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If you’ve ever achieved anything, really achieved, you got two ways to go about it. You can pull it out at parties, or at the convenience store by your house, and make sure everyone you know knows your claims to fame. You could also sum up a lifetime others would dream about by saying you […]
As the holidays quickly approach, I am constantly reminding myself how lucky I am to have a wonderful family, good friends and a wealth of talented musicians in the 518. I’ve been writing this column for a while now and I still have a list of local drummers that I am looking forward to interviewing. […]
It’s that time again. We max out our credit cards and spend time with people we look to avoid most of the year. Somehow, we feel even more freakish during these days. There are radio stations playing nothing but Christmas music when you get in the car and when you head to the mall, that’s […]
Photo By: Robert Cooper Jr. There are over 170,000 words in the English language. And the human mouth can make close to 800 distinct sounds. It’s nothing that we think about, but as an instrument, the mouth is more versatile than just about any other. And in the world of music, it is hip hop […]
Patterson Hood ambled onstage with just an acoustic guitar and a glass of tequila – pretty much everything he needed to entertain a modest but appreciative assemblage that half-filled Lark Hall last Friday. “I’m gonna digress a lot, I gotta tell you,” he warned us with a sly grin, his drawl betraying Alabama roots (Hood’s […]
As a writer, I’m fascinated by film and shows, television and movies. Actors are wizards to me, able to say a line in a sentence, in a way that might take me ten pages to create in a book. It’s the moment. It’s the character that we fall in love or hate with, executed so […]
Interview: Gary Weinlein (Jim Morrison) By: Rob Smittix If there were ever two simultaneous nights to be in the Spindle City December 8th and 9th are those dates. Classic Rock Productions presents December 8th: “Jim Morrison Absolutely Live” with special guest Grace Slick and Mick Jagger, and December 9th: “Groovin’ Classic Rock Hall of Fame […]
Music and songs are more than sounds and words. There are the artists and the personalities behind the creations. One that particularly blew my mind was Jim Morrison of The Doors. In high school I really started getting into music and buying many albums. I bought the Doors eponymous classic first album in 1979. When […]
In years past, modern art was learned in college textbooks and museums. Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, and Georges Seurat painted the development of modern art by means of experimentation and viewing the world under abstract eyes. We continue to break traditional norms of modern art and how it’s represented a century plus […]