I believe this was my first paying gig. DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince were making in-store appearances promoting their new album, He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper. I was in school at the University of Louisville and working at the Photographic Archives. If I remember correctly, the manager at NRM Records on Dixie […] Read More
Music
Jazz Profiles: Coltrane on Coltrane – Don DeMichael
© – Steven A. Cerra – copyright protected; all rights reserved. “The first occasion I had to speak with John Coltrane at length was during his recent engagement at the Sutherland hotel [Sutherland Jazz Lounge, Chicago, IL]. In our initial conversation I was struck by his lack of pretentiousness or false pride. The honesty with […] Read More
THE THE – We Can’t Stop What’s Coming – from the film The Inertia Variations – YouTube
How Tommy Stinson Moved On From Replacements and GN’R – Rolling Stone
“That’s peanut butter.”
Iggy and the Stooges at the Cincinnati Pop Festival, 1970. Where Punk Rock Begins Every fan of the Stooges points to a different moment to prove that the band invented punk rock, or at least bodied it first, gave it flesh. For me, that moment is a couple minutes of wobbly television footage shot […] Read More
“Songs that could teeter into self-pity” This happened. I was there.
30 years ago today I saw The Smiths in New York City. ROCK CONCERT: THE SMITHS MORRISSEY, the singer and lyricist of the Smiths, is one of rock’s most articulate tortured souls – and judging by the sellout audience Wednesday at Pier 84, who sang along on most verses and choruses, a much-beloved cult figure. Read More