Oldies

Bruce Springsteen is out on tour with ‘The River,' a tribute to the 80s album of the same name, and it’s selling out like hot cakes. The show will feature songs that did not make the River album, and this will be a tour without Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici who have gone on to that rock and roll band in Heaven. Bruce is in Europe and countries like Norway […]

Ronnie Van Zant died in the fiery Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in 1977. What people don’t know is that he’s wearing a Neil Young T-Shirt underneath the dress shirt in his coffin. Waylon Jennings played bass in 1959 for up and coming rock star Buddy Holly. That fateful night in February, they tossed a coin to see who would get the seat on the plane, which would drive on the […]

How about another rock and roll A to Z? Here’s the letter "I.” The band Iron Butterfly was an interesting four member group from San Diego from the late 60s for a few reasons. Lead singer Darryl DeLoach’s parents let their teenage son have his friend over to practice their rock and roll in their garage, and they became pretty good. Butterfly released their debut album in 1968, and while […]

The week is upon us and there's no better time to waste time than on a Monday at work. Don't feel left out. Here are a few conversation starters while you're hanging around the water cooler with your rocker friends. Gary S. Paxton, singer and co-producer of “Alley Oop” by the Hollywood Argyles, died peacefully at the age of 77 in Branson, MO last week. Although an accomplished singer, he […]

Mark Wahlberg is one of the hottest Hollywood stars, but has strong music roots. As a teen pop idol in the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch band, we appreciate the chops. His ‘Rock Star’ movie with Jennifer Aniston in 2001 details how a star in a rock tribute band can actually make it to the top. So, what bands are considered the best tribute bands of our current time? […]

Let’s take a tour of the best rock and roll Cities in America as part of our summer long vacation. Today, we’ll highlight a few bands and singers from Los Angeles... Although they’re a group from the 60s, you can’t speak of the rock or stars from LA without mentioning the Beach Boys. Sure music was fairly simple back then, well before the psychedelic or hard rock that would come […]

“Hey hey we’re the Monkee’s and people say we monkey around…” is a line from the wildly popular Monkees TV show from the 60s. The Monkees were Mike Nesmith, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork and the late British Broadway star Davy Jones. Here are five fun facts about the Monkees in celebration of their 50th anniversary. The Hollywood Reporter ran an ad looking for young male musicians between the ages of […]

If you’ve never been to a ZZ Top concert we would strongly suggest finding the time, tour date near you, and the money because the wall of sound these three guys can throw at a live audience is remarkable. ZZ Top’s original line up consisted of Billy Gibbons, keyboardist Lanier Greig (who recently died February 2013) and drummer Dan Mitchell. Billy Gibbons is still with the group, but the lineup […]