Crank it up, you mad dog! </div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2023/12/merry-chrisknowlesmas.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-2800114367147187972023-11-27T12:37:00.003-05:002023-11-27T12:39:16.294-05:00Fire from Heaven, or Guitar as Invocation<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DNq2nBkgAfs?si=n83Tbf1mDLFz3X_U" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a companion piece to the one now up on the Sun, <a href="https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/11/another-cult-hero-goes-down.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">commemorating Geordie Walker's recent passing</a>. I have no idea when I originally wrote or what for, I just know it was sometime back in the early 90s. I posted it here way back in the day and I'm posting it again now.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><br></div><div><span><br></span></div>
<span></span></span><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2010/10/fire-from-heaven-or-guitar-as.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-46140512560273371642023-11-12T13:52:00.006-05:002023-11-12T15:04:52.069-05:00Scottish Sunday: It's Never Quite that Simple<span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W_H7QykJ53g?si=UDaYk7e4mme_27G1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Once upon a time, the Simple Minds were not the dreary U2 wannabes they became.</b> Before they broke everyone's hearts, they were one of the most exciting and innovative postpunk acts in the world. Before they chased around the almighty pound/dollar/deutschmark (nearly as fervently as they hungered after Bono's dingleberries), the Simple Minds were a neo-Teutonic, proto-Industrial leviathan powered primarily by Derek Forbes' monstrous post-funk bass. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2023/11/scottish-sunday-its-never-quite-that.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-8527493803163766872023-11-05T00:49:00.021-04:002023-11-05T05:50:37.408-05:00Oh What a Night, mid-November, Back in Eighty-Three<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="576" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMemkuCfzk2v-YBnl_EWiucZQXPdY9SXSwOY-7csfH1D08hKIl96iKVILweJfZfAPY7SELaPRWvjF1sCsTMSI7x-FVbcjlRD0jL95RaCueQeew0dnY_sfm0tjgjld1yb-93adX4IW7YNxMNoGgBNEK2NGrO31zftqCEE1zMAJZ_JQqBcEcaq2ArVGQuE/w578-h348/Screen%20Shot%202023-11-04%20at%2011.18.54%20PM.png" width="578"></span></p><p style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The early Eighties really were as magical and awesome as you’ve been led to believe,</b> even if the seeds of our future heartaches were being planted in the dark. Me, I was 17 in November of 1983, and it’s a lost mystical land I like to escape to when the stars are just right ever since. </span></p><p style="font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sure, we're mocked, erased, ignored, and discarded, but guess what? </b>We had the Nineties, and a lot of us also had the Eighties. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We had the bloodiest pits, the craziest raves, the shoe-iest gazers, the gnarliest grungesters, the cutest manic pixie dream girls. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">WE HAD THE FRIGGIN' <i>X-FILES</i>, BITCHES.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So we win and motherf**kers lose.</span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-31032751921343095602023-07-07T02:44:00.004-04:002023-07-18T20:18:49.562-04:00Watch King Crimson Play Every Note That Has Ever Existed and then Invent Some New Ones.<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W2nO_W9JZYw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<div><br /></div><div>Fripp sez, "Alan Holdsworth, Alan Schmoldsworth. I'll show you how to play a million notes a second without hammering or tapping."</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't be fooled by the impassive demeanor. I saw Fripp do a Frippertronics show at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center back in the day. He reduced thousands of stock brokers to tears. Very odd duck.</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rTIn4cIvtp0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>"FraKctured" is a sequel to "Fracture" from the John Wetton lineup. It took that chap 22 years to learn the latter. It will probably take him 44 years to learn the former.</div><div><br /></div><div>I used to listen to this stuff when I was working on a particularly-complex vector rendering that needed maximum left-brain input. I recommend the practice.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-88744233029969200392023-05-30T13:57:00.007-04:002023-05-31T13:02:03.911-04:00Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock <p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fsTsg7R6kPY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
