Before Nirvana became the de facto posterchild of nineties rock, the biggest new act was easily The Black Crowes. Their debut album was huge! A seemingly endless stream of hits from that record made 1990 the year of the Crowes, in my mind anyway. Here’s the odd thing, as great as that album was and […]
My Life Is A Song #86
Back to 1995, months before my aforementioned unfortunate diversion into “new country”, I was still very much a fan of blues based, guitar driven rock music. The nineties was also a time when we were fascinated by the concept of black musicians being able to play rock ‘n’ roll music. You know, the stuff they […]
My Life Is A Song #63
Oh look, more mid-eighties music you either forgot or never knew in the first place. This time it comes courtesy of hard blues rock Canadian indie band, The New Meanies. You know the story by now, this is when I was hearing new music and actually spending money on actual CDs. This is how I […]
My Life Is A Song #62
Every few years a hit song will come along that although very catchy and providing me much joy, leaves me wondering how is it not plagiarizing some other work? Not being a musician myself, or a copyright expert, I suspect there may be some guitar riffs so basic they are considered public domain. How else […]
My Life Is A Song #61
This is going to sound terribly un-PC but whatever happened to chick rock? Maybe it’s just my lack of attention since the turn of the millennium, but I just don’t hear about girl bands kicking ass anymore. In the nineties there were a few years where some really awesome women hit the rock/punk scene with […]