Category: rock ‘n roll

J. Geils Band’s ‘Floyd’s Hotel’: A place to get our poetic souls back

For Christmas, I got myself The Morning After, the 1971 album by my favorite band to see in concert in my teens, the J. Geils Band. In those 70s, some of us from Massachusetts had good friends from Manchester, NH. And I remember one time being in a car heading home…

December 24, 2006
Call 911: Beck, Armitage, & Stevie Ray Vaughn Out of the Blue

_____ Jeff Beck–Going Down (1983, Arms Concert NY) If I were to say that Jeff Beck is one of the great rock and roll guitarists, thousands or millions of people would be outraged that I did not name him as the single greatest. And here is one of the great rock songs,…

September 10, 2006

J. Geils Band’s ‘Floyd’s Hotel’: A place to get our poetic souls back