</p><p>Stoner Rock AKA Stoner Metal AKA Doom Metal AKA Sludge Metal AKA Whatever. The names don't matter one single bit. What matters is this: do you ROCK or are you schlock?</p><p>These dudes ROCK.</p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B4A6z7BbECA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-53589921347578471032022-12-22T03:00:00.002-05:002022-12-22T03:00:00.211-05:00Joe Strummer, Twenty Years Gone <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JpTsz32x0HI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Joe Strummer died two decades ago today and I have no idea how that could be twenty years ago now.</b> What has changed? The world in many ways seems to have become trapped and frozen somewhere along the way. </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br></span></span></p><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/12/joe-strummer-twenty-years-gone.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-64060230306813842342022-12-13T13:51:00.003-05:002022-12-13T14:20:13.160-05:00Beat the Holiday Blahs with the Ultimate 70s Party Playlist
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKyuoR1OgfCZuT0m0Zcj7c0U6RVQkbybR-nBpyWYTja0AziSn-hx10XQtR0QdMUNML4E4LpGADoygfRh6KpvcJ52Th2Bc-VAeinhxljWPkN224njSf29MxHHhod9wxkvVKh59gTREEpwvxyx6EP2KQeXGcZaxZ1kgeQK0xyrnyfPEcfleaByY5Iyix" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img data-original-height="727" data-original-width="720" height="547" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgKyuoR1OgfCZuT0m0Zcj7c0U6RVQkbybR-nBpyWYTja0AziSn-hx10XQtR0QdMUNML4E4LpGADoygfRh6KpvcJ52Th2Bc-VAeinhxljWPkN224njSf29MxHHhod9wxkvVKh59gTREEpwvxyx6EP2KQeXGcZaxZ1kgeQK0xyrnyfPEcfleaByY5Iyix=w542-h547" width="542" /></span></a></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-thickness: initial; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dreading another deadly-boring holiday party? You need to get the people off their little demon boxes and get them all singing and dancing and feeling grateful to be alive with the best of Seventies Pop, Rock 'n' Roll, Funk and R&B. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" loading="lazy" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/3oMX3DUJSmbaaKpXmh1z4L?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-thickness: initial; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">THIRTEEN HOURS OF HAPPINESS AND JOY, PEOPLE. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; orphans: 2; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-thickness: initial; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Please Like and share far and wide. </span></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-65186317403635839722022-11-13T15:53:00.009-05:002022-11-13T20:32:02.664-05:00The Most Influential Musician You Never Heard Of<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ylOCIP54PIQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p><b>Genius is a curse, not only because it shares a driveway with madness but also because it often falls prey to that most insidious of demons: boredom.</b> This is an occupational hazard particularly for musical geniuses.</p><div><br></div><div><span></span></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-most-influential-musician-you-never.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-40026889530867880532022-09-27T12:02:00.003-04:002022-09-27T12:02:37.666-04:00The Secret Origin of Boston Hahdcoah Hardcore Punk<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5UVmWH9IMvg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-17689186917190674572022-08-03T19:10:00.006-04:002022-08-03T19:10:59.375-04:00"The Truth About Stoner Rock"<p> </p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/j8reFcun6wE" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-24237777436445415472022-07-28T22:58:00.003-04:002022-07-29T01:10:28.575-04:00Secret Singles: Magic by Pilot (1975)<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ASGgn8bNQuA" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>This is not only one of the best singles of the 70s, it's one of the best Pop singles of all time.</b> It hit me at a time when I began to see the world as being inherently magical, though certainly not in the rose-colored-glasses sense you'd expect from a typical eight year-old. </span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/07/secret-singles-magic-by-pilot-1975.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-89743101475628114852022-07-25T18:22:00.004-04:002022-07-28T23:01:58.097-04:00Secret Singles: (Don't) Do What Thou Wilt<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/44JomxG4it8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="left: 95px; position: absolute; top: 7603px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><nobr>"</nobr></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>So, I was reading an old interview with Joe Strummer and this little anecdote caught my eye:</b></span><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a group called Eddie and the Hotrods right? And on their album, for some reason they chose to put a picture of Aleister Crowley wearing a Mickey Mouse hat...</span></blockquote><p> </p><p><span></span></p><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/07/dont-do-what-thou-wilt.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-33436552439154529362022-06-24T22:44:00.009-04:002022-06-28T22:14:36.336-04:00OK, I'm on a big Stoner Metal kick now.<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vs2BaAW3fMM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <br><br>I guess I watched too many Mastodon videos because YouTube's algorithm has been throwing me a ton of Stoner Metal vids from this year's Hellfest, and now I'm lost in a new musical rabbithole. And now you will be too.</p><p>It's weird, though: I'm old enough to remember when "stoner" and "metal" would essentially be synonymous.</p><p><br></p><span></span><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/06/ok-im-on-big-stoner-metal-kick-now.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-90024383062619595422022-05-24T21:31:00.004-04:002022-05-24T21:31:54.728-04:00Eighty-Two from '82<iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/1KVEAIc7zbp2lmeOONHatk?utm_source=generator" style="border-radius: 12px;" width="100%"></iframe>
