Heavy Thunder Thursday! Torching Wrathchild!

There is a fine line between Punk and Metal, Thrash and Death, Progressive Metal and Progressive Rock, Doom Metal and Stoner Rock, and occasionally two seemingly contrarian styles can be combined if the proper path is followed. No genre in modern music develops in a vacuum.

Freewheeling Friday! Back Down South!

The Blues is Southern Rock, Southern Rock is Hard Rock, Hard Rock is Classic Rock, Classic Rock is Country Rock, Country Rock is Folk Rock, Folk Rock is Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Rock is Jam Band Rock, Jam Band Rock is Southern Rock, and Southern Rock is the Blues. Its all come full circle.

The Soulful Sound of Brent Mydland!

Meditation On A Tortured Yet Kind Soul The first time I saw the Grateful Dead was either July 6th or 7th 1986 at RFK Stadium in D.C. They were on the bill with Bob Dylan who was being supported by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on that tour. I was 15 years old and we … Read more

American Tune Part I

Afterthought to the 4th of July You could not be more removed from Europe than Kansas in the early 70ies, a region whose identity you are born in to, and one nearly impossible to shake. It had after all in the past been the land of John Brown / Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson had … Read more

Women Who Rock! Crankin’ It Up!

I used to DJ a Heavy Metal night at a bar called Schwarzer Hahn in Munich on any Thursday night I was in town. Now at the time I was more of a dead head than a metal mead but kind of slipped in to that position because of a change of ownership at the … Read more