Columns
Page: 26
By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Judy Collins / Donovan @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center More often his (Donovan) voice was off-tune, he seemed lost on the guitar, and the audience sat back and put up with the annoyance until Judy Collins could take the stage and make things better. – John Magee for […]
Life on the Cutting Edge – Discoveries and Advancements MIT Student Builds Pocket-Sized 3d Printer that Prints with Light https://www.yahoo.com/news/mit-student-builds-pocket-sized-132445333.html Brazil’s Floating Farms Use Sunlight and CO2 to Create Edible Food. https://www.ecoamericas.com/issues/article/2024/2/60EB0EE1-6BA1-43C2-BCC2-89BB190937A4 Spain Builds Tower to Turn Heat into Electricity https://www.solarpaces.org/spains-concentrated-solar-thermal-power-performed/
Al Kash – Xperience History – by Rob Smittix. Originally published in October 2020. Al Kash is one of the Capital Region’s iconic musicians but as you may know, he didn’t get his start here. Today Al was kind enough to take time out of his quarantine to chat with us about his career path […]
By Mike Stampalia. 30 years ago: Santana / Jeff Beck / Keb’ Mo’ @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center A regular at SPAC in recent years, Santana closed the concert with his usual fine performance, but there was no question that Beck stole the show with a volcanic performance that left most in attendance absolutely […]
By Mike Stampalia. 60 years ago: Thelonious Monk @ Berkshire Music Barn Monk’s piano sounded as if it were being played only by his right hand, a tired right hand that relied on many varying repetitions of simple, odd phrases rather than the invention of new ones and whose fingers fumbled with astonishing […]
Jukebox Erykah Badu To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Erykah Badu’s second album, Mama’s Gun, she is running a tour from October through December. The tour is called “Mama’s Gun ’25: The Return of Automatic Slim Tour, and will begin on October 3rd in Hollywood, California. From there, she will be hopping around Boston, Chicago, […]
By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Motley Crue @ Glens Falls Civic Center On their latest album, Motley Crue has covered “Smokin’ in the Boys Room,” an old Browsville Station song written by Cub Koda, who currently lives in the Boston area and has promoted numerous shows in Greater Lynn. “I used to sing […]
Whassup in the 518 Friday, August 1st Kidz Bop Live, SPAC, Saratoga Springs, 7pm In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company. If the […]
By Mike Stampalia. 20 years ago: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers / The Black Crowes @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center A surprise rendition of the Wilburys’ “Handle with Care,” with Campbell replicating Harrison’s silky slide-guitar lines and Thurston doing his best Orbison falsetto, sent them into a frenzy. Was this the best SPAC show […]
The Turd: An American Journey, Chptr. 16 – Xperience Fiction – by Liam Sweeny. The Turder wouldn’t give Ernest and crew his name, simply going to go by ‘Turder.’ He led them into a spacious den with plush seats, enough to seat all but two, Pico, who would set himself downstairs to the kitchen, and […]
RadioRadioX