<div><br /></div><div>A musical aspirin for the Empire's terminal case of war fever. A panacea for the 21st century blues. <br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
Everything was better before 9/11. Let's stop pretending otherwise.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-69429950985625096042022-05-22T04:07:00.019-04:002022-05-22T13:29:30.722-04:001982: Year of the Underwhelming Follow-Up LP <div><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bJ9r8LMU9bQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>So I've done megaposts on 1979, 1981 and 1983, but what about 1982?</b> What's the big story with that year? Well, it was an amazing year for movies and comics, certainly, but for music? </div><div><br></div><div>For music, 1982 can be summed up in one word: <i>disappointing</i>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/05/1982-year-of-underwhelming-follow-up-lp.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-23081043198877844202022-04-22T21:30:00.021-04:002022-04-23T11:36:26.354-04:00The Secret Sunset of Rock : Insanely Great Records from the 2000s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazjayBAHPrkdjqBP_kRvMCfkfLuYqFQxsnpwDITinrMqNpq4VGYFK29SoR-_knCo2lrjNt4sXlogqqjf1qDINm5qUR12NggmsK4-e5PyYS-P-s3OG25QzEVaYiGKur0Rfdsoy4mBGld4N1BgsW2L3rdXHbaasIex1TnL4IFgWsIdYedSz2dbkLJzp/s827/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-22%20at%209.18.26%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="827" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazjayBAHPrkdjqBP_kRvMCfkfLuYqFQxsnpwDITinrMqNpq4VGYFK29SoR-_knCo2lrjNt4sXlogqqjf1qDINm5qUR12NggmsK4-e5PyYS-P-s3OG25QzEVaYiGKur0Rfdsoy4mBGld4N1BgsW2L3rdXHbaasIex1TnL4IFgWsIdYedSz2dbkLJzp/w474-h322/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-22%20at%209.18.26%20PM.png" width="474"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><b>You know, I still can't figure out exactly when Rock n' Roll died. </b>Or at least when it went into a persistent vegetative state. It seems like an important thing to determine, but it seems like no one even cares to check anymore. That's something that needs to be remedied if the music is ever to live again. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span></span></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2021/02/best-albums-of-2-zeros.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-82887298146997339602022-04-01T08:30:00.024-04:002024-01-18T14:01:43.337-05:00Opening Presence (Led Zeppelin's Presence, That Is)<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_laoh30HpJ9eYOZKqzR99lsw2LdNtNIlFsevVB4RkrA_gr4uWPLtZcgRTujv50eivmnCZ7se6U1Hwsd5XOUPeZZiLoYmLi9l-lIWmKm0uHmOlsBSoDjddlF-JnRR3p34hdH7Wmk6bYwwo4O7x_mvThAUEimKfcHfQpYBUwf40WPJLiAwByXcdGjSO/s519/presence.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="519" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_laoh30HpJ9eYOZKqzR99lsw2LdNtNIlFsevVB4RkrA_gr4uWPLtZcgRTujv50eivmnCZ7se6U1Hwsd5XOUPeZZiLoYmLi9l-lIWmKm0uHmOlsBSoDjddlF-JnRR3p34hdH7Wmk6bYwwo4O7x_mvThAUEimKfcHfQpYBUwf40WPJLiAwByXcdGjSO/w482-h469/presence.jpeg" width="482"></a></div><p><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Presence</i> is an album a lot of Led Zeppelin fans don’t own, and even a lot of those that do don’t listen to it very often</b>. Which is not to say it's unworthy: it’s simply that the after the remarkable run of classic, groundbreaking albums that the Mighty Zep blessed us with, <i>Presence</i> feels like</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> somewhat of a retreat.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br><span></span></span></span></p><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/04/opening-presence-led-zeppelins-presence.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-10096276234724470922022-03-26T17:00:00.006-04:002022-03-26T19:29:50.569-04:00The Siren: the Great Archetypal Love Story of Our Time.<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HFWKJ2FUiAQ" width="560"></iframe></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><blockquote>I was going to post this on Garlands Day, but with the death of yet another GenX luminary - Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins - today felt more appropriate. </blockquote><blockquote>I'm not aware of any substantial connections between Our Lady, Queen Dowager of Sibyls and the Foo Fighters, but I won't be surprised if the Shimmer gets to rewriting the timeline and serves some up in the coming days. That's how it works.</blockquote></i><i><blockquote>This is a fact-corrected revision of the first series of Siren posts on The Secret Sun, all the way back in early 2008.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're new to this story, this makes for a solid primer.</span></blockquote></i></span></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br></b></span></div><b><span></span></b></span><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-siren-great-archetypal-love-story.