The Mahavishnu Orchestra – live at The Masonic Temple Auditorium in Detroit on December 30, 1973 – band soundboard, recorded by the mixer (not known at the moment). Imagine, if you will, you are somewhere between your late teens and early twenties. You’v’e already been blown away by Yes, Emerson,
The Beta Band – with the shiniest of promises. Friday afternoon lunch with The Beta Band – recorded for Bernard Lenoir of The Black Sessions at Radio France International Studio 105 on June 10, 2004. A fascinating band with an equally fascinating and wildly frustrating history. I grabbed a bit
Kansas, for a Thursday lunch – recorded on July 7, 1975 at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland for broadcast. Going out on a limb this afternoon. Haven’t played Kansas in decades – a band well on its way to being a truly American prog ensemble – had all the right
Fleetwood Mac for lunch this Monday – recorded on the last night of a four night run at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia on March 11, 1980 from a road crew soundboard. Another band I have never featured during their later, more wildly successful periods. I will freely admit to
Lunch with The Cars, this Friday Junior – recorded on June 18, 1978 at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland and broadcast by WMMS-FM. The Cars were at the forefront of the merger of 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that became popular in the early 1980s. Music critic Robert Palmer of The
The Bangles in the Lunchroom today – recorded at The Syria Mosque Aren in Pittsburgh on December 13, 1986. Hard to imagine it’s been almost 40 years since this concert. The Bangles have always been a quintessential 80s band to me. Probably because my fondest memory of the period was
Lunch with The Alarm this afternoon – recorded at The Marquee Club in London on January 30, 1983. Formed in 1977 as a punk band originally called the Toilets, the Alarm went on to success in the early ‘80s, opening for U2, a band whom they were often compared to,
Blur, for Monday Lunch – recorded at the Brixton Academy in 1997 and broadcast by BBC Radio 2. Many people will most likely agree the 90s were an extraordinary decade for Music. Of course, many people also swear their decade had the best music and everything after it was pale
Ian Dury and The Blockheads to end the working week – live in San Francisco broadcast live and recorded for posterity by KSAN-FM San Francisco on March 22, 1978. A memory jogger this week. Ian Dury and The Blockheads, the band who gave is “Sex And Drugs And Rock n’
Grand Funk Railroad – they truly were an American band. Grand Funk Railroad for lunch today – recorded at the San Diego Arena on June 2, 1974. You almost can’t talk about the 1970s without mentioning Grand Funk Railroad, or Grand Funk as most everyone called them, at some point.