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-70382492700503150792022-03-03T01:38:00.005-05:002022-03-03T02:29:05.713-05:00Wreck and Rule: Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KQ4E0OpPH4U" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Plenty of bands play at being subversive. </b>But the final arbiter of the threat a band poses to the Establishment is ultimately how the Establishment reacts to their provocations. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Rod Swenson, impresario for legendary Punk/Metal band The Plasmatics, got an unequivocal response from the Man one fateful night in the form of gloved fists, police jackboots and billy clubs: “They beat me to a bloody mass of unconsciousness...”</span></p><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span></span></span></div></span><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/03/wreck-and-rule-wendy-o-williams-and.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-37456590576521748912022-01-10T06:00:00.063-05:002022-01-10T06:00:00.270-05:00The Secret Origin of Ziggy Stardust, Concluded<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnMvNzFKEGSic2zCWJ6w1i2EvnRZmpl_x4VESaNVl2HwkqScAIlwaYrcXOTlCvXv2i-IEzVeMipnT4Yn9hx2andtfbTnEeU3wmyhkfWRvRbjeqemetKjihbz8bs1V5SeeX7twBnva4UQ/s1600/blackstar-011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnMvNzFKEGSic2zCWJ6w1i2EvnRZmpl_x4VESaNVl2HwkqScAIlwaYrcXOTlCvXv2i-IEzVeMipnT4Yn9hx2andtfbTnEeU3wmyhkfWRvRbjeqemetKjihbz8bs1V5SeeX7twBnva4UQ/w461-h274/blackstar-011.jpg" width="461"></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span><span><b>OK, this is where things get a little strange. </b>A little more <i>synchy.</i></span></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br></i></b></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">All the </span>more appropriate as we observe the sixth anniversary of Bowie's cosmic ascension.<br><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><b><br></b></span></span><span><span><br><br></span></span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span></span></span></span></div></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-secret-origin-of-ziggy-stardust_02094152365.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-4042206384362661782022-01-06T08:30:00.075-05:002022-01-06T08:30:00.287-05:00The Secret Origin of Ziggy Stardust, Part Two<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8JPTiyQAnFyNsMn6-qOxXmUXjUp9hLmLLogAtPmgn1VE-jYIAa-pAYC-iZcn-ixsqAOkqj6NdkKPE8eT6gAPM2ql8nayicUjAGlKT8OIl5b_rLjZd90hfQkveS6MpWfukcJlh6TUFhj4/s1600/ZIGGY-costume.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8JPTiyQAnFyNsMn6-qOxXmUXjUp9hLmLLogAtPmgn1VE-jYIAa-pAYC-iZcn-ixsqAOkqj6NdkKPE8eT6gAPM2ql8nayicUjAGlKT8OIl5b_rLjZd90hfQkveS6MpWfukcJlh6TUFhj4/w356-h400/ZIGGY-costume.jpg" width="356"></span></a></i><br><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><i></i></span></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i><blockquote><i>"I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought. 'Fuck that. I want to be a Superman.'"</i></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><blockquote style="text-align: right;"><i> -- </i><b>David Bowie</b></blockquote><b></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><b><br></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">In <a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-secret-origin-of-ziggy-stardust.html">part one</a>, we looked at David Bowie's seminal creation Ziggy Stardust</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and the history behind it. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or at least the history as it's known. And the known history is quite lacking, as it almost always is.</span></div></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br></span></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-secret-origin-of-ziggy-stardust_01842756055.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3632079249010300758.post-54541801512057642802022-01-03T02:09:00.002-05:002022-01-03T02:23:18.102-05:00The Secret Origin of Ziggy Stardust, Part One<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NjkNxB2Jek86wZv4he-3m7oYxi62CJTx_QJHA0Y3Ix3UITIOjtxFhUR5AW8PalJIFjAFDRXZ3oAx7MJ8wvXgwWcMTPeGQjDQ86dHjsbST1zULpXiNG7qXYeRkZSPzUjnW_kS5Ig9fq0/s1600/iu.jpeg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NjkNxB2Jek86wZv4he-3m7oYxi62CJTx_QJHA0Y3Ix3UITIOjtxFhUR5AW8PalJIFjAFDRXZ3oAx7MJ8wvXgwWcMTPeGQjDQ86dHjsbST1zULpXiNG7qXYeRkZSPzUjnW_kS5Ig9fq0/s320/iu.jpeg" width="320"></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">You don't need me to tell you that the 1972 LP <i>The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</i> (or <i>Ziggy Stardust</i>, for short) was a major milestone, </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">not only in the life and career of David Bowie but in rock 'n' roll history as well. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was with this album that the Glam era truly began, and pop music - and popular culture - would never be the same again. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><a href="https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-secret-origin-of-ziggy-stardust.html#more">Read more »</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2